FELLOWSHIP – PART I (SPIRITUAL)

INTRODUCTION:

It is very important for all of us those who have got saved by the blood of Jesus to Have defined fellowship spiritually and materialistically.
As written in I john 1: 3 “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.”, we need to have our fellowship with the Father and his son Jesus Christ.

APOSTLE’S DOCTRINE AND HOLY SPIRIT:

This above said is only feasible when we are bound to the Apostle’s doctrine and having received Holy Spirit in us. Because we know that the purpose of Holy Spirit is to teach and bring remembrance of all things said by Jesus Christ. This was said in John 14:26 as:

John 14:26 : “But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you”

As written in John 16: 13, Holy Spirit will guide us in THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH

John 16: 13: “Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come”

We can attain HOLINESS only through the Holy Spirit. Because the scripture says God loves holiness

Malachi 2:11 – “Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god”

I Peter 1:15 – “Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.”

REJECTED IN THIS WORLD???:

Friends when you are rejected or disappointed in this world, remember that Jesus was also rejected in this world prior to us. Since we are his children, the world will obviously reject us.

John 15: 18-19 – “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.”

But be strengthened by his holy spirit for he will not put us in shame. This is what said in Romans 5: 5.

Romans 5:5 – “And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.”
John 15:3 – “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.”


FAITH IN JESUS:

We need to be careful on our faith upon Jesus. Men those have faith in Christ only for the purpose of their present material life are considered most miserable as per the scripture.

I Cor 15:19 – “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.”

Our faith in Christ should be always seeking his kingdom and his righteousness. Because we know that when seek that all things needed in this material life will be added unto us.

Mathews 6:33 – “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

Also, we know that the definition of faith as per the scripture is:

Hebrews 11:1 – “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” which is nothing about the eternity. So have your faith on eternal things promised by our God.

As the below scriptures says, we need to fight of faith to attain the eternal life.

I Timothy 6:12 – “Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.”

MAN IS SPECIAL THAN ANGELS IN GOD’S VIEW :

God has created Men in very special way in such a way that angels are also curious about it. Also, God has made the angels to minister us as said in the following verses

Hebrews 1:14 –“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?”
Psalms 91:11, 12 – “For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.”
As written in Daniel 9:21 – “Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.” The angel ‘Gabriel’ was ministering Daniel after his prayer.



CONCLUSION:

Coming back to the fellowship, once we are into Christ and stand firm through Apostle’s doctrine and Holy Spirit, we will then become fellow citizens of saints and household of God as written in below verses :

Ephesians 2: 18 to 20 – “For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;”

To stand firm in the above said fellowship until we attain the eternal life is feasible only when we have love in Christ. Love in Christ can be possible only when we keepeth his commandments. With this we are also loved by Father and Holy Spirit in us will be of joy obviously as told in the below verses:

John 14:21 to 23 – “He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.”


Jesus also said that the doctrine is not from his own and its from the father, so only father loves whoever accepts the doctrine and love Christ as said below:

John 7:16, 17 – “Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.”

PRAISE THE LORD JESUS !!!!!!!

AMEN !!!!!

PRIDE AND FALL OF LUCIFER

Friends we all know that there existed Angelic world before God created this material world. In the Angelic world, the angels always keep praising our Lord Jesus. Among those angels is Lucifer (Satan, the fallen angel) who was made as the head.

God made Lucifer more special by giving him all power, beauty and wisdom as described in the below scripts:

Ezekiel 28: 11-17 – “Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying.

Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.”

PRIDE in Lucifer:

After god has given everything to Lucifer, Pride came into his heart and therefore he has been pushed down because of which the deep hell was formed. As said in the below verses, Lucifer just had a thought of pride in his mind because of which he was pushed down.

Isaiah 14:12-15 – “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.”

How waters came to the world?

The below verses from John I chapter says All things were made by God (with his word).

John 1: 1-3 –“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.”

But when we look into the first two verses from Genesis, immediately after first verse three things were mentioned without they were created whereas other things were created as from verse 3 onwards. Those three things were DARKNESS, DEEP and WATER.

Genesis 1: 1-2 –“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”

From the beginning of the message we can see that DEEP and DARKNESS were created because in the period of angelic world Lucifer was pushed down were it happened. So where the water has come from then?

As said in the below verse the waters came in when god uttered after pushing down Lucifer.

Jeremiah 10:13 –“When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens……”

PRIDE in Herod:

Similarly we know that what happened to King Herod when had the pride in him while people were praising him as LORD as written in the below scriptures:

Acts 12: 21-23 – “And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.

And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.

And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.”

Avoid Pride

So it is very important for us not to have Pride in us. Because we should always remember that we are saved by his grace and not by ourselves as in the below verse

“Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:”

Also as the below verse says we should not seek own glory

John 7:18 – “He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.”

PRAISE THE LORD !!!!!!!

AMEN!!!!!!!!!