The True Test of Character

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[upbeat music] Welcome to this weekend's In Touch podcast with Charles Stanley. Admirable character isn't suddenly forged in extreme situations. It's carefully crafted every day. The first 10 chapters of 2 Samuel provide the basis for examining the true test of character.

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2 Samuel 1. And if I should ask you what is the true test of a person's character, is it what they do in the midst of a crises or how they respond to life's situations continuously? That is, not on a once, um, in a time of crises kinda re- uh, response, but the true test of character is how we respond generally and continuously in little areas of life as well as the major ones. So that's what I wanna talk about tonight, and that is the true test of character. And what I want us to do, now this sounds like it, it'll take us a long time, but it won't. I want us to go through the chapters up until David has a moral relapse in his life. So I want us to go up through the 10th chapter, and I'm gonna do it in a way that if you'll follow me, it will not take us a long time, and I wanna show you something about him as a man, and yet I want you to get the sweep of what's happening in these first 10 chapters. If you recall in, uh, 2 Sam- 1 Samuel, uh, we took a 10-year period of his life, or thereabout, uh, when we were talking about what is God up to in David's life, and we saw