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"Exploring the Five-Fold Ministry! part 7! / Entdecken Sie das Fünffache Ministerium! Teil 7!"
Dr. Clay Jackson
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Speaker 1: 0:55

Oh God, bless your people today. Bless your people today, god. Ramasi tayano, ramosata ikayana lalabasi onololabosatayasi Well, praise the Lord everybody, and welcome to Apostolic Mentoring.

Speaker 2: 1:22

I greet you in the mighty name of Jesus from Columbus Ohio in the mighty name of Jesus from Columbus Ohio.

Speaker 1: 1:34

I trust and believe that every one of you had a phenomenal day of Pentecost yesterday, but I pray and believe that that was not just one day in the year, but that it is that the day of Pentecost is happening everywhere, every day, all year long.

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But I pray and believe that this Friday is not just one day in the year, but that it is poured out every day, everywhere in the world.

Speaker 1: 2:11

What a powerful, powerful outpouring of the Spirit that I've been witnessing all over social media.

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I know you saw it as well Many, many hundreds, if not thousands, of people that have been filled with the Holy Ghost.

Speaker 1: 2:38

Yesterday, speaking with other tongues, Matter of fact, I was receiving text messages from many of you that are on apostolic mentoring telling me what happened in your own local services, and I am just rejoicing with you.

Speaker 2: 3:06

That's what apostolic mentoring is all about. Getting rid of that mentality that only a small amount of people can do kingdom work. God wants to use every single one of us in this last day's harvest.

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Which is going to be billions.

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It is just a fact. Get over it. God's going to have the biggest victory ever in these last days.

Speaker 1: 3:50

So we're all a part of the kingdom mission of equipping millions to reach billions. If you pastor a local church, you're a part of the kingdom mission Equipping millions to reach billions. Every apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor and teacher globally is a part of equipping millions to reach billions.

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Billions.

Speaker 1: 4:38

I'm just. My heart is overwhelmed just to be able to play a small part in God's in-time global harvest. That's how every one of us ought to feel every one of us ought to feel. Whatever part God wants us to play let's play it with all our hearts. The worst thing we can do in the last days of the church is be jealous or in competition with our brothers and sisters in Christ, we ought to just rejoice and celebrate how God is using everybody in his church with his apostolic ministries in this last hour.

Speaker 2: 5:36

Wir müssen uns darüber freuen und wir müssen feiern, wie Gott seine Leute im Königreich in seiner Kirche in dieser letzten Stunde benutzt.

Speaker 1: 5:44

Oh, my goodness, I'm not supposed to be talking so much. Sister Robinette tells me every week you talk so much at the beginning.

Speaker 2: 5:52

Und ich sollte nicht so viel sprechen. Schwester Robinette sagt mir jede Woche du sprichst zu viel am Anfang and I shouldn't talk so much. Sister Robinette tells me every week you talk too much at the beginning. And then she says I talk too much at the end. But I tell her I'm not supposed to talk in the middle. So technically I'm doing my job.

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I am so excited about what God is doing.

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I hope that you already heard the great report of what God did on Sunday in El Salvador.

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We had 612 receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, over 250 testify of miracles. When I went outside and saw the big swimming pool outside of the open air stadium, I got to watch 23 people baptized in Jesus' name and what a great hour to be a part of the kingdom of God hour to be a part of the kingdom of God. Okay, when. I post this episode today well when I put all the details into the Facebook. I'm going to put three things that you've got to three podcasts you've got to listen to immediately.

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I'm going to put three podcasts in the details that you should listen to.

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Number one you've got to go to Ryan Franklin's podcast and listen to the episode that he and I did together. It was amazing.

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Number one you have to go to Ryan Franklin's podcast and listen to the episode episode that he and I did together. It was amazing. And when I finally shut up here today, I will put it in the post here on Zoom as well.

