David: Portrait of a Champion, Part 9
Leading The Way Radio Podcast
Leading The Way with Dr. Michael Youssef
4.9 • 620 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In David: Portrait of a Champion, Dr. Michael Youssef takes us through the amazing victories, tragic losses, and difficult trials of Israel's greatest king. Learn why God called David a man after His own heart, and discover the change He wants to make in your heart, too.
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| 0:00.0 | The story is told of a world-famous violinist who hired the services of renowned violin makers of that day. |
| 0:12.4 | He asked him to build him the most magnificent violin that he's ever built. |
| 0:17.4 | So in its appointed day, an appropriate time for the violinist to come and pick up his violin, |
| 0:24.2 | he came to receive his delivery, which he authorized. Taking the violin into his hands, |
| 0:30.8 | the violinist skillfully drew the bow across the strings. But then all of a sudden, great disappointment swept across the strings. But then all of a sudden, great disappointment swept across his face. |
| 0:43.6 | There was a major problem with the violin. The quality of the tone did not satisfy his artistic ear. |
| 0:52.9 | And to the surprise of the violin maker, |
| 0:56.2 | the violinists raised the violin |
| 0:58.1 | above his head and he smashed it right |
| 1:01.2 | on the table and it broke into pieces. |
| 1:05.7 | Then he paid the violin maker. |
| 1:08.7 | They agreed upon amount. |
| 1:17.2 | And then he left. A few months later, the same violinist came by to the violin maker shop, and he was looking around, admiring the different violins, |
| 1:24.0 | and then he noticed there was a violin there sitting in the table by itself. |
| 1:29.1 | He took that violin again into his hand and he again began to play on it and all of a sudden |
| 1:38.2 | a violin has become excited. He became thrilled with that magnificent tone that he is hearing. |
| 1:47.8 | Beauty was ravishing in the sound of that violin. |
| 1:52.3 | When he inquired of the violin maker, the violin maker told him to the utter surprise and |
| 2:00.4 | astonishment of the violinist that this was the very violin |
| 2:05.2 | that he had smashed to pieces six months earlier. The violin maker had painstakingly gathered |
| 2:15.0 | that broken violin and he gathered all the pieces together and he put the |
| 2:21.4 | shattered instrument once more together and skillfully assembled it and he made it into a piece |
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