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+====== Fellowship of the Spirit ... ======
-Monday, June 3, 2019.
+Monday, June 3, 2019. The New Testament invites us to get to know God through Jesus, Christ Jesus. The
+stories of the gospels are the life story of Jesus. His birth is told, his ministry, selections of
+his actions and interaction with the people of his time. And then we hear about his death, about the
+resurrection and the ascension.
+Let us understand what the bible tells us about the relationship of God and men. God wants to live with
+humans, with each and every individual, with you and with me. God wants us to know him. He wants us
+to be in a relationship with him,
+in a save and undisturbed relationship, a relationship characterized by trust and truth.
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+** Jesus and Reconciliation ... **
+The death of Jesus plays a special role in this relationship, which God wants to establish between
+you and him, between me and him, for everyone. The death of Jesus provides justice. All things are
+destroyed, which stand between us and God. All guilt. All evil. All sin. All ignorance. All outrageous
+behaviour.
+But we should also talk about what happens then. Now, Jesus has died. Someone accepts the complete
+reconciliation with God. Let us assume you want to live with him, with the eternal God. How does
+it work? Now, the bible talks about the love of God coming into your life. And it talks about the
+Holy Spirit coming into your body. In 2. Kor the apostle Paul writes:
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+The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
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+It is a deep and intense fellowship, which Christians are offered. The fellowship of the spirit.
+It is about life, which is with him in all things, day by day, in work and leisure, day and night.
+The bible explains this: the spirit lodges in someone who believes in Christ Jesus. He is there,
+he lives there in you and in me, he is there all the time - and forever!
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+** Love of God ... **
+The power of the spirit of God is first the power of peace and love and reconciliation of the
+relationship with him. It is about you and God. Nothing more, nothing less. It is about you and
+the king.
+We can explain this in many images and stories. You are given the opportunity to get into a
+cleared relationship with the king. You trust the king, and he trusts you. You discover his
+fantastic way, and he takes you into his plans. He tells you about his plans. He even gives
+you part in his agenda, an agenda of a new creation.
+The fellowship of the spirit is quite fascinating. The bible characterizes it by many keywords.
+It is about truth. It is about freedom. It is about love. It is about grace. It is about
+justice. It is about companionship and friendship.
+We are moving towards pentacost, the celebration of the coming of the holy spirit. It came to the
+young church in a special way. But we need to remember that the spirit has always come to people,
+who believed in the eternal Lord. Also the Old Testament is full of stories about the spirit of the
+Lord. But now, with the justice which Jesus created at the cross, there is no limit any more for
+this special fellowship, for the spirit to be with you, for his grace and love and truth to give a peace
+and hope of unbelievable beauty and intensity.
 (Roland Potthast)
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