 People will think that there is a five-fold ministry described in the Word of God. Did not get that one from the Spirit, nor did they get that from the Bible. There is a discrepancy, as a matter of fact, and a necessary discrepancy that we find with believers. Typically those that are on the Pentecostal charismatic those in the who more apostolic or believers in certain gifts and offices are around today tend to believe that there's a such thing called a five-fold ministry. Meaning you've heard this term five-fold ministry. Where this comes from is Ephesians 4-11. The problem is when we read this passage there just is no basis to believe there are five offices that are given. And this confusion can easily be alleviated by one, understand the context of what God is doing as he's leaving offices as well as certain gifts, what they're for, but then also just a plain basic reading of the Scriptures, one in English, but also Greek. So I wanna do that both in English and Greek and also look at the context of what God is trying to do. And so let's start off by going to Ephesians 4-11 and I've got some words highlighted. I'll show you what they are, why they're highlighted in a second. But it says, and he gave some as apostles and some as prophets and some as evangelists and some as pastors and teachers. Now if you notice in the English, we're gonna look at the English first. In the English, you're gonna see these commas here. Now granted, these commas aren't there in the Greek but there's a reason why they're there in the English because first of all, there're gonna be some folks that are gonna say, well, I don't speak Greek. I speak English. And so let me go off what the English says. Well, if that's the case, let's look at how the English has it separated. And he gave some as apostles, comma, and some as prophets, comma, and some as evangelists and some as pastors and teachers. Now again, we don't wanna get too caught up in the commas but also you wanna notice the and that's used there as well in the English. There's a reason for that. There's a Greek word that's there that also corresponds to this and. And so we can see even without the commas, there is a division that is between the different offices and some he gave as apostles, comma, and some as a prophet. So that's the second one. The third one, comma, and some as evangelists, comma. So that's three so far. Here's what we have the problem, the fourth one or possibly four or five. It's only four though. And some as pastors and teachers. Now this word and you'll notice that the word and in English is there twice but it's not the exact same word that's used there. This is why I have it underlined in the Greek, I mean on the Greek side. So you can understand what's being stated. So you can see there is a division of not five offices but four. If you notice this word twos is here. This word twos is the definite article in Greek. This is an accusative. It means the and he gave the apostles and he gave twos and twos. This word day can be but or it also means and. So and the prophet taste. Notice I have the apostles highlighted in this kind of lime green sort of looking color but then under the red, the apostles, I mean the prophets, Tuesday apostles and the prophets. And then in this magenta, I believe it is, Tuesday, you on the least us, the evangelists. And we see the kind of the differentiation between the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists and then notice the last one, Tuesday, Poymenos, Kai did ask loose. Why do we have those separated like that? Well, first of all, the twos is also the accusative for the direct definite article of the and it refers to Poymenos and did ask lessons word and Kai is different from the word and this use in other spots. Day, day and day, which is where you get the and in the English and some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists, the word is day but the word for and in the second part just in case the one gets confused to think that it's the same word and it's not the same word and when he used, when he says and some pastors and teachers, this word and is the word Kai. So it's a different word. So we see that there is no distinction between the teacher and the pastor or the pastor, teacher, the shepherd, teacher. The reason for this is to convey that the shepherd, the pastor is the teacher. He must be a teacher as well. As a matter of fact, how we know this to be the case is when we look at the qualifications for a pastor, elder, overseer, however, whichever Greek words you want to use, it's really the same word, pastor or shepherd, overseer, elder, those are the same words. They're so venomous. And when Paul says that if anyone desires these things, he desires a fine work and he says an overseer, this elder, this pastor, this teacher must be above reproach. Notice what he says, though the husband of one wife, temperate, prudent, respectful, hospitable, able to teach. The same word that Askelos is used there. And so the pastor, the elder, the overseer must be a teacher. The Bible knows of no person who is a shepherd who cannot teach. As a matter of fact, they are told to teach. The same thing is true in Titus when he's speaking about elders and getting the same things synonymous with overseers or pastors, shepherds. Holding fast the faithful word, which is in accordance with the teaching so he will be able to both exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict. So both are stating that this person needs to have the ability to teach, to be able to exhort in sound doctrine. Remember, Paul says to teach what comports with sound doctrine. We have to, now Paul is telling Timothy and Titus, he's teaching them, showing them how to want to plant churches and to pick elders to train them. Paul tells Timothy to pick those that are trustworthy, that are faithful to what? To the text. You have to be able to teach. Now notice also, when he talks about, when Paul talks to Timothy in 1 Timothy 3, when he gives a qualification to Deacons, those qualifications, though the Deacons is an office, it's not listed as one of the offices that's given in Ephesians 411. Deacons have been, are in office. And notice, when you look at the qualifications that able to teach is not one of the qualifications of a Deacon. Now, it should be abundantly clear that there are four offices, whether you look at it in the English or whether you look at it into the Greek. The reason why people still want to hold these five offices is because they've been taught that. And for some reason, people just don't want to let go of what they've been taught. But it is absolutely and abundantly clear. Again, as we look at it, we have, I have them separated for you. So we have the apostles, that's one. The prophets, that's two. The evangelists, that's three. The pastor or shepherd teacher, that's four. It's not the pastor and the shepherd node. It's the shepherd teacher, pastor, teacher. That's one group together. There are two words that are used to describe what their office is. And again, this deal coincides with what Paul has been preaching, with what God has been telling us. Notice what he says also in 2 Timothy 2,24. Again, this is one of the epistles, the pastoral epistles he is giving Timothy, in this case, instructions as an elder and those who are also leading or choosing elders or training elders. He says, the Lord's bondservant must not be qualsome, but be kind to all able to teach. You must be able to teach. These elders have to be able to teach. Even if someone wants to have a debate on whether the office of apostle or prophet is dealing with force, which I don't see any basis for that, but certainly on this issue of a five-fold ministry for what have you, there should be no debate. It's clear in the English, if someone wants to only rely on the English, but it's also even more so clear in the Greek. There are four that are given. And if someone wants to show how spiritual they are, how endowed by the Holy Spirit and so forth, that's fine. But the wrong spirit is telling them that there's five offices. And the word of God, the scriptures aren't telling them that it's five offices. If they say so, they cannot be in leagues with the spirit because the spirit is the one who gave us the scriptures and the scriptures deny the ability for someone to see five offices. So I hope that helps to clarify. I know that there are gonna be some that are gonna disagree, but I would simply ask that if you disagree, disagree based on the scriptures to show that there are five offices, you will not be able to do so and then show that if you disagree about what was said about apostle and prophets, you're more than welcome to voice your opinion and then we can discuss it even in the comments or perhaps during another video. But in the meantime, guys, be blessed and study your own word to see for yourself. Amen.