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Transcript of RECOGNIZING A GIFT. James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down...
James 1:17Every good gift and every perfect
gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with
whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
64-1205 - The Identified Masterpiece Of God
93 Politics don't belong in Church. The Holy Ghost is to take the Church over, and not a politic vote of who is who. "God placed in the church some apostles, some prophets, and some
teachers, and evangelists, and pastors," Not men voted them in there. God placed them in there, by the calling of the Holy Spirit,
prayer meetings, and laying on of hands, and staying before God.
58-0720E - The Placing Of Deacons
1 And that is, that the first is the placing some deacons into the church. And our little church here is sovereign. It doesn't have any denomination or
anything to send its deacons; it elects its own deacons. It elects
its pastor; it elects its trustees; it elects everything that comes in
and out of the church.
58-0720E - The Placing Of Deacons
No one person has the say-so over anything; it's the church. And the
church are those who come and support the church with their presence, with their tithe and
offerings, are always the ones that has legal say-so in the placing of such.
Not a democracy•God places gifts “anointed not
appointed”
•we recognize those gifts (vote of confidence)
•leaders are to serve by fulfilling their office
•worldly: competition - judges, governors, presidents
•competition: campaigns, personal attacks, dishonesty, popularity, reputation
•“among you it shall not be so”
Not a democracy•comparing one with another
•preaching to the crowd
•pulling punches: popular topics
•issues will not get addressed properly
•pastor is usually a life-long position with job security
•invitation to compromise: keeping everyone happy to ensure re-election
Vote of Confidence•the board, duly recognizing the
desires of the people puts forward the candidate
•the people confirm or reject this suggestion by vote
•not democratic vote: just an indication that they will allow this person to serve in this office
•if rejected, another candidate has to be found
Vote of Confidence
•every office has to be confirmed each year
•the church body has the final say over every office
•simple majority for board
•percentage for pastor/interim/associate
58-0720E - The Placing Of Deacons
3 And ever so often, according to the bylaws of the church, every year, the deacons or trustees automatically
fill their time. And if they want to come back, all right. If they do not
want to come back, then they can place some in their places, that
this board has resigned.
58-0720E - The Placing Of Deacons
The way this is done is the board can ap—appoint deacons, men that they have associated with and found
to be honorable and just men.
58-0720E - The Placing Of Deacons
And so therefore, then it has been found favorable with the board and
the pastor, and the overseer, to select in this group of people here some men who we think to be honorable and just
men. We can only bring them. And it's then they are appointed by the church, by their own vote.
58-0720E - The Placing Of Deacons
And then these man shall serve, if they feel that they will accept this office. Then they will come for a
short time to see if they feel that maybe that God has called them. And if later, if they feel that they are disqualified, then they have a right in
the next few weeks to resign the office, that someone else could be
appointed in their place.
58-0720E - The Placing Of Deacons
It's the sovereignty and the law of the church by the Word of God. Therefore, that—they just can't say that, "I think this man would be a right man." That
isn't it. "Brother Neville thinks this man would be a right man," or "the trustee board thinks this man would be a right man," it has to be by the
church. No one does anything within himself here. It's the vote of the church. It's a sovereign church.
61-0112 - Questions And Answers
Your position is—in Christ is revealed to you by the Holy Spirit. And then if you want to know whether it's the
Holy Spirit or not, find out whether He blesses what you're doing, or not. And if He blesses it, then that's
Him. If He doesn't bless…
61-0112 - Questions And Answers
50 Like someone said to me not long ago, said, "The Lord called me to
preach." I said, "Well, then preach." See? And so he—he… I
really think it's so… Satan, if he can just get somebody as to act like that and then deceive them, that's just
what he wants to do. Then the whole world points their finger right there.
61-0112 - Questions And Answers
Sometimes they're mistaken in those things. See? And sometimes they think they haven't got it when
they have. So it's very tricky.
