True Fellowship

…… therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.  (1Jn 3:1)

Fellowship, as defined in Scripture differs from the world’s perspective. It signifies communion, a giving and receiving in the realm of the spirit. It is union to the God-head through Jesus Christ and partaking of the supernatural life, not sharing any form of human commonality. For us it requires death of the soulish and the fleshly to trod down this road of fellowship with the Father and with the Son (1Jn 1:3). The cost is high and pure, not to be cheapened by compounding it with filth of flesh and spirit (2 Cor 7:1).

Are we known of God or known by the world? The ‘know’ that the apostle stated is whether there has been a perception, understanding, recognizing through personal experience. How can we who have a personal experience with Jesus Christ bear ourselves to the world that rejects His sovereign Lordship? ‘Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?’ (Jas 4:4). Never take fellowshipping as a casual Christian activity wasted over conversations that doesn’t edify nor glorify God. It has to be spirit communicating with spirit, resulting in growing in greater Christ likeness, lesser of self and loving the brethren at the level of daily mundane life in the most practical manner. It begins in the realm of the spirit and worked out in the physical, never the other way around.