The Love The Walk The Fruit – episode two

II. The Walk

The walk of Jesus was perfect. The foundation of Jesus’s ministry was, is, and always will be the Throne Of Grace. For God’s throne is Perfection and His Love is His foundation, His Redemption.

For God so loved us He sent Jesus. God The Father IS The fullness of the universe in every dimension and Jesus IS His direct reflection unto Father God’s Glory, Revelation chapters 5, 21, 22. When Jesus walked amongst Israel He did so with God’s direct presence. Jesus IS the God walk and the God talk.

A. To talk about “The Walk” in One message is like trying to put the universe into a bag, impossible, but it’s a start.

The purpose of this message is to start a conversation: if we put our focus on how Jesus did “The Walk” we too can attempt to do the same things Jesus did. Why? Because He said we could in John’s Gospel chapters 14,15 and following.

Jesus’s last priestly prayer concerned our relationship with Him and The Father. As He wept and sweated blood before He was taken to be wrongfully accused, judged, condemned and crucified we were on His mind. Most importantly for us, because of His shed blood through His suffering we who are in Jesus Christ have The Holy Spirit with us and most importantly in us just as Jesus did. Jesus promised He would not leave us as orphans and He didn’t.

B. We have God The Father, we Have Jesus His Son and we Have The Holy Spirit. We are family.

1. I believe, for us to understand the gifts to the church, the gifts of The Holy Spirit we have to understand who we are. And to attempt to walk the walk as Jesus we need a deeper understanding concerning “The Fruit of The Holy Spirit” which is my third message. So what comes first the walk or the fruit? Love challenged us to walk. I believe as we walk we learn to apply the fruit as we live out each day. Just as Jesus said: I only do what I see My Father doing. Even though the fruit is a list and fully part of the walk the fruit will forever be an ongoing learning part of the walk. The fruit checks us beginning with Love.

2. The walk of Jesus perfectly revealed His examples to us that Paul referenced in his lists. As a whole Jesus radiated The Love, The Walk and The Fruit perfectly. He is the very outpouring of the fullness therein. He radiated: love, joy peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self control. a complexity for sure. When Jesus dealt with the priests and money changers who turned The Temple into a den of thieves what fruit was He exhibiting? Love, goodness and faithfulness.

Love for God’s temple revealed His attributes of goodness that are inherent in His faithfulness and perfect nature as The Word made flesh. God’s mercy revealed Himself as a double edged sword.

3. Jesus perfectly administered each gift of ministry as a perfect reflection of His Holy Father as He was led by The Holy Spirit. He showed us by example and revealed He wants us, His church, to reflect His walk and how to walk His walk in love.

Interesting to note that even though Paul didn’t walk with Jesus as the other 12, his lists, his epistles are the canon of scripture called the Bible. Years of studying the Torah as a Jew and spending time in the third Heaven with Jesus plus receiving downloads from Holy Spirit allowed him to pen God’s truth as an Apostle.

I Cor. 12:27 Now you are the body of Christ:

1. Each of you is a member of it,

2. Jesus is The Head Over The Church,

3. The church is an extension His body.

C. The Apostle’s learned to be Apostles by walking with Jesus.

1. The Apostles were disciples first as they walked the Jesus walk and talked the Jesus talk everyday they were with Him. As they followed the Master they witnessed Him minster in the gifts of office they would soon have to administer. These are the gifts Paul listed and encouraged us to partake in.

2. Jesus provided the disciples with tasks. He gave the disciples hands on tasks so they could walk the ministry walk. They were not Apostles yet.

3. It is my belief that we can also learn and grow in the positions of ministry that Paul listed as disciples through the grace of God.

4. The fulfillment of the gifts grew in anointing when the disciples received the baptism of the Holy Spirit That Jesus promised would be sent by Father God.

D. Each person that Jesus chose, first called to be Apostles and later anointed to be an Apostle first learned to walk the walk with Jesus.

They learned to apply the gifts to the early church through Jesus’s examples as Paul listed. For the sake of this message we should reverse the order of the list. Why?, Practicality. Point 7 empowered and started the whole progression after Jesus ascended to be with His Father.
Let’s start with The Baptism of the Holy Spirit as recorded in acts chapters two.

It is my belief that each gift to the church Paul listed was actualized in the first 13 anointed persons called Apostles. Why 13 Apostles. After Jesus ascended the disciples took to pray to replace Judas. Later as we know Jesus chose Paul – a Jews Jew to be an Apostle to the Gentiles.

