and that life was brought to light and beholding and testifying and proclaiming to you eternal life, so that you also have fellowship with us, now, indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ and this we write so that our joy exists complete.*
These things John writes so that our joy exists complete. He is proclaiming to us the Way our joy is completed. Now, there is a process of growth where there is further joy in obedience, which is in keeping the words of Jesus. The discipline of God is that we share in His character, thus we grow up in knowledge of Him. As James wrties when endurance has done its work in the testing, the proving of our faith, maturity produces wholeness, lacking in nothing. How important it is that we learn this truth, as in Him we are made complete, brought forth to bear fruit of abiding in the Vine, of wholeness, of joy of fellowship.
Whom existing from the beginning, whom hearing, whom beholding the one with our eyes, whom looking upon and our hands have touched, concerning the Word of Life.*
In the Gospel of John we read this Word of Life was in the beginning with God, and was God, the Word of God, in whom all things were created, "and in him exists life and that life exists the Light of men. and the light shines in darkness...* Putting first things first, John tells us how to have joy, we abide in the light, which is life. In Jesus exists Life, the bread of God coming down from heaven giving life to the world.* Jesus tells us to labor not for earthly bread but for this living bread, it is real food that endures unto life.* This food is not a one time eating just to go to heaven, no, one must feed on this food, as Jesus said, "this exists the bread coming down from heaven, not like your fathers ate and died, the one feeding on this bread lives for all time."* What is this food?
Simon Peter answered him, Lord from whom do we go, arriving having the words of eternal life?*
Those who followed him for earthly reasons, found it hard teaching to feed on Him, and the Spirit did not give comprehension to them into this truth. But Peter understood. We must seek him for food that endures unto life. So does John who writes to us, that whom they saw, heard, and touched exists the Word of Life, whose words exist eternal Life. This is the Way our joy is made complete, this is the way we are made complete.
And this exists the message like as hearing from Him and proclaiming to you; God is Light and exists absolutely no darkness in Him. If we say we have fellowship with Him and we walk in darkness, lying and not yielding the truth.*
There is a maturity process in which we yield or bear fruit in keeping His words. We hear these words but we must not be a forgetful hearer only but a doer. If this is true there are different levels of experiencing God, in fact Jesus writes of a joy that comes from the Father when we bear fruit of keeping His words, James calls it the crown of life that comes from maturity.* In fact the premise of the book of James is maturity.* James talks about what prevents us from receiving wisdom regarding maturity, from God and how we do receive looking intently into the perfect law of liberty which is the words of Jesus. Without such maturity of faith the works that we do are dead and the argument is mute. And we add agape love, as Paul says faith without love is nothing, so that we grow up truth in love. It is important to understand that to walk in the Light, we must walk in truth and love. The words of Jesus exists truth, so it is truth that increases faith. Therefore without walking in truth you are not walking in the Light and the unity of faith can not be achieved. And since we have a Spirit of truth and life we can not walk in Spirit without truth.
Jesus therefore said to the Jews who had believed him, if you abide in my words existing truly my disciples and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.*
Whom existing from the beginning, whom hearing, whom beholding the one with our eyes, whom looking upon and our hands have touched, concerning the Word of Life.*
In the Gospel of John we read this Word of Life was in the beginning with God, and was God, the Word of God, in whom all things were created, "and in him exists life and that life exists the Light of men. and the light shines in darkness...* Putting first things first, John tells us how to have joy, we abide in the light, which is life. In Jesus exists Life, the bread of God coming down from heaven giving life to the world.* Jesus tells us to labor not for earthly bread but for this living bread, it is real food that endures unto life.* This food is not a one time eating just to go to heaven, no, one must feed on this food, as Jesus said, "this exists the bread coming down from heaven, not like your fathers ate and died, the one feeding on this bread lives for all time."* What is this food?
Simon Peter answered him, Lord from whom do we go, arriving having the words of eternal life?*
Those who followed him for earthly reasons, found it hard teaching to feed on Him, and the Spirit did not give comprehension to them into this truth. But Peter understood. We must seek him for food that endures unto life. So does John who writes to us, that whom they saw, heard, and touched exists the Word of Life, whose words exist eternal Life. This is the Way our joy is made complete, this is the way we are made complete.
