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Anyone to whom you must give a false impression can never be a true friend.
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Preparing yourself for the study of God’s Word
Before we begin, if you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ (that is— you have trusted in Him for eternal life), it is important to prepare yourself to take-in God’s Word or participating in a Communion Service, so take a moment to name, cite or acknowledge your unconfessed sins privately directly to God the Father. This will assure that you are in fellowship with God the Father and the Holy Spirit’s convicting ministry, also called the convincing ministry will then be able to teach you as the Holy Spirit is the real teacher and the pastor’s message is the vehicle the Holy Spirit uses to convince you what you are learning is true or not.
1 John 1:9, says—“If we confess (simply name, cite or acknowledge to God the Father] our sins [known sins], He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins [known sins] and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness [all unknown and forgotten sins];” NKJV (New King James Version); we call this REBOUND, read the full doctrine as to “why” we need to use 1 John 1:9 to grow spiritually. REBOUND
If you have never personally believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior (that is, believed in Him for eternal life>), the issue for you is not to name your sins to God; the issue for you is to believe by faith alone in Jesus Christ alone for eternal life and you will be saved the very second you believe in Him:
John 6:47 says: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” NKJV
Notice again what John 6:47 says, “he who believes in Me [Jesus Christ] has everlasting life.” It doesn’t say, “will have”; it says, “has.” Therefore, the very moment you believe Jesus Christ’s promise of everlasting life, you have it (it’s really just that simple), and it can never be lost or taken away from you (John 10:28-29). Furthermore, the gift of everlasting life (also called eternal life in scripture) is available to every human being; there are absolutely no exceptions.
John 3:14-18 says: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” NKJV
Let us now bow our hearts and take a moment to prepare for learning God’s Word, if there is any known sin in your life, this is the time to just cite it privately to God the Father with your thoughts directed towards Him. With your head bowed and your eyes closed, you have total privacy in your mind and soul:
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Sermon: Anyone to whom you must give a false impression can never be a true friend.
1. To believers who are living in sin and hiding from God, the Lord would say to them what He said to Adam in Gn 3:9, “Where are you?”
2. To those believers who are jealous and bitter and kill their fellow believer by hating or despising them, our Lord said; Gn 4:9, “Where is your brother” or “Where is your fellow believer?”
Do you consider their problems, your problems, because you would do whatever you could to help them because they are your brothers or sisters in Christ?
K.J.s, Psa 16:2-3, O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee; But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
3. To those believers who refuse to deal with their own problems by running away from their problems as Hagar did, our Lord says something like; “Where have you come from and where are you going;?”
Two important questions given to Hagar from the Lord when He said to her; “Where have you come from and where are you going;?”
“Where have you come from?” = Hagar came from trying to run away from her problems and her situation rather than meet those problems face to face.
Hagar, not only had a problem with Sarah, Abram’s wife, but she also was afraid of the God of the Hebrews, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hagar thought that the Lord was tracking her down to hurt her, but He was tracking her down to help her and restore her.
His heart is restoration not degradation.
Regeneration not degeneration.
Forgiveness not Bitterness.
4. To those believers who are influenced by unbelievers and carnal believers, to receive “unjust gain,” or “materialism” that our Lord might say “Who are these individuals who are with you?”
Prin: The smarter you are the fewer friends you will have.
Pr 18:24 A man of many friends comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
The principle of love and friendship is described for us in Pr 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
“loves” = the Hebrew verb ahab which means to make their love for you manifested, evident, apparent.
In times of trouble, true friends show themselves friends.
In times of trouble, true friends are manifested to us.
In times of trouble, true friends become evident.
In times of trouble, true friends are apparent.
True friends never stab you in the back; Pr 17:9 He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends.
True friends never gossip about what their friends do wrong.
True friends provide a pleasant and relaxing environment.
True friends don’t use things you say — against you.
True friends never gossip about what their friends do because in Pr 10:12 “Love covers all transgressions.”
Because your true friends do not compete with you, and therefore they will never stab you in the back socially or economically.