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Then on Monday last week I believe it was, or maybe it was Tuesday while I was still in El Salvador, I got to be a part of the Western District Advanced Ministry Training. Brother Romero is with us today, a minister from that area.

Speaker 2: 8:37

And wow, that advanced session was phenomenal. Und am Montag oder Dienstag letzte Woche hatte ich das Privileg, bei einem westlichen Distrikt diensttraining dabei zu sein.

Speaker 1: 8:40

That's so great. Sister Adler is beast mode. That was phenomenal. Great job, right, brother Romero. If you can find that link and just put it into the Zoom chat, I'll copy it and put it on Facebook as well. Wow, that session with the Western District was great.

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And if you guys are not following, dear Girls, and if you guys are not following Dear Girls, all of you need to get connected with the Instagram, Facebook, whatever, YouTube Dear Girls channel.

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Look, you guys know I love the partnership of faith.

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Every good thing I'm going to talk about it.

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But I love Sister Parky and what she is doing with Dear Girls is amazing, and I'm seeing a bunch of texts or messages here in the chat saying you're already connected and you love it, so that's wonderful, thank you. But we are just thrilled today to have Dr Clay Jackson with us once more. He did not say your name right, dr Jackson. Did you see that? She just went right through that.

Speaker 2: 10:21

I'll get it next time.

Speaker 1: 10:25

Dr Clay Jackson.

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Dr Clay Jackson is by us.

Speaker 1: 10:29

Nice. That was awesome. She was trying to imitate our Spanish translator.

Speaker 2: 10:37

I tried to imitate the Spanish translator.

Speaker 1: 10:39

She was showing solidarity with our Spanish translator, who never likes to say the names right.

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And I just wanted to show my solidarity so that no one feels alone.

Speaker 1: 10:50

This is the problem with these apostolic translators they are in such unity that they even support each other in areas of getting names wrong. So obviously there is a downside to the partnership of faith. See how she hesitated. She didn't even want to say it. We are so thrilled to have Dr Jackson with us. We love this man of God. He is a dear, dear friend. Yeah, this Dr Jackson just put in the chat. He said this is where Sister Robinette says please be quiet. I love Dr Jackson. He is my friend. He is the friend of the kingdom of God. He has written an amazing apostolic book that is in the final little throes of the process of being printed. I want everybody to know this is normal when you print with a big printing company. It takes them six months to a year to put out a book.

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But that doesn't mean that all of us have to have a right spirit about it. We can all be angry and sin not. I'm angry every morning that I wake up and Dr Jackson's book has not been released. But I cannot wait for this book on the five-fold ministry. I know it's going to bless the kingdom of God.

Speaker 1: 13:12

We have all been blessed by that book in so many ways, by the six sessions that we've had with Dr Jackson in the last six months. But we love you, doc. Take your time, speak to us, and we sure, sure appreciate your ministry.

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Praise the Lord everyone.

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It's such a privilege and a blessing to be with you and we so appreciate, brother and Sister Robinette, and all that the Lord is doing through their ministry. We give honor to every authentic apostolic ministry that is represented on this call today. I cannot tell you how wonderful the Lord has been to me through these meetings. I have felt challenged and I have felt anointed and I have felt encouraged and inspired.

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So I thank you for the opportunity.

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Pastor Robinette.

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Pastor Robinette, could you allow me to share my screen?

Speaker 3: 14:55

I was told that today you were scheduled to be with Brother Morgan, and I am not Brother Morgan.

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He is.

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I'm not half the man Brother Morgan is. I love Brother Morgan, he's amazing. I hope you're not disappointed he's not here, but we'll enjoy his ministry another day.

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I believe that the Lord wants to speak to us today. His ministry, another day. I believe that the Lord wants to speak to us today.

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And.

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I believe that we will have a sovereign move of his spirit during our session today.

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This is my desire and this has been my prayer.

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This is my desire, this has been my prayer. If I could take just one minute and ask for you to be in prayer for our family. I believe that over the last 24 hours, we have been under a spiritual attack.

