Responding to Sin - Part 1

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[instrumental music] Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley. 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 for properly responding to sin.

Charles Stanley· Host0:15

[audience applauds] Well, temptation is a fact of life, and it's gonna 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, and 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 a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within a tent.'" So what is happening in the seventh chapter is that God has 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