For tapes of end-time meetings, deliverance services or Lake Hamilton Bible Camp grounds publications, Voices From His Excellent Glory, DECLARING THE KINGDOM, write Post Office Box 21516, Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, zip 71903. — Friday morning, April the twenty third 1971, last service of the Tennessee CFO-camp being held at Eatonton,
Georgia. Doctor Derek Prince is the final speaker of the morning concluding the five messages ‘A bone to his bone’. — Now this is the last meeting here and before I go any further I want to express my appreciation and your appreciation to all the members of the Tennessee CFO council ring
Who have made these meetings possible. We owe them a debt, I want you to stand up please. church, I want the council ring to stand up please. Come on, everybody on the council ring. All right. If you’ve not been in it you’ve no idea of the hard work
And the sacrifice and the self discipline that’s required to bring meetings like these into being and everyone of us owes them a deep debt of personal gratitude. God bless them, pray for them. Apart from that they’re a very fine example of what I’ve been preaching to you about,
Bones being brought together in union to fulfill a function. I think the Tennessee CFO council ring is probably the best, clearest, single example of that, that you see actually functioning today. A perfect example of bones united to fulfill a specific function. And I pray God that they remain
United. I pray that no arthritis or rheumatism will creep into any of the joints between now and August. And you, be praying for them too. How many of you intend to meet me here in August? Look at that! You better get your reservations in, they have more than two hundred reservations
In for August already. That’s a good warning. And every motel in the area is already fully booked. And then be praying. Now I don’t know, it almost seems superfluous to preach now. I just want to express my appreciation of brother Samuel’s message that
He preached just now because being a preacher I know how much he accomplished in such a short space of time. It was a masterpiece, not just for what he said but that he got it in in about forty minutes. I could’ve said the same may be, would’ve taken me about four sermons. So,
Praise God for brother Samuel and I think, I really think he got a bit touched too, don’t you. Praise the Lord. Lord bless your ministering servants, we thank you for brother Samuel, we thank you for brother Charles, we thank you for others that have been ministering to us.
Bless every one of them, in Jesus’ name we pray. And bless Bob Mumford and Don Basham up there Lord today in Washington and have your way in those meetings, oh God, in the mighty name of Jesus. We declare that Jesus Christ is Lord over Washington DC and all its suburbs
And every satanic principality and power we declare cast out and dethroned by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony. And all the people said, amen. Thank you Jimmy, God bless you.
Now we’re going to have a little quiet Bible teaching for a little while. How many of you know you can get blessed in a quiet way too. All right I’m going back to where I started, Ezekiel 37. How
Far I’ll get from there I don’t know and I’m going to start in verse 7 and only read through verse 10 trusting that already you have the background teaching in your mind. So I prophesied as I was
Commanded and as I prophesied there was a noise and behold a shaking and the bones came together, bone to his bone. That’s really been the theme of what I’ve been trying to bring to you in various
Ways, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, prophesy unto the
Wind, or the breath or the spirit, same word in Hebrew. Prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD. Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them,
And they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. That’s what God is working toward, bringing forth an exceeding great army. I wish I could give you that phrase in Hebrew. It’s the most emphatic possible expression to denote the size and the strength and the scope
Of the army that God is bringing forth. So as we come together and share and are blessed, let’s look forward to what God has as his ultimate, the bringing forth of an exceeding great army. And I want to point out to you also that all that went before this was preliminary.
The bone-shaking, that was a preliminary, the bones coming together, that was not the ultimate, being tied together with sinew, being covered over with flesh and skin, that was still not the ultimate because there was no breath in them. They were still unable to function as an army
And only when Ezekiel prophesied the second time and the breath of the almighty, the Spirit of God, moved in, could they stand up upon their feet and become the army that God intended. And I want to point out to you that God did not breathe into the isolated bones,
He breathed into the completed bodies and unless you cease to be an isolated bone and unless you allow yourself to be fitted into a body, you will not receive the in-breathing of the Spirit of God that will bring forth the army. The breath is only going to be in-breathed
Into completed bodies and this is absolutely clear what God is showing us. Only those that will submit to one another and humble themselves and acknowledge the dependence upon the head and the dependence upon their fellow members, submit to discipline, COME UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT and be articulated, fitted in, take their place, lose their independence and find their, what’s the opposite? Liberty, praise God. I’ve got a good student somewhere. All right, only those will receive this last great in-breathing of the breath of God or this last
Great outpouring of the Holy Spirit, that will bring forth the army, that will conclude God’s purposes for the church. You remember the three purposes that we mentioned? Reaping the harvest, preparing the bride, restraining and casting down satan’s kingdom. I’ve got some good students
In the congregation, I’m glad to see that. Now I want to go just a little further if I can in practical details about what is involved in people such as you moving in to this. As I was lying on my bed, preparing my mind to bring you this message,
A very, very simple thought came to me and I found the simplest thoughts are the most profound. I was just thinking about my own body and the thought came to me, how many pairs there are in the human body. Have you ever just thought about that? Most of the
Things in the body that really do something are pairs. Arms, hands, legs, feet and many, many others are paired off and if they don’t operate in pairs they cannot operate effectively. Now exactly the same is true of the body of Christ. Most of the main ministries
Must be in pairs at least. I also thought this very simple thought that there are in the human head seven openings. You know that? You know what they are? Ears, eyes, nostrils and a mouth. Three pairs and one on its own and tell me this, which causes all the trouble?
