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Course 119: Discovering & Fulfilling your God given Ministry - Lesson #4
Understanding the Concept of New Testament Ministry.
Ministry is not a title, nor the exclusive right of a caste of priests like the Levitical Order of the Old Testament. In the present dispensation called the New Testament, God has made each saint part of His Temple. He does not just dwell in the hearts (spirit-man) of saints in a dormant posture. Jesus lives in each saint and desires to use each saint to express Himself to the Church, sinners and society generally. Our beings therefore are simply designed to be vessels through which the Holy Spirit manifests Himself or, to use a contemporary idiom, 'shows up' when need be! Please read all of Romans 12:1-8; 1 Corinthians 12; Ephesians 4:1-16 and 1 Peter 4:10-11.
1 Corinthians 12:7
7But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
Ephesians 4:7
7But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
1 Peter 4:10-11
10As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
11If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
In effect, New Testament ministry is a summary of two basic spiritual concepts
- The expression of what we are impressed with by the Holy Spirit. Every saint has a measure of the Holy Spirit by the new nature in Christ. A deeper walk with God propelled by a yearning for more of Him opens the door for greater measures of The Holy Spirit. When we release the spiritual gifts or grace, virtue and divine abilities deposited within our spirit man as prompted by the Lord or need, we are engaged in ministry at the most basic level. For instance, if the Lord has blessed you with the grace to serve (called ministry in 1 Corinthians 12 and Romans 12), whenever you are led by the need for order and decency to arrive a fellowship centre before orders in order to ensure that seating arrangements and sanitation are in order, you have simply ministered to both the preacher and all the saints!
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The Global School of Ministry is birthed, by the providence of God, to be the arrow head for raising a generation of ministers of the gospel whose singular passion will be restoration of His glory, amen. These are men and women who will allow the Holy Spirit to work out the character of Christ in them first and empower them with the anointing to minister to God and His saints.
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Course 119: Discovering & Fulfilling your God-Given Ministry - Lesson #3:
Between The Order of Levi, Nimrod & Melchizedek
The Old & New Testament Concepts of Ministry
Every system of worship is mediated by a particular form of priesthood. Each priesthood order is the basis on which the way people worship the deity they are beholden to stands. Religions have structured priesthoods structured on rank and manifested by external symbols which adherents use to distinguish the 'greater' from the 'lesser'.
One of the critical problems confronting saints is that many were born into environments and systems that are rooted in 'Christian religion'. These systems leaned heavily on either Judaism or the religion which sought to 'replace' it, Rome. Over the years, Rome had basically appropriated the priestly caste of Judaism, modified it and made it the basis of its world-view which divides adherents into two broad classes: Priests and Laity. Most of the offshoots of Rome - including fruits of the Lutheran Reformation invariably found the allure of this dichotomy too great to ignore. The priestly caste has thus been sustained even in Pentecostal and Charismatic ministries which are modern offshoots of the Protestant movement.
Unfortunately, what many saints have been doing all these years is to basically try to store the new wine of the gospel of the Kingdom in the old wineskin of two cornerstones of Judaism:
- a professional priestly caste called 'the clergy' and
- massive investment in religiously designed building men described as 'Churches' to take the place of the Temple.
Here is how Jesus defined the impossibility of what many have tried to do with the Church and the Old Testament structures:
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Course 119: Discovering & fulfilling your God given ministry - Lesson #2
Necessity of proper preparation/training
It is needful to state that newly saved saints and those who are not trained are not expected to jump into public ministry without being processed first by God or without accountability to anyone. To be gifted without the character which comes from intimate relationship with God, being accountable to any one or better still a leadership council is dangerous. The process of God includes training, education and mentoring.
Wrong Reasons and dead works
To jump into ministry because of the allure of money; failure in so called secular work or out of ambition to be seen and known or even because of 'natural' leadership talents and other non-spiritual qualities can be disastrous!
Impure motives and natural qualities will only produce 'dead works' of religion because they are based on what can be seen with the carnal senses rather than what the Holy Spirit is doing through a willing, yielded vessel. It is interesting that saints will take time to study for their various 'secular' degrees that will qualify them to serve society but find it difficult to submit to training in order to function optimally as fit-for-purpose ministers of the gospel.
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Course 119 Discovering and Fulfilling God-given Ministry
Text: Ephesians 4:7- 16; 1 Peter 4:8-11; Romans 12:5-8; 1 Corinthians 12; John 15:16; Luke 22:24-27
Preamble.
Every saint has a God given ministry! To that revolutionary message is a rider: it is the responsibility of every saint to, above all else, discover, walk in and fulfil their God-given ministry otherwise they will give account on the Last Day at the Judgement Seat of Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:10
10For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
It is not enough to discover God given ministry. It is equally important to undertake ministry by spiritual means of gifts and callings of the Holy Spirit under His direction and according to the pattern God has plainly stated in the Holy Bible. Those who refuse to discover and utilize their spiritual gifts will unconsciously try to serve God by rote, rituals or natural abilities and resources such as sweet talk and public relations. All these lead to dead works, one of the hall marks of religion. Dead works can never please God, even if the saint is sincere. The Hose of God is spiritual and its master plan has already been spelt out upon the foundation which is Jesus Christ Himself manifesting through the callings and gifts given to saints. The message and warning of Paul to the Corinthian Church about labouring according to the divine pattern, using divine instruments is very relevant to us today.
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Joseph Kamau Ndiritu I love you brother George, you have been molding my life with your posts in Frontline Intercessing, Global school of ministry, Global mission Fund. Am benefiting alot.only that i could not download for my church members bible study class coz i use my mobile phone to study online. keep on posting there are many pastors like me in africa who survive through your teachings.
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