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Title: Who are your best friends?


1
Who are your best friends?
  • These choices often will reveal your values as
    well as your future! (Prov 2717)

2
Who are your best friends?
  • (Proverbs 2717) As iron sharpens iron, So a man
    sharpens the countenance of his friend.

3
Who are your best friends?
  • Judge yourself by the friends you choose.

4
Who are your best friends?
  • Judge yourself by the friends you choose.
  • Wise men know this! (Prov 2210-11)

5
Who are your best friends?
  • (Proverbs 2210-11) - Cast out the scoffer, and
    contention will leave Yes, strife and reproach
    will cease. 11 He who loves purity of heart And
    has grace on his lips, The king will be his
    friend.

6
Who are your best friends?
  • We most of all need to be a friend of God and of
    Christ. (Jn 1111 1514-15 Jas 223)

7
Who are your best friends?
  • (John 1111) These things He said, and after
    that He said to them, Our friend Lazarus sleeps,
    but I go that I may wake him up.

8
Who are your best friends?
  • (John 1514-15) You are My friends if you do
    whatever I command you. 15 No longer do I call
    you servants, for a servant does not know what
    his master is doing but I have called you
    friends, for all things that I heard from My
    Father I have made known to you.

9
Who are your best friends?
  • (James 223 NKJV) And the Scripture was
    fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and
    it was accounted to him for righteousness. And
    he was called the friend of God.

10
Who are your best friends?
  • Do not let your friends come by accident. Parents
    can have a great influence here!

11
Who are your best friends?
  • Do not let your friends come by accident. Parents
    can have a great influence here!
  • What made king David the great man that he was?
    (1 Sam 1314 Acts 1322)

12
Who are your best friends?
  • (1 Samuel 1314 NKJV) But now your kingdom
    shall not continue. The LORD has sought for
    Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD
    has commanded him to be commander over His
    people, because you have not kept what the LORD
    commanded you.

13
Who are your best friends?
  • (Acts 1322 NKJV) And when He had removed him,
    He raised up for them David as king, to whom also
    He gave testimony and said, I have found David
    the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who
    will do all My will.

14
Who are your best friends?
  • David had much opposition and turmoil in his life.

15
Who are your best friends?
  • Early in his life he made a decision to walk by
    faith. What follows is no accident!

16
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • Men of faith will have occasions in life where
    their faith stands out. (Jas 218)

17
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (James 218 NKJV) But someone will say, You
    have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith
    without your works, and I will show you my faith
    by my works.

18
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • To live by faith will cause you to go against the
    crowd.

19
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • When this happens it is a characteristic of your
    life rather than an occasional
    choice to be different. (Rom 122)

20
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (Romans 122 NKJV) And do not be conformed to
    this world, but be transformed by the renewing of
    your mind, that you may prove what is that good
    and acceptable and perfect will of God.

21
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • Jonathans faith caused him to be placed at great
    risk. (1 Sam 141, 8-10)

22
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 141 NKJV) Now it happened one day
    that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the young
    man who bore his armor, Come, let us go over to
    the Philistines garrison that is on the other
    side. But he did not tell his father.

23
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 148-10 NKJV) Then Jonathan said,
    Very well, let us cross over to these men, and
    we will show ourselves to them. 9 If they say
    thus to us, Wait until we come to you, then we
    will stand still in our place and not go up to
    them. 10 But if they say thus, Come up to
    us, then we will go up. For the LORD has
    delivered them into our hand, and this will be a
    sign to us.

24
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • All Jonathan needed to know was the will of God!

25
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • All Jonathan needed to know was the will of God!
  • This stand of faith would cause a victory for the
    people of God. (1 Sam 1414-15)

26
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 1414-15 NKJV) That first slaughter
    which Jonathan and his armorbearer made was about
    twenty men within about half an acre of land.
    15 And there was trembling in the camp, in the
    field, and among all the people. The garrison and
    the raiders also trembled and the earth quaked,
    so that it was a very great trembling.

27
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • Sadly, Jonathan had a faith that his father could
    no longer understand. Often they would now be in
    conflict. (1 Sam 1439, 43-45)

28
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 1439 NKJV) For as the LORD lives,
    who saves Israel, though it be in Jonathan my
    son, he shall surely die. But not a man among
    all the people answered him.

29
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 1443-45 NKJV) Then Saul said to
    Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. And
    Jonathan told him, and said, I only tasted a
    little honey with the end of the rod that was in
    my hand. So now I must die! 44 And Saul
    answered, God do so and more also for you shall
    surely die, Jonathan.

