Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

God created them a desire for a better king,

not a king that they would choose,

but one that God would choose for him,

his king, a king after his own heart.

And the first iteration of that is going to be David. But David is not the

ultimate fulfillment of this promise. The ultimate fulfillment is going to be

God himself in human form, Jesus. Welcome back for another day of solid biblical teaching right here on summit life with

Pastor Jiddy Greer. I'm your host Molly Bitevich. We're in a brand new never

before aired teaching series through the life of David so you've joined us at the perfect time today.

You know, all earthly kings that we demand, whether a literal king or a metaphorical one,

like success, money, or romance, those are not only going to let us down, they're actually

going to enslave us.

That's a really difficult lesson to learn.

Today, Pastor J.D teaches us that we, too, have to learn the hard lessons that Israel learned,

and hopefully those lessons created us a desire for the only king that offers joy and freedom

through surrender.

As always, we're pointing to Jesus

even as we study in the Old Testament.

So let's rejoin Pastor J.D.

In First Samuel, Chapter 8.

It was not categorically wrong for Israel to ask for a king. Here's why I say that in the book of Deuteronomy. God had actually told them that one day he would provide for them a king. The problem was not in their request.

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