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! Introduction:
Ephesians Chapter 4 - Topic - Accountability in the Local Church.
And what I mean by that is that if you were to have a calling of God, I believe that as God’s vessel that he wants to use to see that brought about is your local fellowship.
As I go back to the scriptures, I see there is a strong emphasis obviously on the church and we want to be biblical in that and so we will look at that aspect tonight.
In Ephesians Chapter 4, this is a passage that we’ve taken for our school actually, is vs. 11 speaks about the leadership of the church and they are for the equipping of the saints to the work of the ministry for the edifying of the Body of Christ and it speaks about understanding truth in vs. 13 and growing into maturity into the measure of Christ and then also in vs. 14 that where prepared individual believers are equipped with the truth to the point where they’re not tossed to and fro by every doctrine that comes into the church.
And yet we are able to speak the truth in love.
So not only that they’re not deceived or able to refute the truth in error when it comes in a loving gentle spirit but without compromise.
And then we’re growing up into Christ who is the head and then in vs. 16 it speaks about He’s the one who supplies all the life for the church.
And so it starts out with the leaders and their role obviously focusing on Christ who is the source of growth.
And without Christ obviously it would not take place.
And so I want to look at that, what’s the process or I think what is one of the most effective processes where you are sitting tonight or you say I have this call of God and maybe you don’t know what it is exactly, but you kind of feel like God is tugging your heart and you want to be open to that.
How do I get to Point A to Point B, or down the road to Point Z.  What do I do in the between time?
Because I have seen gifted individuals sit around and wait for some ministry to fall out of the sky as if God has this two years down the road he’s going to throw a ministry into your lap as you wait on the Lord.
And  - don’t wait for the phone to ring and say - Hey, I have a church for you to Pastor, and Pastor Chuck Smith is on the other end and he’s heard about you, there are things that you need to be doing right now to see that call of God come to pass in your life.
And I think there are some things that as I said I’ve seen very gifted individuals not be used in the Kingdom of God to the degree that others may not have the same abilities and talents but yet they make themselves available that God seems to put His hand upon.
And one of the key passages that I think about all of our Christian life and in the ministry that God asked for is over in Luke, Chapter 16.
And I just want to give you a little personal testimony about my own ministry here at Calvary La Mirada.
I’m not the Pastor that started this fellowship.
I’m actually the third pastor.
The first pastor started a home bible study, he got into a little bit of trouble, morally and was moved along.
The second pastor that took over for him was a man by the name of Kevin Webb.
He has a real strong gift of evangelism and would go out to the streets of Whittier Boulevard and he was going to local church and he’d bring these people and they wouldn’t want to stay at church and there was just so much of a difference that he started going to Calvary Chapel La Mirada and bringing these people that are being saved and they were growing and he just made himself available and he eventually was Assistant Pastor and then when that whole thing happened, he became the Pastor.
I came by after about -  I don’t know, a year after Kevin was pasturing, and three to four months after that, Kevin found out that he had terminal cancer and they gave him a 5% chance to live.
Obviously God intervened and healed him and there was no medical possibility.
And a small church at that point, I was able to get involved pretty rapidly, pretty quickly and when Kevin went away to Mexico to get treatment, I was the one who came in and did the teaching in his place and shared it with another man.
But, let me tell you what led up to that.
I think the call of God for my own life started the very moment I got saved.
I knew that God had called me to the ministry.
Now, being raised in the Catholic church, I didn’t know what that meant, I just knew that God wanted to use my life and I said “YES!”, my heart surrendered to Him.
I immediately after I got saved, after a couple of months went to Bible College and I just knew I had to study, I needed to prepare myself.
And there were times when I was wondering why I was studying so much and it was like, well there wasn’t too much of an opportunity for an outlet, but I just felt the Lord say, You’re preparing for the future, don’t just look at right now what’s happening, but right now you are laying a foundation, study habits and character of the Word of God and your relationship with the scriptures that will be used in the future.
So, I just kept my hand to the plow of studying and trying to learn of the Word of God and then the Lord began to open up opportunities and the school I was going to and the second year I started to teach the scriptures three to four times a week, the Lord just opened up these studies on campus.
