1 Cor 12:2-3 TPT And if I were to have the gift of prophecy with a profound understanding of God’s hidden secrets, and if I possessed unending supernatural knowledge, and if I had the greatest gift of faith that could move mountains, but have never learned to love, then I am nothing.
And if I were to be so generous as to give away everything I owned to feed the poor, and to offer my body to be burned as a martyr, without the pure motive of love, I would gain nothing of value.
God sees our motive
Self-righteousness is more horrible than sin.
If you think you can do it, you will think you don't need Jesus
1 CORINTHIANS 13:4 TPT
Love is LARGE and INCREDIBLY PATIENT.
Love is gentle and consistently kind to all.
It refuses to be jealous when blessing comes to someone else.
Love does not brag about one’s achievements nor inflate its own importance.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:5 TPT
Love does not traffic in shame and disrespect, nor selfishly seek its own honor.
Love is NOT EASILY IRRITATED or QUICK to TAKE OFFENSE.
The new person inside us is full of compassion and love
God is our Defender
1 CORINTHIANS 13:6-7 TPT
Love joyfully celebrates honesty and finds no delight in what is wrong.
Love is a safe place of SHELTER, for it never stops believing the best for others.
Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up. God's love, He will not give up on you. Love never gives up
1 CORINTHIANS 13:8 TPT
Love never stops loving.
It extends beyond the gift of prophecy, which eventually fades away.
It is more enduring than tongues, which will one day fall silent.
Love remains long after words of knowledge are forgotten.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:9-10 TPT
Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial,
but when love’s perfection arrives, the partial will fade away.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:11 TPT
When I was a child, I spoke about childish matters,
for I saw things like a child and reasoned like a child.
But the DAY CAME when I MATURED, and I SET ASIDE my CHILDISH WAYS.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:12 TPT
For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face.
My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:13 TPT
Until then, there are three things that remain:
FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE—yet LOVE SURPASSES them all.
So ABOVE ALL else, let LOVE be the BEAUTIFUL PRIZE FOR WHICH you RUN.
The five-fold ministry is found in Ephesians 4:11,
and it refers to the five roles that God has called
Christians to fill.Â
All the grace gifts are given to us in our spirit. It is not in the head.
You can through Christ
The way to ministering starts from loving.
Get out of self-consciousness
Prophesy are powerful because it comes out from love
Fiery love means energyIt has to come from Agape love inside us.
Jesus has compassion
Church is the called out ones
Called out from the world
These roles are :-
(1) apostles,
(2) prophets,
(3) evangelists,
(4) pastors, and
(5) teachers.Â
Each of these roles is important not just for the early church but for the body of Christ today to FUNCTION PROPERLY.
What Do Five Fold Ministers Do (Church Government)?
The five-fold ministry exists to equip the church body
for works of service in the new Testament.
EPHESIANS 4:11 NKJV
And He Himself gave some to be apostles,
some prophets, some evangelists,
and some pastors and teachers,
EPHESIANS 4:12 NKJV
for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
Totally different from physical realm
We need 5-fold ministry to operate.
EPHESIANS 4:13 NKJV
till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God,
to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;
Why they got born again? What is the spirit? What is new creation?
Equip, train and teach to know what is their faith
We need this gift to train and be united to the faith
EPHESIANS 4:14 NKJV
that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine,
by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,
EPHESIANS 4:15 NKJV
but, speaking the truth in LOVE, may GROW UP in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—
Every new born again can grow and mature
You are a spirit being.
Growth is spiritual maturity
You know a tree by its fruits
Let go of childish way and thinking
The body is edifying, is maturing