30
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • 45 But the people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan
    die, who has accomplished this great deliverance
    in Israel? Certainly not! As the LORD lives, not
    one hair of his head shall fall to the ground,
    for he has worked with God this day. So the
    people rescued Jonathan, and he did not die.

31
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • Jonathans faith caused him to have the right
    kind of influence! That would make
    a difference in his choice of friends.

32
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • What would a young person do who live by faith
    today?

33
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • What would a young person do who live by faith
    today?
  • David also placed himself at risk against
    Goliath.

34
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • What would a young person do who live by faith
    today?
  • David also placed himself at risk against
    Goliath.
  • Did Saul understand this kind of faith? No, he
    had turned to a self-centered faith which was
    no faith at all. (1 Sam 1732-37)

35
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 1732-37 NKJV) Then David said to
    Saul, Let no mans heart fail because of him
    your servant will go and fight with this
    Philistine. 33 And Saul said to David, You
    are not able to go against this Philistine to
    fight with him for you are a youth, and he a man
    of war from his youth.

36
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • 34 But David said to Saul, Your servant used
    to keep his fathers sheep, and when a lion or a
    bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, 35
    I went out after it and struck it, and delivered
    the lamb from its mouth and when it arose
    against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck
    and killed it.

37
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • 36 Your servant has killed both lion and bear
    and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like
    one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of
    the living God. 37 Moreover David said, The
    LORD, who delivered me from the paw of the lion
    and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me
    from the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said
    to David, Go, and the LORD be with you!

38
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • David even let Goliath know who was to get the
    glory. (1 Sam 1745-47)

39
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 1745-47 NKJV) Then David said to the
    Philistine, You come to me with a sword, with a
    spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in
    the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the
    armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

40
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • 46 This day the LORD will deliver you into my
    hand, and I will strike you and take your head
    from you. And this day I will give the carcasses
    of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of
    the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that
    all the earth may know that there is a God in
    Israel.

41
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • 47 Then all this assembly shall know that the
    LORD does not save with sword and spear for the
    battle is the Lords, and He will give you into
    our hands.

42
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • If Saul had this kind of faith the later
    bitterness and envy would have not risen
    up to destroy him. (1 Sam 187-8)

43
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 187-8 NKJV) So the women sang as they
    danced, and said Saul has slain his thousands,
    And David his ten thousands. 8 Then Saul was
    very angry, and the saying displeased him and he
    said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands,
    and to me they have ascribed only thousands. Now
    what more can he have but the kingdom?

44
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • Why did David and Jonathan become friends? (1 Sam
    1757-181)

45
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 1757-58 NKJV) Then, as David returned
    from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took
    him and brought him before Saul with the head of
    the Philistine in his hand. 58 And Saul said to
    him, Whose son are you, young man? So David
    answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the
    Bethlehemite.

46
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 181 NKJV) Now when he had finished
    speaking to Saul, the soul of Jonathan was knit
    to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as
    his own soul.

47
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • Here were men of faith and because of that they
    were men of principle.

48
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • Here were men of faith and because of that they
    were men of principle.
  • Few delights can equal the mere presence of one
    whom we trust utterly.

49
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • They made a commitment to the genuine good
    towards each other that no force
    on earth could move. (1 Sam 183-4)

50
The Making of a Friendship --- Two Great Stands
of Faith
  • (1 Samuel 183-4 NKJV) Then Jonathan and David
    made a covenant, because he loved him as his own
    soul. 4 And Jonathan took off the robe that was
    on him and gave it to David, with his armor, even
    to his sword and his bow and his belt.

51
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • In time every friendship based on faith and
    principle will be tested.

52
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • In time every friendship based on faith and
    principle will be tested.
  • Anything built on real faith will stand the test.
    (1 Jn 54-5)

53
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (1 John 54-5 NKJV) For whatever is born of God
    overcomes the world. And this is the victory that
    has overcome the world our faith. 5 Who is he
    who overcomes the world, but he who believes that
    Jesus is the Son of God?

54
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • There are other kinds of friendship that will
    fail under test or compromise faith for the sake
    of friendship. Neither of these are worth having!

55
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • There are other kinds of friendship that will
    fail under test or compromise faith for the sake
    of friendship. Neither of these are worth having!
  • A friend is one who makes me do my best.

56
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • There are other kinds of friendship that will
    fail under test or compromise faith for the sake
    of friendship. Neither of these are worth having!
  • A friend is one who makes me do my best.
  • It is better to keep a friend from falling than
    to help him up.

57
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Sauls irrational hatred of David provided a
    great test.

