FELLOWSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST!

EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21, 2019.

SUBJECT : FELLOWSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST!

Memory verse: "That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ." (First John 1 vs 3.) 

READ: First John 1 vs 5 - 9: 

1:5: This is the message which we have heard from Him and declared to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. 

1:6: If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 

1:7: But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

1:8: If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1:9: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

INTIMATION: 

Our fellowship in Jesus Christ is our bait to remain beneficiaries of God's divine nature. Our fellowship with Jesus is God's ordained plan; "God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord." (Corinthians 1 vs 9.) We were called into fellowship with His Son. This is a heavenly calling. We are living under grace (unmerited favor) of God. 

Committing sin breaks our fellowship with Christ and broken fellowship is one of the the saddest facts of human experience. Though broken fellowship does not break the relationship, but it mars it and robs that relationship of its richest blessings and benefits. The Holy Spirit has given us the way to restore broken fellowship in the epistle of John. This short epistle was written to tell us how to maintain our fellowship and how to restore it when it is broken.

God is light, and as long as you are in fellowship with Him, you are in light. But the instant your fellowship is broken, you go into the dark. As long as we walk in the light—as long as we are in fellowship with Him—the blood of Jesus Christ cleanses all the blunders and mistakes that we make. But if we sin, we are out of fellowship with Him and we are walking in darkness. 

The instant we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins, and cleans us from all unrighteousness. The broken fellowship is restored. Now we are to forgive ourselves and forget our sins and go on in love with Him. For you to continually remind yourself of your past errors and sins is to deny the efficacy of His forgiveness and the value of His Word.

In First John 2 vs 1 - 2, the Scriptures say, "My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but for the whole world." 

Jesus Christ is the righteous Advocate. He can go into the Father's presence when we are under condemnation, and shrink from meeting Him. He is always righteous, and can always plead our case. He has paid the ‘Supreme Price’ for our sins with His blood.  The instant we confess our sin, and ask the Father's forgiveness, Jesus takes up our case before the Father, reminding Him of the price He has already paid, and that moment our fellowship is restored.

There is no need walking in broken fellowship a minute after you have committed sin. The devil is the author of that sin. Then to walk on in broken fellowship, grieving over your blunder, is only adding joy and glory to the devil, giving him room to continue his accusation of you before the Father, and he might succeed in  inciting the Father against you.

The instant you have done wrong, and your fellowship is impaired, confess your sin to the Father and Jesus Christ, ask the Father's forgiveness. Jesus will save you from sin, and restore your fellowship with Him; “...He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7 vs 25).

Prayer: Abba Father, thank You for our predestination as sons and daughters, and the privilege of our adoption as Your children in our Messiah Jesus Christ, Whose advocacy has always made us right with You. Endue me with the right spirit to always confess my sins, ask for Your forgiveness, and restore my fellowship with You, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!