The ancient apostolic order is emerging

“Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness.” Titus 1:1

 

The primary function of Paul’s apostolic servanthood was to present the faith that is the inheritance of the elect. We see this throughout Paul’s ministry. From the time of his commissioning, Paul would enter cities and present the message of the Kingdom. He started schools where he could in order to maximize the output of faith into the emerging elect. The result was not only bringing repentance- a change in consciousness- but awakening the elect in the realm of Jesus’s Ekklesia. From there, the newly elected would receive assignment from the Head of the Church, Jesus. The assignment for the local Church was directed towards the cities transformation. The means through which this transformation would take place was through the duplication of Paul and Jesus’s ministry- making disciples until individual’s were transported into the realm of the Kingdom, thereby making them an elect whose servanthood is in Jesus’s Church which resides in the Kingdom realm of Heaven.

So too is the primary function of the emerging apostolic movement. These World Changers will be known once again as the servants of God… the apostles of Jesus. They will be sent from Heaven to impart a faith that will repent the elect in the realm of Jesus’s Kingdom. The elect of Jesus (eklektos) are individual members of a group assembly that is brought together in the Spirit by Jesus. This assembly of elect is called Jesus’s Church (ekklésia). The elect are appointed by Jesus to present the structured information of the Kingdom of Jesus (the faith) “Until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge (structured information of the Kingdom) of the Son of God and become mature….” Ephesians 4:13a

 

Lest any man should boost, the faith of God’s elect is the future faith of restored, redeemed humanity (see 1 Corinthian 15:28; Ephesians 4:10). It’s the faith passed down by Jesus, first, to all who enter the discipline of seeking first the Kingdom (His disciples were our example.). The elect are Jesus’s initial apostles that are sent to cities to rise up disciples- the future elect. They are the first of the transformed one’s entrusted to conform the faith of humanity into that which is a representation of Jesus’s faith. Eventually, through the process Jesus started, the restoration of all things, humanity will come alongside the elect as disciples in the Family of God. From our identity as disciples living in the Kingdom realm, we are transformed into brothers and sisters- sons and daughters of our eternal Father.

 

The Greek word “elect” is similar to the Greek word “Church” in several ways. One similarity is that both the individual (the elect) and the whole assembly (Jesus's Church) are pulled out of the carnal realm into the Kingdom through repentance. The individual (the elect) is lifted into the realm of Jesus’s Kingdom and is joined with the other called out one’s, making a gathering of the elect known as the Church of Jesus Christ. In and from this called out realm we learn to live from this place of our eternal home. The elect are the ones who accept the call to be made disciples. They are the followers of Jesus who receive the call to be made disciples. They are the initial chosen to be lifted out of the carnal realm into Jesus’s realm for the purpose of furthering the restoration assignment of the Father. They are the one's who enter into the New Covenant found in Hebrews 8:10-11. Once an elect of Jesus is established through the process of repentance by way of seeking first the Kingdom, then Jesus has a vessel that’s able to receive “knowledge of the truth that leads to godliness.”

 

Godliness is first and foremost a realm of consciousness. It’s a destined place that all disciples of Jesus enter. Upon entrance, the interaction and exchange of life within this realm transmutes and forms its “Godliness” within the soul and body of the disciple living there. This relational transaction grows transformational likeness of Christ, awakening godliness in the elect, and making the Kingdom within a living, mobile, transactional, and transformational realm on the earth. You cannot walk in God’s Godliness without first becoming a disciple of Jesus. The only place that allows one to maintain inherited godliness is in the realm that holds and sustains godliness- the Kingdom realm of Heaven. And the only way to enter this realm is through obedience to Jesus’s highest priority- repentance by way of seeking first the Kingdom. Once the disciple is established in the realm of Godliness, the transformation that takes place not only changes you but allows for the godliness that brought the transformation to abide. A doubleminded man is unstable in his godliness because his consciousness is yet to find its resting place in the realm of Godliness.

 

The only knowledge that leads to godliness (divine, eternal transformation) is that which transports the individual into the realm whose atmosphere both makes up godliness, and where godliness is formed- the Kingdom realm of Heaven. Paul was equipped and appointed an apostle of Jesus Christ because He received that knowledge through the process of seeking first the Kingdom. That information, which led to Paul’s transformation, became the substance of his ministry. He received the message of the Kingdom, and through the continued activity of repenting was transported into heavenly places. From there he grew in maturity until such time where he was appointed and anointed to impart the faith responsible for awakening God's elect.

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