Who Are Your Friends?

Our closest friends must be those who are pursuing holiness because they will have an enormous effect upon our lives. You will know them by their fruits. Their sins are the fruit being produced from an evil heart. They stray from the path of righteousness.

"Do not be deceived. Bad company corrupts good morals. Sober up, as you rightly ought to, and sin no more, for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame." 

1 Corinthians 15:33-34

"But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat." 

1 Corinthians 5:11

A little leaven (sin) leavens (spreads the infection) the whole loaf (lump). You tell me who your friends are and I will tell you exactly who you are or who you're about to become. We can identify those whose hearts have been redeemed by the fruit we see in their lives. Run with the righteous!