Friends W Jesus Flashcards
Colossians 1:13-23
Message
From beginning to end, He is there…. all get properly fixed in vibrant harmonies…
The Message=Christ, there is no other message
We stay grounded and steady!!!
Because
Jesus is looking for friends…
Parents…
Wanting to enlarge the circle of love,… Adam/Eve
His is like the long distance lover…
Wanting a relationship w is
We say…. not now:
6,000 years looking at us from a distance….
I am busy, spending my life, trying to accumulate things that will rust and burn!
Philip Yance
Colorado cabin
The whole Bible is a recurring theme of God, making one effort after another, of God trying to restore a broken relationship w man.
Decades/centuries later we are still “rejecting” Him…..
Rejection…
God seeking to restore a relationship….
Recess.... Auditions, passed over, Unhired, not included.... Remember how it felt “Not be good enough....” “To NOT be wanted....” Pain of yurning for a relationship that is not going to be....
Matt 26
John 21
Prediction of Peter’s rejection //
? Peter
God is asking if we care about HIM!
Very vulnerable question to ask…
It matters to God if we love Him
Jesus weeping over Jerusalem. do I love Me?
No room in Bethlehem
Symbolic
Isaiah 53: 1-….
He was Despised & rejected//
DA 564
DA 564
The Loneliness of Christ away from the heavenly courts…
Jesus….
Can we be friends???
God, emotionally WANTS US! We were made for a relationship w HIM!!!!
He knows the pain of watching you
.....leaving, ....of missing you, I appreciate the friend you have become to me... please keep in touch,.... ......we need it more than you do!
Jesus is not slow….
Jesus is stalling, like the parents leaving their son at college. He doesn’t want to give us up…. because He knows this is final..
Rev 3:20
If ANYONE hears, and opens the door…..
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We are too busy acquiring things that are going to rust or burn!!!!!
How much do I love you?
“Arms spread cross-width