Perhaps what discourages you most is sin. Perhaps your own sins and failings are constantly getting you down. Or you’re disillusioned as you look out at the sins of those who are meant to be God’s people. Certainly, sin has consequences. V14 makes that clear. Sin only ever brings misery. But it can’t derail the kingdom because the progress of […]

On one level, the promises of this chapter are about Solomon. In v14 there’s a provision for when the promised one commits iniquity, and obviously that can’t be true of Jesus. But although under Solomon the house of David reached it’s height – and Solomon ruled over even more land than David did, it didn’t last. By the next generation […]

Another big development is that the king is now described as God’s son. This is language that wasn’t used of Saul. V14: ‘I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son’. That’s a verse that would be easy just to read without really grasping the significance of, but this is huge. It’s the same […]