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Iron Sharpens Iron
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| You know Abraham, God called him his friend. | |
| That's right. | |
| And that's what God, you know, and Noah was a friend of God. | |
| Noah walked with God. | |
| Yes. | |
| And the friendship is a God thing. | |
| And iron sharpens iron. | |
| It says so. | |
| Proverbs 27, verse about 17, I think. | |
| And John's iron. | |
| You really are, John. | |
| You're strong. | |
| And you tell me the truth. | |
| You'd give me advice. | |
| But you're also tenderhearted. | |
| Yes. | |
| But all the ministries I've been a part of, we started with CBN, and then we started TBN, and then PTL, and then all the other things, and then mornings. | |
| And it was young people, just like in this school, they sharpen iron. | |
| That's how we learned. | |
| That's how things worked. | |
| It works. | |
| Let me read that again. | |
| As iron sharpens iron, a friend sharpens a friend. | |
| Right. | |
| And that you don't get mad. | |
| You learn. | |
| Right. | |
| You don't get offended. | |
| And so then you tell the, and that's what we, that's how we built a PTL. | |
| Literally, with young people, all of us, we were just young. | |
| I was a young guy when we opened the first satellite network. | |
| Didn't know how to do it. | |
| But we did it by working together. | |
| Yes. | |
| And a friend loveth at all times. | |
| And you know, a troublemaker plants seeds of strife. | |
| And that's what will get into the church sometimes. | |
| It'll get into a family sometimes. | |
| But it says, a troublemaker plants seeds of strife. | |
| Gossip separates the best of friends. | |
| Have you seen it in your lifetime? | |
| Oh, yes. | |
| Things that you didn't even know, people got mad. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| But the Bible says, friends stay with you. | |
| And in the last days, what we're going through and what's coming, people, and I've got some messages to bring to you. | |
| They're backing up in my brain and my heart right now. | |
| But we've got so much coming. | |
| We're living in the last days. | |
| We're living in perilous times. | |
| There is such a shaking coming that it's time for the church to be ready. | |
| And God spoke to me decades and decades and decades ago that it's the body of Christ, their relationship, and their friend. | |
| And that's how we're going to survive. | |
| Amen. | |
| He says, I'll build my church. | |
| And that's what that friendship is. | |
| That's real friendship. | |
| You forgive one another. | |
| You restore one another. | |
| That's what friends do. | |
| And so friendship is how you're going to survive in the last days. | |
| You love one another. | |
| And there's so many scriptures I'd like to read to you today. | |
| But it says disregarding another person's faults preserves love. | |
| I love the living Bible. | |
| You know, love hardly notices when others do it wrong. | |
| Right. | |
| Ooh, isn't that a good one? | |
| But telling a person's fault separates close friends. | |
| A heartfelt counsel of a friend, Shar, is as sweet as perfume and incense. | |
| Did you know that's in the Bible? | |
| That's awesome. | |
| That's you, Mom. | |
| You are the great wisdom. | |
| And everyone has all, my whole entire life has always gone to mom for counsel. | |
| Wounds from a friend are better than kisses from an enemy. | |
| That's what the Bible says. | |