Sunday Spotlight
Sunday Spotlight is where we share our Calvary Kids Bible lesson topic each week for kids of all ages. Use this lesson for a Family Night devotion or a review time to talk about what your children learned at Calvary on Sunday! We post a new lesson every Wednesday.
Lesson Title: David Became King
Bible Passage: 2 Samuel 5; 7
Key Passage: Jeremiah 10:6–7
Big Picture Question: Is anything or anyone greater than God? No, God is greater than everything and everyone.
Lesson Summary
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 be the 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. Anyone who trusts in Jesus for salvation will find his or her place in God’s family—a legacy that started with Abraham, continued through David, and ultimately came to pass through Jesus.
Lead the children in your care 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 your kids to see the wonder of God’s kingdom being extended to us as His children.
Christ Connection
This is the big idea of how this week's Bible story points to Jesus.
Big Picture Question & Answer
This is an important biblical truth that your child will encounter each week of this unit.
Key Passage
Jeremiah 10:6–7 This is a Bible verse that relates to what your child will encounter each week of this unit.
Next week: David Sinned and Was Restored (2 Samuel 11–12; Psalm 51)
At Calvary, we use The Gospel Project for Kids on Sunday mornings as our guide for Bible study. This curriculum provides a three-year chronological journey through the Bible, giving our children a Christ-focused foundation with lots of hands-on activities.
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