 Friendship with the Holy Spirit is the key to the empowered Christian life. Your interaction with the person of the Holy Spirit makes up the entirety of your spiritual life. Yes, we understand we pray to the Father in the name of Jesus. Yes, we understand that the Holy Spirit glorifies Jesus. So when I say that it makes up the entirety of your spiritual life, I am not saying that the Father is not involved or that the Son is not involved. I'm saying that the Holy Spirit is the one in you and with you here upon the earth, helping you to carry out this Christian life. The Bible says this in 2 Corinthians chapter 13 verse 14. And here we see the involvement of the Father, the Son and the Spirit. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Now I love that the scripture mentions the grace of the Lord Jesus, and I love that the scripture mentions the love of God. These are dynamic spiritual keys in our lives. But I want to focus this evening on the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. That word fellowship is communion as in companionship, relationship, connection, conversation. He is your companion here upon the earth. The Holy Spirit is not just a force or a feeling. He's a friend. The Holy Spirit is the one who helps you to pray when you don't know what to pray. How many times have you heard stories from other preachers where they talk about having prayed for three or four hours and maybe wonder what they talked about the whole time? I know in the beginning I wondered that, and I would fret about all of the details concerning prayer. Can I sit? Do I have to stand? Would the Lord be offended if I lie down? When do I do intercession? When do I do supplication? When do I worship? When do I study the Word? When do I rebuke the demons? Do I have to speak out loud? Can I pray in my mind? When do I pray in tongues? And can I pray in tongues in my mind? These are questions I wondered. But the Holy Spirit removes that complicated system, that rigidity, that makes it more of an obligation than an opportunity. The Holy Spirit removes all of the flesh and the complication that comes with the flesh. And He guides you in every moment of prayer, stirring you, causing you, influencing you to pray prayers according to the will of God. The Holy Spirit helps you to understand the Scripture. The Scripture describes Him. Jesus more specifically calls Him your teacher. And as you pour over the Scripture, you can interact with the one who inspired every word. And He speaks to you as you pour over that Scripture. The Holy Spirit is the one who helps you to worship. Because you can sing without a revelation. You can dance without a revelation. But you cannot worship without a revelation. Because all true worship is a response to revelation. It's the entirety of your being responding to who God is and what He does. And until you've caught a glimpse of who God is, it's not true worship. This is why, as you read through the Old Testament, as many of the prophets and the patriarchs interacted with the presence of God, they would suddenly be overcome with fear and dread. And that, of course, was an Old Testament concept. But still, there is reverence we have for the Lord. And they would respond with crying holy. They would respond with falling down on the ground. They would respond with trembling and shaking. And they would approach with shaky voices. Yet the Holy Spirit gave them that revelation. Because when they saw something in God, everything within them desired to respond to that. Worship is how your being responds to a revelation of God. And Jesus said, the true worshipers will worship in spirit and in truth, the Holy Spirit and revelation. You cannot worship without the Holy Spirit. Otherwise, it's surface level performance. And it isn't inspired from the depths of the spirit. So He helps you to pray. He helps you to understand the word. He helps you to worship. He gives you boldness. If ever you consider yourself a shy person, the Holy Spirit helps to encourage you to share your faith with boldness and confidence. And he can do that for anyone. The Holy Spirit does not come in portions. There are no versions of the Holy Spirit that are lacking. There is no baby Holy Spirit. There is no new convert Holy Spirit. And you cannot divide the eternal into portions. When the Holy Spirit comes, He comes upon a life in fullness. In fullness of power. The very same measure in which Jesus walked. The very same measure in which the disciples walked. The very same measure in which the early church walked. What do you think it was that caused the martyrs to lay down their lives? What do you think it was that caused the martyrs to come up against the persecution with great boldness and confidence even at the threat of losing their very lives? It was that boldness that came from the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit does these things and many more. And He has been deposited in every believer. Romans chapter 8 verse 9 makes it absolutely clear that every born again believer has the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not a reward for the super spiritual. The Holy Spirit is the only chance you have at being spiritual. In fact the Holy Spirit is the only chance that you have a desiring to