<TITLE>05. Par 27-34</TITLE>L-27   Now, that's just the same thing we find with gifts today. That's the reason God cannot trust too many spiritual gifts with people, they don't know how to control them. That's what's the matter today, the reason we don't have no more than we do.

L-28 Then we do find there's a lot of impersonation of spiritual gifts. But I don't believe that's so here in our church. I'm thankful for that. I don't believe it's an impersonation at all. I believe we have genuine gifts, but we must know how to control those gifts.

L-29   And then when you go to doing something good... Just like you was working for a boss and you started out on the first of your job and you're willing to take orders, then the boss has confidence in you and he will keep raising you up to a higher office all the time.

L-30 Now, I believe that time has struck the Branham Tabernacle, to know what... to take the gifts that God gives us, that God can trust us with something even greater than what we have got. But we cannot go along... and you see a man that's always have to be telling him and everything. And remember, "The spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophet," says the Scripture. When you see a man that you have to correct, or a woman, and that person gets out of order, and then you're telling him the Scriptural Truth, then it shows that the spirit that's on them isn't of God. Because the Bible said, "The spirit of the prophets," or, "prophesying," that's, testifying, preaching, speaking in tongues, or whatever it is, 'cause tongues interpreted is prophecy. So it's subject to the prophet, and the Word is the prophet. So we--we see that it's out of order for a man or a woman to jump up and give a message, no matter how much they want to do it, while the preacher is in the pulpit.

L-31   Now I suggest this for the Branham Tabernacle, that being that our--our gifts that we find... And we have some very fine gifted people here. Now, each one of those gifts are a ministry of their own. They are gifts, just like preaching is a gift, like healing is a gift, like other things are gifts, these are gifts, they are ministries of their own. And each man is commanded to wait on his own ministry.

L-32 Therefore let the Branham Tabernacle be operated like this, and in the day, especially this day when we've had so much, (I don't want to say this, but) so much make-belief. We don't want make-belief. No man, no honest person wants to have a make-belief. We... If we can't have the real, let's not have any at all, let's wait till we do get the real. Now, I believe you--you men would agree with that. We don't want nothing make-belief. Brethren, we can't start on make-belief something and leaving this world. We got to have what's real, and what's genuine. If we haven't got it, let's wait till we do get it, and then say something about it. See?

L-33   Now, I would say, let all these men and women who speak in tongues, and prophesy, and give messages... And I'm--I'm believing with you men that they are genuine. Now, the Bible has said, "Prove all things, and hold fast to that what's good." "For with stammering lips and other tongues will I speak to this people, this is the rest that I said that they should enter into," and over in the Book of Isaiah.

L-34 Now, I would suggest this so that the sanctuary will only be ministered by one gift at a time, for it brings us straight back in order again of what I'm trying to say: if one's speaking, let the spirit of the prophets be subject to the prophet. Do you understand? Now, let those who have a ministry to the Body of Christ... And now It's being said, now let it be done. Let those who have a ministry to the Body of Christ wait on their ministry, because it is a ministry from Christ to the church. But you can't all minister the same time, there's got to be one at a time.


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