RULES OF RELIGION:
Restrict the spirit of man.Restricting or limiting the work and ministry of the Holy Spirit by removing the gifts and callings of God is a very effective device used by Satan to block the power of God’s Spirit from working with the spirit of man.
It stops young people from pursuing the truth of supernatural things from God and attributes them to the devil.
When religious Christianity restricts the five fold ministry of Ephesians 4:11 to only three, they automatically limit the gifts of the Spirit to the 1st century church leaving the younger generation of today with nothing more than dead religion.
The ‘Born again’ spirit is quenched by doctrines of demons that rob new believers.
The dead works of predictable religion are in direct opposition to Romans 11:29, “For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.”
God has not changed his mind about giving all nine gifts of the Spirit that are listed in 1 Corinthians 12:8-10; nor has he revoked any of the five callings of Ephesians 4:11.
According to the WORD OF GOD, the Son of God ascended far above all heavens, that he might fill all things (Ephesians 4:10).
Now that he has ascended, he fills all things. The scripture does not say that he empties all things, or deletes anything. It says he fills all things.
The context of Ephesians 4 is that God gave gifts and callings to the church after Jesus ascended.
It does not speak of the gifts and callings that were already in place prior to his ascension.
The twelve apostles of the Lamb were already made apostles before Christ’s ascension.
When God gave some apostles and prophets to the church for the perfecting of the saints and for the work of the ministry it was without question after the ascension.
If the church was already perfected it would not be in need of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors or teachers.
They are given by God for the perfecting of the saints and they will remain in place until such time that, whatever the Bible means by perfection, is complete.
We know that when Jesus comes again we will be like him. 1 John 3:2 “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not appear what we shall be: but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”
When does this perfection take place? It cannot happen until Jesus appears. The answer is in the verse “when he shall appear.”
I Corinthians 13:9-10 says, “For we know in part, and we prophecy in part. But when that which is perfect (Jesus) has come, then that which is in part shall be done away.”
The Bible is the perfect Word of God, but until the return of Christ the perfect Word of God will not have had its completed perfect work within us.
It is not the Bible that is being perfected, it is us.
The perfecting of the saints is a process.
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind” (Romans 12:2).
This renewing process is by the washing of the water of the word, but it is not the word that is being washed for perfection.
It is the church that God is perfecting, “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish” (Ephesians 5:26-27).
God
has not, and will not remove the gifts and callings that he has given
to the church until the church age is complete.
What he began, he will continue until the appearing of his Son.
“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
That can only happen when we see Jesus, as 1 Corinthians 13:12 states, “face to face.”
Religion changes the words ‘face to face’ to mean ‘cover to cover’ and say that the Bible, since it is perfect, has replaced the gifts and callings of God.
What he began, he will continue until the appearing of his Son.
“For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”
That can only happen when we see Jesus, as 1 Corinthians 13:12 states, “face to face.”
Religion changes the words ‘face to face’ to mean ‘cover to cover’ and say that the Bible, since it is perfect, has replaced the gifts and callings of God.
“Now
this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom
of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption” (1 Corinthians 15:50).
The Bible will not change from corruption to incorruption, nor will it inherit the kingdom of God.
It is us, the saints of God who are made perfect, when as 1 Corinthians 13:10 declares, ‘that which is perfect is come’.
The Bible will not change from corruption to incorruption, nor will it inherit the kingdom of God.
It is us, the saints of God who are made perfect, when as 1 Corinthians 13:10 declares, ‘that which is perfect is come’.
Therefore
my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the
work of the Lord and don’t let anybody tell you that the gifts and
callings of God have been revoked.
Pastor Tilson
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