The Sermon The Perfect Friendship by David McGee
Aug 14, 2011
The Perfect Friendship (32:47)
Referenced Scriptures: Genesis 2:1-10; Genesis 3:8; Genesis 2:15-16
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Genesis 2:1-10
1) The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2) On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3) God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
4) This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and the heavens.
5) No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
6) but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.
7) Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8) Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9) Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10) A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.
Genesis 3:8
8) They heard the voice of Yahweh God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 2:15-16
15) Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16) Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
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Resting on our site is the lesson we been talking about how that we have this friendship with God, and we've been discussing what a friend is and how that know that the different relationships that we that we have with God and the different disciples walked down this thing up along those lines, and I wanted to real estate about that in the vicinity of my messages friendship with God. And let's look at Genesis chapter two, beginning at verse one, and reading through verse ten for the purpose. The first part of verse ten Genesis chapter two verse one S the heavens and the earth were complete in all their vast array by the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing so on the seventh day he rested from all his work, and God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he and now I had always one of these agnostics on community is not about our general want to believe in a God that the rest that everything is going to create a displacing as I allow a man I'm tired. I had a downright and is really mocking God, and in the idea is that God completed the work, but heating all of these things are types of pictures and NAR and can not in not only of those allotted to this that it's more than just it is face value, but it is also the value of whatever we rest in Christ. When we come together and our relationship with Jesus Christ. We rest in the accomplishments that God has done for us. So it's more than it all. The idea will. God is fired. Had to sit down, take a break. It's not that it's not bad at all. It's it's it's of foreshadowing of how the human eye would come together and that we would rest in our relationship with God although we would rise, and in what God has accomplished for us, so it's it's more than just your God got tired and set down for the right incidents knows more than just that. So, and first-floor. This is child's of heaven and earth when they were created when the Lord God made your and the heavens, and no shrubs of the field had yet appeared on your and no plant of the field had yet sprung up for the Lord God had not sent rain on the air, and there was no man to work the ground, but strange chain up from here and watered the whole surface of the ground the Lord God formed man, and from the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being gate. What separates us from all of other creation. The breath of God. What makes us eternal, the breath of God, the breath of God is that God breathed into man inebriated him the breath of life, and it is that breath of life that makes us unique. And we became an eternal being. Whatever God read that the breath into us the breath of God is that life the life-giving 's. The life-giving part of who we are that part of us that will never die. So God has guided the own. That's the breath of God, so now the Lord God had planted a garden in the East. In each, and there he put the man he had formed, and the Lord made the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground, trees that were pleasing to the eyes and good for food in the middle of the garden where the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and a river watering the garden flowed from Eden. So we have this place that God has created for us created for mankind. And we know of it has twice off of extreme beauty and an walking with God, but did you ever think of God, then, as being your friend is your best friend all is my best friend, which would we say that God is my best friend. You know anything of God is the great jockey, ninety, the guys simply up there, waiting to judge the actions of people nowadays is not a scorecard and you know it keeps track of all the goods of the good innings. The bad innings and at the end of the game. He says that your winner, a laser that's not what it is, but they have that image of him that God is somehow looking over this creation looking over this world. Any County created it and flung it out there. It's in motion, and he doesn't really have much involvement anymore back to his error, but somehow God is this going to straighten this all out and put us in our either of an heaven or hell. When it's all over, so there's not much idea of friendship in this whole and in that time, providing a scenario. Some argue that God is self-sufficient. Why would he need us know it doesn't have any needs a Scott David get along very well without us. So what we need us. Why would even care if wearing church. Why would God even care. We pray I would even carefully believe or don't believe now he's got the universal day care and were just young grains of sand on an unsuspecting, the universe and sell what is and what is this all about. So we kept it alive and people approached their life. With this perspective, and in all and any electronic go on as if there is there is no tomorrow, and that we are gods in our cell while those scenarios are not true God did create a and desires us and desires, and this is all portrayed in the Scripture. This is all portrayed in the Scriptures and how the God desires a relationship with us. That's