61-0112 - Questions And Answers
52 So always do this, brethren, whenever you feel that you're
supposed to do a thing, first find out if it's Scriptural for you to do it, if it's in the Scriptures, not just wrote in
one place, but I mean completely Scriptural through the Bible for
you to do it, your position, say if you'd be an evangelist, pastor, teacher,
prophet, whatever that God might've called you to be. You see?
61-0112 - Questions And Answers
Then, usually, way I watch it for myself, just… This is me. I watch the nature of the person and see what kind of a gift that they're professing. See, God will work with His creature the way He's made him. See? He'll
make a creature…
61-0112 - Questions And Answers
54 If you see him real flighty and going on, you—and he says, "The Lord called me for such and such a—to be a pastor." Now, a pastor can't be a flighty person. A pastor's solid, sound. See? "God called me to be a
teacher." And watch him how he interprets the Word. See? He gets It all mixed up and everything, then
you can tell. See? But then, the thing to do, your position is usually known
whether you can do it or not.
61-0112 - Questions And Answers
And I wasn't a successful pastor, never would be, because I haven't
got the patience and what it takes to be a pastor. See? So
therefore, if I tried to pastor, I would just be as far out as a pastor is trying to be an evangelist. See what I mean?
62-0607 - Putting On The Whole Armor Of God
76 Now, God fortified His army. What with? Himself, in the form of prophets, apostles, teachers, pastors. What did He do? What was God doing? Listen,
did you ever think what that offices of the church is? It's God's dress, inside dress, an apostle, a prophet, a seer.
Foresee, before Satan ever gets to it, done told it. What is it? God dressed up in His church. These offices is
God's dress-wear.
62-0607 - Putting On The Whole Armor Of God
When you see those offices, pastors, teachers, evangelists, what is that?
That's God's dress-wear, God's Presence, God's Spirit (And if…)
working through man. And if that office denies any of this Word,
then it's not God-dressing…?… No, not that. That's that wolf in sheep's
clothing. Watch that fellow. Beware of him.
62-0607 - Putting On The Whole Armor Of God
But when he just takes what the Word says, remember, that's God, 'cause
He's speaking His Word. See? But if he says, "Well, it isn't…" Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, my. Get going, sheep; get
going!
58-0503 - The Queen Of Sheba
22 And no matter what God does, if you don't come with respect to
His gift, you'll never receive nothing from it.
61-1015E - Respects
165 If you can't respect the man, respect the office he holds in God.
That's exactly right (See?); respect him. If a minister comes up, your
pastor, always respect him. I've heard congregations talk about their pastor,
how just talk about him, run him down, ridicule him. How is that
pastor ever going to do anything for you? He can't do it.
61-1015E - Respects
You've got to love your pastor. You've got to know that he's a human being, but yet God has made him His pastor.
The Holy Ghost has made him overseer; then you've got to
respect him in that manner. And no matter what the pastor's done, if
you respect him in your heart as God's servant, God will respect you for
doing it.
61-1015E - Respects
187 Now, what is the gift of God today? It's the Holy Spirit. It's the Holy Ghost that's in us. We've got to respect That. We've got to respect It on every person It comes upon.
We've got to re—give… to God's Divine gifts. When He sends those
gifts, no matter how real they are, it'll never help us until we get to a
place till we can respect it.
61-1015E - Respects
You've got to have reverence and you got to respect it. You've got to
believe that it comes from God. Believe it till it's proved wrong. Then
when it's proved wrong, then you have a right to disbelieve it; then
don't associate with it no more. But as long as it's being proven out to
be the truth, then believe it.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Three - The Ephesian Church Age
So the people are led by people who presume to be what they are not. They say they are vicars of Christ, but
what they are is antichrist.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Four - The Smyrnaean Church Age
Instead of the straight Word of God, instead of the Spirit-filled men in
the church who were led by Spirit-given revelation, there are now creeds, and by-laws, and the
educated guesses of educated men. Learning has taken the place of
revelation. Reason has replaced faith. Program has replaced spontaneous
praise in the Holy Ghost. It wasn't so from the beginning. The whole specie
has changed. It has become a hybrid church.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Four - The Smyrnaean Church Age
The minute the church moved toward form and ceremony, and toward priesthood by organizing the ministers into a group that
decided leadership apart from the Holy Spirit and His Word, that very
moment death entered and she started to get sick, and as she got sick she changed to a powerless group of
people whose only weapon was argument.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Four - The Smyrnaean Church Age
She could produce nothing in the Spirit, for her hopes were built on
program and not on faith in His Word. They sowed program so they reaped program. They sowed
perversion so they reaped perverted children.
