1. How close are we to Jesus?
A Friend of Jesus
How close are we to Jesus?

2. True Friends of Jesus… Keep His Commandments.
Jn. 15:13 Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends. You are My friends if you do whatever I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known to you.
Jn. 14:15 If you love Me, keep My commandments.
Lk. 6:46 But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do the things which I say?

3. True Friends of Jesus… Are Not Ashamed of Him.
Mk. 8:38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels."
Rom. 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
2 Tim. 1:8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God.

4. True Friends of Jesus… Declare Themselves.
Matt. 6:24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Mk. 8:38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.
Jas. 4:4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Matt. 26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” So he went out and wept bitterly.

5. True Friends of Jesus… Rejoice in Spiritual Matters.
Rom. 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Ps. 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.
Ps. 122:1 I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go into the house of the LORD.”

6. Are You A True Friend of Jesus?
True Friends of Jesus…
Look Forward to Being with Him.
Tit. 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
2 Tim. 4:8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.
2 Pet. 3:12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat?
1 Jn. 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.
Are You A True Friend of Jesus?