Embracing Authentic Apostolic Ministry and Eternal Perspective

I don't think that Paul made a demonstration it was the thing in himself see man that's what proved it threw it through the cookie he was the real thing because their wonderful news about st. Simon if you've noticed and I don't know but I've been believe in our 35 years I don't know that I've seen the season where there are more profits being exalted and acclaimed and and men professing to be apostle than you could know because they have it on the door and hadn't been ever before I think everything Paul needed that kind of external identification it was the thing in himself. [00:22:59]

meekness is just acknowledging what its true weakness is being totally obedient to God without let and without hesitation meekness is not something you can learn or develop meekness is God meekness is the essential character of God himself learn of me fly a load I have meek of luck lowly if an apostle is going to be made it's because he'll be meek in proportion to the fact that he has learned of him and in fact is in him the Apostle is in union with God and the foundation that he brings to the church is not just his enormous understanding of the mystery of the church and the purpose of God through it but also perhaps most profoundly the sense of God with it. [00:25:16]

Paul said I have my headquarters in heaven that's why one of the topics in those initial talks and apostille asipi was eternity paul was not just eternally pointed he lived and had moved and had as being in the eternal Parliament because the excessive Corinthians that my afflictions when I see my afflictions in view or in light of the house of the eternal riches T so in a way I wanted my sufferings are both momentary and light in view of the eternal weight of glory this his affliction swill momentary in the light my god that man will bear through eternity marks in his body that that we would begin to approach. [00:27:23]

he was so so fused with the realities of eternity while he was yet on the earth that it had the capacity to dull his pain and to diminish the sense of sufferings that might otherwise have overwhelmed he brought ignominy acknowledged eternity he brought internally into the present in such a way as to affect how he would perceive an experience at the stomach stuff in itself how you doing you don't have to answer it's visible the world is too much with you you're living in the presence you're too much stuff Africa and not enough heavenly and there's no cheap way to attain that. [00:28:41]

let let they be what for our nation let me be my let let me be part of an apostolic body that could be convivial and hospitable to bringing forth nurturing such a one that he might be sent out on about midst and Elena audience let us be that empty I mean a thing you've got the ingredients here when are you using them are you meeting with the frequency that Antioch met more than summation midweek ministers are you open for thee the depth of God's sanctifying work of money of which the church itself is its own ingredient more are you always looking at the back of Savannah State we have the interaction you had that the confrontation you have the follow-up working with one another by which God sits and we finds and establishes these Apostolic deputies. [00:30:30]

the whole book of Romans is a capice Thessalonians has amassed all of all world with the most systematic feared statement of his apostolic - the provisions and the centerpiece it's not an aspirin nor an addendum at the end but everything leads from Chapter one through eight to present it and then for growth the sixteen on the implications that slice one month from that what is the centerpiece the mystery of Israel which he says brethren I would not have you to be ignorant of this mystery lest you become wise in your own conceits I'm seeing everywhere the exact fulfillment of Paul's really hotshot inflated pompous presumptuous Church that even thinks that it is the Israel that has replaced Israel has no consideration for the destiny of the people that when it is affected Paul says it will be to the glory of God forever. [00:36:05]

Paul is both eschatological two words that you must learn eschatological the things that pertain to the end that must come the inevitability of the thing toward which women thing with our life our Christian life is not a succession of Sundays is a movement to another conclusion and a plan acts of the most is not only kind so that's an eschatological alignment he's tuned in for the things that pertain to the end but it's also applicable that end does not come about judgment is to wrath to come as the combinations therefore there's an urgency in this proclamation it's not why you say a brother it's be safe out from this untoward generation upon whom the judgment of God is going to fall. [00:40:09]

so what's taking the third we're not eternally minded we're not apocalyptically minded because we don't have a stomach of judgment we don't want to consider the wrath of God none because it's painful in the firing devastation that shall come but also because it seems to contradict what we like to believe about God he's a nice guy and he's kindly and we'd like to get it that way but the glasses comes in wrath there's got to be something wrong that it's incompatible with what we've understand about God or our our understanding is incompatible with God Himself you know what my boss is listening tonight I wish it were here who needed it desperately and it's called the Holocaust where was God wills God in the rest that was poured out on this realm. [00:43:47]

I called so where was God and how could you have trust in this culture and the second disappointment that like unto it is the rapture that does not take place we find that you still here while growing his rough so we'll have a different set of expectations you know remarkable thing is he's talking about the day of the Lord the day of God's judgement the day of God's wrath as being imminent and these Thessalonians were saved out of something student to fall upon all nations he had he communicated the sense that this is at the door and we know that it's 2000 years later and has not happened yet so Paul must have been in all the weather he must have been all confused in his expectations and God did not rebuke him or remind him that his timing is off but allow him to Kinnaman communicate to the church in every place the imminence of God's judgment as being at hand. [00:45:49]

the only way that I can figure that is that God expects the Church of every generation to have the expectancy and this sense of urgency that the issue is not an issue of chronology of what year or what run for what they but a sense of something approaching something near something urgent that brings to the fellowship that I mention of high seriousness that cannot be obtained in any other way it's not some psychological taking advantage to a playing upon spheres it's a realistic anticipation of that which must shortly come to pass much more true now 2,000 years later and Israel hanging on the ropes the key to which this whole or judgment thing is going to be and yet the other thing is we who are closer to the event that poll expected and communicated have the least of the sense of urgency that the Thessalonians have mm that's how far we are from apostolic reality. [00:59:49]

so the gifts of the Spirit had become a denominational distinctive with your charismatic Pentecostal if you've got the student needed but those two mean those things were refer and expressed one on the shop edge of faith battling against opposing forces and needed the full enablement of God but then it wasn't the subject of Bible study with preference or denomination of distinctive it was the nuts-and-bolts realities of God to be a presence in the urna that is at enmity with God the fact that we haven't experienced that enmity is because we didn't threaten it when you start to threaten the unspoken premises by which the world lives its life you'll see how long it will be before the sense of that opposition will be made real. [01:04:11]