Disciples And Apostles by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

Disciples And Apostles

by Pastor Cornelius R. Stam

“And when it was day, He called unto Him His disciples: and of them He chose twelve, whom also He named apostles” (Luke 6:13).

Many people fail to distinguish between our Lord’s disciples and His apostles. They suppose they are the same. This is incorrect, however, for our Lord had a multitude of disciples while He had only a few apostles. His apostles were chosen from among His disciples, as we learn from the above message from Luke’s gospel.

A disciple is a follower; an apostle is a “sent one”. A disciple is a learner; an apostle is a teacher. There is a great lesson here for us all to learn.

We must come before we can go. We must follow before we can be sent. We must learn before we can teach. We must listen to the Lord before we can speak for the Lord.

“Thus saith the Lord”, was the familiar phrase with which the Old Testament prophets began their messages. But at the head of the long list of Old Testament prophets we find Samuel, a young lad, saying: “SPEAK LORD, FOR THY SERVANT HEARETH” (1 Samuel 3:9).

Before we can do or say anything for God, then, we must listen to God. This explains why the reading and study of the Word of God is so important.

First, salvation itself comes by hearing and believing God’s Word, especially about Christ, and His death for our sins. Romans 10:17 says: “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God”, and I Peter 1:23: “Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth forever”. Then, having been saved, we can serve God acceptably only by diligent study of His Word. Perhaps the most important passage in the Bible on this subject is II Timothy 2:15:

“STUDY TO SHOW THYSELF APPROVED UNTO GOD, A WORKMAN THAT NEEDETH NOT TO BE ASHAMED, RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH.”

Truths We Have in Christ

I am Redeemed ( Galatians 4:5 )

I am complete in Him (Colossians 2:10)

I am a New Creature ( 2 Corinthians 5:17 )

I am called to be a Saint ( Romans 1:7 )

I am accepted in the Beloved (Ephesians 1:6)

I am more than a conqueror ( Romans 8:37 )

I am an Ambassador for Christ (2 Corinthians 5:20 )

I am justified freely by His Grace ( Romans 3:24 )

I am looking for that blessed Hope ( Titus 2:13 )

I am the Temple of the Living God ( 2 Corinthians 6:16 )

I have redemption through His blood ( Ephesians 1:7 )

I am free from the law of sin and death ( Romans 8:2 )

I am a son and heir of God through Christ ( Galatians 4:7 )

I know the body is not one member but many (1 Corinthians 12:14)

I am not my own, for I am bought with a price (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)

I am manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ( 2 Corinthians 3:3 )

I am not far but now made nigh by the blood of Christ

( Ephesians 2:13 )

I am sealed by the Holy Spirit unto the day of redemption (Ephesians 4:30 )

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me

( Philippians 4:13 )

I am risen with Him through the faith of the operation of God

( Colossians 2:12 )

I am to endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ

( 2 Timothy 2:3 )

I am to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery

( Ephesians 3:9 )

I am presented holy, unblameable and unreproveable in His sight (Colossians 1:22)

I have redemption through His blood, and the forgiveness of sins ( Ephesians 1:7 )

I am blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ (Ephesians 1:3)

I am always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus (2 Corinthians 4:10)

I am washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus ( 1 Corinthians 6:11 )

I am to wait for Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. ( 1 Thessalonians 1:10 )

I am confident that He which hath begun a good work in me will perform it ( Philippians 1:6

I am saved by grace through faith and not of works lest any man should boast (Ephesians 2:8)

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me ( Galatians 2:20 )

I know this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27)

I faint not, though my outward man perish, my Inner Man is renewed day by day ( 2 Corinthians 4:16 )

I am a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15)

I am looking for the glorious appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ (Titus 2:13)

I know God hath raised us up and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6)

I am persuaded that nothing shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ ( Romans 8:38-39 )

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)

For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

And Ye Are Complete in Him (Colossians 2:10)

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