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May 12, 2013
Pastors are gifts of the ascended Christ to His church. As Alistair Begg points out, Paul employs the imagery of a triumphant king sharing the spoils of war to describe what Jesus has done to enable the church to become what He wants it to be. Having triumphed over sin, judgment, death, and hell, the Lord Jesus gives pastors to shepherd and teach the Word of God to His people, leading them to maturity, unity, functionality, and effectiveness.
7But cgrace was given dto each one of us eaccording to the measure of Christ's gift. 8Therefore it says,
f“When he ascended on high ghe led a host of captives,
and he gave gifts to men.”1
9(hIn saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into ithe lower regions, the earth?2 10He who descended is the one who also jascended kfar above all the heavens, that he might lfill all things.) 11And mhe gave the napostles, the prophets, the oevangelists, the pshepherds3 and teachers,4 12qto equip the saints for the work of ministry, for rbuilding up sthe body of Christ,
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