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Lord Jesus, we say it with our simple words once more that you're all we have that counts for anything in eternity.

Everything else is for your glory.

Everything else is from you.

Everything else is through you.

And therefore we say it again, use our lives in any way you choose,

especially. our lives now to cause each other to cause each other to persevere. Make us a

means of each other's eternal salvation, I pray.

Help us to feel the weight of this

and know that you will lift this burden and use us in it.

I ask this in Jesus,

name, amen. So the topic assigned to me in this series on perseverance is Christian Fellowship as a means of perseverance.

So let's begin with the definition

of Christian Fellowship.

In the New Testament, Koynonia signifies having a share in something or having a share with someone in something, or you could use the word

participation in something, participation with someone in something, for example, 1st Corinthians 1016, the cup of blessing that we bless,

is it not a fellowship, a participation in the blood of Christ, the bread that we break is it not a fellowship or a

participation in the body of Christ? In other words when we drink the cup and

eat the bread, we share in the achievements of the slain body and

spilled blood of Jesus, we share in it. Or example number two, 2, 2 Corinthians 84, they begged us

earnestly for the grace and the sharing or the participation in the ministry to the Saints.

In other words, they desperately wanted

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