God’s friend

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“And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;  Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him. And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know. And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the LORD.”

This passage is reminiscent of John 15: 15 where the Lord Jesus Christ told His disciples “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” The Lord Jesus Christ told His friends what He was going to do. In this case God told Abraham what He was going to do James 2: 23 tells us, “And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.” God used the same test for friendship in the Old Testament as He did in the New Testament. In the beginning God spoke to Adam and consulted with him when it came to naming all the animals (see Gen 2: 19, 20). However, after Adam sinned they didn’t consult like this again because sin intervened. However, Abraham believed God and this was imputed to him as righteousness, meaning that God had dealt with the problem of Abraham’s sin. In Is 46: 10 the Lord tells us that He knows the end from the beginning. This means that God knew that the Lord Jesus Christ would be the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world so He knew that all the legal issues concerning sin would be dealt with in the fulness of time. The Lord Jesus Christ, Who is Almighty God, also knew about the work that He was going to complete on the cross and was able to treat His disciples as friends as well. The Lord treats us as friends as well because He has given us as much of His plan as we can understand with our sinful wisdom all we have to do is read the Bible from cover to cover.