Fellowship With God! 2 Cor 13:12-14 Greet one

another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus

Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen.

Not only must we be in God’s family “sonship” but we must also be in God’s

favor “fellowship!”▪It will be our goal today to consider the

benefits of fellowship with God and how this will improve our lives!

▪As it is true that “we” are better together “team work!” It is even more so that we are better when we are walking with God in our lives!

▪God is the only one that can fill the void in our lives! “The whole in the soul of man!”

Walking with God!▪Gen 5:22-24 After he begot Methuselah,

Enoch walked with God three hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all the days of Enoch were three hundred and sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God; and he was not, for God took him.

▪Gen 6:8-9 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.

▪Are we walking with God?

I. Right Food!1 Pet 2:2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk

of the word, that you may grow thereby!▪What are we feeding on, and feasting on

in our lives? What is our main course of food?

▪1 Jn 1:6-7 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Living in the light, feasting on what is right!

▪Ps 1:1-2 Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.

▪Heb 5:14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil

II. Right Fun! Heb 11:24-26 By faith Moses, when he became of

age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with

the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he

looked to the reward.▪If sin was not fun, then nobody would do it,

but what we often fail to see is the damage it is doing to us beneath the surface!

▪We need to be careful to not become short sighted!

Being a Christian is fun!▪My friends, God did not save us to let us sit

and sour. He expects us to be an example to a lost and dying world of His love. Too many times, people don’t want what we have because they see no joy in our lives.

▪Php 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!

▪We have more reason that anyone else to live a life of joy and happiness!

▪We get to go through life with praise and peace, now that sounds fun!

III. Right Fellowship!We learn in God's word that fellowship is a HEART

issue, something to be felt and expressed!▪Act. 2:42 And they continued steadfastly in

the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.

▪Act. 2:44 Now all who believed were together, and had all things in common,

▪Act. 2:46 So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,

Being one with the Lord!▪Gal. 2:20 “I have been crucified with

Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.”

▪2 Cor 5:15 and He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.

▪We are to now live for Jesus!

Conclusion:▪Who are we walking with this morning?

Are we holding hands with Satan or the Savior?

▪What have we been feasting on, what do we do for fun, who is at the center of our heart this morning?

▪Have you joined the fellowship of God? Have you come to have your sins forgiven? Are you a Christian?

▪Let us learn to walk hand & hand with Jesus!