But when the gift of prophecy is operating, it cannot be received unless two or three judge it, to see whether it’s right or not. But a prophet, singular, p-r-o-p-h-e-t is borned a prophet, comes up a prophet. Everything he says in the Name of the Lord is absolutely truth, if he’s prophesying. Now, you say, “That was for the Old Testament.” Oh, no. They had prophets in the New Testament. Agabus and many of them were prophets in the New Testament. But now, it doesn’t come by laying on of hands. If you lay on of hands…I know what you’re thinking about, about the presbyters down there. But that’s just like some boy who raised up in a church, and they know he is going to be a preacher. They see the gift working on him and things like that. They just lay their hands on him for ordination. That’s what…?…what they lay their hands on. Now…of that… So it just was something…Now, they did a great work. One thing, they made the organization realize that they wasn’t the only one on the beach. So it done some good. But nevertheless, God’s Spirit, one of these days, will take—cull all that out and take the Church, just as certain as anything. That’s right.

I Perceive That Thou Art a Prophet, 1953-06-14, Connersville, IN, §13