Isn’t that right, yeah. Sow up people’s mouths and most of the trouble would stop. So there’s simple little patents that are built into nature and the human body when we understand the Scripture. Now, I’ve been talking yesterday I believe, about the reproductive cycle in
The church that continually reproduces the ministries that are needed once we enter into the cycle. And I believe that we stand just at the verge of seeing God’s people enter into this cycle, I don’t believe we can say we’re really in it, but I believe we’re almost in
It. I pointed out that in Acts 13 we had in the church at Antioch certain prophets and teachers. Now if we can believe for prophets and teachers, which I can, then out of that their reproductive cycle can develop. As they waited on the Lord
In fellowship and you remember what the birthplace of everything spiritually is? Fellowship. Good, all right and there is no spiritual birth without fellowship. As they waited on the Lord in fellowship there came forth the birth of God’s purpose of ministry
And the message was: Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. They fasted and prayed, laid hands on them, sent them forth. Before Barnabas and Saul were sent forth they were prophets and teachers. What were they after they were sent forth?
Apostles, praise God, I’ve got a lot of good students. An apostle means literally one sent forth, that’s all it means. On their first journey, on the outward section of the journey, preaching in various cities, they won disciple and left behind groups of disciples.
On the return journey and again with prayer and fasting I would have you notice. Notice how prayer and fasting is built into the birth of the ministry and people that don’t pray and fast are not likely to get into the reproductive cycle.
It’s a, I’ve got a book called ‘Restoration through fasting. You can’t buy it now but if you haven’t got it, it only cost you 50 cents but I do believe it brings out one of the real, vital, essential requirements of God for this last day move of the Holy Spirit.
All right. On their return journey, coming back to these groups of disciples with prayer and fasting they ordained or appointed elders. And when elders were appointed they were no longer just disciples but they became? No, no, no, no, churches. That’s right. All right, let’s have that one again.
When elders were appointed they were no longer just disciples but they became churches. There’s the transition from just a group to a church. Only one thing is needed, it’s all so simple basically, it’s the scriptural appointment through the Holy Spirit of suitable elders, leaders. All right,
So now they left behind churches. A missionary has never completed his job if he only leaves converts. His job is not complete till he’s left autonomous, self-reproducing churches. Well then they went back and they had this discussion about circumcision and so on and
Paul and Barnabas separated. Barnabas took Mark and went to Cyprus, Paul took Silas and came back to the same cities where they’d appointed the elders, one of them being Lystra, found a young man named Timothy and Timothy was well reported off by the local brethren,
He got his first degree in the local situation, his BA or AB, whatever you like to call it and so they said, this young man is, has proved himself, furthermore prophecy has gone forth over him
That he’s to enter into a new ministry. So Paul said, well I’ll take him, the elders said well if you’ll take him we’ll lay hands upon him and send him forth as our representative. Now in two places in the New Testament, 2nd Corinthians 8:23 I think and Philippians
2:25 but it could be the other way around with the 23 and the 25 but anyhow 2nd Corinthians 8, Philippians 2, you’ll find persons who are called in the King James, messengers of the churches but the Greek says apostles and that’s what they were. The one sent forth after due appointment
By a church becomes that church’s apostle. The sent forth one from that church and remember too, this is by the way, that every apostle was answerable to the church that sent him forth. If he went out of line in moral ethics or doctrine they said, come back,
You can’t represent us, we hear you’ve divorced your wife and running around with another woman or you don’t give accounts for the offerings you take in your meetings or your preaching that even the devil is going to be saved. Come back, either you repent and submit to the collective authority of the church
Or you’re no more our apostle. We will withdraw our endorsement from you. This is all part of it. Even Paul and Barnabas had to go back to the church of Antioch and give their report. No
One is above the church, I repeat no one. Anyone that does not abide by the duly arrived that decision of the local congregation refuses to submit, is no longer to be treated as a believer till he repents. He’s to be treated as a heathen man, a publican. That doesn’t make him an enemy
But he’s not to be reckoned with as a believer. Well now, in due course, Paul left Timothy in Ephesus and you’ll find the first epistle to Timothy give directions to Timothy as to what he was to do in Ephesus and amongst other things how he was to identify and appoint elders
And he was to do it with the laying on of hands. So you’ve got the full cycle now. Shall we go through it just briefly? You’ve got the prophets and teachers. Two sent forth became apostles, apostles established churches by appointing elders, elders in turn laid their hands on
Members of the congregation and sent them forth as apostles, the apostles in turn appointed elders. Now you can see it will go on automatically. There’s no further problems, unless at any point the life cycle is severed which is of course what happened historically in the church.
