God is always faithful to His word, and David became king over Israel just as God promised. During the initial reign of King David, he voiced his desire to build a house for God. And yet, David was not permitted to build a temporal house for God. Rather, God promised an everlasting covenant where He would establish His kingdom through David’s descendant.
How would God establish this everlasting kingdom? What does it mean to be brought into God’s family?
God promised He would raise up a descendant from David’s family, and that He would establish His kingdom forever. While this promise had a near fulfillment in David’s son, Solomon, it also had a distant and complete fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Solomon would build the temple, but Jesus would tabernacle on earth as God in flesh. Jesus would announce the kingdom of God had come and call people to repent. Jesus taught that to enter the kingdom of God we must be born again. Through David, God continued the promise He first made to Abraham: “I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you” (Genesis 17:6).
Through His life, death, and resurrection, Christ made the way for people to be reunited with their Father in heaven. By placing faith in His Son for salvation, anyone who trusts in Jesus will find their place in God’s family—a legacy that started with Abraham, continued through David, and ultimately came to pass through Jesus.
Lead boys and girls to see the wonder that we might be brought into God’s family on no merit of our own, but because God loved us enough to send us His Son. Christ paid the debt we owed and welcomed us into His free gift of eternal life. Pray for kids to see the wonder of God’s kingdom being extended to us as His children.
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