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3 Expressions Part 3

1 John 4:7-8
7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God.
8 But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Nothing impacts,

, or determines the of our lives like
. Our friends will or break us. We don’t get to choose our , but we do get to choose our friends; so choose .

Proverbs 27:17
17 As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

1 Corinthians 15:33
33 Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”

Exodus 33:11
11 So the LORD spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle.

James 2:23
23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.

John 15:12-17
12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you.
13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.
14 You are my friends if you do what I command.
15 I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.
16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name.
17 This is my command: Love each other.

God wants to be

friend. Jesus is our , our Savior, and our ; Christianity is a
with God. Friendship with God becomes the
stone for all other friendships.

We don’t need

to be our friend, but we do friends. Life is together; we were for community.

How do we build

friendships?

We

and everyone we meet.

Romans 12:10
10 Love each other with genuine affection, and take delight in honoring each other.

By being

to everyone we . We need to go out of our way to with new people and learn their .

Proverbs 18:24
24 A man who has friends must himself be friendly, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

By being the kind of

that we want to be to us, we never more from others than we are to them.

Matthew 7:12
12 “Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you. This is the essence of all that is taught in the law and the prophets.