the prayer meeting was exceptional last night, i'm glad i took at least thirty minutes to join. sometimes you can get so caught up in your own world and forget about what the Lord is doing—alias, sometimes you have no idea what the Lord is doing. but He speaks through His members, and through them He can release His burden. my spirit was refreshed.
"That which we have seen and heard we report also to you that you also may have fellowship with us, and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ." - 1 John 1:3
The second part of footnote 3 says:
Fellowship here indicates a putting away of private interests and a joining with others for a certain common purpose. Hence, to have fellowship with the apostles, to be in the fellowship of the apostles, and to have fellowship with the Triune God in the apostles' fellowship is to put aside our private interests and join with the apostles and the Triune God for the carrying out of God's purpose. This purpose, according to John's subsequent writings, is twofold: 1- that the believers grow in the divine life by abiding in the Triune God and, based on the divine birth, live a life of the divine righteousness and the divine love to overcome the world, death, sin, the devil, and idols; and 2- that the local churches be built up as the lampstands for the testimony of Jesus and consummate in the New Jerusalem as the full expression of God for eternity. Our participation int he apostles' enjoyment of the Triune God is our joining with them and with the Triune God for His divine purpose, which is common to God, the apostles, and all the believers.
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