The NXR Podcast - January 13, 2023


DAILY TRUTH - Are Miraculous Gifts For Today？

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Paul Peter Jesus Christ
DAILY TRUTH - Real Community QUESTIONS - Did The Early Church In Acts Exasperate Its Members？ ｜ Acts 2_46

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6 minutes

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Word count

1,073

Sentence count

106

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The gifts of the apostles and prophets have dwindled down to less than 1% of their former glory! Why does this happen? What role does it play in the life of the church today? And why does it matter?

Transcript

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00:00:41 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,
00:00:44 but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:47 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:52 And so even here in 1 Timothy,
00:00:54 one of the things that we see
00:00:56 is we see the ceasing of the gifts.
00:01:01 We see the ceasing of the gifts of the Spirit.
00:01:04 Because this same Paul, we know from the book of Acts,
00:01:07 his handkerchiefs were taken from him
00:01:09 and passed around to people being whole.
00:01:13 Right?
00:01:13 Take a little wine for your stomach's sake.
00:01:14 Why?
00:01:16 Paul, why don't you just wrap up in that parchment, right,
00:01:18 letter with a handkerchief.
00:01:21 No wine needed.
00:01:22 Right?
00:01:22 Just send him a letter, 1.00
00:01:24 send him a prayer cloth, 1.00
00:01:26 Right? For the low price, only for you, $9.99, you can get this little bottle of water from the Jordan River.
00:01:31 And, you know, like, why not just do that?
00:01:33 Right? I mean, he's an apostle.
00:01:35 I mean, Peter, and Peter being one of Paul's contemporaries, his colleagues, his peer.
00:01:41 Not a peer, not a leader, a peer.
00:01:43 Peter, people would literally, they would map out which direction he was going to be going,
00:01:47 which paths in the villages he's going to be taking,
00:01:50 and what time he would be walking down these certain roads and paths and alleyways, 1.00
00:01:55 so that the people who were infirmed and sick
00:01:57 could get out into the street
00:01:59 hoping that Peter's shadow might pass by them
00:02:03 because they would be healed.
00:02:05 It wasn't superstitious.
00:02:06 It was real.
00:02:08 Peter's shadow healing the sick.
00:02:10 Paul's handkerchief healing the sick.
00:02:13 And here in 1 Timothy, Paul says,
00:02:15 drink some wine.
00:02:17 Why?
00:02:18 Because the message had already been firmly established.
00:02:22 And the sign gifts served strictly as that.
00:02:25 A sign to validate the message.
00:02:29 Now, that doesn't mean that God doesn't still heal to this day.
00:02:32 But there's a difference between praying for healing versus healers.
00:02:37 Right?
00:02:37 So the apostles, what we see is we don't just see prayers of petition.
00:02:42 That word petition is a request.
00:02:44 It's pleading.
00:02:44 It's asking the Lord.
00:02:45 Now, we still plead and ask the Lord for healing.
00:02:48 I actually just prayed for healing right before the service began for one of our members.
00:02:53 But as I prayed, what I didn't do is a prayer petition.
00:02:56 I was pleading and asking the Lord,
00:02:58 knowing that he may heal, he may not.
00:03:01 That's different than a prayer.
00:03:02 Prayer petition is different than a prayer of declaration.
00:03:05 Look at the prayers of Jesus.
00:03:06 Look at the prayers of the apostles.
00:03:10 They don't just plead with the Lord.
00:03:12 They say, rise up and walk.
00:03:14 It's not a petition.
00:03:15 It's a declaration.
00:03:17 Right, but why?
00:03:18 Because the apostles were given
00:03:20 this kind of supernatural power as a sign,
00:03:24 that is, as a badge, as a validation of their authority,
00:03:29 their commissioning as apostles for the message.
00:03:32 And even in Paul's lifetime, even while Paul is still alive,
00:03:37 the gifts are beginning to dwindle a bit.
00:03:41 Not because God doesn't care for the sick anymore.
00:03:43 Not because God doesn't ever do miracles anymore.
00:03:46 We live in God's miraculous world.
00:03:48 but because the foundation had been laid.
00:03:53 As Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians chapter three,
00:03:55 I, as an expert builder, I laid a foundation, right?
00:03:58 And what is this foundation?
00:04:00 It's the apostles and the prophets
00:04:02 with a cornerstone being Christ.
00:04:05 The foundation doesn't need to be relayed.
00:04:07 Our job at Ephesians four, right?
00:04:09 Some of you have heard the five-fold ministry, okay?
00:04:11 Well, really, I'm gonna argue it's fourfold, right?
00:04:14 It's apostles, prophets, evangelists, and shepherd teachers.
00:04:19 In the Greek, they really go together.
00:04:21 Shepherd teachers, it's like shepherd backslash teacher, right?
00:04:24 Like two sides of one coin.
00:04:26 So it's a four-fold ministry, shepherd teachers being one role.
00:04:29 And what is shepherding and teaching?
00:04:31 If anything, it's a pastor.
00:04:33 So we have apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastors.
00:04:37 Apostles and prophets, according to Ephesians 2.20,
00:04:40 they're the foundation on which the church is laid.
00:04:42 And according to 1 Corinthians chapter 3, Paul, as an expert builder, as an apostle himself, laid that foundation.
00:04:48 It is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
00:04:50 It's the law of God and the gospel of God.
00:04:52 It is the scripture.
00:04:53 So the foundation has been laid by apostles and prophets.
00:04:56 We still have apostles and prophets today because we still have their testimony in this book.
00:05:04 The apostles and prophets are still speaking.
00:05:07 They're speaking even now as I exegete and exposit scripture.
00:05:11 But they are foundational.
00:05:13 Now we have evangelists and pastors, the next two workers in Ephesians 4,
00:05:17 coming and building upon what they've already laid.
00:05:19 Not relaying the foundation.
00:05:21 There's only one foundation, and the apostles and prophets have already laid it.
00:05:25 But we now, as evangelists and pastors, are training and equipping the very saints
00:05:30 for the work of ministry.
00:05:31 We're building, setting up framework, right?
00:05:34 We're furnishing, we're doing the plumbing, the electrical, all that kind of stuff,
00:05:37 because the foundation is done.
00:05:38 And we do that until Christ one day returns.
00:05:42 That's the deal.
00:05:44 And even in Paul's own lifetime,
00:05:46 we see the sign gifts beginning to dwindle.
00:05:49 Instead of a handkerchief,
00:05:51 we get instructions to take a little wine
00:05:53 for your stomach's sake.
00:05:54 Why?
00:05:55 Because the sign gifts have served their purpose.
00:05:58 They have validated the apostles' ministry
00:06:00 and the message, that foundation has been laid.
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