(Comments by Joan Boney, apostle and prophet of Jesus Christ according to Ephesians 4:11-12)
To exhort means: To urge earnestly by advice and warning.
To some in the body of Christ, God gives the spiritual gift of "exhortation".
5 So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith;
7 Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth, on teaching;
8 Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.
I am constantly "exhorting" the church, warning the church, because of the increase of wickedness of the last days before Jesus returns.
Jesus says: (Concerning the last days)
Matthew 24:12-13 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
And in Hebrews 10, we are told to exhort the church, "and even more" as we see the day of the Lord approaching.
Hebrews 10:25-26 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
The "assembling of ourselves together", means gathering with others who have the Spirit of God and who follow God by HIS Spirit. It does not mean just to go to a church, for many churches today are antichrist, changing the doctrines of Christ from the Bible to other teachings opposite to the scripture.
(We assemble of ourselves together when we read godly writings or when we hear godly podcasts ... or when we meet with two or three other believers in private homes as the early church did gather. We also assemble with believers on telephone or by email)
Having the spiritual gift of "exhortation", I am diligent to exhort the church daily by both blog and Podcast (and now on Twitter) as we are told to do in Hebrews 3 and 10.
But the instructions in Heb. 3 & 10 are for every member of the body of Christ so you, too, exhort the individuals in your household and in your path of life.
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Also repetition of doctrines of Christ is important to us.
II Corinthians 13, the apostle Paul says:
Paul came to the church speaking the same message multiple times to the church to establish the doctrine.
When I first spoke about the Lord's supper being the way we hear and do the Word of God, there were only about 6 people who showed any interest in that message. I repeated that message again a few weeks later and there were 17 who heard that message. Then I repeated it a third time and 50 people listened to the Podcast.
We establish the word of God in ourselves and in others by speaking the same word multiple times.
And we meditate upon the same scriptures multiple times to enable us to continue in the faith in that instruction that is from God, for the devil comes to steal the word from those persons who allow him to do so.
14 The sower soweth the word.
15 And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.
16 And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; 17 And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended.
18 And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, 19 And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
20 And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
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Joshua 1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
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