why created us and if they did not want us. We went me here if we didn't have a purpose. We didn't have a value. We were not realize that we were not have been created, and you would be here and I wouldn't be here and I lost that self the age old question and comes up your IM on my head for the next thirty minutes. Why am I here you I would answer that. Why is all this stuff going on in my life while couple of thoughts: we're here because we have a purpose. And all this stuff and I cannot in all and in Iran, and I do run into a lot of difficult and some of them are very extreme difficulties in people 's lives and I I wonder sometimes and this is my wondering in my thoughts. Others become little bit here that you come up here. That's what I'm speaking on CNN. About the stupid things every arise going number one, we have problems. Why, because we have this comfort zone that we live in indicating that this will be. We have had this life, this comfort zone that we live in. I finished with food in their inbox. I pay within this comfort zone. The box. And thank you MM discovered some of the box and Atlanta's perimeter before the edges and we try to live in the center of we like to live in the center where there are no difficulties. Where there are no conflicts. But what if this is a challenge. What if whenever we however, when we encounter conflict we encounter difficulty. Why am I is there to challenge our comfort zone to move us beyond and what if that it is in the house places that we are on determining where going to call upon ourselves, and call upon our own understanding or call upon God, and upon his promises upon this spirit of why the God that the God breathed into us and recognizing that we are here for a divine purpose not here just to serve ourselves so the purpose, then perhaps in all of this is in God 's creation is the purpose of friendship. The purpose of friendship that we are in a relationship with God, and the relationship with God is not one that is of judge, jury and executioner. It is the relationship of friendship or relationship with God desires the right relationship between us. Now the perfect example of how friendship with perfect harmony is in the fathers in the Trinity, father, the son, Holy Spirit, that the father desires to glorify the son. The son is here to do the will of the father and the Spirit is, to reveal to reveal God to us to reveal the father and the son, and so there is this perfect harmony that exists in the Trinity involves planning, creation was to create a perfect world, and we called it a no. The perfection is seen again and in the creation in Genesis three eight. It says that the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God, and he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day so we have a picture of what this friendship was about this friendship was about walking with God, that God would come in the cool of the day and added he would walk with the in the NEA topping was economic. We don't know, but it was a perfect place. A perfect environment. There were no we there where there were no thorns under these things existed that time and there was this perfect place or whether that be wise and godly, their goal of the day and Walkman now God chose to make himself a gift to us. God created this place and made himself a gift to us and we in turn remaking ourselves to give to him the perfect friendship. The perfect friendship is that I give myself to you that you know all about me. Still like me and and you are my friend and I know all about you is still like you the perfect friendship and so we find that God is a generous friend. He made the world and distracted a stock that you do with all of all of the resources needed for us to live an entire and entire lifetime and in humankind until he returns God no economist of the beach and he said this is my house and it's fully stocked and as long as you're here, you don't have to buy thing. It's all in there. I would like to know that vacation, bringing to yell there was written job in my mind I managed to talk about things drop in my mind. But anyhow, we read we were chaplains dimension and an& there was this chaplain to 's on all of those different origin, which is family origin was that the identity of the chaplains conference was that you could bring your your wife and your family while he witnessed individual was standing at the front desk with his wife and family. His parents, his answer was, uncles and all of their case. They wanted around the Robin to stay in one room now and today on their origin. They probably weren't trusted that an NAM it was kind of funny because they're all standing there is like thirty people there all registering for one will let it was it was his time was things that the faculty also here in our life. You were showing up. I got to say, bring your family bring relatives the whole place a stock, and it's all in place. All you have to do is yell the beach, good stewards of life placing your hand you see the vineyard, and you look at our life we see in our world and in a winner to be good stewards of our world and in Genesis where it talks about that you are two of your control and multiply you know is is many times when we read that the only thought of it all. God wants an enemy get-together. Go at once is a case that's when they go forth and multiplied the idea of going forth and multiply was is that you are you are to be a steward of your place that you have a God is giving you that he cut down a tree planted that you are to be stewards of all that God has given you and that you are to multiply what has been placed in your life, and that doesn't take that example and bring it over to where we are right in our life that we have stocked in the refrigerator stocked in who we are as a person. Everything that we would need for our life. All the talents and abilities. We need, for whom the artist person for why God created us is all inside of us. Now when we run into difficulties it. We can try and do it on our own or we can pray for God to help us in these difficulties Ron is there opening the refrigerator opening the storehouses, alternate