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Yesterday my daughter fell two times and hit her head. She is two years old. This morning my wife called to tell me that she had fallen down three of the stairs at our home. I was getting ready at a different building and during the time that my daughter fell, I also fell down a full flight of stairs that my daughter fell, I also fell down a full flight of stairs.

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Everyone is okay, but this all seems too much to be a coincidence and I just ask you for prayer. God is blessing our church and blessing our family and I just feel that we are vulnerable at this time and we need the protection of the Lord.

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So, if just for a moment, where you are, if you pray for the Jackson family, it would be a wonderful privilege to be prayed for by you and for the Lord to honor your prayers. Please, if you could just pray for our family right now. Lord, we thank you, jesus, for your people, and we humbly ask, lord, that you honor our agreed petition. Thank you, father, for this ministry of apostolic ministry blessing our family, and we thank you for your protection and peace. We thank you for your goodness and your grace that is surrounding us and we proclaim victory today in your name, because no weapon formed against any of us can prosper. This is a promise from your word. We receive it today in the name of Jesus. Thank you, lord, thank you, lord, thank you all so much, and I greatly, greatly appreciate it so much, and I greatly, greatly appreciate it Is everyone seeing my slide.

Speaker 3: 18:29

No, sir, so far I don't see anything. I apologize. Now you're seeing my screen.

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Yes, sir.

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Today I want to speak with you for a moment about gifts and impartation. Obviously, we're referring here to spiritual gifts and we're referring to how we utilize those gifts within the body of Christ, but also how that we, as leaders, can encourage others to discover, to develop, to receive and to utilize gifts in an appropriate fashion.

Speaker 2: 19:09

Today I would like to talk about gifts and messages, and, of course, we are talking about spiritual gifts and messages here.

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This is an important principle. Within the body of Christ, offices outlive the office bearer, but gifts do not. If there's a pastor in a church, the church expects to have a pastor, and when that pastor moves on to glory or to heaven, they will expect to have a pastor there, because that is an office. But if you are used in a gift of miracles or a gift of healing and you do not impart that gift, or if God raises up no one else, then that gift goes with you.

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But if you give in the gift of miracles or healing and no one comes after you who can pass it on to you when you are no longer there, then this gift goes with you.

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What I'm trying to communicate here is that positions are passed on, but gifts are not in a natural sense. So for each of us who are used in spiritual gifts, used in spiritual gifts. We must seek to mentor others and to impart to others the gifts that God has within us, in order that the body may be well supplied with what it needs.

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Pastor Robinette has rightly exhorted today that we should rejoice in what God does in each of us, and it is also important that we look to future generations to bear these gifts for the body to bear these gifts for the body.

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Let's speak for a moment about the purpose of spiritual gifts. God uses spiritual gifts to supernaturally empower his church.

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But this empowerment is for our missional accomplishment. That mission has three parts To glorify God, to edify the body and to testify to the world In. English this is easy to remember. As G-E-T, we get the mission. We glorify, edify and testify. I'm sorry, I don't have a better way to remember it in other languages.

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Now, through the operation of the gifts, we see that our prayers for the kingdom of God to bear.

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We do not seek to accomplish these things for religious pride. We do not seek to accomplish these things for personal validation. We do not seek to accomplish these things to win a religious competition. We seek to accomplish these things because, from Adam and Eve forward, god desires partners. Adam and Eve failed in their mission. Noah and his family failed in their mission. Noah and his family failed in their mission. Moses and his people failed in their mission.

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Abraham and his family failed in their mission and that they did not faithfully partner with God without fault.

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And yet Christ has come as the man who represents God in his fullness. He was fully God, fully human.

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He was fully God, fully human, and he has opened a doorway to a new type of humanity. We are a new kind of creature, paul says If we are in Christ and now we can accomplish the purpose that God set before Adam, and that is to bring God's good governance and God's good grace to the entire earth, this will not happen through political change.

