Welcome to the In-Dutch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, July 6th.

David was a man who loved God, but he wasn't perfect.

Today's podcast points to his life as a guide for any believer to properly respond to sin.

Well, temptation is a fact of life and it's going to be with us as long as we live.

And the question is, what do we do with it?

And the real truth is that oftentimes we fail in spite of all of our plans not to fail,

all of our promises to God that we're not going to, we do fail.

Let me give you a little background of where we are in the life of David.

Go back, if you will, to the seventh chapter of 2 Samuel.

Let's read that first verse.

Now, it came about when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest

on every side from all of his enemies.

That the king said to Nathan the prophet, see now, I dwell in the house of seated

but the Ark of God dwells within the tent.

So what is happening in the seventh chapter is that God is blessed David from those early days

when Samuel anointed him as the king.

When he ran and fled from Saul year after year after year finally, he recognized as the king,

victorious in war after war after war.

Now he is at peace, so to speak, and even while he is the king and at peace,

still warring and yet always victorious.

David, the man about whom God said, a man after my own heart, successful, now wealthy,

has a nation of people who are loyal to him, who love him, who look up to him,

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