<TITLE>02. Par 5-7</TITLE>L-5 And then I made this statement: that there is no such things as church denominations. There is no such a thing. It's lodge denominations. You're only borned into the church. And when somebody says, "I am a Presbyterian," you belong to the Presbyterian lodge (See?), because you're born... "I am Baptist," you belong to the Baptist lodge, not the Baptist church. There is no such a thing.
And we turned it right back and found in the Bible that to even say such a thing is blasphemy. That's right. Read it right out of the original manuscript from the "Emphatic Diaglott," that the Bible said that the--that this power called the church is full of blasphemous names (See?), calling themselves Christians, and setting themselves as Christians, and just living any kind of a life. See? And it certainly compared with a dream that a sister here in the church had, that we explained here this morning.

L-6 Now, the Bible times, the way that they ordained a minister was by recognizing a gift of God in this minister--ministry. That's where that I think that our Latter Day Saint (or not Latter Day Saint, I beg your pardon), Latter Rain brethren made such a terrible mistake by laying on hands and saying, "We give you the gift of healing. We give you the gift of prophecy."
There is no such thing. "Gifts and callings are without repentance." God gives. "God has set in the church apostles, prophets," and so forth. See? There is no such a thing as one man giving another one a gift. Gifts comes from God and God alone. And to come in the church, you're born into it. There's no other way of getting into it. Then you're a member of the family of God, being a son and daughter of God: not an organization, but a member of the family.

L-7 Now, in the Bible times, like it says... They take the Scripture over there when Paul said to Timothy that he had the gift ministered to him. Why, he said it come from his grandmother, Lois. See? This gift that come from his grandmother, Lois, was handed down to him. They noticed in him, being a staunch Christian, also a gift of speaking, and they laid hands upon him as a recognition. The elders of the church laid hands upon him, recognizing this man, and placing the apostolic ministry of laying hands on him, that he would go preach the Gospel; sent out by a witness of these brethren, that they believed that the gift of God was working in him.
That's the way they did also to the ministers by laying on hands and giving the right hand of fellowship that--to work together, as an agreement before God, that they seen the gift working in this brother; that he was called for something, and we believed it. And they laid hands on him that God would bless him. And it was a sanction. Just like, I could not be...


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