Abiding in God's Friendship
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🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Today we will look at what it means to be a friend of God. Friendship with God is a beautiful, sought after thing. And he has made his friendship fully available to us. What a gift! May you fall deeper in love with God today as you learn what it means to abide in God’s friendship.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 15:14-15, and today's worship is What A Friend I've Found by Kristene DiMarco.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we'll look at what it means to be a friend of God. Friendship with God is a beautiful, sought after thing, and he's made his friendship fully available to us. |
| 0:15.1 | What a gift. May you fall deeper in love with God today as you learn what it means |
| 0:20.5 | to abide in God's friendship. |
| 0:23.2 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our scripture for today comes from John 15 versus 14 through 15 where Jesus |
| 0:48.4 | says you are my friends if you do what I command you. |
| 0:54.0 | No longer do I call you servants, |
| 0:57.0 | for the servant does not know what his master is doing. |
| 1:01.0 | But I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my father I have made |
| 1:06.7 | known to you. |
| 1:10.7 | Do you know that God calls you his friend? |
| 1:14.0 | As a believer, you've gained friendship with a God who exemplifies perfect, unconditional love. |
| 1:22.0 | You've gained a relationship with your Creator whose greatest desire |
| 1:26.0 | is simply to spend time with you. Allow the love of your Heavenly Father to sink in for a minute. |
| 1:34.2 | Allow the Spirit to reveal to you God's motives today |
| 1:38.3 | as we look at what it means for us to abide |
| 1:41.5 | in the friendship of God. |
| 1:44.0 | John 1513 says, |
| 1:46.0 | Greater has no one than this, |
| 1:49.0 | that someone lay down his life for his friends. |
| 1:54.2 | Jesus committed the greatest act of love this world has ever known and laying down his life. |
| 2:01.2 | And he did it so willingly out of his desire for relationship with us. |
| 2:07.0 | God desired friendship with you to the level that he would send his only son to die in order to restore what sin had destroyed. |
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