abilities and taking that which we have placing his word of his life-giving spirit. And so I am taking what is there and using it to meet those challenges that the friendship of God is not so much that we are challenging godly wife tried to do this to me, but that while I am here and in these places of crises, and in these places of difficulties. I am actually calling of God, and he is going to reveal to leave and parental life and bring out the of what we have inside of us to meet the challenge that needs a difficult look like a science. Those like Edison. I'm a times that he tried to find a lightbulb discover any of the right elements for an overall IPO three hundred eighteen hundred five, something like that and he would say why no waiting underweight. It doesn't work why he wouldn't give up insulting when our life, we don't give up on our faith. We don't give up on what God has done for us, so friendship states that if we if we all had one. The only idea if we all had one non- genital nonjudgmental friend remembering this years ago. If we all had one nonjudgmental friend connect, there would be no need for psychiatrists, counselors and mental therapist mental ill. Why, because we could share who we are and it wouldn't be a problem. We could share overthinking what we're feeling and the person wouldn't be passing judgment saying we know you should be that way that if you are really if you are really who you really think you are and should be used not just know sometimes we just need to hear ourselves say something to see how good it is or how bad it is and and and a friend is there to help us, evaluate, separate the wheat from the chaff, and that whole idea is that God by his spirit and his word is at work in our life in this friendship so the friendship between God and Adam and Eve was a walk in the garden in the cool of the day a walk with school and out of even the goal of the integral of the day and what was God doing he was revealing himself it was revealing the character is revealing the purpose for why had a believer, you know why they were even there. God wants us as we jump ahead and watch it on our day we read, we pray, we read the Scriptures you were singing the song and singing the song. What is that, what are they about there on our relationship, friendship with God about our relationship friendship with him, you know you want, whenever whenever you were falling in love and love singing love songs nursing once all for your girlfriend, boyfriend, now it seems our kids, grandkids, what is it about something that's conveying a feeling it's conveying emotion is conveying something that we are feeling to personally love no, wow, what are we doing we were singing are so were saying about our worship our friendship with God. Jesus Messiah Messiah young as the anointed one, the one that was predicted from the beginning of time, so you see we have all the things are revealed a lot what our needs are 's about what our friendship is about youngest week I visit I visited that the number of care facilities. The number of hospice patients and I walked in I never met this individual for this is on staff at this one. One facility and says she found out that I was fourteen, she says are you saying us today at a press now again once this all right. And then I end up forty five minutes an hour that I was there probably ran into this individual, or times and every time and its workings make the statement while it is thereby saving me today and landed about planning my friend Elena, thereby saving as the latest in a filing allies about to leave the gay know any. I don't need to know they had a thousand times. Maybe for some so I walked over, I said, come sit down with me and she said validly and she said I need to be saved. I need to get my life back in order with God, and I made some choices that have been right. I need God back in my life. Can you help friendship with God is something that we have to choose. She gone is done everything that he possibly can to make sure that this friendship exists. There is nothing that God hasn't done that, you know that are either that has limits. This friendship is done everything all up in the door for us. God desires for us to be his friend. And what does God desire you ever desire for your friends. The veil, then you're not much of a friend of your desire is that they would fall down how they are they how they run in the belt. Now our friends don't wish success failure on us, our friends wish success in our life, and God is about bringing that type of success in the relational success into our lives in a true friend is one who encourages us and in our accomplishments and in and in and in the Scriptures, God is our friend is encouraging us with his word with the Scriptures and is afraid that if there sang while well, sometimes brazenly at all. It'll all work out our fringing in the friend are fringes of thousands all things work together for good to those who love God, according to all important purpose in the Scriptures. She whenever we say it's all going to be okay. It's because we are trusting God and his word that is spoken to us, so that as we confront that difficulty, God is there to encourage us with his work whenever we feel lonely. God says what I'll never leave you nor forsake you are not alone. What about when I'll die. Jesus says I go to prepare a place for you to where I am very maybe also so there is not one situation in life that God is not saying to WASP what he is going to do and how he is going to help us as we run into those boundaries are brought into those areas of live our life that are uncomfortable for us as we approach those God is coming to us as our friend giving us encouragement where we are at so that we can take our next step and take it and develop who this person is because God desires for us to accomplish the goal of our life in the goal of our life serving God, serving that were not all in on all where are not all going to be preachers are missionary refer to our evangelists are in all, but when God is going to take the talents that we have is going to use them all the way can develop and become the best