In Christ's death, in its atoning efficacy and its necessity. This fellowship is an acquirement worthy of our highest ambition. This love, of course, passeth knowledge, and in a sense cannot be imitated; but still in the experience of its benefits we may be conformed to it and cherish a corresponding feeling towards God and man, by giving to our Creator and Redeemer the highest place in our affections and service, and by devoting ourselves to the welfare of mankind. When I feel and know that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth me from sin I have the highest kind of this fellowship. Sometimes he speaks of our Lord as though He were a sphere of being within which the Christian lives: (2 Corinthians 5:17); sometimes as the inhabitant of the Christian soul (Colossians 1:27). J. Gloag, D. D.1. As a suitable pattern for imitation, which is the meaning here.I. We have seen it in its total severance from sin and sinners. Uninterrupted prosperity has a prejudicial influence over our spiritual nature, and tempts us to forget God. The child lives upon its parent's life. If He grieved that the world had not known His Father, it was joy to Him to gather those to whom He taught the Father's love. We wish to have fellowship in joy, and seek how we can pass through life with the least inconvenience. This should teach us patience, watchfulness, continued looking unto Jesus.3. When we taste His goodness or feel His power we have an experimental knowledge of Christ. (2) Not in sufferings which arise out of guilt. "They were amazed" as Jesus went before them to Jerusalem, "and as they followed they were afraid." The Captain of our salvation was made perfect through them; so must we be. (2) How strong were the cords with which Christ was bound! Paul might have had them as had the impenitent thief, without any fellowship with Christ. Yet I am reminded, "Blessed are they that thirst," etc. So we are not only permitted to sympathize with Christ as the Man of sorrows, but that, just as two partners in a firm are both joint possessors of the capital which belongs to the firm, so that wondrous wealth of sorrow which belonged to the Lord Jesus Christ, so far as it is a source of wealth, belongs in a measure to us, who are partners with Him. To know its power is to feel our confidence strengthened in sorrow and death.V. Well, on the big billows come, hissing to their naked feet; on, and further on they come, death riding on the top of the waves, and eyed by these tender women with unflinching courage. As the wealth of the disciples was thrown into one fund, and distributed amongst all, so the wealth of sorrow which belonged to our great Head is thrown into one fund with all the sorrows of those who are His members, and we are partakers with Him of that which is no longer to us a source of loss, but, on the contrary, a perennial source of gain. (4)Life spiritual and eternal.3. By an actual participation in suffering for His sake. He, the Captain of our salvation, was made "perfect through suffering." (1) God's light — the light of the Divine purpose resting upon the problem of human life — indicated the way that led to Calvary. The same capacity for pain that marks the highest nature also shows its capacity for pleasure. And so it will be with us. His last words upon the cross testified that His trust remained unshaken. If your object is applause, what communion can there be between you and "the despised and rejected of men"?(S. (c) Faith. Even thus is it with the knowledge of Christ. And as it was with them historically, so it seems to be doctrinally here. Coley.Thuanus tells, that a Gallic lord being led forth to martyrdom in company with some equally faithful, though plebeian professors, saw that out of regard to his rank the officers put on him no chains, while each of his brethren bore them; upon which he cried, "Let me, I pray you, be clipped of none of my honours; I, too, for love of Jesus, would wear a chain!"(S. (e) And in opposition to the infidel who derides the scheme, the Socinian who extracts from it all its value, the Pharisee who seeks to achieve a salvation for himself, he exclaims, "God forbid" (Galatians 6:16; 1 Corinthians 2:2).2. By comprehending their character, objects, and results. There is conformity —1. "I thought," said she, "the angels might have brought it; for some one seemed to say, pointing to the large heavy crown, 'I wore this for thee; wear thine for Me,'" and meekly she bent her head, and wore the wreath, and now she has laid it by for the crown which she wears. Conclusion: We must know this power, by being justified, etc., which is the moral proof of Christ's resurrection.(H. Does bereavement come? A POWERFUL STIMULUS IS GIVEN TO CHRISTIAN CHARACTER.IV. (3) "Woman, behold thy son! Was it the mere prospect of pain and shame? All his desires, interests, objects, were swallowed up in the living to Christ's glory. Guthrie, D. D.Some two hundred years ago, there was a dark period of suffering in Scotland, when deeds of bloody cruelty were committed on God's people, not out done by Indian butcheries. The word "fellowship" occurs in the case of the partnership which existed between the fishermen of Galilee, and in the case of the early Christians, who "had all things common." When infinite purity comes in contact with impurity, sorrow and moral indignation must be the result. (e) That satisfaction must he given to the demands of the perfect law before transgressors can be admitted to mercy. If his passions are unduly excited, it is his moral nature that feels the transgression. Every man feels this in himself; one part of his being paying another's penalty. As the strongest and most endearing motive to holiness of life — "constraining us."3. CONFIRMATION OF THE POINT. The Captain of our salvation was made perfect through them; so must we be. (e) And in opposition to the infidel who derides the scheme, the Socinian who extracts from it all its value, the Pharisee who seeks to achieve a salvation for himself, he exclaims, "God forbid" (Galatians 6:16; 1 Corinthians 2:2).2. This was a strange desire, one which few of us would entertain. It is the law of social life; and I do not see why we should think it strange that Christ obeyed the same law, only in a grander way.