ASHORTWORK
Biblical Understanding based on the Record of Scripture
The words ordain/ordained/ordination are used four times in the NKJ translation of the New Testament and none of them have anything to do with bestowing rank or offices on the members of the Church. In fact, in the NKJ, the term "ordination" is never used at all. What "ordained" is used for though is to describe the choice God made for the judgement of the world. Different translations often use different words, but the answer lies in the continuity of the record of scripture rather than in this word or that.
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Matthew 6:27-30 NKJV
Which of you by worrying can add one cubit (18") to his stature (height)?
So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;
and yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these.
Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown in the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?