Spiritual Gifts part 362. What is an Apostle?
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Spiritual Gifts Part 362: The Doctrine of Spiritual Gifts
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Under this point, we will We celebrate the fact that God gave these gifts to the early church, and rejoice in what these gifts produced. These benefits continue to bless us and the whole church down to this day.
There were three varieties of temporary gifts: foundational, Foundational gifts were for laying the foundation for the church: introducing the Gospel to the Jews and the Gentiles, establishing the first congregations, and completing the canon of Scripture. Sign gifts brought attention to, and confirmed the divine source of, the messengers and their new message.
What was that message? Revelatory gifts provided partial revelation to the early church while the canon of the New Testament was still being written. Foundational gifts The temporary spiritual gifts of apostle and prophet were foundational; Eph 2:20. The foundation of a structure is only laid once.
1Co 12:28 a. The gift of apostle.
Rev 21:14 κλητὸς ἀπόστολος Paul had a lot of enemies, and they constantly maligned him and persecuted him. So here, and in several of his other letters, Paul takes pains to emphasize that he is most definitely an authentic apostle and so designated by Christ Himself. He is writing this letter as an apostle, a fully authorized representative of Christ with an approved message.
apostolos is the Greek word that is translated here “apostle”. apostolos was first used for a high-ranking admiral or general officer chosen by counsel to command an Athenian fleet on a military expedition. The governor of the founded colony was called an apostolos. So the word apostolos connotes command responsibility. The word apostolos in the New Testament is used to mean a delegate, a messenger, one sent with orders and with full authority. An apostle is somebody, a messenger, who is sent on a mission. An apostle is a man entrusted with a mission, and the powers to carry it out are conferred upon him. An apostle is one chosen and sent with a special mission as the fully authorized representative of the sender. The person sent is as the person who sends, Eze 3:4-7, Joh 13:16-20.
Joh 13:20 The apostolos has a charge and a calling to represent the person and cause of Another.
What are the qualifications of an apostle in the Church Age?
1Pe 3:15
1. Saw the resurrected Christ. a. He saw the resurrected Christ on the Damascus Road, Act 9:3-6, 22:6-11, 26:13-18. b. The Lord appeared to Paul again in Arabia, Gal 1:11-17. c. He appeared to Paul in the temple, Act 9:26-30; 22:7-21. d. He appeared to Paul in prison, Act 23:11 2. Selected, called, and appointed by the Lord Jesus Christ.
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