at the best that we can be as nonmilitary slogan is God 's love that we would become the best person that he created us to be and that means we're going to deal with the difficulties in our life and when it is going to be healing for us strengthening for us and bring us to a place where God is going to be there to reward us. So what makes this guy don't want to sound that there is there is no new pie-in-the-sky, all wonderful and there is no hell and there is no see there's accountability. That's what we preferably find ourselves having difficult. We don't like accountability and in eighteen there was one restriction and the Lord God commanded in Genesis chapter two verses sixteen and seventeen and the Lord God commanded the man you are free to eat from any tree in the garden but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you leave it you will surely die. Now, was this was a streetwise in some ways, yes, it was poisonous and that it was evening because of doubt, do we really believe that God accountability music. This tray spoke of divine ownership. God is saying. I own this place. I'm one restriction, the leader of the street. If you do everything else in the garden. You can even call him Joe. It had everything else in the garden by what you do now that I create if you and I only spliced and to assemble what good is that my question is this. If we don't believe that there are restrictions. There are restrictions do we would. We believe the promises would we allow the restrictions and this was the temptation that came to fill adamant to leave half God really said, would God really give you restrictions. If this were a perfect place and you notice that the restrictions that God cares are for our all relational experiences don't steal, don't kill the bear false witness don't lie one of those. Those are relational experiences that you would that we would have with people in God 's restrictions are about keeping right relationships with people in right relationship with God so that we would become this individual. The garage created us to be that God created us so that we might let landing. This is aware in God 's place that is greater for us. We are here for divine purpose and we are here to fulfill a divine mission. The will of God. The sin of my time is that we would think that we are God out of the sin of mankind if you eat this tree industry. You will become like God. And so the challenge is in my God of my life or is I do, I surrender to someone who is of a higher power. And I'm not a always remember when my big Mike was a hitman for the Mafia, and he went he was in humans being church in our Bible school. Whenever we were in East Providence, Rhode Island and big Mike was in line you didn't want to mess with. He was, he was big and he wasn't the most educated man, but you could tell he had been interviewed skirmishes. It was scarred up his nose was broken, twisted it. All those things but big Mike God got found him whatever he gave his life to Jesus Christ. And every once in a while. Big Mike jumped to his feet and a church service area have to do it all and he would bellow out your block with a price and he would talk about how God bought in and purchased him from his sin, and as a hitman. He knew what it was to buy when the value of a man's life, and as a redeemed child of God. He knew the value of being purchased by God, and forgive the sins and no, he was big Mike I can still picture jumping to his feet just scared to death first time that happened was like oh my gosh& I is he not in our anyway and jumped to his feet and say you want to emphasize start on the island are the only anointing of the Spirit, and he would just like to do it always like it was his way of testimony testify to everybody in charge that you're guilty of the Obama surprise that God has redeemed to God 's saving from his end, and be aware that your know people participate fully in all and in his old former way of life, but the plot is given a supply, and the accountability of our life is, is that we would take everything that we've been given. Re: Re: did a perfect far from perfect, but he would we would take our needed and be accountable to God not to eat on the forbidden fruit that is, is the basis of dollars, hath God said, does God love God have a purpose for my life. Is there anything greater in life and who I am. Those doubts and leave them to the temperature and walk with God in the cool of the day and say I'm loved by God, I'm forgiven by God. I have a purpose in my life and the obstacles that I face our opportunities to grow my life beyond my boundaries and experience the promises of God for my life and no matter what the ups and downs of our Sunday school lesson this morning we talked about how that be the, the disciples had just come from feeding the five thousand ill five loaves and two fishes fed five thousand men plus women and children came from that miraculous event to crossing the sea and a storm coming up and they get all they didn't know they will be able to live or die. So going from that one experience to the next and Jesus coming alongside them and they said, if it's you, Jesus reader favorites you, Jesus asked me to come to the Peter walk on the water for a period of time until became distracted by the circumstance sold to a move from this mountaintop to difficulties in from difficulties to it to mountaintop, and that life has difficulties in life as obstacles in life has problems in life as questions, but I have a friend I have a friend who desires to walk with two. Desires to reveal his word my life that I may find whole I may find peace. I played, find strength. I may find courage. I'm a fine purpose that would find it. I was created by this God who loves me and he wants to walk with me to every aspect of my life. That's friendship with Jesus. Amen. So is that it out in the garden. They listened to the they listen to the doubts of the line service. They listened to the doubts of the line service rather than the words of a loving God. These are the challenges that we find as we face are different going on a one wife, and we're going to listen to want to listen to