Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from,

we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

All right, we are in a series called The Gifts of Jesus based out of Ephesians 4.

Many, many times these gifts are kind of lumped in with the gifts of the Holy Spirit,

but these are not gifts of the Holy Spirit. Let me just state again,

emphatically, we believe in all of the gifts of the Holy Spirit,

we believe in the work and the person of the Holy Spirit,

but the gifts in Ephesians 4 are the gifts of Jesus,

apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers.

And I was praying about this, and I want to say something because you might say,

well, Pastor Robert, you know, the reason I've never really studied about this is because,

you know, I'm not one of these. These gifts really don't concern me.

I'm not an apostle or an evangelist, you know, I'm not a Billy Graham, I'm not,

I'm not a pastor, I'm not paid full time to teach,

although I do some teaching in a small group or whatever.

And so really these, and the Bible even says some, he just gave some these gifts.

And so these gifts really don't concern me. Here's the problem with that.

He gave these gifts, it says, to mankind, to humanity.

In other words, it's, he didn't give these gifts to apostles.

The gifts apostles themselves are the gifts. And he gave them to us.

So you need to know these gifts concern you because when Jesus ascended, he only gave five,

and he gave these for the equipping of the saints for the work of the ministry.

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