Title: Friendship/ Proverbs 27:9-22
--It is said that by looking at a friend, you can tell what a person is.
Verse 27 also points out that <as iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens his friend's face>. It emphasized the importance of friends.
Everything in the world is imperfect and flawed, but "friendship" is said to be a perfect and beautiful love.
Of course, the highest level of friendship is to lay down one's life for a friend, as John 5:13 says, but sometimes our friendship is thin and selfish.
It is said that if you have three true friends in life, you are successful, but there are many people who do not have even one such friend. Most of all, I'm ashamed that I couldn't be someone's friend like that.
--What is true friendship?
1. Faithful advice
Verse 9: “Oil and incense make a man’s heart rejoice, and the faithful counsel of a friend is so beautiful.”
2. The joy of fellowship
--This is the overall flow of the text.
3. Must be helpful in the day of tribulation
Verse 10: "Do not forsake your friend or your father's friend, nor enter your brother's house in the day of trouble; for a neighbor nearer is better than a brother far away."
4. Need to grow because of friends
Verse 17: “As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens his friend’s face.”
-- Who is your best friend? it is jesus christ
John 15:14...<You are my friends if you do what I command you.>
Luke 12:4...<You are my friends>.
Let's live a victorious life with this Jesus Christ as our friend.