Welcome to the In-Touch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, July 11th.

Sin always has consequences, always.

Today's podcast continues the study of Second Samuel to see the dangers of disobedience

and the benefits of following God.

Eurekaul in chapter 11 that David had reached the pinnacle of his ministry,

he had been a king for 20 years in the nation of Israel,

been through all kinds of difficulties and heartaches but triumphed over all of them.

And in a moment of weakness, he saw Bathsheba taking a bath, he called it to himself,

he went to bed with her as the modern day lingo would say.

And as a result, that was the beginning of a long period of heartache and consequences.

And I will assure you this evening, here is the most perfect example of the cost of one violation of God's principles.

And no man ever paid such a price for one night's pleasure as David paid.

It ought to be a lesson and a challenge and a warning to every single one of us that instant pleasure brings continuing consequences for our sin.

And I want you to listen carefully so because you're going to have two or three questions that I'm going to answer in these seven statements.

So I want you to write them down and then let's discuss them. All right.

The first one is this, that the continuing consequences of our sin,

and if you want to abbreviate that after the first statement, CCS,

the continuing consequences of our sin is a biblical principle.

You cannot abort it and you cannot escape it and I want to share you why I want to say that strongly in a moment.

But if you recall in Galatians chapter six and beginning in verse seven, he says,

be not deceived. Now watch that. Be not deceived.

If you think you've got no sin, he says, God is not mocked. You are deceived for whatsoever a man's soeth, that shall he what reap.

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