I did one for my dorm that I was involved with, I did also another Bible Study that was just for surfers and we gathered together and had our little surf Bible Study and that was a lot of fun, but wherever the door opened, I was ready to teach.
But then, I eventually moved up here and I wanted to get involved in a small Calvary Chapel when I moved to this area.
I ended up at Downey Calvary Chapel somehow, which was not a small Calvary Chapel.
At that time there were three services, the sanctuary held about 1500 and I just remember I was sitting there in church one day and Mike Macintosh was my Pastor from San Diego came up and he spoke about all these incredible things that were happening around the world and if you’ve ever listened to Mike, he’s got all these incredible stories about how the Lord uses him.
And I remember sitting there after the service and just weeping.
Not because I was doing anything wrong, I looked around and I said What am I doing sitting here, when 1500 people, this is one of three services, God has given me a gift and it’s not being expressed at this point and I felt like the Lord was just breaking my heart and then that very week is when I found Calvary Chapel La Mirada, walked into the building and there was about 20 people there.
You had to bring your own chair, I did not bring one, so, there were some guys there who would bring there own beach chairs, and this is the point I wanted to be able to grow with the ministry.
And I just went to the Pastor and said I know God’s called me to be a Pastor, to teach the Word of God and I want to make myself available to you in whatever you want me to do.
And he had a job for me that day.
It was to clean the bathroom over there.
And I went, I didn’t balk at it at all, but I took that as just as serious as if he said I want you to teach the bible, and I made that bathroom as clean as I possibly could.
And I showed up at his office the next day and I said “ I want to be used, what do you go for me, I was going to school at the time and he said Well, take this letter over to the secretary’s house, so I took it over there and then like the third day I showed up and, you know, he wasn’t going to get rid of me.
I wanted to be used of the Lord and so he gave me some money to go buy some paper cups for the Sunday School.
And I took the money, I realized it was the Lord’s money, I tried to get the best deal, so I checked all the prices and I got the best price on the cups and brought them back, with the receipt, and the change and I just kept throwing myself at him saying I want to be used here.
And I just kept showing up, every day I was there, and just making myself available to do whatever it is, what was needed.
All along knowing at some point the Lord had called me to Pastor, not only to clean and to serve but to teach the Word of God.
And I remember standing around one night and the guy who was going to teach a home Bible Study couldn’t do it, he was at the Pastor’s house and so the Pastor  said, well, Bryan why don’t you come in and teach and I’ll listen and make sure you have that gift and you know he kind of supervised that, and I remember teaching the Bible Study that night at his house, and the next week the other guy at the other study couldn’t make it so Kevin said you did a good job here, we’ll send you over there, and so then I was able to teach and so the progress that the Lord was allowing was very gradual.
That’s what I want to share with you, is that I believe that is the process the Lord takes us all through.
That’s why I’m saying don’t wait around for ministry to be thrown in your lap, be used of God right now, today, in whatever abilities and situations the Lord sets before you.
Look over at Luke Chapter 16 vs. 10 - He says, he who is faithful in what is least is faithful also with much.
And he who is unjust in least is unjust also in much.
I just take that as a principle.
A principle for my own life that right now what I’m doing even tonight is somehow preparing me opening the door, preparing me for future ministry that the Lord has for me.
Now, I look at the school, when we started, we had eight students meeting on one class on Saturday, and now look what’s happening with the school, we’ve been able to expand to other places and get involved with ministry but yet, I knew the Lord wanted me to be faithful with those eight people on Saturday morning to teach them and that’s when we were preparing all of the syllabus and all the materials and just being faithful to what the Lord had given us to do.
Now, I’m able to come and teach these classes, it’s not that I don’t prepare, but all the work was done eight years ago.
All the hard labor of putting those syllabus together, studying, putting it together and now I’m able to build upon that and so to be able to teach here on a Tuesday night isn’t a major time constraint on my life because the work has already been done in the past.
And so I realize that today what I am doing as well is somehow preparing me for the future and I need to be faithful whatever the Lord would set before me.
And that’s how you need to look at the ministry the Lord has for you right now.
If you pour your heart into what God has given to you right now it’s a sign, an indicator something about your character that you’ll do the same when God gives you greater responsibility.
If you don’t handle the small stuff now, all of a sudden when greater responsibility is thrown your way, you’re character will come out and you’ll handle it the same way.
