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FRIENDS OF THE KING

What is your relationship with Christ? If asked, how would you describe the relationship to another person? Would it be distant, formal, or privileged? How about intimate, trusting, or loving?

Like many of you, I have a deep seated respect and reverence for our Lord. There is a healthy bit of fear too. Fear of falling short of His expectations. Fear of wrath, when I really mess up.

It is difficult for me to consider them to be separate, as they truly are. I see the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as Almighty GOD. He is the Creator. We are the created. He is the Potter, we are the clay.

Am I a FRIEND OF THE KING? Are you?

The very thought of being a FRIEND OF THE KING, of GOD, of JESUS, is a very sobering concept for me. It is not something I would ever take lightly, or be cavalier about. I think that if I spent too much time thinking about friendships using the fleshly model, I would be petrified with fear for even considering it.

Joh 15:15 "No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you.

Wow. The KING, our Lord calls us His friends. John chapter 15 describes the beauty and depth of His and our Father's love for us. Teaching that to love, is to be Godly, Holy, Righteous.

Joh 15:16-17 "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you. (17) "This I command you, that you love one another.

As several of you know, I was a late bloomer; in my mid 60's when I answered His call to salvation, then a year later to the ministry. He chose me, ME. If you knew me in my profane life, you would never believe that Jesus would call or consider me His friend. He did. Praise You Yeshuah, Praise You Son of God!

With great humility, honor, love and reverence, I declare to you that Christ Jesus has called me His friend. I am also His servant, His Slave, His worshiper, His creation. He died for me. I will die for Him.

Are you FRIENDS OF THE KING?

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