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3. Small Companies Need Not Be Dependent
Upon
A Delegated Minister
John 16:13-15 Said Jesus, “Howbeit
when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever
he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of
mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine,
and shall show it unto you.” I Peter 4:7-11 Said Peter, “But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore
sober, and watch unto prayer. And above all things have fervent charity [agape: Christ’s love] among yourselves:
for charity shall cover the multitude of sins. Use hospitality one to another without grudging. As every man hath
received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man
speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God
in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."
4. Companies are to use the Bible’s methods
II Timothy 4:5 “But
watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.” I Timothy
2:15. “Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word
of truth.” II Corinthians 6:1-10 “We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not
the grace of God in vain. (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured
thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.) Giving no offence in any thing, that the
ministry be not blamed: But in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in
necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; By pureness,
by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, By the word of truth, by the power of God,
by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report:
as deceivers, and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.”
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