So you don’t all of a sudden become faithful, you’re either faithful with the small things or your not, and if you’re not faithful with the small things, it shows the heart of God, you’ll be faithful with much when he brings that you’re way.
And so sometimes we overlook like this task before me but it’s all a test, it’s all preparation.
I’ve also put on there that if you are a leader of any ministry, even an overseer of any ministry, you need to know this principle so that the individuals that you are allowing to be raised up and that should be your heart as well, to be equipping the saints into the work of the ministry giving them opportunity and the best way to do that is not just to put them in a place of leadership becomes someone shows some interests, but to give them a small task and see how they respond to that.
Do they come over kind of in a prideful way, well that’s kind of beneath me, well then God has some work he wants to do in their life.
God’s not only concerned about the things that we do, he’s more concerned about me, my heart and where it’s at, and He wants to work in me.
I think God could take just about anything or anyone and work through it, that’s not the point.
God wants to work in me first and it comes out of my life.
And so, if you are leading a ministry and you are raising up people too fast, often times what happens is that person gets too much responsibility and they buckle under it and what happens to them is they say, I’m no good, I’m bad and then the devil comes in and discourages them and it takes some people a while to dig themselves out of that hole.
Just remember, as I put on the notes there, it’s easy to put a person into position but it’s extremely hard to remove them once they are there.
Without doing any damage to them.
There are a lot of times when we just have to wait upon the Lord in situations like that and not just because we are pressed because there is a need and someone is willing and you plug a gap there.
You don’t just need a body there, you need someone who is going to be faithful and take on the ministry the Lord has given them.
And you just give them a small task and you watch them, are they faithful to that, you give them more and more, and more, and that’s how you see people raised up in your ministry.
You should have the same heart to duplicate yourself giving others responsibilities and letting them grow in the things of God.
You also have to understand that for your own life.
That you need to pour into your ministry, whatever the Lord has given to you as a task right now, that’s your ministry.
And that’s what you need to pour yourself into, whether it’s small or large or big or small responsibility, you need to be absolutely faithful with that task.
And then the Lord will give you a little more, and a little more.
And I see Him working that way and I believe He wants to prepare some of your hearts and I want to look a little bit different and look at how the local church relates to this very principle.
Look over at Acts Chapter 6 vs. 1 - now in those days when the number of disciples was multiplying there arose a murmuring against the Hebrews by the Hellenists because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution, so God was blessing and obviously here there was an oversight and it’s a little bit touchy because here you have a Rachel aspect, where the Hebrews and the Greek speakers, and there was of course a cultural difference here going on in the church.
And these guys are saying, Hey, you who are from the Hebrew group before they were saved, I don’t know if it came into the church, they thought they were better than the Greeks speaking or the Greek cultured Jews.
And so that drift came into the church a little bit and then there began to become a murmuring and a complaining and so here they want to deal with that.
And it’s interesting that all the names that are raised up are more of the Greeks speaking names.
So, it seems like there is another whole leadership being raised up.
Not only just serving the tables but handling the finances that went with the handling of the organization that went with that.
So, I think that as you read Acts Chapter 6, you look at those qualifications and I’m sure you might say, Boy those are some strong qualifications to serve bread.
I think there is more going on here in Acts Chapter 6.
A leadership is being raised up underneath the Apostles and here are these guys that are going to be appointed to that task to somewhat be under shepherds for that aspect of the church.
Because you see, some of them go on to be evangelist and on to further ministry.
So I think there is a lot going on than just taking care of the widows here.
It says then the twelve summoned the multitude of disciples and said it is not desirable that we should leave the Word of God and serve tables.
Therefore, brother seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and Wisdom and we make it a point over this business.
And so here, they say, You seek him out from among your men.
The apostles didn’t get seven individuals and say, these are the guys, but the people knew who were the faithful ones, who had these qualifications.
Obviously, that means that they were there active in the work of the local church and then out of the local church they were risen up to a greater responsibility.
I believe that’s the process the Lord is desiring to do.
And that means that you need to be busy in your own local ministry, in your own local church, serving, whatever doors are open, you’re there, making yourself available.
If you have some call of God, I think God will bring that through the church.
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