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149Receiving Pay or Taking a MoneyCollection Not Permitted ThoseWho Practiced Divine Healing2 Ki . 5 :15-27 "And he returnedto the man of God, he and allhis company, and came, and stoodbefore him ; and he said, Beholdnow, I know that there is no Godin all the earth, but in Israel :now therefore, I pray thee, takea present of thy servant . But hesaid, As Jehovah liveth, beforewhom I stand, I will receive none.And he urged him to take it ; buthe refused . . . . But Gehazi, theservant of Elisha the man of God,said, Behold my master hathspared this Naaman the Syrian,in not receiving at his hands thatwhich he brought : as Jehovahliveth, I will run after him, andtake somewhat of him . So Gehazifollowed after Naaman . . . . AndNaaman said, Be pleased to taketwo talents . And he urged him,and bound two talents of silverin two bags, with two changes ofraiment, and laid them upon twoof his servants ; and they barethem before him. . . . But he [Gehazi]went in, and stood beforehis master . And Elisha said untohim. . . . Is it a time to receivemoney, and to receive garments,and oliveyards and vineyards, andsheep and oxen, and men-servantsand maid-servants? The leprosytherefore of Naaman shallcleave unto thee, and unto thyseed for ever . And he went outfrom his presence a leper aswhite as snow ."Matt . 10 :8 "Cure sick people,raise up dead persons, make lepersclean, expel demons . You receivedfree, give free ."Divine Healing as the Fifth-Rate Gift Not the Evidence ofGod's True Organization Today,but Love and Giftof Preaching Are1 Cor. 12 :28 "And God has setthe respective ones in the congregation,first, apostles ; second,prophets ; third, teachers ; thenHealingpowerful works ; then gifts ofhealings ."1 Cor . 14 :1 "Pursue love, yetkeep striving after the spiritualgifts, but preferably that you mayprophesy ."Acts 2 :17, 18 "'And in the lastdays,' God says, `I shall poursome of my spirit out upon everykind of flesh, and your sons andyour daughters will prophesy andyour young men will see visionsand your old men will dreamdreams ; and even upon my menslaves and upon my women slavesI will pour out some of my spiritin those days, and they willprophesy .'"1 Cor . 13 :2 "And if I have thegift of prophesying and understandall the sacred secrets andall knowledge, and if I have allthe faith so as to transplantmountains, but do not have love,I am nothing."Not All in Early CongregationPossessed Gift of Healing1 Cor . 12 :19, 20, 30 "If theywere all one member, wherewould the body be? But now theyare many members, yet one body .Not all have gifts of healings, dothey? Not all speak in tongues, dothey?"Divine Physical Healing Not ExperiencedToday, Since SpecialGifts Passed Away AfterDeath of Apostles1 Cor. 13 :8-12 "Whether thereare gifts of prophesying, they willbe done away with ; whether thereare tongues, they will cease ;whether there is knowledge, itwill be done away with . . . . WhenI was a babe, I used to speak asa babe, to think as a babe, toreason as a babe ; but now thatI have become a man, I havedone away with the traits of ababe . For at present we see inhazy outline by means of a metalmirror, but then it will be faceto face . At present I know partially,but then I shall know accuratelyeven as I am accuratelyknown."