THE TRUE APOSTOLIC CHURCH 11-19-17 VIDEO
The change in the body of Christ from an organization to an apostolic body of believers. We are to see that we are in union with God. Weve been so absorbed in the phenomena of God miraculous wonders (what he does) instead of the person of God. The true apostolic church is one with God, a people fully controlled body soul and spirit, by the Holy Spirit. We are in union with God, he is our habitation and we are His. Being one with God is how The body should look. We have attempted to build apostolic ministry around specific doctrines and manifestations of healing or around speaking in tongues and other gifts.. All these gifts and qualities are from the Holy Spirit and necessary for the church but it is in our unity, our oneness with God that makes us an apostolic body of believers who can do anything in Jesus name.
Ro12:2 Stop imitating the ideas and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transform by the Holy Spirit through the total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern Gods will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes. Passion
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Rom 12:2 Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
1 John 4:17 In this [union and communion with Him] love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment [with assurance and boldness to face Him], because as He is, so are we in this world. AMP
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1 Jn 4:17 By living in God, love has been brought to its full expression in us so that we may fearlessly face the day of judgment, because all that Jesus now is, so are we in this world. Passion
Col 2:6 As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him. AMP
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Col 2:6-7 In the same way you receive Jesus our Lord and Messiah by faith, continue your journey of faith, progressing further into your union with him! Your spiritual roots go deep into his life as you are continually infused with strength, encouraged in every way. For you are established in the faith you have absorbed and enriched by your devotion to him! Passion
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Col 2:6 My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you've been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. MSG
Gal 3:27 For as many [of you] as were baptized into Christ [into a spiritual union and communion with Christ, the Anointed One, the Messiah] have put on (clothed yourselves with) Christ. AMP
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Gal 3:27 Your baptism in Christ was not just washing you up for a fresh start. It also involved dressing you in an adult faith wardrobe Christ's life, the fulfillment of God's original promise. MSG
Jn 15:5-8 I am the sprouting vine and youre my branches. As you live in union with me as your source, fruitfulness was stream from within you but when you live separate from me you are powerless. If a person is separate from me, he is discarded: such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire to be burned. But if you live in the life union with me and if my words live powerfully with in you then you can ask whatever you desire and it will be done. When your lives bear abundant fruit, you demonstrate that you are my mature disciples who glorify my father! Passion
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John 15:5 I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.
6 If a person does not dwell in Me, he is thrown out like a [broken-off] branch, and withers; such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If you live in Me [abide vitally united to Me] and My words remain in you and continue to live in your hearts, ask whatever you will, and it shall be done for you.
8 When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers of Mine. AMP
John 10:30 I and the Father are One. AMP
John 17:11 And [now] I am no more in the world, but these are [still] in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep in Your Name [in the knowledge of Yourself] those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We [are one].
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John 17:22 I have given to them the glory and honor which You have given Me, that they may be one [even] as We are one: AMP
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Jn 17:22-23 For the very glory you have given to me I have given them so that they will be joined together as one and experience the same unity that we enjoy. You live fully in me and now I live fully in them so that they will experience perfect unity, and the world will be convinced that you sent me, for they will see that you love each one of them with the same passionate love that you have for me. Passion
Rom 12:5 The body we're talking about is Christ's body of chosen people. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body. But as a chopped-off finger or cut-off toe we wouldn't amount to much, would we? So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ's body,
6 let's just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren't. If you preach, just preach God's Message, nothing else; MSG
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Ro 12:5-6 And so it is in the body of Christ. For though we are many, weve all been mingled into one body in Christ. This means that we are all vitally join to one another, with each contributing to the others. Gods marvelous grace imparts to each one of us verying gifts and ministries that are uniquely ours. So if God has given you the grace-gift of prophecy you must activate your gift by using the portion of faith you have to prophesy. Passion
1 Cor 10:17 For we [no matter how] numerous we are, are one body, because we all partake of the one Bread [the One Whom the communion bread represents]. AMP
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1 Cor 10:17 Because there is one loaf, our many-ness becomes one-ness Christ doesn't become fragmented in us. Rather, we become unified in him. We don't reduce Christ to what we are; he raises us to what he is. MSG
John 14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in Me? What I am telling you I do not say on My own authority and of My own accord; but the Father Who lives continually in Me does the (His) works (His own miracles, deeds of power).
