NOTE: This was first posted www.creativeorganicleader.com July 12, 2015
THIS IS THE FIRST IN A SERIES OF ARTICLES WHAT IFFM IS SUPPOSED TO BE, TO MODEL.
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(God made me laugh when He told me that I was an Online Oracle, (former) Jane on the Isle of Plano, dubbed recently by a supervising IFFM board member “A Voice of One Crying in the Cyberspace Wilderness “)
”In IFFM Leader House James 3:17 Respectfully Submitted Tennis Ball Selah
IFFM DFW LEADER ONLINE FELLOWSHIP is being pioneered by TAVEAU D’ARCY CREATIVE LEADERSHIPprimarily to help encourage, comfort, edify, strengthen, and equip servant apostolic ministry leaders. While it is overseen by a multicultural senior pioneering ministry IFFM board, at the specific leading of the Lord, we are akin to Apostle Paul who declared about his servant apostolic ministry calling, in Galatians 1:1-2 KJV
As you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him” (Colossians 2:6) (ABIDING IN RELATIONSHIP)
(which is indeed each one of our ongoing LITMUS TESTS)
The Ketchup Test: You find out what’s inside the plastic ketchup bottle whenever it gets SQUEEZED; Such are all HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS (see home page right bottom for TEN RELATIONSHIPS)
“Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;)And all the brethren which are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:**
CHURCH OF GALATIA
**Note: The Church of Galatia was one of the new churches which was wrestling among itself and it’s founding chief apostles, about doctrines: some of these First Church elder desired to completely accept Jesus grace given FREEDOM from being back UNDER the Old Testament Levitical (legalistic, producing manyministry ACCUSATIONS) all about doing many good WORKS not into all RELATIONSHIPS Law.
Yet with MANY OTHERS in work planting the same First Church contended against departing completely from the OT Law and this then caused division and party factions which accused one another..all under the good Name of Jesus Christ Following.
The ambitious legalistic church planters were cold in their own resistance to setting as the first top priority ALL ABIDING RELATIONSHIPS. Rather, they preferred keeping religious good rules, performing many acts of service, doing many big and very small works.
Hence, many quarrels resulted among the two divided leader camps. This is why Apostle Paul wrote an open rebuke to the legalists in GALATIANS CHAPTER 3:1-6
“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?
This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” KJV
Chief Apostle Paul clearly understood that wherever the Old Testament Levitical rules conscious LAW was in top priority over non-liscientious GRACE that all RELATIONSHIPS thrived..(minus the many ACCUSATIONS which were continually ministry produced by the Phariseeism, self justified by ministers, lay UNDER the critical, never minding it’s own business, ever over seer watching Goody Two Shoes Law)
Old Testament accuser Phariseeism, in the New Testament leader times would majorly confuse, cause strife and much division between persons who identified completely with FORERUNNER APOSTLE JESUS COMPLETE FREEDOM (along with his Holy Spirit “inner self governing abiding moral authority”) AND the ministry ones would would attempt to block and withstand it, mainly due to their lack of value on other persons and all RELATIONSHIPS…
…..meaning that,while they had the best over all intentions, the latest methods and were each so very spiritually,naturally gifted…YET they top prioritized making more money, and fully enjoyed the personal ministry power (and perks, ministry big prestiege?) of hierarchal, elevated, “ministry oracle celebrity” which, once they Noble Berean JESUS CHRIST’S servant leader life/senior chief apostolic ministry in the GOSPELS (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) they would not found ANY trace of ANY or ALL of that)
GRAND POOBAH SELAH
SO where as in the Old Testament, the overseers temple high priests, ministers, were set into place for the purpose of KEEPING WATCH OVER ALL…it was during the many years…culminating in the 400 silent years between the OLD TESTAMENT and the NEW in which the once great Temple Levitical High Priesthood…. slowly downwardly leader evolved, appeared to dissolve….
