CD 1669 How to Turn a Enemy into a Friend or a Friend into an Enemy

Don't Miss Out!!! (Victory Worship Center) with Pastor Greg Proctor

CD 1669 How to Turn a Enemy into a Friend or a Friend into an Enemy

The Bible is full of principles or laws for living that can make our lives so much fuller and enjoyable. For instance God says if we give it shall be given back to us ( See Luke 6:38). If we forgive we shall be forgiven ( See Matthew 6:14-15)! If we judge then by our standard we too shall be judged (See Matthew 7:1-2).

*Proverbs 13:15 (KJV) Good understanding giveth favour: But the way of transgressors is hard.

Through the Word of God we can learn how to turn our “enemy” into our “friend”. On the negative side we can also by neglect of the principles of the word of God turn a “friend” into an “enemy”.

*Text: Proverbs 17:17 (KJV) A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

*Proverbs 18:24 (KJV) A man that hath “friends” must shew himself friendly: and there is a “friend” that sticketh closer than a brother.

*John 15:12-15 (KJV) .This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his “friends”. 14 Ye are my “friends”, if ye do whatsoever I command you. 15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you “friends”; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

The Lord Jesus came to build His church and make His children one in Him! He taught us that a house divided will not stand! From “Proverbs” we learn that “A friend loveth at all times” - that good times or bad times - easy times or hard times! But because Jesus became our elder brother now we’re not just friends with Him we are brothers and sisters with Him and with each other! Notice in “John’s Gospel” Jesus laid down His life for us as our example to one another!

Let’s turn to the Gospel of Luke and let’s see how “turned enemies into friends”:

First let’s read keeping in mind how Jesus showed Himself friendly all through this chapter healing, raising from the dead ECT…:

*Read Luke 7:33-34 (KJV) For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil. 34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a “friend” of publicans and sinners!

First of all those who are truly following the Lord God will never be able to please the religious! The Pharisees judged both John and Jesus! But let’s keep reading and see how Jesus’ desire was to turn “enemies into friends”:

*Read Luke 7:36-37 (KJV) And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat. [37] And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

Imagine how much of a battle it was for this woman to go into Simon’s house! She knew everyone would be looking at her and judging her! But she had heard about Jesus who showed Himself “friendly” and she was ready to make Him her Lord and “friend”! Look at her heart:

*Read Luke 7:38(KJV) And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

She was so broken by her past and she knew that only Jesus could make her whole and she completely humbled herself! In 1 Corinthians 11:15 we learn the hair is the glory of the woman! She put her best on Christ’s feet, s

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