There is no greater quality that a friend can possess than that of a friend who is honest. The truth in love is such a valuable thing. Its so uncommon these days. My generation is plagued with this disease where people must be told what they want to hear, rather that what they need to hear.

A true friend will always tell you the truth in love and do it in a way that honors the friendship. I’ve got a lot of friends in the building today. People I love and care about, but there are a lot more people I wish that were here with me today. So many people that I want to see go to heaven, live a life thats pleasing to the Lord Jesus and enjoy living for Him.

So many of them should be here, but they aren’t. Now they have their reasons. They have excuses. Some of them are pretty simple, some excuses are complex and involve human emotion, issues, problems, relationships. We all deal with life as it comes, some respond well, others don’t.

But my fear is, the real concern I have today for those friends of mine that I wish were here with me today, is that they are making decisions for their life, making bold statements and walking a path based on things that are not true. Today with the help of the Lord I want to expose
“3 Lies That Are Being Told To My Friends”

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So far we’ve seen Jesus as:

  1. 1. Visible Image of God
  2. 2. The Agent of Creation
  3. 3. The Sustainer
  4. 4. The Head of The Church
  5. 5. The one Who has come, and one Who is coming
  6. 6. The Lamb of God
  7. 7. The Son of God
  8. 8. The reason Lazarus should have still been in the house

Romans Chapter 1—Sin of the basic immoral person, the person that wants to ignore God, His law and His principals and live however they please without much thought given to Who God is and What He demands.

Romans Chapter 2 (part 1)—Sin of the morally superior person. The person that try to find the high ground within the human condition. I’m not a murderer, I haven’t done certain things, I’m not as bad as they are.

Romans Chapter 2 (part 2)— Sin of the Religious person who may even practice the law and know the content of the law, but have only the letter of the law and not the heart of God through the redeemer, the perfecter of the law.

Romans Chapter 3— Continue looking at the hyper-religious person, and now specifically at the guilt of religious skeptic.