<TITLE>08. Par 11-11</TITLE>L-11 Now, gifts and callings, now, let's get back to what they are. God sets them aside. God places them in the church as He will. God gives severally as He will (Is that right?), not as I will, but as He will. Now, if God wanted me to be a--a lay member of the church, I'd be better off a lay member, than I would to be a preacher. See? Because I will only bring reproach somewhere along the line, and it'll be something that'll bring reproach.
If He called me to be deacon, it's better for me to be deacon, than it would be to be a minister. But if He called me to be a minister, I'd be better off a minister, than I would be a lay member. It's wherever God has called us, and set us in the Church for His servants. Then we fit better.
Now, I want to give you... Oh, with that background, I'd give you the experience of my life.
Many people has misunderstood me, dear Christian friend. I'm--I'm misunderstood today. I--I've tried to make it just as plain as I can, yet in all of it, there's no way at all for me to get it to the people. It's got to be a revelation coming from God to understand it. See?
Now, this--this gentleman setting here, the Congressmen of the United State. How long was you in Congress? About seventeen years wasn't it? Yeah. Nine years, eight years, eight years, as a Congressman. You was the senator, I believe, of Georgia, and many high offices, and was a cripple from a little bitty boy. How did I know that man? I never heard of him. And God knows, till that day I never heard of him in my life. I don't need a congressman, and a statesman, and so forth. I've--I had a grammar school education, and the rest my education was with a hoe out in the field somewhere, or a pair of mules. See? I--I never knowed no much about politics or anything.
Now, the only thing that I knew out there in that night, was my rifle in the woods, and my dog, and a lantern. I learned that there was a Creator, and by supernatural ways. Then by revelation, by vision, by power, God spoke that man's life out to me. Not only that, but here every night... There has been no meeting since I've been in America in the last year, that my manager and son has told me, has been any more balanced out with a pure unadulterated powers of God moving through the church, than has been taking place right here in Hammond, in any of my meetings. Lay your finger on any of it. It's absolutely, every time, perfect. Is that right? Seeing things that's been done.


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