We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And this fellowship of ours is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us. Yes, and our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.that which we have seen and heard declare we unto you also, that ye also may have fellowship with us: yea, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ:
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… which was with the Father and was manifest to us. That which we have seen and heard, we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us, and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. That's a kingdom. The question is, are you in that kingdom? I hope, I trust you are, you're here on a Wednesday night. you're really committed. Or you somehow thought this was some other event taking place. But God has pinned your ears to his truth tonight. And then finally, it's this. The concept is universal to all mankind. God is king. He's got a kingdom. And he's coming back. Zechariah chapter 14, verse 9. I know I'm going quick, but you got the notes already. You can look at them later. Zechariah 14, verse 9. And the Lord shall be king over all the earth. Can you say amen to that? Don't you long for that? Well, what if the Democrats win? What if the Independents win? …
I gotta go from spectator to witness. First John 1.3 says it like this, we proclaim to you what we have seen and heard so that you also may have fellowship with us. John is writing this to a church and he's saying, hey, these things that we're telling you, we proclaim these things to you, that which we have seen and heard, that you may also have fellowship with us, that you may have joy in what we've experienced, and now I'm telling you about it. Your life may be the only Bible that somebody reads. This week. Your life may be the closest picture to Jesus that somebody sees this week. at your workplace. there's nobody coming to save your workplace. God has divinely put you there. As the resident pastor, RP, wear that badge with title. Nobody's coming to witness for me. As I spectate, that's just watching. But witnessing is saying, I'm gonna be a witness to what I've witnessed. I'm going to testify of the Lord's goodness. …
… four times John uses the word koinonia. Look at 1 John 1, verse 3. He's talking about Jesus here. And he says, We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship. There it is, koinonia. Fellowship with us. And our fellowship, our koinonia, there's the second time, is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete. Come down to verse 6. If we claim to have fellowship, there it is again, the third time, with Him, yet we walk in the darkness, we lie and we do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship, there it is, fourth time, koinonia, with one another. In the blood of Jesus, His Son purifies us from all sin. So we share in the body of Christ, the service of Christ, the Spirit of Christ, the Gospel of Christ, the sufferings of Christ, and finally, 1 John is telling us we share in the life of Christ. …
… and was manifested to us that which we have seen and heard we declare to you that you also may have fellowship with us. And truly our fellowship is with the Father and therefore with His Son, Jesus Christ. And these things we write to you that your joy may be full. This is the message. Someone say, this is the message. Which we have heard from the beginning and declare to you that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus Christ, his son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, whack, right? We deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, this is that believer's bar of soap I was telling you about. …