(H. Sin is too strong for any resolve.2. He carries its scars yet, and will carry them to his grave. When first the Holy Spirit convinces of the hatefulness of sin.2. IN THE FIRM PERSUASION IT SHOULD CREATE THAT THE CHRISTIAN CREED IS TRUE AS A WHOLE AND IN ITS SEVERAL PARTS.1. crucified with Christ, crucifies "the flesh, with the affections and lusts." how sweet a cross it is to see a cross betwixt Christ and us; to hear our Redeemer say, at every sigh, and every blow, and every loss of a believer, "Half mine!"(S. Every distress Christ witnessed was photographed on His soul. Is it not too often so even with us? The pains of life are as various as bodies and souls. Suffering —1. (2) How strong were the cords with which Christ was bound! But in all this there is lacking as yet the essential feature of a fellowship in Christ's sufferings. In the furnace of affliction the dross of earth is removed, passions are mortified; pride is humbled, and so our graces are confirmed and strengthened.2. The knowledge transcends all other as to its importance. A little further on in their history, and the power of the risen Christ has come down in the flood tide of Pentecost, and what a change is wrought. It is essential to the Christian character.2. )Christ suffering in His membersT. If it was grief to the Good Shepherd to see the sheep wandering, it was joy to bring it back to the fold. Alas, I said to myself, shall such a short-lived creature as man complain, when one of his race falls either by the hand of violence, or by the common cause of nature, while in this narrow compass so many great and glorious cities, formed for a much longer duration, thus lie extended in ruins?" No; in our Christian life, Christ is first and midst and last: and no mere moral strength or determination can be reckoned on as accessory to Him in his great work. THE NATURE OF THIS FELLOWSHIP.1. But when in the depth of the valley of humiliation Christ was ever awake to each particular of His great load of woe, and when they offered Him the stupefying potion He put it from Him. Paul laboured and suffered much, and was pursued by great infirmity and frequent depression; but he saw above him the figure of the once suffering but now risen Christ — his brother throned and crowned. There is conformity —1. It is not constantly flaunted before the eyes of men; it seeks retirement, solitude, and the sincerities which these ensure (Colossians 3:1-4).3. This being conformed to Christ's death is brought in, is carried on, is completed, by faith. Does it not seem like a hollow mockery of the heart's great grief? Coley. How may we know that we have His fellowship? )The fellowship of Christ's sufferingsA. Sin and the devil will not let us alone in its various stages. No advantage in life, nothing that tempts ordinary men can attract Him in comparison of this. Why is it we do not declare that truth more constantly and zealously? What is there in the saints which should die? This was a strange desire, one which few of us would entertain. Of this the natural man knows nothing. We wish to have fellowship in joy, and seek how we can pass through life with the least inconvenience. He bore the whole burden of human suffering. (1) Not by a natural death, but a violent one inflicted by an outside hand. By the cordial reception of the benefits secured to us by His sufferings in the exercise of a lively faith.(1)Pardon.(2)Purity. Such knowledge requires much sacrifice. IN WHAT RESPECTS A CHRISTIAN MAY HAVE FELLOWSHIP WITH THE SUFFERINGS OF HIS MASTER.1. Much was borne that we might not have to bear; but as I gaze at yonder cross I interpret the nature of our fellowship in the light of the next clause. These He bore alone, and we cannot partake in them. "What see you yonder?" In this respect the apostles were conformed to their Master. (1) In all their bitterness they were foreseen, whereas ours are hidden, and come in drops only. Raffles, D. D.)The fellowship of Christ's sufferingsW. Here is a text for us to try ourselves by. We have our sorrows; but the ray of light has not yet entered our souls, and the result is that we have no fellowship with Christ in our sufferings; and this, not so much because God is unwilling to give us the light, as because we shrink, like Peter, from the illumination which reveals the cross, and thus His light becomes obscured, and we lose the moral power which should have raised us into fellowship with His sufferings. We may torture ourselves if we will, but shall continue as ungodlike as before. W. It is sometimes attributed to Christ alone; sometimes to the Father; sometimes to the Spirit; so that it is brought before us as a blessed manifestation of the power of the redeeming God. Draws forth the better qualities of a man. Well, on the big billows come, hissing to their naked feet; on, and further on they come, death riding on the top of the waves, and eyed by these tender women with unflinching courage. In that I see something that I may have fellowship with. (6) "It is finished." There was a veil upon their heart, and a strange indescribable barrier between them and Him. When I feel and know that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth me from sin I have the highest kind of this fellowship. As the strongest and most endearing motive to holiness of life — "constraining us."3. Oh for a heart to sorrow in all the sorrows of humanity! (e) That satisfaction must he given to the demands of the perfect law before transgressors can be admitted to mercy. Silently it passes the bounds of the unseen land; and the gate which opens to admit it to this is a gate of tears and moans. )The fellowship of Christ's sufferingsBishop Magee.It seems an awful wish that any mortal should dare to aspire to share the sufferings of the Man of sorrows; stranger still when we remember the actual sufferings of that mortal; stranger still that He should tell us to wish it for ourselves.I. Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its bosom, without first suffering for it. MEANS.1. The elder of the two is staked furthest out. In this respect the apostles were conformed to their Master. Christ never was sick or unwell. NOTE: He breaks the power of canceled sin,    C. Paul Was Aware Of That Power In Himself,      1. 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