PRESENT TRUTHS: FULL RESTORATION INTO SONSHIP

Paul's last instruction to the Corinthian church in 2 Cor.13:11(NIV) was for them to "aim for perfection..." Today,new truths about our sonship and the revelation of perfection are being restored ; the Body of Christ through the revealed truths is gradually making her way towards what Paul,the Apostle called "the fullness of the stature of the measure of Christ" Eph 4:13. Secondly,God is also restoring the full function of the governmental gifts of the church otherwise known as five-fold ministry gifts of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist,Pastor and Teacher.These ministry gifts will play a midwife role in bringing believers into maturity through accurate doctrines of Christ that build the nature of the Bridegroom into His Bride! With the restoration of these new truths,greater enlightenment and reality is brought concerning old truths.Nothing is lost but everything is enhanced. Jesus did not come to destroy the truths of the Old Testament but to demonstrate them and fulfill all the types and shadows contained in them.All scriptures right from Genesis to Malachi ; Matthew to Revelation all testified of Him. All members of the Body of Christ today need to seek to move up and grow up much more than she is concerned about going up to heaven.The former must precede the latter. Let the church heed God's truth that there is no going up without first a growing up into a fully restored state of being which is obtained only in the Christ anointing ! However, like it was in the days of Martin Luther(when the unscripturally educated and the spiritually unstable went into extremism and fanaticism), every restoration move has had and will have its extremes when the pendulum of new truth began to swing and mark a new time of advancement for the Church.Hence,we must endeavor to maintain a balance by the grace,wisdom,and maturity of the Head of the Church Himself,Jesus Christ our Lord. Tokunbo Beulah Johnson (Teaching Apostle)