the voice of the spirit and the spirit is the same spirit that bringing life into man and man became a living soul. The same spirit is the spirit of God reason why lots gives us the assurance that were not alone and nothing shall separate us from the love of God. If that same Holy Spirit that breeze peace into our lives gives us hope in difficult situations that we have purpose. We were created, and as we worship in with you all the sing the song and all that. If that same spirit that surrounds us encompass us us and gives us hope that our friendsResting on our site is the lesson we been talking about how that we have this friendship with God, and we've been discussing what a friend is and how that know that the different relationships that we that we have with God and the different disciples walked down this thing up along those lines, and I wanted to real estate about that in the vicinity of my messages friendship with God. And let's look at Genesis chapter two, beginning at verse one, and reading through verse ten for the purpose. The first part of verse ten Genesis chapter two verse one S the heavens and the earth were complete in all their vast array by the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing so on the seventh day he rested from all his work, and God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he and now I had always one of these agnostics on community is not about our general want to believe in a God that the rest that everything is going to create a displacing as I allow a man I'm tired. I had a downright and is really mocking God, and in the idea is that God completed the work, but heating all of these things are types of pictures and NAR and can not in not only of those allotted to this that it's more than just it is face value, but it is also the value of whatever we rest in Christ. When we come together and our relationship with Jesus Christ. We rest in the accomplishments that God has done for us. So it's more than it all. The idea will. God is fired. Had to sit down, take a break. It's not that it's not bad at all. It's it's it's of foreshadowing of how the human eye would come together and that we would rest in our relationship with God although we would rise, and in what God has accomplished for us, so it's it's more than just your God got tired and set down for the right incidents knows more than just that. So, and first-floor. This is child's of heaven and earth when they were created when the Lord God made your and the heavens, and no shrubs of the field had yet appeared on your and no plant of the field had yet sprung up for the Lord God had not sent rain on the air, and there was no man to work the ground, but strange chain up from here and watered the whole surface of the ground the Lord God formed man, and from the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being gate. What separates us from all of other creation. The breath of God. What makes us eternal, the breath of God, the breath of God is that God breathed into man inebriated him the breath of life, and it is that breath of life that makes us unique. And we became an eternal being. Whatever God read that the breath into us the breath of God is that life the life-giving 's. The life-giving part of who we are that part of us that will never die. So God has guided the own. That's the breath of God, so now the Lord God had planted a garden in the East. In each, and there he put the man he had formed, and the Lord made the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground, trees that were pleasing to the eyes and good for food in the middle of the garden where the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and a river watering the garden flowed from Eden. So we have this place that God has created for us created for mankind. And we know of it has twice off of extreme beauty and an walking with God, but did you ever think of God, then, as being your friend is your best friend all is my best friend, which would we say that God is my best friend. You know anything of God is the great jockey, ninety, the guys simply up there, waiting to judge the actions of people nowadays is not a scorecard and you know it keeps track of all the goods of the good innings. The bad innings and at the end of the game. He says that your winner, a laser that's not what it is, but they have that image of him that God is somehow looking over this creation looking over this world. Any County created it and flung it out there. It's in motion, and he doesn't really have much involvement anymore back to his error, but somehow God is this going to straighten this all out and put us in our either of an heaven or hell. When it's all over, so there's not much idea of friendship in this whole and in that time, providing a scenario. Some argue that God is self-sufficient. Why would he need us know it doesn't have any needs a Scott David get along very well without us. So what we need us. Why would even care if wearing church. Why would God even care. We pray I would even carefully believe or don't believe now he's got the universal day care and were just young grains of sand on an unsuspecting, the universe and sell what is and what is this all about. So we kept it alive and people approached their life. With this perspective, and in all and any electronic go on as if there is there is no tomorrow, and that we are gods in our cell while those scenarios are not true God did create a and desires us and desires, and this is all portrayed in the Scripture. This is all portrayed in the Scriptures and how the God desires a relationship with us. That's why created us and if they did not want us. We went me here if we didn't have a purpose. We didn't have a value. We were not realize that we were not have been created, and you would be here and I wouldn't be here and I lost that self the age old question and comes up your IM on my head for the next thirty minutes. Why am I here you I would answer that. Why is all this stuff going on in my life while couple of thoughts: we're here because we have a purpose. And all this stuff and I cannot in all and in Iran, and I do run into a lot of difficult