Eternitys General's: The Wisdom of Apostleship by Paula A. Price

Author:Paula A. Price [Price, Paula A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-06-22T16:59:14+00:00

Chapter Nine

The Apostle & the Priestly

Chapter Discussions

From Confession to Profession • From Glory to Glory, Says the Apostle • Apostles of a New Move • The Purpose of God’s Ministry Dispensations

• Apostolic Service Summarized • Apostleship & Revival • Apostleship, Melchizedek, & the Priesthood • The Character of Priestly Service • Priesthoods Not Strange to Moses or Israel • The Church’s Struggle with True Priestly Service • The Spirit of a Priesthood • Priests Were High Level Functionaries • Comparing the New Creation Priesthood of Jesus Christ • Malachi 2:7 & the Priesthood • Seven Kingdom Conditions Apostles Treat in Office

This chapter emphasizes a little recognized aspect of apostleship. It covers its priestly connection, and official meanings that distinguish the office and wisdom of positive apostolic interrelations. Apostles are called to order, structure, and govern the Church. They mediate its interrelations with Jesus Christ and His body similar to the pattern the early priests used. The apostle John well understood how this came to be. He wrote in his gospel his understanding, “That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus

Christ" (I John 1:3). Paul in Romans 1:11 shows his grasp of this aspect of the office’s duty in divulging that what he delivered to the church transcended sheer theology and religion: “For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established.” The whole of Hebrew’s priestly recollections are transferred to the church, including its officiations that are not applied to the heavens. The same Levitical preparations that were performed by the ancient priests on animals are now spiritually accomplished by God’s word on souls and hearts of the redeemed. Life for like, act for act, they mirror each activity perfectly.

The apostles’ unique fellowship, koinonia in the Greek, with the Father and His Son Jesus Christ, is the centricity of the mantle’s entire work. It is empowering, impartational, and solidifying to explain why many of today’s Christians are unstable and flighty. The absence of apostleship in their development is tantamount to a child being raised by teenage parents. Basic care may be rendered with attention and provisions given, but what nurtures and unlocks the child’s wisdom and insight are lacking because these are acquired and transmitted after life has been lived. Parents cannot give their children what they never received no matter how much they love them and yearn to do so. It is the same with the pastor and nurtured Christian that is locked in a strictly evangelical world. Fundamental lessons are taught, Bible knowledge delivered, and the rudiments of the faith explained, but invariably Hebrews 5:11-6:3 are the result, what we have today.

The apostle’s capacity to kindle true fellowship between the Lord and His people speaks to mediation that distinguishes itself by restoring relations between Him and wayward worshippers. Encounters with true apostles

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