Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Truth Seekers

podcast a truth seeker is someone who wants to know the truth they search for

what's true and they won't rest until they find it. I am a true

seeker and if you are too then you've come to the right place where we will search for truth

each week in the stories of the Bible.

We've been following the life of King David,

and in our last episode, we learned that God made a covenant with David.

God promised David that his kingdom would last forever. This was a promise that

pointed to the coming Messiah, King Jesus, who would one day in the future be born

from the family of David. Now do you remember what the word

covenant means? To make a covenant is to make an agreement or a promise. Do you remember King Saul's son Jonathan? Do you remember

that Jonathan was David's best friend? Well, before Jonathan died, he and David made a covenant with one another.

Jonathan promised to help David and keep him safe from his father and David made a promise to Jonathan.

Jonathan said to David,

May the Lord be with you as he has been with my father but show me unfailing kindness like that of the Lord as long as I live

so that I may not be killed and do not ever cut off your kindness from my family not even when the Lord has cut off every one of David's enemies from the

face of the earth. So Jonathan made a covenant with the House of David.

Did you hear what David's part of the covenant was? Jonathan made David promise to never cut off

his kindness from his family. Even when he would one day be king Jonathan wanted David to remember him and

his family. Well, David did. David remembered this promise that he had made to Jonathan, and one day as he was in the palace sitting on his throne, he said,

Is there anyone still left of the House of Saul, to whom I can show kindness for Jonathan's sake.

You see, even though King Saul had tried to kill David, David would still honor his covenant

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