be spiritual. Do you desire to be spiritual? If so, that is evidence that you have the Holy Spirit. Otherwise who put those desires in there? So He comes to dwell in the believer in fullness of power. Every believer has the Holy Spirit. The question is not do you have the Holy Spirit? The question is does the Holy Spirit have you? Have you surrendered your life? Have you yielded to the work of the Holy Spirit within you? Are you tapping into that great power that is available to you? Think about it. It's like having a bank balance. It's in your name, under your account, under your social security number. Should you lose your debit card, you didn't lose your balance. You lost your access to the balance. In the same way, obedience is like that debit card that helps you to access the power that's available within you. God does not remove from you the Holy Spirit when you make a mistake. What sense would it make for God to remove from you your only chance at being holy as a punishment for you not being holy? The Holy Spirit abides. Am I saying we can go on sinning? Of course not. But I'm saying that the Holy Spirit abides with you faithfully to help you get it right. He can be known. He is always near. He is ever present. He dwells in you. What? No, you're not. That your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. He dwells in you. So when you ask for the power of the Holy Spirit, recognize you don't need more power. You don't need more spiritual gifts. You don't need more love. You don't need more joy. What you need is more surrender because as we yield to the Holy Spirit, the influence of His presence begins to affect every single life. Think about the fact that the Scripture says where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. And then you read in Psalm chapter 139 that the Holy Spirit is everywhere. That there's nowhere that we can escape the presence of the Holy Spirit. So that got me asking, if where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty and the Holy Spirit is everywhere, why isn't there liberty everywhere? Because when the Scripture is talking about the Holy Spirit being somewhere and there being liberty there, it's not just talking about His person and His presence. It's talking about His influence. And that influence comes as we surrender to Him. There's this oneness that's available to you and I. Oneness with the Holy Spirit is not something for then and there. It's for here and now. 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 17 puts it plainly, but the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. One spirit the Bible says. Now we've been taught you have two natures in you and they're like wolves and whichever one you feed the most is the one that overtakes. And that is true to a certain degree. You do of course battle the issues of the flesh and the flesh of course responds as you walk in disobedience and grows stronger and stronger. By the way, you can't cast you out of you. The flesh doesn't come and go. The flesh shrinks and grows depending upon whether you're walking in obedience or not. And so as we begin to walk with the Holy Spirit, we notice this change, this transformation happening in us and we begin to yield more to our true identity. This isn't to say that you won't battle with the flesh. This is rather to say that the flesh isn't your true identity. So when you sin and you feel like a fake, I have good news for you. You are a fake. You're a fake sinner. You're not a wolf in sheep's clothing. You're a sheep who put on wolf's clothing. When you walk in disobedience or you make a mistake, you're acting outside of who you really are. He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit. Now, present tense is what the scriptures describing so that the Holy Spirit has joined with my spirit. Doesn't Romans 8 talk about this? He's joined with my spirit causing me to cry Abba Father. So you are already connected with the Holy Spirit. The key is not asking God to connect you with the Holy Spirit, but it's walking in the reality of that connection. I remember I was ministering in Orlando, Florida, and I was a guest speaker at a conference. I'm walking into the building. There's a foyer filled with greeters. And of course, as you do, you walk through the foyer and you shake hands with the greeters. They had the signs. I was really excited to preach shaking hands. Hello, God bless you. Hello, God bless you. And I noticed this one woman who was there serving. And on one side of her body, she seemed to be impaired. Her hand didn't have full mobility. She walked with a cane and she leaned in to shake my hand. When I saw her, something in me knew God was going to heal her. So I go into the service and I start preaching. I think that service I was preaching on spiritual warfare and the fight in the mind. And I'm preaching on spiritual warfare. And as I'm getting started, suddenly I hear myself saying, bring that woman from the foyer here. God's going to heal her. And I said, Lord, please heal her. I heard myself saying, now I'm not saying that the Holy Spirit took control of me. I'm saying that the ease of the flow was so easy that it just came so naturally that I realized I was saying it as I was saying it. Now I don't always walk in