Everyone - Week 3

Ecclesiastes 4

 

9 Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:

 

10 If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up.

 

 

 

Life moves at the speed of relationships.

 

 

Show me your friends and I will show you your future. 

 

 

How stable is your table?

 

 

Who sits in the seats that are shaping you?

 

 

1 Corinthians 15:33 — Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”

 

Character Chair 

 

 

Proverbs 16:28 — A perverse person stirs up conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

 

Conflict Chair 

 

 

Scornful Seat 

 

Psalm 1:1 — Blessed is the man that does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stand in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful.

 

 

James 3:16 — For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

 

Selfish Seat

 

 

Proverbs 12:26 — The godly give good advice to their friends; the wicked lead them astray.

 

Similar Seats 

 

 

 

Caring Chair  

 

 

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.

 

 

Correction Chair 

 

 

 

Proverbs 18:24 — One who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

 

Committed Chair 

 

 

“I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”

— Helen Keller

 

 

1 Thessalonians 5:11 — Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing.

 

Comeback Chair

 

 

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.

 

 

Job 42:10 — After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his fortunes and gave him twice as much as he had before.

 

Prayer Chair 

 

 

What a friend we have in Jesus. 

 

 

John 15:13 — Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.