The life cycle of reproduction by the Holy Spirit through the seed of the word was cut off and what we are doing now is seeking to get back into this reproductive cycle. Then it will function very simply. There are also already many young men and I mean in their twenties
Whom God is laying his hand upon to become apostles. I’ve met some of them. I don’t tell them that because it might increase the size of their head too quickly but I can see it. But what these
Young men need is a proving ground, it’s a base, it’s someone that will send them forth and when you send people forth incidentally, you just don’t wive, wave as the plane goes out and say goodbye, you’ve got responsibilities, you know that? One is to pray and another is to do what?
Offer, yes, send money if it’s possible. That’s, when you, when you pray God send missionaries, that isn’t the end of it, you know that? That’s just the beginning because if God sends missionaries then you’ve prayed them out, you’ve got to do something about them when they’re out.
Your responsibility doesn’t terminate with praying, it just starts. Now, I pointed out yesterday and I’m gonna, this is, I’m working to my close now, I pointed out yesterday that apostles never functioned on their own. You cannot find one example in the whole New
Testament. So this is absolutely decisive. Now I am not criticizing anyone who at this time may be operating as an apostle on his own, I know one or two who are. This is not a criticism of them because we have not arrived into where we ought to be
And so none of us is probably functioning perfectly at the moment. That’s all right provided we don’t stop where we are and say, I don’t want to go further, cause the church has been in such
A mess so long that it is certainly not going to get fully into divine order by one step, it’s going to be a series of stages. God is bringing something to birth. Let me also say this, that a local congregation or divine order in a local congregation is not imposed. This is another
Thing of, I was in a place where the self-styled apostle and I’ll have to say self-styled, flew in, visited about four prayer meetings, laid hands on about six people, called two of them to be elders and three of them to be apostles and one to be a prophet
And went off again and incidentally, one of the elders was a lady. Now I have no prejudice against ladies but I don’t believe in lady elders. The Bible says specifically that an elder must be the husband of one wife,
Not the wife of one husband. But I only mention this because this is an absolute caricature of the operation of the Holy Spirit. For me, to drop down out of the sky, run around for five days, dab a few labels on people and walk off again, it’s got nothing to do with the
Operation of the Holy Spirit and I warn you prayer groups, don’t submit to that type of ministry. Beware of the shooting star that flies to Chattanooga and disappears off into the dark again and it isn’t only Chattanooga, there’s a lot of other places. I’ll tell you, these little
Prayer groups, they’re an invitation to the wolf and if you’re going to have prayer group, God bless you, but be on your guard against the wolf. You must in the long run have leadership and you know what kind of leadership? Male leadership. I didn’t hear so many amens.
Now God bless the ladies, I don’t speak critically of the ladies, I criticize the men that have sat back and let the ladies do it. Shame on them and I mean that, I mean it. You know what I said,
American men are renegades, I mean that, I’m not jesting. They reneged from their free, primary responsibilities, husbands, fathers and spiritual leaders. And this nation can never be in order till men step back into their responsibility and any sensible
Woman will say the loudest amen to that. That’s right ladies. I knew I had you with me, that’s right. All right but now let me just go on briefly and I come to what I’m trying to come to, I’m find it a little difficult to get there but I’m not doing badly.
