North Attleboro & Woonsocket | The High Call of Friendship

From Colossians 4:7-18

📖 2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV) All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Friendships provide:

a. .

📖 Genesis 2:18 (ESV) Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”

b. .

📖 2 Corinthians 7:5-6 (ESV) For even when we came into Macedonia, our bodies had no rest, but we were afflicted at every turn—fighting without and fear within. But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the coming of Titus,

c. .

📖 Romans 15:32 (ESV) so that by God’s will I may come to you with joy and be refreshed in your company.

Jesus Taught:

📖 John 13:35 (ESV) “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

📖 Luke 10:27 (ESV) And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”

The fact that the greatest commands that God has given to us are about points to the significance of .

1. The that were (v7-9):

Tychicus (v7-8), the friend with a .

Onesimus (v9), the friend with a .

2. The that (v10-14):

Aristarchus (v10), the Friend with a .

John Mark (v10), the Friend with a .

Justice (v11), the Friend who .

Epaphras (v12-13), the Friend that .

Luke (v14), the Friend that used his to serve the Gospel.

3. The that (v14b): 

Demas (v14b), The Friend that .

4. The that (v15-18):

Nympha (v15-16), the friend that (opened her home to have church).

Archippus (v16), The friend with (he received a special service of the Lord).

Series in a Sentence:

Realize you are not a Christian; you are Sons and Daughters of the Most High God called and to .

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