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More information about Rick and his work:https://www.ricknorrismusic.net/His Books are available at:Restoration Preparing for His Fullness https://amzn.to/3k1GwvCWhen Heaven Speaks Out Loud https://amzn.to/3k1pj5vFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/rick.norris.1694The fivefold ministry is what is the word say? apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers. All right. So what does that look like? Well, up until Constantine, we had those cylinders firing to the five-cylinder engine running on one cylinder all these years putt putt putt instead of wrong, you know? And so that's why it's taken 2000 years, right? People say, Are you saying that we are the reason that God has waited? Oh, yeah. People get really upset when you say that. It's like who show me that in Scripture? Well, if you live this way, you hasten the day of the Lord's coming. Well, we haven't been living that way ever since that was written in the first century. All right, well, you know what I'm trying to say. Right, so the fivefold ministry, so you get a young minister, here's the best way I can explain it. I'm not dissing anybody. All right. except for us in general, we missed it. We need to repent, we need to get led by the Spirit of God. Again, the main goal of what I'm sharing is intimacy with Jesus time alone with Jesus, it's the answer. And we could you could, we could come back to that, but I can, praying in the Spirit and that kind of thing. Right?That's, that's eating from the tree of life.Yes. That's the difference right there. It's time alone, like those two young men that I told you about that at the braised in the church, and never had a miracle came to me desperately. I'll share that in a minute if you remind me. But I want to finish this thought on the fivefold ministry. So a young minister, you know, he gets out of what I call the cemetery. seminary. I call it cemetery because, by the time liberal theologians get done with you, you're lucky to be a Christian anymore. Yeah, they'll mess you up. But so, you know, knowledge puffs up it's real. So But anyway, so he gets out of these gonna go and rocket into world evangelism. Right? He's all excited. Started church and what do you do a rental hall? preach his buns off. All right, preach, preach, preach and pass the hat. See what happened? Right. And I'm being a little flip with it. But you know, and then it starts to take off, you know, people say, Well, he pretty good teacher. And, you know, when he got to go there for a while, just by proxy, you know, I live close or whatever. So things started to take me. Well, he gave men you know, he took captivity captive and gave gifts to men. That's the Scripture. Right? So what gifts to give apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, and then and then the other gifts, right? And so, let's say that this young man is an evangelist. Alright, okay. Or a prophet, or even an apostle? Right? Young apostle, a lot of people you'd be surprised how many people in the body of Christ think that there was only 12. You know, it's an office, it's a gift. It's a calling to this very day, and it was like 20, some named in the New Testament. But anyway, so. So he goes out and he gets a church. He starts in charities, preaches every Sunday, right? But he's not a pastor. So pretty soon he's got counseling going every day. He's got dad is delegating all this stuff to all these people. He's got, he gets caught up in the ministry thing, and he does the only thing that's out there. So when a guy comes out of the cemetery, out of seminary, and he goes to start his Adventist formal ministry, he's only got one place he can go pulpit. Okay, because that's what we inherited from Constantine. But the other four gifts. We haven't heard from them. And the reason we haven't matured the way we should have and wrap this thing up so that the Lord would see that his bride was on track, mature without spot or wrinkle, and come back is that those other four-cent cylinders weren't firing in that engine. Now, you say, Well, wait a minute, well, let me put it this way. When the printing press came out, right, and well, really, when the 95 theses went up, right when Luther said, No, no, no, we've had it with this whole Vatican thing. You know, you're not going to control us anymore. We can read the Bible. We can, we can understand we can be like we were in the first century. That's basically what he was saying. And he had his issues that everybody does, you know. And, but so when the printing press came out, here came all this Christian literature. Well, the different Christian authors, some were prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, and apostles. And they would write from that slant. Okay, that kind of Revelation, you know, each one of those gets, you have a little bit of different slant, you know, and, and once Christians began to not only be able to read the word, which is infinitely more important, that's what started things, you know, people because the Vatican wouldn't let anybody read the Bible except the