and some of them are very extreme difficulties in people 's lives and I I wonder sometimes and this is my wondering in my thoughts. Others become little bit here that you come up here. That's what I'm speaking on CNN. About the stupid things every arise going number one, we have problems. Why, because we have this comfort zone that we live in indicating that this will be. We have had this life, this comfort zone that we live in. I finished with food in their inbox. I pay within this comfort zone. The box. And thank you MM discovered some of the box and Atlanta's perimeter before the edges and we try to live in the center of we like to live in the center where there are no difficulties. Where there are no conflicts. But what if this is a challenge. What if whenever we however, when we encounter conflict we encounter difficulty. Why am I is there to challenge our comfort zone to move us beyond and what if that it is in the house places that we are on determining where going to call upon ourselves, and call upon our own understanding or call upon God, and upon his promises upon this spirit of why the God that the God breathed into us and recognizing that we are here for a divine purpose not here just to serve ourselves so the purpose, then perhaps in all of this is in God 's creation is the purpose of friendship. The purpose of friendship that we are in a relationship with God, and the relationship with God is not one that is of judge, jury and executioner. It is the relationship of friendship or relationship with God desires the right relationship between us. Now the perfect example of how friendship with perfect harmony is in the fathers in the Trinity, father, the son, Holy Spirit, that the father desires to glorify the son. The son is here to do the will of the father and the Spirit is, to reveal to reveal God to us to reveal the father and the son, and so there is this perfect harmony that exists in the Trinity involves planning, creation was to create a perfect world, and we called it a no. The perfection is seen again and in the creation in Genesis three eight. It says that the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God, and he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day so we have a picture of what this friendship was about this friendship was about walking with God, that God would come in the cool of the day and added he would walk with the in the NEA topping was economic. We don't know, but it was a perfect place. A perfect environment. There were no we there where there were no thorns under these things existed that time and there was this perfect place or whether that be wise and godly, their goal of the day and Walkman now God chose to make himself a gift to us. God created this place and made himself a gift to us and we in turn remaking ourselves to give to him the perfect friendship. The perfect friendship is that I give myself to you that you know all about me. Still like me and and you are my friend and I know all about you is still like you the perfect friendship and so we find that God is a generous friend. He made the world and distracted a stock that you do with all of all of the resources needed for us to live an entire and entire lifetime and in humankind until he returns God no economist of the beach and he said this is my house and it's fully stocked and as long as you're here, you don't have to buy thing. It's all in there. I would like to know that vacation, bringing to yell there was written job in my mind I managed to talk about things drop in my mind. But anyhow, we read we were chaplains dimension and an& there was this chaplain to 's on all of those different origin, which is family origin was that the identity of the chaplains conference was that you could bring your your wife and your family while he witnessed individual was standing at the front desk with his wife and family. His parents, his answer was, uncles and all of their case. They wanted around the Robin to stay in one room now and today on their origin. They probably weren't trusted that an NAM it was kind of funny because they're all standing there is like thirty people there all registering for one will let it was it was his time was things that the faculty also here in our life. You were showing up. I got to say, bring your family bring relatives the whole place a stock, and it's all in place. All you have to do is yell the beach, good stewards of life placing your hand you see the vineyard, and you look at our life we see in our world and in a winner to be good stewards of our world and in Genesis where it talks about that you are two of your control and multiply you know is is many times when we read that the only thought of it all. God wants an enemy get-together. Go at once is a case that's when they go forth and multiplied the idea of going forth and multiply was is that you are you are to be a steward of your place that you have a God is giving you that he cut down a tree planted that you are to be stewards of all that God has given you and that you are to multiply what has been placed in your life, and that doesn't take that example and bring it over to where we are right in our life that we have stocked in the refrigerator stocked in who we are as a person. Everything that we would need for our life. All the talents and abilities. We need, for whom the artist person for why God created us is all inside of us. Now when we run into difficulties it. We can try and do it on our own or we can pray for God to help us in these difficulties Ron is there opening the refrigerator opening the storehouses, alternate abilities and taking that which we have placing his word of his life-giving spirit. And so I am taking what is there and using it to meet those challenges that the friendship of God is not so much that we are challenging godly wife tried to do this to me, but that while I am here and in these places of crises, and in these places of difficulties. I am actually calling of God, and he is going to reveal to leave and parental life and bring out the of what we have inside of us to meet the challenge that needs a difficult look like a science. Those