The Talents and Ranks of the Bride of Christ 2

This is an excerpt from my upcoming book that explains certain things that are happening now in the body of Christ which have caused many to either speculate out of fear or misinterpret what they are seeing in the spirit. Because we all see in part until what is perfect comes (1 Cor. 13:9-10), I felt compelled to clarify through this post what many are seeing. Some are seeing judgment and a financial crash, others are seeing redemption and mercy, but God is doing both in this hour to rescue His people from their bondage to sin and so they can walk with Him in the way He originally intended for us. But because Adam and Eve fell from the way, Jesus needed to come to earth to rescue us and demonstrate for us how to get back what was lost through them. This will mean something different for each person, family, ministry or organization as God is judging the Antichrist spirit and his Mammon worship (financial gain away from God’s ways and timing), his Religious ways (which cause people to walk independently from God and the ways of His Kingdom), and the control and manipulation of the Jezebel spirit (which causes people to want to reach their destiny in the same way the world does it and apart from God). So this is a time of reformation of God’s house to what was demonstrated by the early Church.

Ephesians 4:11-16

¹¹ And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; ¹⁴ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, ¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Input from all five pieces of God’s heart is an essential requirement for us to achieve this fullness as the Church makes disciples that will go to the ends of the earth to proclaim the gospel of the Kingdom of God. There is a Biblical assignment for the fivefold ministry designed to form Jesus Christ in us. This means that each one of the people that represent the fivefold ministry has a unique measure of God’s heart given to them to reproduce in us, and the Father has called them to help us walk in the fullness of who He is with one mind, ne heart, and in one accord. This was demonstrated in His Son Jesus Christ who went to the Cross to die for our sins, rose again and ascended to be seated at the right hand of the Father.

But as we return to verse 13 of Ephesians 4, note that the Scripture declares that we are raised to become "a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." Observe that we are not called to just have the stature of the fullness of Jesus, but the stature of the fullness of Christ. The Hebrew meaning of the name "Jesus" is the One who "saves" or "Salvation" (Strong 2424 and 3091).6 but what the father requires of us is that we are transformed into the fullness of his son the Christ. This word means "the anointed one." This means that Jesus, who was made a man in order to dwell among us, needed continuous communion with the father, which helped him develop His kingly anointing to unleash judgment against the enemy and at the same time develop the priestly anointing to extended mercy to the people that were lost and contaminated with the influence of the Antichrist.

This signifies, that in order to counteract the evil of the Antichrist, we have to go through the same process that Jesus went through on this earth to make Him the Christ, the Anointed One. This process involves three phases at all levels in which God brings us up to our destination and also once we arrive to there:

1.       Go to the Cross. Carrying our cross is necessary to eliminate contamination of the Antichrist in our spiritual blood line and also for those we are called to influence.

2.       Rise from the dead. Once decontaminated from the influence of the Antichrist at each level of our process, we can have life in abundance and walk in the supernatural glory that Adam and Eve lost with their fall.

3.       Ascend to sit at the right hand of the Father. From this place we rule and reign in collaboration with the Father through His Son to release judgment against all Antichrist opposition to the advance of His Kingdom in our jurisdictional sphere of authority and influence. And because this is also the Mercy seat of God and His throne of Grace, we also co-labor with Him through His Son to extend this mercy and grace for the salvation of many that He is calling to become part of our family of believers as well as for the restoration of those who have fallen from the way.

Hebrews 2:8-11 brings us to that understanding when it says, “⁸You have put all things in subjection under his feet.”

For in that He put all in subjection under him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him. ⁹ But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that He, by the grace of God, might taste death for everyone.

¹⁰ For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. ¹¹ For both He who sanctifies and those who are being sanctified are all of one, for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren,”

As it has been mentioned, in the Church (the Apostolic House of God), the Fivefold Ministry leads us to this Apostolic development so that our lives are also lived according to the order and Government of the Kingdom of God. This will produce a strong apostolic house with the following characteristics:

1. There is vision and strategy, government, rank, and order.
2. There is Prophetic expression.
3. There are stable families (where family centered values are established).
4. There is prayer (with intercessors and where the purpose of prayer is taught).
5. There is prosperity and blessings (based on what is being taught).
6. Healing, miracles, deliverance, missions to reach out and praise and worship are common.
7. Social care is done in a practical way (for what we have is not our own).
8. The gifts of the Spirit are in operation according to 1 Corinthians 12:7-11 and Romans 12: 4-8.
9. There is also Leadership training, discipleship training, and children and youth are developed for the future.
10. Business entities and entrepreneurs provide for the Kingdom (with faith to step out).

As always, to God alone be all the glory.

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