<TITLE>03. Par 7-9</TITLE>L-7 Now, there's gifts of prophecy in the church, but there's a lot of difference between gifts of prophecy and a prophet. See? A gift of prophecy has to stand before three judges and be judged before it could even be give to the church, whether it's right. It could be on this woman tonight, and never come again the rest of her life. Might be on this woman the next night, and that man the next night. See, it's--it's local gifts in the body. But prophecy is an office: a prophet that's from birth (See?), comes from birth.
Jeremiah was a prophet, God said, "Before you was even formed in you mother's wombs, I knowed you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations." John the Baptist, seven hundred and twelve years before he was born, Isaiah saw him: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness," prophet of the Lord. Jesus Christ was the Son of God from the garden of Eden, the woman's Seed that was to bruise the serpent's head.

L-8 As old Congressman Upshaw said, "You can't be nothing that you hain't." A congressman of the United States, run for president. He knowed better, but he just--he just used my language, my way of expressing it. But that is true. You can just be... And that's what's the matter with us today, friends. All the whole world seems to be that way. If we would just be what God makes us to be, that--then you're--you're--you're... The trumpet will not give an uncertain sound then. It'll give a certain sound, and all the world will know it (You see?) when it's sounded right.
And so, a minister cannot be a minister because his papa and mother wants him to be a minister. He has to be called of God to be a minister. There would've been nothing do my heart any better than to know that my son Billy Paul would've been a minister. But to send him to school and make a minister out of him, I'd rather he'd be a spittoon cleaner than to have been that, something that he's not. See? Excuse that rude expression. I shouldn't have said that. See? Doesn't sound nice here, but you know what I mean. I'd rather he would've been something else.

L-9 But God has used Billy. He's been a right hand man to me, my son. Because when we first started giving prayer cards out, we come to find that... Had one man in there, first was a minister. We had an awful time about prayer cards. The first, we would send them to every... where we was going to have a meeting. All the sponsoring pastors would get a hundred cards for their congregation. The first pastor got his group in. That about settled it. The rest didn't get there.
So then we started, said, "Well, we'll go down the first day we come and give out all the prayer cards." And now, that's not for little church meetings; that's for the big auditoriums. And so, well, the first day we'd have to give out couple, three hundred prayer cards. It didn't do anybody any good to come in late, 'cause they sure didn't get in the prayer line, 'cause we couldn't take it all up. Four, five, or six a night just done all we could do. See? And, then, the next we had, we had a minister to give out the prayer cards. Well, come to find out when he'd run into the city... And his own organization, he had to show a little favor to them or they'd excommunicate him, so, or cause hard feelings.


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