58
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Sauls irrational hatred of David provided a
    great test.
  • Saul became in many ways a spear thrower. (1
    Sam 1810-11)

59
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (1 Samuel 1810-11 NKJV) And it happened on the
    next day that the distressing spirit from God
    came upon Saul, and he prophesied inside the
    house. So David played music with his hand, as at
    other times but there was a spear in Sauls
    hand. 11 And Saul cast the spear, for he said,
    I will pin David to the wall! But David escaped
    his presence twice.

60
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Have you ever had to go against your own parents?
    (Mat 1037)

61
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (Matthew 1037 NKJV) He who loves father or
    mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he
    who loves son or daughter more than Me is not
    worthy of Me.

62
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • There are great prices to pay when you go against
    the irrational bitterness of a father, especially
    when he is the king.

63
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Jonathan was loyal to David because the
    friendship was based upon faith.

64
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Jonathan was loyal to David because the
    friendship was based upon faith.
  • He boldly spoke the truth to his father because
    he was a man of principle! (1 Sam 194-6)

65
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (1 Samuel 194-6 NKJV) Thus Jonathan spoke well
    of David to Saul his father, and said to him,
    Let not the king sin against his servant,
    against David, because he has not sinned against
    you, and because his works have been very good
    toward you.

66
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • 5 For he took his life in his hands and killed
    the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a
    great deliverance for all Israel. You saw it and
    rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent
    blood, to kill David without a cause? 6 So
    Saul heeded the voice of Jonathan, and Saul
    swore, As the LORD lives, he shall not be
    killed.

67
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • A man of principle will defend a friend when he
    is right and rebuke him when he is wrong. (Prov
    276,9,17)

68
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (Proverbs 276 NKJV) Faithful are the wounds of
    a friend, But the kisses of an enemy are
    deceitful.

69
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (Proverbs 279 NKJV) Ointment and perfume
    delight the heart, And the sweetness of a mans
    friend gives delight by hearty counsel.

70
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (Proverbs 2717 NKJV) As iron sharpens iron, So
    a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.

71
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Real friends will not follow anothers personal
    vendetta!

72
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Real friends will not follow anothers personal
    vendetta!
  • Jonathan warned David in spite of Saul.

73
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Real friends will not follow anothers personal
    vendetta!
  • Jonathan warned David in spite of Saul.
  • Even after a successful first rebuke, Saul went
    back to pursuing David.

74
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Saul tries to entice Jonathan by the prospect of
    the kingdom being his one day. (1
    Sam 2030-31)

75
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (1 Samuel 2030-31 NKJV) Then Sauls anger was
    aroused against Jonathan, and he said to him,
    You son of a perverse, rebellious woman! Do I
    not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to
    your own shame and to the shame of your mothers
    nakedness?

76
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • 31 For as long as the son of Jesse lives on
    the earth, you shall not be established, nor your
    kingdom. Now therefore, send and bring him to me,
    for he shall surely die.

77
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • The kingdom was not Sauls to give. (1 Sam
    1313-14)

78
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (1 Samuel 1313-14 NKJV) And Samuel said to
    Saul, You have done foolishly. You have not kept
    the commandment of the LORD your God, which He
    commanded you. For now the LORD would have
    established your kingdom over Israel forever.

79
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • 14 But now your kingdom shall not continue.
    The LORD has sought for Himself a man after His
    own heart, and the LORD has commanded him to be
    commander over His people, because you have not
    kept what the LORD commanded you.

80
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Friendship cannot be bought with things!

81
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Friendship cannot be bought with things!
  • Many parents make this mistake.

82
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • In the second rebuke Saul tried to kill his own
    son. (1 Sam 2032-34 228)

83
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (1 Samuel 2032-34 NKJV) And Jonathan answered
    Saul his father, and said to him, Why should he
    be killed? What has he done? 33 Then Saul cast
    a spear at him to kill him, by which Jonathan
    knew that it was determined by his father to kill
    David.

84
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • 34 So Jonathan arose from the table in fierce
    anger, and ate no food the second day of the
    month, for he was grieved for David, because his
    father had treated him shamefully.

85
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • (1 Samuel 228 NKJV) All of you have conspired
    against me, and there is no one who reveals to me
    that my son has made a covenant with the son of
    Jesse and there is not one of you who is sorry
    for me or reveals to me that my son has stirred
    up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as it
    is this day.

86
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Men of principle will stand up against the spear
    throwers.

87
The Testing of Their Friendship
  • Men of principle will stand up against the spear
    throwers.
  • The pain would be relieved because Jonathan did
    what was right and would not remain silent. May
    we have more men like this in the church!

88
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • There came a time where they had to separate. (1
    Sam 2041-42)

89
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • (1 Samuel 2041-42 NKJV) As soon as the lad had
    gone, David arose from a place toward the south,
    fell on his face to the ground, and bowed down
    three times. And they kissed one another and
    they wept together, but David more so.

