Discover what Speaking Things Into Existence is all about. Behold, speaking things into existence is solely within God’s power and exclusively His right. The Bible makes us understand that in creating the World, God simply spoke things into existence. That is, God simply spoke, and light appeared (Genesis 1:3); the sky was formed (verses 7–8); dry land emerged (verse 9); vegetation sprang up (verse 11); the sun, moon, and shining stars appeared (verses 14–15); fish and birds came into existence (verses 20–21); animal life was as well called into existence (verse 24). Amazingly, God’s act of creation clearly reveals His unique and mighty power in a way that can never be duplicated. In simple words, God is the only one who can speak things into existence. Speaking things into existence is not something that we, human beings, have the power to do.
Speaking things into existence is solely within the power and might of the Almighty God. When the Lord God Almighty brought the plagues upon Egypt, the pagan magicians were able to mimic the results of the first two miracles. But when Moses following the instructions of the Lord God Almighty turned the dust of the ground into gnats, the magi of Egypt were stumped. That is, they could not animate inanimate things: “This is the finger of God,” they told Pharaoh (Exodus 8:19). Today, there are people who believe that it is possible for mankind to speak things into existence. Most of them base their claims on a misinterpretation of certain Scripture passages. However, we are likely to make such mistakes when we only look at one verse of one short section of Scripture, without considering that passage in its proper context.
Speaking Things Into Existence
Among the Biblical verses that people often cite when trying to prove that man can speak things into existence is Mark 11:24, “I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.” Interestingly, these words of Jesus Christ do not in any way communicate the idea of creation – bringing something into existence that did not previously exist. It is important to note that in the previous verse (Mark 11:23), Jesus gives the example of moving a mountain, but He does not mention the idea of speaking a new mountain into existence. In addition, Mark 11:24 must be taken in context with the rest of Scripture. We are told in 1 John 5:14 that, “If we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.” As Christians, we are called to submit to God’s will in our prayers.
When we pray according to God’s will through Christ our Lord and Savior, our prayers are heard. And the Lord God Almighty who hears our prayers is willing and ready to answer us. Jeremiah 29:12 says, “Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you.” Likewise, Romans 8:28 says, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Submission to God’s will in prayer yields positive results. However, we are never given the power to speak things into existence. Elsewhere, Jesus Christ taught, “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness” (Matthew 6:33). It is by seeking God’s will, aligning our desires and thoughts with His desires and thoughts that we show true faith.
What The Scriptures Say
The Scriptures call on us to seek first the Kingdom of God (Matthew 6:33). Seeking first the kingdom of God has to do with going after His will, aligning our thoughts and desires with His thoughts and desires. This leads us to ask for the things that God wants, not the things that we want. At this point, our desires become His desires, and our prayers become requests to fulfill His desires rather than our own. It is important to understand that the purpose of prayer is not to speak things into existence but to conform our will to God’s as we can read from Luke 22:42 – “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”
Another Biblical verse often used as a proof text that we can speak things into existence is Romans 4:17 that talks of “the God who gives life to the dead and calls into being things that were not.” Some people stick to the phrase “calls into being things that were not” and try using it as Biblical evidence that we can do the same. This is a misinterpretation because Apostle Paul is clearly talking about God, not man, calling things into existence. Speaking things into existence is God’s specialty and not ours. Likewise, the Scripture points to mankind’s inability to speak things into existence. Lamentations 3:37 asks the rhetorical question, “Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?” The answer, of course, is “no one.” Behold, we do not have the power to speak things into existence through the sheer force of our word.
Speaking Things Into Existence
Genesis 1:1-31 – “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …“
Proverbs 18:21 – “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”
Romans 4:17 – “As it is written, “I have made you the father of many nations”—in the presence of the God in whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence the things that do not exist.“
Mark 11:22-24 – And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God. Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Group 1 – Speaking Things Into Existence
Matthew 21:22 – And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”
Isaiah 55:11 – “So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.“
Mark 11:23 – “Truly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that what he says will come to pass, it will be done for him.”
2 Corinthians 4:13 – “Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,”
Genesis 1:3 – And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
1 Corinthians 1:28 – “God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,”
Hebrews 11:3 – “By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.”
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2 Corinthians 4:18 – “As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.“
Romans 10:17 – “So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.“
Matthew 12:36 – “I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,“
John 1:1 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.“
Matthew 12:34-36 – “You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil. I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,”
Ezekiel 12:25 – “For I am the Lord; I will speak the word that I will speak, and it will be performed. It will no longer be delayed, but in your days, O rebellious house, I will speak the word and perform it, declares the Lord God.”
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Hebrews 11:1-10 – “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. …“
Ezekiel 37:1-10 – “The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. …“
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Genesis 1:1 – “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”
Ephesians 4:29 – “Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.“
Mark 11:24 – “Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
Psalm 33:9 – “For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.”
John 1:14 – “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.”
Proverbs 15:4 – “A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.“
Proverbs 15:1 – “A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
John 1:3 – “All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.”
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John 1:1-51 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. …“
Mark 11:22 – And Jesus answered them, “Have faith in God.
Romans 4:18 – In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, “So shall your offspring be.”
Joshua 1:8 – “This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.”
Philippians 4:8 – “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
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Matthew 6:7 – “And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words.“
Romans 10:9 – “Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.“
2 Timothy 2:15 – “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”
Matthew 7:7 – “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
Romans 4:16 – “That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all,“
Hebrews 11:6 – “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.”
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Revelation 1:1-20 – “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. …“
1 Peter 3:10 – For “Whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit;
Psalm 82:6 – I said, “You are gods, sons of the Most High, all of you;
Proverbs 13:3 – “Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.“
Genesis 17:5 – “No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.“
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James 1:19 – “Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;“
John 14:6 – Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Hebrews 11:2 – “For by it the people of old received their commendation.”
Revelation 1:1 – “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,“
1 Peter 4:11 – “Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.”
1 Timothy 4:2 – “Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,”
Matthew 12:34 – “You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.“
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Ephesians 4:15 – “Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,“
Colossians 4:6 – “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.”
1 Peter 3:15 – “But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,”
Matthew 4:4 – But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Hebrews 11:4 – “By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.”
Isaiah 42:9 – “Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.”
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Genesis 1:26 – Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Isaiah 26:3-4 – “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.”
2 Corinthians 4:17 – “For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,”
John 14:1-31 – “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” …
Luke 8:48 – And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
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Colossians 2:1-23 – “For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for you and for those at Laodicea and for all who have not seen me face to face, that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ, in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ. …“
Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.”
John 14:1 – “Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.“
Hebrews 11:1 – “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”
Psalm 34:13 – “Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking deceit.“
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Matthew 12:35 – “The good person out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.“
Ephesians 4:25 – “Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.“
John 14:7 – “If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”
Matthew 6:10 – “Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”
John 1:18 – “No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.”
Proverbs 10:19 – “When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent.“
Romans 4:2 – “For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.”
Genesis 3:15 – “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
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Romans 1:16 – “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.“
Psalm 14:1 – To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
Genesis 1:19 – “And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.”
Luke 6:45 – “The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.”
Psalm 141:3 – “Set a guard, O Lord, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips!“
John 3:16-17 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”
John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”
Group 14 – Speaking Things Into Existence
John 1:2 – “He was in the beginning with God.”
Romans 4:1-25 – “What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, …“
Romans 1:25 – “Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.“
Genesis 2:7 – “Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.”
Matthew 17:20 – He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
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Acts 2:1-47 – “When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...”
James 3:2 – “For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body.”
Romans 10:8-10 – But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.”
John 11:26 – “And everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?”
John 6:63 – “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.”
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Jeremiah 9:23-24 – Thus says the Lord: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the Lord.”
Romans 5:1 – “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.“
2 Peter 3:8 – “But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.“
Revelation 4:11 – “Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.”
2 Timothy 3:16 – “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,”
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1 John 5:19 – “We know that we are from God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.”
1 Corinthians 6:19 – “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,”
1 John 5:14 – “And this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us.”
Matthew 6:1-34 – “Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. …“
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In this piece of writing, we’ll be answering the following questions: What Is An Apostle?Are There Apostles Today?What Makes Someone An Apostle?What Is An Apostle Today?Qualifications Of An Apostle?Duties Of An Apostle?How To Pronounce Apostle, What It Means To Be An Apostle, Disciple Vs Apostle, What Is A True Apostle?What Is An Apostle In The Bible?What Is The Difference Between A Disciple And An Apostle? An Apostle, in its most literal sense, is an emissary, from the Greek word ἀπόστολος (apóstolos), literally “one who is sent off”, from the verb ἀποστέλλειν (apostéllein), “to send off”. The chief purpose of such sending off is usually to convey a particular message, and therefore “messenger” is a common alternative translation. Other common alternative translations include “envoy” and “ambassador.”
This term is derived from the Greek of the New Testament and was used for Jesus’s original twelve Apostles as well as a wider group of early Christian figures, including Paul, Barnabas, and Junia.
It usually refers to early associates of the founder of a religion, who played an important role in spreading his/her teachings. The word apostle has two meanings, the broader meaning of a messenger, and the narrow meaning of an early Christian Apostle directly linked to Jesus Christ. Today, the adjective apostolic (/ˌæpəˈstɒlɪk/) is strongly claimed as a continuing characteristic by many prominent Christian churches thereby leading to a wider modern application.
We can find the word in the “Apostolic See”, the official name for the Roman Catholic Papacy. Also, we can find the name in the doctrine of the Apostolic succession which is held by many branches of Christianity. It can as well be found in the Four Marks of the Church (“One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic”) found in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.
What Is An Apostle?
Apostle Definition
The Christian Faith teaches that apostles were those entrusted by Jesus Christ with the task to assist in organizing the Church and spreading the message of His Key Teachings to the world. It comes from the Greek word apostello , meaning a messenger or one sent on a mission. Although not frequently used in today’s common language excerpt when pointing to Christian Principles, the word was regularly used in ancient times to describe someone who has been commissioned by another person to represent him.
In the New Testament, there are two primary usages of the word apostle. The first which is of greater value is in specifically referring to the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ. The second meaning is in generically referring to other individuals who are sent out to be messengers/ambassadors of Jesus Christ.
The Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ held a unique position. In portraying the New Jerusalem, Revelation 21:14 states, “The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.” It was these twelve apostles who were the first messengers of the Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ after His Death and Resurrection. According to Ephesians 2:20, these twelve apostles were the foundation of the church with Jesus Christ Himself being the Cornerstone. This specific type of Apostle is not present in today’s church because they had a unique task which was to lay the foundation of the Church. It is obvious that two thousand years later, we are not still working on the foundation. The qualifications of this type of apostle were:
To have been a witness of the resurrected Christ (1 Corinthians 9:1)
To have been clearly chosen by the Holy Spirit (Acts 9:15)
Accompanied by signs and wonders (Acts 2:43; 2 Corinthians 12:12).
What Is An Apostle In The Bible?
This piece of writing won’t be complete without an answer to the question, what is an apostle in the Bible? It is important to note that beyond the unique twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, there were also apostles in a generic sense. In Acts 13:2 and 14:4, Barnabas is referred to as an “apostle”. Also, Andronicus and Junias are possibly identified as apostles in Romans 16:7. In addition, the same word translated “apostle” is used in 2 Corinthians 8:23 to refer to Titus and also used in Philippians 2:25 to refer to Epaphroditus. Hence, we can say without a doubt that there is room for the term apostle being used to refer to someone besides the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. Anyone who was “sent” could be called an apostle.
