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fellowship

Said 103 times, in 41 of 378 sermons, across 16 Sundays. Spoken as 3 forms: fellowship 99, fellowshipping 3, fellowshiped 1.

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Romans 79 29
Let Us 14 6

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nd? Who shall stand in his holy place? So who gets to go into fellowship with God? He, verse four, who has clean hands and a pure hear
o the presence of God and I started talking to him. I started fellowshipping with God. I started wrestling back and forth with God. Someti
ility to look up. We have the ability to commune with God, to fellowship with God. So our plane of existence can be vertical. It can b
And I wrote down, and thank you for a church with such great fellowship . Thank you for a church, Lord, where you're doing such a migh
that can happen is, is to sense him withdrawing his face and fellowship from you. I had to give in. I will give you the key. I said,
can be learning the word being with other believers being in fellowship that's why it's essential for us to reach the world take the
God? So here's some suggestions in various parts of our life. Fellowship with believers, Acts 2 42, and they devoted themselves to the
evoted themselves to the apostles teaching the gospel and the fellowship to the breaking of bread and prayers. For me, going to church
letely different interpretation and guidance from God's word. Fellowship , 1 Thessalonians 5.11, we, wherefore, comfort yourselves toge
to pray, and how to... have your heart right. That God lens. Fellowship with edifying our brothers and sisters, being set apart, and

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ust live for me on your own. It doesn't say that. It's always fellowship , community. That's how God designed it. Remember what, what,
nd they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching, and the fellowship , to the breaking of bread. And prayer, and the prayers, and a
here now. We should be devoted to this. They were devoted to fellowship . They were devoted to being with one another. They were devot
God, that doesn't mean God's not moving, or that there is not fellowship going on here. Look, if we're going to stir one another up, w
er the reason, the author sees their discontinuance of common fellowship and worship as fatal for perseverance of the saints. And the
. The writer sees the lack of getting together to worship and fellowship . Being fatal to faith and growth in Jesus Christ. If we don't
is. And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship , to the breaking of bread and prayers. So there's this pictur
ed and said, there is a both to the apostles' teaching and to fellowship . How did that play out, right? Through the breaking of bread,
y said, okay, so these two things, the apostles' teaching and fellowship , are what we should be devoted to intentionally intentionally
s mindset to be unified, to stir one another up, and to be in fellowship . And so look back. He says, let's, let us stir one another up
s God is over there, and we can't go near, and we can't be in fellowship with God, and the trumpet is sounding, and there's whirlwind,
ght. Because we're not there, because we've been invited into fellowship with God, through Jesus, and not to a temporary mountain, but

