God has given us one book that can change the entire direction of our lives, the Bible.

And in this study, journeying through scriptures, we will take a brief big-picture look at every book of the Bible, tracing God's unfolding story from Genesis to Revelation.

Our prayer is that this journey will stir your heart to open God's word daily.

Let's join Scott Pauli for today's study.

I'm going to say a name, and when I say it, I want you to say the next thing that comes to your mind. Are you ready? David and what came to your mind? I would say one of two

things, either David and Goliath or David and Bathsheba.

It's interesting, isn't it, that people are remembered for their greatest successes and their

greatest failures. Now, the last time we studied, we journeyed through First Samuel. And in First

Samuel, of course, chapter 17, you have the story of David and Goliath. That is his great success,

at least early on in life, the one he's most famous for. But when you journey now into the second

book of Samuel, you come to David's greatest failure, to the story of David and Bathsheba.

May I say to you that life is full of both victories and defeats, both triumphs and tragedies.

And learning how to approach both is so very important.

When you come to Second Samuel, you come to what the old radio commentator Paul Harvey

used to call the rest of the story.

You see, 1 Samuel ends with the death of Saul, and 2nd Samuel begins with David

mourning over the death of Saul. A 1st Samuel concentrates primarily on the first king.

It gives us a detailed story about King Saul. A Second Samuel now details the second king, the man after God's own heart, known as David,

his entire reign.

Just as First Samuel, we believe, of course, that Samuel himself is used by God, record much of this,

but also perhaps other men, men like Nathan and Gad,

may have contributed to it. One thing we do know, whoever the human penman was, the Holy Spirit,

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