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1 Give God OWNERSHIP 2 Stay TEACHABLE 3
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What We Know About Friendships

• Friendships fill a universal need
• Its not good for man to be alone. Gen.218

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What We Know About Friendships

• Friendships fill a universal need

• Even more needed today

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What We Know About Friendships

• Friendships fill a universal need

• True from childhood

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What We Know About Friendships

• Friendships fill a universal need

• Tend to mask it through busyness

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What We Know About Friendships

• Friendships fill a universal need
• Friendships can lead to pain

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What We Know About Friendships

• 2. Friendships can lead to pain

• Many Biblical examples Jesus Judas John
  Diotrephes Paul Alexander, Hymenaeus,
  Phygelus, Hermogenes

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What We Know About Friendships

• 2. Friendships can lead to pain

• Hurt ? self-doubt ? bitterness ? destruction

Heb.1215 Watch out that no bitter root of
unbelief rises up among you, for
whenever it springs up, many are
corrupted by its poison.
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What We Know About Friendships

• 2. Friendships can lead to pain

• Hurt ? self-doubt ? bitterness ? destruction

Heb.1215 Watch out that no bitter root of
unbelief rises up among you, for
whenever it springs up, many are
corrupted by its poison. Heb.1215a
Look after each other so that none of you
will miss out on the special favor of God.
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What We Know About Friendships

• 3. Friendships provide great richness

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What We Know About Friendships

• 3. Friendships provide great richness

• David Jonathan

I grieve for you, Jonathan my brother you were
very dear to me. Your love for me was deep,
deeper than the love of women! 2 Sam.21
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What We Know About Friendships

• 4. Developing friendships isnt easy

• Takes a lot of work

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What We Know About Friendships

• 4. Developing friendships isnt easy

• Bent toward discontentment in life

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What We Know About Friendships

• 4. Developing friendships isnt easy

• Settling for imitation friendships

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How to Build Deep Friendships
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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 2 Deeper Level Friendship skis

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 2 Deeper Level Friendship skis

• Both operational with Jonathan David
• Seldom considered today

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 1 Make God a Close Friend

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 1 Make God a Close Friend

• Many wrongly think Hes distant

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 1 Make God a Close Friend

• He longs for my friendship

Godinvited you into this wonderful friendship
with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. 1Cor.
19 Since we were restored to friendship with
God by the death of His Son So now we can
rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with
God all because of what our Lord Jesus Christ
has done for us in making us friends of God.
Rom.510-11
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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 1 Make God a Close Friend

• True for both Jonathan David

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 1 Make God a Close Friend

• He wants to make me fruitful (useful)

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 1 Make God a Close Friend

• Depends on how close I am to Jesus

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 1 Make God a Close Friend
• 2 Make Sacrifices to Build Close Friendships

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 2 Make Sacrifices to Build Close Friendships

• How? Love for God (John 159-11)

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 2 Make Sacrifices to Build Close Friendships

• How? Love for God
• Bonus happiness in life (V. 11)

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 2 Make Sacrifices to Build Close Friendships

• How? Love for God
• Love for others (v. 12-17)

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 2 Make Sacrifices to Build Close Friendships

• How? Love for God
• Love for others
• Proof make sacrifices for
  others
• e.g. David Jonathan

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 2 Make Sacrifices to Build Close Friendships

• What sacrifices?
• My urge to be superficial

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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 2 Make Sacrifices to Build Close Friendships

• What sacrifices?
• My pride

Confess your sins to each other pray for each
other so that you may be healed. James 516
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How to Build Deep Friendships

• 2 Make Sacrifices to Build Close Friendships

• What sacrifices?
• My time

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• My closeness to God the depth of my sacrifices
  for others will determine the quality of my
  friendships