Charles Stanley Sermon Notes: When Others Fail Us
Here are different categories of friends. You can be in any one, or you can be in the whole group. Categories Of Friends: 1. Friends that delight us 2. Friends that are dedicated to us 3. Friends that disappoint us 4. Friends that desert us 2 Timothy 4:9-18 There are times in our lives when our friends will fail us. 2 Timothy 1:15, 4:10, v16 Reasons friends fail us: 1. Inadequacy – Sometimes friends want to help you out, in any given situation, but they don’t know how, or what to do. They may not know how to be the kind of friend you need at any given time, &/or situation. 2. Identification – Don’t wanna be identified with you for whatever reason(s). Bitterness about the situation, &/or towards someone(s), denial of the existence of our pain, resentfulness, & unforgiveness towards the someone(s) who we need to forgive, only prevents us from being healed of the hurts(s). 3. Jealousy – If someone, &/or some people are jealous of you, for whatever reason(s), they may, & probably don’t want to help you. They may be just selfish, & not want to give of their time. Sometimes, when you are going through a difficult time, people may act/claim to be your friends, but instead of understanding you, they want to judge you, & they judge you so that eliminates them having any responsibility to help you. When people respond this particular way, the problem is that they have a character flaw. Not in the person going through the difficulty, but in the person(s) claiming to be your friend(s …
