<TITLE>05. Par 21-25</TITLE>L-21 But when they're just misconstrued and throwed out just to any way... Now, I believe they're gifts, but they don't know how to use them. And that's what we need is a teaching on how to use the gifts of God.
That's the reason they begin to dwindle out because the--the people don't use them rightly, and we must do that. Paul said he set the church in order, telling just how... and how to do it. We try to put our church just as exactly that way.
'Course then... Now, since I've left, why it's been... There's a Methodist pastor there now with the Baptist just before me... or right after me, rather. Now, a Methodist brother has it, and they don't teach those things. They just let... go ahead and preach the Gospel, make altar call, and go home.

L-22 But what the Church needs tonight is know how to control these gifts. See? For evil spirits can come in and speak just the same as good spirits can speak. You know that. And you must have the spirit of discernment to know that. They had it in the Bible times.
Why, if they didn't do it then, why did Paul say let one judge and the people judge and so forth. Those gifts of prophecy, everything is supposed to be correctly put in order.
For Satan can imitate every gift that God's got. Every gift, he can imitate it. And you must know the right and wrong, and by its fruits you know it. Watch whether it comes to pass and whether its truth or not. And that's the way you know the Spirit.

L-23 Now, but sons of God, we are led by the Spirit of God. "There is therefore now no condemnation (You don't have to worry about those things.) to those that are in Christ Jesus, that walk not after the flesh."
"Glory, hallelujah, I can speak in tongues. Glory to God, I can do this." No, no. That's the wrong attitude. That's the wrong attitude. Don't do that. See? But here's what it is to those, no condemnation to them that are in Christ, that walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.
Now, the next thing is how do you get into these spiritual gifts? The Bible said, "By one Spirit we are all baptized into one body." And that body is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

L-24 Now, this is a great thing for we Baptist preacher to say, but I believe there's one Lord, one baptism, and--and one calling, and I believe that one baptism is not water. I believe it's Holy Spirit baptism, that we're baptized into the body of Christ, not by water, but by Spirit, I Corinthians 12.
And we are sons and daughters of God are led by the Spirit of God, after they've been baptized into the body of believers. Oh, how marvelous. How sin opened the heart of the Lord Jesus and giving us an issue of Blood coming forth from Him, that through the Life in that Blood we go back by Holy Ghost baptism into the body of Christ.

L-25 Oh, my. That make you forget the hot weather. Notice, and while you're in that Body, you are just as free from condemnation as He is. You'll never have to stand any judgment. God caused judgment to be struck upon His Body. And if you're in Him, God cannot judge you; He's already judged you when He judged Christ. Amen.
And you can't be under judgment no more. Christ took your judgment. And when you're baptized into that Body of Christ, you are free from God's judgment. The wrath of God will pass over you. That's why He said, "When I see the Blood, I'll pass over you."


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