The Prophetic Calling of the Believer

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The Prophetic Calling of the Believer

• Biblical Principles for Fulfilling our
• Responsibility as Gods Ambassadors

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The Prophets Accountability

• Ezekiel 317-19 Son of man, I have appointed you
  a watchman to the house of Israel whenever you
  hear a word from My mouth, warn them from Me.
  When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die',
  and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the
  wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that
  wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his
  blood I will require at your hand. Yet if you
  have warned the wicked and he does not turn from
  his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall
  die in his iniquity but you have delivered
  yourself.

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A Radical Truth

• Matthew 1110-11
• This is the one about whom it is written,
  'Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You, Who
  will prepare Your way before You.
• Truly I say to you, among those born of women
  there has not arisen anyone greater than John the
  Baptist! Yet the one who is least in the kingdom
  of heaven is greater than he.

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Characteristics of Prophets and Prophecy

• The Message is
• -Given From God Himself
• The Messenger is
• -Sent By God Himself
• The Messenger
• -Calls a People to Repentance and Faith towards
  God
• -Pronounces the Blessings to those who Heed
• -Pronounces the Curses to those who Refuse

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Our Prophetic Privilege

• 1Peter 110-13 As to this salvation, the prophets
  who prophesied of the grace that would come to
  you made careful searches and inquiries, seeking
  to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ
  within them was indicating as He predicted the
  sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.
  It was revealed to them that they were not
  serving themselves, but you, in these things
  which now have been announced to you through
  those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy
  Spirit sent from heaven -- things into which
  angels long to look. Therefore, prepare your
  minds for action, keep sober in spirit, fix your
  hope completely on the grace to be brought to you
  at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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• 5 Foundational Biblical Precepts
• to Fulfill our Prophetic Calling

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1 Proclaim The Person and Work of Jesus Christ

• 1Corinthians 22 For I determined to know nothing
  among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.
• 1Corinthians 153-4 For I delivered to you as of
  first importance what I also received, that
  Christ died for our sins according to the
  Scriptures, and that He was buried, and that He
  was raised on the third day according to the
  Scriptures,

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2 Call All to Repentance and Faith in the Person
and Work of Christ

• 2CO 518-21 Now all these things are from God,
  who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and
  gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely,
  that God was in Christ reconciling the world to
  Himself, not counting their trespasses against
  them, and He has committed to us the word of
  reconciliation. Therefore, we are ambassadors for
  Christ, as though God were making an appeal
  through us we beg you on behalf of Christ, be
  reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to
  be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the
  righteousness of God in Him.

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3 Proclaim the Whole Counsel of God

• ACTS 2026-27
• Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am
  innocent of the blood of all men. For I did not
  shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of
  God.

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4 Be Bold, Yet Peaceful Ambassadors

• 1Peter 315 But sanctify Christ as Lord in your
  hearts, always being ready to make a defense to
  everyone who asks you to give an account for the
  hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and
  reverence.
• Romans 1218 If possible, so far as it depends on
  you, be at peace with all men.

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5 Prepare for Hardship

• Philippians 127-29
• Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of
  the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and
  see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that
  you are standing firm in one spirit, with one
  mind striving together for the faith of the
  gospel in no way alarmed by your opponents --
  which is a sign of destruction for them, but of
  salvation for you, and that too, from God. For to
  you it has been granted for Christ's sake, not
  only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for
  His sake.

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The Greatest Privilege

• 1 Peter 29-10
• But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a
  holy nation, a people for God's own possession,
  so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him
  who has called you out of darkness into His
  marvelous light for you once were not a people,
  but now you are the people of God you had not
  received mercy, but now you have received mercy.