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Introduction:
This week millions of families will gather around tables to celebrate Thanksgiving.
For many there will be a Turkey.
For others there will be ethnic food as well as a mine field of political debates just waiting to happen.
There will also be football games on the TV and hopefully if we’re lucky a nice long nap in a recliner before you head out and brave the Target and Walmart lines.
In our household, we’re having lasagna…because we like to be different.
But the idea is that we take one day a year to remember that we have so much to be thankful for.
However in recent years, or at least as I can recall it is recent, there is a thing called “Friendsgiving.”
Friendsgiving is where friends get together to share a Thanksgiving meal not as family but as friends.
It’s usually the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
But what is a family?
What is a friend?
Are they that much different?
Some of us have great families.
Others not so much.
Some of us have friends that are as close as family.
Like we talked about last week, the family of God is so much more than who you are related to.
Today we’ll see as says:
Transition to the Text: In the new testament we have a very clear connection between God’s people based on the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
But God’s people have always connected as God’s family.
In the Old Testament we have a very clear example of a godly authentic relationship in that of David and Jonathan.
Throughout Israel history and Christian history we see that God can and does connect people as closer than family when He is in their midst.
Transition to the Text: Turn with me in your Bibles to, .
In the new testament we have a very clear connection between God’s people based on the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
And we know that the disciples were close.
But perhaps the closest connect anyone has ever had is found not in the NT but in the OT.
Of course we have to remember that God’s people have always connected as God’s family.
In the Old Testament we have a very clear example of a godly authentic relationship in that of David and Jonathan.
2 guys that connected around their love and devotion to God in spite of what their biological families were doing.
Throughout Israel history and Christian history we see that God can and does connect people as closer than family when He is in their midst.
A little background to chapter 18.
David has just slain goliath with a sling an a smooth stone from the riverbed.
Let’s read what happens next.
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Transition to the Big Idea: The relationship between David and Jonathan shows us that the ties that bind us in Christ are closer thank family.
Big Idea: There is a friend closer than a brother…(or Sister).
Transition to the Points: For followers of Jesus, we ought to be on the lookout for those friends we have in Jesus.
Those friends we can rely on and who can rely on us.
I have heard it said that people aren’t looking for a friendly church, they are looking for friends.
Will you be someone’s friend?
Main Point #1 - Relational connection can happen with anyone.
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Explanation: The minute that Jonathan and David met they just connected.
This passage says some interesting things about the beginning of their friendship.
One their souls were knit together.
This speaks of a special bond that they had.
The second things that we learn is that Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Now let me get this out of the way.
This is not a romantic relationship.
Many have sought to twist this to make it more than it is.
Additionally, we have to understand that men can have deep relationships with other men and love them without it having to be sexual.
And the truth is that men ought to have deep relationships with other men like David and Jonathan did.
We also have to understand something.
David was 16 when he slew Goliath.
By this time, Jonathan was already a seasoned warrior.
We meet him in .
It is perhaps their ability in combat that helped to make that first connection.
So often those connections that we have seem to be around common interests.
Maybe they bonded over war.
Maybe they bonded over their dysfunctional families.
Jonathan was the son of a madman king who impoverished and enslaved his own people for his own greed.
David was the 8th son of Jesse and when Samuel said gather all of your sons, David was forgotten.
But I think there was something even more powerful that connected them.
They had a deep devotion to God.
Now many of us know that David relied on God to help slay the giant Goliath.
We read:
But a very similar situation happened with Jonathan back in chapter 14:
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They both believed that God was at work and trusted in God to accomplish through them whatever He wanted.
As Jonathan watched David’s faith in God and the actions that came about from that faith, Jonathan saw in David someone much like himself.
And being older than he, maybe wanted to take David under his wing.
Illustration: Do you have a close friend?
Can you recall when you first met that best friend?
One of the things I have experienced is that when it comes to really close friends, I didn’t really have to try to be friends with them.
It just happened.
Like we met, realized we had a lot in common and then bam…best friends.
Many times we really have to work to be friends.
However, every once in a while a friend comes along and we just connect immediately.
And even after a prolonged absence we pick up right where we left off.
David and Jonathan had a friendship that spanned decades.
And with David often on the run, Jonathan never stopped looking out for him.
Gospel Application: But we can also have this relationship with God.
And then when God came to earth in the person of Jesus, He called His disciples friends.
(John 15:15)
And then we
Have you ever considered that you can be friends with God?
While we can have an authentic relationship with other believers, we can also encounter the presence of God and have intimate conversations with God (Core values).
Application: At North Hills, one of our core values that is the idea that we need to have authentic relationships with other believers.
We all need authentic relationships with people who connect around our relationship with God.
Why is this important?
Because we need people who model that faith we want and push us to greater faith.
We need people who will hold us accountable.
Sometimes the relationship comes easier, but the intentionality of pushing each other towards Jesus takes effort.
God knits are souls together so that when needed we can carry the burdens of another people.
Will you help others grow in their relationship with God?
Main Point #2 - When friends become family we are willing to sacrifice.
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Explanation: Now it’s pretty clear that Jonathan loved David.
But how far was Jonathan willing to go to support his friend.
Well from the start, Jonathan was willing to literally give David the shirt off of his back.
Not to mention if you need to borrow money.
But Jonathan was willing to literally give David the shirt off of his back.
First of all, David was poor and Jonathan was royalty.
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