The NXR Podcast - November 14, 2022


DAILY TRUTH - Finding Your Gift

Hosted by
Joel Webbon Harrison Smith Antonio Griffith Dale Partridge Wewsley Todd Calvin Robinson
Mentioned
Timothy Paul Lystra Jamie White Joel Webin Gary DeMar Joe Boot
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Episode Stats


Length

6 minutes

Words per minute

143.12

Word count

991

Sentence count

42


Summary

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In Ephesians 3:14-15, we see how Timothy was scouted by the Apostle Paul, who recognized his spiritual gifts and called him to join him in a more formal position of ministry. God's design is for our spiritual gifts to be recognized and appreciated in the context of service in the local church.

Transcript

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00:00:19 Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone,
00:00:22 but from every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
00:00:25 You're listening to Daily Truth.
00:00:30 Do not wait for some special revelation of your spiritual gift
00:00:34 and never actually get involved in serving the church.
00:00:38 God's design is for our spiritual gifts to be revealed
00:00:41 and recognized in the context of service in the local church.
00:00:46 See, Timothy was already serving the Lord in Lystra when Paul found him.
00:00:54 Timothy's gifts were not supernaturally imparted all at once
00:00:57 in a mystical moment of receiving prayer from the Ephesian elders.
00:01:02 Instead, Timothy's gifts were recognized because he was already using them.
00:01:07 And this is precisely why Timothy was asked to join Paul
00:01:11 in a more formal position of ministry.
00:01:15 So the principle follows like this.
00:01:19 Paul comes to Lystra, Timothy, and the likeness of his mother and grandmother
00:01:25 who entrusted to him this faithful message,
00:01:30 this faithful ministry,
00:01:32 Timothy is exercising his gift in serving the church.
00:01:37 Timothy is meeting the needs of the church there.
00:01:41 And it's likely that as he seeks to faithfully disciple others
00:01:45 in the ways that his grandmother and mother have discipled him,
00:01:50 he's experiencing perhaps more fruit than others in the church
00:01:54 that are making disciples because Timothy in the sovereignty of God has been uniquely equipped with
00:02:01 a particular gift of teaching and when Paul comes to Lystra he takes note of this
00:02:08 and he decides that Timothy should accompany him so Timothy is informally without a title
00:02:18 without a paycheck, without perhaps a formal and public platform,
00:02:26 Timothy is simply using everything at his disposal,
00:02:30 whatever the Lord may have given him to simply meet the needs of the
00:02:35 Christians, the saints around him.
00:02:38 And Paul takes note of this and rewards him as it were with more
00:02:45 opportunity or with with more influence what what was previously perhaps an informal ministry
00:02:54 that timothy possessed now becomes the opportunity for a formal ministry as he now is able and
00:03:03 privileged to accompany an apostle of christ in ministering to many many more but how is it that
00:03:12 this opportunity came upon timothy but you could say in some senses as though the apostle paul was
00:03:19 scouting and timothy the reason why he was scouted out by the apostle paul is because when paul
00:03:28 showed up timothy was playing baseball he was swinging he was throwing he was catching he wasn't
00:03:38 just sitting on the bench saying i would get in the game if a leader in christ church would come
00:03:44 and recognize me and give me a title and perhaps give me at least a part-time pay
00:03:51 and give me a small group give me a ministry that's one of the things i love about this church
00:04:00 i love i love the initiative i love that there are many of you that although right now currently
00:04:07 we don't have any formal small group going on in the church.
00:04:11 I keep hearing about the small groups going on in the church.
00:04:15 Many of you, you have a Sunday night Bible study.
00:04:19 And the elders and I did not officially come and commensurate this Bible study.
00:04:26 We also don't forbid it because as far as I can tell,
00:04:29 I don't have any grounds in this book to say that an elder could prohibit
00:04:34 a christian from teaching the bible in a home to other christians i love that i love that that
00:04:43 there are people who who just without waiting around for someone to come and ignite them
00:04:50 without waiting around for someone to come and give them some sort of formal title a position
00:04:56 that the church is simply just getting off the bench getting in the game and building itself
00:05:03 up in love that's where giftings emerge giftings are not imparted and given by the elders in a
00:05:14 mystical moment giftings are sovereignly given by the holy spirit to whom he wills and they are
00:05:20 recognized and affirmed by the leaders in the church as they're being faithfully exercised
00:05:26 informally. And if the Lord wills, then a formal opportunity will, in good time, present itself.
00:05:35 Houston, we have a problem. I repeat, we have a problem. Our conference is about to sell out. I
00:05:41 mean, about to sell out. We probably have about 75 to 100 seats left. Our venue holds about 525 to
00:05:49 550 seats. And we currently have 450 people who are registered for this conference. The excitement
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00:06:00 We're now at our normal rate, $130 for an adult, $50 for a kid who's 11 to 17 years old,
00:06:07 and kids 10 and under get in free. You can bring the whole family. But the problem is not that
00:06:11 we're going to raise the rate again. The problem is we're going to run out of tickets and we're
00:06:15 going to run out pretty fast. Again, we've got about 100 seats or less. 450 people six months
00:06:22 out are already registered for this conference, we don't want you to miss it. So to ensure that
00:06:27 you get to make it to this conference, you need to register not a month from now, not a week from
00:06:32 now, not tomorrow, but today. You want to be there for the Theonomy and Post-Millennialism Conference
00:06:38 May 5th, 6th, and 7th with James White, Joe Boot, Gary DeMar, Dale Partridge, and yours truly,
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