priests. And can you imagine that?Sounds familiar? Let's see, there's, yeah, I won't go there. Anyway. So like where we are right now in the world. So true, cannot be spoken. Unless one party speaks it? I'm sorry, what truth cannot be spoken unless one party speaks it? Oh, you mean? Yeah. In the church in that? No.And? Well, what I was thinking when you said that is that, you know, the conservative Christian voice cannot be spoken. Because the people that have the mic, are in control. Oh, I see. Yes, I'm saying so there that is up there, up there in this corner in the media and the social media. Yeah. Political parties involved. The only truth that can be spoken is what they think is true. Yeah, well, yeah. And everybody else has to sit in the Pew and take it and so well, that principle has worked itself out into that's the fruit of what I'm talking about. And, and a lot another way we could go there. That's a whole nother thing, because what we've done in the process of losing the other five other for gifting, right, was we abdicated, we no longer understood that we were supposed to be in the gate. Meaning, you know, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood up against Hitler. Because he understood this. Christians are supposed to influence the world, we're some this world should be we're salt and light, we should, this world should be under the influence of the church not you know, and we've abdicated, we've let we've surrendered our influence and authority and authority. Absolutely. But what's coming, and that's where you're talking about what where we are now, what's coming is the is that what we're in is the reestablishment of the apostolic.We've been in the prophetic restoration, which came with the charismatic renew. And now, for some time now, we've been in the Apostolic restoration of that, that gift is being restored. With that one comes authority. We're going to see manifest authority and apostolic means explain that a little bit more.Well, apostolic a lot of people think well, an apostle plant churches. Oh, that's true. But that's just one of the things that app, app stock person does. He also has authority for oversight and, and, you know, teaching, put it this way, you are an apostle, it can fire on the other cylinders because Jesus is in us. And this is true for all of us, right? A lot of people don't realize this in the body don't realize, either. It's the Spirit of the Lord that does anything. You know, like we were praying before we started this like, it's the anointing the bricks do. Right? This is not about good teaching. Paul said so he said, you know, the gospel is not about clever words of men's wisdom, but about the demonstration of the spirit and power. Well, we lost power in the Fourth, third century because of Constantine. Right, and he took over and we've been a mess ever since. But coming back to that fivefold ministry thing, when Christian literature came out, they you know, this is God, because for me to come back and remember where I was, anyway, Christian literature brought those other parts to the surface, yes to the bride, so she could go, oh, wow, never thought of that. And then we start getting the whole counsel of God. What does it say about the fivefold ministry? It's why was it given? Right? For the edification of the bride? Right. To we all come to what the fullness is a statue of Christ. You can do that. Wow, that's Ephesians and Colossians. Right there, maybe. But anyway, so I wanted to complete that thought it's so important. Right? Well, so in the last special, especially 50 years, there's been this explosion of Revelation. Coming, especially with the reestablishment of the charismatic Well, with the Charismatic Renewal renewal came the prophetic perception, which is not just the telling, for telling, it's telling for you have teaching profits, and you have Sears, you know, that kind of thing. But anyway, so, I know, this has been very long-winded, but it's so, so important that we get these three, or four things in, in our perception in our knowledge. You know, it says, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. So they're going to be people that, you know, face him on that day and say, Hey, we did miracles in your name, alright. And he's gonna say, I never knew you. He's going to reject those people. And they pray, and they pressed into the word so far, they found that there's intrinsic power in the word itself. What do you mean, you could get a miracle without really hanging out with Jesus? The Word of God is so powerful. It's creative. It's the Word of God. It's so powerful that given a certain element of how would you diligence, right? You can hard work? Yeah, yeah. Just, yeah, just applying the Word of God on a certain level. You can he can break through and start to get you to know, something on the other side. That is the supernatural. That's how they did. They were casting out demons. I mean, there's power in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I command you to come out, they're going to come out. I mean, if you do that enough, right. And people get deliverance ministries