The Baptism of the Holy Spirit Part 3 Kathryn Kuhlman

Open our understandings, please. Flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee, but to my Father, which is in heaven. Open our understanding. Let him that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith. But remember, it was the sovereignty of God when the heart Holy Spirit came upon the Old Testament saints, but that was changed after Jesus came. Jesus knew the secret of his power. Those miracles you read are the miracles. When you read the miracles in the New Testament, it was the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus knew that being in the flesh, he could not perform miracles. And yet he knew there would have to be the manifestation of the supernatural power of God. That's the reason in essence when he said to them, if you won't believe all that I say that I am, then believe me for the very work's sake. And he knew that there would have to be the supernatural power of God. Or they would never accept him. And that was the reason he offered himself first to the Holy Spirit. And he said, if you'll come, if you'll be with me, if you'll manifest the supernatural power of the Father through me, I'll go because I'll need that manifestation. I'll need it. And Jesus understood every time there was a miracle. Jesus understood. He understood perfectly well it was the Holy Spirit. And those miracles did not begin until after Jesus came up out of the waters of baptism. And God spoke. And in that hour, the Holy Spirit came upon him as a dove. Then, before he went away, he told about the Holy Spirit. He told him he would come. Read it there in John. He'll teach you all things. He'll guide you. I'd give anything in the world if I could stay with you longer and take all of these scriptures. But when you read your scripture now in the light of that which I've been teaching you, light and light will come. He will glorify me. And always remember, that the Holy Spirit will always glorify Jesus. Always. Jesus said he would. And the Holy Spirit always magnifies. That's the reason I say to you sometimes we get so involved with our own ideas. There are those who run such a hobby on the Holy Spirit that they have forgotten all about Jesus. they have forgotten all about Jesus. And Jesus made it very definite that the Holy Spirit will magnify and glorify me. It's still Jesus. But just before he went away wanting to give his church, now whenever I speak of the church, I'm talking about this body of believers because there is only one who can say, my church. Only one. When you say my church, you talk about the denomination to which you belong. But the one who could really say my church was Jesus, this glorious body of believers. And every person, whether they be Jew or Gentile, Catholic or Protestant, whoever that one may be, when they have this wonderful new birth experience, they are automatically born into this body of beliefs. Mine. These that thou hast given unto me, Jesus said when he talked to the Father. There is literally this kinship, this relationship. We are a part of him and he is the head of this wonderful body of believers. In this holy sanctuary this morning, it makes no difference who you are. And I dare say that we have practically every denomination represented here. It makes no difference. where you have the church membership, if you have had that new birth experience, then you are my brother and my sister. And we are a member of this great body of believers, this body of Christ. But remember, before he went away, he wanted to give to this body of believers. the greatest gift that he could possibly give. The Holy Spirit had been so faithful to him. The Holy Spirit had come through every time. The Holy Spirit had been so faithful. He depended on him. We had not let him down. And so, knowing he was going to go away, he said, it's expedient for you that I go away. I have to go away, for I'm soon to take the position of great high priest, ever living to make intercession for you. And that's the reason not one of us needs ever be defeated. Not one. There isn't one of his children that needs ever go down in defeat for one second. Not one second. I don't care what the temptation is. I don't care. Not one of us need ever go down in defeat. We have a great high priest. We have one who ever liveth to make intercession for us. And he'll be right there to give you the strength to come through victoriously. So he says, I'll give you the gift. Now remember, he came upon only a few in the Old Testament. But now, now it was different. Now. And ye shall receive a power. And he's talking to his own. His own. His own. Members of this great body. You cannot limit it just to the few in the upper room. You cannot limit it to the 120. For he was not speaking to just the 120. And he made it known. The Holy Spirit made it known to whom this glorious power was to come upon. He made it known to the lips of Peter. To you. To this generation. to the generation that follows and the generation after that and the generation after that. Even to that hour in the First Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This promise is unto you and your children and your children's children and their children. And he included me. You dare not limit the Holy Spirit to just the early church. You dare not limit to this wonderful experience to just 120. And ye shall receive power. What power? The same power that was manifested in his life and ministry. The same. Manifestation. After that, the Holy Ghost is come upon you. And the greatest gift that Jesus could possibly give to his church was the gift of the Holy Spirit. It's a part of your inheritance. It's yours. It's a part of your inheritance. You don't know what you're missing. You don't know what you've been missing all this time. You don't know. You don't know. It's a glorious experience. It's a marvelous experience. But you say to this woman, how is one filled with the Holy Spirit? It's