Do you know the significance of the apostles.? Sent ones, directly by Christ, who personally bore witness of Christ in his living, his crucifixion, his resurrection, and his ascension. Such were the 12 minus Judas and their testimony as apostles. Now Paul, on the other hand, has a unique apostleship. His claim and testimony of apostleship however, is legit, he refers to his apostleship and defends it, no less than 20 times in the scriptures. His apostleship was directly related to the vision he saw on the road to Damascus. He then received a vision of the resurrected Christ, and he received a vision of the church. It is that vision that riveted his entire life. He told Agrippa that to date he had not been disobedient unto that revelation throughout his whole ministry. Paul is uniquely an apostle to the church to declare the reality of who Jesus Christ is, our very life to be expressed and known as the body as we hold the head, that we might present the new man on earth today before Christ return. This is the Revelation given clearly to Paul and it is the heart of his apostleship. Seeing it will revive you and your fellowship in these last days. Here are a few verses declaring his apostleship: "Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?" "If to others I am not an apostle, yet surely I am to you; for you in the Lord are the seal of my apostleship." (1 Corinthians 9:1-2) "Paul, a called apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God," (1 Corinthians 1:1) "Paul, an apostle (not from men nor through man but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead)," (Galatians 1:1) "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope," (1 Timothy 1:1) "Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy the brother," (Colossians 1:1) "For I am the least of the apostles, who am not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am; and His grace unto me did not turn out to be in vain, but, on the contrary, I labored more abundantly than all of them, yet not I but the grace of God which is with me. And last of all He appeared to me also, as it were to one born prematurely." (1 Corinthians 15:9-8)