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This will not happen through economic miracles.

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This will not happen through education, but it will happen when a mighty revival sweeps this planet and our God says that in the last days he will pour out his spirit upon all flesh. Lift your head today, because we are laboring under the pressure of a prophecy. We may be sailing stormy seas today, but the wind of prophecy is at our back. God's church is going forward and he will accomplish his purpose in us. Let's take a look at the different types of gifts that are listed in the New Testament. One word for gifts is charismata.

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This is where there's a group of people who call themselves charismata. This is where there's a group of people who call themselves charismatics. They derive their name from this Greek word. The people who identify themselves as charismatics often want the gifts of God without the responsibilities of God. They want the power of God without covenantal distinctions. But even in the story of Moses we were warned that God does not want his servants to have supernatural power without covenant distinctions.

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Aber selbst wenn wir Mose lesen, warnt Gott davor dass Gott nicht möchte dass die Gaben in Kraft benutzt werden ohne diese Versprechen. After Moses was given the key to the miraculous in his life, he had not completed the covenant sacrifice of circumcision. Therefore, god sent an angel to kill him. But his wife intervened and she said we need to accomplish circumcision for our family. What is the point of this story in the Bible?

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I submit to you the point of this story in the Bible.

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I submit to you the point of the story is that if we're going to operate in supernatural power, we have to operate in supernatural submission. If we're not willing to limit our flesh, we are dangerous. A spiritually gifted Christian who's an undisciplined Christian is a dangerous Christian. So I urge you today to be fully apostolic. Be modest in your dress, your appearance and your speech. Be holy in your conduct. Be holy in your thoughts and your passions. Do not apologize for our gender distinctions. Do not apologize in having your hair, as a man, styled as it should be.

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Do not apologize, as a woman, for having long hair, which is a glory to you before the Lord.

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Covenantal distinctions and not earn us spiritual power. You cannot earn a gift. A gift is a gift is a gift.

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A gift is a gift is a gift, but our covenant keeps us safe within the gifts that we have. If I give my son keys to a car, and I tell him you have to learn how to drive it. He's not earning the gift through his knowledge.

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But he's protecting himself and those around him by what he's learning.

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So our covenant distinctions and our sacrifices for God protect us in its operation.

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The general word for gift in the New Testament is Dorea.

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The general word for gift in the New Testament is Dorea. The gift of the Holy Ghost is referred to by this Greek word in Acts 2 and Acts 10. This is a general gift of God. In 1 Corinthians 12, Paul uses the word phanerosis and this refers to manifestation. If you've heard of the nine spiritual gifts, people are speaking of the nine manifestation gifts. Paul also uses the word domata in Ephesians 4. This is what many refer to as the fivefold ministry.

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And Paul classifies these roles as equipping gifts.

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They are domata equipping gifts.

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Let's take a look at what these gifts look like together.

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Where do spiritual gifts come from?

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James 1 and 17 says every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights.

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And three times in Corinthians. Paul confirms James' word that all spiritual gifts come from God. No one but God can give you a spiritual gift. And yet Paul in Romans, chapter 1, says I desire to impart to you a spiritual gift, and he admonished Timothy to stir up the gift which was given to him by the laying on of hands of the presbytery. So this seems to be a controversy.

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Do gifts come from God or do they come from the ministry?

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Could I submit to you today this thought Gifts are given by God, but they are shared by the ministry. For many years I delivered babies in my physical medical practice. I did not make that life God created that life, but I helped to bring that life into the world and some families would say thank you for giving us this baby.

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But I didn't give the life, I just helped the life.

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I shared the life. This is what happens when we impart spiritual gifts to others. We are not the original giver of the gift.

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We do not control the gift. We did not generate the gift.

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But we are privileged to share the gift and to encourage it in others, and so gifts are given by God, but mediated through the body of Christ.

