Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley.

The series Pursuing God's Heart continues with David's first interaction with the Prophet Samuel.

In this encounter, we discover timeless principles that show how God chooses.

Now I want us to take just the moment to look at the life of David here for a second or two

and just give you a little overview of what this man's life is like and what you and I can

expect as we look at his life.

He came out of the most prominent of all the tribes, the tribe of Judah, through which

the Lord Jesus Christ himself came.

He was the son of Jesse, who was not necessarily a very

prominent man and not necessarily any particular gift was allocated to him. He came from a good line

of Ruth and Boaz. He lived in Bethlehem, about six miles or so from Jerusalem. When it says that

he was the least of them, as Jesse said the youngest it really means

the word here means the Hebrew the least in his favor and yet in spite of that he was a very

colorful young man and he was looked a little different because of his ruddy complexion and

his light hair and wherever you find comparisons

in the Bible of characters, you'll always find David and all of his greatness comparing to Moses.

Now, Moses is said to be the greatest man in the Old Testament, and more than likely David is

probably second

to him. He won his way into Saul's family as a result of playing the heart, being able to do that

in this verse 16th chapter. The scripture says that they said of him he was cunning as a player.

It wasn't very long after he slew Goliath, that he became idolized by all the people of Israel.

And you recall when they came back that the women were saying Saul had slain his thousands,

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