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BY THE GIFTS’ PERFECTING By His death and resurrection Christ has conquered Satan and death and has rescued man from the enslaving of Satan. In His ascension He made these redeemed sinners the gifts through His resurrection life and gave them to the Body that they would do the perfecting work on the saints unto the building up of the Body of Christ. When I was first saved, I did not know anything. I did not know how to read the Bible or how to pray. At most, I had a heart to seek after the Lord and to love the Bible. Praise the Lord that through His riches in His ascension, the ascended Head gained a group of people from His redeemed ones and constituted them the gifts, putting them in the church to perfect us. There are the apostles who raise up churches and define doctrines. There are the prophets who speak for God and speak forth God. There are the evangelists who preach Christ to save sinners. There are the shepherds and teachers who supply life and teach the truth. When we are in the church life attending all the meetings time after time according to the way revealed by the Bible, spontaneously we are perfected in many ways. Gradually, we learn to understand the Bible, we pick up a taste for it, and we find ourselves getting into its riches. We also find ourselves preaching the gospel, feeding and teaching others, prophesying for the Lord, and speaking the Lord into others. WLEE