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The Seal Of An Apostle
The seal is the Greek word “sphragis” which means:
A.A Stamp or signature that proves something is authentic or original
B. A stamp of Authority
C. Mark of Genuineness
D. The ultimate Approval Philippians 2:16 TPT/MSG, 2 Corinthians 3:1-3, Romans 1:13 NLT The seal of Apostle is in two main things;
1. The Fruits of an Apostle. The Seal of Apostleship has to do with spiritual fruits or souls not necessarily administrative or physical structures although that is also good but the most important indicator of the apostolic is spiritual fruits or souls. Apostle Paul was one of the greatest apostles yet he never built one single church building. But he focused on building people. This is the seal of the Apostolic ministry.
2. The Signs of an Apostle. The second component of the seal of an Apostle is the signs of an Apostle.
•Signs & Wonders The signs of an Apostle is speaking of the Signs and Wonders that are done by the hand of an Apostle. These signs included healings, deliverances or casting out of devils, extraordinary miracles, and other demonstrations of God’s power - 2 Corinthians 12:1-13 NLT, Acts 2:43, Acts 5:12-15, Acts 19:11-12, Romans 15:16-19 NLT
•Extraordinary Endurance Paul specifically says the signs were performed “in all patience.” The Greek idea “hupomonē” carries the sense of:
A. Cheerful or Hopeful Endurance
B. Patience and Steadfastness
C. Constancy or Consistency
D. Patient Continuance or Waiting. Apostolic ministry is therefore demonstrated not merely by power but by the capacity to endure persecution, opposition, hardship, rejection, and suffering while remaining faithful to Christ 2 Corinthians 6:4-13 KJV/NLT, 2 Corinthians 11:23-28, 2 Timothy 3:10-12
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Setting Order by Having a Proper Understanding of How to Access God’s Presence in relation to the Order of Service.
A Christian must of a necessity know the very protocols that enables every child of God to access his presence. It takes thanksgiving to access the gates of the temple and praise to access the courts.
God created every human being and that knowledge must sink in very well. You owe God a sacred duty of worship at all times. It takes humility to access the very presence of the Most High. These are the protocols that bring about meaningful worship and praise. Psalm 100:2, Psalm 95:6, Psalm 24:3), 2 Samuel 6:14., 2 Samuel 6:14
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When God calls a man to lead His people, there is one thing He does for him to help the Faith of the people following him not to become familiar with that man and that is He “magnifies” the man — Joshua 3:7, Joshua 4:14. The word magnify is the Greek Word “gâdal.” There are seven (7) definitions of this Greek Word that paints beautiful picture of how God magnifies His Servants:
 
1. God causes Him to grow in anointing, revelation and in his ministry — Acts 10:38, Psalm 45:7, Hebrews 1:9.
 
2. God makes Him become great or important — Numbers 12:5-8.
 
3. God promotes Him Spiritually and Physically; 4. God empowers His Servant or makes Him Powerful — Exodus 4:11-12, 14-16 5. God will do great things with him and through him — Psalm 107:23. 6. God causes people to praise Him for the things He will do with him — Psalm 45:17 7. God literally magnifies the personality and ministry. To magnify means to make something appear larger than it is. It also means enlargement of one’s ministry and glorification of one’s ministry Hebrews 5:4-5, Mathew 3:16-17, John 12:26-29.
 
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Apostolic ministry has an important order-setting function. The apostolic ministry therefore addresses disorder by setting structures to bring about order in the church. Setting order helps establish biblical doctrine, leadership, discipline, accountability, worship, and ministry structures (1 Corinthians 14:40).
 
A. Setting Structural and Leadership Order •Setting Order by Appointing Leaders (Titus 1:5); •Setting Order by Enforcing Biblical Pastoral Standards (1 Timothy 3:1-13).
 
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It is the Work of An Apostle to Raise and Appoint Leaders
1. Apostles develop other ministers rather than building ministry entirely around themselves. This includes identifying, training, mentoring, commissioning, and establishing qualified leaders.
 
2. Due to the fact that an Apostle is given power to build the church of Christ. The Lord bless the Apostle with a unique anointing to identify even spiritual gifts and build up the church in the most profound way - 1 Corinthians 12:7-12, Acts 6:5, Acts 8:5-13.
 
3. So Apostles do not merely gather followers; they develop people who can carry the work of ministry forward. Their ministry is reproductive—raising disciples, elders, pastors, teachers, evangelists, missionaries, and other ministry workers —— Acts 6:1-3, Acts 14:21-23
 
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The Test of a Genuine Apostle is seen in the works of an Apostle and the Seal of an Apostle.
 
4. To Establish or Strengthen Churches The book of Acts repeatedly shows apostles preaching the gospel, gathering believers, strengthening them, and establishing functioning churches. Therefore, apostolic ministry does not merely produce converts; it works toward establishing stable, mature, properly led churches —— Acts 14:21–28; Acts 15:36-41, Acts 18:18-23, Titus 1:5
 
5. To Establish and Teach Sound Doctrine A genuine Apostles is known by the message or sound teachings or doctrines they are called to preach. Whenever you remember an Apostle and you cannot point to the central message of the call or ministry, then their apostleship is questionable (Acts 2:41-42, 1 Timothy 1:3-4 KJV, NLT, Titus 1:9-13, 2 Timothy 1:13–14).
 
