Gifts of the Ascended Lord (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The apostle Paul identified various groups that were gifted to teach God’s Word. The apostles were a unique, unrepeatable group, chosen and authorized by Jesus. What about prophets and evangelists? Alistair Begg considers these two groups on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | The In the preaching or teaching God's word. |
| 0:32.7 | The Apostles were a unique and unrepitable group, personally chosen and authorized by Jesus. |
| 0:38.6 | We don't have Apostles today. |
| 0:40.9 | What about prophets or evangelists? We'll explore those two groups today on truth for life |
| 0:46.3 | as Alistairbegg takes us back to Ephesians chapter 4 verses 11 and 12th. Secondly, prophets, Once again they are contained in the 20th verse of chapter 2 on the foundation of the |
| 1:06.8 | Apostles and prophets. |
| 1:08.9 | Also they're mentioned in verse 5 of chapter 3 where Paul talks about the insight into the mystery that God would unite in |
| 1:16.5 | one new man, the two of old, and he says this hasn't been something that previous generations have known, but it has now been the spirit. As soon as you had the word of God in scripturated, as soon as you |
| 1:37.6 | had the closed canon of scripture, there was no place for and no need for somebody coming and saying, I can tell you what the word of God is. |
| 1:50.0 | Because God has now provided us finally in the New Testament the words that were |
| 1:58.9 | spoken by his prophets and apostles. And my friends this is vitally important. It's not uncommon |
| 2:08.1 | and I use this terminology all the time but purposefully. People say to me you know I like Jesus I like to read the |
| 2:15.8 | Gospels I love the sermon on the mount but I'm not so keen on Paul I don't really |
| 2:19.5 | like Peter as if somehow or another you can read the New Testament and decide, you know, who your top three are and then |
| 2:25.9 | reject all the rest. |
| 2:27.8 | No, the authority is the same authority. |
| 2:30.8 | It is the Apostolic authority provided by God in inspiring and enabling his servants to speak |
| 2:38.0 | from him for him and then for that to be written down and preserved so that we then may be able to understand what that means. |
| 2:46.0 | Stard wonderfully, as always says, |
| 2:49.0 | as the foundation on which the church is built, |
| 2:52.0 | the prophets have no successors, any more than the apostles have. |
| 2:57.0 | For the foundation was laid and finished centuries ago, and we cannot tamper with it in any way today. |
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