<TITLE>20. Par 59-60</TITLE>L-59 Now, the Bible said that God has set in the church, first apostles, or missionaries, both the same word. How people ever want to be called missionary, I don't know. I think apostle's better. But "apostle" means "one sent." What does missionary mean? "One sent." Apostles, prophets (That's seers.), evangelists, pastors, and teachers, five different offices God has set in the church. You can't cut part of them out, and leave the rest of them; you've got to take them all. God has set it... A pastor's not an evangelist, evangelist not apostle. Apostle's not a seer, and so forth. It's all to the edifying of the body of Christ.
Now, my friend, if Jesus Christ will come into the church tonight right now, and will prove and do the very same thing that He did when He was here on earth, will you all receive Him as your--for your Healer, Saviour, or whatever you need, will you raise your hands to Him, say, "I will receive Him"? That's a broad statement. And that's a--one you better know what you're speaking of before you say it.

L-60 Now, let us pray just a moment. Heavenly Father, it seems like there's no place to stop when we start on Your Word, with such a fine listening audience. And I pray Thee now, kind heavenly Father, that You will speak now. Your servant has spoke at length, and seemingly, the audience has received the Word. But one word from You will do more than all I could say in a many lifetimes. So as I have spoke of Thee, Father, I pray that You will confirm this Word. It may be a little different from the old school of thought, but Thou has never bound Yourself to any school, for You're God. And I pray that You'll make Yourself known tonight and will manifest Your great power and Your great love among the people.
And when we leave here tonight, may this audience on their road home, down the little streets here, and across the hill there, and maybe some of them with a lantern going to their little house, or a flashlight, may they like from Emmaus, those disciples who came from Emmaus, said, "Did not our hearts burn within us when He talked to us along the road?"
And, Father, we know that that day, on that resurrection day, that great first Easter, little did they know that that same Jesus that was--been alive with them for thirty-three and a half years, was alive again, and He was walking with them. But when He got them in the room to theirself, the doors closed behind them, He did something just like He did it when He was here on earth before His crucifixion. No man could deny it, for He was the only One Who could do it. And they recognized it was Him, because He did it just the way He did before His crucifixion. And it proved that He was the same.
And now, Father, may You do the things tonight here at this church, as You did when You were here before Your crucifixion, that this little audience might see, and know, and believe that You've raised from the dead, and Your love is to them, and You want to express Yourself, and You're trying to get them to have faith to believe in Your finished work. I ask it, as we commit ourselves to Thee, in Jesus' Name. Amen.


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