What is the meaning of the term Lord? It mostly denotes someone who owns something, as in Landlord. And to understand ‘Lord’, we have to look at what Apostleship, prophesying and conscience means, as ‘Lord’ is intricately connected with ‘commanding’ and ‘shaping up’ a human being.
Apostle’ is ‘foundation’ or ‘centre’. This is why the foundations of the walls of New Jerusalem are named after the twelve apostles. And the only foundation is Christ. A true Apostle establishes a church in a deeper revelation of Christ, which is followed by signs and wonders, and which shakes entire nations. For instance, Paul, with signs and wonders, revealed how Jesus trumps the Jewish longing for mere super signs and the Greek longing for mere super philosophy.
On the other hand, a prophet testifies of the various appearances of Jesus. And Jesus not only comes in his glorious presence in meetings and in the second coming. but he also appears as conditions and situations to further the gospel. Some conditions are comforting, some are challenging. A true prophet, like Agabus showed, only says what the Holy Spirit leads him to say.
This is because even ‘Conscience’ is a person. the gist of ‘The Father’. Jesus showed this in his parable of the prodigal son. Our consciences kick in when we think of the Father, through the Holy Spirit. The Spirit arranges the conscience so that we realize that we are evil if compared to the Father, who knows how to give good gifts. And this was shown in how Pharisees, who never knew the Father, could gladly save their animals from hurt on the Sabbath yet claim that healing a man on the Sabbath is a sin. When healing on the Sabbath, Jesus was actually saying, ‘Resting’ is ‘feeling the compassion of conscience — who is sitted on the heavenly throne’.
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