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What is the purpose of spiritual gifts? 1 Peter, 4 and 11 says we are to glorify God in our gifts. If you are doing anything in a gathering of Christians that does not glorify God, it is not the use of a spiritual gift. When you are finished with what you're doing and people glorify you rather than God, it was demonstrated in the wrong spirit.

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Every exercise of a spiritual gift should point straight to the glory of Jesus Christ. Gifts also edify the body of Christ. When a gift is being properly used, it does not elevate the gift user, but it elevates the entire body. You see the difference in the church and the world system. In the world system. If there is a talented artist, they are elevated and admired for their gift. If there's an athlete who wins a competition, they place them on a pedestal and give them a medal.

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But in the body of Christ. Paul says we are seated together in heavenly places. This is so exciting to me. When a spiritual gift is exercised as God desires, the entire body is lifted up, because we don't glorify each other, we glorify the Lord, and if we glorify him, he will edify us. We're not like the world. We don't lift up individuals and personalities, we lift up the Lord, and when we lift up the Lord, he edifies his body. The final purpose of gifts is to testify to the world.

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The final purpose of gifts is to testify to the world. Jesus prophesied that the gift of the Holy Ghost would empower his people and this witness would cover the whole earth. Once again, friend, Jesus himself has prophesied our mission will be successful.

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Don't be fooled by the culture around us. Don't be discouraged by the times that we live in. This gospel is going to cover the whole earth. Habakkuk says the glory of God is going to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea. Victory is inevitable for those who are faithful. How do we know a gift is real? Many people claim a gift. We may ourselves doubt whether something that we desire is truly a spiritual gift. Firstly, there is the witness of the Spirit that is given by God. Secondly, it is confirmed by the ministry in the body.

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Secondly, it is confirmed by the ministry in the body. If your gift is legitimate, it will be recognized by credible ministers and credible Christians.

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If you think you have a gift and no one recognizes it, you may be delusional.

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The Bible says that a person's gift makes room for him.

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If God truly has given you a gift, he will make room for it to be utilized in his body.

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He will make room for it to be utilized in his body.

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You will never have to fight.

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You will never have to contend in order to utilize a gift. We fight and contend for personalities but we don't have to do this for the gifts of God. Gifts do not support a ministry, they edify a body. Gifts are not to increase us, they are to increase him.

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This is why, when you see someone on television or the internet and they're advertising their gifts, this is usually not a good sign. Usually, someone who is trying to build a personal brand is not a credible minister. They're lifting up themselves and not edifying the body.

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Right.

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It is very important that each gift be administered in the character of God. Did you notice that Charismata contains the word charis? This is where we get our English word charity, or love. It is a free gift of grace and must be exercised in love. You see here a representation of the Old Testament priesthood, and many ministers have made this point, but I want to remind you that the hem of the garment of the priest had bells alternating with representations of pomegranates Bell, pomegranate, bell, pomegranate. This means that the manifestation of the gift must alternate with the demonstration of the fruit the demonstration of the fruit.

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If we are gifted people and gifted ministers but we are not fruitful, we are out of balance. If we use the gifts of God without the character of Christ but not in the fruits, then we are also without use.

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If we use the gifts of God without the character of Christ, then we do something bad to the church. Let's look at the different gifts that are recorded in the New Testament. Many of you will be familiar with the nine manifestation gifts listed in the upper left-hand corner.

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I have listed prophecy rather than in manifestation gifts. I've listed it as an equipping gift and that's why we have eight and you see the five equipping gifts, which are often called the fivefold ministry.

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The reason that I'm grouping them here is because Paul groups them here as equipping gifts.

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I believe that it is important to see these speaking ministries in the total context of the gifts that God gives to the church. We also see in 1 Corinthians 12 and Romans 12 what I have called service gifts Hospitality, health, giving, intercession, mercy, encouragement, leadership, administration, craftsmanship and creative communication. None of these gifts are more important than others. They each contribute to the welfare of the body and the testimony of the gospel. I will give an example from my family.

