today on Summit Life with J.D. Greer.

Well, this one might be kind of obvious, but a sign that you haven't repented is unchanged behavior.

With your mouth, you say that Jesus is king, but the testimony of your life says something different.

If your best friends that hang out with you on Friday night don't know that you're

a committed Christian you're probably not. Thanks for Summit Life with J.D. Greer, lead pastor of the Summit Church in Raleigh

Durham, North Carolina.

As always, I'm your host Molly Bitevich.

So if you'll remember back in our Life of David teaching series,

God had promised Israeli King that would bring Israel identity, happiness, and security.

But as we're learning, their hearts were broken by the failings of their first king, Saul.

So now that David is in charge, surely he'd be the king that they've been promised, right?

Well, today, Pastor J.D. tells us that David was actually not the king that Israel was looking

for either.

But thankfully, even when things feel chaotic and out of control, God is still sovereign and rules

over the mess of our lives too.

So let's rejoin Pastor J.D. now as we count down the final days of King Saul.

Israel sought a king because they didn't trust God to meet their needs.

That king turned out to be a self-seeking coward who consulted demons in a time of trouble.

That king did not defeat the Philistines. His life ended with the Philistines on the offensive,

taking up residents now in Israelite cities.

Saul's last act is to watch his own sons die and then he commits suicide.

Then his armor is stripped from him and displayed in a pagan temple as a testimony to Philistine's strength and his body

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