<TITLE>20. Par 83-87</TITLE>L-83 Now, if He will return... This is the Divine gift. I have nothing at all to do with it, don't even know that He will. But you... He has five different gifts that He sets in the church. I different with some of your theology of laying your hands on one, and setting this one apart and that one apart, and giving this one gifts. God gives gifts. Gifts and callings are without repentance. And that's not altogether Baptist teaching. That's Bible teaching.
Watch. First is apostles (Is that right?), or a better word, missionary. The word "apostle" means "one sent." A missionary is "one sent." Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors, God sets them in the church for to edify the church. They are gifts, ministering spirits, sent from the Presence of God to minister in every office of God.

L-84 Then in the local group, there's nine spiritual gifts that come into the audience. There don't belong to any... It's just belongs here. It's just in the local church. You see? One may do this, and this one may do this, and this one may never do it again, and this one over here, that's just local gifts.
And how the people has made havoc, especially the Pentecostal people, until it had without teachings with just merely the spirit, and they have brought down all kinds of modern fantastics, till they brought disgrace on the--shame on the Word of God, because that stuff isn't in the Word.

L-85 God in the Old Testament, when He had... You teachers know that how they knowed a message in the Old Testament. A prophet could prophesy, a dreamer dream a dream, they had a... Aaron had a breastplate. And in there was the Urim Thummim. And when the prophet prophesied, or the dreamer told his dream, and that majestic supernatural Light didn't flash on that Urim Thummim, it was wrong. I don't care how real it sound, it was wrong. That's true.
But if that Light flashed and it was on--on the Urim Thummim, if what the man was saying was truth, then it was recognized to be God. You know that? Anybody ever know that in the Bible? That shows you been reading your Bible.

L-86 Now, under the Aaronic priesthood it was done away with. "But in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us." And today This is God's Urim Thummim: if a preacher says anything, or a prophet says anything, or a dreamer dreams a dream, and it's contrary to this Word, God's not in it. That's right. But God always flashes His recognition on His Word. "For whosoever shall take away or add to, the same shall be taken, his part out of the Book of Life."
I believe the Bible. I believe that Jesus has raised from the dead, set these gifts in order for the edifying of His Church. And I truly solemnly believe, as a believer in Almighty God, in the Lord Jesus Christ, I... And the body of the Lord Jesus here on earth being made up with believers of all denominations...

L-87 I truly say this from my heart. I believe the next great event in the world is the second coming of the Lord Jesus. When, I do not know. No one else knows. But I can't see nothing left but a hydrogen explosion and--and the end time, the world rocked out of its orbits, like it was in the antediluvian, that throwed it away from the sun, and the heat and the moisture, or the heat and the cold coming together make a moisture that flooded the world.
And this time no more water, but fire this time into the sun, to blow it right straight back out of its orbit again into the sun, to destroy it the second time. Think on these things while we minister now in His Name. Let us pray.


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