a friend of god. john 15 13 greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his...

A Friend of God

JOHN 15 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for

his friends. 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do

whatsoever I command you. 15 Henceforth I call you not

servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have

called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have

made known unto you.

JAMES 2 23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God,

and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called

the Friend of God.

MATTHEW 10 40 He that receiveth you receiveth

me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

41 He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a

prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall

receive a righteous man's reward.

EXPECTATION.THE_ BURLINGTON.VT THURSDAY_ 58-0508

E-20 And in this lifetime, if we have a chance to chose right and

wrong, it's back to the same thing like it was in Eden: a man and a woman

given a choice to do right or do wrong. They had two trees before

them. We are taught in the Scripture, one of them was the Tree of Life. The other was a tree of knowledge. Man

chose to eat off the tree of knowledge. And the first time he

ate from that tree, he severed his friendship with God, and he was

made a mortal being.


E-21 And when they left the tree of faith they lost God. Man does not know God by knowledge. Man knows

God by faith, is the only way that man can meet God is on the grounds of

faith. "If thou believest," said our Lord Jesus. Not if you say a decree or

you're baptized such-and-such a way, but "If thou dost believe..."


There's only one sin, and that's the sin of unbelief. Each person in here tonight is possessed, either with faith or unbelief. Your life proves

what you are, by the life you live and the things you do.

I SAMUEL 17 57 And 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 [art] thou, [thou] young man?

And David answered, I [am] the son of thy servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.

I SAMUEL 18 1 And it came to pass, when he had

made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the

soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

2 And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his

father's house. 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as

his own soul. 4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that [was] upon him, and gave it to

David, and his garments, even to his sword, and to his bow, and to his girdle.

I SAMUEL 19 1 And Saul spake to Jonathan his son, and to all his servants, that they

should kill David. 2 But Jonathan Saul's son delighted

much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and

abide in a secret [place], and hide thyself:

I SAMUEL 19 3 And I will go out and stand beside my father in the field where thou [art], and I will commune with my father of

thee; and what I see, that I will tell thee. 4 And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant,

against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works [have been] to thee-ward very

good:

I SAMUEL 20 3 And David sware moreover, and

said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he

saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly [as] the LORD

liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, [there is] but a step between me and death.

4 Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will

even do [it] for thee.

I SAMUEL 20 14 And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the LORD,

that I die not: 15 But [also] thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the LORD hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the

earth. 16 So Jonathan made [a covenant]

with the house of David, [saying], Let the LORD even require [it] at the hand of

David's enemies. 17 And Jonathan caused David to

swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

I SAMUEL 23 15 And David saw that Saul was come out

to seek his life: and David [was] in the wilderness of Ziph in a wood.

16 And Jonathan Saul's son arose, and went to David into the wood, and

strengthened his hand in God. 17 And he said unto him, Fear not: for the

hand of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that also Saul

my father knoweth. 18 And they two made a covenant before the LORD: and David abode in the wood, and

Jonathan went to his house.

II SAMUEL 1 23 Saul and Jonathan [were] lovely and

pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than

eagles, they were stronger than lions. 24 Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul,

who clothed you in scarlet, with [other] delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon

your apparel. 25 How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle! O Jonathan, [thou wast] slain in

thine high places. 26 I am distressed for thee, my brother

Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing

the love of women.

WHAT.DOES.THOU.HERE_ JEFF.IN SUNDAY_ 59-0301E

E-15 And you can't buy friendship with money. Friendship is a gift of

God.

QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823E

Well now, Jesus said, "Whosoever receive a prophet in the name of a

prophet, receives a prophet's reward." A prophet's reward is to be a friend

with the prophet. Whosoever receives a righteous man in the name

of a righteous man, receives a righteous man's reward. Is that right?

And if they want to know what a prophet's reward is, is to be a friend

to the prophet. See? That's a reward. He's your friend.

QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823E

Like the Shunammite woman, it might come in handy some time. See? It did with her. See? Watch God's servants.

FEAST.OF.THE.TRUMPETS_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-16 SUNDAY_ 64-0719M

He remains forever the Word, the Word made manifest. That's

exactly what He declared the prophets. A prophet doesn't only

mean "a seer, a forthteller," it means "a revealer of the Word that's written in his own life." His own works reveals and vindicates the

Word of that day, like Noah building the ark, Moses down there,

whatevermore, then you...?... the promised Word for that hour.

GOD'S.CHOSEN.PLACE.WORSHIP_ JEFF.IN V-5 N-7 SATURDAY_ 65-0220

90 And His promised Word will be interpreted in you by Him. Did

you get that? The Word that He promised to fulfill in the day that

you're living in, you will be a written epistle of God, read of all men. Not

what you claim, but what God does through you will speak out louder than anything you could claim. God said, "These signs shall follow them that believe." That speaks through

you.

IDENTIFIED.CHRIST.OF.ALL.AGES_ BIRMINGHAM.AL THURSDAY_ 64-0409

E-79 It's God manifested in flesh, now in the flesh of His Bride. For the

Bride and the Husband is the same-self flesh. These two are One. And the church is becoming the Bride all the time by believing the Word,

so that the Word and the Church becomes the same, the Word in the Church making it the Bride, the last sign, God identifying Himself, the

Word in the church.

SIRS.WE.WOULD.SEE.JESUS_ DENHAM.SP.LA WEDNESDAY_ 64-0318

E-30 Like, in the beginning, God was not even God. He was the great eternal. And in there was attributes.

