God's Kingdom Established by His Graciousness, Not David's "Greatness"

When 2Samuel 20 ends like 2Samuel 8, what point is the Spirit making? Pastor leads his family in today's "Hopewell @Home" passage. 2Samuel 20 prepares us for the second serial reading in morning public worship on the coming Lord's Day. In these twenty-six verses, the Holy Spirit teaches us that God's kingdom is established not by our greatness, but by His gracious overruling our foolishness and sin—and that the King Whom we must ultimately have in family, church, and nation is none other than King Jesus.