There's a Crack in Your Armor Perry Stone

preacher, and rejoice with the praise and worship band when the people around you are ignorant and uninformed about your past. It is quite different when you have fallen into sin and the entire church, community, state, and nation know the details! Even after you have publicly repented, some people may look at you and say, “Who does he think he is . . . the old hypocrite? How can she act like this in church after what she did?” The reason fallen people get up and get their rejoicing back is because they have learned David’s secret— how to dance with broken bones. DAVID THE DANCING KING From the time of a youth David loved worship. One cannot read the Psalms without seeing his passion for worshipping his King. One of David’s most notable moments was when he brought the ark of the covenant to the Jerusalem, the city of David. In 2 Samuel 6 David had prepared a huge processional from the house of Obed-Edom to Mount Zion, where David had erected a tent to house the precious ark. As the Levites carried the ark on their shoulders, David offered sacrifices every six paces (v. 13). The distance from Obed-Edom’s house to Jerusalem was an estimated eighteen miles. This means there was an eighteen-mile trail of sacrificial blood behind this worshipping processional! The spiritual principle is this: it requires the blood of Christ to cover your past! You can’t progress in your future unless your past has been hidden in