<TITLE>28. Par 186-193</TITLE>L-186 And this church is sovereign. There ain't no board of trustees or deacons going to tell you what to do. This church in a whole vote tells you what to do. That's exactly right. If there's a decision...
If you don't like your pastor, and there's two or three people gets something against the pastor, they can't raise up. If they're deacons, trustees, they just... Or what officer they are here they just got one vote; that's all. If he's assistant pastor, he's just got one vote. He's just like the lay member sets back there. The whole vote of the church settles the matter. And that's right; that's--that's right. No deacon board put a pastor out, or no pastor put a deacon board out. The church does that in a general vote of the whole thing.
It's sovereign in itself. We have no bishops; we have no general overseers; we have Jesus. Amen. He's the Bishop. He's the General Overseer. He's the head Pastor. He's the King. He's the Lord. He's the Healer. He's All and All. And we're just His subjects walking in the Light. Amen.

L-189 And He set some in the Church what? In the Church, in the Body, set some there here what? A--first apostles; that's missionaries. We got one here in the church now, a little boy setting back there, a friend of mine, Brother, I call him Creech--Jefferies. That's the first highest call, a missionary. You say, "An apostle is a missionary?" Absolutely. Go look in the dictionary and find out what "apostle" means; means "one sent." Go look in the--what a "missionary" means: "One sent." Same thing. The highest order is a missionary who travels the seas for the Lord Jesus.
Now, first apostles; second, prophets. What is a prophet? A seer.
Not one who makes out--not a apostle who makes out like he's a missionary, stays home, but one who really is a missionary, an apostle. A prophet, a seer...

L-191 Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. That's what the Body consists of. In that local body then there's nine spiritual gifts: One of them is wisdom, knowledge, Divine healing, speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, all these different gifts that's in the local body. And these apostles, pastors, teachers, and evangelists are all here to be sure that in these gifts these things are working right. If they find something false raising up, quickly they condemn it, 'cause it's not according to the Scripture. Let somebody walk up here and say, "Bless God, I got oil in my hands; looky here. You know, I--I believe I got the Holy Ghost; I got oil in my hand."
You'll hear somebody say, "That's not Scriptural." That's right. "Let's take and go here in the room; let's search the Scriptures through. Show me in the Scriptures where that's the evidence of the Holy Ghost."

L-193 One said, "Oh, I spoke with tongues; I got it." Show me in the Scriptures that's the evidence of the Holy Ghost. That's right."
"Oh, the Lord called me to preach," says some woman. Show me in the Scriptures He did that, ma'am.
"Oh, I know the Lord told me; He blessed me that night I was baptized in the Name of the Father, Son, Holy Ghost." Show me in the Scriptures where you're supposed to do that.
"Well, I'm just as good as anybody else; and I'm a Methodist, or a Baptist, or a Presbyterian; I'm Pentecostal." Show me in the Scripture where God said that. See? That's right. It's not there.


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