Is Greg Locke an APOSTLE Now???

Is Greg Locke an Apostle? The Holy Nope episode 326 features the apostolic installation service of Greg Locke, who, according to these people, is an apostle now.

Where does one get the authority to decide who becomes an apostle, and is Greg Locke qualified?

Anybody else want to play games before I get to preaching? Huh? You better go ahead and do it right now.

Because it's going to be twice as bad here in a few minutes. You do it while I'm preaching. I'll take this microphone and bust you in the mouth with it, in the name of God.

I want to turn your attention to Acts chapter 1, verses 1 and 2. The first account I compose, Theophilus, about all that Jesus began to do and teach until the day when he was taken up to heaven, after he had by the

Holy Spirit given orders to the apostles whom he had chosen. Now all the cool kids these days are calling themselves apostles.

Apostle Catherine Crick, Apostle Alexander Pagani, Apostle Bill Johnson, and now Apostle Greg Locke.

I'm telling you, your kid could be demonized and attacked, but your doctor calls it autism.

But who are the apostles that Luke is talking about? Well, it should be noted that the word apostles occurs 28 times in Acts.

In Acts 14, verses 4 and 14, it refers to Paul and Barnabas, and the rest of the time it refers to anyone who feels called that way, or is appointed by someone else who feels called to be one.

For real? Don't play like that. Are you serious?

That's nonsense, of course. It refers to the 12. Well, here in Acts 2, it refers to the 11, because Judas, you know.

And it says, these are the apostles whom Jesus had chosen. Luke here points us back to his first volume in the sixth chapter of his gospel wherein

Jesus spends all night in prayer before picking out from among his disciples these 12 apostles.

Alright, so there is now a distinction between the disciples who are following Jesus and the apostles that he chose from among them.

After a night in prayer, he is appointing these 12 to a position not every one of his disciples enjoys.

So who can be an apostle, and what are the qualifications? Well, I submit to you that our text in Acts 1 contains the four qualifications within the scope of its teaching.

First and most obvious, an apostle must be chosen by Jesus. Second, an apostle must be taught by Jesus.

Again, our text says Jesus had given orders to the apostles whom he had chosen. The third qualification to be an apostle was to be a witness of the resurrected

Christ. And our verse certainly implies that if the resurrected Jesus is giving them instructions, then they have seen him.

This implication receives confirmation in the next verse, To these, the apostles, he presented himself alive.

This qualification is affirmed later in Acts 1, 21 and 22. Therefore it is necessary that of the men who have accompanied us at the time that the

Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning with the baptism of John until the day that he was taken up from us, one of these must become a witness with us to his resurrection.

So for someone to hold the office of apostle, they must be chosen by Jesus. They must be taught by Jesus and they must have witnessed the resurrected

Jesus. Finally, it was granted to the apostles to perform miraculous signs, which were a witness to the ascended

Jesus whom the apostles proclaim. The apostolic gifts are a witness to the authenticity and to the authority of the apostolic message.

This power to be Christ's witness is included in the said orders that Jesus gave his apostles, which

Luke records in the final chapter of his gospel. And he opened their minds to understand the scriptures and he said to them, thus it is written that the

Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all the nations beginning from Jerusalem.

You are witnesses of these things and behold, I am sending forth the promise of my father upon you, but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.

These orders are reiterated by Luke in Acts 1, 8, but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem and in all

Judea and Samaria and even unto the remotest part of the earth. So what is Luke doing here at the outset of his second volume,

Acts? Luke is preparing the reader for what he is about to encounter in the following pages of this inspired narrative.

And here he means to say that the account of the Acts of the risen, ascended, and ruling Lord Jesus Christ through these apostles who are not just anybody, but these apostles whom

Christ chose and taught, who saw him resurrected, these men meet the qualifications, therefore their account which is contained in these pages is trustworthy.

This means that Greg Locke does not meet the qualifications for apostleship. What some of you need to understand is you've been delivered from a demon, but you've not pulled down the stronghold yet.

Nor does Alexander Pagani, nor does Bill Johnson, nor does Catherine Crick, nor does any person who claims to be an apostle today.

Whenever my wife and I talk about something that we or our four -year -old have done or are going to do, our two -year -old will chime in and say, and me too.

But most of the time it has nothing to do with him at all. But he inserts himself into the conversation because he wants to be a part of everything.