Four Levels of Relationship One Can Have with Christ (Part 2)

Hello and welcome to the second part of the teaching of four level of relationship one can have with Christ, if you missed the first post follow the link below to read the first part.

Four Levels of Relationship One Can Have with Christ (Part 1)

Now the next level of relationship we would be talking about is The Friend level of Relationship, relax and follow along, note to have a full understanding of this topic, do well to have read through part 1.

2. The Friend level of Relationship

John 15: 15, 16

15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

 Now this is a level that i find very interesting and this concept that i am about to explain, i hope won't confuse any of us. But i would like to define this level with a word: GRACE.I just finds there is a lot of grace attached to it.And we have to understand these levels and how they play in real life. You see, our God is a working God and he had to be able to do just that anywhere. So there are those kinds of principles, or ways in which he operates to be able to draw people from any area any background.I personally received God here in china. I was still a sinner, but God convicted me and spoke directly to my heart, here, in a denominational church, and i gave my life truly to the Lord. Then, God used those that he had placed around my life to share this message(malachi 4 vs 5) to me. But the presence i felt that day, the conviction, the power of God that made me weep upon myself, i felt it all in a denominational church. What am i trying to say? God has to work and God will work no matter where it is, he had ways and principles that he uses to be able to reach to people from all backgrounds, then he himself separates and draws HIGHER  to HIGHER levels of relationship. Now back to the friend level of relationship. 

    They are those with special GRACE. They have a relationship with God. He knows them and they know him but they are not SONS. They just have a special grace upon their lives and they are as friends. Those are much fewer in number. They are like Abraham, receiving so much without having done nothing but believe. God speaks to them, and reveals his mind to them to a certain level, their understanding of God's heart is deeper than the servant level people. They usually quite stand out among them. I believe this level is still seen among denominational people... their level of understanding of what the kingdom is all about is much greater and deeper than the average denominational. Their experiences too display an other level of Grace. But they can't seem to be able to break away from the mainstream,even though they do stand out among them. I personally have identified some myself that i can put into that category, preachers or individual, who really stand out in holiness, in revelation, in understanding of God's kingdom and in giftings too, from the average denominational.
            You know, i am here in china, and from the time i received this message, i have been sustained by the books and sermons posted online, and our small fellowship here between ourself... we don't have any pastor or minister, just the Lord, and because of that, the grace of God has manifested in different ways for us and for me personally. Because we are all parts of the body and we all have to find our places as members. So the Lord had to teach me personally what i am in the body, what i was made for, And in that process, it helped me to understand that concept of friend level of relationship.
              God would lead me to preachers who are not message believers, and tell me specific things i need to learn from them, that i needed to learn because it had a relationship with what i was made for... and in those things that i would learn from them, it is usually the thing that they focus on, and they were so peculiar in that, that even in the denomination circle they seemed different. Even in their ways, and understanding of God and they usually tend to not really love the concept of denominationalism. But they can't break from it really, because it is only this message that can take us out and truly in. But yes, they manifest that level of friend relationship. God uses them specially, with a true purpose.They seem to be vessels kept to help some from the denominational circle who cant see now but are elect, to be nourished to a more satisfying level.
They might be able to recognize the deception of the beast in the tribulation and at that time break away with those sleeping elects.
In real life, friends share thoughts, they share time, they love each other, they help each other and do not wish to loose each other. But even friendship can still be broken. And some can still fall from grace.

Then there is the  Sonship level of relationship, Our next blog post will focus on the sonship level of relationship. Check out for the part three of this teaching, until then stay blessed.


Note: This write up was taught by bro landry