Comunhão com Deus
A comunhão com Deus é o propósito supremo da existência humana. Fomos criados para viver em intimidade com o Criador — e em Cristo, esse acesso é plenamente restaurado.
Em comunhão com Deus
Deus é fiel, pelo qual fostes chamados à comunhão de seu Filho. A comunhão com Deus é dom da graça e fruto da redenção.
God is to be trusted, the God who called you to have fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Surely you know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you!
Christ is like a single body, which has many parts; it is still one body, even though it is made up of different parts.
How can God’s temple come to terms with pagan idols? For we are the temple of the living God! As God himself has said,
"I will make my home with my people
and live among them;
I will be their God,
and they shall be my people."
Anyone who is joined to Christ is a new being; the old is gone, the new has come. All this is done by God, who through Christ changed us from enemies into his friends and gave us the task of making others his friends also. Our message is that God was making all human beings his friends through Christ. God did not keep an account of their sins, and he has given us the message which tells how he makes them his friends.
Presença divina
Eis que estou à porta e bato. O Senhor fez sua morada entre nós — e toda a criação é convidada à comunhão eterna.
Listen! I stand at the door and knock; if any hear my voice and open the door, I will come into their house and eat with them, and they will eat with me.
I heard a loud voice speaking from the throne: "Now God’s home is with people! He will live with them, and they shall be his people. God himself will be with them, and he will be their God.
I will live among the people of Israel, and I will be their God.
For where two or three come together in my name, I am there with them."
"I pray not only for them, but also for those who believe in me because of their message. I pray that they may all be one. Father! May they be in us, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they be one, so that the world will believe that you sent me. I gave them the same glory you gave me, so that they may be one, just as you and I are one: I in them and you in me, so that they may be completely one, in order that the world may know that you sent me and that you love them as you love me.
Viver na comunhão
Quem permanece nele e ele no Senhor, esse dá muito fruto. A comunhão com Deus produz transformação e alegria.
Those who obey God’s commands live in union with God and God lives in union with them. And because of the Spirit that God has given us we know that God lives in union with us.
We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we know the true God. We live in union with the true God—in union with his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and this is eternal life.
We are sure that we live in union with God and that he lives in union with us, because he has given us his Spirit.
Dear friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.
What we have seen and heard we announce to you also, so that you will join with us in the fellowship that we have with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
Yes, my children, remain in union with him, so that when he appears we may be full of courage and need not hide in shame from him on the Day he comes.
Now that we have been put right with God through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. He has brought us by faith into this experience of God’s grace, in which we now live. And so we boast of the hope we have of sharing God’s glory!
So let us come near to God with a sincere heart and a sure faith, with hearts that have been purified from a guilty conscience and with bodies washed with clean water.
So then, submit yourselves to God. Resist the Devil, and he will run away from you. Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners! Purify your hearts, you hypocrites!