<TITLE>11. Par 31-34</TITLE>L-31 Now, as we go to the meeting, if you will just be reverent a little bit. I'm not much of a preacher. I can't class myself. I say...?... is a preacher, 'cause I don't have the education these ministers does, and so forth. My gift is seeing visions.
The Bible said there's five offices in the Church that is ordained of God and put in the Church--office holders. First is apostles, prophet, teachers, evangelists, pastors. They're God's foreordination. By predestination, by foreknowledge He saw it, placed it in the Church for every age.
In the local Church there's nine spiritual gifts that operate in the entire body: speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues, and--and all the different works of the Lord; the gift of prophecy.
Now, there's a difference between a prophet and a gift of prophecy. Gift of prophecy can be on one, then the other; then it still has to be judged before three judges before the Church can receive it. But not the prophet of the Old Testament, he was born a prophet. He always was a prophet. He had the Word of God. And after he's dead, he's still a prophet. Did that bother you?

L-32 When the witch of Endor called up the spirit of Samuel, he was still in his prophet robe, and he was still a prophet. He told her what would happen the next day. Certainly. Death doesn't change a man; it just changes his dwelling place. If you're a sinner when you die here, an unbeliever... Oh, you might be a loyal church member. But if you die in your unbelief, there's nothing left for you but to be condemned. If you die in faith, that's what saves you. Your faith has saved you. You've got to go to Eternal Life, because it's Eternal Life that's your faith in God, the same thing.
May the Lord grant tonight that He will bless us now in these next few moments of the remaining part of the meeting.

L-33 [Brother Branham speaks to someone about the prayer cards--Ed.]...?... prayer cards...?... K? K, he said he give our prayer card K for the meeting tonight. Why are these cards given out? Just so that you can keep lined up; that's all. How many people here is sick and wants to be prayed for? Raise your hand, all over the building, everywhere. There you are. About two hundred people, three hundred.
How many cards did you give out? Fifty. Well, who's going to be first now of these three hundred? There you are. I say, "Let this woman come and this woman come." Then it's respect of person. They bring those cards down and mix them all up together before you, walk right around, give you a card here; 'cause nobody knows where...
You might get number 1, and you next door to you would get six, and the next could get three. See? And then, where you going to call from? One, three? He don't know. I don't know. Nobody knows. I don't know right now. I'm just standing here, will call from somewhere, wherever the Lord lays on my heart. I don't know yet.
Now, when you do come up, that's no sign you're going to be healed. It only gets the Holy Spirit moving in the audience. And when the Holy Spirit begins to move, then He goes right on out with those who doesn't have prayer cards. See?

L-34 Now, Jesus Christ, when He was here on earth... that there might be a stranger in our midst. When Jesus was here on earth, He said, "I do nothing till the Father shows me first what to do." Look when Philip found Nathanael, Jesus told him what... He told Peter what his name was when he walked up, said, "Your name is Simon and you're the son of Jonas." Why, it astonished him. He said, "But from hereafter, you'll be called Peter," which is little stone.
And up come Philip, went over and got Nathanael (thirty miles around the mountain) and brought him back. When he found him, he was under a tree; said, "Come, see Who we found, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph."
He said, "Now, could there be any good thing come out of Nazareth?"
He said, "Come, see." That's the best answer anyone could give. "Come and see." Examine it by the Word.


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