{"id":4224,"date":"2014-01-30T14:22:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2014-01-30T14:22:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T14:22:19","slug":"sheila-p-old-sermon-on-fellowship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4224\/sheila-p-old-sermon-on-fellowship\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila P – Old Sermon on “Fellowship”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brother John,<\/span><\/p>\n

This old tape of your sermon on “Fellowship” is so good ! Even though we’ve heard it many times since 1992, it is really having a very good feeling to me today . \u00a0It reminds me of the feelings I got when reading your Father and Son book.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here are some of the things you preached on:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

‘What can we do for one another to attain to that sweetness, beauty of fellowship ? \u00a0To get there we have to have mercy. God taught me 3 things this morning: 1) mercy is not mercy unless it leads to fellowship in the light, 2) mercy is not mercy unless it promotes holiness . \u00a0If it doesn’t promote holiness , it’s phony, shallow, and ungodly, 3) mercy is not mercy unless it follows repentance . Mercy\u00a0before repentance is nothing but giving consent to sin. Repentance has to come first ! Jesus said,\u00a0 ‘If your brother offend you, rebuke him,\u00a0if he repents<\/b>, forgive him.’\u00a0 Mercy is not overlooking sin; it’s exposing it and getting rid of it so we can have fellowship with God and one another, and go on to perfection.’\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

‘The benefits of fellowship, which God opened up to my heart today, are so great that Jesus submitted to torture and humiliation\u00a0<\/em>just on the chance\u00a0somebody would take advantage of the opportunity for it.\u00a0 He suffered the cross, we are told, \u201cfor the joy that was set before him.\u201d\u00a0 The joy that was set before him was not his salvation; it was the hope of fellowship with us.\u00a0 He wanted to share with us the joy he felt in the presence of his Father!’\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

‘There is a permanent cure for slander.\u00a0 Now, tell me.\u00a0 Who could go to Jesus’ heart and sow a seed against anybody?\u00a0 He was living to get us to where he is, and when you live to get others to fellowship, nobody can turn you against them. When you experience the sweetness of the depth of the love of God, you are willing to \u201ccover a multitude of sin\u201d, and to suffer anything for others to feel it. Fellowship will cure whatever you don’t like about another person.\u00a0 Pray that we all grow into fellowship, and small things won’t bother you anymore.\u00a0 Everywhere there is a difference between us, a spirit of division can work if fellowship is not our goal.\u00a0 God gave me a cure for the spirit of strife.\u00a0 I saw a picture, as if that spirit of strife came to my house (my heart), knocking.\u00a0 But I sat still and let Jesus answer the door.\u00a0 He keeps strife out!\u00a0 Listen, a right spirit doesn’t just sees faults in others; what it sees is another opportunity to overcome an obstacle to fellowship!’<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

‘God is excited about the body of Christ growing in the knowledge and experiencing genuine fellowship in the light.\u00a0 Are we excited about that?\u00a0 Or has somebody down or said something you know is not right, and you have engraved it in your stony heart as a testimony against them?\u00a0 Jesus\u00a0died<\/b>\u00a0for us to have fellowship; can we not deal in a godly manner with a little bit or wrong until our brother gets it right?\u00a0 Where is <\/em>y<\/em>our love?’<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

‘God has relief for any soul that is sick and tired of sinning and then talking about it.\u00a0 Tell me about your errors, and I’ll tell you about the glory of God.’\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

‘God’s way of peace is for us just to rest in Him, just to sit back and let him answer the door when any spirit knocks, whether it be good or bad. \u00a0Our security lies in fellowship in the light, where there is complete faith in Him to direct our paths, to choose our friends, to choose even our family, and to be thankful.’\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Well, that’s one tape finished, looks like I have a second one that goes with it.\u00a0 I might try to keep it to myself but I can’t promise; it’s just so good!<\/span><\/p>\n

Sheila<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brother John, This old tape of your sermon on “Fellowship” is so good ! Even though we’ve heard it many times since 1992, it is really having a very good feeling to me today . \u00a0It reminds me of the feelings I got when reading your Father and Son book. Here are some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}