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Greg Laurie –God’s Friends

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“I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.” —John 15:15

We may look at the life of Moses in the Scriptures and say, “I wish I could have been Moses. I wish I could have a friendship with God like he had.”

But the friendship that a Christian can have with God is actually closer than the friendship Moses had with God.

Although Moses was God’s friend and was greatly used by Him in so many ways, Moses lived under the Old Covenant. Under the Old Covenant, God would manifest His presence in the tabernacle (and later in the temple), and the high priest would represent the people.

God was distant, even to those who were His friends, like Abraham and Moses. God revealed certain aspects of Himself to them, but He didn’t live inside of them.

The new covenant is different, however. Jesus died on the cross for us because Jesus is our Mediator between the Father and us. We don’t have to go through a high priest or any other person. We go directly to the Father through Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 10:19–20 puts it this way: “And so, dear brothers and sisters, we can boldly enter heaven’s Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus. By his death, Jesus opened a new and life-giving way through the curtain into the Most Holy Place.”

Jesus said, “I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me” (John 15:15). You are a friend of God.

We don’t always understand Him, but He tells us to follow Him and obey Him because He loves every one of us. This God showed His love in a tangible way by sending His Son Jesus to die on the cross for our sins.

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Greg Laurie – Called to Do Something

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Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. —Romans 12:4–5

When we think of Moses, a lot of things come to mind. We might think of Charlton Heston’s portrayal of Moses in The Ten Commandments. We may think of Moses as the great lawgiver or as the man whose personal integrity and godliness kept three million-plus people from full-tilt idolatry. But probably the best thing we could say about him is that he was Moses, the man of God.

Yet the life of Moses is a great paradox. He was a human being, which means that he had flaws, just like the rest of us. He had some serious setbacks and made some gross mistakes. As Bible commentator I. M. Haldeman said of Moses, “He was the child of a slave, and the son of a queen. He was born in a hut, and lived in a palace. . . . He was educated in the court, and dwelt in the desert.” One thing we learn from the life of Moses is that God can use anyone.

Have you ever wondered whether God could use someone like you? As believers, we are a part of what the Bible calls the body of Christ. And just as each part of the human body plays an important role, every person in the body of Christ plays an important role as well.

God has called each of us and has gifted us to serve Him. We are told in Romans 12, “Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, so it is with Christ’s body. . . . In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well” (verses 4, 6).

God wants to use you. We are not all called to do the same thing. But we are all called to do something.