Embracing Divine Fellowship in the New Covenant

The greatest benefit of being under the new agreement beats everything else among a lot of good ones that you may be thinking of in is that we get to partake of the divine nature you can't beat that and so when we say that we are part of the new agreement that we are part of the new covenant dear brothers and sisters their family of God let us never never let anything come close to that supreme benefit that me broken wretched worm has the opportunity to partake to share to be one with the divine nature not divine virtues divine nature. [00:01:13]

The fellowship we ought to have to another brother and sister in Christ is the fellowship that we share with the father and the son. What we have seen and heard what did John see in here he saw the physical Jesus he saw the physical Jesus walking on water he says what we saw and heard we proclaim to you all just because of one reason not so that you can also walk on water not so that you can also multiply the bread also that you also may have fellowship Union unity with us and here's the fellowship I have this is the fellowship we have is with the father and the son equal. [00:05:35]

The same unity that I have in the father and the son I have at one another now I cannot have unity with one another if I don't have unity with the father first this is not a unity with everybody on this world because we're all humans that's what new ways will see New Age also you all have to accept one another because we're all humans and we all come from Mother Earth there are all kinds of different things like that, that is not where our unity comes from our unity doesn't either come from people who call themselves Christians because many will come in the last day saying I always had the label of Christian not only that I cast out demons in your name and the father will say in the Sun God will say I never knew you so it's not even unity with all people who claim to be Christians but it is with everybody whose lungs and desires and his striving and has that unity with the father and the son themselves for any such person I must longed to have the same unity that I came to have with the father and son with the other brothers and sisters. [00:06:10]

The journey we are on we start with the unity the spirit but set your minds on things above we ought to be growing more and more to have our mind set on heavenly things what happens when we are in heaven I'm gonna be a little blip among billions of people billions of souls that have been saved by the blood of the Lamb who are dressed not in their own righteousness but in the righteousness of Jesus Christ I'm just gonna be a dot and so are you and we're gonna be all dots dots of nothing worshiping the Son of God full of fear full of this virtue of faith which is I am nothing god you are everything this is fellowship this is not coming together to talk about the Bible this is not coming together to unpack Haggai Zechariah of Malachi all those things Bible study prayer teaching listening to sermons having coffee with one another are all just things to support what must be in our hearts to have fellowship is am i coming with I am nothing and God is everything and then is he coming with he is nothing and God is everything. [00:13:00]

The fellowship we have is equal to the fellowship we have in the father and the son and that is spiritual the physical the emotional they all add to it those are things that God has given us to add to give a little bit of joy to it but it's not there if we don't have spiritual and the spiritual is where I am nothing in God is everything dear brothers who are married sisters who are married bring that fellowship that we ought to have with each other I am noting God is everything am i coming at my idea more important than yours are we seeking to resolve arguments what I am NOT I'm asking your God is everything some people say you have to go with the attitude of honey I'm nothing you're everything it's not fellowship or is true Christian marriage unity Lord we are nothing you are everything and when both husband and wife come to any decision with that attitude as unity this fellowship we have to seek for that dear brothers and sisters in the context of this church who must long for them. [00:21:18]

The desire for this message is to really amplify the need for fellowship and unity to be built up as I said starts with the unity of the Spirit with all humility and gentleness and forbearance and patience until we attain to the unity of the faith when we are nothing we're all nothing God is everything the best gathering together of this on any Sunday was when God looked from heaven and saw the most number of nothing's in this room the sermon may have been useless confessed message may be amusing music may have been useless I did both of them so I can speak to that may have been beautiful but God that was the best one that was the best one because it was the most number of nothings that were ever collected at NCC F before and we ought to strive you can only act there's nothing we can do to help you with that you have to decide to come before God and say God I'm gonna bring my nothingness before you and I'm gonna bring your everything because just my nothingness is depressing and glorifying the devil if you don't also bring God's everything with it that's not faith as doubt that's an insult to God when God says we are everything in him. [00:31:28]

