Relation Shipwreck

Kaleb Wilson

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What Is A Friend?

Proverbs 13:20 NIV

Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.

PRAY/BE STILL

WHAT IS A FRIEND?

Here is what I know about you. That there is a certain criteria that each and every one of you go through in order to select the people in your life that will ultimately be classified as friends. Whether it is the taste in activities, mutual friends, or just something as simple as the same taste in music. Each and every one of us share a bond in some way with the people we spend our daily life with.

This survey was done in 2023:

According to Pew, 61% of adults in the U.S. say that having close friends is essential to living a fulfilling life — that's more than those who cited marriage, children or money.

A slim majority of adults surveyed (53%) said they have between one and four close friends. 38% said they had about five or more.

WHY DOES THIS MATTER?

If the first statistic is right, then that means that the people that you spend your daily life with effect the trajectory of your life.

Proverbs 13:20 NIV

Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.

1 Samuel 18:1 NIV

After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself.

FRIENDS THAT CONNECT TOGETHER STAY TOGETHER

THERE IS A LOT THAT HAS HAPPENED TO THIS POINT. BUT WHAT WE WILL SAY IS THAT SAUL TRIED TO KILL DAVID. IN THE ENTIRETY OF THIS SITUATION, JONATHAN DID NOT LEAVE DAVID.

1 Samuel 20:1–4 NIV

Then David fled from Naioth at Ramah and went to Jonathan and asked, “What have I done? What is my crime? How have I wronged your father, that he is trying to kill me?” “Never!” Jonathan replied. “You are not going to die! Look, my father doesn’t do anything, great or small, without letting me know. Why would he hide this from me? It isn’t so!” But David took an oath and said, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said to himself, ‘Jonathan must not know this or he will be grieved.’ Yet as surely as the Lord lives and as you live, there is only a step between me and death.” Jonathan said to David, “Whatever you want me to do, I’ll do for you.”