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Friendship: Week 4, Wednesday Red Flags

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READ: PROVERBS 22:24-25 AND 27:4, 1 CORINTHIANS 15:33, AND JAMES 4:4-6; SOAP: JAMES 4:4

Don’t befriend angry people or associate with hot-tempered people, 25 or you will learn to be like them and endanger your soul. – Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but jealousy is even more dangerous. Proverbs 22:24-25 and 27:4

Don’t be fooled by those who say such things, for “bad company corrupts good character.” 1 Cor. 15:33

You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. 5 Do you think the Scriptures have no meaning? They say that God is passionate that the spirit he has placed within us should be faithful to him. 6 And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” James 4:4-6

Friendship with the world means that we have become too comfortable with the fallen order of things …  

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  • Why does friendship with the world mean hostility toward God?
  • What does friendship with the world look like?
  • What can we do to guard against falling into friendship with the world?

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Friendship: Week 3, Friday The Need for Forgiveness

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READ: COLOSSIANS 3:12-14, EPHESIANS 4:32, AND PROVERBS 17:17; SOAP COLOSSIANS 3:12-14
Colossians 3:12-14 New Living Translation

Since God chose you to be the holy people he loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. 13 Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others. 14 Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds us all together in perfect harmony.

Ephesians 4:32 New Living Translation

Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

Proverbs 17:17 New Living Translation

A friend is always loyal,
    and a brother is born to help in time of need.

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All of our friendships will require forgiveness at some point or another. – 

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REFLECTION QUESTION: WHY IS FORGIVENESS IMPORTANT IN FRIENDSHIP?
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Friendship: Week 3, Thursday Friends Who Sharpen

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READ: PROVERBS 27:9 AND 17; SOAP PROVERBS 27:17

Proverbs 27:17 New Living Translation

As iron sharpens iron,
so a friend sharpens a friend.

Proverbs 27:9 New Living Translation

The heartfelt counsel of a friend
    is as sweet as perfume and incense.

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REFLECTION QUESTION: ACCORDING TO TODAY’S DEVOTIONAL, HOW CAN A FRIEND SHARPEN A FRIEND? Answer in the Reply Box

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Friendship: Week 3, Wednesday A Friend Who is Trustworthy

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READ: PROVERBS 11:13; SOAP: PROVERBS 11:13

Proverbs 11:13 New Living Translation

A gossip goes around telling secrets,
    but those who are trustworthy can keep a confidence.

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Gossip can cause more damage than we realize –

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Friendship: Week 2, Friday –Support In a Broken World

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Read: Hebrews 10:24-25 and Ruth 1:16-17; SOAP: Hebrews 10:24-25
Hebrews 10:24-25 New Living Translation

Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. 25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.

Ruth 1:16-17 New Living Translation

But Ruth replied, “Don’t ask me to leave you and turn back. Wherever you go, I will go; wherever you live, I will live. Your people will be my people, and your God will be my God. 17 Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord punish me severely if I allow anything but death to separate us!”

We can be an encouragement by our persistent friendship!

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Friendship: Week 2, Thursday Lifting Each Other Up

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Read: Galatians 6:1-10; SOAP: Galatians 6:2
Galatians 6:1-10 New Living Translation

We Harvest What We Plant

Dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person back onto the right path. And be careful not to fall into the same temptation yourself. 2 Share each other’s burdens, and in this way obey the law of Christ. 3 If you think you are too important to help someone, you are only fooling yourself. You are not that important.

4 Pay careful attention to your own work, for then you will get the satisfaction of a job well done, and you won’t need to compare yourself to anyone else. 5 For we are each responsible for our own conduct.

6 Those who are taught the word of God should provide for their teachers, sharing all good things with them.

7 Don’t be misled—you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always harvest what you plant. 8 Those who live only to satisfy their own sinful nature will harvest decay and death from that sinful nature. But those who live to please the Spirit will harvest everlasting life from the Spirit. 9 So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up. 10 Therefore, whenever we have the opportunity, we should do good to everyone—especially to those in the family of faith.

Our relationship with God should flow into the way we treat others.

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Friendship: Week 2, Wednesday Thicker Than Blood

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Read: 1 Samuel 18:1-4 and 1 Samuel 20; SOAP: 1 Samuel 18:1-4
1 Samuel 18:1-4 New Living Translation

Saul Becomes Jealous of David

 After David had finished talking with Saul, he met Jonathan, the king’s son. There was an immediate bond between them, for Jonathan loved David. 2 From that day on Saul kept David with him and wouldn’t let him return home. 3 And Jonathan made a solemn pact with David, because he loved him as he loved himself. 4 Jonathan sealed the pact by taking off his robe and giving it to David, together with his tunic, sword, bow, and belt.

1 Samuel 20 New Living Translation

Jonathan Helps David

David now fled from Naioth in Ramah and found Jonathan. “What have I done?” he exclaimed. “What is my crime? How have I offended your father that he is so determined to kill me?”

2 “That’s not true!” Jonathan protested. “You’re not going to die. He always tells me everything he’s going to do, even the little things. I know my father wouldn’t hide something like this from me. It just isn’t so!”

3 Then David took an oath before Jonathan and said, “Your father knows perfectly well about our friendship, so he has said to himself, ‘I won’t tell Jonathan—why should I hurt him?’ But I swear to you that I am only a step away from death! I swear it by the Lord and by your own soul!”

4 “Tell me what I can do to help you,” Jonathan exclaimed.

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David and Jonathan are good examples of how strong a friendship can be when it’s rooted in a mutual love for God.

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Friendship: Week 2, Tuesday — The Purpose of Biblical Friendship

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READ: JOHN 17:20-24; SOAP: JOHN 17:22-23
John 17:20-24 New Living Translation

“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. 21 I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.

 “I have given them the glory you gave me, so they may be one as we are one. 23 I am in them and you are in me. May they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and that you love them as much as you love me. 24 Father, I want these whom you have given me to be with me where I am. Then they can see all the glory you gave me because you loved me even before the world began!

When our friendships are defined by sacrificial love, they point to God’s sacrificial love for the world.

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Friendship: Week 1, Friday – Rooftop Ripping Friends

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READ: MARK 2:1-5; SOAP: MARK 2:4

Mark 2:1-5 New Living Translation

Jesus Heals a Paralyzed Man

When Jesus returned to Capernaum several days later, the news spread quickly that he was back home. 2 Soon the house where he was staying was so packed with visitors that there was no more room, even outside the door. While he was preaching God’s word to them, 3 four men arrived carrying a paralyzed man on a mat. 4 They couldn’t bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, so they dug a hole through the roof above his head. Then they lowered the man on his mat, right down in front of Jesus. 5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”

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Friendship: Week 1, Thursday — How Friendship Displays the Gospel

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READ: JOHN 13:35 AND 2 CORINTHIANS 5:18-20; SOAP: JOHN 13:35

John 13:35 New Living Translation

“Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

2 Corinthians 5:18-20 New Living Translation

And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19 For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20 So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”

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