Lesson 22: A Man Who Has Friends

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Lesson 22: A Man Who Has Friends

1. What one requirement is necessary for a person to have friends? Proverbs 18:24

2. Why did God make a help meet for Adam? Genesis 2:18

God made man in His own image to be a social being. Heaven is not a lonely place but is filled with unnumbered millions of angels. After his creation man could converse with God and with angels, but he had no one just like himself until Eve was created. Eve was not just Adam’s wife, but also his friend. She was someone like himself.

3. What is the greatest love a friend can show? John 15:13

“For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” Romans 5:6-8. Jesus Christ’s death for us was the greatest love that heaven could give us.

4. Why are two people better than one? Ecclesiastes 4:9, 10

5. What rejoices the heart like perfume? Proverbs 27:9

6. Who is better than a far off brother? Proverbs 27:10

7. Even if a person hurts his friend, what kind of wounds are the wounds of a friend? Proverbs 27:6

Sometimes a friend must point our something in our lives that needs to be changed or something that we have done wrong. A friend will do this, not because he wants to hurt us, but because he loves us enough to want to help us. A true friend is never deceitful or a back-stabber.

8. Not everyone we know or meet is our friend; how, then, should we treat all persons with whom we come in contact? 

A. Hebrews 12:14

B. Philippians 2:3

C. Romans 15:1, 2

D. Romans 12:3, 11, 15, 16, 18

9. How should we treat our enemies? 

A. Matthew 5:43, 44

B. Romans 12:14, 17, 19, 20, 21

10. In several places the Bible describes loneliness, sometimes in reference to the ancient city of Jerusalem or the Children of Israel. What words describe loneliness in these texts? 

A. Isaiah 54:6

B. Lamentations 1:2

11. What are some conditions that can contribute to loneliness? 

A. Psalm 27:10

B. Psalm 71:9

Loneliness has been found to be a contributing factor in heart disease and other illnesses in studies done in the USA and in Europe. People who feel connected to others, if only in a club or organization reduces the risk of premature death. 

12. What has God promised to do for those who are alone? Psalm 68:6

13. Hebrews 4:15 tells us that Jesus was tempted in all points like we are. How was Jesus treated while He was on earth? 

A. Isaiah 53:3

B. Isaiah 63:3

C. Luke 9:22

D. Romans 15:3

The verses in Isaiah were prophecies of the Messiah and point out that He would not be accepted when He came to earth. His was a lonely life on this planet.

14. While Jesus had few earthly friends, and even they deserted Him for awhile in His hour of trial, was He ever really alone? John 8:29

15. Will those who trust God ever be forsaken by Him and left lonely? Psalm 9:10

“And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them” Isaiah 42:16.

“Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God” 2 Corinthians 1:3, 4.

16. An old adage states that “with friends like them, you don’t need enemies. What kind of friends do we not need? 

A. Proverbs 19:6

B. Proverbs 14:20

C. Proverbs 22:24

D. Proverbs 28:7

17. After telling Job all the things that he must have done wrong, what did Job call his three friends who had come to “comfort” him? Job 2:11; and 16:2

18. What argument did the Jewish leaders use to persuade Pilot to permit Jesus’ execution? John 19:12

19. What other friendship are we to avoid? James 4:4

Throughout the Bible, God called those who turn away from Him to worship strange gods adulterers and adulteresses. “For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ” 2 Corinthians 11:2.

20. Christians are not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. What comparisons of sacred things to profane (common) things did Paul make as a way of emphasizing this prohibition? 2 Corinthians 6:14-16

what fellowship hath ___________ with _____________

what communion hath ___________ with _____________

what concord hath ___________ with _____________

what part hath ___________ with _____________

what agreement hath ___________ with _____________

21. What three things did the Lord say specifically Christians are to do to refrain from being unequally yoked? 2 Corinthians 6:17

22. What does God promise if we do this? 2 Corinthians 6:18

23. Why is it important to be careful of who and what we see and hear? Luke 11:34-36

Another way to say it is: by beholding we become changed. When we choose to associate with people who are doing things we know to be wrong, if we watch and hear things that are evil, those evil things cause darkness in our hearts and lives. But if our eye is single to the glory of God, wanting and watching for ways to please Him, we will be filled with light and walk in light. 

“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon” Matthew 6:24.

“Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled” Titus 1:15.

24. Who did God call His friend? Isaiah 41:8

“And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God” James 2:23.

25. How did God talk to Moses? Exodus 33:11

26. How can we be the friend of God? John 15:14

“Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God” Ephesians 2:19.

“This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin” 1 John 1:7.

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