Today on Summit Life, JD Greer addresses a common struggle.

The only way to overcome sexual urges is not by learning to love them less,

but by learning to love God more. It's when the passion that you feel for God and his plan

is greater than the thrill that sin can give you. That's when the power of sin is broken in your life.

Welcome to Summit Life with Pastor, author, and teacher JD Greer. I'm your host, Mollie Vittavitch.

We're in a series on the life of King David called Search for a King,

and today we're dealing with an uncomfortable but important topic, sexual sin.

And if there's one area where almost everyone has regrets, it's this one.

But as we'll discover even in David's greatest failure,

God was painting a picture of the redemption available with the coming Savior.

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But right now let's get back into our teaching we began yesterday. Here's Pastor JD.

Sexual sin, as you probably know, has brought down some of the strongest and the very best of people.

Second Samuel, chapter 11, we're going to walk through this story. We're going to begin in verse 1.

In the spring of the year, the time when kings go out to battle,

David sent Joab and his servants with him and all Israel out to battle.

But David remained at Jerusalem. David, the warrior, has become David the vacationer.

And his lack of engagement makes him susceptible to cheap thrills.

You'll write this down. The way to successfully resist the enticements of this world

is to be busy with a higher purpose. Verse 2, it happened, so it happened that late one afternoon

when David rose from the couch and was walking on the roof of the king's house,

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