… into what formed the (meaning by New Testament Early Pioneering Leader Days) had become the ministry apostolic HIRELINGS , big into their own form of governing HIERARCHY ..with them set over all the others, at the TOP….aka “NEW HIGH PRIESTLY amid accuser PHARISEES Jesus times.. high priestly ministry office, which attacked Messiah, Jesus Christ and mass produced much putrid leader office fruit (see leading up to NT Pharisees: Hebrew nations office decline in Isaiah 1-11, Malachi, Obadiah.
ANOTHER big New Testament Pharisee tradition was the apparent mixup regarding WHO/WHAT constituted the NEW TESTAMENT office of the PROPHET. Was it the roving, melancholy long tooth Old Testament Levitical Law Dramatic Warning National Governmental/Local Sin Spyer? OR DID this extremely important OFFICE take on a wider far more servant leader, personal unique GOSPEL GOOD NEWS less accuser FORM (but still could be SOBER, SOMBER, DIRECTLY UP FRONT NATIONALLY, HUMAN PERSON RESPECTFULLY, EVEN WARNING/CONFRONTING, etc)
Regarding the OFFICE OF THE PROPHET in the New Testament, CHIEF APOSTLE PAUL helps the mixed up First Church with this comment in HEBREWS 1:1-2:
“God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in TIME PAST(O.T.) unto the fathers by the prophets,
Hath in THESE LAST DAYS (N.T.) spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
THIS THEN IMPLIES: that any /all, each who walk in the OFFICE OF THE NEW TESTAMENT PROPHET must bear resemblance to what the BIBLE describes as the personal, ministry life spiritual fruit, into ALL RELATIONSHIPS divine demeanor found in:
ISAIAH 11:3 “He will be quick of understanding, in the fear of the Lord, and will not JUDGE by the SIGHT OF HIS EYES nor make DECISIONS based on what he HEARD.”
ACTS 10:38 “Jesus went ABOUT doing GOOD, healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for the Lord was with Him.’
THE GOSPELS: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
APOSTOLIC GOOD WORKS VS ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIP
AND APART from being REVEALED TO BY THE LORD, (as in each senior pioneering minister/leader/lay, doing GOOD WORKS, BUILDING, ACHIEVING, MINISTRY /BUSINESS WORK PLANTING: Now in New Testament ONGOING FIRST LOVE ABIDING JESUS CHRIST RELATIONSHIP rather than drumming it up, working it, cooking it up to make a ministry:
(This reminds the apostolic writer of the wise warning words of King Solomon:
PSALM 127:1 “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
YOU MAY CLICK ON THE LINK to read APOSTLE PAUL’S entire GALATIANS Chapter 3 open LAMPSTAND ELDERS REBUKE: href=”http://biblehub.com/kjv/galatians/3.htm”> http://biblehub.com/kjv/galatians/3.htm‘
IN CLOSING:
WE MAY draw from all of this a conclusion: that due to Apostle Paul’s (Galatians 1:1-2) clearly distancing of himself from the are Bible instructing First Apostles, who were trying to resist the God in him, by using the guilt producing Old Testament Levitical critical Law…..
…… perhaps they had mistakenly presumed servant pioneering but chief apostle, Paul, had been “SENT BY GOD” to be “UNDER” THEM as per OT Levitical religious, big into chain of command, rules based, governing authority.
NOTE: Apostolic Church History recalls that after Paul first got born again, that he was excommunicated, avoided by the First 12 “organic” Chief Apostles. He then resided in Arabia amongst more accepting God formed humans for about 13 years.
AND it was while up there that PAUL (all by himself for the most part, ALL ALONE with Who we may now perceive as the ABIDING HOME SCHOOLING HOLY SPIRIT) then proceeded to REVEAL to PAUL (in the ongoing personal one to ONE relationship) what Paul describes as the 2 Corinthians 2:7 “the abundance of the many revelations.”
Clearly the Book of Galatians reminds each of his religious authority accusers that as a chief First Church Apostle, that pioneering PAUL answered first and foremost, ONLY to God. (LET US NOTE: Apostle Paul was not “SPIRITUALLY COVERED” (what about ELIJAH?)
