<TITLE>04. Par 14-16</TITLE>L-14 And my family, who I've been raised with, and my wife setting back there, knows. Many times at home, sometimes setting in a coma, and--like in a coma, in a vision. And the Lord will speak things, and it will say just exactly. And not one time does it ever fail. It's a gift that comes from God.
Now, it's a--a way, a gift, just like a gift to sing, a gift to do anything; it's gifts. And I just have a way to yield myself to the Holy Spirit. And it's not me; it's you that operates that gift.
And I have never thought, and never believed in my heart, that this was God's perfect way for me to do it. I did it because the people all rallied for it. You see? But now, let me just give you a little, in a simple childlike way. I can't explain it, and I can no more do it than nothing. I have no way of doing it. It's the sovereign grace of God to you. It's not--it's not me, it's you. You're the one that does the operating of the it yourself. I just yield myself.

L-15 Now, notice, we are given gifts by measure. Christ was given the gifts without measure. Is that right, Bible students? Yeah. He had it without measure. But yet, for the gift that was in Christ is like the whole ocean; and the little gift here would here would be like a spoonful of water out of the ocean, never be missed. But yet, the same chemicals was in that little spoonful there is in the whole ocean. It's just the same kind, but not as much. Well, that's the way we are, when we're yielded to the Spirit. It's the same Spirit working through every gift in the Church.
Now, I'm going to give you a little illustration, so that... I was thinking of it this afternoon, so it would be in childlike form, because I know I have German, and Chinese, and Indian, and--and Norwegian, and Swedish, and are all setting here. And some of them don't--not understand English too well. And I want to give it in this little, child form.

L-16 Now, listen, we're all little boys again, brethren. And we go to the city, and there's a carnival in town. You know what a carnival is, a show, you know, a circus, in town. Well, it happens to be that you, being one type of man, you're short stout man. And maybe... God made you that way, that's the reason you are short and stout. Well, maybe He made me tall and thin. Maybe you could pack a load that I could never pack. But I can see just a little higher than what you can. See? Now, you're that way because God made us that way. See? The Bible said, "Who, taking thought, can add one cubit to his statue?"
So that's the reason that gifts and callings are without repentance. It's what God by foreknowledge has given to the Church. God has set in the Church some apostles, some prophets, some teachers, evangelists, and pastors.


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