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Lesson 8Lesson 8

BenefitsBenefits-enjoying the fruits of -enjoying the fruits of

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What is fellowship?What is fellowship?

Doctrinal ContextDoctrinal ContextEdifying NatureEdifying Nature

Ephesians 4:15Ephesians 4:15 … …speaking the truth in speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him in all aspects into Him who is the head, even who is the head, even Christ….Christ….

Titus 3:10-11 Titus 3:10-11 Reject a Reject a factious man after a first factious man after a first and second warning, and second warning, knowing that such a man knowing that such a man is perverted and is is perverted and is sinning, being self-sinning, being self-condemned.condemned.

2 John 1:10-11 2 John 1:10-11 If anyone If anyone comes to you and does not comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, receive him into your house, and do not give him a and do not give him a greeting; for the one who greeting; for the one who gives him a greeting gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds.participates in his evil deeds.

Ephesians 4:11-16 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ….

Ephesians 3:10 Ephesians 3:10 …so …so that the manifold that the manifold wisdom of God might wisdom of God might now be made known now be made known through the church ….through the church ….

Romans 1:21-23 Romans 1:21-23 For even For even though they knew God, they though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or did not honor Him as God or give thanks …and exchanged give thanks …and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form God for an image in the form of corruptible man….of corruptible man….

John 13:34-35 John 13:34-35 A new A new commandment I give to you, commandment I give to you, that you love one another, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By you also love one another. By this all men will know that you this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have are My disciples, if you have love for one another.love for one another.

John 17:22-23 John 17:22-23 The glory which The glory which You have given Me I have given You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me.You have loved Me.

1 Timothy 3:15 1 Timothy 3:15 I write so I write so that you will know how one that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which the household of God, which is the church of the living is the church of the living God, the pillar and support God, the pillar and support of the truth.of the truth.

 

1 John 3:18-20 1 John 3:18-20 Little children, Little children, let us not love with word or let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and with tongue, but in deed and truth. We will know by this truth. We will know by this that we are of the truth, and that we are of the truth, and will assure our heart before will assure our heart before Him in whatever our heart Him in whatever our heart condemns us….condemns us….