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?

I want to turn your attention to Acts chapter 1 verses 1 and 2.

The first account I composed 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 proclaimed.

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, that 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.

Now in my two -year -old it's super cute, but the childish self -insertion of these charlatans into the authority and

office of the apostles, which does not belong to them, that is a holy no

Nope.

Mm -mm.

I feel like I'm losing my mind.

Is everybody in the world blind?

Please, Lord, give me a sign.

A sign.