Fellowship

      The essence of the  life in yahushua ,continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the emissaries called into the fellowship of His Son, יהושע  Messiah our Master. taking part in this service to the set-apart ones. for it is Elohim who is working in you both to desire and to work for His good pleasure. and to make all see how this secret is administered, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, so that you know what is the expectation of His calling, and what are the riches of the esteem of His inheritance in the set-apart ones "And blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear, For You Yourself light my lamp; יהוה  my Elohim makes my darkness light. to administer at the completion of time, to gather together in one all in Messiah, both which are in the heavens and which are on earth, in Him, And to Him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of יהושע  Messiah, according to the revelation of the secret which was kept silent since times of old, for your fellowship in the Good News from the first day until now, Because of this I say to you, whatever you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.  "And whenever you stand praying, if you hold whatever against anyone, forgive, so that your Father in the heavens shall also forgive you your trespasses. And let him who is instructed in the Word share in all that is good, with him who is instructing. continuing steadfastly in the teaching of the emissaries, and in the fellowship, and in the breaking of bread, and in the prayers. If, then, there is any encouragement in Messiah, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of Spirit, if any affection and compassion,   make my joy complete by being of the same mind, having the same love, one in being and of purpose,  doing none at all through selfishness or self-conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.  Each one should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.  For, let this mind be in you which was also in Messiah יהושע,  who, being in the form of Elohim, did not regard equality with Elohim a matter to be grasped,  but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, and came to be in the likeness of men.   And having been found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, death even of a stake.  Elohim, therefore, has highly exalted Him and given Him the Name which is above every name,   that at the Name of יהושע  every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,   and every tongue should confess that יהושע  Messiah is Master, to the esteem of Elohim the Father.  to know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, to know the love of Messiah which surpasses knowledge, in order that you might be filled to all the completeness of Elohim. So you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to Elohim in Messiah יהושע  our Master.  Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, to obey it in its desires, For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, through the Torah, were working in our members to bear fruit to death. For we know that the Torah is Spiritual, but I am fleshly, sold under sin.  For what I work, I know not. For what I wish, that I do not practise, but what I hate, that I do.   But if I do what I do not wish, I agree with the Torah that it is good.   And now, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me.  For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to work the good I do not find.  For the good that I wish to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not wish to do, this I practise.   And if I do that which I do not wish, it is no longer I who work it, but the sin dwelling in me.   I find therefore this law, that when I wish to do the good, that the evil is present with me.   For I delight in the Torah of Elohim according to the inward man,   but I see another law in my members, battling against the Torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.   Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death?  For we are fellow workers of Elohim, you are the field of Elohim, the building of Elohim. For Elohim, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," is the One who has shone in our hearts for the enlightening of the knowledge of the esteem of Elohim in the face of יהושע  Messiah. For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Messiah יהושע  the Master, and ourselves your servants for the sake of יהושע. Therefore, having this service, even as we received compassion, we do not lose heart,   but have renounced the secret ways of shame, not walking in craftiness nor falsifying the Word of Elohim, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves to every human conscience, in the sight of Elohim.  And indeed, if our Good News has been veiled, it has been veiled in those who are perishing, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience,   among whom also we all once lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.  Because we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against authorities, against the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual matters of wickedness in the  heavenlies. For what I work, I know not. For what I wish, that I do not practise, but what I hate, that I do.  But if I do what I do not wish, I agree with the Torah that it is good.   And now, it is no longer I that work it, but the sin dwelling in me.   For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwells no good. For to wish is present with me, but to work the good I do not find.  For the good that I wish to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not wish to do, this I practise.   And if I do that which I do not wish, it is no longer I who work it, but the sin dwelling in me.   I find therefore this law, that when I wish to do the good, that the evil is present with me.   For I delight in the Torah of Elohim according to the inward man,  but I see another law in my members, battling against the Torah of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. And the sting of death is the sin, and the power of the sin is the Torah.  Wretched man that I am! Who shall deliver me from this body of death?   Thanks to  Elohim,  through יהושע  Messiah our Master! So then, with the mind I myself truly serve the Torah of Elohim, but with the flesh the law of sin.  Because of this, take up the complete armour of Elohim, so that you have power to withstand in the wicked day, and having done all, to stand. Stand, then, having girded your waist with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,   and having fitted your feet with the preparation of the Good News of peace;   above all, having taken up the shield of belief with which you shall have power to quench all the burning arrows of the wicked one.  Take also the helmet of deliverance, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim,   praying at all times, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones; far above all rule and authority and power and mastery, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.  in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.  For this corruptible has to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality.  And when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall come to be the word that has been written, "Death is swallowed up in overcoming."  Because the Master Himself shall come down from heaven with a shout, with the voice of a chief messenger, and with the trumpet of Elohim, and the dead in Messiah shall rise first.   Then we, the living who are left over, shall be caught away together with them in the clouds to meet the Master in the air - and so we shall always be with the Master. And He put all under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all, to the assembly, For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor messengers nor principalities nor powers, neither the present nor the future, nor height nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of Elohim which is in Messiah יהושע  our Master. As it has been written, "He scattered abroad, He gave to the poor, His righteousness remains forever."   And He who supplies seed to the sower, and bread for food, shall supply and increase the seed you have sown and increase the fruit of your righteousness,   being enriched in every way for all simplicity, which works out thanksgiving to Elohim through us.   Because the rendering of this service not only supplies the needs of the set-apart ones, but also is overflowing through many thanksgivings to Elohim.  Through the proof of this service, they esteem Elohim on the submission of your confession to the Good News of Messiah, and generosity in sharing with them and all men,   and by their prayer for you, who long for you because of the exceeding favour of Elohim in you.

Belief

Love

Thanks also to Elohim for His unspeakable gift!