<TITLE>05. Par 21-25</TITLE>L-21 And now, there's two things that man can't do, forgive sins or heal. It's not given to man to do that, never was. It's given... It was only in Jesus Christ. And there, a man by the preaching of the Word can point you to that, and you can accept your salvation or healing, for He was wounded for our transgressions, with His stripes we were (past tense) healed.
Now, there's many of the ministers, such as Brother Roberts and many of them who go out in the ministry and they take the Word and explain it so close. Brother Bosworth, Brother Osborn, many of the men that's been here in the city with you people, that they're scholars in the Word; they teach Divine healing by the atonement. They make it so plain and clear till you have to see it; that's all. So then you just raise up by faith and accept it. That's the way to do it.

L-22 Many of them anoint with oil. Many of them lay hands on the sick. That's the order that God put all of those things in the Church after He done all this. And every minister in the world that believes in Divine healing, has just as much right and authority from God to pray for the sick people as any other person in the world. See? And every lay member of the church has the same authority. "Confess your faults one to another and pray one for the other that you may... Confess your faults one to another and pray one for another that you may be healed."
So every person that believes in Divine healing has a right to pray for the sick. Now, that's general orders. That's right.

L-23 Now, God has, after all of that in His Word, He has set in the Church some apostles, prophets, teachers, gifts of healing, speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, and all the different gifts He's set in the Church for the--the edifying of the Church, to bring the Church together, to make us one (Is that right? That's right.), to make us one in Him, a brotherhood of one soul, one heart, one body, one Spirit.
For we're not baptized in two spirits, one Spirit, one God, Father of us all, through all, in all, over all. And there's where these gifts in the Church, some of them can speak with tongues, a gift of speaking with tongues. Another one has the gift of interpretation of tongues. Some are sent to preach.

L-24 Now, we know that people that don't believe in Divine gifts, and yet they're preachers, how did they get their inspiration then to preach from? If there's not a gift of preaching, then according to that, every person's a preacher. But the Bible said, "God has set some in the Church (God has) apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists," and so forth, all in the Church. God has set them in there. And they're inspired for a certain work.
And then some people may possess more than one gift. But there'd at least be one gift or more in a person. And then all these things together, working together, for the up-building of the Body of Christ, getting Her ready to go.

L-25 In the Old Testament there was two ways they'd have of having a message. One of them was by a dreamer, the other one by a prophet. And then they had the Urim Thummim. You ministers know what I'm speaking of, of the Urim--Urim Thummim, what's on the breastplate of Aaron.
And if a dreamer dreamed a dream and it was told, and it didn't flash them lights on the Urim Thummim, it wasn't right. And if a prophet prophesied, and the lights didn't flash on the Urim Thummim, it was wrong. But if it did flash, it was right.
Now, since the going away of the Urim Thummim, God's Bible is the Urim Thummim. If a dreamer dreams a dream, or a prophet prophesies, and it ain't in the Word of God, then let it alone. That's right. But if it's on here, God's speaking. That's right. This is God's Urim Thummim, is His Word. "Heavens and earth will pass away but My Word shall not."


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