The main question now is to know the role of an apostle outside that of the twelve apostles. Although it is not entirely clear, we’ll do our best to pour more light on the subject matter. Knowing the definition or meaning of an Apostle, we can easily link it to its closest term, missionary. In simple terms, a missionary is a follower of Jesus Christ who has been sent out with the specific mission of proclaiming the Gospel. He/she is an ambassador of Christ to everyone who has not heard of the Good News of Eternal Life. Today, many people think that it is wise not to use the term apostle to refer to any position in the church so as to avoid confusion. However, the vast majority of the occurrences of apostles in the New Testament refer to the twelve apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Are There Apostles Today?
In a broad sense, all followers of Jesus Christ are called to be apostles. That is, they have been sent out to take the Good News to those who have not yet heard of it. In following Christ, we are to be His ambassadors (Matthew 28:18-20; 2 Corinthians 5:18-20). We are all to be “ones who are sent out” (Acts 1:8). We have all been called to be preachers of the Good News (Romans 10:15). However, it becomes a dangerous ground when a person starts equating himself in terms of spiritual authority with the twelve apostles that were chosen and taught by Jesus Christ himself. Such reflections are more likely to lead to apostasy and false doctrines. Remember that as Christians, we have only one leader and teacher, Jesus Christ. In everything, let the Holy Spirit and the Bible be our guide for Truth.
What Is The Difference Between A Disciple And An Apostle? (Disciple Vs Apostle)
It won’t make sense for us to end this piece of writing without answering the question, what is the difference between a disciple and an apostle? There is much to know about disciple vs apostle. Although the terms are often used interchangeably, there is a significant difference between an apostle and a disciple. In simple terms, we can say that a disciple is a devoted student and follower of a teacher. The Greek word for disciple is mathētḗs which means a pupil or learner. It literally means a student. A disciple is an apprentice whose main goal is to learn as much as possible from his/her teacher. In reality, Jesus Christ had many disciples who were not part of the twelve whom he chose to become apostles.
Luke 10:1 says, “The Lord now chose seventy-two other disciples and sent them ahead in pairs to all the towns and places he planned to visit.”
So, what is the difference between the disciples and those who became apostles? The difference lays on the fact that they were chosen from the other disciples and sent out on a mission. Although we are all called to spread the Good News about God’s Kingdom, not everyone is given the gift of Apostleship by the Holy Spirit. 1 Corinthians 12:27-31 clearly lists the gifts of the Holy Spirit, starting with that of Apostleship. Everyone who receives a spiritual gift is a disciple of Jesus Christ because he/she is filled with the Holy Spirit as a result of sincerely repenting and welcoming Jesus Christ in his/her life. However, it is clearly stated in 1 Corinthians 12:30 that not everyone will receive the same spiritual gifts. Thus, not every disciple ends up becoming an apostle.
The Original 12 Apostles
Jesus Christ had many disciples who were devoted to studying under Him. However, only 12 were chosen from the beginning to later go out and spread the Good News about God’s Kingdom to humanity thereby laying the foundation of the Christian church. Those whom Jesus Christ chose as apostles were later given the gifts of apostleship by the Holy Spirit when Christ ascended. We perceive that even those whom we consider as the original twelve apostles seemed to gain favor and confidence in their roles as apostles after the Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came live in them. These are the twelve whom Jesus Christ called Apostles:
Simon (whom he named Peter)
James
John
Andrew
Philip
Bartholomew
Matthew
Thomas
James
Thaddaeus
Simon
Judas Iscariot (who was later replace by Matthias)
What Is An Apostle Today?
Do Apostles still exist? Are men still called by God to be Apostles? These are some of the questions that many people will like to have answers to. The truth is that God still calls people, equip them, and send them out on the mission of growing the church of Christ. Remember that “Apostle” is clearly listed as the first in a series of gifts that believers in a community that is after God’s heart can receive from the Holy Spirit. As it was the case in the days of Jesus Christ, not everyone will receive the gift. However, as God continues to grow His Church, there will always be the need for spiritual gifts from the Holy Spirit.
Qualifications Of An Apostle (Duties Of An Apostle)
There is much to say about the qualifications to be an apostle. Can anyone be an apostle? Biblically, it seems that it is not ours to decide. What then are the requirements to be an apostle?How can one become an apostle? Without thoroughly thinking it through, many ministers of the Gospel have often assumed that certain things make someone an apostle. Most of the time, these things are what apostles do; but not exclusively. Or still, apostles may have them, but not exclusively. Some of these things are as follows:
Having an international ministry.
Signs and Wonders.
Being Charismatic.
Being Recognized by People as an Apostle.
Planting Churches or having extensive missionary works.
And in some cases, people assume that you must have seen Jesus Christ physically to be an Apostle.
Note that all of the above-assumed qualifications are not exclusive apostles. We can support this point with the fact that many have performed great signs and wonders, had international ministries, planted churches, been called apostles, been called charismatic, and have seen the Lord, but not been an apostle. That is why we can say that none of these things are really qualifications but maybe things that apostles carryout, but without proving the calling. Is there a Biblical list of qualifications for apostles? Although the Bible provides a list of qualifications for elders (Titus 1:5-9, or 1 Tim 3:1-7) and deacons (1 Timothy 3:8), there is not in one place a single list of qualifications for Apostles.
Three Basic Qualifications Of And Apostle
Elders were appointed by apostles. Deacons were also appointed by leadership. That is why Apostle Paul wrote specifying qualifications for these church positions. Apostles however are called by Christ, appointed by Christ, and anointed for their mission by Christ. Hence, they must declare themselves to be an apostle. It is only after this step that they are tested to actually see if they really are an apostle. Their devotion and love for Christ and believers as well as their godly character and lifestyle will testify that their call is true. Jesus Christ said, “You will know them by their fruit.”
Mark 3:14-15 it says, “He appointed twelve – designating them apostles – that they might be with him, that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons.” This Biblical passage gives us three qualifications of an apostle. Firstly, they must be people who are closed to Christ. Secondly, they must be completely obedient and willing to be “sent ones”. Thirdly, they will have the authority to do Christ’s work.
Other Qualifications
Grace on their lives. (2 Corinthians 1:12)
Submission to Christ – not a law unto themselves. (Philippians 2:5-8)
Holiness. (2 Corinthians 1:12)
Willingness to suffer for Christ. (Colossians 1:24-29)
Sincerity. (2 Corinthians 1:12)
Bible Verses About Apostles
Mark 3:13-19 – “And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him. And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach and have authority to cast out demons. He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); …“
2 Corinthians 12:12 – “The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.“
Matthew 10:2-4 – “The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.“
Acts 5:12-16 – “Now many signs and wonders were regularly done among the people by the hands of the apostles. And they were all together in Solomon’s Portico. None of the rest dared join them, but the people held them in high esteem. And more than ever believers were added to the Lord, multitudes of both men and women, so that they even carried out the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mats, that as Peter came by at least his shadow might fall on some of them. The people also gathered from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing the sick and those afflicted with unclean spirits, and they were all healed.”
Mark 16:15 – And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.”
Group 1
Matthew 19:28 – Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Ephesians 4:11 – “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,“
Acts 19:1-41 – “And it happened that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the inland country and came to Ephesus. There he found some disciples. And he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?” And they said, “No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.” And he said, “Into what then were you baptized?” They said, “Into John’s baptism.” And Paul said, “John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is, Jesus.” On hearing this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. …“
Luke 9:1-5 – And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. And he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics. And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”
Ephesians 2:20 – “Built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,”
Group 2
Leviticus 19:31 – “Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.“
Luke 9:1-5 – And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases, and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal. And he said to them, “Take nothing for your journey, no staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money; and do not have two tunics. And whatever house you enter, stay there, and from there depart. And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”
Acts 4:13 – “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.”
Acts 1:1-26 – “In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” …“
Group 3
Acts 1:8 – “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 2:1-47 – “When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. …“
Acts 1:13 – “And when they had entered, they went up to the upper room, where they were staying, Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot and Judas the son of James.”
Mark 16:20 – “And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord worked with them and confirmed the message by accompanying signs.]]“
Mark 6:7 – “And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.”
Acts 1:2 – “Until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen.”
1 Corinthians 12:28 – “And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues.”
Group 4
John 14:22 – Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, “Lord, how is it that you will manifest yourself to us, and not to the world?”
Hebrews 3:1 – “Therefore, holy brothers, you who share in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession,“
2 Corinthians 11:13 – “For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.”
Acts 2:38 – And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Matthew 28:19 – “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,“
John 21:15-19 – When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep. Truly, truly, I say to you, when you were young, you used to dress yourself and walk wherever you wanted, …
Group 5
Mark 3:14 – “And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach.“
Luke 9:1 – “And he called the twelve together and gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases,“
Acts 4:33 – “And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all.”
Acts 2:42 – “And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”
Matthew 10:1-42 – “And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, …“
Luke 22:28-30 – “You are those who have stayed with me in my trials, and I assign to you, as my Father assigned to me, a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.“
Group 6
Matthew 10:1-4 – “And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.”
Revelation 21:14 – “And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them were the twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.”
2 Peter 1:16 – “For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”
Luke 6:12-16 – “In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.“
1 Corinthians 9:1 – “Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are not you my workmanship in the Lord?“
Group 7
Ephesians 4:11-13 – “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,“
John 17:1-26 – “When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work that you gave me to do. And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed. …“
Matthew 16:17-19 – And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Luke 9:45 – “But they did not understand this saying, and it was concealed from them, so that they might not perceive it. And they were afraid to ask him about this saying.“
Group 8
Matthew 10:1 – “And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction.”
Matthew 10:4 – “Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.“
Matthew 9:9 – As Jesus passed on from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he rose and followed him.
Psalm 69:25 – “May their camp be a desolation; let no one dwell in their tents.”
2 Peter 1:1-21 – “Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, …“
Group 9
Revelation 2:2 – “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.”
2 Timothy 2:2 – “And what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.“
2 Timothy 2:15 – “Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”
Acts 12:1-2 – “About that time Herod the king laid violent hands on some who belonged to the church. He killed James the brother of John with the sword,“
Galatians 2:9 – “And when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.“
Acts 5:32 – “And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Acts 2:32 – “This Jesus God raised up, and of that we all are witnesses.”
Acts 3:15 – “And you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses.“
Group 10
Acts 1:21 – “So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,“
Acts 1:22 – “Beginning from the baptism of John until the day when he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us a witness to his resurrection.”
John 20:21 – Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
John 15:27 – “And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.”
Acts 1:15-26 – “In those days Peter stood up among the brothers (the company of persons was in all about 120) and said, “Brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to those who arrested Jesus. For he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in this ministry.” (Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) …“
John 15:27 – “And you also will bear witness, because you have been with me from the beginning.”
Group 11
John 20:21 –Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
John 15:16 – “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.”
John 13:6-8 – He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.”
John 14:5-9 – Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.” Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is enough for us.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
Luke 24:19 – And he said to them, “What things?” And they said to him, “Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, a man who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people,
Group 12
Luke 24:48 – “You are witnesses of these things.“
Luke 10:17 – The seventy-two returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”
Matthew 10:24 – “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.“
Acts 17:11 – “Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.”
Matthew 10:24 – “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.“
Matthew 28:19-20 – Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Luke 9:54 – And when his disciples James and John saw it, they said, “Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them?”
Acts 17:11 – “Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.”
