We examine the apex of Solomon's rule as king of Israel, considering how God used material blessings such as wealth, power, and security, to fulfill his earlier promise to Abraham that His chosen people would be a blessing to all the world.

We conclude our study of David's reign by looking at his role as Israel's worship leader and considering the worshipful and prophetic words of the Psalms.

David, despite being the recipient of God's grace and blessing, commits a terrible string of sins and must seek forgiveness from God. In his failure, we see the depth of God's mercy and grace.

In this session we review the significance of David's representative victory over Goliath and the ways that event points us toward Christ's victory over sin and death. Then, we examine the period in David's life where he is trying to survive Saul's plots against him, looking at how his obedience, perseverance, and submission to God during this period points us toward the One Isaiah calls the "Suffering Servant."

As we shift our focus to David we examine how he embodies the idea of the anointed one, the good shepherd, and the victor - all roles that will ultimately find their fulfillment in Christ.

We wrap up the story of Saul by looking into the origins of his failure as king and tracing how those failures point to deeper needs that are ultimately fulfilled in Christ, the King of kings.

In this session we study the unraveling of Saul after his rejection by God as king. We observe how Saul's pridefulness and jealousy led him to treat the kingdom as his possession, rather than as God's, and we see the beginnings of what develops into a stark contrast between Saul's mindset and that of his successor, David.

As we continue to study Israel's first king, Saul, we see the beginnings of a life-long pattern of Saul making decisions out of concern for what other people may think or do, rather than out of devotion to God. Saul's failures in 1 Samuel 13 and 15 result in God declaring that Saul would not endure as Israel's king and provide us with a contrast against which we can examine the humility, obedience, and devotion of Jesus, the King of kings.