Welcome to the Intouch Podcast with Tarl Stanley for Tuesday, June 20th.

How committed are you toward people in your life?

Let's continue the study of First Samuel to see the friendship between Jonathan and David

as a prime example of a covenant relationship.

Let me explain first of all what a covenant is.

And if you looked in the Hebrew and you look at that word, more than likely the explanation

would be to cut a covenant because a cutting was a part of a covenant when it was a certain

type of covenant which certainly, surely this was between Jonathan and David.

Now a covenant is an agreement.

It's a contract.

It's more than just a yes I will know I won't count of a thing, but it's a bonding thing.

And of course a person's loyalty and their word and their faithfulness was the heart

and core and the basis of all that.

And when men made covenants in those days, they intended to keep the covenant and they

did several things that would remind them of their commitment because with the responsibility

oftentimes went blessing and of course with the blessing there was a responsibility.

If you go back in the scriptures, the first time you'll find that word is when God makes

a covenant with whom?

Noah.

I'll remember what God said to Noah.

He said he's going to make a covenant with him.

What did he say?

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