Broadstreet Church of Christ
1213 Broad Street Phenix City, Alabama
Schedule of Services
Sunday:
Bible Study
10:00 A.M.
Morning Worship
11:00 A.M.
Evening Worship
5:00 P.M. (winter)
6:00 P.M.
(summer)
Wednesday:
Bible Study
7:30 P.M.
All times
Eastern
Morning Worship
Jesus As A Friend
Introduction:
a. It is terrible to be lonely. There is such a mixture of feelings,
isolation, worry, panic, etc. that comes from being lonely
b. We have an invitation for the Lord to never be lonely again. We can be
His friend
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Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
c. The term friend has a background that is interesting. It means to have
full access to the king
d. As a friend Jesus...
I. Helps me:
A. True friends are a constant aid. They are always there
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A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend
that sticketh closer than a brother.
B. Jesus helps the CHRISTIAN; HE comes to our aid when we need help:
1. As human beings we need help. We do not have limitless power, time, and
space
2. Jesus helps the faithful
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Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren,
that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to
God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.
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For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour
them that are tempted.
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At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God
that it may not be laid to their charge.
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Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the
preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I
was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
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My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if
any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the
righteous:
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Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen
again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession
for us.
C. Jesus stands at the ready:
1. I go to him for help. He is there and ready to help
2. He has promised
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Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and,
lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
II. He Makes sure I know what I need to know:
A. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance leads to wrong paths, conclusions, not
having the truth, etc. True friends communicate
B. Jesus tells me what I need to know:
1. His words are true
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And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He
that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me.
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And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
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For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him:
the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
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Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
2. I may not like what he has to tell me
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All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for
doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
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That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
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Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke,
exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
3. Yet, His words are life
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But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might
be saved.
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It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words
that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
III. Jesus Has compassion on us:
A. Friends don't run away from you
B. Jesus often had compassion:
1. Often was He moved with compassion
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But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them,
because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no
shepherd.
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And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with
compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
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So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately
their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
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O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them
which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children
together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would
not!
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For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of
our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without
sin.
2. Jesus was moved by our needs and not our desires
3. Jesus' compassion caused him to give others a second chance
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Jesus went unto the mount of Olives.
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And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people
came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.
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And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery;
and when they had set her in the midst,
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They say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very
act.
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Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what
sayest thou? Deut 22:24
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This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus
stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard
them not.
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So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them,
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
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And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
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And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out
one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left
alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
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When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto
her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee?
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She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee:
go, and sin no more.
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Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he
that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of
life.
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And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her,
believed not.
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After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and
went into the country.
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And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.
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Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided
them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not
them which had seen him after he was risen.
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And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to
every creature.
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He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not
shall be damned.
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And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast
out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
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But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it
on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
IV. He Intercedes:
A. Sin estranges one from God
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Behold, the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his
ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
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But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins
have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
B. Jesus is our mediator
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I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers,
intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
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For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and
peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
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For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
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Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the
truth.
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For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ
Jesus;
1. He speaks to man on God's behalf
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God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the
fathers by the prophets,
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Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed
heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
2. He speaks to God on man's behalf
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For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are
the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the
presence of God for us:
Conclusion:
a. What a friend we have in Jesus all our sins and grief's to bear
b. Become a friend of Jesus
Peter's Description of
Jesus
Introduction:
a. If I were to ask you to describe Jesus how would you do it?
b. In
Acts 2 Peter describes Jesus. His sermon and the events of the day were
to authenticate the mission of Jesus
I. The man
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Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God
among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the
midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
A. Some denied Jesus came in the flesh
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God.
B. Jesus came
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And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
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Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save
him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
C. Evidence that Jesus was a physical individual:
Characteristics:
hungry
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And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an
hungred.
thirsty
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After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the
scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
weary
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Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey,
sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
sleepy
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But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on
the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy.
tearful
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And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
D. Blessing of his coming: Christianity was made possible
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There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus,
who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
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For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the
law of sin and death.
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For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned
sin in the flesh:
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That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not
after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
II. Christ of the supernatural –
Acts 2: 22 -Know-fully know based on observation:
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Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God
among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the
midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
A. Jesus was able to perform miracles
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And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid,
and sick of a fever.
B. Purpose of his miracles
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And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples,
which are not written in this book:
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But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father
hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that
the Father hath sent me.
C. Blessing from this action: He is not an imposter
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And said unto him, Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?
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Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which
ye do hear and see:
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The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed,
and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel
preached to them.
III. A man chosen by God
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Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye
have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
A. Determinate counsel-Heavenly deliberation. Foreknowledge-details of the
plan are crafted across centuries
B. Christ life, plan, mission-planned by God
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According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
C. Blessings: God's love
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
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That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
and Christ's sacrifice
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And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came
not to judge the world, but to save the world.
IV. Christ of the cross
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Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye
have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
A. Christ was betrayed, brutalized, and buried. His crucifixion was special
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Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you,
which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;
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By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you,
unless ye have believed in vain.
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For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that
Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
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And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to
the scriptures:
B. Design of death
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Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did
esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Mt 8:17
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The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb
of God, which taketh away the sin of the world
C. Blessing: We have hope
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And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all
them that obey him;
V. Exalted Christ
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Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the
Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now
see and hear.
A. The resurrection and ascension of Christ. Where God placed Christ
B. Blessing:
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Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is
above every name:
Conclusion:
a. Peter told them
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Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made the
same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ
B, Their reaction
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Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto
Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?
c. Peter's response
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Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the
gift of the Holy Ghost.
