Part 3 Then, by kindness. And how one fails in this, how little he raises to this idea! MEN and women long to find those who have a tender, kindly interest in them. And this should characterize the pastor. But next we read, By the Holy Ghost. He is to be a man not only indwelt by the Holy Ghost but filled with the Spirit but filled with the Spirit of God, living in the power of the Spirit, and so ministering by the Spirit. I have prayed hundreds of times, and I still pray, God keep me from ever being able to preach/teach except in the power of the Holy Spirit of God. And then again were ad, By love unfeigned. A love that is genuine, not put on, that is not pretended but is real, because implanted in the heart by the Spirit of God. By the word of truth. The minister of Christ must know his Bible, and preach the bible by the power of God, which only comes as one draws from Him in secret before appearing in public. By the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left. That is, right living, right doing. And then in closing this description of the ideal minister we have in verses 8 to 10, nine paradoxes which are all to be seen in the man of God. see: part 4.
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