#732 – Faithful Friends (Proverbs 27:6)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 11 August 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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We need friends who will help us see things to which we are blind. We need friends who will provide constructive criticism for our good.

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0:00.0	Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.
0:06.0	Proverbs chapter 27 verse 6.
0:09.3	Faithful are the wounds of a friend.
0:12.6	Profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
0:16.9	May ask you a question based on Proverbs 27, 6.
0:20.8	Do you have friends in your life who will wound you?
0:27.0	Do you have people in your life who will speak truth in your life even when it's really hard to hear.
0:35.0	Do you have friends who love you enough, who care for you enough to point out things in your life that are not healthy, that are not good, which we all have.
0:52.0	We all are prone to sin, we all have weaknesses, struggles, we all have areas where we need to grow
1:00.2	in the character of Christ in our lives, which means we need every single one of us we need
1:08.7	faithful friends who will wound us, who will say hard things to us because they love us, because they care for us.
1:20.3	We don't need to be surrounded by people who are always to use language from Proverbs 27-6
1:27.0	kissing us, always telling us all the good things about us.
1:32.8	Profuse are the kisses of an enemy.
1:36.8	An enemy only says kind things,
1:41.0	according to Proverbs 27.
1:42.8	An enemy only says flattering things,
1:46.3	according to Proverbs 27.
1:48.2	Six.
1:49.2	We don't need flattery in our lives.
1:52.0	We need honesty in our lives. Yes, honest encouragement, but also
1:57.3	honest constructive criticism. That which is for our good, that which helps us see things we can't see.
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