One of the things I love to do is teach on the lives of the people that we read about in the scriptures. From the very beginning of learning how to teach, I loved examining the lives of the people that God saw fit to have recorded for us in his word. I believe God’s story of redemption concludes with the book of Samuel because David is pictured as the one who has come to rescue Israel by making intercession for the people at a cost to himself (2 Samuel 24). Now God is going to continue to tell his redemption story but not like what we have been seeing as we have moved through God’s theological narrative from Exodus to Samuel. The book of Samuel is the end of David’s story. Even though we will read about David in 1 Kings, David is not the focus of this new account…
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