EASTSIDE LIVE | Sun Aug 10 2025 | Making Good Friends | Dean Woodward
Aug 10, 2025
Summary
Making Good Friends: Proverbs
Detail
Sermon Notes:
- Men and women both need friends.
- Friendship is very important and valuable
- Ecclesiastes 4:9-12: “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor: if either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.”
- Friendship must be discovered.
- Proverbs 27:9: “Oil and perfume make the heart glad, so a man’s counsel is sweet to his friend.”
- Who we are determines who is around us.
- Proverbs 22:11: “One who loves a pure heart and who speaks with grace will have the king for a friend.”
- Proverbs 19:4,6-7: “Wealth adds many friends, but a poor man is separated from his friend. Many will entreat the favor of a generous man, and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts. All the brothers of a poor man hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but they are gone.”
- Who is around us determines who we are.
- Proverbs 13:20: “Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.”
- Proverbs 18:24: “One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:33: “Do not be misled: ‘Bad company corrupts good character.’”
- Proverbs 27:17: “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”
- Friendship must be built.
- The first tool is time.
- Proverbs 17:17: “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of adversity.”
- Proverbs 25:17: “Don’t visit friends too often, or they will get tired of it and start hating you.”
- The second tool is honesty.
- Proverbs 27:5-6: “Better is open rebuke than love that is concealed. Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy."
- Proverbs 29:5: “Whoever flatters his neighbor is spreading a net for his feet.”
- The third tool is vulnerability.