There are four other ministries mentioned in Ephesians 4:11, besides apostles there’s what? Prophets, evangelists, pastors but I prefer to say shepherds and teachers. Now in the New Testament prophets also are designed to function in group. It is not scriptural for a prophet to run around perfect, permanently on his own and
You know what he’ll run into? Trouble. And I’ve seen not a few do just that. First Corinthians 14:29 sets the whole tone. 1st Corinthians 14:29 : Let the prophets, plural, speak two or three and let the others, it’s plural in the Greek, let the others, the other prophets,
Judge. So one man is never authorized to operate as a prophet on his own unless his message and ministry are submitted to the discernment, the judgment of the others. That keeps them all safe. Was it Emerson who said, absolute power would corrupt anybody but God.
Probably. And God is not so foolish as to commit absolute power to any one individual cause that man is bound to fall, for the man’s sake. And if you read through the book of Acts you’ll find Acts 11 verse 27: There came certain prophets from Jerusalem. Acts 15:32,
Judas and Silas being prophets themselves. Acts 13:1, there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets. It’s always plural. There’s one exception. I’ll give it to you so that you won’t ram it down my throat later. It’s Acts 21 verses 10 and 11, Agabus. But if you’ll study
The context you’ll see that Agabus was only used to confirm revelations already given to Paul from many other sources. In other words Agabus was not the sole authority. That’s what I’m trying to say. There is no one prophet who is the sole authority and no prophet at any time in the New Testament
Has any right to say, you cannot challenge me or my message. If he says that you know he’s wrong cause let the prophets, plural, speak two or three and let the other prophets judge. It’s a collective ministry. It’s not in the New Testament a solitary ministry.
Let me point out something else. It says prophecy serves for them that believe in the New Testament. Prophecy is not given to minister to unbelievers. That’s why, he that prophecies speaketh unto men edification, exhortation and comfort. God doesn’t condemn believers. So you’ve got … , now the
Old Testament prophets, they spoke many times to unbelievers messages of judgment but New Testament prophecy, within the framework of the church, is for believers. Do you know how God speaks supernaturally to unbelievers? Shall I tell you? Most of you would never guess.
By tongue. You say, brother Prince, how? Well it happened over there at Pentecost. All those people in Jerusalem were unbelievers. God spoke to them not through prophecy but through tongues and they heard men who did not know those languages, speaking languages which they knew, and
Believe me they knew that was God. You find that. Paul says tongues are for a sign to unbelievers but prophecy service for them that believe. We don’t understand that. Now this happens frequently today. I was in West Berlin in 1966, about something like that,
And I was preaching in a German assembly and I was teaching people how to receive the baptism in the Spirit and I said to them, now remember if you’re going to speak a new language you’ve got to stop speaking the old one,
So you’ve got to stop speaking German or English. Well that’s what I said but I was wrong. The Holy Spirit took me up. You know why? Cause the first two ladies that received the baptism spoke in English, perfect English and believe me that was a sign to a lot of unbelieving believers there.
You see as Smith Wigglesworth said, we’ve got a lot of believers who are unbelievers. And this is a sign to unbelievers. God can also speak to the unbeliever through other gifts. As brother Summerall indicated the word of knowledge is many times a means
To reach the unbeliever but prophesying serveth for them that believe. Prophets and prophesying are set within the total framework of the body of Christ. There isn’t an independent member in the body. All right. Now there are two other ministries
And mentioned in Ephesians 4:11 which are, there are three others but I want to mention two first, the evangelist and the teacher. Now I find in the New Testament an evangelist could function on his own because in Acts chapter 8 Philip the evangelist went down to Samaria
All on his own, no welcoming committee, no program committee, he didn’t consult the mayor. He didn’t do anything, he just went down all on his own to an alien city and started to preach. But because of the supernatural testimony of the Holy Spirit he turned that city upside down.
Now that is New Testament evangelism. Most of modern evangelism is preaching to 90% converted in order to hope to reach the other 10% unconverted, it is a real waste of time. Thank God for the good results that are achieved but it is not the scriptural pattern.
