Fellowship of the Spirit ...

Monday, June 3, 2019. The New Testament invites us ot 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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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:

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. (2. Kor 13, 14)

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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