Fellowship in a church is more important than evangelism how many of us would say that's true Luke chapter 15 verse 7 this is where my dad and again you can find this there's a book that my dad is written called one body in Christ so I mean obviously you know it's free it's on the website you should read it I don't know if he says it in there but in one of his articles you wrote this fellowship is more important than evangelism and where he got that was from Luke chapter 15 verse 7 where it says this is the story of the one sheep that was lost and he says in there there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance so the Shepherd goes out and leaves the 99 to get the one sheep but there's something that characterizes these 99 they are ones who are have no need of repentance why do they have no need of repentance because they're constantly judging themselves before God and I constantly saying Lord we are nothing that's the state of the 99 that God says I can go and bring one other sheep into this midst otherwise I bring this one lost sheep into a midst of people who are just fighting at each other and biting each other it may be better out there, and to bring him into a church which Christians are fighting with one another and are not repenting over their sins because they're all thinking there's somebody all trying to seek that there'd be the greatest all seek that they may have a ministry and gotta sing I'm more interested in getting to people where two or three are gathered in my name and the only thing that matters about these two or three people is that God's name is there that's enough because they're not fighting with one another then God can send evangelists and he can go and bring one more and he knows that when they bring him into this flock of two or three I thought she was gonna bite him and say you go massage my hooves or whatever it is that's not gonna be all the sheaves work the sheaves would be like come and be one of us it's not gonna be well you're gonna have to do your time on the outskirts before you come in and really be one of us that's not the heart of the 99 if that is the heart of the 99 which is maybe there in many churches maybe through about an CCF maybe that's what's timing up that's what's limiting our growth maybe because God says I don't see a bunch of nothing's here I don't want to bring outside sheep and bring them into this place and, and there's b-bit all over by ego and culture and cultural preferences whatever else intellectual preferences God wants us to be a bunch of nothings and when he sees a flock of 99 which they have no need of repentance because they're already repenting and judging themselves and walking in the light as he's in the light God says I can bring other sheep to him very easily. [00:34:45]

Fellowship such an important word dear brothers and sisters the most greatest perk of the new covenant is to partake of the divine nature far exceeds anything else ask God what what does it mean what we funnel with what will it be like if I tasted of your nature what will be my response to temptation not to sin how will I respond when I see the temptation to love money I know I must resist the love of money but Lord I want to taste your divine nature what is God's response - sexual lust hits it it's the even temptation of it I want that nature I'm not settling for victory over sin I want to have that revulsion to sin that God has as divine nature broader track record we want that dear brothers and sisters this is the park the greatest benefit what incredible lives and we never have his divine nature we never have it but we can taste of it God is gone God's gonna have his own nature that's his nature I don't believe we're gonna have it it's my best understanding of the doctrine but we can taste it and I want a taste of it more I don't want to settle for just me saying I didn't last out to women today or I didn't run after money today what were you attracted to it you're longing for it please don't be condemned dear brothers and sisters please don't be condemned you have not sinned if you didn't give in to temptation but I want to have the nature of Jesus Christ I won't have the nature of God the divine nature that has that revulsion for it and it's just saying more I want to have a hatred for it I want to have this hatred for this unforgiveness that I keep holding on to I want to have not a lord help me to better be better or I want to have a hatred for the anxiety that comes into my heart that makes me doubt whether you're a good God I won't have a hatred to this love of money that keeps coming up 25 times a day I'm gonna fight Lord I'm gonna do the best I find if I fall I know I have your blood to cleanse me but Lord I'm not looking just to have a good track record today I'm looking also at my appetite I want my appetite to be like your appetite some of you this may be the first time you heard of it some of you this may be a repeat a time you've heard of it for real long this is not going to be the last time you hear about it will remind you over and over again as I need to be reminded to the greatest perk of the new comes into the divine nature David was not such a man like that man after God's own heart he never got it wasn't available to him and the old covenant but he wanted it that's why God says I'll send Messiah through this guy I know he's gonna commit adultery I know he's gonna commit murder but he wants my heart and that's what we are seeking for preserve that you can start today set your track record aside and say Lord I want to aim much much higher I want your nature I want to see something of this in 2018 2019 2020 Lord let me start today to have a longing for it, to catch myself and saying what are you doing so deep lusting after these filthy things or even being drawn in that direction crowd we can cry out to the Lord and say Lord change my appetite I want to have an appetite for what you valued I want to love righteousness I want to heat sin. [00:34:45]