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ng here that's just such a blessing. Paul describes Christian fellowship look at verse 12 again. He says that I may be encouraged toge
way for people to be saved from their sin, to be restored in fellowship with God. Let's go back to Romans now. We've been reconciled.
for him. So here they are in perfect harmony, in love. God is fellowshipping with them. They have a beautiful home. And then the serpent c
ansom for many. And so what does Jesus hold out? He holds out fellowship with him. He holds out new life through him. And he says, tak
s? How do we pursue sanctification? Let's look at God's word. Fellowship with believers, Acts 2, 42. And they devoted themselves to th
hing, the gospel, and they devoted themselves to teaching and fellowship , to the breaking of bread, and with prayers. For me, going to
ray, where to pray, and how to have our hearts right. Through fellowship and edify, brothers and sisters, be set apart and giving dail
o God for the first time ever. You're alive to God. You're in fellowship with God. You can talk to God, respond to God, be moved by Go
t's also just super important for us to grow in community and fellowship with each other. So please help me get out of my comfort zone
irit will speak to us through somebody else. So this is where fellowship with other believers, is important, and accountability with f
h, we get to sit at the king's throne at his table. We get to fellowship with the most high God. And he doesn't just sit us there at h
God's love first to you his forgiveness God offers to you his fellowship he loves you may seem lame but maybe you just need to go home
rage each other in what God is doing and in who he is. That's fellowship , right? Fellowship is when you and I, are talking about who h
what God is doing and in who he is. That's fellowship, right? Fellowship is when you and I, are talking about who he is and what he's
ng about who he is and what he's done together, right? That's fellowship . And so gathering is the second thing that any good church sh
r. The church was a group of people who assembled together to fellowship around the name of Jesus. That was the church. So, the church
o yes, we're created by God, loved by God, but we have broken fellowship with God by our sin. What is sin? Sin we see in the 10 comman
, and teach. Go and tell people, baptize, bring them into the fellowship , and teach them what it means to follow Jesus. Then the great
. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship in the breaking of bread and in prayers. So in Acts chapter t
Well, next they came together. It says there in verse 42 for fellowship , fellowship. So this is what we said. They came together for
they came together. It says there in verse 42 for fellowship, fellowship . So this is what we said. They came together for him, but als
They came together for him, but also for each other. The word fellowship means in common. Okay. That's what the word means. It means i
m and him alone, his work and his alone. And so in common, in fellowship . Now, what did fellowship look like when they came together?
and his alone. And so in common, in fellowship. Now, what did fellowship look like when they came together? Well, it, it looked like e
y the way, let me just. Say something obvious. You can't have fellowship by yourself. You can try to do that in a mirror, but it's wei
do that in a mirror, but it's weird. Okay. But you can't have fellowship by yourself. So there was no way to be in fellowship at home,
n't have fellowship by yourself. So there was no way to be in fellowship at home, right? They were, they, they came together. And so t
sus did, looking to him, talking about him together, they had fellowship . And so this happens, listen, just very simply. It happens as
ou don't rush out and you interact. You interact with people. Fellowship is something that only his people can have. You can't have fe
ip is something that only his people can have. You can't have fellowship anywhere else. It's only in the church. It's only because of
he has done. And it is a tremendous blessing. The blessing of fellowship is what Paul describes in Romans chapter one. When he says th
office. Let's go. But there is nothing in this world like the fellowship of the church. Your love for the Lord is such an encouragemen
so they continue to come together to learn, but then also for fellowship . And then they did a third thing. It says there, they. Contin
re, they. Continued steadfastly in the apostles, doctrine and fellowship , and also in the breaking of bread. So you're like, well, I'm
together notice and had all things in common. So there's that fellowship word again. And they even, they even went so far, they sold t
r, we worship. We come for instruction from the scripture. We fellowship and we encourage one another. And we evangelize. People come
just going to list off a couple of things. Encouragement and fellowship . We need to be with each other. In 1:12, Paul writes this, th
l see people praying with each other, caring for one another, fellowshipping with one another. See, our gathering time isn't restricted to
hurch, to reach people with the gospel, to gather together in fellowship and care and growing in God's word. And so today, we're going
it says. That's being very kind. They're having some intense fellowship here. They're arguing, right? They're bickering between one a
courage one another. That's why it's important to be here and fellowship and grow in relationships. Right? We need a relationship with
way. It says, It's when we grow in God's word and grow in his fellowship and the gathering of God's people together becomes more impor
ans it's a noun version. The noun version of contribute means fellowship . And who is he? What are the needs we're meeting? If the sain
eaning a pretend or an. Acting Warren Wiersbe says, Christian fellowship is much more than a pat on the back and a handshake. So to be
says if we walk in the light as he is in the light we'll have fellowship one with the other. There's scriptures all about dark and nig
y, look as I look, always do as I do, then and only then I'll fellowship with you. Shame on the church today. And I'm preaching at mys
. Matter of fact, after lunch today, it's going to be intense fellowship trying to figure out where we're going to have dinner togethe
art, knocking, saying, I want to, please let me in. I want to fellowship with you. Bible says that if you will confess with your mouth
you'll be saved. And that salvation, that being born again is fellowship with God. It's a restoration with your heavenly father. It's
Look as I look. Do always as I do. Then and only then will I fellowship with you. So often that becomes true of so many of us in the
ghty preachers of the gospel. Early in their ministries, they fellowshiped and even exchanged pulpits. Then they had a disagreement and
e are not being loving. If you invite someone over to, to, to fellowship with them and they're recovering alcoholic and you pour a gla
ome of the ways we can describe it, it's like community, it's fellowship , it's this idea of participation. Not just active, but active
e you have something loosely in common with, but this is this fellowship that believers have with one another. It's a bond. 1 John cha
and heard, we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us. And indeed, our fellowship is with you. Our fellowsh
so that you too may have fellowship with us. And indeed, our fellowship is with you. Our fellowship is with the Father and with his S
llowship with us. And indeed, our fellowship is with you. Our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. This is th
ist. This is the word koinonia. It's used right here. So it's fellowship with believers, one believer to another. But even more than t
, one believer to another. But even more than that, it's also fellowship , participation, being connected to the Lord in heaven, the Fa
ord for this that we're going to use throughout the sermon is fellowship . I said it's fellowship. It's more than a community, more tha
going to use throughout the sermon is fellowship. I said it's fellowship . It's more than a community, more than a partnership. It's mo
together. I think Christians sometimes throw around the word fellowship . We're like, oh, Lord, bless our fellowship as we're just lik
w around the word fellowship. We're like, oh, Lord, bless our fellowship as we're just like hanging out together. And there's an aspec
's a couple of things I want to point out. The nature of this fellowship in Romans chapter 16, if we tie it all together in the first
it all together in the first 16 verses here. We see that this fellowship that believers have with one another and also with the Lord i
loved, the ones he loves so dearly. We also see the nature of fellowship and that it's made up of ordinary people. The letter of Roman
ryday Christians. And the third thing that we see about their fellowship with one another is that there was a shared, important gospel
st pictures that I think of this and what this koinonia, this fellowship looks like is student camp as a student pastor. One of my fav
you've seen the need and also a picture of the nature of our fellowship here, but there's a couple of results of being in fellowship
fellowship here, but there's a couple of results of being in fellowship that we see in the following verses. Let's pick it up in vers
ome soon. They all are going to be crushed. So the results of fellowship , what do we see here? I think as we look at this, as we put t
is, as we put this in tandem with the first couple of verses, fellowship , this koinonia that believers have with one another, fellowsh
llowship, this koinonia that believers have with one another, fellowship looks like guarding one another against fellowship. False tea
e another, fellowship looks like guarding one another against fellowship . False teaching. Having one another's backs. Knowing what the
true, solid, biblical teaching here? But the other result of fellowship here is preserving this unity and obedience and holiness. The
hrough Jesus Christ. Amen. To wrap this up, the source of our fellowship , the reason we can have this connection, this bond with one a

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