17 And the reason they call it Nico-laitanes… As we had last night, Nicolaitane, we broke the word down and took it from the Greek. And N-i-c-k-o, Nicko, which means to conquer or to overthrow. What? N-i-c-k-o, Nico-laitane, laity. To conquer the laity, and overthrow it by giving them a order of men, clergymen that would teach them and would… they would get their own conclusions together. Thats how the Nicene Council was held. Because many got together and fixed up an order in the Nicene Council. We aint… dont want to talk too much on it, cause thats Thursday nights, in the Nicene Council. But theres where the Roman Catholic Church was formed, out of a group of people that were converts of Saint Paul, and Irenaeus, and Saint Martin, and on down. They were converted Christians to the… from paganism over to Christianity, but wanted to pull the church back into an Old Testament form of ministry, like having high priests, and—and apostolic successions, like one pope to another pope, another pope. If we could go on down through this Bible, youd find out that thats just exactly the truth and how God condemned the thing from the very beginning; and last nights church age, said, I hate it! and so did the Church. 19 God never intended the Church to be run by men. God runs His Church, and He runs it through gifts of the Spirit. The gifts of the Spirit is in the Church to correct the spirit. Hes got five ministerial offices in His Church. First of them is apostles, or, missionaries. Missionary is the highest calling there is, apostle. The word missionary means one sent; apostle means one sent. Why they ever chose to be called a missionary, I dont know. But they are apostles. All right. Apostles, prophets, teachers, evangelists, pastors. Now, thats the elected offices of God to His Church. Then in each local church theres nine spiritual gifts that come among the people, that is, knowledge, wisdom, gifts of healing, working of miracles, speaking with tongues, interpretation of tongues. And all these things go in each local body. And every person in the church has an individual ministry, and that individual ministry goes together with the rest of the ministry, to edify the Body of Jesus Christ. And never… 1960-12-06 - The Smyrnaean Church Age Rev. William Marrion Branham
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