like Edison. I'm a times that he tried to find a lightbulb discover any of the right elements for an overall IPO three hundred eighteen hundred five, something like that and he would say why no waiting underweight. It doesn't work why he wouldn't give up insulting when our life, we don't give up on our faith. We don't give up on what God has done for us, so friendship states that if we if we all had one. The only idea if we all had one non- genital nonjudgmental friend remembering this years ago. If we all had one nonjudgmental friend connect, there would be no need for psychiatrists, counselors and mental therapist mental ill. Why, because we could share who we are and it wouldn't be a problem. We could share overthinking what we're feeling and the person wouldn't be passing judgment saying we know you should be that way that if you are really if you are really who you really think you are and should be used not just know sometimes we just need to hear ourselves say something to see how good it is or how bad it is and and and a friend is there to help us, evaluate, separate the wheat from the chaff, and that whole idea is that God by his spirit and his word is at work in our life in this friendship so the friendship between God and Adam and Eve was a walk in the garden in the cool of the day a walk with school and out of even the goal of the integral of the day and what was God doing he was revealing himself it was revealing the character is revealing the purpose for why had a believer, you know why they were even there. God wants us as we jump ahead and watch it on our day we read, we pray, we read the Scriptures you were singing the song and singing the song. What is that, what are they about there on our relationship, friendship with God about our relationship friendship with him, you know you want, whenever whenever you were falling in love and love singing love songs nursing once all for your girlfriend, boyfriend, now it seems our kids, grandkids, what is it about something that's conveying a feeling it's conveying emotion is conveying something that we are feeling to personally love no, wow, what are we doing we were singing are so were saying about our worship our friendship with God. Jesus Messiah Messiah young as the anointed one, the one that was predicted from the beginning of time, so you see we have all the things are revealed a lot what our needs are 's about what our friendship is about youngest week I visit I visited that the number of care facilities. The number of hospice patients and I walked in I never met this individual for this is on staff at this one. One facility and says she found out that I was fourteen, she says are you saying us today at a press now again once this all right. And then I end up forty five minutes an hour that I was there probably ran into this individual, or times and every time and its workings make the statement while it is thereby saving me today and landed about planning my friend Elena, thereby saving as the latest in a filing allies about to leave the gay know any. I don't need to know they had a thousand times. Maybe for some so I walked over, I said, come sit down with me and she said validly and she said I need to be saved. I need to get my life back in order with God, and I made some choices that have been right. I need God back in my life. Can you help friendship with God is something that we have to choose. She gone is done everything that he possibly can to make sure that this friendship exists. There is nothing that God hasn't done that, you know that are either that has limits. This friendship is done everything all up in the door for us. God desires for us to be his friend. And what does God desire you ever desire for your friends. The veil, then you're not much of a friend of your desire is that they would fall down how they are they how they run in the belt. Now our friends don't wish success failure on us, our friends wish success in our life, and God is about bringing that type of success in the relational success into our lives in a true friend is one who encourages us and in our accomplishments and in and in and in the Scriptures, God is our friend is encouraging us with his word with the Scriptures and is afraid that if there sang while well, sometimes brazenly at all. It'll all work out our fringing in the friend are fringes of thousands all things work together for good to those who love God, according to all important purpose in the Scriptures. She whenever we say it's all going to be okay. It's because we are trusting God and his word that is spoken to us, so that as we confront that difficulty, God is there to encourage us with his work whenever we feel lonely. God says what I'll never leave you nor forsake you are not alone. What about when I'll die. Jesus says I go to prepare a place for you to where I am very maybe also so there is not one situation in life that God is not saying to WASP what he is going to do and how he is going to help us as we run into those boundaries are brought into those areas of live our life that are uncomfortable for us as we approach those God is coming to us as our friend giving us encouragement where we are at so that we can take our next step and take it and develop who this person is because God desires for us to accomplish the goal of our life in the goal of our life serving God, serving that were not all in on all where are not all going to be preachers are missionary refer to our evangelists are in all, but when God is going to take the talents that we have is going to use them all the way can develop and become the best at the best that we can be as nonmilitary slogan is God 's love that we would become the best person that he created us to be and that means we're going to deal with the difficulties in our life and when it is going to be healing for us strengthening for us and bring us to a place where God is going to be there to reward us. So what makes this guy don't want to sound that there is there is no new pie-in-the-sky, all wonderful and there is no hell and there is no see there's accountability. That's what we preferably find ourselves having difficult. We