BIG THOUGHT: A true friend is one who loves so much that he sets aside his own glory for a friend.
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1. True friendship is founded on love.
Matthew 22:39 (ESV) – And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
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2. True friendship is selfless.
“Jonathan stripped himself of himself of the robe that was upon him and gave it to David. To receive any part of the dress which had been worn by a sovereign, or his eldest son and heir, is deemed, in the east, the highest honor you can confer upon a subject.” – David Brown, Jamison Fauset Brown.
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3. True love protects at great risk.
1 Peter 3:18 (ESV) – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.
Romans 8:34 (ESV) – Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the One who died, more than that, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
1 Timothy 2:5 (ESV) – For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus.
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4. True friendship endures.
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