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages - Chapter Four - The Smyrnaean Church Age
In every age we have exactly the same pattern. That is why the light
comes through some God-given messenger in a certain area, and then from that messenger there spreads the light through the ministry of others who have been faithfully taught. But of course all those who
go out don't always learn how necessary it is to speak ONLY what
the messenger has spoken.
58-0928M - The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit
Go look in the—what a "missionary" means: "One sent." Same thing. The highest order is a missionary who
travels the seas for the Lord Jesus.
63-0724 - God Doesn't Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him
107 And then, we find out, the apostle is a special man. He's a—he's a "setter-in-order." He's a man that's sent from God to set the things in
order.
63-0724 - God Doesn't Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him
108 The prophet is a special man. A prophet is a man of whom the
Word of the Lord comes to, because the prophet is so
designed (life) that his subconscious and his first conscious is so close
together that he doesn't go to sleep to dream his dream, he sees it when he's
wide awake. See? Now, that's something God has to do.
63-0724 - God Doesn't Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him
105 The evangelist is a special man. He's a man that's burning like a
fireball. He runs into a city and preaches his message, then gets out of there somewhere else. See,
he's a special man.
62-0719E - Perseverant
History shows that a—a man, an evangelist, usually his best part is his first three years, and after that he lives on the reputation of what he
preached in them three years.
63-0724 - God Doesn't Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him
106 The teacher is a special man. He sits back under the anointing of the
Spirit and is able to take the Words and put them together by the Holy Spirit, that, the pastor or evangelist either one could not
compare with him.
57-0908M - Hebrews, Chapter Five And Six #1
52 Oh, I know there's many rise up and go out and say, "Oh, I don't need to go to church anymore. Praise God,
the Holy Ghost has come, He's the teacher." When you get that idea,
you're just wrong. For why did the Holy Ghost set teachers in the
church, if He was going to be the teacher? See?
57-0908M - Hebrews, Chapter Five And Six #1
The Holy Spirit set teachers in the church, so He could teach through
that teacher. And if it—it isn't according to the Word, God doesn't confirm it, then it isn't the right kind of teaching. It must compare with
the entire Bible, and be just as alive today as It was then. There's the real
thing made manifest.
60-0515E - Adoption #1
And sometimes I think that preaching is a wonderful thing, but I believe sometimes, Brother Beeler, that
teaching goes beyond that, it kindly… Especially to the church. Now,
preaching usually catches the sinner, brings him under condemnation by the Word. But teaching places a
man positionally what he is. And we can never rightly be able to have faith until positionally we know what
we are.
54-0512 - The Seven Church Ages
16 I remember staying a year and six months in this Book of Revelation, in—in the tabernacle here. That's what I
like, in—in teaching. I just love teaching. Oh, my! I—I—I—I think it's wonderful. It gives the basis, and
settles the church. 17 And, in preaching, now, there is
some people that are preachers. They can pick up the Word, with inspiration,
and sway It out there in places.
54-0512 - The Seven Church Ages
That's watering the Seeds that the teacher has taught. See? Now, you
got to put some Seed in, first, and then water It. And the watering comes from the preaching of the
Word. 18 There's a great, vast difference between a teacher and a preacher. See? It's two different gifts of the
Spirit, altogether, two different gifts. And I humbly say this, but, I haven't a
gift of either.
