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direction of the

gospel ministry

In this essay we are not focusing on the general leader-
ship of the Holy Spirit in the lives of God’s people in

general, but rather we are looking more specifically at
the leadership of Holy Spirit provided to gospel minis-
ters in their ministry of the gospel. Like other children of

God, they have the leadership of the Spirit in their per-
sonal lives.

There are three major areas in which each true minister of the gospel needs direction
in ministering the gospel to God’s children:

1. They need direction as to where and to whom they are to go and preach the
gospel.

2. Pastors and teachers need direction as to where and to whom they are to serve as

overseers or pastors.

3. All gospel ministers need direction as to what they are to preach each time they

preach.

When the Lord was with the apostles and other seventy he sent forth, he gave them
specific direction as to where they were to go and preach the gospel, where not to go,
and what to preach:

1. Matt. 10:5 “These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not
into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: 6 But go

rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 7 And as ye go, preach, saying, The king-
dom of heaven is at hand.” Here the Lord told the twelve that they were not to go into
the way of the Gentiles nor into any city of the Samaritans. They were to go rather to
the lost sheep of the house of Israel. In addition, he told them what to preach: they
were to preach that the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

2. Luke 10:1 “After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent
them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would

come.” Here the Lord sent the ministers forth by twos into the cities that he himself
would come. Each pair was to go to a particular city that the Lord directed them to.