{"id":3442,"date":"2017-11-26T16:55:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T20:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2017-11-26T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-26T20:56:28","slug":"a-friendship-that-changed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"A FRIENDSHIP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sermon by Rev. Richard Jones<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/rec1126-112455.mp3\">rec1126-112455<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>A Friendship That Changed the World<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2 <\/strong><strong>Timothy 4: 9-12<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Timothy 4:9-12 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">9 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0Do your best to come to me soon.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">10 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">11 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">12 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Acts 16:6-10 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">6 <\/span><\/sup><span class=\"ind\">\u00a0And they went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">7 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And when they had come up to Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">8 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0So, passing by Mysia, they went down to Troas.<br \/>\n<sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">9 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing there, urging him and saying, \u201cCome over to Macedonia and help us.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"ind\"><sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">10 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0And when Paul had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go on into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proverbs 27:17 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">17 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Iron sharpens iron, <span class=\"poetry2\">and one man sharpens another.<\/span> <span class=\"poetry1\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Corinthians 15:33 (ESV)<br \/>\n<\/strong><sup><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: small;\">33 <\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Do not be deceived: \u201cBad company ruins good morals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sermon by Rev. Richard Jones rec1126-112455 &nbsp; A Friendship That Changed the World 2 Timothy 4: 9-12 2 Timothy 4:9-12 (ESV) 9 \u00a0Do your best to come to me soon. 10 \u00a0For Demas, in love with this present world, has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=3442\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","category-sermons-by-rev-jones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3446,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/3446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}