Group 13
Luke 9:44 – “Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”
Luke 6:14 – “Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew,“
Luke 6:15 – “And Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot,”
Luke 6:13 – “And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles:“
Mark 3:18 – “Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,”
Mark 6:7-11 – And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts— but to wear sandals and not put on two tunics. And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”
Mark 3:16-19 – “He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder); Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.”
Group 14
Mark 3:15 – “And have authority to cast out demons.”
Revelation 1:1-20 – “The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. …“
Revelation 2:1-29 – “To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. …“
Group 15
1 John 1:1 – “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life—“
1 John 1:1-3 – “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we looked upon and have touched with our hands, concerning the word of life— the life was made manifest, and we have seen it, and testify to it and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was made manifest to us— that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.“
2 Timothy 3:16 – “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,”
1 Peter 4:10 – “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:“
1 Corinthians 12:27 – “Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.”
1 Corinthians 9:5 – “Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?“
Group 16
1 Corinthians 12:12 – “For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.”
1 Corinthians 9:2 – “If to others I am not an apostle, at least I am to you, for you are the seal of my apostleship in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians 3:11 – “For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.”
Acts 14:14 – “But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out,“
Acts 15:1-41 – But some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, Paul and Barnabas and some of the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and the elders about this question. So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, describing in detail the conversion of the Gentiles, and brought great joy to all the brothers. When they came to Jerusalem, they were welcomed by the church and the apostles and the elders, and they declared all that God had done with them. But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, …
Group 17
Luke 6:13-16 – “And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.”
Acts 10:39-41 – “And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree, but God raised him on the third day and made him to appear, not to all the people but to us who had been chosen by God as witnesses, who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead.”
Matthew 28:18-20 – And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Mark 16:17 – “And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues;“
Matthew 16:19 – “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Group 18
Galatians 1:1 – “Paul, an apostle—not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead—“
Matthew 17:1 – “And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves.“
Matthew 10:5 – These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans,”
Psalm 109:8 – “May his days be few; may another take his office!“
Acts 17:10-11 – “The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.”
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God has no sinking sand.
No other god has power to rise from the dead. Only Jesus can save.
The Christian should be healthy in order to heal the sick.
God makes somebody out of nobody.
Feed your faith to starve you doubts.
A little unseemliness, a little sin in a clean body is a big stain.
The world cannot save the world, but the saints can save the world.
Do not sow and go to sleep, watch over your seeds, and tend them.
Faith spurs to action and action brings results.
If god does not put you on high and blessings come they will suppress you.
If anything which you desire to achieve in life is only what comes out of your sweat, then your achievement will be small indeed.
No work without specification can be conceived.
The wealth of sinners is in the hands of saints.
You a stranger to failure.
Storms can bring strength.
Rather than cry out your poverty, God will shield you from knowing that need is there.
There is no short cut to success.
You can discover a new you in you when you start to put faith to action.
Put your faith in god before you try your senses.
If you sleep too much life will pass you by.
When the devil is laying a snare for you, he forgets whom you serve.
You are what God says you are from the very day He says it to you.
Until you start using spiritual sight, you will never see far.
Do not force anybody to be called a superintendent when he is a supervisor.
When you believe it is not too late, then it will come on time. It will be in your due season and God’s.
Stand above your natural height; see faith work when others fail.
Salvation salvages our lives.
Success without successful succession is a defeated life.
God will never call you and you suffer setbacks for his name.
Struggles don’t die, stagnant people die.
Christians are in the minority with supernatural power.
Day after day, our faith undergoes scrutiny.
Do not be afraid of stumbling blocks, but do sink with them
A river that is static soon becomes stagnant.
People waste their time and life on their knees trying to send God on errands. We can not send Him when he has sent us.
Have the stamina to stand against challenges that threatens your endeavors.
We are in a poverty stricken world, but thank God it is not the government who supply all our needs. It is not the bank.
There are many people who read the scriptures, but quite a few study it.
Faith never brings shame.
People who look at their skin never discover heir skill.
You do not need superpower to serve God; you need a super grace to serve a super God.
There is no solution you are reaching for which the Lord God can not do better.
Only the Lord can stop for you where there is no father or mother.
As you constantly pass people by, always learn to stop by to help the poor.
If you don’t abstain from sin it will stain you.
Labor without skills makes you to labor more.
We have been saved to save others.
Some body can take silver from your mouth, but no one can take your mouth from silver.
Man counts the fruits, but God counts the seeds.
God as a source is better than the source from man.
Anyone that learns slowly learns slowing.
Miracle is not what you think, but what you see.
What is not seen is more available than what is seen.
Many of the things you are not able to do is because you did not start it
When your obstacles are too great, don’t push it aside, surrender them to Jesus.
Your steadfastness takes you away from fainting.
When you turn your trials to sorrow, it then becomes a storm.
Make yourself free and your mind will be sensitized.
The symbol of the eagle reminds you of where you ought to be.
When God saves a person, he makes him somebody out of nobody.
Those who sit down doing nothing will soak and sour.
People are always sick, but God is always well.
No situation is so ugly that it cannot augur well for God.
Every setback in your life is not a defeat, but a test.
Your devotion to God is a guarantee that your future is secure.
The slavery of the sour is worse than that of the flesh.
When God ask you to arise, do not sit down.
It takes spiritual principles to solve spiritual problems.
Due season is that time in our life that no body can intercept, it is that compressing time when past, present, and future meets.
It is not the size of faith that matters, it is the sincerity.
Learn to say no to sorrow.
If you are a child of God your safety is in His hand.
A docked ship faces no storm so also are saints that do nothing.
Do not labour because of tomorrow, you already have your tomorrow met with today because you brought yesterday to today, and your tomorrow to today.
Children are born, but sons are made.
For after the heat, after the rain, comes the triumph over trials.
Don’t let what men think of you to weigh you down.
Being at the top is easy, but remaining there is a problem.
When you don’t pray tithes, things become tight for you.
The gospel can transfer you from failure to success.
The only language that brings testimony is testimony.
Let what you teach concur with how you live.
If you can think of it, God will provide it for you.
When things are terrible, the Christian should be terrific in faith.
God specializes in stopping people’s tears.
Goals getters don’t get tired.
The greatest power constant in achievement is the ability to stand when your vision is tested.
Terrific times are sometimes preceded by terrible times.
No matter the degree of rottenness of any situation, when God touches it, it changes for goods.
God of tough times is still the God of terrific times.
Anything that has life will have trouble.
Learn how to release your bullet and believe that it is going to hit the target.
Anything taller than you is under the feet of God.
Do not be moved by the threat of men, neither should you give heed to the boast of men.
Train yourself to say I am expecting God’s visitation in my house.
Tomorrow is so far that you cannot pull it to today.
One miracle back away from sin is one miracle turned to God.
A pastor without testimonies is a past tense.
Testimonies will take you to the top, and when you are on top, you can see far.
The gospel is the truth, and the truth can never be suppressed for long.
Tenacity of purpose yields fruits.
Your belief that faith can change your destiny must be tested and tried.
Don’t take from God what you place with him.
The trumpet signifying the end of the battle will not be blown until you are wining.
Temptations are not designed to kill you but to establish your mastery over the devil as a child of God.
Tempest is not temptation, but trial of triumph.
Do not doubt what you have not tried, just try it.
You and God constitute an unbeatable team.
Why you engage in overtime is because the time is too short.
If you can tame your mind to time yourself you will have success.
Learn to tune your ears to the channel of God.
Do not stop people from talking about you, but do not join them to talk evil about yourself.
It is better to die while trying out something good than to die lying down doing nothing.
If you can tell the devil where he is going, he will cease to remind you of where you are coming from.
Don’t try to be what some one else is because you don’t know how he got there.
Be careful because the many praises of men are traps, so as to ascertain your honesty.
The day you begin to stop trusting God, you continue to make mistakes.
How much truth you know gives you the wisdom you have.
Unless you build together, you cannot grow together.
The easiest way to cut a trip short is to ask who is coming from there.
Your testimony should be insider the church and not outside it.
God has time for our timing.
We are together in the house of God as a team, but we are not going to give an account of ourselves as a team.
Some pastors are more interested in tithe than in the ministry.
Testimonies will take you to the top, and when you are on top, you can see far.
The bigger the problem, the bigger the testimony.
Know what to say when every body is saying the wrong words.
God is not only a fighter, but a winner every time.
Rest before you are weary.
The word is quick language of miracles, and miracles always come from God.
We are double winners, here on earth and in resurrection.
The will of God will not make you avoid needs.
If you have no will to live, you cannot deny the desire to die.
Whatever you admire in life, desire it, and whatever you desire in life reacquire it, and whatever you require in life, aspire for it, don’t retire, but refire, when you refire, the acquire that which you desire that you admire in life.
Don’t be a half winner
I don’t worry, I don’t fear, I know that God is on my side.
The words of your mouth can give you a turn around.
When you are so weak, that is when you can do all things.
Christianity is a warfare
Rest before you are weary
No man ever wins when he is afraid to fight.
Revelation can lengthen your years on earth.
Yesterday is so far away that you cannot merge it with today.
With holiness backing the scriptures, wisdom follows.
Until you see yourself, you don’t know what you are supposed to be.
God can take you from “who are you “to “how are you?”
Zealousness doesn’t give you what you require from God, but faith is the raw material that gives you a better thing from God.
Treasure what you believe in.
Testimony can help you to build your own testament.
Don’t be afraid to venture into the unknown.
Religionists are contented with formalities, but Christians are interested in the unusual.
Faith must be backed by action and unction.
Faith is a journey never undertaken before.
No matter how deep you have been in the pit, upward is your goal.
When tigers are congress, an antelope does not seek to be heard. A goat does not prance into a gathering of lions to say “How do you do”? Neither does a mouse seek to mediate in a fight between two elephants. But today unbelievers seek to determine the Christian’s tomorrow.
Anyone who plans your demise will go under, even under the earth. There is nothing to fear. Only Jesus is Lord.
Faith is not to be left unused.
Thank God for victories in unseen battles.
You never go under while you are trying to go over with the lord.
When the unexpected happens, the unusual is about to occur.
Resolve that you shall never be frozen in un-fulfillment.
The more you use what you have, the more you have to use.
Magic is limited, but a miracle is unlimited.
When a dream is unveiled to you, let action follow it.
Every life endeavour must t needs walk through a valley.
God is looking for a voice not an echo.
The days of big names only in ministry is not God’s principle, He is looking for will vessels.
There is no vacuum that God cannot fill.
The spirit of God in you tells that visions must receive provisions.
Encourage yourself inside for victory outside.
Vision is a brief visitation of the spiritual world of God to man.
The greater the problem, the brighter the victory.
God is not looking for visitors in His church of ministry.
Dare to venture into those areas where people are afraid to succeed.
Natural visible things are the evidences of the invisible.
Understand the voice of God and disregard the voice of the enemy.
Obstacles confront you more than victory.
You must make good plans and execute same with vigour.
Christians celebrate victories before they see them.
You must win souls for God, if your lips and hands cannot do it; let your money do it for the Lord.
If you don’t see God manifest Himself any more, the church may become a part of the world system.
Better to be a victor and not a victim.
When you apply wisdom, and withdraw from evil, God will use you.
When God gives you a weight, he gives you a spring, or grace to carry it.
Don’t shake with the wind but stand against it.
You must always believe God for away out no matter the intensity of your trouble.
Whosoever cam have whatever.
Don’t be a tomb, but a womb.
God never wastes people and time.
