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Course 113: Concerning Spiritual Gifts - Lesson #1

Preamble

Yesterday we concluded GSoM Course 119: Discovering and Fulfilling your God given ministry. The course, which covered 11 lessons elicited profound interests in ministry from a wide array of participants on face book. As a follow up, we need to study GSoM Course 113: Concerning Spiritual Gifts which dwells in detail on one of the most important qualities required to succeed in ministry.

The Holy Spirit spoke through Paul the Apostle in the epistle to the Romans chapter 12 and 1 Corinthians chapter 12 and Ephesians 4: 1 - 16. He also spoke through the Apostle Peter in 1 Peter 4: 10, 11 to outline what spiritual gifts are and the broad range of gifts. Their right/proper application in the Church is dealt with in 1 Corinthians 14 within the context of charity or love as expounded in 1 Corinthians 13.

This course will seek to present a systematic exposition of the plan of God for His Church to operate as a supernatural entity of functional body parts which sustain each other and the whole in a matrix of spiritual gifts. Thus, the course will debunk the concept of the church as an organization with a pyramidal structure under a human Chief Executive which is the prevalent practice of the Laodicea church that bestrides the church world in this generation.

The questions that will be answered in the course of this teaching are:

* What is a spiritual gift?

* How many spiritual gifts are specifically mentioned in the Bible?

* What spiritual gifts are implied and in what context in the bible?

* How are spiritual gifts to be utilized?

* What are the ways to discover our spiritual gifts?

* What do spiritual gifts say of the ministry the Lord call us to. In other words, what is the co-relation between spiritual gifts and ministry?

* What are the dangers of operating outside our spiritual gifts?

* Is the presence and exercise of spiritual gifts sufficient basis for success in ministry? If not, what are the essentials needful to fulfil ministry?

Introduction

One of the biggest challenges that the Kingdom church must confront frontally is the way some brethren allow their thoughts, ideas and expectations to over ride clear provisions of scripture. One area where this humanistic mindset is evidently used to great harm is the subject of the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church today.

Two broad groups have emerged when the present day ministry of the Holy Spirit crops up. One is the group who insist that the Holy Spirit and His gifts are not for today, having gone out of fashion with the establishment of the Church on the day of Pentecost. Some major denominations have built their whole dogma and theology on this fallacy.

The second group has a diverse range of saints who believe that the same Holy Spirit who invaded the earth on the day of Pentecost is still relevant to the day to day life of saints. However, this seems to be the only point of agreement. From this common ground, a cacophony of voices spring up, ranging from the sublime to the absurd.

...get ready for an exceptional journey, digging deep into Scripture as the Holy Spirit unfolds the mind of God for this critical subject which is the firm foundation of true New Testament Ministry

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Course 119 - Discovering and Fulfilling your Ministry Lesson #11

The Rewards of Faithful Service

God is good! He is fair and equitable, with an excellent track record of faithfulness to those who trust Him and blesses those who serve Him. From Abraham and the Patriarchs to faithful saints of all generations, the testimony is sure: God is truly dependable!

Those who have not come to grips with this foundational reality which fills the pages of both Testaments of the Holy Writ cannot truly answer the call to ministry in full assurance of faith. Whatever is not of faith, as Romans 14:23 say is sin!

God is a rewarder of those who diligently serve Him! He wants us to bear this reality in mind and trust Him completely even if there are seasons when the flesh will assume all is lost as Satan assails the five carnal senses. A careful reading of Hebrews 6: 9-20; Hebrews 10:35-39 and Hebrews 11:1-40 is recommended.

One day, Peter took the liberty to voice a question on behalf of all those who had abandoned all else to answer the call of Jesus. In Matthew 19:27 the former fisherman asked pointedly: "See, we have left all and followed you. Therefore what shall we have?". After stating the specific rewards due to the 12 disciples in verse 28, Jesus went a step further to declare in verse 29: "And every one who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My Name's sake shall receive a hundred fold, and inherit eternal life"

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Course 119: Discovering & fulfilling your God given ministry - Lesson #10

The Price to be paid and Pitfalls in Ministry

Public Ministry is not a piece of cake! Contrary to the Hollywood type glamour which is projected by 'successful' ministers and ministries and the hype which attends city wide meetings of 'great ministers' of this generation, true biblical ministry has only one model: Jesus Christ Himself! The disciples and early Church were blessed and used mightily by God because they were single minded in following the example of Jesus Christ. Accepting the call to ministry is the spiritual equivalent of coming out of the world and shunning all its glories in the quest of the Kingdom to come. The command by Jesus in Matthew 6:19-34 to trust God for all their well being was not just a doctrine but a way of life for the early Church. As the end of the age approaches, God is looking forward to anoint and send men and women who will still seek first the Kingdom and its righteousness.

In several scriptures, Jesus laid out the price to be paid. Let us examine a few passages.

Matthew 16:24-26

24Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

25For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

26For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Course 119: Discovering & Fulfilling your God given ministry - Lesson #9

4 Divine Facilities for True Success in Kingdom Ministry

Before we go into the topic for today, we need to insert a critical place of ministry that was left off the teaching in Lesson # 6: Scope of Ministry. We sadly omitted the internet as a place of ministry. Face book; you tube; vimeo and many other social media have become very viable platforms of fulfilling the call of God on His saints. In a true sense, the internet is the high way and by way of this age with many sinners and saints spending quality time online with the arrival of smart phones, ipads, wider usage of lap tops, personal computers and similar devices.

Through the internet, the world has now become the global village it was prophesied to be. Time and distance have lost their limitation factors with the global use of the internet. In the world, face book and twitter were extensively used to fuel the Arab Spring in 2011 and topple long entrenched regimes. In the gospel, face book, twitter and websites are viable tools of penetrating the new Iron Curtains of religion, ideology and political divides so that sinners in such closed cultures can be targeted, prayed for and evangelised.

God is raising a generation of ministers who are skilled in use of social media to preach the gospel of salvation and reap the end time harvest. There are also those God is using to teach, train, equip, activate and release saints into ministry in various ways. Many saints will do their ministerial trainings completely online and yet not miss out on quality! Only God is privy to the extent to which He is using some saints on these platforms. There surely will be many surprises at the Judgement Seat of Christ when many unknown quantities will be ushered into great places of honour for the extraordinary ways they allowed God to have His way and use them completely for His own glory.

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