and stuff. That's not a fivefold ministry, by the way, that's just happening. By course. That's why the Lord said, don't get hung up on that. Right? Hey, you know, they said, Lord, even the spirits are subject to our name, right? Well, he gave him that authority, that authority came to them before the resurrection. We forget that. Yeah. So there's power and intrinsically, there's power in the Word of God. And these people were using that separate from an intimate relationship with the Lord. Well, you know,if you think about it, what we, you know, what are we doing? You know, what, each Sunday we go, you know, Honey, what time is it? Are we're gonna miss the game? You know, he, what is he done? Yeah, you know, hide in the pews and the big church and all that stuff. I'm kind of tanging now, but well, you get the point. So where we are, is that the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, right? Right, is what we do, and often, not always. And what we've done so far is we have worshiped the Ministry of Lord rather than the Lord of the minister, both in the pews and in the pulpit. And we find our identity in ministry. You know, it's like a pastor, Pastor. So, if you look at history, the first three centuries, we go We could just be like the early church. Oh, really? Well, the pastor was back man, the pastor was supposed to work himself out of the job. And he wasn't supposed to have a whole bunch of people. Because then you can't tell, you know, the church then was small, all of them because you know, everybody's stuff. And that's how you grow. But in a big church, I mean, you could be sitting next to an ax murderer and you wouldn't know it. Do you know? You could hide there and a drug addict or bad marriage. Well, yeah, no, unless, yeah, yeah. And the relationship with them.So but the point is, we've made our own train, get on the train. Okay. Sorry, I lost my train of thought.Anyway, so but this is so serious, you know, and I don't mean to be flipped with it. I tend to get very colloquial, and, you know, but that's just because I want to, I want to make sure people, my brothers and sisters are realizing I don't have an agenda. I'm not trying to be somebody I am. I'm desperate to fulfill my calling. Right. And it? My, you know, I, I don't want to get into that. But so that book restoration, preparing for his fullness, discusses this. All right. And we have to make sure we have to get along with the Lord, we need to repent, not only for what we've allowed happening in our nation, in the murdering of 60 million children, right. Not only do we need to repeat for repent for all of that stuff, but we need to get along with Jesus in a way we've never done before. All right,I'm hearing that I'm, you know, as I'm seeing different people leaders out there speaking, it's amazing how many are saying the same thing or saying, you know, it's really getting down to where it's one on one, it's in that closet, in that bedroom, and that on that couch, wherever you would out in the world, Lord Jesus, you know, just you and him. Yeah, that's it. I mean, that we've gotten away from that so much.Yeah. And that's the answer across the board. Because you can't, you know, it's the anointing that breaks the yoke, you can't you know, if they came to this, Lord, you know, we can't cast this demon out. Right. And he said These come out by prayer and fasting. So there's an element of diligence involved. He doesn't want robots. Right? He wants a family.So, so looking at good and evil in life, then everything we tend to be doing here. You know, is found in intimacy on the other hand, this is pure intimacy. Yeah. Client mystery. Hmm. So if you go climb a tree, which tree are you climbingYeah, day, and climbing that tree. That's a whole nother teaching there. It's like, you know, some people, they have a religious experience, they feel the warm cookies off the presence of the Lord or something. Right. And they that's Christianity for the rest of our life.Yeah. And they never get baptized in the Holy Ghost, they never come to the next level. They never spend time alone with him. And it's just once a while they read the Bible and feel good about themselves. And that's, that's the bulk of Christianity. I hate to say it, but and we can't do that. And then another now that next level is people going to church all the time being diligent, you know, and doing this stuff. And they're still not alone in the Jesus lot. And, and we get it. I mean, I get, it so hard for a lot of people sometimes. Oh, yeah, five kids, you know, job all day. It's not easy. No, it's not to say that it is easy. It's not easy, but that's what's most important.Well, and what you know, in one sense, it's easy because if you get to a certain point, and you say, Lord, I can't, I can't do what I'm supposed to do. I'm, I'm weak and worn out. There's too much at Hill and you I lay it at your feet and he lifts it. This Christianity either says supernatural or bunk, right? If you're not having the supernatural in your space, something is Wrong. You know, now that's a…
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