that. You could just ask my wife, she's on the front row. But there are moments where there seems to be this click, this flow, like you jump in the river here. And so I hear myself saying this, bring the woman here. God wants to heal her. I said, okay, Lord, I'm depending on you completely. And you know, of course, we have no healing power outside of God. It's his sovereign power at work. And you just have to make sure you're aligning yourself with his will. They bring the woman forward. We have the footage of this. She begins to lift her leg, move her hand, stretch out her arm. By the end of that service, she was dancing on the platform without the use of that cane. So what was that? That was the flow of the Holy Spirit. You say, how do you do that? I don't know. Well, can you describe what that feels like? No, you try describing sight to someone born blind. You try describing hearing to someone born deaf. It's not possible because it's just something you have to experience to know it. Oneness, as I'm describing it here, is that flow of the Spirit that is so natural that you don't even know you're flowing. It's obedience inspired from such depth that you're not even aware that you're obeying. In moments like those, there is no gap of time between when the Spirit speaks and you respond. It just is. Move your hand, shift your eyes, tilt your head. It's so very natural. There is no thought given, no mechanics to be forced. It's just like that. When you realize oneness with the Spirit, it's as though you are a member of a great body and the Holy Spirit is the mind that controls even the most subtle of movements. Your movement becomes His movement. Your intent dissolves in God's will. Your presence and His presence become indistinguishable from one another. Indeed, you are joined with the Lord and in that union, you find the beginning of true prayer, true fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Now for clarification's sake, I am not saying that you are gone. I'm saying that in His mercy, His compassion, His love, His sovereignty, His wisdom, He has allowed you to be joined with His Holy Spirit. And in that union comes the flow of everything we call Christianity. Galatians 5.17 says the sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your own good intentions. But of course we know that the Holy Spirit produces fruit. Go with me to 1 Corinthians chapter 2, verses 10 through 14. You know, I didn't always know that the Holy Spirit was a person. I thought that the Holy Spirit was maybe the goosebumps that you feel during a church service or perhaps that mist that sometimes appears over the worship service. I didn't realize that he is a person. Of course he is God. We're about to read here in 1 Corinthians 2, 10 through 14 about the Holy Spirit's omniscience. Psalm 139, I referenced it a moment ago. Psalm 139.7 talks about the Holy Spirit's omnipresence. And then in Luke chapter 1, verse 35, we see that the power of the Holy Spirit is equated with the power of the Most High. Therefore, the Holy Spirit is omnipotent. He's everywhere at all times, all knowing, all powerful. The Holy Spirit is God. But he is God in us. He is God with us, the one who walks with us day by day, instructing us as we move along. 1 Corinthians 2, 10 through 14. But it was to us that God revealed these things by his spirit. For his spirit searches out everything and shows us God's deep secrets. Verse 11 of 1 Corinthians 2. No one can know a person's thoughts except that person's own spirit. And no one can know God's thoughts except God's own spirit. And we have received God's spirit, not the world's spirit, so we can know the wonderful things God has freely given us. When we tell you these things, we do not use words that come from human wisdom. Instead, we speak words given to us by the spirit using the spirit's words to explain spiritual truths. But people who aren't spiritual can't receive these truths from God's spirit, it all sounds foolish to them and they can't understand it. For only those who are spiritual can understand what the spirit means. Here, the Scripture is talking about that connection between the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The Holy Spirit searches out the deep things of God. He knows God's mind. He knows God's will. He knows God's power. He knows God's nature. He knows God's word. Everything there is to know about God, the Holy Spirit knows. And what does the Scripture say? That he joins with us and he communicates those things. Now, I'm going to say something that may just shift some thought patterns. Lift your hands and say, Holy Spirit, help me receive. I'll be the first to admit that I use the term spiritual growth. I use it all the time. And I probably still will use it. But when I began to read about the realities of the Spirit, I recognized that the term spiritual growth really isn't an accurate one. Now, I'll still use it because when I use that term, everyone understands what I mean by it. That's the nature of terminology. But do you realize that in the Spirit, you already have love? Romans 5, 5, the love of God has shut abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. In the Spirit, you already have power, Acts 1 verse 8, but you shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you. In the Spirit, you already have all spiritual gifts. 