And this exists the message like as hearing from Him and proclaiming to you; God is Light and exists absolutely no darkness in Him. If we say we have fellowship with Him and we walk in darkness, lying and not yielding the truth.*
There is a maturity process in which we yield or bear fruit in keeping His words. We hear these words but we must not be a forgetful hearer only but a doer. If this is true there are different levels of experiencing God, in fact Jesus writes of a joy that comes from the Father when we bear fruit of keeping His words, James calls it the crown of life that comes from maturity.* In fact the premise of the book of James is maturity.* James talks about what prevents us from receiving wisdom regarding maturity, from God and how we do receive looking intently into the perfect law of liberty which is the words of Jesus. Without such maturity of faith the works that we do are dead and the argument is mute. And we add agape love, as Paul says faith without love is nothing, so that we grow up truth in love. It is important to understand that to walk in the Light, we must walk in truth and love. The words of Jesus exists truth, so it is truth that increases faith. Therefore without walking in truth you are not walking in the Light and the unity of faith can not be achieved. And since we have a Spirit of truth and life we can not walk in Spirit without truth.
Jesus therefore said to the Jews who had believed him, if you abide in my words existing truly my disciples and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.*
Who is the true disciple? the one abiding in His words. The anointing John writes teaches us, and what does the anointing teach? to abide in Him.* This is how fellowship is achieved and should be known by the young person, who as John writes becomes strong through abiding in the word of God. To achieve maturity one must learn to abide and possess endurance which is to remain steadfast in truth, not a hearer only but one who yields fruit of doing or practicing truth. This brings us back to a requirement of fellowship; "God is Light and exists absolutely no darkness in Him. If we say we have fellowship with Him and we walk in darkness, we lie, not yielding the truth."* Is this meant to defeat the one not possessing endurance, not becoming mature? No, we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ, so we learn to repent, get back into the Light. It is behavior that we learn, a part of transformation that renews our mind. The mind that has not been proven, abiding, will do everything else, including many mighty good works in the name of Jesus.
Now, if we walk in the Light like as He exists Light, having fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus that his Son cleanses us from all sin.*
Jesus died for sin, once and for all, but He is our advocate before the Father when we do sin. This implies continuing work on His part as our High Priest. We have received spiritual blessings from the riches of His grace and glory of adoption redemption, the forgiveness of sin. And there is continued work in our salvation and we are waiting for a salvation to come.* The Spirit testifies of such, moaning in us for liberty as sons, for redemption of our bodies.* Peter writes of testing that produces maturity towards the goal of our faith; the salvation of our souls.* There is a cleansing of the Word, a consecration in truth, a testimony of water that cleanses the body of sin, and a work of the Spirit and the truth in the teachings of baptism that works to render sin powerless in the body.* How important it is that we walk in the Light as He exists Light, to have fellowship. If we sin repent and get back in the Light. How many times? seventy times seven. As a child of God the Light is where you belong and there is life there, peace, joy... so walk in the Light.
if we say we are without sin, deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins existing faithful and just forgiving us that sin and cleansing us from all wrong. If saying that not sinful, making him a liar and His word is not in us.*
Paul writes of the principles that sin is in our flesh and evil is near.* Evil through the weakness of the flesh wars against the carnal mind to bring us into captivity to sin.* Peter writes this is how war is waged against our soul.* If you are a child of God you are indebted to righteousness. We need the mind of Christ, thus transformation, renewal of the mind, is a new spiritual mind that accepts, agrees with God's spiritual laws which the carnal mind can't. It is achieved through a growth process of maturity. If we take away growth children remain children, tossed to and fro. If we say we do not sin, we ignore this truth. Denying that we walk in the flesh is deceiving ourselves, even though we walk not according to the flesh. Saying we do not sin ignores that we must learn to walk according to the Spirit.* We are not of the flesh but of the Spirit, but to ignore the flesh saying I do not sin, makes yourself a terrible testimony, as others see you sin and makes you a liar. And "His word is not in us." Anyone in Christ has a boldness to approach the throne of grace and mercy. Confess your sin and get in the Light, it is that simple. Abide in the word and it will cleanse the consciousness of sin, it is a lamp unto your feet and a Light unto your path, the words will consecrate you in truth. And you will learn the concept of fellowship in the Light and the joy that comes with it.
