Scriptural Encouragement & Exhortation

Thursday, March 3, 2008

 

Friendship of Jesus

 

I say to you, My friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that have no more that they can do. But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!...The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds…A man of too many friends comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother…A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity…Faithful are the wounds of a friend…He was wounded for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with His stripes we are healed…Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you…Seeing their faith, He said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven you."

 

(Luk 12:4, 5; Mat 11:19; Pro 18:24; 17:17; 27:6; Isa 53:5; Joh 15:13-16; Luk 5:20)

 

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