Friend Request

Sermon Series: Connected 3D
Today's Message: Friend Request
Text: John 15:12-17
Dr. Scott Hanberry

12 “This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.13 Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.14 You are My friends if you do what I command you. 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.16 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. John 15:12-17

God initiates the ________________!
It is His desire that we are in relationship with Him.

“Since we were restored to friendship with God by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be delivered from eternal punishment by his life.” (Romans 5:10 NLT)

Identifying characteristics:

1) Friends of God __________ His _______________. (Vs 14)

2) Friends of God _______ _______ ______________. (vs 17)

3) Friends of God are in on _____ ____________. (vs 15-16)

4) Friends of God will bear the fruit of __________. (Vs 16)