IF GOD HAS NOT, PLEASE DON’T
Don’t write him off!
Don’t write her off!
Please don’t make the mistake of writing off that child of God on the account of wrong living!
He/She may have lost FELLOWSHIP with God, but He or She never lost RELATIONSHIP with GOD!
Let me make this very clear:
Scripturally there is a distinct difference between RELATIONSHIP and FELLOWSHIP.
In lights of scriptures, RELATIONSHIP with GOD is on the premise of FAMILY.
Hence it is governed by three critical parameters:
BLOOD
ADOPTION
MARRIAGE
Every Child of God fits into all three!!!
1. Redemption and Justification by the blood of Jesus Christ! (…Born again) Col 1:14, Roms 4: 24-25, 2 Cor 5:17
2. Adopted into the Family of God(…Whereby we all cry ABBA, FATHER) Roms 8:15, Gal 4:6
3. The Church (…Married to CHRIST). Eph 5:23
If a man (gender insensitive) is BORN OF GOD, please hear me; it scripturally implies that GOD has enacted an eternal RELATIONSHIP with that man.
IT is called FATHER – SON RELATIONSHIP.
GOD HAS BECOME FATHER BEYOND A CREATOR TO SUCH MAN!!!
Now, that simply explains RELATIONSHIP with GOD!!!!
Alright, how about FELLOWSHIP as it relates to God?
This is from the transliteration of a Greek word called Koinonia.
Fellowship simply speaks of communion with God.
It is the state of being with GOD.
It speaks of intercourse…as you find in companionship.(walking with God)
FELLOWSHIP produces RIGHT LIVING.
Fellowship is mainly predicated on the corridors of studying God’s word and prayers.
Thus, FELLOWSHIP does not precede RELATIONSHIP, it is rather a bye product of RELATIONSHIP.
Fellowship could be truncated by unhealthy factors, but RELATIONSHIP with GOD stands on the very premise of a FATHER and His Child! (FAMILY)!
Now, you catch the picture!
So here is the point:
It is never in the power of any man to write off any believer!
The power of the Relationship GOD has with us his children, is potent enough to accommodate the restoration of a truncated/lost Fellowship!
The prodigality of the prodigal son didn’t make him any less a Son to HIS FATHER!
He lost FELLOWSHIP, but never lost RELATIONSHIP!
It was RELATIONSHIP that kept the Father of the prodigal son up every morning in anticipation of His Son’s return.
If there is a RELATIONSHIP with GOD in the first place, there’s still hope for a restoration!!!
We still have AN ADVOCATE in Heaven.
Don’t write him/her off!
The Good Shepherd still rejoices in seeking and finding his lost sheep over the 99 already with him.
THIS IS THE POWER OF RELATIONSHIP!!!
