Cross Fellowship Church: Palmer Park

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RELATIONSHIP?

John 15:12-17 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. 14You are My friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16You 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. 17 This I command you, that you love one another.

I am Jesus’ friend

I am Jesus’ friend

As a friend of God, you love supremely

(vv. 14&16)

Exodus 33:11 So the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend…

I am Jesus’ friend

“I am a friend of God, who loves supremely.”

I am Jesus’ friend

As a friend of God, you love sacrificially (v.13)

2 Chronicles 20:7 “Did You not, our God, drive out the inhabitants of this land from Your people Israel, and give it to the descendants of Your friend Abraham forever?”

Isaiah 41:8 “But you, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, descendant of Abraham My friend.”

James 2:23 “and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, ‘And Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,’ and he was called a friend of God.”

I am Jesus’ friend

“Sacrificial love, is always giving and is impossible to take or be a taker. It devotes total commitment to seek your highest best no matter how anyone may respond. This form of love is totally selfless and does not change whether the love is returned or not.”

I am Jesus’ friend

“As a friend of God, I love sacrificially.”

I am Jesus’ friend

As a friend of God, you lovesincerely (v. 15)