so simple. It's like that about everything when it comes to the spiritual things. Healing is so simple. There's some hard thing he'd asked us to do. It's so simple that most folk miss it. Now we come to the thing of tongues and the experience. First of all, let me answer this as simply as I can. How is one filled with the Holy Spirit? He is with you, the scripture says, but he shall be in you. The Holy Spirit is with every Christian. If you're born again, the Holy Spirit is with you. He was even with you before you were born again because it's the Holy Spirit who convicts the sinner of sin and of judgment. The Holy Spirit is the mighty convicting power. Know that. If only you could realize the importance of the Holy Spirit. He is the convicting power. No man comes to the Lord of himself. If you're convicted, that is the Holy Spirit. He is with every Christian. If you're born again, He is with you. He's with every child of God. But when it comes to this experience, but he shall be in you. In. In. In. That makes a mighty close. In you. Here. But how? Let me give you a simple illustration that I possibly can. When we're born again. Let's say, for instance, our heart has four wounds in it. You want to know something? I don't think we could take it all at once. You know it? I really don't. Do you really want to know how powerful is the Holy Spirit? Do you really want to know? That's the reason when it comes to the slaying power of the Holy Spirit. And there are those who witness to the fact that it was like a bowl of electricity. Do you know what you're dealing with? Something greater than any electricity. These old physical bodies of ours can just take so much. They're not geared for all this power. You understand? That's the reason no man can look upon the face of God and live. All that Moses saw was the hinder part. That's the reason I know that God has a body. He's more than something ethereal. He's more than spirit. Moses literally saw. God is more than just spirit. Oh, I'd like to spend the next hour just on that, but I can't do it. But remember, the four rooms of our hearts and at the time of salvation, we think we've given him everything. We think we have. And we open, as it were, one room of our heart and say, come in, Lord Jesus. Come in. And he comes in. We're born again. But there's something about the next day, you know. It's a light. It's something that's constant. It's glorious. It's a definite transaction. That new birth experience is a definite transaction. The songwriter had it when he wrote the words in the first stanza, some of self and some of thee. Then the next verse, less of self and more of thee. And then, none of self I can't put it better. None of self. But all of these. None of self. And it's the hardest thing in the world sometimes, I think, is for men and women to die. To die. None of self. None of self. none of self, but all thee. But remember, he comes in as you worship and adore Jesus, for Jesus said he'd magnify me. And you get exactly what you seek for. And many a person has sought tongues. tongues you cannot show to me from the word of God you cannot no theologian can show me and prove to me in the word of God that you and I were ever commanded to seek tongues and I believe in the speaking in an unknown tongue I believe in it with every atom of my being. Don't you dare go out of here. Don't you dare. I'll pray conviction on you that you won't sleep. And no sleeping pill will help you out. Don't you dare. I believe in the speaking in an unknown tongue. I've got to believe it. It's here. In the house of Cornelius, I believe. But they were at no time commanded to seek them. Never. Repel himself. They were seeking the Holy Spirit. In the upper room is 120. They were seeking him, the Holy Spirit. And in the final analysis, my friend, when you talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it's still just more of Jesus and more and more and more and more and more and more of Jesus. And what, my friend, is the speaking in an unknown tongue if you do not have the power of the Holy Ghost and the love of Jesus? I'll go back to that in just a second. If you seek tongues and you're not scriptural, you're absolutely not scriptural. If you get down on your knees and pray for tongues, you're not scriptural. You're not scriptural. You seek more of Jesus. And the Holy Spirit comes in through praise. and adoration. You worship Jesus. He will glorify me. And when you get to the place where you love Jesus with all of your heart, it's so easy to die to self when you have Jesus, when you love Jesus. It isn't a matter of struggling. It's so easy when you love Jesus enough to surrender to Jesus. And you love him and you adore him. And the Holy Spirit comes in. And he will announce his own incoming. It isn't that you seek any evidence. You don't seek the evidence. The evidence will come. And you don't have to seek the evidence. The evidence will come. How many understand? Put up a hand. And the greater of the two evidences is the power that's manifested in your life. For Jesus himself said, and he shall receive power. Don't let us put words. in the mouth of Jesus. Don't go contrary to the teaching of the Master. His last words. He knew human nature so well. And ye shall receive power after that Holy Ghost has come upon you. And the greatest evidence of having been filled with the Holy Spirit will be the fruit of the Spirit. Yeah? I'm gonna tell you something. When you plant a peach tree, and if that's a genuine peach tree, you're not gonna get crab apples. And remember something else. Noise is in power. Yeah. I had an old Model T Ford one time. First car I rode. Oh, man. I'm going to tell you something. It's that old Ford. If noise had been power, that would have been the most powerful thing that ever was on the road. Back in Idaho. Love is the only thing. I think I got it for $35. It's all I could afford. But say you die one of Tinker Wilkerson's new imperials.