<TITLE>15. Par 70-74</TITLE>L-70 But what the Lord has given me is a different type of a ministry. It's a ministry of seeing visions. How many knows that God promised to set that in the church? How many knows that gifts and callings are without repentance? How many knows the difference that a gift of prophecy is not a prophet? Certainly. A gift of prophecy is to be judged by two or three before it can be given. But a prophet is born, THUS SAITH THE LORD, from childhood. See?

L-71 The Bible said, "First are apostles." Is that right? The apostles, we call them today, missionary. That's the first. The highest calling is a missionary. What does "apostle" mean? "One sent." What does a "missionary" mean? "One sent." A missionaries, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists. How many knows that's true? Well, we have to have them all. Some's pastors, some's teachers, some's evangelists, some's missionaries and some prophets.
Now, we have those things in the church. They're... What are they for? Does the... Is the apostle is the highest calling. A missionary is the highest calling. Prophet and so forth down... But they're not any different. They're all God's servants set together to temper and bring the body of Christ together.

L-72 When Jesus was on earth, He didn't claim to be a healer. He claimed to be the Son of God and said, the Father was in Him. How many knows that? How many knows that He said in Saint John 5:19, He did nothing until He--the Father showed Him what to do. He saw what the Father was doing, then went and done it. He said that. He couldn't lie. He was God. See?
So He never done one miracle until first He saw a vision what the Father told Him to do. People would come to Him, He would know their name. He would tell them what was wrong, what they've been doing. How many knows that's right? How many knows that that's the way He made Hisself known, and Israel recognized Him by that, said, "That's the sign of the Messiah." How many knows that the Bible says that? Saint John, the 1st chapter.
How many knows that that's the way He manifest Hisself to the Samaritan nation? That's how this woman knowed, went in, told the people in Samaria, said, "Come, see a Man that told me the things I've done. Isn't this the Messiah?"

L-73 If He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, He does the same yesterday, today, and forever. How could you take the life out of an apple tree and put it in a peach tree; what kind of a life, what would the peach tree bear? Apples. See? Take the life of a sinner out and put the life of Christ in there, it'll bear the fruits of Christ. Is that right?
He said, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." The vine doesn't bear fruit, it purge--it purges the branches, and the branches bear fruit if it's a good healthy branch. If a lot of vines is wrapped around it and isms and things wrapped around it, it's cut off all the circulation, it won't be nothing.

L-74 But if it's a good, healthy branch, it'll bring forth the fruits of the vine. Is that right? Well, the church is the branches. He's the Vine. So it absolutely will have to bring forth His life. If He does that and does the same things tonight in the church that He did before His crucifixion and resurrection, how many will say, "I truly believe (you newcomers), I truly believe that He's raised from the dead if He will manifest Himself tonight to His church, just the same as He did when He was here on earth." Raise your hands will you to Him, audience. That's fine. That's very... May the Lord grant it.


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