Here’s Pauls list:

v.28 And in the church God has appointed:

1. First of all Apostles,

2. Second prophets,

3. Third teachers,

4. Then workers of miracles, and those with gifts of healing,

5. Helping,

6. Administration,

7. and The Gifts of Tongues.

v.29 Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Do all work miracles? v.30 Do all have gifts of healing? Do all speak in tongues? Do all interpret? v.31 But eagerly desire the greater gifts.

2. Concerning modern day apostles. For someone to call themselves an apostle just to have a title of importance or to make themselves or the people who call them apostles feel important is just a man given title. Servants always point to their master. Jesus always honored His Father.

3. The fruit of a modern lower case like apostolic ministry might look much this:

There was a man called “The Apostle of Faith”, his name was Smith Wigglesworth. Smith never liked the title given to him and would not acknowledge it even though eight people were raised from the dead, thousands upon thousands were saved set free healed and delivered. For Smith, it was always about Jesus and walking in His fellowship, he knew who the miracle worker is. Give God praise in Jesus’s name.

Here’s a more modern short list of other ministers who have literally changed the world.

Billy Graham – millions saved.

Kathryn Kuhlman – Thousands upon thousands saved, set free, healed and delivered

Reinhard Bonke – hundreds of millions saved, set free, healed, as well as people raised from the dead and delivered from hell.

Heidi Baker – Millions saved, set free, healed, raised from the dead and delivered from hell in the nation of Mozambique and around the world.

Revival Ministries: Rodney Howard Brown – evangelist to the world has recorded 500 million souls saved. Plus many set free, healed and delivered.

This brief list of ministers share The Holy Spirit led fruit bearing commonalities of: souls are saved, set free, healed, raised from the dead and delivered from hell. As the fruit of blessings flowed in the book of Acts, these ministers share an evidence like the early church’s Apostolic commonality as recorded in Acts. And as The Apostles maintained the above servants of God share this belief and rebuff being called an Apostle. What they do proclaim is Jesus Christ and Him crucified for the world to be saved. And, just as Jesus and The 13 Apostles gave their boast unto God The Father, God the Son and God The Holy Spirit, these servants of God repeatedly proclaim the same.

Ephesians 3:1-12

4. In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, 5 which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by The Holy Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets.

v7 I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of His power. 8 Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, 9 and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. 10 His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, 11 according to his eternal purpose that He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 In Him (Christ) and through faith in Him (Christ) we may approach God (The Father) with freedom and confidence.

A Prayer for all of us

14 For this reason I kneel before God The Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Holy Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us, ²¹ to Him (God The Father) be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

This is why we proclaim every blessing that flows from The Throne of Grace: God The Father, In The Son and through The Holy Spirit in Jesus’s name – Amen.

Altar Call:

NO ONE HAS TO GO TO HELL

A Call Unto Salvation: If you do not know Jesus as your personal Lord and savior I would like to invite you to do so now.

Pray this simple but very profound pray with me. Heavenly Lord Jesus, I want to get saved so I can go to heaven. Please forgive my sins, come into my heart and be my Lord and Savior. Write my name in Your Book of Life. Please fill my heart and life with The Holy Spirit to guide me through your word and empower me to live my life for you every day.

Welcome to Body of Christ! You are saved and blessed with the favor of God! You are part of a family of over 2 billion brothers and sisters world wide.

Now that you’re saved, here’s what you need to do: 1) Tell someone – Jesus loves you and you’re going to heaven. This is called confessing your faith unto salvation. 2) If you have a bible start reading The Gospel of John. If you don’t have a bible, click this link: https://www.biblegateway.com In Gateway’s search section type in The Gospel of John (NASV) and read about how much Jesus loves you. 3) Find an awesome church, like an Assemblies Of God worship center or a church that teaches the whole Bible. Here’s one way to find a church: In your search browser type in Or Click this link: https://ag.org In the middle portion of the page click on the “Find A Church” link. It will open up a spread sheet to help you locate a church in your area. 4) When you find a church ask to be Baptized in water in the name of Jesus. This is an act of obedience to the word of God and outward expression of your inner faith.

BONUS: This prayer and blessing is for you: Heavenly Father, in Jesus Name, I pray for Your blessing to be upon every daughter and son who has given their life to Jesus by asking Him to be their personal Lord and Savior. Bless them Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit. Protect them from every evil. Allow their new faith to grow deep in rich wonderful soil watered daily by Holy Spirit and fed by Your Word. I pray they would become as “oaks of righteousness unto Your glory” through Jesus name I pray, Amen and Amen.

Numbers 6:24-26 I Pray God Bless you and Keep you; The Lord make His face to shine upon you, and, be gracious to you; The Lord lift up His countenance on you, and give you peace in Jesus’ name. Amen and Amen!