57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2
282 But the full and complete authority of the church is the
pastor. Read that in the Bible, see if that's not Bible order. That's exactly right. There is no one above the
elder. I have nothing to do with what Brother Neville does here. That's up to
you and Brother Neville. If Brother Neville wanted to preach Jehovah
Witness doctrine, that's up to him and you. See?
57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2
If he wanted to preach anything he wanted to, that's between you and
him. That's all. If the congregation votes for him in there, to preach that, that's all right. That's up to
him.
57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2
We have no bishops and overseers, and boards and so forth, moves this
one in and got a lot of authority. There's nobody got authority here but the Holy Ghost. That's right. He does the moving. And we take
Him as the majority of the people, the way the people go.
57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2
292 Now, if there's anything wrong in the church that you ever know of, some individual or some person or
anything, you are duty bound and will answer before God if you
don't clear that thing out; you, the church. Now, remember, it's not
on my shoulders. It's on yours.
57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2
And anything wrong in the church, God will make you answer for it.
That's right. That's the way He runs his church. That's the way it is in the Bible. That's the order of the Bible.
That's the sovereignty of the local church. The pastor is the head.
That's right. Amen.
57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2
We don't run it; there's nobody in head. No. All, we're all the same. But, we got a leader, that is the pastor,
as long as he's led by the Holy Ghost. True. All right.
57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2
349 And you people with these saw-blade tempers, that's always spouting off in the mouth at somebody, can't
put up, and things like that. Be careful. You're guilty if you speak a word (against your brother) that's not right, not just, go around and
tear down it. You don't have to stick a knife in a man's back to kill him.
57-0922E - Hebrews, Chapter Seven #2
You can break his character and kill him, kill his influence. Speak against your pastor here, say something bad about him, you just might as well as
shot him. Told something that wasn't right about him, well, it'll kill his influence with the people and things like that, and you're guilty
of it.
63-0724 - God Doesn't Call Man To Judgment Without First Warning Him
104 But, you see, in the church there is the pastor, and that pastor is a
special person. He's built to where he can—he can put up with the fusses
of the people. He—he—he's a burden-bearer, he's the ox of the team. He—he's a man that can sit down when the… somebody's got something against somebody else,
and sit down with them two families (and take neither side) and reason it
out and bring it right back into sweetness. See? He—he's a pastor, he
knows how to take care of things.
58-1005M - Hear His Voice
73 But we modern Americans, what we do… And the false prophets behind the pulpit say that's all right. I'm kind of in the notion of saying this; if I'm
wrong, God forgive me. And I'm persuaded that a lot of them don't know God. And the congregation
will never live any higher than its pastor.
60-1207 - The Pergamean Church Age
You'll never live no higher than your pastor. You just remember that,
see. And so… Cause he's the shepherd that feeds you. If he's
the shepherd, he's got to know where the manna is, to feed the—the sheep.
Is that right?
53-1109 - How The Angel Came To Me
And the church will never live higher than its pastor teaches. You seldom find that. If you got a
good, sound, sane, Gospel teacher, you'll usually find that type of church. And it's just where your pastor leads
you, the—the pastors that you feed on.
58-1007 - Church Order
The pastor must be a man that has got a very humble way about him, but not too humble but what he could be like the Lord Jesus Christ
when He seen wrong going on in the church, He platted ropes and ran
them out of the church.
58-1007 - Church Order
And now the Church of God is the house of judgment, and the pastor
is the highest order in the Church. The elder is the highest thing in the apostolic Church, outside of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings
His Message straight to the elder, and the elder gives It to the
people.
64-1205 - The Identified Masterpiece Of God
99 What we need today is the Life of Christ inside of us. That's what
purifies; not the outward, a turned-around collar, or a degree of
psychology, or something. It takes the power of the resurrected Christ to
make us what we should be. God has no other plan than let the Holy
Spirit rule and reign in the Church.