Author:
Apostle Eric vonAnderseck
Eric serves as a called and confirmed Chief Apostle in the restored government of God. He is the founder of s8w Ministries, and it is through his stewardship that God ushered in a new season of restoration for all believers who desire to walk in the fulness of Christ. View my profile.
In this new season of apostolic challenge and apostolic change, ministers are trying to stretch themselves into the apostolic shoes to define for us the grace of God.
Some, of course, resort to the usual word study to wrestle meaning into the word “grace” and others try to re-imagine their current misuse of the word “grace”.
Whenever that happens you’ll notice that rather than define the function of grace from God’s mind, they simply put another label on it.
It’s like lining up a number of beautiful women and calling each one special because something in each woman dazzles the eye. I’m left wondering though, which one is his wife, the one to which he has joined himself, the one he’s building with, and takes home with him. The same thing takes place when calling grace “special”, but failing to join Christ to this element of the gospel. Everything that dazzles the eye of the religious aspiration is called the grace of God.
2 Timothy 1:9,
“Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.”
Listen to the message I preached April 2, 2017:
The Blessing of Grace Multiplied
Build With Grace According To The Blueprint
In my new release, The Apostolic Calling & Anointing,brings much clarity from the mind of God as to what grace means, how to access it, and how to build with it. Grace is part of your blueprint of life in Christ. The 9 spiritual tools of Jesus’ covenant have many benefits to your faith as they play a key role in regulating the grace of God for your growth in Him. Grace must be in steady and constant supply for you to benefit from the operation of God in grace.
A quote from chapter two: “To build something you not only need a blueprint, but the right precision tools for the job. As they say, a carpenter is only as good as his tools, and we have the best tools. The 9 tools of the covenant are divinely crafted. Each tool bears the face of Jesus. They are the spiritual things of Jesus’ name. An entitlement is inscribed within these powers, whereas we become heirs of God and joins heirs with Jesus Christ.
“These spiritual tools are IN Christ. The word “in” denotes a point of access for exchange—an equal exchange. Not the exchange described when Jesus is thought to be our substitute, whereas it is believed that He took our sins and we took His righteousness.
“That is not an equal exchange. The equal exchange is that which takes place when we believe that Jesus to be our propitiation. All His gifts grant us access to Him to exchange grace for faith, faith for charity, truth for regeneration.
“When you read the epistles take note of the number of times the apostles brought our attention to being “in” Christ, or “in” Him. (Rom 3:24; 1 Cor 1:2; Phil 2:1;Eph 1:4,9,10)
“Jesus, in His propitiation, provides for us. All the tokens of Christ mirror His divine essence—who He is. You need access to Christ (to His knowledge, tools, and priesthood) to live according to Christ. We are to take on the divine nature by receiving His tokens. His gifts expand the soul to the overflowing of His goodness because He gives again and again and again.”
As God chastises and corrects He’s making a path for faith to stand only in Jesus Christ. He’s making necessary distinctions, giving faith proper direction. This is why stewardship, true apostolic stewardship, is a refuge for the saints.
