Covenant Friendship
1 Samuel 20
I. Covenant friendship (20:1-9)
- Covenant between David and Jonathan (18:1-4)
- Covenant Provides resort in uncertainty
- Jonathan’s relationship with God gave him the ability to face conflicting loyalties.
II. Covenant may demand costly commitment (20:24-34)
- Friendship with David complicated Jonathan’s life
- He had to balance between friend and his father
- He knew loyalty to David will cost him the good will of his father and future kingship
III. Covenant provides peace in the middle of confusion (20:35-42)
- Faithfulness to God’s promise provided peace in a difficult time
- The biblical concept of peace does not focus on the absence of trouble. Biblical peace is unrelated to circumstances
- Perfect peace comes when our focus is off the problem, off the trouble, and constantly on Christ.
Isaiah 26:3
“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.”
John 14:27
“Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
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