<TITLE>24. Par 190-197</TITLE>L-190 Then there's a prophet. Now, there, now you come into an office.
Them's gifts, them are, speaking in tongues, and interpretation of tongues, and knowledge, and wisdom, and discernments, and so forth. Them are all gifts.
But then there's five offices. First is apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, and pastors. That's ordained offices of God. Men hold them. See? They are not, can't... You can't wish for them; you can't pray for them; they're sovereignly given; you're born.
A prophet is not a prophet if somebody lays hands on him and makes him a prophet. A prophet's born from his mother's womb as a prophet. See? That's why he's always a prophet. See?

L-194 God told Jeremiah, said, "Before you was even conceived in your mother's womb," said, "I knowed you, and sanctified you, and ordained you a prophet to the nations." That's right. See? Moses, before he was born, he was a proper child. He was the prophet of the Lord. All the rest of them coming forth. Christ was the Son of God from the garden of Eden. That's right. See, gifts and callings are without repentance.
But gifts are given to the Body. Now, we recognize that; we recognize all these gifts.

L-196 Now, let's see what Jesus was among us, see what He was back there. We find out when He first started His ministry... Now, listen close, stranger. When He first started His ministry, in St. John the 1st chapter we found out after He was baptized, after He come... He was born and become thirty years old; He was baptized by John. The Holy Spirit came down like a dove and descended on Him, and a Voice came and said, "This is My beloved Son in Whom..." The real original Greek said, "In Whom I'm pleased to dwell in." Said, "In Whom I'm pleased, in Whom--in Whom I am pleased to dwell." But see, that sounds a little backwards from us, and the verb before the adverb, but actually it's, "Whom I'm pleased to dwell in." 'Cause Christ, God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself. We know that.

L-197 Now, immediately He went forty days in the wilderness, tempted by the devil. Then He came forth with His ministry, begin to praying for the sick.
And after while, there came up a man by the name of Simon Peter, an old fisherman, uneducated, couldn't even write his own name. Andrew had told him about this Fellow he believed to be the Messiah. "Nonsense."
Came up to Him, and as soon as he walked up in the Presence of Jesus, Jesus said, "Your name is Simon, and you're the son of Jonas." He knowed that something happened. He knowed that was the Son of God. And it pleased Him to give him the keys to the Kingdom, made him the head of the church.


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