1 Corinthians 12, 7. Those gifts were given to us to benefit each other. In the Spirit, you have peace. In the Spirit, you have joy. In the Spirit, you have clarity. You don't need to learn the voice of God. You know the voice of God, but in your Spirit, the key is removing all the other distractions. Revelation, you have it. Power, you have it. You say, Brother David, what are you telling me that I don't need to advance, that I don't need to grow? No, I'm saying that because the Holy Spirit dwells in you, and he possesses all of those things, that those things have already been deposited in you. So spiritual growth is not me receiving those things. Spiritual growth is when the rest of who I am catches up with who I really am. Spiritual growth is when my physical being begins to act in a way that is reflective of the nature in me. Spiritual growth is when my mind, my thoughts, my emotions begin to align with who I already am in the Spirit. Are you receiving this? Only those who are spiritual can understand spiritual things. And so I'm not saying there's no need to surrender. I'm not saying there's no need to quote, grow, end quote. I'm saying that we, as we respond to the Holy Spirit who's already in us, we are simply accessing what God already gave to us. And so when you walk with the Holy Spirit, this makes your friendship a lot easier because you're not constantly begging him to stay. You're not constantly wondering, did you distance yourself from me today? Oh, I know I'm hitting on a spiritual nerve right now. I can feel that. Told you, shifting thought patterns. Many times we imagine that our connection with God depends upon how well we perform. For example, if you pray for three weeks straight every day for an hour, 21 days on day 22, you're going to walk into that prayer room, confident, bold, he's going to hear me. And part of you is going to imagine that he's more likely to hear you because you've been such a good servant and you've prayed every day. The inverse of that, I missed the day of prayer. I missed a week. Maybe I prayed five, 10 minutes a day instead of an hour a day. And now I approach God and my confidence is shaken. And we imagine that God's going to be some like, like some clingy friend with his arms folded, snubbing us or perhaps looking down at us, frustrated. Look who decided to show up today. Well, well, well, well, where have you been? We see our relationship with God like it's a ladder. And when we do better, we're climbing up the ladder and getting closer to him. And when we're not doing so well, we climb down the ladder and he's distancing himself. How can he get any closer than within you? How can he get any closer than one with you? Brother David, are you saying I can live how I want? No, I'm saying that if you're truly born again, you won't want to live like that. I'm saying that true believers are broken over their disobedience. We don't need to be told. We can sense it in the spirit. I'm out of line and I need to get it right. And so I'm not saying this is a license to sin. That's not what grace is. Grace is the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit within you that helps you to overcome that sin. Not perfect, but being perfected. The rest of you catching up with who you really are. And so when you know that the Holy Spirit always abides with you, when you understand that God is faithful, the Scripture declares he is faithful even when we are not, for he cannot deny who he is. And some of us get a little uneasy with that kind of talk because we can hear the nagging voices of legalism and religion. I don't know, it sounds too good to be true. And for the sake of clarity, let me emphasize it again. You ought to live holy. Sin will destroy your life. Sin will affect your fellowship with God. You know how? Because sin puts you in the state of shame and shame makes it difficult to have confidence in that connection. And so now when you understand that the Holy Spirit abides with you because of the finished work of the cross, then you begin to step into this confidence, this knowing. You don't get stuck in mistakes and wallow in them. You repent of them, get them right and move forward. And you say, okay, Lord, let's try again. The Holy Spirit says, get up, let's try again. That's the voice of the Holy Ghost. And we don't understand the difference in any conviction and condemnation. Condemnation says you are a mistake. Conviction says you made a mistake. Condemnation pushes you away from God in shame. Conviction draws you to him in repentance. Condemnation says it's all over for you. Conviction says try again. And the Holy Spirit abides and when we recognize this and we move beyond our religious thinking, by the way, that term religious is not just an insult that Christians use against each other on Facebook. How many times do you hear that? They get mad. Well, you're religious. And I find that often compromising Christians will call holy Christians religious because they're convicted about the lifestyle they're in. Okay, but let me tell you what religious actually is. What legalism actually is by biblical definitions. It is man's attempt to accomplish by his works, what could only be