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Good evening, students!
We are in our second week of our series where we’re talking about friendships and relationships.
We have all had great friendships and horrible friendships.
Friendships can sometimes be filled with love, and friendships can also be filled with anger, grief, sadness, or hurt.
We talked about this idea last week when we talked about how we were CREATED to be relational.
However, sin entered the pictured and fractured all of our relationships.
We talked last week about how sin is the reason that our friendships and our relationships are messy.
We also said that Jesus is the reason our friendships and relationships can be healed and give life!
We looked at a verse in the Bible that is the main idea for our series, and it is this:
Walk with the wise and become wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
And our desire for this series is to help you figure out,
first, who are you walking with?
Who are the people surrounding you?
Are they wise or are they fools?
But why does it matter who we are friends with?
Well, just liked we said last week:
BFFs can affect the quality and direction of your life.
Let’s look back at the verse we just read, and see if you can’t see the quality and direction of life.
Walk with the wise and become wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
When you walk with the wise, what happens?
you become wise!
ou become wise!
If you have friends who are great and help you make wise choices, then the quality and direction of your life will be better!
If you have friends who are great and help you make wise choices, then the quality and direction of your life will be better!
What happens if you have bad friends?
It says right there, “suffers harm.”
If your friends are terrible, then your life is going to terrible.
If your friends are angry, then you may be angry.
The problem is that many of us don’t know how to pick our friends, nor do we even understand why it matters.
Tonight, we are going to look at how we pick our friends and what kind of influence they can have over us.
We are going to look at the story of David and Jonathan, and we are going to start in .
1 Samuel is in the Old Testament, and it’s the eighth book in the Old Testament.
And while I was thinking about the friendship between David and Jonathan, I wondered to myself …
how did I become friends with my friends now?
How do most of us become friends with other people?
Maybe some of you have never thought about it, but it made me think of a clip from a TV show called The Big Bang Theory.
In the show, the main character, Sheldon, is trying to figure out how people become friends, and his other friends are discussing his theory.
Let’s watch:
Video clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0xgjUhEG3U)
Does anyone here have a complex algorithm for determining friendship?
Now, maybe you can’t remember how you and your friends started being friends,
but let’s look at an example in the Bible where we can see the beginning of a friendship and how it matures.
Leading up to , we see that David, a young man and shepherd, is chosen by Samuel, a prophet, to be the next king of Israel.
David is then led into the service of King Saul as someone who plays music for him.
David grows in popularity by killing Goliath, and so Saul enlists David into service for the king.
It is here where our story starts.
David has just killed Goliath and is with King Saul.
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As soon as 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. 2 And Saul took him that day and would not let him return to his father’s house.
3 Then Jonathan made a covenant with David, because he loved him as his own soul.
4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him and gave it to David, and his armor, and even his sword and his bow and his belt.
One of the first things we see is that Jonathan became one in spirit with David.
This is the beginning of their friendship.
You see, Jonathan didn’t just go out walking along the road, asking people to be his friend.
He saw that David did something mighty in the name of God.
Jonathan saw greatness in David.
He respected him, and so he became deep friends with him.
One of the first things we see is that Jonathan became one in spirit with David.
This is the beginning of their friendship.
You see, Jonathan didn’t just go out walking along the road, asking people to be his friend.
He saw that David did something mighty in the name of God.
Jonathan saw greatness in David.
He respected him, and so he became deep friends with him.
Jonathan became friends with him because he could see the great potential within David.
He could see that David was a man with a good heart.
Great friendships start by looking at a person’s deeds and heart, not by looking at their words and promises.
A person backs up their words and promises with their heart and their deeds.
We need to see if our friends’ deeds and heart match up with their words and promises.
If those two things are completely off, then that person isn’t being a good friend.
Jonathan was impressed by who David WAS, not by who David SAID he.
Jonathan saw the mighty deeds of David, he saw David’s heart for the nation and the people.
Jonathan saw the bravery within David.
David didn’t just say he was going to do something or be someone, David got it done.
Are your friendships based off what your friends SAY they are?
Or how they ACTUALLY are?
We have all had friends who were fake.
Friends who we eventually realized were all about themselves.
These are the types of friends who talk a big talk but who don’t walk a big walk.
We see here, in this story of David and Jonathan, that they didn’t just say they were friends.
So, how do we know they became good friends?
It says that Jonathan “loved David as himself,” and that “Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.”
Not only did Jonathan make a covenant, but he gave him a bunch of his stuff.
It looks like Jonathan gave him everything he was wearing, but I can assure you that he was not naked!
Now, you must remember that Jonathan was the king’s son.
He was a prince.
And David was just a shepherd.
Jonathan gave up some of his things, some of his prized possessions,
to show David that he was loved by Jonathan and that he was committed to being friends.
Great friendships involve open hands, not closed hands.
When we talk about being open-handed, it means that we willingly give to others.
The word “mine” is not in our vocabulary when we have friendships with open hands.
Open hands lead to high fives.
Open hands lead to a comforting pat on the back.
Open hands lead to handshakes.
Open hands allow us to pull someone up when they are down.
And you know what the result of being around open-handed people is?
It means being around people who are always encouraging to you, people who support your dreams, and people who love who you are, not what they want you to be.
Closed hands means that we aren’t willing to give up what is ours.
Closed hands say “mine” and not “ours.”
Closed hands show that you aren’t interested in being friendly.
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