<TITLE>04. Par 12-15</TITLE>L-12 Then besides that, He's got five ministerial offices. First is apostles or missionaries. The word "apostle" means "one sent." A missionary means "one sent." Secondarily, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and so forth... Those are God-given gifts that's set into the church. They're predestinated of God and set to the church. You can't make yourself a minister. You... God's got to call you to be a minister.
Prophets are foreordained. They're prophets. Now, there's a gift of prophecy in the church, that could be on one, then the next one, the next one, the next one, and so forth--of prophecy. Paul said you may all prophesy one by one.
But there's a lot of difference between a prophet and a prophecy. A prophecy has to be judged by three witnesses (two or three) before it can be given or accepted in the church, according to the Scriptures. But a prophet, like the Old Testament prophet, they had the Word of the Lord. The translation was right to them. And they were known, because the Bible said, "If there be one among you spiritual or a prophet, I, the Lord, will make Myself known unto him, speak to him in visions, and reveal Myself in dreams. And if what this man says comes to pass, then hear him, for I'm am with him. If it doesn't, then don't hear him. I'm not with him. Don't fear him."

L-13 Now, you see, therefore, that Divine healing is something that Christ did for us. Now, we must have faith.
Now, I find two classes of people in my travel: One of them is fundamental; the other one is Pentecostal. Now, the fundamental positionally knows what they are, but they don't go deep enough. They know positionally that they are sons of God, but they don't go deep enough.

L-14 Like I thought about our precious Brother Billy Graham when he was in our city. I met him several times and was at his ministerial breakfast. And he said, "Paul went into a city and preached the Gospel, and one man was converted. He went back a year later," said, "he had thirty converts from that one." Said, "I'll go into a city and stay six weeks, and have twenty thousand, come back in another six months and I can't find twenty." He said, "What's the matter? It's you lazy preachers," he said, "set with your feet up on the desk instead of going out and visit them."
Now, the evangelist had something there, but he didn't have all of it. Who was the one taken that one for Paul? Paul took him deep enough in Christ until he was filled with the Holy Ghost, then was burning so he'd set the whole town afire. But when you just ask them to stand and accept Christ as Saviour, and set back down, they haven't went deep enough to know what to do. You must take them on into the baptism of the Spirit.

L-15 Therefore, I find fundamental people; they positionally know what they are, but they haven't no faith. Then I find the Pentecostal people that has a lot of faith, but don't know who they are.
It's just like a man... One man's got money in the bank but can't write a check; and the other one can write a check and has no money in the bank. If you could ever get those together, the Gospel would pay off great. That's right. Get some fundamental teachings in a Pentecostal church, or a Pentecostal faith in fundamental meetings...


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