And when I was
present with you, and in need,
I was a burden to no
one, for what I lacked the brethren
who came from
Macedonia supplied. And in everything
I kept myself from
being burdensome to you,
and so I will keep myself. As the truth of Christ is in me,
no one shall stop me
from this boasting in the regions of Achaia. Why? Because I do not love you? God knows!
But what I do, I will
also continue to do, that I may cut off
the opportunity from those who desirean opportunity to be
regarded just as we are in the things of which they
boast. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into apostles of Christ. And no wonder!
For Satan himself
transforms into an angel of light.
Therefore it is no
great thing if his ministers
also transform
themselves into ministers of righteousness,
who's in will be
according to their works.
2 Corinthians 11:9 --
15
Apostleship
is an office and all who were in this office were equal even though like any
other person they did differ from one another and this seen in the way they
wrote the various letters and epistles written by them. We must not allow those differences to allow
others who may differ and yet preach a different gospel and hold to a theology
that is formed by a worldview in contradiction to the will of God to be called
as one who has this apostleship that is only given by God. The Greek word for apostle: απ̀όστολος,
simply means a messenger or an agent one who is the bearer of a commission and
must not be construed with: απ̀οστολή, which is a sending or an expedition, and
office or duty of one sent as a messenger in other words in this case the
office of the apostle, apostleship.
All Christians are apostles for we have all been sent forth with the
message but not all Christians hold the office of apostleship that office was
given to only a few men at the beginning of the Christianity. We all have the duty of the responsibility
to bring the good news of the Gospel to our world. If there are some who boast in their being a so called an apostle
as though they were its a specially appointed by God Himself. The Bible is clear that those who hold the
office of apostle are those who were specially selected by God, the original
12, minus the one who fell away, Judas, and others who were appointed into that
office, Matthias, and Paul who was personally selected by Jesus Christ on his
way to Damascus. No other men are
holding that office of apostleship and yet there are those who've been called
to be pastors and ministers elders and deacons and other gifts have been given
so that the Church of God operates in an orderly manner so that the truth can
be disseminated and seen and heard by others.
Don't listen to those who say that they are some spectral apostle and they
have some special word of prophecy and if you do hear them check everything
they say out to see whether or not it is in line with Scripture. Remember Paul reminded us that Satan can
transform himself and his ministers and to Angels of light. The onus is on us: test all things (1
Thessalonians 5: 21). Then we hold on
to that which we find to be true according to scripture and not according to
someone who says I have this in my mind thoughts that they had had some sort of
vision when in fact what they say may sound good but is not true. Too often we
are easily misled and generally do because we have not studied the word or we
have followed false teachers. False apostles
are charged as deceitful workers in this because they are ministers of
Satan. Oh how they want to be seen as
ministers of righteousness and how often we want to follow them because we feel
rather then know whether or not they are truly ministers of God and not
Satan. These counterfeit apostles who
seemed in many respects like to apostles of Christ and simply pointed that they
too had some sort of difference between them and other apostles when in fact
what they teach is nothing more than false teachings and his hypocrisy, and
even heresy. Satan can delude men with
professions of extra ordinary light, high affections, revelations, deadness to
the world, and devotion, and all this does is disgrace the holy religion of
Jesus Christ. This re into extravagance
lead men to neglect a plain rule of the written word and make them enthusiasts,
antinomians, or superstitious formalist.
Taken knows how to trip you up and this is so often done by setting up
good works against the atonement of Jesus Christ, and the salvation by faith
and grace. The end for these satanic
apostles and will one day, be judged according to their works and their conduct
in the sight of God. Do not allow these
ministers of Satan who claim to be ministers of light mislead you and detract
you following the truth of God's Word.
To be a Christian takes real inner strength and that in a strength can
come only by the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit will only work as far as you
allow Him to work in you. There is a
partnership there: you and the Holy Spirit; together you can present to the
world Jesus Christ.
I will punish the world for its evil.
Add the
wicked for their iniquity;
I will halt the arrogance of the proud,
and will
lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
Isaiah
13: 11
God chose you to be His messenger
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