17/02/2024
Good afternoon brethren in Christ
We're going to continue were we stop yesterday about THE COMING RESTORATION
DATE: 17/02/2024
TOPIC: THE COMING RESTORATION
Present by: Ezekiel oluwasegun olawore OMO ANU..
Chapter 4
RESTORATION OF GIFTS
God’s endtime plan includes a time of restoration of His glory, a time of restoration of His power, and a time of restoration of His gifts and ministries to the Church.
In Ephesians 4:11, you’ll find that when Christ ascended on High, He gave gifts to men: some apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting—or maturing—of the Body of Christ.
Our mistake has been that we’ve only
recognized three of these ministry gifts: the pastor, the evangelist, and the teacher. For the Church to ever be what She ought to be, and for us to have the ministry and do the work God intended, we must have the manifestation of the fivefold ministry. We must recognize the ministry gifts, honor them, and permit them to function in the way God wants them to function.
We also must recognize what we call the gifts or manifestations of the Holy Spirit: the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healings, the working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, divers kinds of tongues, and interpretation of tongues (1 Cor. 12:8–10).
Now notice the next verse, First Corinthians 12:11, “But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.”
Notice He is not dividing the gift; He is dividing the manifestation of the gift.What we call the gifts of the Spirit belong to the Church. They have existed all the time; they have just been lying dormant. The manifestation of them is
given to individual members of the Body of Christ as the Spirit wills.
We also need to understand this: Those who stand in the fivefold ministry offices are more or less equipped with some of these spiritual gifts in order to function in their offices. For instance, to stand in the office of a prophet, one must have a consistent manifestation of at least two of the revelation gifts (word of wisdom, word of knowledge, or discerning of spirits) plus prophecy.
A prophet is one who has visions and revelations; the word of knowledge operates in prophets. On the other hand, any believer may have a manifestation of the word of knowledge as the need arises.
There is going to be a renewal of the
spiritual gifts.
In conclusion, turn to another portion of Scripture:
LUKE 5:36–38
36 And he [Jesus] spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old
37 And no man [no man!] putteth new wine into old bottles [or wineskins]; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
38 But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
You must understand the illustrationJesus is using. These wine “bottles” were made of skin. Once wine was put into them, they would swell up and change shape. As the skin became old, it became brittle, and if wine were put into an old skin, it would burst.
Therefore, they would renew those old wineskins. First, they’d soak them in water for a long time. Second, they’d take olive oil and rub it into the skin until it became soft and pliable again. Then the skins were like new again; they could put new wine into them and they wouldn’t burst.
Jesus was saying that individuals, local churches, or denominations often are just like those wineskins: old, empty, dead, and brittle .
How can we be soaked in water to be renewed? Paul, talking about the Church, said in Ephesians 5:26, “That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.” Washing of water by the word!
So there must be a fresh saturation of the Word of God. And in these latter times, God has raised up the teaching ministry for this very purpose.
Many of us, praise God, have been saturated with the Word of God. Others need to be. Unless they are, they’ll never be able to hold the new wine.
We know that after they soaked skins in water, they rubbed olive oil into them until they became soft and pliable. Oil is a type of the Holy Spirit! The Psalmist said, “. . . I shall be anointed with fresh oil” (Ps. 92:10).
Fresh oil! That’s what we need today: a
fresh anointing of oil—the Holy Spirit—
and its coming!
Is a new wave coming? Some people are looking for something brand new; something that has never happened before. In that sense, there’s never going to be a new wave. God’s going to do everything He’s ever done before.
Go down by the ocean and watch the waves come in. You may say, “That’s a new wave.” Yes, it’s a different wave from the one that came in before, but it’s still the same water, even though it’s higher than the first wave.
The move of God often comes in gently. But it keeps pushing in until, before you know it, it covers a whole territory.The truth is, the new wave started in 1982. It’s here now! It’s gathering momentum. It’s going to continue to sweep in, in even greater power—a greater move of the Spirit, power, authority, and character of God.
There’s even a move of God going on in some of the Communist countries. I believe there’s going to be a tidal wave of glory that’s going to sweep all nations right into the kingdom in these last days!
You can receive a fresh anointing right now!
Halleluyah
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