now, they were devoted to the teachings of the apostles and to fellowship, to breaking of bread, and to prayers.*
What bread were they breaking that exists food enduring unto life? What does John proclaim so that we have fellowship also in the Word of Life and Eternal life? the words of Jesus, those who feed on his words have eternal life, this is most important of all. And did not Jesus say His flesh is given above the life of this world? So what bread is most important to partake of to have fellowship in life?* We have seen the importance of personal fellowship. What point is it if we have a religious life and do not experience the Word of Life? It is to be the same personal fellowship we have as believers when we gather together. So without personal victory there can be no fellowship together. What point is it if we gather together in assembly, in small or large groups, if we do not have fellowship in the Word of Life? And what point is gathering to do good works if there is no fellowship? The world gets together in community, social events, so what should distinguish the Church from the world?
like as also establishing you even to the goal; blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful the one through whom called you into fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.*
What is the Christian life, or gathering together without fellowship in the Son? We see what is most important. Did you know you were called into the fellowship of His Son? Called to be in fellowship, called to be conformed to His image, called to be holy as He is holy, called to bear fruit of righteousness... Truly, these are the good works He had in mind and prepared for us to walk in.
our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ and this we write so that our joy exists complete.*
A Church without relationships is not complete neither is the other extreme of gathering together without fellowship in the word of life. Do we gather together just to know one another or is there a greater purpose in our gatherings? What is the purpose of fellowship?i is the overflow of life we have in abiding in Christ on a daily basis. If we do not have this down what good works can we do? Jesus said we can not, unless we abide in the Vine. The fruit of fellowship is achieved on a personal basis first then it continues with others who know such fellowship. How can the Church bear fruit without true fellowship, without abiding in the Vine?
Everything Comes To Life
Paul writes of the principles that sin is in our flesh and evil is near.* Evil through the weakness of the flesh wars against the carnal mind to bring us into captivity to sin.* Peter writes this is how war is waged against our soul.* If you are a child of God you are indebted to righteousness. We need the mind of Christ, thus transformation, renewal of the mind, is a new spiritual mind that accepts, agrees with God's spiritual laws which the carnal mind can't. It is achieved through a growth process of maturity. If we take away growth children remain children, tossed to and fro. If we say we do not sin, we ignore this truth. Denying that we walk in the flesh is deceiving ourselves, even though we walk not according to the flesh. Saying we do not sin ignores that we must learn to walk according to the Spirit.* We are not of the flesh but of the Spirit, but to ignore the flesh saying I do not sin, makes yourself a terrible testimony, as others see you sin and makes you a liar. And "His word is not in us." Anyone in Christ has a boldness to approach the throne of grace and mercy. Confess your sin and get in the Light, it is that simple. Abide in the word and it will cleanse the consciousness of sin, it is a lamp unto your feet and a Light unto your path, the words will consecrate you in truth. And you will learn the concept of fellowship in the Light and the joy that comes with it.
now, they were devoted to the teachings of the apostles and to fellowship, to breaking of bread, and to prayers.*
What bread were they breaking that exists food enduring unto life? What does John proclaim so that we have fellowship also in the Word of Life and Eternal life? the words of Jesus, those who feed on his words have eternal life, this is most important of all. And did not Jesus say His flesh is given above the life of this world? So what bread is most important to partake of to have fellowship in life?* We have seen the importance of personal fellowship. What point is it if we have a religious life and do not experience the Word of Life? It is to be the same personal fellowship we have as believers when we gather together. So without personal victory there can be no fellowship together. What point is it if we gather together in assembly, in small or large groups, if we do not have fellowship in the Word of Life? And what point is gathering to do good works if there is no fellowship? The world gets together in community, social events, so what should distinguish the Church from the world?
like as also establishing you even to the goal; blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful the one through whom called you into fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.*
What is the Christian life, or gathering together without fellowship in the Son? We see what is most important. Did you know you were called into the fellowship of His Son? Called to be in fellowship, called to be conformed to His image, called to be holy as He is holy, called to bear fruit of righteousness... Truly, these are the good works He had in mind and prepared for us to walk in.
our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ and this we write so that our joy exists complete.*
A Church without relationships is not complete neither is the other extreme of gathering together without fellowship in the word of life. Do we gather together just to know one another or is there a greater purpose in our gatherings? What is the purpose of fellowship?i is the overflow of life we have in abiding in Christ on a daily basis. If we do not have this down what good works can we do? Jesus said we can not, unless we abide in the Vine. The fruit of fellowship is achieved on a personal basis first then it continues with others who know such fellowship. How can the Church bear fruit without true fellowship, without abiding in the Vine?
Everything Comes To Life