Jesus paid a Great Price to be your Unfailing Friend
Nov 22, 2019 ·
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God wants you to realize how special you are the Him, How He delights in you. and He wants you to Relish the privilege you have to talk with Him,...
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God wants you to realize how special you are the Him, How He delights in you. and He wants you to Relish the privilege you have to talk with Him, Delight in Him.
What a Friend You Have in Jesus
You were made for friendship with God. Each of us is designed for deep, intimate friendship with God.
Jesus said: I no longer call you servants, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him. John 15:15
To be a servant of the Lord Jesus is an immeasurable privilege. Yet Jesus goes much further and confers a greater honor. He brings you even closer. He calls you His friend.
The word Jesus uses for friend is philos.
Two evidences of True Friendship Jesus reveals to show sincerity.
First, He opened His heart with transparency. He said a master doesn’t tell his servant what he’s doing, Yet, Jesus revealed His Father’s will to us.
He asked the Father to send His Spirit to revealed All things by His Spirit He has said. Who searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. (1 Corinthians 2:10) So we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. (1 Corinthians 2:12)
Jesus asked the Father to give you another advocate like himself to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. John 14:16-17
The Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything Jesus has told you. John 14:26
The Spirit will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me. All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me.’
John 16:13-15
Second, the cross proves Jesus friendship. He said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
Jesus wanted you to know and understand His Great Love for you, how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love. Even When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.
Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:5-8)
Christ substituted Himself for you under God’s wrath on the cross, and he did it because He Loves you and you are His treasured friend. He paid a Great Price for your friendship. Friendship is in the at the very center of the gospel.
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed in adhered to, trusted in, and relied on God, and this was accounted to him as righteousness as conformity to God's will in thought and deed, and he was called God's friend. Genesis 15:6; 2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8, James 2:23
So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. Romans 5:11
Oh the riches of God’s Grace and Mercy that we along with believing Abraham should be counted the Friend of God, because of the LORD Jesus CHRIST.
James 2:23, Romans 5:11
God’s Gift to You
For you as a Believer you’re a Christian, The KING of Kings and the LORD of Lords is your MOST Devote Friend, Who gave His Life for you to Demonstrate His Great Love for you! Talk to Him Always! He knows the Absolute Best for you! 1 Timothy 6:15, John 15:15, James 2:23, Romans 5:8, Matthew 6:8
Jesus came, died, and was raised from the dead that you might experience friendship with God — not just in heaven, but now:
Listen to what Jesus says: “He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. . . . And my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” (John 14:21, 23)
The filling of the Holy Spirit is not merely power to perform works of ministry, but to experience God’s friendship to the extent that we can’t stop speaking about him to others (Acts 4:20). The gifts of the Holy Spirit are not given to us to enhance our identities, but to mediate God’s gracious friendship to others.
For those who trust in Jesus, the cross removes the relational distance. The Father says “come” (Isaiah 55:3), the Son says “come” (Matthew 11:28–30), the Spirit says “come” (Revelation 22:17). Draw near to your greatest Friend and he will draw near to you (James 4:8) and give you the grace you need (Hebrews 4:16).
Jesus chose us as friends, he died for us as friends, he caused us to trust him as our friend, and he will remain our friend for the endless ages to come. What a friend we have — moment by moment, now and forever — in Jesus.
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What a Friend You Have in Jesus
You were made for friendship with God. Each of us is designed for deep, intimate friendship with God.
Jesus said: I no longer call you servants, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. I have revealed to you everything that I have learned from Him. John 15:15
To be a servant of the Lord Jesus is an immeasurable privilege. Yet Jesus goes much further and confers a greater honor. He brings you even closer. He calls you His friend.
The word Jesus uses for friend is philos.
Two evidences of True Friendship Jesus reveals to show sincerity.
First, He opened His heart with transparency. He said a master doesn’t tell his servant what he’s doing, Yet, Jesus revealed His Father’s will to us.
He asked the Father to send His Spirit to revealed All things by His Spirit He has said. Who searches out everything and shows us God’s deep secrets. (1 Corinthians 2:10) So we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. (1 Corinthians 2:12)
Jesus asked the Father to give you another advocate like himself to help you and be with you forever— the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. John 14:16-17
The Holy Spirit—he will teach you everything and will remind you of everything Jesus has told you. John 14:26
The Spirit will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on his own but will tell you what he has heard. He will tell you about the future. He will bring me glory by telling you whatever he receives from me. All that belongs to the Father is mine; this is why I said, ‘The Spirit will tell you whatever he receives from me.’
John 16:13-15
Second, the cross proves Jesus friendship. He said, “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13).
Jesus wanted you to know and understand His Great Love for you, how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with His love. Even When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners.
Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. But God showed His great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:5-8)
Christ substituted Himself for you under God’s wrath on the cross, and he did it because He Loves you and you are His treasured friend. He paid a Great Price for your friendship. Friendship is in the at the very center of the gospel.
And the Scripture was fulfilled that says, Abraham believed in adhered to, trusted in, and relied on God, and this was accounted to him as righteousness as conformity to God's will in thought and deed, and he was called God's friend. Genesis 15:6; 2 Chronicles 20:7; Isaiah 41:8, James 2:23
So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. Romans 5:11
Oh the riches of God’s Grace and Mercy that we along with believing Abraham should be counted the Friend of God, because of the LORD Jesus CHRIST.
James 2:23, Romans 5:11
God’s Gift to You
For you as a Believer you’re a Christian, The KING of Kings and the LORD of Lords is your MOST Devote Friend, Who gave His Life for you to Demonstrate His Great Love for you! Talk to Him Always! He knows the Absolute Best for you! 1 Timothy 6:15, John 15:15, James 2:23, Romans 5:8, Matthew 6:8
Jesus came, died, and was raised from the dead that you might experience friendship with God — not just in heaven, but now:
Listen to what Jesus says: “He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him. . . . And my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” (John 14:21, 23)
The filling of the Holy Spirit is not merely power to perform works of ministry, but to experience God’s friendship to the extent that we can’t stop speaking about him to others (Acts 4:20). The gifts of the Holy Spirit are not given to us to enhance our identities, but to mediate God’s gracious friendship to others.
For those who trust in Jesus, the cross removes the relational distance. The Father says “come” (Isaiah 55:3), the Son says “come” (Matthew 11:28–30), the Spirit says “come” (Revelation 22:17). Draw near to your greatest Friend and he will draw near to you (James 4:8) and give you the grace you need (Hebrews 4:16).
Jesus chose us as friends, he died for us as friends, he caused us to trust him as our friend, and he will remain our friend for the endless ages to come. What a friend we have — moment by moment, now and forever — in Jesus.
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