What A Fellowship

And now, the yearly fellowships of God’s people from around the world became meaningful for all.

III. This yearly fellowship was not only important to people, it appears important to God.

A. Beloved when Jesus was born and became of age, they took him to the Passover – the fellowship where Jesus showed his Godliness and superiority of the Word to the priest.

B. It was a fellowship (called a wedding party) where Jesus changed a worldly gathering into a momentous moment turning water into wine.It was a fellowship (called a post-burial) where Jesus raised Lazarus from the

dead.

C. It was a fellowship (what we call discipleship) where Jesus trained his disciples.

D. It was a Passover – fellowship where Jesus said, “Take drink, this is my blood which was shed for you. And “Take eat, this is my body which was broken for you”

E. It was a fellowship of believers, family, Roman soldiers, unbelievers, and scoffers which Jesus gave his life on a cross, in order to make atonement for the believers, family, Roman soldiers, unbelievers, and scoffers of then… and today.

F. It was the Passover – fellowship where the Disciples were gathered in the upper room and the Holy Spirit fell upon them and they spoke in tongues,

G. And as a result of this “prayer fellowship” Peter preached and 4000 people from around the world, their lives were forever transformed.

IV. Many us today know so well…that fellowship was sacred to our parents and grandparents. They planned and prepared for it.

A. When many of us were children, our parents led us to put on best clothes and our best shoes, because we were not just going to any old gathering. We were going to the house of God. We were going to church fellowship.

B. And church fellowship for the southern Black person and the traditional northern African American had many of characteristics that this early church had. For many of the families with children, we would share clothes for the little ones who were younger than ours. In my church Sis. Long and Sis. Lockett and sometimes Sis. Georgia would cook a chicken dinner with greens and rice… and would sell it for $5 a plate. If the truth be known, they really didn’t make a profit…because they spent more on purchasing the ingredients and using the gas and electricity than the pulled in as profit. And of course, all that they didn’t sell… they gave away. This was the church fellowship. The fellowship that Jesus started through his disciples.

You had nothing to worry about; among the fellowship was miraculous security.

You created a custom of values for your children; because fellowship was sacrificial and meaningful.

V. Conclusion: Fellowship is Communing with God

Fellowship now is important to God, and evenmore important to believers, not as commandment, but because it is a momentous memory of the Jesus and the Disciples’ fellowship in the upper-room before Jesus was to offer his life as atonement for all of humanity’s past and present sin; and in putting humanity back into right relationship with God. At this fellowship Jesus washed the disciples’ feet and said,