When “who are you? Comes in contact with who He is”, you are moved from the social stage of “who are you?” To “How are you?”.
Learn to fight even when you are not willing to fight, because the day you cease fighting, you star losing.
Even before you inherit faith, faith already has wealth.
When you ask God for something do not worry over the doing.
Archbishop Benson Andrew Idahosa of blessed memory today was a blessing to his generation. Till date, his teachings and messages are still impacting in a significant way the lives of Christians. Tagged as the Father of Pentecostalism in Africa, he was known for his robust faith. In fact, Benson Idahosa was a man who took God for His Word. He believed God’s Word, practiced it and it yielded to indisputable results. His life was a source of wonders, miracles, and other manifestations of God’s power and authority through Christ. You can be certain that the following Archbishop Benson Andrew Idahosa Christian Quotes And Sayings will greatly benefit you in your Christian journey.
Archbishop Benson Andrew Idahosa Christian Quotes And Sayings
The language for Christianity is faith.
The Kingdom of God is not in grammar but is in power of God.
If I be a man of God is a good example of the proof of a God-giving ministry. It provides the evidence which the world needs today to believe in a living God.
My life has never been in danger, God is in control, and no man can plan evil against me and succeed.
No matter how the world change and things change. You and I should believe we are what God says we are.
What you need to succeed is already there, just lean on God. For your faith’s sake God can disappoint the devil.
I believe that the most important thing in one’s life is to have encounter with the Lord Jesus Christ.
I believe that it is important to have things on earth. But the most important is to have Him, who have Him have everything and Jesus is the name of that person.
It is not the devil who put where you are but your lack of knowledge knowing who you are put you where you are.
Find what is wrong in your neighbor’s life and meet that need. Even the strongest of us need support.
If you want to preach the Gospel, don’t follow people who have failed.
A Man who teaches you how to make a living and not to be alive is your enemy.
When God’s hand accompany your hand, you are complete.
Talk the answer, not the problem.
Don’t be present in a meeting where man was seen and God absent.
If you are afraid to it, it cannot be done.
A big head with an empty brain is a big load to the neck.
Zealousness doesn’t give you what you require from God, but faith is the raw material that gives you better thing from God.
If I was not called by God, ordained and anointed, I would not be here.
My life has never been in danger, God is in control, and no man can plan evil against me and succeed.
God establishes His faith and confidence in what He can use you to do. This is not time to look at your weakness and nothingness. My friend, just hold on to His mightiness for the Bible says, ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit saith the Lord.’ (Zechariah 4:6)
Do you know that the Bible points out that you and God have common enemy – Satan! God wants to use you to destroy all satanic activities in the family, business circles, the Church and around the world.
If God is going to use you to break Nations, kingdoms, the horse and rider; wicked men and women as well as despotic rules, then you need to be fortified for the task.
God who has chosen you will also make you capable. God will make you an unbreakable instrument.
The Bible encourages us replace evil with good.
The mark of a born-again Christian is his soldier status. All God’s children are warriors. God’s servants are all fighters.
You must persevere in the face of all odds. Build in yourself a ‘never give up’ spirit and a success consciousness in all you do.
Make no room for failure or compromise in all you do. Remain in total obedience to God’s voice. He has made you and whatever you become is by God’s grace.
You are God’s battle axe. The time has come to trust God for greater things in the ministry and your Christian experience. Let us saturate our minds with the Word of God. God wants to raise you to become one of the special instruments to bring tens of thousands to Christ. Are you ready to PAY THE PRICE AND PRAY THE PRICE?
Nigeria belongs to Jesus. We shall not bow to any intimidation from any quarters; if you bow, you will burn. Arise and shine, for the glory of the is risen.
When it looks as if God is refusing to answer, endeavor to respond with a waiting.
You are God’s battle axe to pull down satanic kingdoms and build the image of Christ. Sharpen yourself as an axe in the Word and prayer. The anointing will surely come; prepare the grounds first for the rain. Plant the seed of God’s Word in to your heart. The spirit will sweep upon you in a mighty way.
If your faith says YES, and what you are believing for is in God’s will for your life, God will not say NO.
Why is the Name of Christ the object of attack? Why is Jesus Christ the challenge of the day? Why have many made Him controversy? It is because His Gospel is the real thing. The Gospel brings wholesomeness and so it has become the total object of attack of the devil.
When you are born of God, all the curses which your physical father inherited are rendered null and avoid.
When you are born of God, all the curses which your physical father inherited are rendered null and avoid.
Do not fold your hands and cry against denial and persecution and stumbling blocks. If there is no obstacle, there will be no miracle.
Do not fold your hands and cry against denial and persecution and stumbling blocks. If there is no obstacle, there will be no miracle.
Do not stop people from starting a story, but do not let them end it without changing their minds.
Do not stop people from talking about you, but do not join them to talk evil about yourself.
Do not be alarmed. If the storm disturbs you, then take a cue from the eagle. Lock your wings on mount position, and ride on the storm. The same power that had threatened you will carry you higher above your problems.
Do not abhor challenges when you are doing the right thing; people challenge you because they want to be like you. You must have the stamina to stand against the challenges that oppose your endeavour and your Ministry.
When you succeed when others are failing, men will doff their hats for you. When you rebuke the storm when others are panicking, people will ask what manner of man you are. You will have a testimony.
You never go under while you are trying to go over in the Lord. Never retreat when you have begun to go forth in obedience to the Lord’s commandment.
You should not tolerate the devil in anyway. You are much better than a herd of swine. Give no place to the devil in your life, in your ministry, in your business, in your calling, in your office and in your relationship. Bind him!
Do not resist when your church members do not want you as a pastor anymore. Do not lament their ingratitude for all the good that you have done.
Do not afraid of stumbling blocks, but do not be sunk by them. If God has called you, no man can stop you. Jesus was confronted by storms, harassed by people, threatened by rulers, but He kept moving forward, if you are born of God, you will come.
People listen for the cry of a baby, to tell that a normally baby has been born, the second birth is mark with joy: one evidence that a person is really born again is the manifestation of the joy of salvation.
The success of the person you trained is your joy.
People who refuse to forth cannot make any progress.
The same power of God is alive today to save those who call upon Him for salvation, but it is a serious thing to reject God’s message and to oppose His servants.
Don’t fight the problem; get on with the solution.
First, you must recognize that the power of Christ is stronger than the power of the devil, if Christ lives within you, they cannot touch you.
I knew God would not fail us.
We don’t steal sheep at the Church of God Mission. But we do grow grass-and we won’t deny any hungry sheep who wants to graze.
Jesus never turned anyone away, and we won’t turn any sheep away, ether. We’re only trying to reach the lost through the ministry of the Word, and through evangelistic crusades.
I’ve only done what God called me to do, and I make no apology for it.
If you identify your money with His own money, God will multiply it for you.
If you give Him your life, He will give you renewed life.
If you give Him any kind of gift, it shall bring forth fruit of its own kind.
No one ever beats God at giving. He is a God of multiplication.
When you give anything to God, He returns it to you in abundance.
There is no shortage in God. I rejoice today that while I gave God one life, one body, one spirit, one soul, thousands upon thousands have been multiplied.
The devil only roars like a lion but that he is not the Lion. There is only one Lion: He is from the Tribe of Judah, and His name is Jesus Christ, who bore our griefs and carried away our sorrows and by those stripes we were healed.
LEAVE! Do not destroy the church property on your way out; and do not steal or confiscate any. Leave quietly. The Lord will give you better place. If you have done your best in the organization where you work, and at the end you are asked to leave for no just cause, ask God what He thinks. If He says you should oblige, then leave. He has a better place for you.
You must know today that if you know your God, and you know that you are a product of the Gospel, no demon can oppress you and win, for in Christ you are more than conquerors.
Your break-through does not start the day you see the physical manifestation of your miracle. It starts the day that God pronounces it.
We want to judge people who don’t look like us. We don’t want to accept them because they look different, act different, or commit sin…(their sin is just different from the sins we’re hiding, that’s all).
Here’s the point: if you really believe they need to change, let God’s Word do that. Accept them first, that’s what Christ did. After we bring people into the fold, then we can talk about lifestyle changes.
A lifestyle change isn’t required for God to accept people. All He asks for is a ‘heart change.’
You can’t clean a fish until you catch it.
A man who does not believes in Miracles will die in Obstacles.
What you must do is give your life more fully to the Lord, and ask Him what your part in the ministry should be.
We must keep our faith in Him, and He will work in His own time.
Christianity is the core, heart and nature of Jesus Christ being manifested in man.
Salvation affects the whole person, spiritually, physically and materially.
God is speaking to you now. Please, step out of the crowd. Make a choice, one that leads to the path of success, victory and glory to our God on high!
When you glimpse God’s abundance, created for you, you will never be the same again.
My discovery is going to be your discovery. If we do not have the supernatural in Christianity, we have nothing to offer the heathen but a religion, and true Christianity is not a religion.
As long as God keeps speaking to me and I keep listening, we will be victorious!
We will leave the matter in God’s hands, and see what happens.
It is the Gospel that can set free; it is the Gospel that can heal the sick, it is the Gospel that can raise the dead, and it is the Gospel that can deliver from oppression and possession of the devil.
The Gospel is able to make one wise and give new life.
Only the Gospel can cause regeneration.
Only the Gospel can cause a transformation.
It is the Gospel that can translate you from darkness into light.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ of Nazareth can and has revolutionized society and has vitalized the mental faculties of those that had been born imbeciles.
The Gospel is the power of God, the Gospel is the light that can be challenged but cannot be stopped; no power of men or angels can stop the march of the Gospel.
If you are a product of the Gospel, nothing on earth or under the earth can stop you.
The Gospel will transfer you from failure to success; it will take you from fear to faith. It will uplift you from a downcast position, because there is power in it.
The power of God is in the Gospel, the wisdom of God is in the Gospel.
The Gospel enriches people and causes enlightenment and understanding in their lives; the Gospel gives knowledge of who God really is and it tells you who you are in Christ, if you are a Christian and how you can be Christ if you are not yet a Christian.
The Gospel esteems you rather than demean you.
The Gospel inspires, the Gospel brings aspiration and inspiration.
The Gospel brings right desires and victory.
The Gospel brings success and gives boldness.
The Gospel is Christ, His works and His teachings. Every religion in the world believes in God, but not everyone believes in Christ. The belief in Christ is what makes Christianity real, where all others are religions. Even demon worshippers believe in the existence of a Supreme God, but they do not know or believe in Christ.
You can speak life or death to your dreams and visions. That is why it is very important to study and watch carefully the word that proceeds out of your month, because God watches over it to bring it to pass. My point is, if the tree died because Jesus spoke and cursed it for not bearing fruit, then we as Christians must also speak and expect mighty big results. God speaks and expects results. And we are made in the image and likeness of Him.
There are many people today who cannot speak to their circumstances because the devil continues to generate negative confessions out of their mouth. You are the speaker, God is the doer. Therefore do not let your dreams die halfway. Do not your visions die midstream. Do not reduce the scope of your thoughts and what you can achieve in life. God never gives up on His dream. You must not!
Christianity supports the practice of positive faith for God’s richest and abundant life. The Bible says, The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it. (See Proverbs 10:22)
More often than not, I tend to think, prosperity and success for a Child of God is based on faith and hardwork. Every single thing Jesus did and said was beyond doubt to lift and inspire people. My heart aches with pain when I see Christians who do not believe in hardwork.
