When "Back to Normal" Shows How Badly We Need Christ as King (Family Worship lesson in 2Samuel 19:9–43)

What does it look like when the Absalom threat is eliminated and Israel gets “back to normal”? Pastor leads his family in today’s “Hopewell @Home” passage. 2Samuel 19:9–43 prepares us for the second serial reading in the morning public worship on the coming Lord’s Day. In these thirty-five verses, the Holy Spirit shows us how much sin corrupts us and our relationships, so that much contrition and humility and wisdom and contentment are needed, but what is needed most of all is the full and final reign of King Jesus.(click audio title within player for a page where you can download mp3/pdf files of this lesson)