Biblical Concept: Fellowship with
God in the Angelic Conflict.
Vocabulary: Koinoneo - To have in common, share. Koinonia - Fellowship, partnership,
communion. Related terms: Abide, abode,
walk, dwell, indwelling, partake, bound, fill, and filling.
Observations,
Conclusions, and Applications:
Fellowshipping with God in the Angelic
Conflict
is the reason you exist. Successful
fellowship with God in the Angelic Conflict can only occur
according to God’s standards and
interests. On the one hand, God
supplies the practical details for human life - NAS Matthew 6:31 "Do not
be anxious then, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or
'With what shall we clothe ourselves?' 32 "For all these things the
Gentiles eagerly seek; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these
things. 33 "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness; and all
these things shall be added to you.”
But, on the other hand, the practical details of life are mundane compared to God’s spiritual interests in the Angelic Conflict. Do not
neglect why you were created and the higher call of fellowship with the God of
the Bible - NAS Colossians 3:1 If then you have been raised up with Christ,
keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of
God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things that are on earth.
3 For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ,
who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.
5 Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality,
impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.” Fellowshipping with God according to His greater spiritual interests is the
manner in which you will be spiritually
successful and spiritually happy -
NAS Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And
the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts
and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever
is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever
is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise,
let your mind dwell on these things. 9 The things you have learned and received
and heard and seen in me, practice these things; and the God of peace shall be
with you.” The following Bible passages
comment on fellowshipping with God in the Angelic
Conflict. Learn and live them, to be spiritually successful and spiritually happy in this earthly life.
(The underlines and
explanatory parentheses are mine.)
NAS Hebrews 2:14
Since then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise
also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless
him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; (The humility of God
fellowshipped with humanity to win the Angelic
Conflict.)
NAS 1
Corinthians 1:9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus
Christ our Lord. (Faith in Christ = positional
fellowship with God = victory in the Angelic
Conflict. Contrast Mark 4:15.)
NAS 1 John 4:15
Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. (Faith in Christ = positional
fellowship with God = victory in the Angelic Conflict. Contrast 2 Corinthians 4:3-4.)
NAS 2
Corinthians 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and
the fellowship
of the Holy Spirit,
be with you all. (Christians can
fellowship with the Holy Spirit in this life.)
NAS Philippians
2:1 If therefore there is any encouragement in Christ,
if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, (Christians can fellowship with the Holy
Spirit in this life.)
NAS 1 John 1:3
what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, that you also may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and
with His Son Jesus Christ.
(Christians can fellowship with the Father and Son
in this life.)
NAS 1 John 1:6
If we say that we have fellowship with
Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the
truth; (Fellowship with God can only occur according to His standards.) (Compare Ephesians 5:11.)
NAS 1 John 1:7
but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and
the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. (Fellowship with God can
only occur according to His standards.)
NAS Philippians
3:10 that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings,
being conformed to His death; (Fellowship with Christ = suffering in the Angelic Conflict. You are in a war
zone!)
NAS 1 Peter 4:13
but to the degree that you share the sufferings of Christ, keep on
rejoicing; so that also at the revelation of His glory, you may rejoice with
exultation. (Fellowship with Christ =
suffering in the Angelic Conflict.
You are in a war zone!)
NAS Revelation
1:9 I, John, your brother and fellow partaker in the tribulation and
kingdom and perseverance which are in Jesus, was on the island called
NAS Philemon 1:6
and I pray that the fellowship
of your faith may become effective through the knowledge
of every good thing which is in you for Christ's sake. (Fellowship with God takes knowledge.)
NAS 1 John 2:24
As for you, let that abide in
you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the
beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. (Fellowship with God requires spiritual
consistency.)
NAS 1 John 2:27
And as for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you,
and you have no need for anyone to teach you; but as His anointing teaches you
about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you
abide in Him. (Spiritual
consistency = anointing = spiritual benefit.)
NAS 1 John 4:13
By this we know that we abide in
Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. (Abiding = knowing
= confidence
in the Angelic Conflict.)
NAS 2 John 1:9
Anyone who goes too far and does not abide
in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides
in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son. (Fellowship
with God requires Biblical spiritual accuracy
and consistency.)
NAS 1 John 4:12
No one has beheld God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is
perfected in us. (Fellowship with God
requires Biblical spiritual
consistency.)
NAS 1 John 4:16
And we have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God
is love, and the one who abides in
love abides in God, and God abides in him. (Fellowship with God requires Biblical spiritual consistency.)
NAS John 14:23
Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My
word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him, and make Our
abode with him. (Fellowship with God requires Biblical spiritual consistency.)
NAS Genesis 3:8
And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the
cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of
the LORD God among the trees of the garden. (Fellowship with God requires
Biblical spiritual standards.)
NAS Genesis 5:22
Then Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he became the
father of Methuselah, and he had other sons and daughters. 23 So all the
days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. 24 And Enoch walked
with God; and he was not, for God took him.
(Fellowship with God = blessing.)
NAS Genesis 6:9
These are the records of the generations of Noah. Noah was a
righteous man, blameless in his time; Noah walked with God.
(Fellowship with God requires spiritual standards and consistency.) (Fellowship
with God = blessing.)
NAS Matthew
11:28 "Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you
rest. 29 "Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle
and humble in heart; and YOU SHALL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. 30 "For My
yoke is easy, and My load is light." (Fellowship with God = blessing.)
NAS 1 John 3:24
And the one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him.
And we know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has
given us. (Abiding = knowing = confidence
in the Angelic Conflict.)
NAS Ephesians
3:17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that
you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all
the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to
know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be
filled up to all the fullness of God. (Fellowship with God takes
knowledge.)
NAS Colossians
2:6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 7
having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established
in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with
gratitude. (Fellowship with God requires Biblical spiritual consistency.)
NAS Revelation
21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, "Behold, the
tabernacle of God is among men, and He shall dwell among them, and they
shall be His people, and God
Himself shall be among them, (Fellowship with God = blessing.)
NAS Romans 8:4
in order that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do
not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. (Fellowship with God requires Biblical
spiritual consistency.)
NAS Romans 8:9
However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of
God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he
does not belong to Him. 10 And if Christ is in you, though the body is
dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. 11 But
if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He
who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies
through His Spirit who indwells you.
(Fellowship with God = blessing.)
NAS Galatians
5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there
is no law. 24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh
with its passions and desires. 25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk
by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become boastful, challenging one another,
envying one another. (Fellowship with
God requires Biblical spiritual consistency.)
NAS Ephesians
5:18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled
with the Spirit, 19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and
spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord; 20
always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to
God, even the Father; 21 and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ. (Fellowship with God requires Biblical
spiritual consistency.)
(Hyperlinked
from above.)
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