What did God tell Moses to do? To speak to the rock. And what was going to happen? Water was going to come out. In fact until Moses carried out the instruction and spoke, nothing would have happened. But there are many rocks in your life which need only your speaking to them to release their stored contents. Why has the water not come out? Because you are looking at the rock as a stone, but God is seeing it as a reservoir.
When the seed is planted in the ground, that is in good ground, it will germinate and grow. When the seed of God’s Word is planted in people, it produces its kind. God’s Word promises healing, salvation, deliverance and also prosperity.
The greatest triumph in your life is for you to discover yourself in Christ-then to let Him full develop that unlimited new life of power in you. You can make it! Do not listen to the doubters. Believe the God in you!
Your way of life, how you live and conduct your life, determines to a great extent your success or failure.
If you have a vision and you do not act on it, it will die. A vision not auctioned is auctioned!
The Leader and master you need is the one who can stand his ground in a storm. No matter the storm that confronts you, when you know who you are in the Lord, you will overcome.
Believe in the Gospel and in the power of God, possess the resurrection power of Jesus within you and the same power that raised Jesus from the dead will quicken your mortal bodies, and cause resurrection in your life and business.
Believe the Gospel, and He that sits at the right Hand of the Father shall plead your case.
Believe the Gospel and you shall fear no evil; believe the Gospel and witches and wizards shall free from you, believe the Gospel and poverty will die in your life.
Believe the Gospel and the Christ of the Gospel shall become your El-Shaddi, for he that has Christ has everything.(John14:4).
No attack on the Gospel can never succeed. The Gospel is the truth and the truth can never be suppressed for long: it resurfaces, no matter how deep it is submerged. It rises again even if it says in the grave for three days.
No man or devil can stop the Gospel of the Kingdom.
Believers don’t make resolutions, they act with determination. Act in faith, step out in faith and walk on in faith for there is no other way the just shall live by faith.
Too much playing safe has destroyed the aspirations of men and women headed for success.
Glorious results can only be produced when your actions are based on God’s plan.
A vital key to success is that achievers risk their lives.
Divine decisions are followed by divine directions.
Prayer and waiting upon the Lord in the midnight hour is the result of consistent self-discipline.
The keys to success and prosperity are grace, faith and hardwork.
The secret of faith is to plant the seed of belief.
Whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap. Sow love and reap love. Sow joy and reap joy. Sow encouragement and reap encouragement. Whatsoever you sow, it will come to you a hundredfold according to the Word of God.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Christians can face heavy trails of the enemy. We can be knocked down but we can never be knocked out.
The life of success is one of going forward to posses our possessions. It has been said that God’s will does not send a man to where His grace cannot sustain him. God’s will and His grace go hand in hand.
Do you have faith to go forward and do what God has told you? What are you waiting for? Go tip now! Faith clears all obstacles before it.
Riches in a limited sense may be associated only money and the possession of material things, but success means more than this.
I have pinpointed two reasons why men of God do not preach on prosperity; they are ignorance and lack of understanding of God’s Word on this crucial issue.
Religion in all cases associates poverty with piety; suffering with holiness; and burdens with humility. That is pure religious stuff and not full Gospel message as presented by Jesus Christ. (John 10:10). My dear friend, don’t ask for prosperity if you will not use it for God. This has been my maxim whenever I think of prosperity in Christ.
Beloved, God is faithful, who will not suffer you to fail. Live for Him one day at a time. He will prosper the labour of your hands.
You don’t need all of God’s promises right here and now. The fact is, it is impossible to claim all God’s promises in one split second, but any promise you need that fits your situation is available to you now!
The first thing God does for you in conversion is to take your darkness and give you light. The power of light destroys and fills the vacuum left in you.
You must speak what God has already ordained you to be and it will come to pass. Change it from dream to reality. Turn excuses to uses. Turn your inabilities to God’s ability.
Religion offers nothing; it is a dark alley leading nowhere.
Christ came to turn your life from slavery into Kingdomhood.
Believing something does not in itself alter its validity or otherwise. The basic difference therefore is to believe something that is true, valid and trustworthy.
Religion leads men to bondage, fear and bleakness but through Christ, grace and faith lead men to success, prosperity and fulfillment.
Living in faith simply means putting the full weight of our lives on Jesus and being led by the Holy Spirit to appropriate all the promises.
The Bible is a precious book; it contains nuggets of gold for your life.
When God created man, in His wisdom, grace and knowledge He added a manual(The Bible) to show us the way to fruitful and successful living.
This generation is one of laxity and carelessness; no wonder many people are not making much headway in life. Go and read the manual(The Bible) and correct the errors in your life; then shall you make your way prosperous. Read the Bible daily, sow the seed of faith and blessings in the Word in your spirit.
A man can influence the destiny of his nation if only he can believe God, believe himself and set out in determination to succeed where others have failed. If only men would turn their stumbling-blocks into stepping-stones, it would make all the difference.
Aspiration is of man; inspiration is of God. One is externally generated, other is internally stimulated.
God puts His desires for good into your heart when you have His viewpoint on life and when you follow the awareness of His work in you.
The harder the enemy fights you, the harder you must fight to succeed.
To put faith into action is the secret which leads to the fulfillment of all God’s promises.
The devil (God’s enemy and ours) steps in to create doubt, fear, confusion or hesitation in order to delay or prevent God’s fulfillment and our joy.
God sees our action, which justifies our faith before him, and He steps into the scene to fulfill His promise.
God always demands that we act our faith first. This proves our believing. Then He steps into the scene to make good His promise.
God does not know the word setback! If you face problems, use them as opportunities to glorify His name.
If you are walking in the ways of God, His presence goes with you every step of the way. God is the owner of the vehicle of your life. He directs the steering of your life as He desires.
When you say ‘yes’ to Christ living in you, amazing things begin to happen to you.
God gives you grace and power to acquire riches and wealth, but He also requires you to stand upon His Word. Only if you live in daily obedience will you see His blessings upon your way.
When you work for 24years in the Civil Service and you reach retirement age, they give you retirement benefits. But when you work for God, He gives you daily benefits.
Anytime you attach yourself to God you are connected to light, health, purity in Christ, peace and all the spiritual benefits of heaven.
Beloved, riches in Christ means standing where Christ is; taking sides with Him who is able to abundantly more than you expect.
You must be a testifier rather than a complainer. God assures you that blessings will chase after you when go in and out obediently. You will be overtaken by blessings.
We have nothing to offer the heathen but a religion, and true Christianity is not a religion. Religion is only a form, a ceremonial observance, but Christianity is a life itself. Christianity is the core, heart and nature of Jesus Christ being manifested in man.
The living God stands behind the living Word. That should sound logical to your ears.
We must look to God as the source of our needs. Whenever we take our eyes off God and His will for our life, we immediately begin to attempt to do things our own way.
Prayer must be your way of life, then success will-overtake you.
God’s plan is for you to be saved, happy, blessed, successful and prosperous!
We are saved? From what to what? Death to life! Sin to righteousness! Darkness to light! Poverty to prosperity! Fear to faith! Failure to success! And more and more!
Success is a road you must travel because God wishes it so (3 John 2). Be encouraged to renew your mind and thinking according to the Master’s promises. Look up and reach out for excellence.
Life is for the living in the presence of God.
A believer who will not till the soil and plant the field may seem spiritual and may pray for miraculous harvest, but he or she will end up in poverty.
What are some of the mischievous lies the devil puts across to confuse people about prosperity and success? First, he suggests that material poverty fosters spiritual humility. Don’t allow such a thought to reign in your heart; it is sickening and defiling.
Don’t forget, it is not only the rich who are in danger of being infected by pride.
If God places so much value upon you, surely he wants you to benefit from the abundance of His creation.
A believer who is undisciplined and slothful in business principles will not prosper.
God never intended that anyone should go through life imprisoned by their own superstitions. He opens the door of success to every believer who will dare to step out and go after the good life. No one in God’s family was ever destined to exist in sickness, fear, ignorance, poverty, loneliness or mediocrity.
Once you have set your eyes on God’s lifestyle, you will no longer cower and retreat when the going gets rough. You will transform each problem into an opportunity for growth.
If your hopes are dashed by opposition you will not cringe in fear of judgment. Instead you will pick up the pieces, learn by your mistakes, profit by learning your enemy’s strategy and set even higher targets the next time around.
Success is coming your way in Christ, who became poor that you might be rich. Until we have a dream, we can never know what it is to have a dream come live.
God entrusts every generation with seeds to plant, soil to cultivate, oceans to sail, mountains to scale, deserts to conquer, rivers to harness, minerals to mine and forests to utilise. He also gives each of us a brain and a spirit with which to receive His creative ideas. With Him at work in us we can be, have and do, anything He puts into our spirit and mind.
Your choice is very important. You cannot afford to fail. To fail, you must quit first; to quit you must decide not to continue. But the will of God is that you prosper and be in good health(3 John 1:2).
Our God reigns: He brings you from discouragement to new courage, from fainting to strength. Be strong.
We are given power to do something about something that is not moving the way we want it to be.
Faith does not make things easy, it makes them possible.
Character isn’t built during victory celebrations. Character is built in the trenches when you are strategizing and working your dream.
People, we get it all wrong. We think that if God wants it to happen in our lives, that He will just magically do it.
It doesn’t work like that. He plans great things for us, but requires our faith and strategic action to activate His purpose and promises.
When you meet an obstacle along the way (and you will) it doesn’t mean that you should give up or that it wasn’t part of His plan in the first place. Activate your faith to overcome the obstacles you face. Use your faith as a booster to push you past the difficulty.
In fact… the process / journey that we pass through is also very much a part of His plan. There are lessons we are to learn on the road to every victory.
Faith is not a superstition or an intention; it is an action.
I was made in Heaven assembled in Nigeria and dispatched to my generation.
You are made for life and not for death. You are made for health and not for disease. You are made for success and not for failure. You are made for faith and not for confusion. You are made for love and not for fear.
I am part of God’s plan. I am vital to His dream. I am an instrument in His kingdom. I am a member of His family. I am the proof of God’s love. I am evidence of His life. I am the temple of His spirit. I am the expression of God’s faith.
God made me. God believe me. God loves me. God paid for me. God never gives up on me. God gave His Son for me. God redeemed me. God values me.
Today it is your turn to speak and God will honour the words of your month. Bless yourself. Bless your business, bless your family with what you say, for what you bless on earth is blessed in heaven(See Matthew 16:19).
God created men and women for a better life than many are experiencing. It is not His will as erroneously propagated, that we live a life, guilt, near-nakedness and future.
Salvation, we must understand, satisfies all of man’s fundamental needs.
God created all the wealth on this earth and it is His. And He can by His provident will place it in your empty hands for His work’s sake as you claim His promises and act upon them by faith.
When you rebuke the wind while others are panicking people will look at you and Bonder.
Learn to fight even when you are not willing to fight, because the day you cease fighting, you star losing.
When God gives you a weight, he gives you a spring, or grace to carry it.
When you don’t pray tithes, things become tight for you.
The spirit of God in you tells that visions must receive provisions.
God is looking for a voice not an echo.
Anyone who plans your demise will go under, even under the earth. There is nothing to fear. Only Jesus is Lord.
No matter how deep you have been in the pit, upward is your goal.
Zealousness doesn’t give you what you require from God, but faith is the raw material that gives you a better thing from God.
God can take you from ‘who are you’ to ‘how are you?’
No man ever wins when he is afraid to fight.
When you are so weak, that is when you can do all things.
