Made for Friendship | Greg Breazeale

We are made for friendship.

Genesis 1:31a ESV

31 And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good.

Genesis 2:15 ESV

15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Genesis 2:18 ESV

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

The Path to Friendship

“Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, “What? You too? I thought I was the only one.”   - C.S. Lewis

"The very condition of having friends is that we should want something else besides Friends."  - C.S. Lewis

Interested people are interesting.

The Practice of Friendship

Proverbs 18:24 ESV

24 A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

Proverbs 27:6a ESV

6 Faithful are the wounds of a friend;

Two Elements of Great Friends

1. Constant

Proverbs 17:17a ESV

17 A friend loves at all times,

Two Elements of Great Friends

2. Honest

2 Timothy 4:9-14 ESV

9 Do your best to come to me soon. 10 For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia,[a] Titus to Dalmatia. 11 Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry. 12 Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. 13 When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books, and above all the parchments. 14 Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him according to his deeds.

The Power for Friendship

John 15:13-15 ESV

13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Hebrews 4:15-16 ESV

15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.