|| HOW TO BE A FRIEND OF GOD || 400 DEGREES BELOW ZERO || PERFECTION VS NEARNESS ||

Words of Encouragement, June 12 2023, Ep 642

|| HOW TO BE A FRIEND OF GOD || 400 DEGREES BELOW ZERO || PERFECTION VS NEARNESS ||

A Mansion Prepared
Laying Up Treasure
Its Not About Perfection.
Its About Nearness

Jesus doesn't Love Sin.
But He is in Love,
With people who sin.

SCRIPTURES:

I CALL YOU MY FRIENDS ~ John 15:11‭-‬13‭, ‬15‭-‬17
"These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends. 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. You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. These things I command you, that you love one another."

ABRAHAM THE FRIEND OF GOD ~ James 2:23
"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.'"

MOSES THE FRIEND OF GOD ~ Ex 33: 9-11
"And it came to pass, when Moses entered the Tabernacle, that the Pillar of Cloud descended and stood at the door of the Tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses. All the people saw the Pillar of Cloud standing at the Tabernacle door, and all the people rose and worshiped, each man in his tent door. So the Lord spoke to Moses FACE TO FACE AS A MAN SPEAKS TO HIS FRIEND. And he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, did not depart from the tabernacle."

HOW CAN TWO WALK TOGETHER ~ Amos 3:3
"Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?"

THE ROAD TO EMMAUS ~ Luke 24:13‭, ‬15‭-‬16‭, ‬25‭-‬26‭, ‬28‭-‬32
"Now behold, two of them were traveling that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was seven miles from Jerusalem. So it was, while they conversed and reasoned, that Jesus Himself drew near and went with them. But their eyes were restrained, so that they did not know Him. Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” Then they drew near to the village where they were going, and He indicated that He would have gone farther. But they constrained Him, saying, “Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.” And He went in to stay with them. Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them, that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him; and He vanished from their sight. And they said to one another, “Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us?”