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My mother was not used in any of the manifestation gifts.

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But she was used in hospitality and she was used in intercession. She loved to minister to people through hospitality and she loved to pray for people and the gospel was moved forward because of her hospitality and her intercession.

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The last week that she was alive she stopped a suicide and a lady received the Holy Ghost because of her intercession. This was while she was lying on her deathbed with cancer. So whatever gifts God has, given us.

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We should be happy about it and use it for his glory.

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I want to make a point which is very critical here. You will notice that mercy and faith are both gifts.

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Not everyone has the gift of mercy and not everyone has the gift of faith has the gift of faith. But every Christian must be merciful and every person who pleases God must have faith. So what does this mean? Each one must have faith, each one must have mercy.

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Each one must have faith, each one must have mercy, but some have a supernatural level of faith and mercy For a specific purpose and a specific time. Why am I making this point to you? Many people who deny the infilling of the Holy Ghost deny the existence of tongues and they point to 1 Corinthians 12 and they say not everyone has the gift of tongues. And they say that not everyone has the gift of interpretation.

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But they are using a false logic. Remember that everyone must have faith, but not everyone has the gift of faith.

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Remember that everyone must have faith, but not everyone has the gift of faith. Friends, this means that everyone who receives the Holy Spirit will speak with tongues, but not everyone has the gift of tongues.

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The initial sign of the infilling of the Spirit. We know to be speaking in tongues, but when Paul speaks as a gift of tongues, he means tongues which are used for corporate interpretation and corporate edification.

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So I hope that you remember about faith and mercy to counteract this false argument. We all have faith, but we not all have gifted faith.

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We all speak in tongues, but not everyone has the gift of faith.

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We all speak in tongues, but not everyone has the gift of tongues. Because the gift of tongues is distinct from the gift of the Holy Ghost. Speaking in tongues as a Spirit-filled believer is distinct from the gift of tongues for interpretation.

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Paul mentions spiritual gifts in three texts in his letters.

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Romans, corinthians and Ephesians.

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Paulus speaks of gifts of service, gifts of manifestation and gifts of equipping. They all mention the body of Christ in the context of the gift use context of the gift use. Love is the character of the Lord that is to be used. In giving these gifts and using these gifts, the purpose of the gifts is listed as edification in each text.

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And God's will is to be performed as results of the gifts in each text.

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I hope that you can see. The gifts are about the body, the gifts are about love, the gifts are about edification and gifts are about performing God's will.

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It's not about us, it's not about our ministry. The unvirtuous cycle is all action, no love, no impact.

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But God's desired approach is gospel action.

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Our divine love leads to kingdom impact. This is how we use our spiritual gifts.

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I want to close today by offering you a prophetic challenge.

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I want to challenge you to use the gifts that God has given you for maximum impact.

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Particularly for those of you that are in speaking ministry, I want you to contemplate and meditate on how you can have the greatest impact for God. Just because we are speaking before people doesn't mean that the eternal impact is happening Without the word of God. We have oration without proclamation.

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It is not enough to make a speech proclamation. Ohne das Wort Gottes haben wir Rede, ohne es zu proklamieren.

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It is not enough to make a speech.

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Es ist nicht genug, eine Rede zu halten.

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The word of God must be front and center.

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Das Wort Gottes muss vorne stehen.

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The elevation of Jesus must be front and center. Die Erhebung von Jesus muss ganz vorne sein. The elevation of Jesus must be front and center. If I finish speaking and people don't view Jesus and honor the word, I have failed. In order to proclaim the gospel, I must preach the word and I must exalt Christ. Nothing else, nothing else. Nothing else has eternal value. My humor does not have eternal value. My intellect does not have eternal value.

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My intellect does not have eternal value.