accomplished by Christ. That is what religion is. And so religion has all of these different weeds that grow out of it that begin to choke the life out of life in the spirit. This is why the scripture talks about all talks about the letter and the spirit. Because as you begin to walk in the spirit, you begin to flow with the Holy Spirit. Those fruits come forward. You recognize his faithfulness and now you know you have a friend. When you come to him and you want to pray, you know, when you make a mistake, the best thing to do is pray. Do you know the last thing you want to do is pray. It's proof that the flesh got stronger and now in order to keep its influence, it keeps you from praying. We don't pray to connect with God. If that's what you think, then prayer is frustrating. I didn't feel anything. Did God abandon me? I didn't sense the emotions in the euphoria that sometimes I do is the Holy Spirit gone. And so when you look at it like that, now it becomes frustrating because you think that prayer is this attempt to get God to pay attention. Got quiet again. That's a very good sign. We're pondering these things. And you think that prayer is you. God, hear me. God, be pleased with me. So that you listen. We do not pray to connect with God. We pray from connection with God. The Holy Spirit is my friend. He abides. And He walks with you daily. So how do you cultivate that friendship? It's simple. Trust and obey. Trust and obey. Remember when I told you that there are sins that have consequence. Every sin has consequence here on this side of eternity and on that side of eternity. The whole message on this, I believe it's on my channel. And I talked about and the scripture talks about more importantly how there is a loss of heavenly reward. And on this side of eternity, it destroys you and your perspective. And it causes great shame and it causes great doubt and it's tormenting. And more importantly, Ephesians 4 30 and do not bring sorrow to God's Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of judgment. Now continually being filled with his influence is also part of it. We'll talk about this in a moment. But that walking with the spirit that acknowledging of his presence will affect the way you live. Look at your hands. These hands are his hands. Now look at me. God the Father seated upon the throne. God the Son seated at his right hand. Where is the Holy Spirit? Dwells in you. God the Father is often described in physical form or a physical form. When I say physical, I don't mean necessarily of this realm and dimension in the same way that we would count materialism. I'm simply saying that God has a form. The Son, after his resurrection, what were they able to do with him? Touch him. And then what happened? He ascended in physical form, glorified body. So where is the body of the Holy Spirit? Look at your hands. Those are his hands. What are you doing with the Holy Spirit's hands? Where are you going with the Holy Spirit's feet? What are you saying with the Holy Spirit's mouth? What are your eyes looking at with the Holy Spirit's eyes? You want to talk about fear? Yes, we fear in a healthy Holy way God's presence and his judgment and his wrath because he is a powerful God. And you talk about being afraid of the criticisms of people. I talked to our interns yesterday about how to deal with criticism and slander. 99% of the time just be quiet. But you know there was a time when I was afraid of what people say. I can admit that. There was a time when it worried me. Now not so much. What can they do? There was a time in my religious thinking when I was afraid of demonic powers. I thought that if I shook hands with the demonic act that somehow it can get on me using anointing oil like Lysol, just get this thing off of me. And some Christians treat demons like pathogens. Oh no. My friend, if a demon is present in someone and you shake their hand it's not jumping on to you. It's jumping out of them because of the Holy Spirit in you. I'm not afraid of man. I'm not afraid of demons in a healthy way. We don't scoff at supernatural beings of course. But when I'm walking with the Lord what's the need of fearing demons? Demons cannot swim in the depths of God. No concern there. I'll tell you what I'm afraid of. Grieving the Holy Spirit. Take anything and everything. Don't take His presence. You have it all. I just need that presence. And so when you walk in that awareness of His presence it changes the way you behave. Doing good works not to get Him to connect with me but living right because I know He already is. And it grieves him when I live a certain way. Don't be drunk with wine because that will ruin your life. Instead be filled with the Holy Spirit. The verb here in the Greek is implying a continuation. You fellowship with Him. Don't be ashamed of Him. Trust Him even when you don't understand what He's doing. You know sensitivity to the voice of the Holy Spirit isn't just about how clearly you can hear Him. How many times do we hear people brag? Oh He speaks to me about this and He speaks to me about that. But do you obey? Sensitivity to the voice of the Holy Spirit is not just about how clearly you can hear Him. It's about how quickly you respond when He speaks. That's sensitivity. It's a reaction in the