Don't Be a Stupid Baby Part 2

Continuing with the stupid baby analogy another time when Bobby cries is when he has a dirty diaper. This is a good illustration for our fellowship with Christ we to can get dirty with sin, and hinder our fellowship. But you ask how does a believer made righteous by Christ, and actually having Christ righteousness (2 Cor. 5:21) ever sever fellowship with God? The answer is that Positionally you are always in Christ, always righteous, always seated in the heavenlies etc, but practically you are every moment yielding to one of two positions that of being IN Christ or in the flesh. IN Christ whats true of Jesus is true of you, in the flesh whats true of the man in Romans 3 is true of you, and you can’t please God.

In Christ we have perfect fellowship with the Father just like Jesus has (John 10:30). However in the flesh we have no fellowship with God because we have entered into an adulterous relationship with another lover. Imagine that you called your spouse from another lovers house and said “I would like to have fellowship with you spouse.” Now most likely the other spouse will look at the caller id, and start swearing, or hangup. But assuming that they are forgiving as God is forgiving, and long for a relationship with you as God longs for a relationship with you they are still not going to just say, “ok, lets fellowship.”

There is still the small matter that you are abiding or in the position of the adulterous lover’s house (the flesh). So the spouse will say, “we can have fellowship if you choose to break this adulterous relationship, and ask forgiveness.” Then and only then can the spouses have fellowship, and abide in the same house (IN Christ). So that brings us back to Bobby not being a stupid baby he will not allow himself to remain in a position of filth, but inevitably will takes the steps of action to be clean. God to has given us the means to maintain unbroken fellowship with Him. 1 John 1:7-9 says, But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

These verses outline two steps for unbroken fellowship number one in verse seven is a willful decision to walk in the light, or in another words abide(live) in the same house with my true lover Christ the Light. Number two in verse nine should I find myself in the arms of another (the flesh) I will immediately confess my sin, and receive the restoration of fellowship from God. Don’t be a stupid baby and ask for help if you get dirty.