Now the other ministry that I believe can function on its own is the teacher and as the example of the teacher I take Apollos and I’ll give you the reference, we’re not going to turn there but if you’re making notes or for those that listen to the tape
The reference about Apollos is Acts 18 verses 24 through 28 and you’ll find that Apollos was an expositor of the scriptures, a public, systematic expositor of the scriptures and very powerful. Now apparently, within the total framework of the body,
He could operate as an individual on his own. So the evangelist and the teacher can. The apostle and the prophet cannot and no more can the elder or the shepherd. This come now to the great summin, summing up of this revelation. In every area where there is a church,
There is only one church, one area, one church, not 15 churches, not 63 churches but one church. In Chattanooga, as far as God is concerned, there is one church, the church of Jesus Christ and all within that area should be within the bond of peace and love. But within that one church
There are many shepherds or elders or overseers. They’re all different names for the same ministry and never at any point in the New Testament do you find a flock with only one shepherd, you cannot find it and it’s the root of all our problems. I don’t, I’m not criticizing
The man who is the pastor, God forbid, but I’m pointing out, it’s an unscriptural situation. For years I believed in and preached on the pastor and elders but it was like doing a jigsaw puzzle and always ending up with a spare piece. Have you ever done that is? One
Piece wouldn’t fit in anything. You know what it was? The pastor. And one day I discovered, he’s just one of the elders. Elders are shepherds and shepherds are elders and they’re all overseers or bishops. They’re three different names for one ministry and they’re always plural. Did you get
That? Never in the singular. You read through the epistles, you read through anything you like. When any epistle mentions those in authority in a local congregation it is always in the plural, there is not a single exception anywhere in the New Testament. So there are these three
Ministries which are really the most important that must operate collectively: Apostles, prophets and elders. Now why are they essentially plural? Why is it possible for an evangelist or a teacher to operate on his own but not apostles, prophets or shepherds?
Now I think God has shown me the reason. Because neither an evangelist nor a teacher actually is responsible for setting in order or maintaining in order a local congregation but the other three ministries are and the, the responsibility of setting in order and
Maintaining in order a local congregation is so great that God never hands it to one individual. Okay. Where do we go from here? Do you want the scriptures for those statements of mine? I’ve got about three and a half more minutes, I think I can give you just a few. Acts 14:23 says,
The ordained elders in every church. Titus 1:5 says, ordain elders in every city. City and church coextensive in each case the leadership is plural. Acts 20, now this is the key text, verse 17, says, from Miletus Paul sent to Ephesus and called the elders of the church, notice plural.
Now friend I want to tell you that Paul dealt with those men as being uniquely responsible for the whole conduct of that church. If there was in the background someone who was the pastor then Paul’s whole conduct was entirely unethical. He had no right to speak to the subordinates and
Bypass the leader. Isn’t that true? You know why he did it? Because there wasn’t anyone who was the pastor, he was talking to the men responsible for leading that flock and they were in the plural not in the singular. And in verse 28 he said to these men who were elders,
Take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the church of God. The word feed is from the Greek noun shepherd. Take heed to yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers
Or bishops, it’s the same word, to shepherd the church. So what were those men? Elders, overseers, shepherds. Was it three different groups? No, three different titles for one and the same group and they were a group, not an individual. Now turn to 1st Peter chapter 5.
I tell you this is dynamite. Brother Summerall said, you don’t need to apologize for the Bible, turn it loose. When this gets loose you haven’t seen anything yet, believe me. This is ten times more revolutionary than speaking in tongues. So don’t say I didn’t warn you. First
Peter chapter 5: The elders who are among you I exhort who am an, also an elder but the Greek co-elder. When an apostle takes up a position of residence within a congregation his position is that of a co-elder, he’s an elder together with the elders. He’s still an apostle
But his official position is co-elder. He’s not over the elders. Verse 2, speaking to these men, he says: Feed the flock of God which is among you taking the oversight thereof. The word feed is again the Greek word for shepherd and oversight is the noun from overseer.
So to the elders he said, shepherd the flock serving as overseers. The same men were elders, shepherds, overseers. Both Paul and Peter are completely united in this terminology. THERE IS NO ONE MAN WHO’S THE LEADER OF A CONGREGATION. Let that sink in.
Just think of the difference it would make. Didn’t I say it was revolutionary? And it is. You have two mutually exclusive possibilities. If you want to write them down you can. Number one, you can have many churches, each with one leader. I’m talking about a given area where they overlap.
