A True Friend

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A True Friend!

• Text Ecc. 49-10 Selected
• F R I E N D D A Y
• Cross Creek Community Church
• Pastor Dave Martin April 6, 2003
• Gods Word is Powerful, Relevant, and Life
  Changing!

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A True Friend!

• Eccles. 49-10 Two are better than one, because
  they have a good return for their work 10If one
  falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity
  the man who falls and has no one to help him up!
• We Need Friends!

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A Lasting Friendship

• 1. There Must Be COMMITMENT.
• Proverbs 1824 A man of many companions may come
  to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer
  than a brother.

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• "I went out to find a friend,
• But could not find one there"
• "I went out to be a friend,
• and friends were everywhere!"

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God desires a Friendship with you!

• Exodus 3311a The Lord would speak to Moses face
  to face, as a man speaks with his friend

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A Lasting Friendship

• 2. There Must Be TRUTH.
• Proverbs 276 Wounds from a friend can be
  trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.

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Dale Carnegie said

• You can make more friends in two months by
  becoming interested in other people than you can
  in two years by trying to get people interested
  in you.

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Jesus used the phrase I tell you the truth 78
times!

• John 146 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the
  truth and the life. No one comes to the Father
  except through me.

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A Lasting Friendship

• 3. There Must Be LOVE.
• Proverbs 1717 A friend loves at all times, and a
  brother is born for adversity.

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• North American Indians phrase for friend
• one-who-carries-my-sorrows-on-his-back

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Greek word for love is Agape - an
unconditional, self-giving love!

• John 316 "For God so loved the world that he
  gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
  in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

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A Lasting Friendship

• 4. There Must Be SACRIFICE.
• John 1513-14 Greater love has no one than this,
  that he lay down his life for his friends. You
  are my friends if you do what I command.

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• Jesus took our grenade when He went to the
  cross!

Romans 58 But God demonstrates his own love for
us in this While we were still sinners, Christ
died for us.
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Jesus, the Ultimate True Friend!

• What a Friend we have in Jesus!
• A Friendship that will last forever!

Jesus is Alive!