Fragment: Fellowship With Himself

From: The Christian Shepherd: 2004 By: John Nelson Darby

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“Truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ” (1 John 1:3³That 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. (1 John 1:3)).

The great purpose of God in all His dealings in grace is to bring us and to bring us individually, too into fellowship with Himself. “Truly our fellowship is with the Father. ” Thus we have the full knowledge of God as far as it can be known, and that in full communion with Himself. It is not in the way of creation; that is, not merely as creatures, for we are made partakers of the Holy Spirit that there may be power. “We dwell in Him, and He in us.” There cannot be anything more intimate.

J. N. Darby (from Lectures on First John)

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