The other alternative is, one church with many leaders. They cannot, you cannot have both. One or the other. Now the New Testament pattern is invariably the second, one church with many leaders. You see, plurality of leadership prevents the dividing of the church. That’s why it’s so important. If you have a congregation
Under one man there comes a numerical limit to the amount of people he can shepherd. Actually, if one man can shepherd 50 families he’s a giant. I would say 10 families would be a good allotment for one
Person to shepherd. I was pastor of a congregation of 200. I couldn’t even begin to shepherd them, didn’t have the time. I didn’t know them well enough, wasn’t able to spend time with them. A shepherd is one who knows his sheep, whom his sheep know, whose voice they hear,
Who, whom they follow, whom they can send for in an emergency. Is any sick among you, let him call for what? The pastor? No the el, the doctors? That’s the American Revised Version. What is it? The elders, plural. How unethical to call for the elders if there was ‘the’
Pastor somewhere but there wasn’t. But if you have many local leaders it doesn’t matter how big the flock grows, it’s still one. I’m convinced from studying the text that there were in the church in Jerusalem at one time as a minimum fifty thousand believers and I think that’s an underestimate.
How many churches? One church. ‘The’ church in Jerusalem. How was it achieved? You simply multiply the number of leaders in proportion to the number of sheep, that’s all you need to do. Say one man can shepherd fifty persons if he is a giant. Okay. You have five hundred persons.
How many shepherds? Ten. We’ve got a mathematician in the congregation. All right. Five thousand persons, how many shepherds? What? One hundred. That’s my mathematic, that’s the new mathematic, you’ve got to be careful. All right. Fifty thousand persons, how many shepherds?
One thousand, no problem. Every great truth about church order in the New Testament is as simple as falling off a log. But the trouble is, instead of falling off the log we sit on the church pews.
Most of us are too dignified to fall off the log. Okay, now I’m closing. One single closing thought. I’m so glad for what brother Summerall said because believe me, anything that Lenin said is not one tenth as revolutionary as what I’ve told you in the last fifteen minutes.
I’m fully aware of what I’m doing, you aren’t, you wait. I’m like Samson, you know how Samson destroyed the crops of the Philistines. He got a lot of foxes and incidentally he sent them out in pairs, did you notice that?
He tied them tail to tail and set fire to their tails and they did the rest. That’s what I’m doing to you, that’s all I’m doing. Believe me, you haven’t seen the fire that’s coming. This nation has got to be set on fire and all the old, stuffy, traditional, institutional. Well
You see, God blessed Moses but he died and the book of Joshua opens with this simple statement by the Lord: Moses my servant is dead. Don’t try to keep Moses alive. There’s a new order, Joshua is taking over. Moses, this is, fits in marvelously with what brother Summerall said,
Moses could take them through the realm of the soulish but he couldn’t get them in to the Spirit. Now as far as I’m concerned, and you can throw eggs at me if you like, THE OLD INSTITUTIONAL CHURCH ORDER THAT WE’VE ALL KNOWN IS JUST AS DEAD AS MOSES.
I’m not saying it because I wish it, it’s true whether I wish it or not and it’s true whether you wish it or not. Your wishing it does not make any difference except to you personally, that’s … . Now brother Charles, the other speaker, also said a marvelous thing, I don’t know whether
You heard him say it. He said, Paul didn’t criticize Moses, he just preached Christ. So don’t go running the institution down, it’s a waste of time. Just preach the truth. Uplift Joshua and you know what Joshua means, it’s the same name in Hebrew, it’s Jesus. That’s where
We are, Moses is dead, we’re just about to move into the promised land under a new leadership. Now one practical step. How can you achieve this? One essential is that local leading men, m, e, n, men, begin to come together in their area for regular, what? Fellowship. O,
I’ve got some brilliant students. Nothing but fellowship, not to plan, not to organize, not to promote but just to have fellowship and out of that fellowship will be born something. You see, we’ve had a lot of midwives in the church lately.
I mean I’ll be frank with you, I believe CFO is a midwife. The Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship is a midwife. They’re not the ultimate. But bless the midwives. You know when God’s people were in bondage in Egypt God blessed the midwives. Did you ever notice that,
First chapter of Exodus? He took care of them because they were doing what he wanted done. But don’t let any of us be persuaded we’ve reached the ultimate, we haven’t. We’re just on the verge of the promised land and remember, it’s full of giants. Giants, that’s right, I said giants.
Cities walled up to heaven. Canaanites, Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Hivites and all sorts of ‘ites’. And when you go in, be ready for the ‘ites’ cause they’ll be there waiting for you. All right. What do we do? Under God we prayerfully seek
To bring into being, in every area where the charismatic movement is now beginning to flow, local groups of men leaders in regular fellowship. And ladies, what do you do? Stay at home and pray. God bless you but this is a job for the men. Unless you get behind them and push them real
Hard they’ll never go. And don’t get in front of them and pull them, get behind them and push them. All right, that’s the end. – This is the end of this message. –