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Christ’s Ordination

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Christ’s Ordination 

Saturday March 9th

Text: Jeremiah 1:4-5
Key verse: Mark 3: 14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
Now, when Christ talked of ordaining His ministers, we did not see Him carrying out any special activity for it. He meant the ordinary meaning of the word as we have seen it in scripture. Ordination is the verbal pronouncement of divine choice and calling upon His servant. Before you came, I ordained you. I chose you. I anointed you. I prepared you. It is a spiritual word but today the title, ‘Bishop’ has been consecrated and made special by some churches. such that not everybody is bishop even if you are a pastor; bishop has been reserved for some high-ranking ministers according to their own denomination.
Is that provision in the scripture? Apostle, Venerable Apostle, Archbishop. They leave the spiritual and go on the physical. Now look at the word, ‘ordination.’ They have carried it away as they carried the office of a bishop away. Ordination is made a sacred thing to be carried out officially for a few people in the church. Some churches organize ordination services where people are ordained for ministry. Did Jesus organize one? No! Was it in a feast of ordination that God told Jeremiah, “I ordained you a prophet unto the nations?” No! Some use anointing oil which is poured upon the ordained ministers. Some reserve ordination for only those who have completed bible college. Some constitute a body of bishops, who go about doing commercial ordination for whosoever can pay for it and they give certificates of ordination. All these are traditions and have no Biblical authority. By this act, all those who are not ordained are belittled, ignored, and condemned. Do they feel that who ordained you? Tell them, ‘It is Jesus’ because it was Jesus who ordained the disciples and it was God who ordained Jeremiah. 

Thought for the day: Ordination is the verbal pronouncement of divine choice and calling on a minister.

Song for the day: Spirit of the living God, fall afresh on me

Bible reading for the day: Joshua 14-17 
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