The Role of Fivefold Ministry (Part 3)

by | Jan 18, 2023 | Authority, Change, Change & New Things, Charismatic Gifts, Church, Church Leadership, False teaching, Featured, Fivefold Ministry, Leadership, Prophetic, Spiritual Gifts, Steven Lambert

Now as pointed out before (in the book, Charismatic Captivation), the Church is the quintessential Theocracy. Its govern­ment is not a political government wherein the governed themselves constitute, devise, and effect their own government, such as that of this nation, the United States, which is a form of democracy (republic), supposedly “of the people, for the people, and by the people.”  Rather, the Church is literally governed by a singular Supreme Potentate—the Lord Jesus Christ—who God has appointed as its Sole and Sovereign Head. The absolute necessity of understanding this one concept is emphasized and re‑emphasized repeatedly in this volume, and indeed is the ultimate and salient point of this book.

But, once it is understood that Christ Jesus Himself is the ultimate Head and Cornerstone of the Church, it is just as vital to understand that the government that Jesus presides over is an intermediated or proxy government in its physical application. In other words, He does not govern alone, nor directly, nor even in person. Rather, His government is a “representative” or “delegate” form of government, if you will. This is to say that as God set apart and specially consecrated the Levites to represent Himself unto the people, so also Jesus appoints, anoints, and sends special envoys, ambassadors, to represent Him and His government unto the Church. These envoys are His personal proxies, His delegates, His stand‑ins, whom He sends to convey and effect His purposes, plans, pleasures, and passions.

A Prophetic Word for 2020

by | Jan 13, 2020 | Apostasy, Change, Change & New Things, Church, Church Leadership, Doctrine, End-Times, Falling Away, Featured

In 2020, one of the emphases of the Spirit will be eschatological events, because God wants His betrothed, the genuine Church He is building, to understand that Jesus’ return is imminent–HE IS COMING BACK SOON! Eschatology is the knowledge and study of endtimes.

The Book of Revelation coupled with the Book of Daniel hold the keys to unlocking the mysteries of the endtimes. The Spirit-inspired words with which the Book of Revelation begins explicitly reveals the reason God revealed it to His Son, who revealed it via an angel to the Apostle John, who was commanded to convey it to the Church: “The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to Him to show to His bondservants the things which must shortly take place….” Eschatology consists of “the things which must shortly (soon) take place….” Revelation means the unveiling or uncovering of that which has been heretofore concealed, or a “mystery.” God instructed John to memorialize these things in a book in order that the events of the endtimes be revealed in an understandable fashion to the Body of Christ, particularly believers “upon whom the ends of the ages have come” (1 Cor. 10:11); i.e., believers actually living in the endtimes.

Rick Warren Pied-Piper to Rome

by | Dec 1, 2019 | Apostasy, Charismatic Cultism, Church, Church Leadership, Deception, Discernment, Doctrine, End-Times, Falling Away, False teaching, Featured, Leadership

There’s no other way to put it, Rick Warren is on a dangerous path away from sound biblical doctrine toward an ecumenical apostate form of Christianity with Rome that has the potential to lead many astray. The facts stare us in the face. Warren’s pathway to Rome is dangerous!

Why do so few recognize what is happening? Do you know someone who is caught up in the deception but does not see what is going on? Maybe this would be a good time to pray God’s grace would open their eyes, and they would see the truth of God’s word.

Over the last few years, I have been astonished and appalled to learn of the wholesale ignorance and lack of spiritual discernment demonstrated by a number of eminent leaders (many of whom self-identify as apostles) of the Pentecostal/Neo-Pentecostal church stream I have attempted to converse with regarding Rick Warren and others of his ilk who have emerged over the last three decades or so as the prominent proponents and propagators of the apostate teachings associated with the nascent so-called “Emerging or Emergent Church.” The lack of awareness and understanding of those who are touted as the “chiefs of the chiefs” of the most elite and exalted ranks of “apostolic leaders” I’ve attempted to dialogue with regarding this alarmingly fast and facile advance toward apocalyptic apostasy has been nothing short of stunning to me.

Divinely Determined Ministry Scope

by | Nov 22, 2019 | Apostolic, Authority, Deception, Featured, Fivefold Ministry, Leadership, Prophetic

In vocational ministry, however, there are divine limitations to our fruitfulness. Those limitations are often intuitively understood, but not as often well defined. We may subconsciously realize that the large majority of God-called ministers will never have the impact of the Apostle Paul, yet we sometimes talk as if all ministers could attain to Paul’s level of spiritual success, if only “we were as dedicated as the apostle Paul.”

Modern-Day Sadducees

by | Nov 15, 2019 | Apostasy, Apostolic, Cessation Theology, Deception, Doctrine, End-Times, False Ministers, False teaching, Featured, Fivefold Ministry, Prophetic, Spirit Baptism, Spiritual Gifts, Supernatural Power of God

Modern day Sadducees not only, “make utterly nothing of prophecy,” they also deny the reality of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. This doctrine has produced spiritual morticians which have so effectively turned their churches into funeral parlors that even God is not welcome in them if He disturbs the dead. Even the thought of the disruption produced by the “rushing mighty wind” of the Holy Spirit’s presence alarms them.

ALL Scripture is God-Breathed and MUST be Believed!

by | Nov 13, 2019 | Doctrine, Featured, Fivefold Ministry, Prophetic, Spirit Baptism, Spiritual Gifts

I consistently meet Christians who challenge parts of the Bible solely because they do not fit their denominational standard. Pastors are especially guilty. Calvinists reject “Arminian” teachings and Arminian believers reject Paul’s writings about election, predestination, and the sovereignty of God. What is our obligation? We are to believe all of the Bible regardless of our being able to reconcile it. It is in the theological challenge that we learn. Our first responsibility is to God–not our local church. Mental stretching does for our spirit what physical exercise does for the body. Such work-outs may be painful and tiring–but, they produce strength.

A Brief Primer on the Contemplative Prayer Deception

by | Oct 21, 2019 | Apologetics, Apostasy, Deception, Demonic, End-Times, False Ministers, False teaching, Featured, Leadership, Paganism

Editor’s Note: It has been astounding to me over the past two decades or so to see that virtually none of those who identify as “leaders” within the Charismatic realm, including the elite, eminent super-apostles of the International Coalition of Apostolic Leaders (ICAL), and the like, have spoken out to warn the Pentecostal-Charismatic stream concerning the panoply of deceptions that have been promulgated by the so-called “emerging” or “emergent” church during that time; and, they are many. Frankly, I have been waiting and watching, hoping that someone with a national voice would step forward with such some prophetic warnings against these dastardly but insidious “doctrines of demons” (1 Tim. 4:1). However, the silence has been ear-piercing as well as dumbfounding, to say the least!

Biblical Hate Speech

by | Oct 17, 2019 | American Society, Apostasy, Deception, Discernment, End-Times, False teaching, Featured, Judgment of America, Steven Lambert

The undeniable and irrefutable bottom-line of the collection of Scriptures that follow is that while God is the God of Agape-Love, and actually the author/originator of same, that same God is also a God who HATES, that is holds utter contempt for those who hate and oppose Him, His Word, Will, and Ways. To say otherwise is to call God a liar and His Holy Word a lie!