Be careful, be cautious, there is always someone somewhere who either thinks or says; “I’m tired of being second in charge!”
Those are the words and the thoughts of a man who lusted after power and was willing to do anything that he had to do to achieve his goal.
If that meant to lie, or to speak evil, to judge, to be critical, to be filled with jealousy and anger and willing to do whatever is necessary to take and steal that which belongs to another, so be it.
No matter what anyone has done — to you, — or — even worse than that, what they have done to hurt the people we love, that is the real test and to pass it you need to live in 2Co 13:5 with Rom 12:9-21.
2Co 13:5 Test yourselves {to see} if you are in the faith; examine yourselves! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you unless indeed you fail the test?
Needless to say, that was exactly what Satan and the kingdom of Darkness was waiting for, as this so-called friend was literally ready to attack me and lie about me because he was tired of being number #2.
True friends also guard your privacy.
Free from hypocrisy; Rom 12:9 “Let your love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil; cling to what is good.”
In the avoidance of hypocrisy, true friendship is often established.
You can also be honest with your friends; you can level with them; Pro 27:6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.
A pastor is a friend to the congregation when he doesn’t pull any punches, like I did on Friday evening, Gal 4:16.
Anyone to whom you must give a false impression can never be a true friend.
Some people never have friends because they are arrogant and proud of their hypocrisy and their ability to deceive others.
This love toward a few friends overflows in a relaxed mental attitude toward all believers.
Prin: You can love a friend more than a relative when the friend has Bible doctrine in his soul.
Age is no barrier in category three love.
Remember this category of love is limited to a few.
It takes both energy and sacrifice to have true friends.
Category three love can be neutralized or destroyed by Verbal sins, Pr 16:28, 17:9.
Pr 16:28 A perverse man spreads strife, and a slanderer separates intimate friends.
Pr 17:9 He who covers a transgression seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates intimate friends.
This love we should have for our true friends help sharpen each other’s appearance, character and nature; Pr 27:17 Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
True friendship is very profitable for one another says Ecc 4:9-12.
Friendship makes prosperity marvelous and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.
One way to tell who your real friends are is when you are faced with some difficult times.
Job tells us that a true friend will be gracious and kind to you when you’re going through a difficult time, Job 6:14 “For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend;
Gal 6:2, Bear one another’s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ.
There’s an old Swedish motto that hangs in many Swedish kitchens which says…..”Shared joy is a double joy, shared sorrow is half a sorrow.”
Remember this principle: “A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.”
When you go through adversity, you will discover who your enemies really are or who they are not, such as a faithful friend especially in times of adversity.
Marcus Cicero said A friend is, as it were, a second self.
Aristotle asked a question, he said “What is a friend”? And then he answered by saying; “A single soul dwelling in two bodies!”
He also said, “Misfortune shows those who are not really your friends!”
Zeno When asked, “What is a friend?” said, “Another I”.
The book of Wisdom 6:14 says “A faithful friend is a strong defense: And he that hath found such a one has found a treasure.”
Now, the point is that a true friend is never known until a man is in need.
None of us really like to see some great array of beauty without someone to share it with.
1. Believers should develop friendships with those that are positive toward doctrine, 2Co 6:14 cf. Psa 119:63.
2Co 6:14 Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Psa 119:63 I am a companion of all those who fear Thee, and of those who keep Thy precepts.
2. Your friends reveal your character, Jm 4:4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
3. Be careful of the familiar friend in whom you trust who will betray you, as in Psa 41:9.
Psa 41:9 Even my close friend, in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
4. The one who will not have compassion in time of disaster, as in Job 6:14.
5. The one who will deceive you for personal gain as Jonadab did to Amnon in 2Sa 13:3.
6. Be careful of those “so called” friends who contribute to causing you to fall, 2Sa 13.
7. Be careful for those who become your friend because of what they can get from you; Prov 19:6.
Pr 19:6 “Many will entreat the favor of a generous man, and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts.”
8. Be careful for those so-called friends who flatter you with their speech as the friend in Pr 27:14.
Pr 27:14 He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning, It will be reckoned a curse to him. 
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