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Gifts of Grace: The Kingdom and You

I. Structural Gifts Eph.4(11) And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers.

II. Service Gifts Romans 12(6a) Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly.

III. Signature Gifts 1 Cor 12(4-7) 4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord. 6 There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons. 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

Gifts both natural and supernatural are based on God's Grace. I cannot earn them or destroy them. I can only receive them. Spiritual gifts are not mystical interruptions of the divine that temporarily suspend my personality, rather the opposite. God uses them through the uniqueness of my own personality and causes me to will and work toward His good pleasure. My responsibility is to participate with His purposes that affect the destinies of my life and others through the sphere of my influence resulting in His Kingdom manifesting within the earth. (i.e., The Lord's Prayer)• Gen 41(45) Then Pharaoh named Joseph Zaphenath-paneah;

(GOD SPEAKS, GOD LIVES) and he gave him Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On, as his wife. And Joseph went forth over the land of Egypt.

GOD SPEAKS, GOD LIVES

Deut 9(1-5) “Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities fortified to heaven, 2 a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’ 3 Know therefore today that it is the LORD your God who is crossing over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and He will subdue them before you, so that you may drive them out and destroy them quickly, just as the LORD has spoken to you.4 “Do not say in your heart when the LORD your God has driven them out before you, ‘Because of my righteousness the LORD has brought me in to possess this land,’ but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you. 5 It is not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart that you are going to possess their land, but it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD your God is driving them out before you, in order to confirm the oath which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Gen 22 (18)---seed of the A(K)QEDAH

God's Purpose Through the Christ in Us

Eph. 4(7)But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. 8“WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN.”9 (Now this expression, “He ascended,” what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things. (Throne room ministry)

Structural Gifts in Context

Psalms 68(18-20) You have ascended on high, You have led captive Your captives; You have received gifts among men, Even among the rebellious also, that the LORD God may dwell there.19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah.20 God is to us a God of deliverances; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.

• Eph.4(11-13) And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ; 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.

• JN 3(17)“For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

I. Structural Gifts Empower the Saints to Enforce His (Jesus') Victory

Apostles-change earth's

culture to Heaven's culture

Prophets- point to God's purposes

Evangelists- farthest re

aching

Pastors- care for the bride

Teachers- receive double honor

Isaiah 59(1a)Behold, the LORD'S hand is

not so short That it cannot save

Matt.3(2)“Repent, for th

e

kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

It's not about measuring up!

It's about measuring in!

Eph. 4(13) until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to

the fullness of Christ.

Measure = Metron "that which is measured, a determined

extent, a portion measured off."