Spirit. And so as you begin to walk with Him in this way it changes your prayer life. It changes your evangelism. It gives you that advantage in the battle against the sin nature. That relationship will change the way you worship. That relationship will change your understanding of the Word. He will help you to actually grasp the spiritual truths. That friendship with the Holy Spirit will affect your relationship with even your loved ones. Not only will He help you to mentally mature and help you to emotionally mature. The effects are many. But look at 2 Corinthians 3, 16 through 18. But whenever someone turns to the Lord, and one of my favorite portions here, the veil is taken away. Watch this, verse 17. For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. The veil is taken away. So there that's talking about revelation or that regenerative work of the Holy Spirit at salvation. Verse 18. So all of us that's talking about you and I, who have had that veil removed, this is so awesome, can see and what reflect. The picture being painted here is like a light shining on a mirror. We are reflections of that glory, not the source of it. So get out of here with the new ageism. We are reflections of that glory. So all of us who have had that veil removed can see and what reflect. And the Lord, who is the Spirit, makes us more and more like Him as we are changed into His glorious image, or from glory to glory. That's who you are. Yes. God didn't call you to go from deliverance to deliverance. He called you to go from glory to glory. As I see Him, I become like Him. Guys, this is fellowship. This is reflecting on the Word. This is time in prayer. This is time in worship. Whenever I am with the eyes of the Spirit beholding Him, something is changing in me. Whether I feel it or not, stop waiting by the way for an experience or an emotion to convince you of what God has already said. Some of you talk about how God's left you because you don't feel something. That shows me you're going by feelings, not by faith in the Word. Where if you shift that perspective and start walking by faith, the encounters will come. But here the Scripture is describing the wonderful reality of reflecting that image and becoming like Him. This is the greatest sign of the influence of the Holy Spirit in your life. I love prophecy, but I know a lot and I've heard a lot and the truth is, and I'm talking, I know a lot specifically about this kind of thing, the truth is hypocrites can prophesy. I love healing miracles. Matthew chapter seven says, there are workers of miracles who will one day stand before the Lord and He'll say, I never knew you. By the way, they were relying on their works. Did we not? Legalism. I love discernment. I love the gift of tongues. I love deliverance. I love dreams and visions. I love it when people are slain in the Spirit. It's a wonderful phenomenon. I don't even fully grasp myself, but it's beautiful. But all of those things, though they are somewhat in and of themselves signs of the presence of the Holy Spirit, there is no sign greater of the presence of the Holy Spirit. There is no weightier evidence than the character and the nature of Christ in you. I can prophesy. Are you nice? Watch, I can lay hands on the sick. I can cast out devils. Where's your humility? Show me that. That'll impress me more. Seven sons of Sceva could drive. You know how easy it is to drive a demon out? It's the name of Jesus does the work. Where's the humility? Where's the love? Where's the compassion? Where's the patience? Even I get convicted talking like this. You don't know how it is when I read the Bible. I'm constantly saying there are so many ways I'm not like you, Lord. Like, really help me here. You can say amen to that so I don't feel all alone. You in the chat too, please say amen to that. But in all seriousness, that is the greatest evidence. Do you look and act like Jesus? And that's what begins to take place in that fellowship with the Spirit. He begins to change that image. He begins to transform you in ways you never thought you could be transformed. Well, this is the way I was raised. This is according to my culture. This is what we believe. We must submit ourselves to the standard that is the life of Christ. Yes, there's power. Acts 10, 38. Jesus of Nazareth went about doing good, healing all who are oppressed by the devil when God anointed him with the Holy Spirit. But are you like him? Do you have his compassion? His mercy? You know, friends of the Holy Spirit, they actually have joy. I don't know where we get this idea that the more spiritual you are, the more stoic and serious you become. Look, if that's your personality, God bless you. But I think sometimes we think we have to act a certain way in order to be perceived a certain way. And we're doing our impression of what we think a Spirit-filled Christian looks like. Walking around just, do you know that people of the Spirit, there's a joy about them? People of the Spirit, you know you're talking to them because they don't make you feel small. People of the Spirit, you know that you're talking to someone of the Spirit because there's compassion in their eyes. I want that friendship with him to be more and more like him as I'm changed into that glorious image.