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Greetings,
The foundation of our lives is in Christ. Our foundation is not in ourselves, but in Jesus and in being a member of His life-giving body in this world. The empowerment of who we are in Christ is given to us by the seven-fold working of God’s grace. We have been granted a gift of repentance unto life. We are not dead, but alive in Christ and our desires are being changed by God’s love working in us as the Spirit of the Lord. We have been granted a wisdom that comes by the Holy Spirit. This wisdom empowers the actions of our lives to be ones of faith as members of Christ. Holy Spirit is our teacher, and He teaches us by submerging us in His testimony to be continually changed in heavenly ways, inside and out. We are sons and daughters of light and we have been given the authority of being the life-giving hands of Christ to our world.
Another foundation in our lives it that of the Resurrection of the Dead. We have been granted repentance unto life by the Spirit of the Lord, but the Spirit of Might has granted us a place in the fellowship of Christ with a testimony of His resurrection life. We don’t just do works of faith toward who God is, we also discover who we are in Christ to walk in the good works that contribute to the fellowship of the resurrection life of Christ in our midst. The key to fellowship is Christ in our midst. This is the fellowship that the first-fruit church continued in as a testimony of the resurrection life of Christ (Acts 2:42). Our fellowship is a testimony of the resurrection life of Christ in who we are and in our testimony together.
Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
1 Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
God has given a grace for a union of close joining relationships that raise up His body. The supply of life to one another is a portion of God’s resurrection life that He has given to each of us for one another. This is the fellowship of the Holy Spirit. This fellowship causes each of us to bring a contribution to others that will empower the body and its parts to come to life within its effective sphere of operation. We are each given a ‘measure’ of the resurrection life of Christ as a testimony of Him.
Ephesians 4:7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift.
Ephesians 4:16 Under His direction, the whole body is fitted together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.
We must learn to be ourselves and to carry our load in the fellowship of Christ. This is in the testimony of the motivational giftings of our lives, our ministry in Christ, and our part in the power of His Spirit.
Ephesians 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
As a part of the fellowship, Christ makes a confession of who we are before God our Father and before angels (sent ones), speaking of a “sending forth” by the power of His might for works of righteousness.
Philippians 3:8 But indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.
Fellowship with Him and one another will cause us to walk in the light (1 Jn. 1:1-7). Fellowship in Him ends the works of the flesh and commences the works of the Spirit! Our fellowship will enable us to do works of righteousness as we each contribute to the stature of Christ.
Revelation 3:5 “He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.”
Food For Thought,
Ted J. Hanson
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