It is better to die while trying out something good than to die lying down doing nothing.
Train yourself to say I am expecting God’s visitation in my house.
Life is full of choice but faith in God will affect them all.
You either believe and live OR doubt and die.
The words of your mouth can give you a turn around.
God specializes in stopping people’s tears.
Don’t tell me how big your mountain is. Tell your mountain how BIG your God is.
I don’t worry, I don’t fear, I know that God is on my side.
Whatever you admire in life, desire it, and whatever you desire in life reacquire it, and whatever you require in life, aspire for it, don’t retire, but refire, when you refire, the acquire that which you desire that you admire in life.
Anything taller than you is under the feet of God.
Learn how to release your bullet and believe that it is going to hit the target.
When you ask God for something do not worry over the doing.
If you listen too much to what people say about you, you will not listen to what God is saying to you.
Prayer for Dangote in 1970s ‘The World will get up for you, My God will bless you! God will take you and your business beyond Africa and bless you beyond measure. Amen’
No situation is so ugly that it cannot augur well for God.
Do not sow and go to sleep, watch over your seeds, and tend them.
The secret of your power lies within your heart.
The words of your mouth can give you a turn around.
Learn how to release your bullet and believe that it is going to hit the target.
When you ask God for something do not worry over the doing.
Archbishop Benson Idahosa was one of the Christian fathers in Africa. He brought a lot of Christ-like inspiration during his days and greatly influenced the way men and women perceived Christianity. Behold, Archbishop Benson Idahosa was a man of great faith. In fact, he had a robust faith. He believed God for Who He Said He Was. He took God for His Word, acted on it and God revealed Himself to him through miracles, visions, signs, and wonders. In his book entitled ‘Faith For All Nations‘ he says, “Everybody faces a storm in life, but all through this book I’m going to teach you timeless truths and principles about how you can overcome ‘the storms of life’. Your storms must not overcome you, you must overcome them.”
When you don’t know what to do in the storm or the hour of distress – God knows what to do.
Storms of life are real, not imaginary stories from children’s fairy tales.
Millions of people never graduate from the school of self-pity and never learn anything beyond asking WHY, year after year. This is the devil’s trump card. Leave the WHYS behind you. Go on!
Let one thing control your mind if you are a child of God – Jesus knows something about the situation you are going through that you don’t know.
We all know that there is no such thing as a “storm-free” life. Therefore, agreeing that there is not a storm-free life on Earth, then the only visible alternative open to you under the circumstances is to learn how to take control of the storm.
Religious faith is not transmitted genetically.
Instead of seeing the storms through your financial upsets, marital problems, business upheavals, depression, and living vulnerably to every physical plague that ravages human beings, discover that God has become your companion for victory through life’s adversities.
Jesus Christ will unfailingly tell you when He meets a person in crisis, problem, or storm of life. He says, “Be of good cheer!”
Discouragement will come in the storms of life. Don’t let it possess you. Worse still, a countenance will ruin the beauty of God’s glory in you.
Fear of the known will destroy you. Fear will cause you to take rush decisions contrary to the Word of God.
A whole lot of the crises and storms of life Christians or people of the world run into are self-inflicted.
You will discover that if you obey God, neither the press nor anything else is big enough to destroy you.
But the secret of faith is continually saying what God said.
Faith is progressive. It does not pretend that obstacles don’t exist. Faith sees the obstacles or crisis and supersedes it.
It is true that you will never live without some kind of fear. The danger is to allow it to becloud your faith, rule your heart, or affect God’s voice in the vision you have received.
The power of God transcends political and geographical barriers.
Unbelief by simple definition is believing anything no matter what we think to the contrary.
Your storms must not overcome you, you must overcome them.
The keys to success and prosperity are grace, faith and hardwork.
No man ever wins when he is afraid to fight.
Christians can face heavy trails of the enemy. We can be knocked down but we can never be knocked out.
3. What did God tell Moses to do? To speak to the rock. And what was going to happen? Water was going to come out. In fact until Moses carried out the instruction and spoke, nothing would have happened. But there are many rocks in your life which need only your speaking to them to release their stored contents. Why has the water not come out? Because you are looking at the rock as a stone, but God is seeing it as a reservoir.
2. If you have a vision and you do not act on it, it will die. A vision not actioned is auctioned!
1. A lifestyle change isn’t required for God to accept people. All He asks for is a ‘heart change.’
A vital key to success is that achievers risk their lives.
Religion offers nothing; it is a dark alley leading nowhere.
Too much playing safe has destroyed the aspirations of men and women headed for success
We have nothing to offer the heathen but a religion, and true Christianity is not a religion. Religion is only a form, a ceremonial observance, but Christianity is a life itself. Christianity is the core, heart and nature of Jesus Christ being manifested in man.
I was made in Heaven assembled in Nigeria and dispatched to my generation.
A believer who is undisciplined and slothful in business principles will not prosper.
Faith does not make things easy, it makes them possible.
Zealousness doesn’t give you what you require from God, but faith is the raw material that gives you a better thing from God.
God can take you from ‘who are you’ to ‘how are you?’
God is looking for a voice not an echo.
If you listen too much to what people say about you, you will not listen to what God is saying to you.
Learn to fight even when you are not willing to fight, because the day you cease fighting, you star losing.
Whatever you admire in life, desire it, and whatever you desire in life reacquire it, and whatever you require in life, aspire for it, don’t retire, but refire, when you refire, the acquire that which you desire that you admire in life
Anything taller than you is under the feet of God.
Don’t tell me how big your mountain is. Tell your mountain how BIG your God is.
I don’t worry, I don’t fear, I know that God is on my side.
When it looks as if God is refusing to answer, endeavor to respond with a waiting.
My life has never been in danger, God is in control, and no man can plan evil against me and succeed.
The mark of a born-again Christian is his soldier status. All God’s children are warriors. God’s servants are all fighters.
It is without a doubt that during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ, he raised many dead people. The Bible tells us that He went about doing good. Throughout his earthly ministry, he healed all who came to him with sicknesses of all kinds.
The Bible tells us that he gave sight to the blind, strengthened the legs of the lame to walk, opened the ears of the deaf to hear, commanded the dumb to speak, and liberated all those who were under the captivity of Satan.
Remember what Jesus Christ said in John 14 verse 12 ” Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.”
In this verse, Jesus Christ is telling us that anyone who believes in Him will be able to do the things that He deed and even do greater things.
Hence, we can say that it is all about faith in God for the Bible says that all things are possible for God to do. Likewise, the Bible says that all things are possible for he that believes. It is important to note that the impossible exists only in the human realm and not in that of God. Apart from Jesus Christ, a good number of prophets in the Bible also raised many dead people.
Below are cases in the Bible that the dead were brought back to life:
1. Elijah raised the son of the Zarephath widow from the dead (1 Kings 17 Verses 17 to 22).
2. Elisha raised the son of the Shunammite woman from the dead (2 Kings 4 Verses 32 to 35).
3. A man was raised from the dead when his body touched Elisha’s bones (2 Kings 13 Verse 20, and 21)
4. Many saints rose from the dead at the resurrection of Jesus (Matthew 27 Verse 50 to 53).
5. Jesus rose from the dead (Matthew 28 Verse 5 to 8; Mark 16 Verse 6; Luke 24 Verse 5, and 6).
6. Jesus raised the son of the widow of Nain from the dead (Luke 7 Verses 11 to 15).
7. Jesus raised the daughter of Jairus from the dead (Luke 8 Verse 41, 42, 49 to 55).
8. Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11 Verse 1-44). 9. Peter raised Dorcas from the dead (Acts 9 Verse 36-41).
10. Eutychus was raised from the dead by Paul (Acts 20 Verse 9, 10).
Behold, Jesus Christ raised the dead, His immediate Apostles deed the same just as He had said in John 14 Verse 12. Jesus said anyone who believes in Him will do what he deed and even do greater things because he was going to the Father Almighty. His immediate Apostles believed and it worked for them. What of us today? Are we not also believers who share the same faith with the Apostles of Old. Of course, we are because Jesus Christ does not change. Hebrews 13 Verse 8 tells us that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It is in this light that Archbishop Benson Idahosa stepped out in faith to raise a dead and it worked. Glory be to God.
Let’s hear him from his own words: “As a young Christian, I once heard my pastor say during a morning service that Christians could raise the dead in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. I believed it with all my heart. And flying around on my bicycle in those days, I went through the city of Benin in search of a dead person to raise to life. After about five hours of hard searching I found a compound where a little girl had died a few hours before. The corpse had been cleaned and prepared for burial. I walked boldly up to the father of the dead child. “The God whom I serve can bring your baby back to life,” I told him. “Will you permit me to pray for the child and bring her back to life?” The man was startled, but he agreed. With great enthusiasm, I walked into the room and up to the bed. The child was cold and dead. With strong faith in the Lord, I called on the Lord to restore the child back to life. I turned to the corpse and called it by name, “Arise in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.” Oh Glory to God! The corpse sneezed, heavily, alas. The child had come back to life!”
The name Archbishop Benson Andrew Idahosa is one that can’t be forgotten in a generation that desires to worship a living God. Yes, I mean a living God. Although gone, his message about the living God is still laying hands on many and taking the faith of many to maturity. In fact, his messages are clothing young men and women with the power to uproot the evil in this generation. He was the kind of preacher that we find 1 in the midst of every 1,000.
With mere words backed by the One Who Sent him, he was able to call down physical and spiritual fire from heaven, instantly call blindness, paralysis, or death on anyone standing on the way of the Holy Gospel or one preventing the Truth from being known (Here, one can only remember how Prophet Elijah called down fire on a whole army sent to stop the work of God in his days).
In the days of Archbishop Benson Idahosa, raising the dead, healing all kinds of sicknesses, opening the eyes of the blind, restoring the speech of the dumb, opening the ears of the deaf, and opening the eyes of the blind were indeed the children’s bread. Father, we miss your days. Just as Elijah left something behind, do not accept to dwell peacefully where you are without pleading with God to continue what you started in our generation. We do not want the Power and Authority that accompanied you and Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola to leave us. The world can only praise God and marvel at the things that He did through you:
A man who called down rain and it rained.
A man who commanded the rain to stop and it did.
A man who commanded the dead to rise and they did
A man who drove away hundreds of witches and wizards in Benin and thousands in Nigeria as a whole.
A man whose presence demons, wizards, witches, and familiar spirits could not withstand.
A man who communicated with the invisible and visible.
A man who called the invisible into existence and it came.
A man whose words were a mixture of fire and power (1 Corinthians 4:20)
A man who shook the heavenly places as he went around doing the things everyone had concluded impossible.
A man who fought not for a title but was crowned the Father Of Faith In Africa.
A man that this generation and that to come will remember and give thanks to God for sending him.
A spiritual father and guide to thousands if not millions.
A man whose anointing is too heavy for a mere human to carry.
Filled with the Epikaizo Anointing and clothed with the power of the Allos Parakletos, Benson Idahosa went about doing good.
A man whose anointing, grace, power, and authority in Christ is still roaming the Earth looking for young men and women who are willing to follow Jesus Christ and run the Christian race in dimensions no one has ever heard of nor experienced.
A man who saw the defeat of Satan before being taken away from the Earth.
20 Powerful Faith Quotes By Archbishop Benson Andrew Idahosa
Faith does not make things easy, it makes things possible.
Faith will move God and man; it will take you through when everything else fails.
To practice faith, the first person you must defeat is yourself.
