Today on Summit Life with JD Greer.

Israel's first sin going into first Samuel

was that they wanted a king to replace God

as their security and their treasure.

Now David wants an army to replace God

as his security and treasure.

So David sinned here because he delighted

in the strength of his numbers,

not in the grace of God.

Welcome back to Summit Life with pastor, author, and theologian JD Greer.

As always, I'm your host Molly Bitovich.

If you've been listening over the past few weeks,

you know that we're in a teaching series called Search for a King.

It's a study of the life of King David.

There's a lot that we can learn from the person

who was called a man after God's own heart.

And not just from his faithfulness,

but also from his devastating failures.

Today, we're looking at one of the most

perplexing stories of God's judgment in the Old Testament.

And it all happened because David ordered a census to be taken.

Doesn't sound so bad, does it?

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