I was getting ready to post something the other day and the Holy Spirit bean to take me back to what we were studying last week in Ephesians chapter 4. What I was going to post was: "we are imperfect people, being perfected by a perfect God." The Holy Spirit stopped me in my tracks and began to show me that's not quite truth. When I got the check in my spirit I had to go back to Ephesians 4:11-13 and read it again. This is what the word says:
Ephesians 4:11-13 Amplified Bible (AMP)
11 And His gifts were [varied; He Himself appointed and gave men to us] some to be apostles (special messengers), some prophets (inspired preachers and expounders), some evangelists (preachers of the Gospel, traveling missionaries), some pastors (shepherds of His flock) and teachers.
12 His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ’s body (the church),
13 [That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [[a]full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ’s own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him.
As we read this verse in bible study last week there was saw something I got that I didn't grasp before (as many times as I've read this) and that is: we are made perfect, complete, flawless through the 5-fold ministry, which is God's people.
God gave the various gifts of apostles, prophets, evangelist, pastors, teachers (people) to perfect the saints (you and me). This also dispels the lie that we don't need a pastor, or preacher to lead us, judge us, or tell us what to do, because we can go to God and hear from Him for ourselves. Yes, we can go to God for ourselves; however, we can't come to a place of complete perfection by ourselves!
Perfection and equipping comes through those (persons) that God has gifted, with the intention of maturing us and bringing us into the unity of the faith! We, as the members of the Body of Christ, will always be disjointed and stunted in our growth until we come to the place of following God's blueprint that He has laid out in the scriptures.
So after going back and reading the word in Ephesians my post would go something like: "we are an imperfect people being perfected through God's people."
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