11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me; or else believe Me for the sake of the [very] works themselves. [If you cannot trust Me, at least let these works that I do in My Father's name convince you.]
12 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father. AMP
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John 14:10 0 Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I speak to you aren't mere words. I don't just make them up on my own. The Father who resides in me crafts each word into a divine act.
11 "Believe me: I am in my Father and my Father is in me. If you can't believe that, believe what you see these works.
12 The person who trusts me will not only do what I'm doing but even greater things, because I, on my way to the Father, am giving you the same work to do that I've been doing. You can count on it. MSG
1 Cor 3:16 You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you?
17 No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred and you, remember, are the temple. MSG
1 Cor 6:19-20 Have you forgotten that your body is now the sacred Temple of the spirit of holiness, who lives in you? You dont belong to yourself any longer, for the gift of God, the Holy Spirit, lives inside your sanctuary. You were Gods expensive purchase, paid for with the tears of blood, so by all means, then, use your body to bring glory to God! Passion
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1 Cor 6:19 Or didn't you realize that your body is a sacred place, the place of the Holy Spirit? Don't you see that you can't live however you please, squandering what God paid such a high price for? The physical part of you is not some piece of property belonging to the spiritual part of you.
20 God owns the whole works. So let people see God in and through your body. MSG
1 Cor 12:12 You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts limbs, organs, cells but no matter how many parts you can name, you're still one body. It's exactly the same with Christ.
13 By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain his Spirit where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive. MSG
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1 Cor 12:12 For just as the body is a unity and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so it is with Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
13 For by [means of the personal agency of] one [Holy] Spirit we were all, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, baptized [and by baptism united together] into one body, and all made to drink of one [Holy] Spirit. AMP
John 17:23 I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and [definitely] recognize that You sent Me and that You have loved them [even] as You have loved Me. AMP ↕↕↕
John 17:23 I in them and you in me. Then they'll be mature in this oneness, And give the godless world evidence That you've sent me and loved them In the same way you've loved me. MSG
Acts 2:46 And day after day they regularly assembled in the temple with united purpose, and in their homes they broke bread [including the Lord's Supper]. They partook of their food with gladness and simplicity and generous hearts, AMP
1 Cor 6:17 But the person who is united to the Lord becomes one spirit with Him. AMP
Eph 2:13-18 Yet look at you now! Everything is new! Although you were once distant and far away from God, now youve been brought delightfully close to him through the sacred blood of Jesusyou have actually been united to Christ!
14 Our reconciling peace is Jesus! He is made the Jew and non-Jew one in Christ by dying as our sacrifice, he has broken down every wall the prejudice that separated us and has now made us equal through our union with Christ.
15 Ethnic hatred has been dissolved by the crucifixion of his precious body on the cross. The legal code that stood condemning everyone of us has now been repealed by his command. His triune essence has made peace between us by starting overforming one new race of humanity. Jews and non-Jews fuse together!
16 Two have now become one, and we live restored to God and reconciled in the body of Christ. Through his crucifixion, hatred died.
17 For the Messiah has come to preach this sweet message of peace to you. The ones who were distant and those who are near.
18 And now because we are united to Christ, we both have equal and direct access in the realm of the Holy Spirit to come before the father! Passion
Phil 1:27 Only be sure as citizens so to conduct yourselves [that] your manner of life [will be] worthy of the good news (the Gospel) of Christ, so that whether I [do] come and see you or am absent, I may hear this of you: that you are standing firm in united spirit and purpose, striving side by side and contending with a single mind for the faith of the glad tidings (the Gospel).
28 And do not [for a moment] be frightened or intimidated in anything by your opponents and adversaries, for such [constancy and fearlessness] will be a clear sign (proof and seal) to them of [their impending] destruction, but [a sure token and evidence] of your deliverance and salvation, and that from God. AMP
1 Pet 3:8 Now, this is the goal: to live in harmony with one another and demonstrate affectionate love, sympathy, and kindness towards other believers. Let humility describe who you are as you dearly love one another. Passion