David and Jesus
David’s career path was a roller coaster: from teenage nobody to the ace commander, from fugitive to the king, from high-on-God to lost-in-sin. He lived ecstatic triumphs and devastating failures. What can we learn about success and failure from David’s drama?” David is a compelling personality, strong and charismatic and yet enigmatic, too. How was he lifted so high? Why did he fall so low? “David’s Son” is Jesus . There’s a reason he was so often referred to as “Son of David,” and it’s more than genealogy. David’s story is captivating, but it only really has meaning when embedded in God’s story that culminates in Jesus. When you explore the many parallels between Jesus’ and David’s lives, it shows how Jesus completes David’s story. We learn to see David in Jesus’ redemptive light. The real David is not a Sunday school hero, but a deeply flawed, deeply troubled, deeply blessed human being—a king, a warrior, a poet, a husband, and a father. Just like you and I