Faith does not suspend our sense of good judgment, it reinforces it.
When your language changes, your condition changes.
Faith is not a superstition or an intention; it is action.
Life is full of choices but faith in God will affect them all, for Christ can do all things.
What you need to succeed is already there. Just lean on God. For your Faith’s sake, God can disappoint the devil.
Living a daily life of absolute faith in God is the only secret to great success.
If you are afraid to do it, it cannot be done.
The name “I AM” is like a blank check. Our faith can fill in whatever the Lord is to us personally.
Whatever your situation or circumstance, set your eyes by faith on the Lord, keep looking to Him, and continue looking until the tide turns in your favor.
With a stone in your hand, the Word in your mouth, and faith in your heart, the giant will fall.
If you must succeed you must learn how to take yourself out of conflict and put yourself in confidence.
Faith in God is the most dynamic force in humanity.
If science says that it can conceive and build, then faith declares that it can believe and create.
The distance between you and success is the length between your heart and mouth.
Fake it till you make it” Just keep doing it even if it doesn’t yet look like it. Have Faith and just Believe.
Fear and anxiety may force you to make a false move, but remember, “Where there is faith, there is no fear.”
Faith is the bricks and mortar with which we build our relationship with God.
What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery? Cheating by a spouse is referred to as adultery. But what does the Bible actually say about cheating or adultery? This is the question we’ll be answering throughout this piece of write-up. The word adultery is etymologically related to the word adulterate, which means “to render something poorer in quality by adding another substance.” Hence, we can say without doubt that adultery is the adulteration of marriage by the addition of a third person. In simple terms we can as well say that adultery is the voluntary sexual activity between a married person and someone other than his/her spouse. The Bible clearly begins its teachings on marriage with the pattern of Adam and Eve: one man and one woman, husband and wife, both united by God Almighty (Genesis 2:24, Mark 10:7–9).
Adultery is strictly forbidden by the seventh commandment which reads, “You shall not commit adultery” (Exodus 20:14). Since this prohibition was simply stated without any explanation, we can conclude that the meaning of adultery was well understood in the time that Moses gave the Law. It is important to understand here that Scripture is consistent in the prohibition against adultery. Despite the clarity of the original pattern of marriage and the strict prohibition against adultery, sinful humanity has managed to develop ways aimed at blurring the lines of morality. Here, we can say that polygamy is one of the ways through which the prohibition against adultery has been to some extent circumvented. Although polygamy is not technically considered as adultery, it does adulterate God’s original plan for marriage. Although God allowed polygamy in the Old Testament, He did not endorse it.
What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Marriage is a sacred covenant between a couple. Just as previously mentioned, adultery was allowed in the Old Testament by God but He did not endorse it. Polygamy was not considered as adultery because, although a third party (or perhaps fourth, fifth, sixth, etc) was added into the marriage, the additional woman or women were included legally. Note that a polygamist who indulged in sexual activities with anyone other than his legal wives was committing adultery. And since polygamy is generally illegal in most modern countries today, no third person can be legally added to a marriage. Another way that the prohibition against adultery has been circumvented is through Divorce and Remarriage. Any married man or woman having an affair is committing adultery. It is rather unfortunate that if he/she divorces his/her spouse and marries the other, he/she still maintains his/her “legal” footing.
However, Jesus Christ puts both of these “strategies” to rest as we can read from Luke 16:18 – “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery.” Likewise Mark 10:11–12 says, “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.” According to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, divorce does not circumvent the prohibition against adultery. If upon seeing another woman, a married man desires her sexually, divorces his wife, and marries her, he is still committing adultery. The marriage bond is one that is expected to last for a lifetime. This is to say that divorce does not release one from the responsibility of remaining faithful to the original spouse. (Relatedly, the Bible allows divorce in some cases, and, when divorce is allowed, remarriage is also allowed without being considered adulterous.)
What The Scriptures Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
In the Scriptures, Jesus Christ carried the prohibition against adultery even further than the Mosaic Law: “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart” (Matthew 5:27–28). Therefore, even if a man does his best to “legally” avoid adultery by requesting for a divorce, he is already guilty because of the lust in his heart that drove him into taking such measures. Likewise, if a man “legally” brings another woman into the marriage, rendering it a polygamous marriage, he is still guilty of adultery because of the lust in his heart that motivated him to go for another wife.
Still in the light of the words spoken by Christ, if a man or woman indulges into lustful thoughts (pornography is especially problematic), then he/she is guilty of adultery even-though there was no extramarital physical contact that took place. This clear explanation by Jesus Christ avoids all of the worries about “how far is too far” with someone other than a spouse. Also, it avoids the need to define what “sex” really is. Lust, not sex, is the threshold of adultery.
Facts on what the Scriptures say about Pastors Committing Adultery?
Proverbs 6 gives us some stern warnings about committing adultery, giving “correction and instruction . . . keeping you from your neighbor’s wife” (verses 23–24). Solomon says, “Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. . . . Another man’s wife preys on your very life. Can a man scoop fire into his lap without his clothes being burned? Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished” (verses 25–29).
According to the Scriptures, adultery is deadly serious and does brings consequences. “A man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself” (Proverbs 6:32; cf. 1 Corinthians 6:18 and Hebrews 13:4). Living in adultery is giving evidence that you do not truly know Christ. However, adultery is not unforgivable, either. Every sin that a Christian commits can be forgiven through repentance. And any sin committed by an unbeliever can be forgiven in Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:9–11 says, “Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers . . . will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God”
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is the Biblical definition of Adultery? What does adultery mean?
Old Testament Definition
Adultery was defined and understood in the Old Testament as sexual relations between a married (or betrothed) woman and a man other than her husband. Thus, it was considered a sin against her husband.
New Testament Definition
In the New Testament, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior did extend the definition of adultery to include a married man and a woman other than his wife (Mark 10:11-12, Luke 16:18). It is in this way that other New Testament teachings perceive it (1 Corinthians 6:15-16, 1 Corinthians 7:2 ). Hence, we can conclusively define adultery as the sin of a married man having sexual relations with anyone other than his wife or a married woman having sexual relations with anyone other than her husband.
2. If a spouse is unable to have sex, is it okay to have sex with someone else? Are there exceptions?
A good number of people wonder whether there are exceptions in cases that the spouse cannot or will not have sex, or if the couple is separated, or better still, for other reasons. However, the Bible does not give any exception for a spouse to have sex with anyone apart from his/her partner.
3. What Did Jesus say about adultery?
Jesus Christ says in Matthew 5:27-28 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.“
In the same light, Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 7:2-5 – “But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband. The husband should fulfill his wife’s sexual needs, and the wife should fulfill her husband’s needs. The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband gives authority over his body to his wife. Do not deprive each other of sexual relations, unless you both agree to refrain from sexual intimacy for a limited time so you can give yourselves more completely to prayer. Afterward, you should come together again so that Satan won’t be able to tempt you because of your lack of self-control.”
The truth is that “office romance” as well as other extramarital affairs usually cause tremendous emotional pain to the spouse whether sexual intercourse is involved or not. In addition to this, it is without doubt that sexual attraction clouds judgement and often leads to actual sexual relations, even when that was not the original intent.
4. What does the Bible say about adultery?
Adultery is one of the most frowned against sins in the Bible. In fact, it is one of the most frequent and highly condemned sin in the Bible. Adultery is mentioned 52 times in the Bible, including in the 10 Commandments, all 4 Gospels and other Biblical books. The only sins mentioned more often than this are the sins of idolatry, murder, and self-righteousness. Exodus 20:14 says, “You shall not commit adultery.“ Matthew 15:19–20 says, “For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.” Luke 18:18-20 says, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone. You know the commandments, ‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not bear false witness, honor your father and mother.’“
Hebrews 13:4 says, “Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.”
5. What does the Bible teach about divorcing a spouse for adultery?
The Bible mentions adultery as ground for divorce (Matthew 5:31-32, 19:9) but does not require it. In most cases, both the husband and wife can be reconciled and the marriage saved even after adultery.
6. Is it a sin to continue living with a spouse that has committed adultery?
Note that it is not a sin to continue living and having sex with a spouse that committed adultery. (However, the risk of sexually transmitted diseases should be considered and precautions taken). This should not be an issue if both partners have been reconciled to each other and forgiveness has taken place.
7. Will God forgive me for committing adultery?
As it is with other sins, God will forgive the sin of adultery if a person sincerely repents and also forgives other people. 1 Corinthians 6:9–11 makes us to understand that in the Corinthian church there were former adulterers, but they had been washed clean from their sin, sanctified, and justified through Christ.
8. What are the lasting damages of adultery?
Although God will forgive adultery, the damages it causes often cannot be undone. Truth be told, it is extremely hurtful to the spouse. In most cases, it leads to divorce thereby living the separated partners with lots of bitterness in their hearts. Children from divorced families are prone to anxiety, low school performance, drug addiction, and delinquent behavior. Such issues are likely to extend till their adulthood. That’s why spouses should always do their best to save their homes from crumbling.
9. What should be the response of a Christian whose spouse has had an affair?
It is without doubt that infidelity creates a very difficult and painful situation, one that brings to the scene all emotions, and, for the Christian, can stretch faith to almost a breaking point. When faced with such, the best thing to do is to “turn all your worries over to Him. He cares about you” (1 Peter 5:7). As Christians, we should always turn to the Lord God Almighty any time that we are hurt in order to seek for wisdom, direction, comfort, joy, peace, and a forgiving heart. Behold, God is able and willing to help us even in the deepest of trials. Keep in mind that adultery is always wrong. In support of this, Hebrews 13:4 says, “God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” Here, the injured spouse should rest in the truth that God is the avenger.
Also, the wronged individual does not need to fret over getting even. God will do even a better job of avenging us. Each time that we are betrayed, we need to commit the pains to the One who knows every detail and will deal with it properly. In the face of betrayal or unfaithfulness, we need to pray as we seek God for wisdom, for healing, and guidance. As you pray for yourself, also pray for the offender, and also pray for anyone else involved in the act. Humbly pray for God in His goodness, wisdom, and love to guide your thoughts, words, actions, and decisions. Be honest with your feelings. It is normal to feel hurt. Let the expression of your pains to the Lord be the first step towards healing (see Psalm 77:1–2). Choose forgiveness and not repaying evil for evil (1 Peter 3:9).
10. How should a Christian spouse handle an adulterous affair that has resulted in a child birth?
Marriage is a special covenant that brings a couple together both physically and spiritually. Infidelity in marriage or adultery causes a devastating blow that tears through the oneness of marriage. Infidelity is an act that often results in irreparable damages in marriage. Such is especially true if a child is conceived through adultery. However, a parent’s responsibility for his child is not determined by the circumstance of the child’s conception and birth. The act of bringing a child into the world through adultery is definitely disastrous to both parties, but it is important to remember that the child is innocent and deserves to have two parents in his/her life. Note that even a child conceived through adultery also has the right to be loved, protected, catered for, and provided for.
The Scriptures clearly tell us that children are a blessing from God (Psalm 127:3). A child should not be seen as a curse or a reminder of the sin, or as in anyway less worthy. Ideally, the wife whose husband has fathered a child with someone else would be able to embrace the child as a stepson or stepdaughter, even if the child in question is not residing in their home. The wife should not stand in the way of her husband forming a relationship with his child, even though this might bring pains. As a wife, you should understand that your husband has financial, spiritual, and emotional obligations towards the child in question (Ephesians 6:4). Likewise, a husband whose wife bears a child with someone else should strive to see himself as a stepfather – or even as an adoptive father.
