The Devil Wears Peer Pressure • followHIM Favorites • June 22-28 • Come, Follow Me

Hank Smith· Host0:00

[gentle music] Welcome to Follow Him Favorites. This is where John and I share a single story to go with each week's Come, Follow Me lesson. John, the fall of David, David and Bathsheba. This is the David who was able to overcome Goliath, but he falls here. Tell me what story you have.

John Bytheway· Host0:17

It hurts because he has points where he could go, "Ooh, maybe I should have gone to war. Maybe I shouldn't be up here on my leisure porch. Maybe I just shouldn't be here." Maybe we can learn lots of lessons from that. I have a book at home called The Next Few Years Will Change Your Life by Travis Hansen, and I think he's an athletic director down at BYU now. Great guy. I'll let him tell the story. "I was a sophomore in high school, a time when many teens wanna make friends, get a driver's license, be seen in the latest fashions. I was no different. Some of the older guys had cool clothes, just the kind of gear other teens would love to have. A few of my friends learned these older guys stole this and other clothing from the university mall [laughs] and sold what they didn't keep. My friends thought it was a cool thing to do, and somewhere along the line I bought into the idea that it would be a thrill and went along for the ride." And then he said, "You can see where this is going already. Walking into the mall, we came up with a plan. Somebody would be lookout, somebody else would distract the clerk, another guy would steal the stuff. I had a bad feeling about this."

Hank Smith· Host1:19

No.

John Bytheway· Host1:19

[laughs] "As soon as we got to the store we decided to target, it also happened to be the most popular shop in the mall, place where the cool kids shopped, but I had this feeling it was not right. I didn't belong there. I absolutely