Attributes was His thoughts. And then it become a Word like this. And a word expressed... Well, a thought

expressed is a word. A word expressed is a thought. And then,

remember, if you ever was in God's thinking, you'll always be there. If

you've got Eternal Life, you are the expression or the attribute of His

thought for this age.

GOD.WHO.IS.RICH.IN.MERCY_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-2 TUESDAY_ 65-0119

73 God is the Word; It was made flesh and dwelt among us, now, that He might bring forth the other

attributes of God. The body, Jesus, was the body of God, an attribute.

Moses seen Him pass, the back part of Him; no man had seen His face.

But now we seen Him, we have beheld Him, see Him as the Sacrifice. Now, see, He was an attribute of God,

being displayed, the Word. That's what He was.

GOD.WHO.IS.RICH.IN.MERCY_ PHOENIX.AZ V-19 N-2 TUESDAY_ 65-0119

And when any believer comes to God, he becomes God's attribute of His Word; he's used to manifest the Word that's promised for that day. See? That's right. God, rich in mercy, has never left us without a

testimony. He's rich in mercy.

CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728

58-3 But God's great mystery, what the eternal God had as a mystery, has

now been unfolded in Jesus Christ, then was given out down to His

Church. What was once in God's mind is now in the Body of Christ, Jesus making love to the Church, His Bride, whispering secrets to

Her.

CHRIST.IS.THE.MYSTERY_ JEFF.IN V-3 N-7 SUNDAY_ 63-0728

You know how you tell your wife things, you know, the little girl you're going to marry. You love her so much, you just tell her the secrets, and get her up next to you, and love you and everything. You know how it is? That's

what God--Christ is doing to the Church. See? He's letting Her know the secrets--just the secrets. Not

these flirters; I mean His Wife. See?

UNPARDONABLE.SIN_ JEFF.IN V-26 N-8 SUNDAY_ 54-1024

102 I've been through depression. I've been through prosperity. I've seen

it, altogether. But I wouldn't turn loose the hand of Jesus Christ for all the money and the wealth that you could pile on the face of this earth,

and everything else. He's my Friend when I'm broke. He's my Friend

when I got plenty. I love Him when I'm hungry. I love Him when I'm filled. I love Him when I'm in sorrow. I love

Him when I'm happy. I love Him because I love Him, because He first

loved me.


When I was sick, laying, dying, He was my Friend. When I'm feeling good tonight, happy, He's still my

Friend When I'm laying yonder, dying somewhere, and my chilly veins

coming up my arms like that, He will be my Friend then. And when these brittle threads that I'm walk--walking

on, breaks, and I plunge out into Eternity, He will be my Friend then.

When the ages roll on, after ten thousand years, you've sung your jubilee songs, He will still by my

Friend then.


Yes, sir. When there's no more moon, no more sun, no more earth, He will

still be my Friend then as the ages roll on. Oh, how we ought to

love Him.


Who are you to turn your head to God's Word, because--'cause some preacher or somebody else told you that It was for some other day? Who

are you to believe man instead of God? You believe God instead of

man. That's the way to be friends with God.

WHO.IS.THIS_ SAN.JOSE.CA SUNDAY_ 59-1122

E-18 What if Abraham would've took what it looked like, twenty-five years waiting for a promise that God gave him? Why, he'd have never had

the baby. They'd have never--he'd never been the father of little Isaac. But he believed God's Word and

wouldn't turn It loose. But he watered it day and night, strong, giving praise unto God. Oh, when Sarah would say, "Honey, it's been

twenty-five years ago since the promise was made, here I am nearly a

hundred."


He'd say, "Praise God, we're going to have it anyhow, 'cause God said so, and that settles it." That's right. He

knowed the nature of God because he was a friend of God.

He knowed how to take Him, because he knowed that His promises, no

matter how foolish they looked, or how simple they looked, or how

unreasonable they looked, they were true because God said so, and

that settled it forever.


That's the way every seed of Abraham does today. That's the way

the borned again Christian does today. No matter what the world says,

what science says, what they say, this, that, or the other, God's Word

stands above it all. And they're looking at His Word and what He said

to be the truth. It doesn't matter if they say today the world can't be burned up, and the dead, or them

bodies can't rise again. God said so, and that's the truth; that settles it

forever. God said so, and we keep our eyes on what He said.

INFALLIBLE.WORD.OF.GOD_ CHICAGO.IL FRIDAY_ 56-0406

E-7 So isn't it wonderful to know that it's all settled. I--I just love it,

don't you? Just that perfect satisfaction, and know that His Spirit

lives in you, bearing record of the resurrected Jesus Christ, and right

living, friendship with Him every day, not trying to live this or that, but Him in you just lives His own

life out, going where he wants you to go, saying what He wants you to say, doing what He wants you to do, that's

the way to live, isn't it?

TRYING.TO.DO.GOD.A.SERVICE_ JEFF.IN V-4 N-8 SUNDAY_ 65-0718M

You see what that does, what it paid off for that man's life to believe that? Saved his little boy. Now,

God had His loyal servants there to--Brother Blair and them--to pray for the little boy when he was in that condition. Yes, when anything happens, remember, you are

children of the living God.

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God bless these faithful men too. In a time of emergency that's the time to look to God; and look to Him and

be on friendship with Him before the emergency arrives. We know this: If we have favor with God, we

can ask Him anything, like you would any other friend; and He's

a very present Help in time of trouble.

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