ABOUT EMERALD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP
Emerald Christian Fellowship is part of a broader movement, entitled Restoration Fellowship’s International (RFI). RFI is made up of many Christians across Australia and abroad who have joined in one heart to pray and believe for the restoration of the body of Christ, as is prophesied in the book of Revelation.
DAILY DEVOTIONS
Branches on the Vine
The life of our sonship is from the Father. It is in Christ, who is the immortal Head of His corporate body. Col 1:18. He is the Root of the Vine, and we are the mortal branches of the Vine on the Earth. Joh 15:5. We are manifesting the fruit of sonship now, on Earth, as we reveal Christ by doing the works that belong to our sanctification, which He has already finished for us.
Our name and works as a son of God, which Christ has accomplished for us through His offering, are now in Christ, the Root of the Vine. Col 3:3. When we are born again, the Father places us in Christ, where we are the branches of the Vine. The life that belongs to our name, which is found in the Root, is ministered to us by Christ, through the Holy Spirit. By this means, we are enabled, in our mortality, to do the works that belong to our sonship as branches on the Vine. We are living a justified life as a righteous, blameless branch. Isa 60:21.
It is important to acknowledge that new birth is accomplished within a hearer only by the Holy Spirit. As we have already observed, the disciples of Christ were born from above when He said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’ Joh 20:22. This is the first work of the Holy Spirit when He comes into our identity. He also brings with Him the fellowship of the Father and the Son. 1Jn 1:1-3. Once we are born of God by the Spirit, the Father then joins us to Christ and to His offering so that the work of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit can be accomplished in our life. Tit 3:4-5.
The parable of the seed and the grounds teaches us that unless we are joined to a process through which the ground of our heart as sons of men is changed, the seed of the divine nature can die. Mar 4:1-9. That is, our sonship can be lost.
JOHN 15
Col 1:18
And He is the Head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Joh 15:5
I am the Vine; you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
Col 3:3
For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Isa 60:21
Also your people shall all be righteous; they shall inherit the land forever, the branch of My planting, the work of My hands, that I may be glorified.
Joh 20:22
And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit.’
1Jn 1:1-3
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life— the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us— that which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
Tit 3:4-5
But when the kindness and the love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit.
Mar 4:1-9
And again He began to teach by the sea. And a great multitude was gathered to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat in it on the sea; and the whole multitude was on the land facing the sea. Then He taught them many things by parables, and said to them in His teaching: ‘Listen! Behold, a sower went out to sow. And it happened, as he sowed, that some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds of the air came and devoured it. Some fell on stony ground, where it did not have much earth; and immediately it sprang up because it had no depth of earth. But when the sun was up it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away. And some seed fell among thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked it, and it yielded no crop. But other seed fell on good ground and yielded a crop that sprang up, increased and produced: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.’ And He said to them, ‘He who has ears to hear, let him hear!’
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