The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all.
2 Corinthians 13:14


The term “fellowship,” as used in the Scripture above means, “to participate in.”  The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit have been participating in a relationship, or fellowshipping, with each other throughout eternity.  The revelation that God desires to include man in this fellowship is alarming to the soul, because of the tendency to believe that God is against us.  The reality, though, is that we can and should experience the very same relationship that the Son has with the Father through the ministry of the Holy Spirit.  

Jesus, the Son of God; the Son of man; God incarnate, Who came in human flesh; is presently seated at the right hand of God the Father.  This is something that we have heard throughout our Christian lives.  Most of us, however, have never stopped to realize that Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father as a man.  Jesus, the God-man (fully God, fully human), Whom the Apostle Paul refers to as the second Adam, came to undo what the first Adam did when he broke mankind's relationship with his creator and plunged creation into a fallen state outside the realm of God's intent.  Through Jesus' death, burial, resurrection, and ascension  (as a man), those who have received Him are restored to that very same fellowship, communion, and relationship that the Father has with the Son, the Son with the Father, the Spirit with the Son, etc.

Jesus didn't come to bring us a new set of religious rules to live by; He came to give us life, the same life that the triune God shares within Himself.  He came to enable us to once again share in the relationship/fellowship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  We must understand that there is a man already sharing in that relationship.  That man is Jesus, and those that believe on Him are in union with Him, and therefore are in communion with the Father and Spirit as well. 1 Timothy 2:5 says that, “For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus”.  Jesus has included us in His relationship with the Father.    

This is true Christianity:  Life, not law; fellowship, not ritual.  God has called us to life in an eternal relationship with Him.  This life begins now by receiving eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.   When we do this, we are given the Holy Spirit, Who dwells within the human spirit.  As we learn to appreciate the Holy Spirit's presence within us and commune and fellowship with Him, we experience the very same relationship the Father, Son, and Spirit have with each other.  We experience the very same life that they share.  The phrase “eternal life” does not reference a period of time.  It references the quality of that life, and because of its quality, it never ends.

In the Garden of Eden, God desired Adam to eat of the tree of life so that Adam could share in God's kind of life.  Adam failed and experienced spiritual death instead.  God's life is once again offered through Jesus Christ and the indwelling Holy Spirit.  It is ours to receive.  It is offered to ALL mankind, not just a limited few, by grace.  We don't have to work for it - we believe, and it's ours.  From that life flows peace, joy, love, worth, value, safety, identity, inclusion, hope, purpose, comfort and more.
   
By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. 1 John 4:13

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.  1 John 4:15

And the testimony is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.  He who has the Son has the life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life.  These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.  1 John 5:11-13