Today on Summit Life, a cautionary message from Pastor J.D. Greer.

This is David, the man after God's own heart.

The mighty protector of Israel.

The guy who wrote Psalm 23.

The guy who was brave enough to fight Goliath, but nobody else would.

Now he's killing groups of people to cover up his moment of pleasure.

Second Samuel 11 ends with these chilling words, but the thing that David

had done displeased the Lord.

Welcome back to Summit Life with Pastor J.D. Greer. As always, I'm your host, Molly Vitovich,

and we are so glad that you're back with us today. Okay, tell me if this was your experience.

Growing up in Sunday school, King David was often treated like a superhero, right? A model of

courage and faithfulness, just a few stones in a sling to topple a giant.

And in many ways, he really was kind of a hero. But it's important to remember that he was also

a broken sinner. Today, we're looking at the darkest moment in David's life and hopefully

learning from his mistakes. It's part of our teaching series called

The Whole Story. Now, if you've missed any of our previous messages, remember, you can find

them all at jd.grier.com. But right now, let's open our Bibles and get into the message

titled The Fall of David. I'm going to walk you through one of the most tragic stories in the Bible.

It is going to give us a very pressing warning about a very practical issue.

Just remember, whenever you read a story like this one in the Old Testament, the way that you interpret it is not Bible character, you.

That's a wrong way to interpret it.

You always interpret it Bible character, Jesus, you. And don't wrong way to interpret it. You always interpret it Bible character,

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