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My personality does not have eternal value, but the word of God and the presence of Christ has eternal value. Can we recommit ourselves to focusing on the word of the Lord and the presence of his spirit each time that we are before the people, assuming that we are proclaiming the gospel?

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assuming that we are proclaiming the gospel.

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I tell you that without authority, we have proclamation without demonstration. It is one thing to proclaim the gospel, but it is another to bring spiritual authority in order that the gospel can be demonstrated. Paul told the Corinthians I didn't come to you with enticing words of men's wisdom words of men's wisdom.

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I came to you in the power and the demonstration of the Spirit.

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Let us not have a form of godliness, but deny its power.

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We can deny the power of the gospel not just in our minds and not just with our voice. But it's possible to deny the power of the gospel in our actions by not having the faith to allow it to have its intended effect.

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Sister Adler, you're doing wonderful. I don't care how you pronounce my name, You're doing great. Finally, without brokenness. Without brokenness, we have demonstration. Without impartation, in order to impart spiritual gifts, we must be broken. Paul said in 2 Corinthians 4 and 7, we have a treasure within earthen vessels.

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Paulus sagt in 2. Korinther 4, 7 Wir haben aber diesen Schatz in ihren Gefäßen, denn die Exzellenz der Kraft ist in Gott und nicht in uns.

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Can I remind you today that if people remember us, we have failed.

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And if people remember him, we have succeeded.

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It is possible to speak before people and proclaim the gospel and to have wonderful demonstrations of the power of the gospel, but if they don't remember him, they won't have a gift imparted unto them. Don't pray for more power in your ministry. You have power after you have the Holy Spirit. If you have authority in the Spirit. Don't pray that you'll have more ability to demonstrate yourself.

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Friends friends, brothers and sisters, we have to pray that we'll have more ability to demonstrate him, because when our flesh is broken, when our will is broken, god is free to pour out through us his spirit and his gifts on others. This is the difference in laying the hands on the sick and they recover, and laying hands on someone else, and they can lay hands in the sick and recover. I want to operate in power and I want to operate in victory, because this appeals to me.

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Because this appeals to me. But if I'm willing to minister in brokenness, God can move through me and bring impartation to others. My time is finished today. But, I pray that God would baptize us with a spirit of brokenness and humility.

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I pray that we would operate in humility and love, that the power and authority of our Lord will be unhindered and his gifts will be imparted to others within the body, that we all may decrease and he may increase in his kingdom decrease and he may increase in his kingdom. Pastor Robinette, I wish for you to conclude our session today. Do what you feel, lead us in prayer if you would like.

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But please assume control at this time.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord. I was sitting here just letting this word marinate in my system. Really, this comes down to our motives. Why do I want to be used of God? Why do I want these giftings, or how we call it ministries or offices? Why do I want to preach that meeting? Why do I want to be used in this way? I really feel like the Holy Ghost is calling us to the purification of our motives. It's not about us, it's about the kingdom. It's not about being an influencer in this world, but it's about making an impact in the kingdom of God. I want my heart to be pure. I want my spirit, my attitude, the why. I want the why to be pure. I think it would be so healthy today, at the end of this session.

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I think it would be so healthy today, at the end of this session, that all of us would just take ourselves off mute for a few moments.

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And that we would just begin to seek the Lord. Lost in there, Sister Adler.

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That we would begin to seek the Lord that we would call upon the name of the Lord. Thank you.

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Let us pray. I thirst after you and your righteousness.

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I ask you for the glory of the Lord. I ask you for the glory of the Lord. I ask you for the glory of the Lord. I ask you for the glory of the Lord.

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I ask you for the glory of the Lord, I ask you for the glory of the Lord.

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I ask you for the glory of the Lord. I ask you for the glory of the Lord. I ask you for the glory of the.

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Lord, I ask you for the glory of the Lord, god, I love us. So, hey, god bless you. Praise God, praise God, hallelujah, it's good ground that produces good fruit.

