<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 Now, there's five offices that God puts in the Church; there's nine spiritual gifts that accompany that offices and all the members of the Body. The first is apostles, which is missionaries. The word "apostle" means "one that's sent." The word "missionary" means "one that's sent," the same word. Apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors, evangelists, these offices God sets in the Church. They're all in operation, or should be. We cannot bypass one and say there's teachers without saying evangelists. We cannot say there's evangelists without saying there is apostles. We cannot say there's apostles without admitting there's prophets. All of them are for the perfecting of the Body of Christ.
The Lord gives me visions. Those things begin when I was a little baby. I do not believe that man can be called of man and be a successful minister. I believe gifts and callings are without repentance, that God by His foreknowledge foreordained His ministers into the Gospel, and the gifts into the Church.
God told Jeremiah, I believe it was, that said, "Before you was even formed in your mother's womb, I knew you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations." Seven hundred and twelve years before John the Baptist was born, God told Isaiah that he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. He couldn't help from being John. And all the way from the garden of Eden, and yes, before the foundation of the world, Jesus Christ was ordained the Son of God. So we are what we are by the grace of God.

L-8 And now, before we turn back the pages on a little evangelistic text... And if there is many, which there is, ministers setting here, and many listening in, no doubt... But I do not believe that Divine healing is a major. And we could never major on a minor.
I believe Divine healing is like a man going fishing. He puts the bait on the hook. He doesn't show the fish the hook; he only shows the bait. And they--fish takes the bait and gets the hook.

L-9 That's why at Durban South Africa, recently, where two hundred thousand was gathered, I seen thirty thousand raw heathens break their idols on the ground and receive Jesus Christ as personal Saviour.
When a man that could never walk, did not even have his right mind, and the Holy Spirit revealed him who he was and all about his life, and then when I saw a vision over him that he was going to be well, I said, "How many of you now will receive Christ if God will heal this poor man?" And I said, "The Holy Spirit just said he was born in that condition. And you seen his parents way out in the audience there on the racetrack, witness that was true. Told him what his name was." I said, "I can't even speak his language."
I said, "Now I challenge every Mohammedan priest to come here, that you say your religion is so great, and straighten this man up. All you Buddhas, or any other religion..." And of course, it was a very quiet audience. I said, "Neither can I do it. But the God of heaven Who's raised up His Son Jesus Christ, has showed me a vision just now, that the boy's going to receive his right conditions. If he doesn't, then I'm a false witness of the resurrection, and should be run out of Africa. If it is, then how many of you Mohammedans, and heathens, and Buddhists will receive Christ as personal Saviour?" Just as far as you could see, the black hands a waving. And I spoke what the Lord said, and the man jumped to his feet, not only healed, but in his right mind. And thirty thousand broke their idols on the ground and received Christ as personal Saviour. It was the bait that caused them to receive Christ. Let us pray.


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