Father Apostle
Galatians
1:1
Paul, an
apostle--sent not from men nor by man, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father,
who raised him from the dead— NIV
Paul,
an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the
Father, who raised him from the dead) – KJV
This
letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or
any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who
raised Jesus from the dead. – NLT
I
Corinthians 4:15
Even though
you have ten thousand guardians in Christ, you do not have many fathers, for in
Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. NIV
For though ye
have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have
begotten you through the gospel. KJV
For even if
you had ten thousand others to teach you about Christ, you have only one
spiritual father. I became your father in Christ Jesus when I preached the Good
News to you. NLT Fathers in ministry are more important than ever. Preachers are falling
left and right. Immorality and Perversion are stronger in the pulpit than ever
before. We submit to those that see destiny in us and are willing to invest in
our future. These relationships bring identity and direction. My prayer for you
is that you find that Father, and walk in your identity. Every one needs a spiritual father in the Faith.
Even Jesus did
not begin His ministry until He submitted to John the Baptist's ministry and
was baptized by him. It was at that time that Jesus' ministry was confirmed,
established, and publicly declared by the voice of the Father.
To be
successful in ministry it is necessary that we first learn to submit to another
minister within the greater ministry of Father God. In this manner our ministry
will be publicly declared by the voice of the Father. Jesus went into ministry
under the commission of the voice of His spiritual Father, and He in turn was
able to father others in the Faith.
If we refuse
the Apostolic Spirit of the Father, we will only be cutting ourselves off from
being able to birth MATURE sons and daughters in the Faith. Any Christian can
lead others to Christ and bring babes into the Kingdom. Children can lead other
children, but only those who accept the work of the Father in their lives can
truly mature others in the Faith.
"You teach what you know, but you
reproduce who you are!" [Richard
Crisco]
"There
is just one way to bring up a child in the way he should go and that is to travel that
way yourself." [Abraham Lincoln]
"I
Am the Way ..." [Jesus
Christ]
I Timothy 1:1
states that Paul was "an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of
God." If the Apostles are Apostles by commandment, to minister to the Body
of Christ, then it is equally true that the Body of Christ is under commandment
first of all to accept the Apostles' ministry, and secondly to become an
Apostolic People for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. An Evangelist will give
you equipment in the Spirit to evangelize the lost, a Teacher will equip you in
the Spirit to teach others, a Prophet will enable "your sons and
daughters" to "prophesy" (Acts 2:18), a Pastor will equip
you to shepherd your own soul first, and then to lead and protect others in a
deeper walk with their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, but the Apostle will equip
you with the Greatest Grace of God and the Greatest Anointing of God the Body
of Christ could ever hope to receive through any other ministry Gift in the
Body of Christ on Earth today! An Apostle will equip the Body of Christ with
Apostolic abilities. The Apostle's Anointing will first of all enable you to
receive the depths of his or her knowledge deep within your own spirit through
his or her own spirit of understanding. So the Apostles will not only teach
great truths, but they will enable you to take those great truths and make them
your own, so that you can walk in Apostolic POWER, and wisdom, and
understanding.
I
Corinthians 1:23-24 states that the
Apostles "preach Christ crucified...Christ the power of God, and the
wisdom of God." When the Apostles preach the Gospel, they preach and teach
in a full demonstration of the power and wisdom of God. This also means that
the POWER and WISDOM of God come first from the Apostle's ministry. On the Day
of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit had first been poured out in this
Pentecostal Demonstration of God's Apostolic POWER after the Ascension of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the first one to preach and demonstrate God's wisdom and
POWER was the Apostle Peter, who stood up with the other 11 Apostles (Acts
2:14) and the result was that about 3,000 souls were added to the Kingdom.
In this demonstration of POWER through the Apostles' ministry on the Day of
Pentecost, God was also teaching us that the Apostle's ministry is also Anointed to be the strongest demonstration of POWER to
defend the True Gospel of our Precious Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. When the
Body of Christ is having its faith attacked, then the Apostles will rise up in
their greatest boldness, even risking their own lives, to protect God's Sheep.
It is very
important for all of you to understand why the Apostle's wisdom and power are
so important to the Body of Christ. Apostles are Covenant fathers. This means
that God has equipped them with the ability to take Children of God and babes
in Christ, and turn them into sons and daughters. To be a son and daughter
means to outgrow childish things and to become full grown men and women of God.
I Corinthians 4:15 says that even "though you might have ten
thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers." The
Greek word used in this verse that is translated "INSTRUCTORS" is
"paidagogos". This means that this type of instructor is a guardian and a
guide of boys. He is not an instructor of men, but of boys. That word in the
Greek literally means "a boy leader". This word was used to describe
a servant whose office it was to take the children to school. The Apostle Paul
contrasts the difference between a boy leader and a father, or an Apostle who
has become your Covenant father.
Without the
Apostles' ministry, the Body of Christ will never receive the fullness of the
wisdom and power of God necessary to become FULL GROWN sons and daughters of
God. I have heard some of you speak of my maturity of teaching. This is because
God has equipped me with the ability to be a Covenant father who preaches
father truths. There are many instructors in the Body of Christ today who are
teaching the Body of Christ vital truths, but these truths do not have the apostolic
ability to cause Believers to inherit the fullness of their Blessing. These are
boy leaders’ teachings boy truths to children. I am not putting down their
ability to teach, and I am certainly not putting down the Truths they have
learned and teach others, but I want to tell you that many are boy leaders or
boy instructors in the Body of Christ, even some Pastors are boy leaders
teaching children of God truths that will never enable them to fully know God
and become full grown sons and daughters, and many are in this condition today,
not because they are not able to teach father truths, but because they refuse
to come into covenant relationship with the Apostles. Many are boy leaders
teaching boy truths because they don't even believe in the ministry of a chief
father in the Body of Christ, which is the Apostle. So I do not speak to shame
those who are boy leaders who don't understand or know the Apostles ministry,
but I do speak to shame those who do understand the Apostles' ministry who
refuse to come into Covenant Relationship with one. And there are some Pastors
who will have congregations full of children because they will simply refuse to
believe in the Apostles' ministries in these last days.