TRUE FRIENDSHIP

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TRUE FRIENDSHIP

• Studies in Johns Gospel
• John 1513-15

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He should not be our friend!

• We have nothing in common

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• For one will scarcely die for a righteous
  personthough perhaps for a good person one would
  dare even to diebut God shows his love for us in
  that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
  us. (Romans 57-8 ESV)
• among whom we all once lived in the passions of
  our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body
  and the mind, and were by nature children of
  wrath, like the rest of mankind. But God, being
  rich in mercy, because of the great love with
  which he loved us, even when we were dead in our
  trespasses, made us alive together with Christby
  grace you have been saved(Eph. 23-5 ESV)

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He should not be our friend!

• We have nothing in common
• We despise his confidence

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• How much worse punishment, do you think, will be
  deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot
  the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the
  covenant by which he was sanctified, and has
  outraged the Spirit of grace?
• (Hebrews 1029 ESV)
• What the true proverb says has happened to them
  The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow,
  after washing herself, returns to wallow in the
  mire.
• (2 Peter 222 ESV)

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He should not be our friend!

• We have nothing in common
• We despise his confidence
• We assist his enemies

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• Be angry and do not sin do not let the sun go
  down on your anger, and give no opportunity to
  the devil.
• (Ephesians 426-27 ESV)

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He should not be our friend!

• We have nothing in common
• We despise his confidence
• We assist his enemies
• We are unappreciative

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• But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory
  through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my
  beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always
  abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that
  in the Lord your labor is not in vain.
• (1 Corinthians 1557-58 ESV)

• Are we
• Seizing the victory?
• Rejoicing?
• Abounding?

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• You did not choose me, but I chose you and
  appointed you that you should go and bear fruit
  and that your fruit should abide, so that
  whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may
  give it to you. (John 1516 ESV)
• even as he chose us in him before the
  foundation of the world, that we should be holy
  and blameless before him. In love
• (Ephesians 14 ESV)

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Real Friendship

• Is a two way relationship

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• The saying is trustworthy, for
• If we have died with him, we will also live with
  him
• if we endure, we will also reign with him
• if we deny him, he also will deny us
• if we are faithless, he remains faithfulfor he
  cannot deny himself.
• (2 Timothy 211-13 ESV)

• Faithful
• Worship
• Giving
• Communion
• Daily

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Real Friendship

• Is a two way relationship
• Is a type of oneness

that they may all be one, just as you, Father,
are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in
us, so that the world may believe that you have
sent me. (John 1721 ESV)
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• Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in
  God believe also in me. (John 141 ESV)
• Peace I leave with you my peace I give to you.
  Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not
  your hearts be troubled, neither let them be
  afraid. (John 1427 ESV)
• But now I am going to him who sent me, and none
  of you asks me, Where are you going? But
  because I have said these things to you, sorrow
  has filled your heart. (John 165-6 ESV)

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Real Friendship

• Is a two way relationship
• Is a type of oneness
• Has sadness in separation

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• Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that
  it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot
  hear but your iniquities have made a separation
  between you and your God, and your sins have
  hidden his face from you so that he does not
  hear.
• (Isaiah 591-2 ESV)

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to
mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from
among you. (1 Corinthians 52 ESV)
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• For this reason the Father loves me, because I
  lay down my life that I may take it up again. No
  one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own
  accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I
  have authority to take it up again. This charge I
  have received from my Father. (John 1017-18
  ESV)
• Then they left the presence of the council,
  rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer
  dishonor for the name. (Acts 541 ESV)

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Real Friendship

• Is a two way relationship
• Is a type of oneness
• Has sadness in separation
• Shows willingness to sacrifice

Classes, home studies, visiting Money, feelings,
opinions
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Real Friendship

• Is a two way relationship
• Is a type of oneness
• Has sadness in separation
• Shows willingness to sacrifice
• Has power to improve self

Faithful are the wounds of a friend profuse are
the kisses of an enemy. (Proverbs 276 ESV)
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Friends help us because

• Friends influence us
• Friends set examples for each other
• Friends say whats needed

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• You are my friends if you do what I command you.
  No longer do I call you servants, for the servant
  does not know what his master is doing but I
  have called you friends, for all that I have
  heard from my Father I have made known to you.
• (John 1514-15 ESV)

Are we putting any effort into this friendship?