don't like accountability and in eighteen there was one restriction and the Lord God commanded in Genesis chapter two verses sixteen and seventeen and the Lord God commanded the man you are free to eat from any tree in the garden but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you leave it you will surely die. Now, was this was a streetwise in some ways, yes, it was poisonous and that it was evening because of doubt, do we really believe that God accountability music. This tray spoke of divine ownership. God is saying. I own this place. I'm one restriction, the leader of the street. If you do everything else in the garden. You can even call him Joe. It had everything else in the garden by what you do now that I create if you and I only spliced and to assemble what good is that my question is this. If we don't believe that there are restrictions. There are restrictions do we would. We believe the promises would we allow the restrictions and this was the temptation that came to fill adamant to leave half God really said, would God really give you restrictions. If this were a perfect place and you notice that the restrictions that God cares are for our all relational experiences don't steal, don't kill the bear false witness don't lie one of those. Those are relational experiences that you would that we would have with people in God 's restrictions are about keeping right relationships with people in right relationship with God so that we would become this individual. The garage created us to be that God created us so that we might let landing. This is aware in God 's place that is greater for us. We are here for divine purpose and we are here to fulfill a divine mission. The will of God. The sin of my time is that we would think that we are God out of the sin of mankind if you eat this tree industry. You will become like God. And so the challenge is in my God of my life or is I do, I surrender to someone who is of a higher power. And I'm not a always remember when my big Mike was a hitman for the Mafia, and he went he was in humans being church in our Bible school. Whenever we were in East Providence, Rhode Island and big Mike was in line you didn't want to mess with. He was, he was big and he wasn't the most educated man, but you could tell he had been interviewed skirmishes. It was scarred up his nose was broken, twisted it. All those things but big Mike God got found him whatever he gave his life to Jesus Christ. And every once in a while. Big Mike jumped to his feet and a church service area have to do it all and he would bellow out your block with a price and he would talk about how God bought in and purchased him from his sin, and as a hitman. He knew what it was to buy when the value of a man's life, and as a redeemed child of God. He knew the value of being purchased by God, and forgive the sins and no, he was big Mike I can still picture jumping to his feet just scared to death first time that happened was like oh my gosh& I is he not in our anyway and jumped to his feet and say you want to emphasize start on the island are the only anointing of the Spirit, and he would just like to do it always like it was his way of testimony testify to everybody in charge that you're guilty of the Obama surprise that God has redeemed to God 's saving from his end, and be aware that your know people participate fully in all and in his old former way of life, but the plot is given a supply, and the accountability of our life is, is that we would take everything that we've been given. Re: Re: did a perfect far from perfect, but he would we would take our needed and be accountable to God not to eat on the forbidden fruit that is, is the basis of dollars, hath God said, does God love God have a purpose for my life. Is there anything greater in life and who I am. Those doubts and leave them to the temperature and walk with God in the cool of the day and say I'm loved by God, I'm forgiven by God. I have a purpose in my life and the obstacles that I face our opportunities to grow my life beyond my boundaries and experience the promises of God for my life and no matter what the ups and downs of our Sunday school lesson this morning we talked about how that be the, the disciples had just come from feeding the five thousand ill five loaves and two fishes fed five thousand men plus women and children came from that miraculous event to crossing the sea and a storm coming up and they get all they didn't know they will be able to live or die. So going from that one experience to the next and Jesus coming alongside them and they said, if it's you, Jesus reader favorites you, Jesus asked me to come to the Peter walk on the water for a period of time until became distracted by the circumstance sold to a move from this mountaintop to difficulties in from difficulties to it to mountaintop, and that life has difficulties in life as obstacles in life has problems in life as questions, but I have a friend I have a friend who desires to walk with two. Desires to reveal his word my life that I may find whole I may find peace. I played, find strength. I may find courage. I'm a fine purpose that would find it. I was created by this God who loves me and he wants to walk with me to every aspect of my life. That's friendship with Jesus. Amen. So is that it out in the garden. They listened to the they listen to the doubts of the line service. They listened to the doubts of the line service rather than the words of a loving God. These are the challenges that we find as we face are different going on a one wife, and we're going to listen to want to listen to the voice of the spirit and the spirit is the same spirit that bringing life into man and man became a living soul. The same spirit is the spirit of God reason why lots gives us the assurance that were not alone and nothing shall separate us from the love of God. If that same Holy Spirit that breeze peace into our lives gives us hope in difficult situations that we have purpose. We were created, and as we worship in with you all the sing the song and all that. If that same spirit that surrounds us encompass us us and gives us hope that our friends