<TITLE>15. Par 49-51</TITLE>L-49 Now, I say this: If Christ has raised from the dead, He declared when He was here on earth, that He did nothing till the Father showed Him. He stood in audiences like this and perceived the people's thoughts. How many knows that's the truth? Bible said so. If the people out there could touch His garment and He could feel it, not that the physical touch but a spiritual touch, like the--blind Bartimaeus. If He could feel it then, and He's a High Priest tonight that can still be touched by the feeling of our infirmities, let's believe Him.
Then He set some in the church: first His Word. Then He set what? Apostles. Now, many of the people stagger at that word "apostle." But I want to ask you people that stagger at that, what is the difference between apostle and a missionary? The word "apostle" means "one sent." The word "missionary" means "one sent."

L-50 [Blank.spot.on.tape--Ed.]... in word. Why they ever want to be called missionaries I don't know. They're apostles. Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors, all for the perfecting of the Church... Is that right? It was set in the Church. God didn't just say just--just teachers and evangelists. He said apostles and prophets too, all the rest of it.
Then in ever local body there's nine spiritual gifts should be operating by judges, and so forth. It should be absolutely... Speaking with tongues, interpretation tongues, not a bunch of wildfire, but real genuine Holy Spirit revelations is coming and tells things that happens right then, not something that's saying Jesus is coming soon. We believe that. It's wrote in the Book. God don't use vain repetitions. He asks us not to do the same. But it's something definite for somebody in the church for a purpose.
What we need's about three months in a tent setting out here somewhere, with some real apostolic teaching, ministers every afternoon. Get back and get in the right swing. The thing, we just went haywire, not because they wanted to, but it's the trend of time. It has to be this way. But it's time we stood still just a minute now.

L-51 Now, if Christ is raised from the dead, and He's set in His Church these things... I don't believe there's a person in this church that I could look at that I know. How many of you here knows that I am a stranger to you, raise your hand, and knows that I don't know you? All right. I don't... There's no one before me that I see, not one person that I know. I don't even see the Sothmanns and them tonight. They're somewhere here, but I don't even see them. The only one that I know... Yeah, Fred's setting here, and--and Billy, Gene, Leo over here. That's the only ones that I know in the church.
Christ knows every one of you. He knows what's wrong with you. He knew what was wrong with the woman at the well. As soon as He talked to her just a few moments, He knew what was wrong with her. He knows what's wrong with you. You believe that?


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