90
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • 42 Then Jonathan said to David, Go in peace,
    since we have both sworn in the name of the LORD,
    saying, May the LORD be between you and me, and
    between your descendants and my descendants,
    forever. So he arose and departed, and
    Jonathan went into the city.

91
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • There was no selfish interest here. This had to
    be done!

92
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • Jonathan knew that the Lord would be with him.

93
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • Jonathan knew that the Lord would be with him.
  • They had one final meeting. (1 Sam 2315-18)

94
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • (1 Samuel 2315-18 NKJV) So David saw that Saul
    had come out to seek his life. And David was in
    the Wilderness of Ziph in a forest. 16 Then
    Jonathan, Sauls son, arose and went to David in
    the woods and strengthened his hand in God.

95
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • 17 And he said to him, Do not fear, for the
    hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You
    shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to
    you. Even my father Saul knows that. 18 So the
    two of them made a covenant before the LORD. And
    David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to
    his own house.

96
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • What would you tell your best friend if you knew
    it would be your last?

97
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • No problem is ever as dark when you have a
    friend to face it with you.

98
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • No problem is ever as dark when you have a
    friend to face it with you.
  • There was no regret over the kingdom because
    Jonathan had put God first.

99
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • No problem is ever as dark when you have a
    friend to face it with you.
  • There was no regret over the kingdom because
    Jonathan had put God first.
  • Friendship is in loving rather than in being
    loved.

100
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • No problem is ever as dark when you have a
    friend to face it with you.
  • There was no regret over the kingdom because
    Jonathan had put God first.
  • Friendship is in loving rather than in being
    loved.
  • What would your friend strengthen you in? What is
    first in your life?

101
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • The death of Jonathan

102
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • Jonathan died with his father in battle. (1 Sam
    316)

103
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • (1 Samuel 316 NKJV) So Saul, his three sons,
    his armorbearer, and all his men died together
    that same day.

104
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • Jonathan loved his father and willingly died with
    him.

105
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • Jonathan loved his father and willingly died with
    him.
  • A man of faith will always stand where he should.

106
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • David remembered both Saul and Jonathan in the
    Song of the Bow.

107
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • David remembered both Saul and Jonathan in the
    Song of the Bow.
  • David never gave in to be bitter like Saul. (2
    Sam 118, 23)

108
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • (2 Samuel 118 NKJV) and he told them to teach
    the children of Judah the Song of the Bow indeed
    it is written in the Book of Jasher

109
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • (2 Samuel 123 NKJV) Saul and Jonathan were
    beloved and pleasant in their lives, And in their
    death they were not divided They were swifter
    than eagles, They were stronger than lions.

110
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • Jonathan loss was a great loss to David. They
    were separated only for a while. (2 Sam 125-27)

111
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • (2 Samuel 125-27 NKJV) How the mighty have
    fallen in the midst of the battle! Jonathan was
    slain in your high places. 26 I am distressed
    for you, my brother Jonathan You have been very
    pleasant to me Your love to me was wonderful,
    Surpassing the love of women. 27 How the
    mighty have fallen, And the weapons of war
    perished!

112
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • Will you have a great reunion one day?

113
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • Will you have a great reunion one day?
  • Old friends, old scenes will lovelier be As more
    of heav'n in each we see.

114
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • Will you have a great reunion one day?
  • Old friends, old scenes will lovelier be As more
    of heav'n in each we see.
  • May each of you find this kind of friendship in
    your life.

115
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • You should have that kind of friendship in your
    marriage. (1 Pt 37)

116
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • Will you have a great reunion one day?
  • Old friends, old scenes will lovelier be As more
    of heav'n in each we see.
  • May each of you find this kind of friendship in
    your life.
  • You should have that kind of friendship in your
    marriage. (1 Pt 37)

117
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • (1 Peter 37 NKJV) Husbands, likewise, dwell
    with them with understanding, giving honor to the
    wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs
    together of the grace of life, that your prayers
    may not be hindered.

118
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • If we would build on a sure foundation in
    friendship, we must love our friends for their
    sake rather than for our own.

119
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • We surely ought to have it among our brethren.
    (Jn 1334-35)

120
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • (John 1334-35 NKJV) A new commandment I give
    to you, that you love one another as I have
    loved you, that you also love one another. 35
    By this all will know that you are My disciples,
    if you have love for one another.

121
The Loss of a Great Friend
  • There is no friend like an old friendWho has
    shared our morning days,No greeting like his
    welcome,No homage like his praise. - Oliver
    Wendell Holmes
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