11. What is the Biblical punishment for adultery?
Before answering this question, it is important to clarify the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament. Under the Old Covenant Law, given to ancient Israel under theocracy, the punishment of adultery was death (Leviticus 20:10). But in the New Testament, Jesus Christ brought a new law into effect. However, the eternal punishment of sin is still death (Romans 6:23), but adultery no longer carries the death penalty civilly. Modern Christians or followers of Jesus Christ are not commanded to harm those who sin. The Old Testament list a good number of behaviors that were punishable by death, including adultery. In support of this, Leviticus 20:10 reads, “If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.” The punishment was same for both parties that were found guilty.
Today, the Bible does not command any such punishment for adultery. However, the act of adultery carries its own punishment. Sexual sin is an offense carried out on one’s own body (1 Corinthians 6:18). Proverbs warns against the consequences of adultery: loss of honor and strength (Proverbs 5:9–11), a ruined reputation (Proverbs 5:14), bondage and death (Proverbs 5:22–23), self-destruction (Proverbs 6:32), and the vengeance of a jealous husband (Proverbs 6:34). “Can a man scoop fire into his lap / without his clothes being burned? / Can a man walk on hot coals / without his feet being scorched? / So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; / no one who touches her will go unpunished” (Proverbs 6:27–29). It has even greater spiritual consequences. However, it is not without forgiveness as demonstrated by Jesus Christ to the woman who was brought to Him for having committed adultery (John 8:10–11).
12. What is spiritual adultery?
Spiritual adultery is unfaithfulness to God. Spiritual adultery is analogous to the unfaithfulness of one’s spouse: “‘But like a woman faithless to her lover, even so have you been faithless to me, O house of Israel,’ says the LORD” (Jeremiah 3:20; see also Isaiah 1:21; 57:8; Ezekiel 16:30). The Bible clearly tells us that those who choose to be friends with the world are an “adulterous people” having “enmity against God” (James 4:4–5). Here, the word “world” represents the system of evil that is under the control of Satan and his agents (John 12:31; Ephesians 2:2; 1 John 5:19). The world system was designed with a deceitful scheme aimed at luring us away from the things of God’s Kingdom. Spiritual adultery has to do with forsaking God’s love and embracing the world’s values and desires (Romans 8:7–8; 2 Timothy 4:10; 1 John 2:15–17).
13. What of pastors committing adultery?
It is without doubt that pastors have been called not just to preach by word but by action. However, being humans, some end up finding themselves in the sin of adultery. Although sinful, such happens when the flesh takes control. As teachers of God’s word, we should pray at all times and keep watch not to fall into such. However, as a pastor, if you find yourself in the sin of adultery, confess and turn away from the act as you seek God’s mercy and favor through Christ. And as Christians, it is our duty to pray that God empower our spiritual leaders and keep them from such sins.
The Bible says that we have all sinned and fallen short of God’s glory (Romans 3:23). Hence, instead of dwelling on or focusing on condemning our brothers and sisters who have fallen, we should rather pray and encourage them to stand firm in the ways of God. A married man, before being a pastor, is called by Christ to be a good husband to his wife. And one of the main ways of being a good husband is by being faithful to your wife. The Bible says that a man who is unable to maintain his own house won’t be able to maintain God’s. That’s why you must first put order in your own house before seeking to put order in God’s house (Church).
What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Galatians 6:7 – “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”
Matthew 5:27-28 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.“
Hebrews 13:4 – “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.“
2 Peter 2:1 – “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.“
Malachi 2:16 – “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Matthew 19:4-6 – He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Group 1 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Deuteronomy 24:1-4 – “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house, and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife, and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife, then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the Lord.“
Ephesians 5:3 – “But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.“
Luke 16:18 – “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.“
Proverbs 24:16 – “For the righteous falls seven times and rises again, but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.“
Mark 10:11-12 – And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Group 2 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
1 Peter 4:1-2 – “Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God.”
1 Corinthians 7:15 – “But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.“
Ephesians 4:11 – “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,“
Matthew 16:19 – “I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 5:32 – “But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.”
Proverbs 11:1 – “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.”
Group 3 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Psalm 23:1-6 – “A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …“
Romans 13:1 – “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.”
Exodus 20:14 – “You shall not commit adultery.”
Proverbs 24:28 – “Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.”
Romans 3:23 – “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,“
Group 4 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
1 Corinthians 7:1-40 – “Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. …“
Matthew 19:9 – “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Proverbs 6:32 – “He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.”
Hebrews 13:4 – “Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.“
1 Corinthians 7:15 – “But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.”
Matthew 5:32 – “But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.“
Group 5 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Matthew 5:27-28 – “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.“
Leviticus 20:10 – “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.“
Revelation 21:8 – “But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Ephesians 5:28 – “In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.“
Matthew 19:6 – “So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
1 Corinthians 7:2 – “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.“
Group 6 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Deuteronomy 22:22 – “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.“
Proverbs 5:1-23 – “My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge. For the lips of a forbidden woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil, but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol; …“
Matthew 19:3-9 – “And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” …“
Group 7 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Malachi 2:16 – “For the man who does not love his wife but divorces her, says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
1 Corinthians 7:12-15 – “To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.“
Luke 13:6-9 – And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’”
Group 8 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Matthew 5:31-32 – “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.“
1 Corinthians 6:18 – “Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.”
Luke 19:12-27 – “He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return. Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Engage in business until I come.’ But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ When he returned, having received the kingdom, he ordered these servants to whom he had given the money to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by doing business. The first came before him, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has made ten minas more.’ …“
Group 9 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Luke 16:18 – “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.“
John 15:2 – “Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.“
Acts 2:38 – And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
John 8:1-11 – “But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?” …“
Group 10 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Ezekiel 33:11 – “Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?“
Proverbs 25:19 – “Trusting in a treacherous man in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.”
Proverbs 24:11 – “Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.“
Matthew 19:8 – He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.“
Proverbs 24:12 – “If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?“
Ephesians 4:32 – “Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.“
Group 11 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Mark 11:13 – “And seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to see if he could find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.“
Matthew 5:1-48 – “Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. …“
1 Corinthians 6:15-20 – “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.” But he who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, …“
Romans 7:2 – “For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.“
Group 12 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Proverbs 11:1 – “A false balance is an abomination to the Lord, but a just weight is his delight.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.“
1 Peter 3:7 – “Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.“
Mark 12:1-9 – And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and leased it to tenants and went into another country. When the season came, he sent a servant to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent to them another servant, and they struck him on the head and treated him shamefully. And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. …”
Group 13 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Jeremiah 3:14 – “Return, O faithless children, declares the Lord; for I am your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.”
Joel 2:12-14 – “Yet even now,” declares the Lord, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning; and rend your hearts and not your garments.” Return to the Lord your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love; and he relents over disaster. Who knows whether he will not turn and relent, and leave a blessing behind him, a grain offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?”
Matthew 25:1-46 – “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. …“
Matthew 13:12 – “For to the one who has, more will be given, and he will have an abundance, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.“
Group 14 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Isaiah 1:16-19 – “Wash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your deeds from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause. “Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;“
2 Corinthians 6:14 – “Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?“
Isaiah 58:5-12 – “Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord? “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover him, and not to hide yourself from your own flesh? Then shall your light break forth like the dawn, and your healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. …“
Group 15 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Matthew 25:44-46 – “Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
John 15:9-11 – “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.“
Isaiah 5:1-7 – “Let me sing for my beloved my love song concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; and he looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge between me and my vineyard. What more was there to do for my vineyard, that I have not done in it? When I looked for it to yield grapes, why did it yield wild grapes? And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will remove its hedge, and it shall be devoured; I will break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down. …“
Group 16 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 – “I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice and holding fast to him, for he is your life and length of days, that you may dwell in the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.”
John 1:1-11 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. …“
1 John 1:9-10 – “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.“
Matthew 1:1-11 – “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, and Isaac the father of Jacob, and Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, and Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram, and Ram the father of Amminadab, and Amminadab the father of Nahshon, and Nahshon the father of Salmon, and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse, …”
Group 17 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
Numbers 23:19-20 – “God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? Behold, I received a command to bless: he has blessed, and I cannot revoke it.”
Matthew 10:32-33 – “So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I also will acknowledge before my Father who is in heaven, but whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.“
Proverbs 1:7 – “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.“
Deuteronomy 7:8-10 – “But it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face.“
Group 18 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
2 Samuel 22:25-28 – “And the Lord has rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in his sight. “With the merciful you show yourself merciful; with the blameless man you show yourself blameless; with the purified you deal purely, and with the crooked you make yourself seem tortuous. You save a humble people, but your eyes are on the haughty to bring them down.“
Joshua 21:43-45 – “Thus the Lord gave to Israel all the land that he swore to give to their fathers. And they took possession of it, and they settled there. And the Lord gave them rest on every side just as he had sworn to their fathers. Not one of all their enemies had withstood them, for the Lord had given all their enemies into their hands. Not one word of all the good promises that the Lord had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass.“
Deuteronomy 32:1-9 – “Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb. For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; ascribe greatness to our God! “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he. They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation. …“
Group 19 – What Does The Bible Say About Pastors Committing Adultery?
James 1:1-27 – “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. …“
2 Corinthians 6:1-18 – “Working together with him, then, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry, but as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; …“
Ephesians 5:22-33 – “Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands. Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, …“
Group 20 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
John 6:60-71 – “When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) …“
Proverbs 3:5-7 – “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.“
Matthew 19:4-6 – He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Group 21 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
1 John 4:4-6 – “Little children, you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.“
1 John 4:12 – “No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.“
1 John 4:7 – “Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.“
2 Timothy 4:1-3 – “I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,“
Group 22 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
1 Timothy 6:17-19 – “As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life.”
1 John 3:17-20 – “But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.“
Philippians 2:3-8 – “Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. …“
Group 23 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
1 Corinthians 10:12-14 – “Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.“
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 – “Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.“
1 Corinthians 15:33-34 – “Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.” Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.“
Group 24 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
Romans 12:9-21 – “Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor. Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality. …“
1 Corinthians 4:19-20 – “But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power. For the kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power.“
1 Corinthians 2:12-3:3 – “Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual person judges all things, but is himself to be judged by no one. “For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?” But we have the mind of Christ. …“
Group 25 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
Romans 12:2 – “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”
Romans 13:8-10 – “Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.“
Acts 2:37-39 – Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.”
Group 26 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
John 15:6-9 – “If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Abide in my love.“
Acts 4:18-20 – “So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”“
John 5:37-44 – “And the Father who sent me has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen, and you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, yet you refuse to come to me that you may have life. I do not receive glory from people. …“
Group 27 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
John 8:7 – “And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.””
John 4:33-35 – “So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.“
John 3:4-8 – Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
Group 28 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
Luke 22:31-33 – “Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. And when you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.” Peter said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death.”
Luke 6:36-38 – Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. “Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
John 3:16-18 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.“
Group 29 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
Proverbs 10:12 – “Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.”
Proverbs 3:13-18 – “Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding, for the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. …“
Proverbs 13:20-21 – “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. Disaster pursues sinners, but the righteous are rewarded with good.”
Matthew 24:12-13 – “And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.”
Matthew 28:18-20 – And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Group 30 – What Does The Bible Say On Pastors Committing Adultery?
Psalm 103:1-22 – “Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. …“
1 Corinthians 3:16 – “Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?“
Matthew 5:7-8 – “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”
Luke 23:43 – And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.”
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