Communion

Communion is fellowship, intercourse between two or more people. It is an interchange of transactions. It is a state of giving and receiving; an agreement. It is a union of the truth and accomplishment of peace, the result being the sound of sweet harmony.

The work that Christ has finished, which has made us partakers of life and fellowship with God, is a perfect and complete work. The Holy Spirit dwells in us as the Witness to us personally that God is completely satisfied with you and me in His Son. He is the Spirit of peace and joy, a Witness of all that Christ is and has done. He is the Witness of the Father's acceptance of both who Christ is and what He has finished about me and you, and about you and me in Christ.

Loving chastisement from God takes place when the peace and joy that is ours in Christ, is interrupted through sin and failure. The Holy Spirit, the Witness of who we are in Christ, is the only One who can convict (convince) us, and judge sin in us, without judging us for it. He is the Witness of what Christ accomplished on the Cross for you and me. And that is why He is called the Comforter by Jesus Himself. It grieves the Holy Spirit when He is interrupted from revealing to us Who Christ is in us, and who we are in Him.

The Holy Spirit, the Witness of Christ and us, knows that communion with God and His knowledge of Christ His Son is a matter of exceeding joy. That experience of knowing Him and enjoying Him as God. There is a depth in it which in the fellowship of peace and communion is the result of all questions of sin being dealt with.

We can be so thankful to God for the two Witnesses and the two Comforters that He has given us. Christ in heaven, at the Father's right hand, interceding for us, and the Holy Spirit in us, interceding in us and for us with a groaning beyond the communication of words.

Jhn. 14:16-17, 26; 15:26; 16:7-8,13; Rom. 8:26,34; Heb. 7:25; 9:24; Eph. 4:20-31.