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KNOWING CHRIST IS TO FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4
1 John 1:1-7
Matthew 16:13-17
 
“Thou art the Christ,
the Son of the living God.”
 
KNOWING CHRIST IS TO FELLOWSHIP WITH HIM
 
To know Christ is to fellowship with Him. Jesus Christ is God and the text introduces Him by ascribing to Him divine attributes. He was in eternity past and was there in the beginning, i.e. at the time of creation. There was none other except God at that beginning. John also described His human attributes. He heard Him speaking and saw Him with his physical eyes and touched Him with his hands. Jesus is called “the Word of life” (1 John 1:1). This is to say that God came down in human form.
 
The Apostle clearly expressed the doctrine of the person of Jesus Christ. John was an eyewitness of all the things that were manifested in Jesus Christ. He is the eternal God because He was with the Father. The debate about the person of Jesus Christ began at the time of John.
 
The statement about the person of Jesus was finally made in the Council of Nicea in AD 325, and became a creed of the Church. The statement asserted that Christ was one person with two natures: the divine nature and the human nature. The Gospels speak of His life and work from the time of His birth to His ascension into heaven. John summed up all these to show that as disciples of Christ they knew much about Christ in the flesh.
 
The Apostle said that they were declaring the things that they had heard and seen so that those who heard their words had fellowship with them. Christian fellowship, unlike earthly friendship, is the coming together in mutual faith and sharing the blessings of Christ. It is one of the foundational practices of the early church.
 
The knowledge that the disciples had of Christ brought them together so that they defended the truth of the person of Jesus Christ. They embraced Him as their Lord and Saviour.
 
THOUGHT: Jesus Christ is God and He will for ever be God.
PRAYER: May Jesus Christ receive all glory and honour!

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