Teaching the Teachers - Introduction

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"He Himself gave some to be emissaries, some as prophets, some as proclaimers of the Good News, and some as shepherds and teachers— to equip the kedoshim (the holy ones) for the work of service, for building up the body of Messiah (the Anointed One). This will continue until we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of Ben-Elohim (the Son of God) — to mature adulthood, to the measure of the stature of Messiah’s fullness."

Ephesians 4:11-13 TLV

The Truth

Jesus of Nazareth nurtured a dozen men along with a few other men and women for some three odd years.

When the earthly ministry of Jesus was coming to an end, He told His team that He will not leave them as orphans but will send them the Holy Spirit who will be their Teacher from then on.

The Way

These small select group along with a few others taught by the Holy Spirit wrote what is now known as the New Testament bible, the Christian Scriptures.

Scriptures and God's Spirit are our Teachers today. And we are not to remain merely as students.

We are to be the next generation of teachers to the new generation of lost sheep, who we were all a part of in the not so distant past, right before Jesus Himself, the Good Shepherd carried us back into His eternal sheepfold.

We are called to be the next teachers, we who have gone through being reborn (in the Spirit), having gone through spiritual infancy and adolescence.

This whole process takes awhile, some longer than others.

Way of Life

As we mentioned, the first batch with Jesus Himself, including Peter and John took more than three years (and they were still very much like raw recruits). The next batch, notably Paul, taught by the Holy Spirit after Jesus have risen, also took three years.

Now it's our turn. And as the new teachers to the next batch, we need to stay close to Scriptures and intimately sensitive to the Holy Spirit, apart from whom we can do nothing, absolutely nothing, especially if we consider ourselves superior to others. When we do, we've overshot heaven and jumped head first towards the abyss with the enemy.

You see, once we have become a follower and then a disciple of Christ, the enemy cannot really stop us from continuing in the faith. But what this age-old enemy will do though, is to blind us into thinking that we are so good that we do not need God, effectively overshooting our eternal destiny.

Let us not be among those people who Christ Himself have called vipers in His day and time.

In line with this, this new series of lessons is born.

Teaching the Teachers The Series

The second lesson is being prepared for you right now...




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