The Apostolic Gift: Developing and Strengthening the Church

Some weeks are full of peace, some weeks are just stressful. Right? That would be this week for me. Just stress and a lot of stuff outside of my circumstances on dealing with outside of our our household and family things. But one of the things and when that typically happens, lot of times, they become long weekends for me. But one of the things that I'm just reminded of as you guys were singing is that sometimes instead of focusing on the stress of the week or the stress of the situation or the circumstances, that we do just have to get better at people who are learning to exalt Jesus above those things. [00:33:48] (39 seconds)  #ExaltJesusOverStress

They built the foundation in them alone. And this means, church, keeping the unity of the faith requires staying committed to the faith that was handed down to us by them. This is what we mean when we say orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is not what Tank said up here. Well, if he said it because he's the pastor, that's orthodoxy. No. It's orthodoxy if what I say up here is in order with what was already said. That's why this is why this is why I always warn new teachers when I do teaching trainings and I walk with teachers. I always warn new teachers, don't try to be the new teacher that come up with something deep. [00:51:21] (34 seconds)  #PreserveOrthodoxy

We should be clear about it. Entrepreneurs knewers aren't apostolic. I know we should be like, if you're an entrepreneur, you're probably apostolic. No. They might just wanna start a business. And just because they love Jesus and they put him in here somewhere don't mean that they're trying to establish kingdom presence in dark spaces. They might just want to have a business in that space and try to keep it faith based. Right? But it is a difference between being a Christian, operating a business, and keeping it faith based than having a burden to say, I am always looking on the horizon for where there is a lack of kingdom presence in dark spaces, and I wanna figure out how I'm gonna enter into that space to establish that. It's a difference between a business starter and an and a and a and a and one who functions apostolically. Now they could be the same, but just don't generalize it. [01:12:32] (48 seconds)  #ApostleVsEntrepreneur

The apostolic ministry of establishing new work requires maturity and sound foundation. It requires maturity and sound foundation. Y'all everybody can't be trying to go in Jesus, and you ain't got no foundation in him. You you immature, but wanna go in I'm about to start this for Jesus. You don't know him yet. You can't go in the name of somebody you don't know. So this is why we say sit down for a moment. Get some preparation in your life. Remember, Moses was called before he was prepared because you can be called early, but there still needs to be a preparation before you're sent. And so he needed forty years in the wilderness to get prepared to go spend forty years in the wilderness. [01:22:34] (50 seconds)  #MatureBeforeMission

I always warn new teachers, don't try to be the new teacher that come up with something deep. If it's deep and ain't nobody ever heard it, it's heresy. You ain't came up with nothing new that in two thousand plus years of church ain't nobody thought of, ain't nobody taught that. If you're the only one that taught it, you're the only one that know it. And you know where you got it from? Doctors or demons. Okay. So ain't nothing new. Don't be deep. And that that's the see, young leaders, listen to me. Listen to me, young teachers. Because and I and I get it. I fell into that for a long time, not trying to be deep, but always being like, man, if I man, they know this. [00:51:50] (42 seconds)  #BewareNovelTeachings

The apostles are sent out by the local church. If you sent yourself, you just sent yourself. You ain't an apostle. You just you doing something. Let's just make it clear. Now I ain't saying if you start your business. You don't need permission to start a business. I don't whatever you wanna do. But when you say I wanna establish a kingdom presence and a ministry within the world, and you just did it on your own, you did not get sent. You went. And you don't get to call yourself an apostle. I don't care what you say. Apostles are sent. If nobody sent you, particularly your local church, because I don't want you my friends all told me, man, that I had this on me, and they prayed for me, and they told me to do that thing. They sent me. Well, well, well, then you and your friends both just went. [01:16:03] (43 seconds)  #YouMustBeSent

But just read the text and show me that I'm lying, though. Right? It's it's not controlling. It's protective. Right? You you don't it's gonna be in the second point, but I'm probably just gonna jump around anyway. You don't under do you understand why you need the apostles to lay hands on you and to commission you into a work that is apostolic? Let me explain to you why. Because apostolic people live their life in darkness. Not they are not walking in darkness, but to be on mission as an apostolic person, you constantly exist in dark spaces. You cannot think you can exist primary your primary living existing in dark spaces and think that you can be in that space on your own authority and on your own willing and in your own doing. [01:16:53] (47 seconds)  #ApostolicCoveringMatters

The apostolic ministry, gets us some of the worst spiritual warfare upon this is why Paul is over and over and over and over again saying in passages like second Corinthians chapter four, death is in us so that life would be in you. He says, we are handed over to death daily because the apostolic ministry enters into dark spaces, takes the the the brute force of the darkness to try to push it back so that you might come along and benefit from that presence. You need a covering to pray for you Yes, sir. To lay hands on you, to help give you accountability. This is why so many people have good intentions, but because they do it on their own, they run out there and they get beat up. [01:17:40] (49 seconds)  #FollowChristNotChecks