Questions & Answers
Questions 355 (COD Page 1109)
Dearly beloved: (Let’s see.) About the Scripture of Ephesians 4:11 through 13, do we all (Let’s see.)–do we get all the perfecting of saints through the tapes, or should we be here, where the gifts of the Spirit are operating and the different offices of the church, to help perfect us? Our hearts have believed all the Word of the Lord.
219 Now this person is from Oregon. Now, my dear...I believe I know who it is. See? It’s...Oh, yes, I do, I certainly do. Your–your boy...If the person’s here, I know you’re...If you’re not, it might’ve been last Sunday. See? This might’ve come in from last Sunday’s. But your–your son flies conservation, see, and it’s...he controls...He’s...I think he’s the one that invited me over to go elk hunting with you over in Oregon, where...And I think this is right. Now, I know this person by letter by...and so... No! They want to come here to the church for the perfecting. See? That we–we get fellowship one with another here at the church, but the perfecting comes between us and God. The Blood of Christ is what perfects us in the Holy Spirit.
220 Now, in the church says, “...has the gifts operating.” Now, we do not have too many of the gifts operating here, but we have some of them. We have the gift of tongues, and–and the gift of prophecy (two or three of them).
221 I think our Brother Higginbotham here, ever where he’s at, he’s got a gift of speaking in tongues. And we got our Brother Junior Jackson with us, and he speaks with tongues. And then we got two or three of them interprets. Brother Neville here also, our pastor, speaks with tongues and sometimes prophesies, and the Lord brings upon him...
222 Just the other day he said something. He called upon a phone in a house where I was at, that he prophesied over a person, told them that a drunken man would–there’d be a great change in him right away or something like that. And the man has come out of the Alcoholics Anonymous, still an alcoholic, and for sixty-eight days hasn’t even touched alcohol, or no medicine for it, or anything. That was Brother Neville prophesying over them.
223 So we are...We have some of the gifts operating among us, and we’ll be very glad to fellowship with any of you, that has a way, that you’re working, or wants to come and fellowship with us, anything we can do, we’re very happy about it. See? But now the perfecting belongs to Christ. Now, let’s see, about one more or two more.