READ YOUR RHAPSODY OF REALITIES DAILY DEVOTIONAL. OUR CALL TO FELLOWSHIP - PASTOR CHRIS OYAKHILOME. MONDAY 8TH AUGUST, 2016.
God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto
the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord
(1 Corinthians 1:9).
Some people always see themselves as ever
needing God, the ever-ready supplier, whom they have to beg continually to get
something. They think He holds back, while trying to find out who deserves His
help. That’s a wrong idea about Jesus and our heavenly Father. That’s not the
picture the Bible paints at all. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is far beyond the
matter of sin and salvation from sin. The highest and main purpose of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ is the call to fellowship. What does this mean?
First, it means a call to oneness, a family
relationship, a unity of spirit, a joint-partnership, where everything that
belongs to Him belongs to you, and everything that belongs to you belongs to
Him. Can you imagine that God calls us into such a fellowship where everything
He owns belongs to us as much as it belongs to Him? It’s what Jesus came to
achieve for us.
We couldn’t come into that fellowship until,
first and foremost, we were given a new life. He died for our sins to make it
possible for us to have it. Salvation from sin was, therefore, a means to an
end, not His primary purpose for coming. The end purpose was fellowship.
Our message in Christianity isn’t, “He came
to die for our sins”; rather it’s, “Receive the life that Jesus has brought and
walk in victory.” “(For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear
witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and
was manifested unto us ;)” (1 John 1:2).
The Gospel is God’s call to fellowship. The
foregoing scripture, as simple as it is, is probably the most important thing
anyone would ever discover on earth. It should be, of course; because it
encapsulates the totality of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That’s what it’s
about. It’s the reason Jesus came.
PRAYER
Thank you, dear Father, for calling me into a glorious fellowship with the Holy Spirit, and your Son, Jesus Christ! I treasure my oneness with you through Jesus Christ; therefore, my source of supply is inexhaustible, because you’ve given me a privileged access to all that belongs to you, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Thank you, dear Father, for calling me into a glorious fellowship with the Holy Spirit, and your Son, Jesus Christ! I treasure my oneness with you through Jesus Christ; therefore, my source of supply is inexhaustible, because you’ve given me a privileged access to all that belongs to you, in Jesus’ Name. Amen.
Further Study:
1 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.
1 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.
John 17:22-23 And the glory which thou gavest
me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them,
and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may
know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
1-Year Bible Reading Plan:
Romans 11:1-24, Psalms 79-81
2-Year Bible Reading Plan:
Philippians 1:1-8, Isaiah 59
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Romans 11:1-24, Psalms 79-81
2-Year Bible Reading Plan:
Philippians 1:1-8, Isaiah 59
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