A
LASTING FRIENDSHIP
WITH
JESUS CHRIST
Our
FRIENDSHIP
is
with the Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
1John 1.1-4
Continue with Me and I
with you.
John
15.5
By
Ed
Gilpin
INTRODUCTION
The goal of this study
is to explain how to experience the simplest reality of life:
Friendship!
Friendship brings love, joy, and peace.
Or, in the most popular word--
’’Happiness”
Friendship
is
what we call
being with someone we like,
doing things together, and
talking about things together.
Friends
talk about things they don’t tell anyone
else.
Friendship
results in sharing discoveries
about
life and each other.
Friendship
is life-long, even eternal.
Jesus says we are His friends.
Abraham was a friend with God.
The idea of walk and walking with God is a frequent
theme throughout the Old Testament.
The love of God is the dominant theme of the Old and New
Testament.
Jesus said,Greater
love has no one than this:
to lay down one's life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command. I
have called you friends, for everything that I learned
from my
Father I have made known to you.
John 15.13-15, 12
We were created by God
for friendship—
with Him
and with each other.
Jesus said that we
are to maintain this friendship, walking with Him by the Holy Spirit today as the
disciples did with Him on roads in ancient Israel. (John 15.4-5,7)
The apostle John
says that we have the same friendship with Jesus available today that he had
had as Jesus’ earthly disciple. (1 John 1.1-4)
The purpose of this
study is to give substance and content to what Jesus desires with us, for us,
and from us as His friend.
Friendship with Jesus enables
us to experience the power of His “personality” and therefore His influence of
wisdom and love in such a way that enables us to become more and more like
Him.
It is the lasting
friendship of Jesus Christ that we experience.
JESUS IS GOD OF THE UNIVERSE!
ALL WHO
BELIEVE IN HIM
RECEIVE
RECEIVE
THE GLORY OF HIS GLORIOUSNESS.
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