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The Authenticity of Apostleship describes the originality or reliability of the office an Apostle as genuine. This is one of the crucial signs of a genuine Apostle
(1 Corinthians 9:1). Two (2) main evidences defines the authenticity of an Apostolic ministry and they are: A. The Evidence of the work of an Apostle
B. The Evidence of the Seal of an Apostle The Work Of An Apostle Here are some works of the Apostle that proves the genuineness of an Apostolic Ministry:
 
1. Sending Capacity An Apostle must have a sending capacity or ability. The farther you can go, the greater your capacity or ability as an Apostle. There are people who call themselves apostles but there are certain places they don’t want to go. The sign of a genuine Apostle is someone who can go anywhere for the gospel.
 
2. To Pioneer the Gospel in New Territories Apostles characteristically take the gospel into places where Christ has not been established. Paul’s ministry demonstrates a strong pioneering and missionary dimension. Thus, apostolic ministry is naturally associated with territorial expansion and kingdom advancement. One of the unique dimensions of the Apostolic ministry, is the ambition of chatting new territories.
 
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Who is an Apostle? Apostle is the Greek Word “Apostolos” which means the following:
1. A Delegate: A person sent or authorized to represent another).
2. An Ambassador of the Gospel or a Commissioner of Christ.
3. A Messenger: A Carrier of a message or is employed to carry messages on behalf of another.
4. One sent forth with orders Genuine Evidence Of An Apostolic Ministry
1. Evidence Of The Call Of God The first genuine evidence or sign of an apostolic ministry is His calling. Who then calls an Apostle? Jesus Christ! Apostle Paul described his calling; •He was not called or appointed by a group of people; •He was not called by any human authority; •He was called by Jesus Christ Himself, God the Father, who raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Galatians 1:1 NLT, Acts 9:1-6, 15, Acts 22:17-21,
2. The Evidence Of Having a Certain Degree Of Freedom (1 Corinthians 9:1). The next thing from being called as an Apostle is to have some degree or realm of freedom to do certain things. You cannot claim to be an Apostle a too much restrictions, your apostolic ministry may never be fulfilled. The word freedom is the Greek word “Eleutheros” which means;
•To be Free Born In a civil sense of not being a slave. How can you be an Apostle of Jesus Christ and also be a slave to one thing or the other; one person or another. That will curtail your movement and ministry. As an Apostle, you must even marry a woman who will give you some degree of freedom to do the work of God.
•To be Unrestrained Apostle need a certain realm of freedom to express their apostolic ministry especially when they are called in a ministry. The administrative structures must allow such apostles some degree of freedom from restrictions so they can express their apostolic ministry or calling.
•To be Granted Certain Exemptions from Laws Apostles are people who have a strange heart for the Lord of their call and their calling. So they often come up with a lot of innovations, ideas and creativity. Therefore without a certain of degree of exemption from rules, regulations and laws, they will be restricted and cannot fulfill their apostolic ministry.
3. THE EVIDENCE OF SEEING JESUS CHRIST (1 CORINTHIANS 9:1). One of the qualifications Apostle Paul gives to the genuineness of his apostolic calling is that he has seen Jesus Christ. A genuine of Apostle of Christ may encounter Jesus Christ once and again during his ministry calling. Be blessed as you listen to this thought provoking and challenging teaching from our father!

The passage does not tell us the exact method they used, but Scripture gives us several biblical principles that explain how they likely tested these false apostles.
1. They Tested their doctrine Against Apostolic Truth The first and greatest test was whether their teaching agreed with the gospel delivered by Christ and His apostles.
•Apostle Paul warned the elders of the church of Ephesus that false teachers will arise from amongst them. You must remember Paul taught in Ephesus in 3.5years no wonder they are sound in doctrine (Acts 20:28-31).
•The presence of strong teachers or teaching priests and shepherds keeps vicious wolves at bay and seems to neutralize the vicious wolf instincts. My aim is to turn as many people as possible into an army of apostles, shepherds and teachers to keep the spirit of vicious wolves at bay (Acts 20:28-32) Vicious means deliberately cruel or violent, immoral and brutal.
•Even if an angel preached another gospel, he was to be rejected (Galatians 1:6–10).
•The Bereans examined the Scriptures daily to verify Paul’s teaching and guess what? Paul was so excited they did. He recommended highly because He realized they were a different breed as compared to the Christians of Thessalonica (Acts 17:12)
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Who are the Nicolaitans? They are people within the church of Ephesus who hold on to the demonic doctrine of Balaam (Revelations 2:14).
What is The Meaning of Nicolaitans?
1. The Greek Word for Nicolaitans means destruction of people.
2. The Root Greek Word for the word Nicolaitans is the “Nikolaos” which comes from the compound word “Nikao—Laos”. This means “Overcomer of People.” The Nicolaitans have this spirit of always trying to overcome or dominate the people of God through infiltration and introduction of strange doctrines and believes contrary to what God has given them through.
 
The Nicolaitans Upholds The Doctrine Of Balaam (Numbers 25:1-9, Numbers 31:12-16) The demonic Strategy is to uphold the Doctrine of Balaam to Balak against the people of God. You must know how the devil works against a church. This is to infiltrate the various ranks of the church from within with strange doctrines.
 
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