<TITLE>08. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 Healing is a marvelous thing. But if it's misused, placed in the wrong position, then it becomes a reproach. All the other gifts are the same. And that's what, through this week, I've been trying to tell you, my dear friends. It isn't that I've been trying to be indifferent; it's the things that I know, that these great things are not positionally placed where they should be placed. Explain to you, if everything was operating perfect in harmony with God, this great Pentecostal group would be one great, big Pentecostal church of the living God. That's right. But the way we misuse... The gifts are here. But, as I said the other morning, we hold so much on speaking in tongues and interpretation.

L-32 Now, watch it. That's the last and the least of the gifts. The first gift was wisdom; the second gift was knowledge. And what good is it going to do to have knowledge if you haven't got wisdom to know how to take care of your knowledge? What good does it do to speak with tongues if you haven't got wisdom to know when and how to place it? Same thing with healing, with any of the other gifts...
And that's the reason we won't listen; it's just... I ain't laying it onto the laity so much; I'm laying it onto the preachers. It's just so confused with their organizations. If you've got an organization, that's all right. I wish we had more organizations, and every church was it's own organization, would be all right with me, as long as the unity of brotherhood and fellowship, to be amongst the people in one great big bubble of love. See where we miss it?

L-33 Now, if we are obedient children. If we in the Methodist, in the Baptist, in the Oneness, in the United, in the Assemblies, Church of God, Nazarene, Pilgrim Holiness, if we were obedient children... When our founders raised up, they got a revelation on something and built an organization around it. That's all right; it's okay, if you would build your organization and end it with a comma: "We believe this, plus as much as what God can show us." But the trouble, we build our organization and end it with a period: "This is it, and that's all of it." Then God can't work. See? And then in doing that, the devil comes around and can give you false things. What we ought to do is big--one big body of love all together, every church, and the different...
Well I've got nine brothers. There isn't a one that looks like me or is not a preacher in the bunch. I've got a brother next to me, great big, tall, blond-headed, blue-eyed, fair-skinned. Why, he don't like the things I do. Our appetites are not the same. Our desires is not the same, but his daddy is my daddy.

L-34 So if a man disagrees with you, yet a Christian brother, what difference does that make? If we're real children we'll be loving one another, taking up for one another, helping one another, standing together. If one of the brothers get out of line then the whole group ought to go and say, "Now, wait a minute, brother, (See?) come here." See? That's what we ought to do.
Now. Then--then when that son was adopted or placed positionally into the--the--the kingdom, he was a coheir. He was just as much authority as what the--his father had. He could bind, turn loose, do whatever he wished to, because he had already been recognized and adopted and positionally placed under the authority.


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