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It's good ground that produces good fruit.

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It's good ground that produces good gifting You're going to get. Whatever you are is what you're going to produce If all you're going to produce. If all you're about is making a name for yourself, then everything you do is going to be it's going to be painted with selfish motives.

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But if you have a love for the kingdom, the love for the kingdom.

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A love for the partnership of faith. A love for the Lord, operating where he wants, when he wants, how he wants.

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Good ground, good fruit. This is why I love what Dr Jackson said We've got to have the character of God.

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Character has got to be the most important thing we pursue.

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Charakter muss das Wichtigste sein, dem wir nachgehen.

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Wenn wir den Gaben nachgehen, ohne dem Charakter nachzugehen, dann tun wir der Kirche etwas Schlechtes.

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Deswegen ist es so wertvoll.

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This is why it's so valuable.

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Before you pray for the gifts of the Spirit, before you pray for apostolic ministry, why don't you pray for apostolic fruit? Create a foundation of fruit.

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Because the foundation of apostolic fruit can handle any apostolic gift. I have yet to find a man or woman of God that is full of the fruit of the Spirit, that is operating the gifts incorrectly. And I've seen a lot of people that operate the gifts incorrectly. You can't find the evidence of any fruit in their life at all.

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Lack of fruit. Lack of good ground.

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Lack of fruit.

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Lack of good ground.

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Is always going to produce the inappropriate or lack of kingdom value in apostolic gifting. I want to have a right heart.

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Right motives, right character and right fruit, then I can do anything in the kingdom of God. Thank you, dr Jackson, for this great kingdom critical word today. We love you so much. You are so valuable to the kingdom. Your family is so valuable to the kingdom. We honor you and your precious wife, and all of us on Apostolic Mentoring and those who are watching from afar are going to be praying for you and your family.

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I know that even now the Lord is putting a hedge all about you Ministering strength to your family. Giving you peace that passes understanding.

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In Jesus' name. Don't forget. Next Monday, 1 pm Eastern Time. We are so excited about what God is going to do in our apostolic mentoring session next week. One of our faves is going to be with us. Sister Janine Brown is going to be on apostolic mentoring. I just got a phone call on my screen. Does everybody in the world, do they not know apostolic mentoring is going on. I just found the one person who does not know about apostolic mentoring and I'm going to call them right after this session and tell them apostolic mentoring is every Monday at 1 pm Eastern Time.

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I can't wait to tell that one person that they interrupted an apostolic mentoring session when I was promoting Sister Janine Brown. But we're so excited to have Sister Brown with us next week. Great apostolic missionary, tremendous evangelist family. Her husband's going to get to be on apostolic mentoring September I believe it's the 9th or something. We are so excited about that. But Sister Brown has written a book and we're going to promote that book next week and, as a matter of fact, sister Brown is mailing me 10 signed copies of her book.

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Sending me 10 signed copies of her book and we are going to give them away in the middle of apostolic mentoring next week and we are going to give them away to whoever is sharing apostolic mentoring. The most. So when this session ends today, I'm going to be watching share apostolic mentoring. Put a thumbs up like all that good junk.

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Make a video and tell everybody how great apostolic mentoring is and tag us in it. Whoever does the coolest, most creative promotions of apostolic mentoring. We're giving a free book of Sister Janine's first awesome book. I can't wait to share it with you. Sister Brown, we love you. Dr Jackson, we love you.

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Next week, 1 pm Eastern Time.

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All right, take yourselves up, mute, say goodbye, we'll catch you next week. Thank you, brother Jackson.

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God bless you. Thank you, Brother Jackson. God bless you, Brother Robin. God bless you God, bless you God bless you God bless you, god bless you.

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Sister Fluey love you. Oh, my goodness, glad to hear your voice.

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Sister Clark, good to see you.

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God bless you. God bless you, Brother Tom.