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also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is

social intercourse-it means acquaintance, friendship, communion of spirit, interchange of thought and feeling.

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t now try to exhaust all the wonderful things in the vision which has come to me in relation to this matter, for I really

. There had to be a co-operation, a uniting of God and myself before my soul could be saved at all. Two words were in my mind-'He' and 'I'; He doing His part, and I doing my part. His heart; my

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, our relationship has been built up, and is to be built up, upon that double plank. It is all in that. I do not suppose there is anybody in this Hall who does not know something of the pow

very close together. I think about the children. I go back to the time when they were little, and remember how they would climb upon my knee, and how they used to press their little faces against mine, and their little he

ding to my appeals, and by sharing my sorrows and joys. And I have no doubt that were she here to speak for herself, she would say

llowship of love is just as real between the Lord Jesus Christ and the

rs together with God, not simply going out on 'our own', as you young people say sometimes, trying to do people good;

service without a union of purpose. Are you in for that? Perhaps it may give my words a closer application if I glance at two or three references: 'For this purpose was the

t bear witness of the truth'. Are you in union with Him in t

a very powerful little link-'even so send I you'. There is not onl

en to be carried, or something to be moved, then you can go in for a good pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together. But this fellowship with Christ really means having Jesus Christ as a yoke-f

imself. There was no other way, and if He had not done that man would not have been redeemed, and the whole world would have remained under t

r Christ's sake; his name was Paul. During a visit to Rome they showed me the place where this was supposed to have occurred. There is Paul, in t

ess, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ.... That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His suffer

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many crowns of glory. But the blessedness of that knowledge is the fact that if we suffer with Christ we are also to reign with Him-glorified together-not only workers and victors, but 'more than conquerors'. We are to sit down among that company

e are the things which we share with our Lord,

we have heard of Him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we