Moving in the Apostolic

124 Moving in the Apostolic

of a sent one. Sent ones come in the Spirit of the Sender. If they are sent by the wisdom of God, they will come in the Spirit of wisdom. An apostolic people will walk in and manifest a spirit of wisdom —wisdom necessary to build properly. The Church is to manifest this wisdom to the principalities and powers in heavenly places (see Eph. 3:10). In other words, the Church, through wisdom, should impact the spirit realm. Those exposed to apostolic ministry will receive and walk in a higher level of wisdom. The Church cannot be built without wisdom. Through wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established (Prov. 24:3). Apostolic and prophetic wisdom are necessary to build the Church, the house of the Lord, not just globally but on a local level, too. Every local church needs the apostolic dimension to build properly. The Church must be built according to God's ordained pattern. The blueprint must be obtained by the Spirit; it must be received by revelation. Moses And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. According to all that I show you, that is, the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just so you shall make it (Exod. 25:8,9). Moses was instructed by the Lord to build the sanctuary according to the pattern he received. It was not left up to human wisdom to build the sanctuary. The Church cannot be built properly with human wisdom and skill; the blueprint must come from heaven. God's plan for His Church is quite different from the plan of man. Churches that are built without apostolic wisdom and revelation will have constructional cracks and faults, which the enemy will exploit. Moses is a type, or prophetic symbol, of apostolic ministry. He received the pattern from the Lord to build a sanctuary to God's specifications. Just as the dimensions and details of the