Questions & Answers
Questions 148 (COD Page 621)
If there is–if there is already three messages gone out in unknown tongues in one meeting, then in the prayer line can there be more messages go out and still be in the spiritual order of the meeting?
130 Why, certainly. That’s right. Sure. I know where you’re getting to. There’s Paul, said, “If they was...You prophesy and speak in tongues,” something like that, Paul speaking of...
131 Little later on, when you all...Brother Neville, when you all want to now, these people that’s got these spiritual gifts... Now, if you’ll trust my understanding of the Scripture, I will come down with a meeting just with you people alone who has these gifts, just with you all, so we can set together...And if you feel...And you watch, Brother Neville, and see in the church, that it is God and God moving among them, that’s what
we want, but we want to put that in order so it can go to blessing the church and doing something. I got it, I know, and know the Scriptures, what to do. And that’s what we want to do.
132 Now, this person here, I know in speaking in tongues, it’s supposed to be, do it by courses, two, or not more than three. That is correct, but if you’ll notice here, if it was...
133 Just like someone give up–up there...Like Brother Sothmann raised up and give a message in prophecy or speaking in tongues. Interpretation of tongues is prophecy, see, spirit of prophecy. Now, if you just speaking in unknown tongues, there be no interpreter, that person’s blessed of the Spirit, but he doesn’t hurt the church.
134 Now, what Paul was trying to get at is this, “You use the whole service just in speaking in tongues, see, and the unlearned said, ‘What–what’s this about, anyhow?’” See, they don’t get it but there be an interpretation. And let there be...have one, two, or as many as three messages in a meeting.
135 Now, the person here says, “Then in the prayer line?” That must have been that maybe someone in the prayer line... Maybe, Brother Neville, or in some other church or wherever it’s from, that in the prayer line this man...or in Divine healing meetings, might have been in Brother Roberts’ meeting, Brother Allen’s meeting, or some, in my meeting or somebody else, I don’t know. But, whatever it is, what Paul is speaking of is a message to the congregation out there, “Let that just be three,” because the message of God is speaking a message trying to get it over to the congregation. But when the man in the prayer line, he’s prophesying to an individual, not the whole. If that be so, I’ve been out of order all along in my prayer lines, see, when thirty or forty of them in a night? See, if you’re prophesying to an individual.
136 But this man prophesying is to the whole body, let that be two or three messages and then stop it. Though the Holy Spirit may still want to speak, but wait a minute, give the Word a chance to go out. You see? And then, really, that speaking should be either before or after the Word, nothing should interrupt the Word as It’s going out. But, however, we get that in order later on when our spirits and gifts begins to get into perfection.
137 We’re talking now on–on the seriousness of the Pentecostal Church, I mean the real pentecostal Church. And we’re glad that God still lives and reigns and speaking to us.
138 Now, but if it’s like, for instance, if the sister here would give us a message in tongues or a prophecy, and the lady next to her would give a message in tongues or prophecy, and then the lady next to her or somebody back there, someone will give a message or a prophecy, or tongues. No doubt but what it’s merely all speaking on the same thing, if God’s urgent, trying to put something over, calling some individual in the church to do something, now, or something that He wants done.
139 Now then, for instance, the prayer line’s called, and Brother Neville or myself or any other minister goes down to this individual, that’s not to the body, that’s to this individual. And the Spirit of God comes upon him to tell this individual something, then tell him, ’cause he’s not speaking to the congregation. He’s speaking to this individual, not to the congregation, so that is all right.