Very ironically, Apostle Paul describes his fellow First Church leader peers, as (the only) ones who are “BEWITCHED” ..for by possessing hardened, cold apostolic leader hearts, which resist Christ’s complete FREEDOM.
AND, by some of their actively intentionally contending,against it by training their associate ministers, the lay, followers to mix in PARTIAL OLD TESTAMENT ACCUSER LEVITICAL LEGALISM with the born again, Book of Acts, FREEDOM…Apostle Paul open rebukes them for remaining SELF TRAPPED but also creating DOCTRINES which confuse and also TRAP many God sent OTHERS to go BACKWARDS ‘to remain back UNDER the LAW.”
SO THE EXACT LEADERS who had self justified accusing APOSTLE PAUL of “being in rebellion” and “not UNDER spiritual covering religious authority” actually were the ones who, judging by the New Testament, were UNSUBMITTED to God’s WHOLE HOLY BIBLE COUNSEL. It was they, rather than pioneering PAUL who set themselves up OVER God’s New Testament TOTAL FREEDOM…which was (quite ironically, based on GOSPELS) devoid of overseer Pharisee dominating, accusing, suspicious, governing legalism
OVER SEER PHARISEE SEE-LAH
“There is nothing weak kneed about being a servant leader.” IFFM Ministries
The Church of Galatia, didn’t know that Jesus came to enlarge His Father’s Eternal Accepting Family via ALL RELATIONSHIPS…but rather they regarded BUILDING, ACHIEVING, REMAINING AT THE BIG TOP OVER all others..thereby keeping all RELATIONSHIPS at arms distance. (plus keeping themselves isolated from the lay***
*** The Revelation 2, 3 Lampstand Rebukes: God hates the doctrines of the Nicolaitans, which were first Church errant leader doctrines, based on gnostic (human) wisdom. THESE elevated pulpit, elite ministry doctrines, crept into what had been extended to ongoing remain the SERVANT LEADER OFFICE 5 FOLD nameless, faceless ongoing church. ….As in NO Fan Club, Celebrities (NOTE: Zephaniah 3 says it is ok to have “reknown” just not idol worshipping famous Christian Apostolic /Worship Celebrities, robbing God’s people of their own self value and personal confidence that THEY TOO EQUALLY can hear from the risen LORD!)
APOSTLE PAUl writes” Do not say I am for Paul ,for Appollos, only say I AM FOR JESUS”
I CORINTHIANS 3:4 “For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?”
Also, (reader, be sure to observe this) WHENEVER PAUL writes any of the following ministry words (EPHESIANS 4:11 apostle, prophet, teacher, evangelist,pastor) and bishop, and if/when he uses any of these words to describe HIMSELF..NARY A SINGLE ONE TIME does the famous apostle PAUL ever regard ANY of them much less HIMSELF as anything OTHER than a pioneering/ministry Christ following servant office leader.”
GRAND TITLE SELAH
REBELLIOUS,ACCUSER RELIGIOUS, NOT UNDER SUBMISSION?
As a result, Apostle Pauls’ teaching each reveal that the NT TESTAMENT Scribes, Pharisees and ministry Sadducees were each OUT OF ORDER, NOT SUBMITTED TO, NOT CONSECRATED (as unto what CHRIST THE nonaccuser, prophetic PIONEER OF ALL GODLY RELATIONSHIPS came to governmentally establish)
NEW TESTAMENT FREEDOM TO USE THE SERVANT LEADER FOLLOWING:
1. MATTHEW 18:15:17-18 deeply respectful, up front, compassionate, time consuming ministry CONFRONTATION.. rather than far off judging, sin spying, Pharisee accusing
2. FREEDOM to withstand, not enable, particularly not RESEMBLE A PHARISEE ACCUSER (REVELATION 12:7-12
3. HOLY SPIRIT FREEDOM to no longer be held under the covering bondage and any SPELL of the Old Time kept passed down ancient revered TRADITIONS, and NOT yielding to Christ’s FREEDOM …as in rebelling against CHRIST’S nonthreatening,inwardly downloaded, HOLY SPIRIT GOVERNING TRUE AUTHORITY.**
MARK 7:8 “For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do”
**GALATIANS 5:22-23 “nonlegalistic fruits of the Holy Spirit include “personal self government” aka self control, temperance” Yet of course, there would continue to be some who would fail to use PERSONAL SELF GOVERNMENT (APOSTOLIC BALANCE ongoing need to be TAUGHT for discernment of all boundaries, including leadership, fellow ministry peer, lay and all BIBLE RELATIONSHIPS (see top of homepage TEN BIBLE RELATIONSHIPS)
4. COMPLETE FREEDOM from turning ALL KNOWING, ALL WISE and SET IN ONES OWN PHARISEE OVERLY TOO FREE UNWISE WAYS, thereby being restored to FREEDOM to truly yield to GOD’S WHOlE BIBLE COUNSEL AUTHORITY: apart from the accuser Phariseeism historic ministry overseer tradition!
