Fellowship with GOD. This class teaches who GOD is and how to have fellowship with GOD. It presents what the Bible says about the CREATOR of the heavens and the earth, His proper name "Yahweh," His Son Jesus, His gift of holy spirit, and why both GOD, the Father, and the lamb of GOD, Jesus Christ, are called "Lord." Through careful Bible study, the Fellowship with GOD class also presents what the Holy Bible says about angels, heaven, the devil and his evil spirits, and how to become and live effectively as a Christian.

Fellowship with GOD begins with the first verse in the Bible, Genesis 1:1, which states that GOD (Hebrew: elohim) created the heavens and the earth. The class challenges people to decide: do we believe what the Holy Bible says in that very first verse or not. If we decide that we do believe that GOD exists and that He created the heavens and the earth, then we can move on to learning that GOD is a real, living, spiritual being and that He can talk with human beings--through the Bible, through His gift of holy spirit, through angels, through prophets, through dreams, through His Son, Jesus, and through other means He may choose.

Fellowship with GOD continues by presenting the will of GOD from the Bible. It especially focuses on showing that: (1) the phrase "the LORD" in the Old Testament of most English Bible Versions (when "LORD" is in small capitals or in all capital letters); (2) the word "GOD" in the Old Testament of the King James Version, the New American Standard Bible, and some other modern English Bible Versions (when "GOD" is in small capitals or in all capital letters, and follows the word "Lord"); and the word "LORD" (when the word "LORD" is all capital letters and follows the word "Sovereign" in the New International Version)--are all actually representations in English of the same, single Hebrew word יהוה (often represented in English letters without vowels as "YHWH" or "YHVH", and sometimes as "JHWH" or "JHVH")--approximately transliterated and pronounced as "Yahweh" ("yah-way") in English. This Hebrew word occurs more than 6,800 times in the Hebrew Old Testament (according to the Blue Letter Bible (http://www.BlueLetterBible.org)--more than twice as often as the main Hebrew word translated "God" (Hebrew: elohim)--and is actually the (proper) name of GOD, the CREATOR of the heavens and the earth.

Fellowship with GOD discusses what Yahweh, the living GOD, had revealed in the Bible about His Son, the lamb of GOD, Jesus the "anointed" one--both the Hebrew word "Messiah" and the Greek word "Christ" mean "anointed (one)." The class discusses the will of GOD relating to the birth and life of Jesus Christ. It also reports that the Holy Bible says that GOD raised His Son Jesus from the dead, that Jesus Christ showed himself alive for forty days on earth after GOD raised him from the dead, that Jesus then ascended to heaven, and GOD seated him at His own right hand.

Fellowship with GOD also discusses how the Bible came into existence, and how even a little understanding of the languages and manuscripts from which the Books of the Bible were eventually translated into English can play an important role in having fellowship with GOD. It presents basic information about the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek languages relevant to the Holy Bible; the early tablets, scrolls, and printed texts which came before our modern Bibles; and how understanding seemingly-minor matters like spelling, punctuation, and grammar can shed tremendous light on having fellowship with GOD.

Fellowship with GOD presents what GOD has revealed about His gift of holy spirit in the Bible. The key Hebrew and Greek words for "spirit"--רוח (ruach) and πνευμα (pneuma), respectively--are discussed on a basic level to show how important translation and context are in understanding this important topic relating to having fellowship with GOD.

Fellowship with GOD also discusses what the Holy Bible says about words and concepts such as "Christian", born again, saved, and conversion so that students can be very clear on what Yahweh accomplished for people through His Son, Jesus Christ, including the sealing of children of GOD with holy spirit beginning on Pentecost (Acts 2). Fellowship with GOD also discusses what GOD has revealed in the Bible about the renewed mind, the Christian walk, the role of the (good) angels of GOD, and how to resist our adversary, the devil, and his evil spirits.

Fellowship with GOD is hosted by God's Way Ministry, Inc.

Fellowship with GOD class "working notes" are available at the Bible Researcher web site. Just click on the "GOD" button on the left-hand side of the front page.

Fellowship with GOD class detailed background material on the CREATOR of the heavens and the earth will soon be available on the Who Yahweh Is web site.

In GOD's love,

Ken Burns, Instructor
Fellowship with GOD Class

The "Fellowship with GOD" class is hosted by God's Way Ministry, Inc., A Christian Church. It is comprised of 12 sessions, with four 28-minute segments in each session. The class will be available for viewing in its entirety at the "Fellowship with GOD" web site by June 30, 2009. (Some of the class is already published in preliminary form on that web site right now.)