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The Potter's Wheel THE ~pn!ifnHr ))1'aifl! REPORT The Potter's Wheel Jeremiah 18 :1-4 THE WORD WHICH CAME TO JEREMIAH FROM THE LORD, SAYING, ARISE AND GO DOWN TO THE POTTER'S HOUSE, AND 'THERE I WILL CAUSE THEE TO HEAR MY WORDS. THEN I WENT DOWN TO THE: POTTER'S HOUSE, AND BEHOLD, HE WROUGHT A WORK ON THE WHEELS. AND THE VESSEL THAT HE MADE OF CLAY WAS MARRED IN THE HAND OF THE POTTER: SO HE MADE IT AGAIN ANOTHER VESSEL, AS SEEMED GOOD TO THE POTTER TO MAKE IT. Jeremiah 19 :1-2 THUS SAITH THE LORD, GO AND GET A POTTER'S EARTHEN BOTTLE, AND TAKE OF THE ANGIENTS OF THE PEOPLE, AND OF THE ANCIENTS OF THE PRIESTS: ... AND PROCI..41\IMTHERE THE WORDS THAT I SHALL TELL THEE, ... Jeremiah 19 :10 THEN SHALT THOU BREAK THE BOTTLE IN THE SIGHT OF THE MEN THAT GO WITH THEE, II Timothy 4 :9-11 DO THY DILIGENCE TO COME SHORTLY UNTO ME: FOR DEMAS HATH FORSAKEN ME, HAVING LOVED THIS PRESENT WORLD, ... ONLY LUKE IS WITH ME. TAKE MARK, AND BRING HIM WITH THEE: FOR HE IS PROFITABLE TO ME FOR THE MINISTRY. (ThE foregoIng scriptures Are explo1"ED in Bro. Otto Busch's. sErmon In thIs issuE.) A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: THE \ Dear Readers of the REPORT: APOSTOLIC FAITH We are entering a new year of publishing the Apostolic Faith Re- REPORT port. This issue as numbelr one of volume sleven. JACOBC. REGIER Editor We need your help. Without your cooperation we cannot publish Box 383, Perryton, Texas a single issue. With your help we can make this publication the bless- ing and edification with which God would be pleased. JERRYMCCLENAGAN Tne Apostolic Faith as we know it now, was bwIt around the mes- AssoclateEditor Sage· ~r'the healulg power of Christ in our present generation. We want Box 133, Hardesty, Oklahoma to ask you to send us your testimonies of healing. If your testimony EDITORIAL BOARD does not pertain to physical healing but as a testimony of victory, we Jack Barker Laverne, Okla,. would like to publish it also if possible. Otis Wade Galena, KanS~ j i Thank you and God bless you for your financial slUpport the past \.year. Thank you too for rallying to our need of a new typewriter fOil' Olen Bachler Katy, Tex. \ the REPORT office. Thank you for your prayers. PublishED as the Lord pro:' \ Due to lack of funds we are sending out an eight-page paper this vidEs,. sent to you upon request time. We hope to resume the 12 or 16 page editions hereafter. on thE freE-will offering basis. I To the Apostolic Faith minL<;terswe send out this request: • Please send wsIyour sermons and reports. APOSTOLIC FAITH REPORT POBox 383 \ We send our special thanks to the churches who are regularly sup- Perryton, Texas porting the REPORT with their funds. Please send all changes of address, \ God Bless you all, giving both old and new address. Sincerely, Jacob C. REGIEr, Editor Jerry McClenagan, Associate Editor NOTICE! NOTICIE! NOTICE! The Bible School needs a large deep-freeze. Notify: The Apostolic NOTICE! NOTIOE! NOrn:CE! SPECIAL Faith Bible School, Box 110, Bax- ANNOUNCEMENT BIBLE SCHOOL STUDENTS If you play a musical instur- ter Springs, Kansas, if you can Bible School ment, please bring it when you help or advise them with this need. Work-Wee1ks come to Bible School. We plan to If an "Ice-'Cream" freezer-chest is form an orchestra. You'll be glad obtained it needs to be at least a you did. During the annual busines" 6-hole size. meeting, July 26, 1960 it was de- Miss Edna Neff, Music Teacher cided to conduct two separate work weeks this year. The pur- pose of thes'e work weeks is to re- pair and beautify the Bible School Buildings. September 5, 1960 is the date of BIBLE SCHOOL MEMORANDUM the beginning of the first work.. week. CHRISTIANS EVERYWHERE: Pray for a greater school The beginning of the second for 1961 which begins January 3, 1961. Support work-week will be announced lat- the school with food and finance. er. PASTORS: It is our plan to visit your church shortly. Bro- Everyone cooperate! Bring your ther Truman SummerfoId will conduct me on this tools and work clothes. If you tour. Be sure to learn the date I'll be with you and cannot come, you can send food announce it. Meet us for the service. Slides will be for the workers and money for the shown (if requested) excepting daylight services. needed repair-materials. The amount of your transpor- God has given us a wonderful faculty; a large sel- tation to and from Baxter Springs, ection of studies; and the prospect of a fine large Kansas would be a nice offering if student body. you cannot come. Last year some of the lady-folk STUDENTS: Make your plans now to attend the 1961 term. came and helped with the work For Further information writE: and cooked for the workers. It was appreciated. The welcome GAIL W. SCHULTZ, Superintendent ~at is· out to them also. Box 110 Baxter: Springs, Kansas - •. __ 7" __ •.