EPHESIAN 3:19 “To know the love of Christ which passes knowledge.”
5. FREEDOM to navigate all RELATIONSHIPS with PERSONAL SELF GOVERNMENT, ABIDING HUMILITY empowered with GOD’s SUPERNATURAL HELP : EPHESIANS 4, EPHESIANS 2:14, EPHESIANS 5:21, bearing enduring JAMES 3:17 relationship abiding long-suffering (Philadelphian Brotherly,Sisterly, compassionate Love Walk Church fruit)
EPHESIANS 2:14** “He is our peace, who has broken down every wall of partition to make us both one”
**PONDERATION: WHO IS TEACHING THAT ANYWHERE OUT THERE IN NATIONAL TOP VISIBILITY SENIOR MINISTRY?
CLOSING:
IFFM MINISTRIES all theological differences, even extreme ,intense, lively ones, are all respectfully done according to JAMES 3:17 demeanor. The specific ALL ABOUT RELATIONSHIP interactive (remaining) spiritual fruit is:
“The wisdom that comes from above is first of all pure, peaceable, easyly entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hyporcisy.
SUBMITTING: IF while there are MANY PEOPLE “fellowshipping with the saints” in many kinds of legalistic, non legalistic CHURCHES…what about the ones who will not now darken the door of ANY formal New Testament Church …and what about MILLENIALS?
IFFM ALSO SUBMITS: WHERE are any/each of these “Historically True Bible Verses (non bless US) being widely included ANYWHERE in the USA big grass roots
**ALL RELATIONSHIPS over ACHIEVEMENT, MAKING MINISTRY PROGRESS, LAY /LEADER mainly OUTER PROSPERITY? Eh 1:6, 2:14, James 3:17, Ephesians 4, 4:42, 5:21 just a few examples)
**THE ABIDING HOLY FEAR OF THE LORD (Here’s sample verses for how: PROV 2:1-5)
** GOSPEL ROLE MODELS of JESUS CHRIST, SAVIOR, SENIOR 5 fold office apostolic servant ministry, Sent Messenger, based on his ALL OF HIS DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP (interactions with leader apostolic men, all types of women, His mother, sinners, NT Pharisees, Patrician Romans, nonbelievers, many idolators, roving demoniacs, various guilty nonbelievers, etc)
CLOSING IN PSALM 133 UNITY UNDIVIDED SANS DENOMINATIONAL ABIDING STANCE
1. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
2. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
3. As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: FOR THERE THE LORD COMMANDED THE BLESSING** even life for evermore.”
** READ SIMILAR N.T. EPHESIANS 4: 1-3
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
2 With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
3 Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
NON ELITE EPHESIANS 4: 11-13 WHOM CHRIST GAVE AS SERVANT BODY SPIRITUAL OFFICE GIFTS:
11. And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
12. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
13. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:”
WHOLE LEADER BODY EPHESIANS 4:AKA the “SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY WHOLE AREA BODY TRANSFORMING CHARACTER FRUITS now reproduced”
13. That we henceforth be NO MORE (IMMATURE) CHILDREN, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15. But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
16.From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”
Noble Berean, James 3:17, Now Ended Tennis Ball Selah
BLESSINGS!
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