A couple of years ago I perceived that who I am I have always been in Christ. I always was and always am, but in Him. He has redeemed me or bought me back because before I was and in Him I am. Lately, as I have been meeting other believers I have noticed something. There is something like a depth of familiarity with the individual. For some, it is as if I have know them a few thousand years ago. I would even say longer. Not joking. For others, it is still in the thousands, but not so many. I have come to realize thanks to discipleship and revelation that the depth of koninia1 or fellowship is directly related to the doctrine shared.
Sound doctrine is a must for His true fellowship. 1 John 1:1-10; Rom. 6:17; 1 Tim. 1:3, 10; 1 Tim. 4:16; 1 Tim. 6:3.
1 John 1:5, “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”
1 Thess. 2:8 (YNG), “so being desirous of you, we are well-pleased to impart to you not only the good news of God, but also our own souls, because beloved ye have become to us”
Apostles and prophets osmotically impart sound doctrine to the Church by revelation, truth and spirit. Believers impart and share sound doctrine and God causes the increase by grace and revelation.
In 1 John 1:1-5, the apostle John speaks of fellowship with Christ and the Father. Paul speaks of Christ IN you, Gal. 1:16; Col. 1:27.
1 John 1:6 says, “If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:” We cannot walk and live in another doctrine or gospel and have true koninia fellowship.
1 John 1:7 says, “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanses us from all sin.”
Col. 2:2 says, “That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;”
“Being knit together in love” in the Greek is passive voice. It means an external or internal influence in each individual and as a group is passively causing the Body of Christ to coalesce or unite, merge or fuse together in agapeo love by revelation of Him in them according to sound doctrine and grace.
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