The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year: Divine Immanence and the Holy GhostRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Seventy's Course in Theology, Fifth Year: Divine Immanence and the Holy Ghost
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
"These, then, are all gifts; they come from God; they are of God; they
are all the gifts of the Holy Ghost; they are what Christ ascended
into heaven to impart; and yet how few of them could be known by the
generality of men. Peter and John were Apostles, yet the Jewish court
scourged them as imposters. Paul was both an Apostle and Prophet, yet
they stoned him and put him into prison. The people knew nothing about
it, although he had in his possession the gift of the Holy Ghost Our
Savior was 'anointed with the oil of gladness above his fellows,' yet
so far from the people knowing Him, they said He was Beelzebub, and
crucified Him as an imposter. Who could point out a Pastor, a Teacher,
or an Evangelist by their appearance, yet had they the gift of the Holy
Ghost?
_7. Spiritual Gifts Not Always Outwardly Discernible:_ "But to
come to the other members of the Church, and examine the gifts as
spoken of by Paul, and we shall find that the world can in general
know nothing about them, and that there is but one or two that
could be immediately known, if they were all poured out immediately
upon the imposition of hands. In I Cor. xii, Paul says, 'There are
diversities of gifts yet the same spirit, and there are differences
of administrations but the same Lord; and there are diversities of
operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the
manifestations of the Spirit is given unto every man to profit withal.
For to one is given, by the Spirit, the word of wisdom, to another,
the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith, by the
same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit; to
another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another the
discerning of spirits; to another divers kind of tongues; to another
the interpretation of tongues. But all these worketh that one and the
self same spirit, dividing to each man severally as he will.'
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