The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 223

THE CHURCH OF CHRIST the difference.

The King

us in the ordinary or in an extraordinary way.

Zacharias

charge of your Sender?

may send was a

This makes

priest of the course of Abijah

ald of Christ

this

;

all

but his son John was the her-

by extraordinary revelation.

right of succession

But

183

makes no

;

The Levite served by

the prophet because he

difference

;

was chosen

called in the one

the office remains the same, so long as

we have

way

of God.

or the other,

the assurance that

King Jesus has called and ordained us. For this reason our fathers devoutly spoke of an office of all believers. In Christ's Church there are not merely a few officials and a mass of idle, unworthy subjects, but every believer has a calling, a task, a vital charge. And inasmuch as we are convinced that we perform the task because the King has laid it upon us not for oureven from the motive of philanthropy, but to serve the Church, to this extent has our work an official character, altho the world denies us the honor. selves, nor

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