{"id":155,"date":"2011-07-08T09:36:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=155"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:22:03","slug":"there-is-a-friend-that-sticketh-closer-than-a-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=155","title":{"rendered":"There Is A Friend That Sticketh Closer Than A Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prov. 18:24<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: False Friends<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Friends money, fame, or power can buy. Prov. 19:4<br \/>\n2. Friends that a whispered falsehood will drive away. Prov. 17:9<br \/>\n3. Friends of sunshine that depart when the storm clouds gather.<br \/>\n4. Heal friendship grows slow but steady.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: &#8220;A brother is born for adversity.&#8221; Prov. 17:17<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Blood is thicker than water.<br \/>\n2. A true friend loves us in spite of our faults.<br \/>\n3. A real friend will tell us our faults and help us to overcome them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Jesus the friend that never forsaketh.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. John 15:13-15. Jesus was our friend even unto death.<br \/>\n2. He will be our friend in sickness, poverty, prosperity, adversities, and in disgrace.<br \/>\n3. &#8220;I won&#8217;t have to cross Jordan alone.&#8221;<br \/>\n4. When I stand before the judgment bar of God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We cannot be a friend of Jesus and a friend of the world at the same time. James 4<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prov. 18:24 I: False Friends 1. Friends money, fame, or power can buy. Prov. 19:4 2. Friends that a whispered falsehood will drive away. Prov. 17:9 3. Friends of sunshine that depart when the storm clouds gather. 4. Heal friendship grows slow but steady. II: &#8220;A brother is born for adversity.&#8221; Prov. 17:17 1. Blood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}