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!!! We’re going to pick up where we left off last time.
We were talking about those in any ministry position need to be proven 1st. 1 Tim 3:1
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I. In Verse 1 it is talking about an BISHOP or an OVERSEER.
Apparently, an OVERSEER is the same thing as an elder.
!! A. Look at Verse 5.
!!! 1. Notice “Take care of the Church of God.”
!! B. Verse 6 “Not a Novice.”
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Not someone that is young in the Lord, But mature.
!!!! a) A good way to determine your age in the Lord is to ask yourself how many years you’ve been serving the Lord.
!!!! b) This may not be exact because matures at a different rate.
!!!!! (1) Once you have 30 or 40 years in with the Lord, you know something.
!!!!! (2) That doesn’t mean that we can’t learn from someone that has less years with the Lord.
!!! 2. Maturity is not really based on how many years you’ve been with the Lord, but rather on how you act.
!! C. Let’s turn to Phil 1:1.
!!! 1. Bishops (Overseers) & Elders are apparently the same thing.
It’s 2 words used to mean the same thing.
!!!! a) Like we use the word Christian, but we also use the word Saint, or the word Believer.
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II.
Now if God does call you to the 5-flod ministry, you need time to be alone with the Lord.
!! A. If God does call you, He will equip you.
(Supernatural equipment)
!!! 1. Rom 11:29
!!! 2. (Rom 1:6 from the Message translation), “Through him we received both the generous gift of his life and the urgent task of passing it on to others who receive it by entering into obedient trust in Jesus.
You are who you are through this gift and call of Jesus Christ!” *[1]*
!!!! a) You don’t have to struggle to find you position.
God will use you right where you are and He will promote.
!!!!! (1) If He is not in it, it will fall apart.
!! B. Once you know that God has called you, you need to be a man or woman of integrity.
!!! 1. Look at Psa 15:4 (NIV Says, “who despises a vile man but honors those who fear the Lord, who keeps his oath even when it hurts,”*[2]*).
!! C. Develop.
Mature.
Grow
!!! 1. Ministries are developed.
Take time to develop the ministerial gift.
!!! 2. It takes time for people to become equipped to do what God has for them to do.
!!!! a) It take time to learn how to flow in the anointing.
!!!! b) They must not only be equipped; they must mature or Grow in the Lord (much growth)
!!!!! (1) It take years..
!!! 3. Usually people start out in a different area of ministry from what God called them to.
!!!! a) Saul (Paul) is named as one of the 5 prophets and~/or teachers in Acts 13.
Later the New Testament calls him an apostle.
!!!! b) But he didn’t start out with an apostle’s ministry.
He started out as a prophet and a teacher.
!!! 4. Philip started out in the ministry of helps (Acts 6:1-6).
He was faithful in that office.
Later he was moved to the office of evangelist (Acts 8; 21:8).
!!!! a) If God called you to pastor, you will not begin pastoring a church of 2000.
!!!! b) You would not know how to handle the job.
You may start with a small flock, or as an assistant, or associate pastor, youth pastor, etc.
!!!! c) God may have called you to be an evangelist.
You may eventually preach to 5000.
But you won’t start out preaching to 5000.
You may start out by preaching to 5.
!!!! d) Do not despise the day of small things (Zech.
4:10).
!!!!! (1) Take time to wait and see what God wants you to do.
Let God make you the minister He wants you to be.
!!!!! (2) Don’t say, “I choose this office.”
You cannot choose.
!!! 5. Don’t try to be like someone else.
!!!! a) Just be yourself.
Take the truth of God’s Word that is revealed to you and let God use your personality to inject it.
Then it becomes your message.
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Don’t just say, “I’m a teacher.”
Stop and wait and find out whether that is what you are or not.
!!!! c) Just because you had one revelation, or given a few words of prophecy, don’t say, “I’m a prophet.”
!!!!! (1) From all probability you are not.
!!!!! (2) Even if your call were a prophet, you couldn’t enter it right away.
You wouldn’t be capable.
!!!! d) God will not violate His own rules.
His Word says not to put a novice in the office of deacon (1 Tim.
3:6).
!!!!! (1) He will not put a beginning deacon into an office of an elder.
!!!!! (2) He will not put a beginning elder into the position of a pastor or evangelist.
!!!!! (3) He will not put a beginning pastor, evangelist or teacher into the office of a prophet or an apostle.
Maturity has to take place.
!!!!!! (a) God will not put an immature Christian or an immature preacher into the office of prophet.
!!!!! (4) God is the God of order.
Things develop step after step.
!!!!!! (a) The Bible says that we walk by faith, step after step.
It's not a leap of faith, that's dangerous.
!!!! e) If God called you and set you in an office, you won’t have to advertise it, anyway.
People will find out eventually.
If they do not, it is not your place.
!!!!! (1) Don't push for it because if that's not the place God wants you to be in and you push to get into that position, you’ll just make a mess of everything.
!!!!! (2) If the ministry is there in embryo stage, it will develop as you are faithful.
!!!!! (3) Realize that the call of God is there.
Then be faithful to work for God wherever you are.
(To preach and to teach is always right.)
Eventually — when you reach some maturity, both mentally and spiritually — God will let you know what your calling is.
!!! 6.
Take time to wait on God.
Take time to fast and pray.
Take time to find His perfect will for your life and ministry.
!!!! a) Intruding into the wrong office can cost you your life./
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!!!! b) Holy things are holy.
!!!! c) In the Old Testament if someone besides the High Priest intruded into the Holy of Holies, he fell dead instantly.
He had intruded into the wrong office.
!!!! d) The calling of God is holy.
!!!!! (1) The ministry of God is holy
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III.
One of the most fascinating things concerning the ministry gifts of Christ is their variety.
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