~. benefits that follow from the opera- tion of this gift: 1. He that prophesieth speaketh un- to men to edification, and exhorta- 1 he GIFT OF tion, and comfort. I Cor. 14:3. Edification, exhortation and com- fort has been rendered, "building up, stirring up, cheering up" by Ellicott. PROPHECY 2. One who prophesies is declared to be greater than one who speaks with tongues unless he interprets. I Cor. 14:5. 3. Prophesying brings conviction to unbelievers. I Cor. 14:24,25. 4. For ye may all prophesy one by one that all may learn. I Cor. 14:31. N THE OLD Testament religious Spirit to receive the Spiritual gift of Through the operation of the gift of Prophecy the Spirit can do a won- order, the Lord raised up prophets prophecy, I Cor. 14:24, 31. But all do I derful job of teaching by eKhorting to deliver His message to the people not receive the office of a prophet. I or edifying in Spirit given words. I during times of Spiritual declinsion Cor. 12:28, 29. The true prophets Cor. 14:3. and times of national crises. such as Agabus could foretell future Prophets were preachers of right- events by divine inspiration. Acts Paul taught that no more than eousness declaring the Lord's mes- 11:27; Acts 21:10, 11. But those who three persons were to prophesy in one sage to the people. They were had the spiritual gift of prophecy had meeting. I Cor. 14:29. moral and religious teachers of their a more restricted ministry. I Cor. The fact that the messages of the nation, reformers who awakened the 14:3. Prophets were to be judged indicates religious life of the people; forewarn- that the inspiration was not always Because the Bible declares that the ers of the certainty of the divine infallible. I Cor. 14:29. testimony of Jesus is the spirit of judgement on sin; foretellers of The New Testament gift of Proph- prophecy (Rev. 19:10), some people future events by divine inspiration. ecy can be a wonderful blessing to have mistakenly said preaching is all We shall quote two pasilages of a church, but it can never take the there is to the New Testament gift scripture which give us an insight place of the written word of God. of prophecy. Nothing could be furth- into the method of inspired utterance Any message in Prophecy that is not er from the truth. In a large part of as given to the prophets. David said, in harmony with the infallible word the Christian world there has been a of God is to be rejected. "THE SPIRIT OF TH!E LORD presistent tendency to debase the Follow after charity and desire SPAKE BY ME, AND IDS WORD gift of prophecy by robbing it of its WAS IN MY TONGUE." II SAM. spiritual gifts, but rather that yc supernatural character. It is one 23:2. JEREMIAH SAID, "THE LORD may prophesy. I Cor. 14. 1. hundred per cent supernatural. PUT FORTH IDS HAND AND EDITOR'S NOTE: Anointed preaching is not prophe- TOUCHED MY MOUTH AND THE In the Next issue of the Apostolic sying and prophesying is more than LORD SAm UNTO ME, BEHOLD, Faith Report, we will print the ninth anointed preaching. In preaching of I HAVE PUT MY WORDS IN THY and finaJ installment of Brother the highest order the mind of the MOUTH. JER. 1:9. Girouard's articles in this series: speaker is illuminated and quickened "The Gifts of the Spirit," Brother The Prophets whose messages were hy the Holy Spirit and the message Girouard writes, "M.y next article ____ written and preserved as the word goes forth in the power of the Holy will treat the three gifts of power: Q'fGod no doubt had inspiration that Spirit. That kind of preaching is Healing, Faith and Miracles." was infallible. divinely inspired but not super- In the Old Testament as well as in natural. In prophesying the mind is' A Tribute to the New Testment we find a type of passive as the Spirit gives utterance Mrs. PEarl Chapmli,n Prophecy which was evidently of a to the words spoken. As speaking A Tribute To Our Deceased Sister much lower degree of divine inspira- with tongues in supernatural utter- Pearl ChapmaJll. tion and was not regarded as infalli- ance in and unknown tongue, so She has left her family and friends ble.
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