As Iron Sharpeneth Iron. Principles of true friendship

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15 Friendship is the highest form of fellowship Bro Dennis Gillet

16 Proverbs 27 V5 Up front rebuke is better than concealed admiration V6 However, be considerate in rebuke Friendship is not found in multiple protests of love but in the few necessary occasions of rebuke V7 Maintaining a balanced. Not too much lest it becomes strained and overbearing Not too little that it causes one to seek other s V8 Address the lack of s at home before one leaves to seek it elsewhere V9 A that enhances the soul requires putting yourself in their shoes

17 Proverbs 27 V10 Family may start with one generation but because it s built on solid principles may continue on to the next V12 Good friends know when to step back from looming conflict Poor friends press on regardless and pay the penalty of a ruptured V13 Don t be a blind guarantee for a friend that could put unnecessary pressure on your V14 An over zealous show of can make for embarrassing and awkward moments. True friends know the appropriate times to praise their friends

18 Friendships Start With Me It s not about what I need, it s about what I need to be. It s not about what others can do for me, it s about what can I do for others. It s not about how I can change others, it s about how can I change myself to be a friend that others would value.

19 God The English word God is identical with the Anglo-Saxon word for good, and therefore it is believed that the name God refers to divine goodness New Ungers Bible Dictionary

20 Help-meet Literally a helper as before him One who is able to help New Kings James Footnote A companion that was suitable (the animals being unsuitable)

21 Not Good To Be Alone Man is created a social creature. His full powers cannot be developed by physical and mental work alone; nor his moral being by self discipline in solitude. His faculties and his character require to be expanded and beautified by the duties of domestic and social life, as a member of a family, as a friend, as a fellow worker, as a citizen. To be alone is not good. It does not promote his fullest life or his best service Cambridge Bible Commentary

22 Loneliness Kills % Risk of an early death 19% - Poverty 14% - Loneliness 7% - Obesity

23 Quote The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere Sir Francis Bacon Author, Statesman, Scientist

24 Our Relationship to God Creator creation Potter clay King subjects Master servants Teacher disciples Father - children

25 Enemies Romans 5v10 For if when we were enemies Enemies Grk echthros = active hostility deep seated hatred irreconcilable enmity

26 Enemies Romans 5v10 we were reconciled Reconciled Grk katallasso = to change mutually kata an exact point allasso to change Hence to change positions from enemies to friends

27 Enemies We have peace (v1) because we have received this reconciliation. The two are inseparably linked. There can be no peace without with God in any sphere of human life. How vain are human efforts to attain it! How the Bible goes to the root of the matter, not only laying bare the source of the trouble but also making known the only remedy. Bro John Carter Paul s Letter to Romans pg 59

28 Enemies Matthew 7v22-23 I never knew you Knew Grk ginosko = to get to know, grow in knowledge Hence I never got to know you

29 Abraham The Friend of God 2 Chronicles 20v7 Isaiah 41v8 James 2v23

30 Hebron Hebrew Hebron = Fellowship Arabic El-Khalil = The Friend Friendship is the highest form of fellowship D. Gillett

31 Yahweh and Abraham Genesis 18v18 Rotherhams Now Yahweh had said Am I going to hide from Abraham what I do, when Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all nations of the earth shall be blessed in him.

32 Yahweh and Abraham Genesis 18v19 Rotherhams For I have become his intimate friend. To the end that he may command his sons and his house after him, so shall they keep the way of Yahweh by doing righteousness and justice To the end that Yahweh may bring unto Abraham, what he hath spoken concerning him. So Yahweh said

33 Friend Old Testament = to have an affection for Mostly translated love Youngs lit = Abraham my lover

34 Friend Friend 2 Chron 20v7; Isa 41v8 Prov 18v24 A friend sticketh closer Prov 27v6 the wounds of a friend Love Gen 22v2 son whom thou lovest 1 Sam 18v1 Jonathan loved him as Psa 38v11 my lovers and my friends

35 Friend New Testament Grk Philos = dear i.e. a friend; to act friendly

36 Summary It is not good for us to be alone. We were made social beings Although we are God s children, he has invited us to be His friends The death and resurrection of Christ are at the core of that invitation We are to follow the example of Abraham The Friend of God

37 Friendship and the Gospel