The Baptism of the Holy Spirit Part 4 Kathryn Kuhlman

Now watch. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am become a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, understand all the mysteries, read it, that 13th chapter. of 1 Corinthians. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, though I gave my body to be burned and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Now, if you want to know whether one has really been filled with Holy Spirit, There will be the evidence of the fruit. There will be the evidence. Love suffereth long. Always patient. And is kind. Can your experience measure up with this? Endeth not. Sometimes I think we have more jealousies in our assemblies and in our churches than any place else in the world. The sin of jealousy is so prevalent. And it's the first sin that we have any record of whatsoever. That's what caused an angel to fall and become sick. Bonteth not itself. Is not puffed up. I'm going to stop right there and say something. You do not have the fruits of the Spirit. Watch this. If you have spiritual pride, you say, I have been filled. This gets me more than almost anything else. Somebody comes along and said, Oh, Ms. Gomez, so nice meeting you. I want you to know that I've been filled with the Holy Spirit. I've had the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I have all the gifts of the Spirit. And the more they talk, the more puffed up. I feel like taking a pin and just puncture the balloon. And I get away from that one so fast. Because, beloved, the greatest of all Christian graces is humility. And if you have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, remember, one of the fruits of the Spirit is humility. And some folks, after they think that they've been filled with the Holy Spirit, you can't... Touch them with a 10 -foot pole, they're so proud. Everybody else is on a lower level because they have received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. How many understand? Put up a hand. I'll go a step further when it comes to, and I'd like to take this whole thing, I'll go a step further when it comes to not only the fruits, but the gifts of the Spirit. If you have really received one or more of the gifts of the Spirit, you're not going to boast of it. You're not going to talk about it. Because these things are so sacred. These things are so sacred. They're so wonderful. It's like a beautiful jewel. It's precious. It's precious. You got it so well. No one will ever hear Catherine cool. ever admit that she has been given any gift to the Spirit. I would no more than anything in the world. I would no more. I would no more stand before an audience or even speak privately of any gift to the Spirit the Holy Spirit has ever given me. It's a gift. A responsibility that goes with it. And you got it. carefully in your God's gathering. And He gives you a reward for what the Holy Spirit has done and has given. I beg of you, if there's one in this place who's going around boasting of some gift of the Spirit, be careful. Be very careful how you use it. Be very careful. It's a sacred trust. It's something so precious you don't talk about. Much as I've said this morning may be absolutely contrary to your theology. I'm not going to speak on tongues. There shall be no doubt in your mind. I believe in the speaking in an unknown tongue. But when the Holy Spirit does the speaking, it's going to be beautiful. Wonderful. And he speaks perfectly. He speaks perfectly. Sometimes, in some of the actions of the fever, you would almost get the idea that the Holy Spirit was illiterate. He's not an imbecile. The one through whom Jesus... offered himself to be cured. Perfect wisdom, perfect knowledge, perfect in all things. And when he speaks, he'll speak beautifully. I'll tell you my first experience when I was young. I was so young. not more than 16 years of age in Joliet, Illinois. And the things that I've been talking to you about this morning was so new to me. I knew nothing about the nothing. And all that I knew when I first started out in the ministry was just salvation. I knew nothing more. Nothing. I knew nothing more. I only knew that I'd been born again. That's all. And you do not give to anyone else any more than what you've experienced. It was astounding. One night, I'd given an altar call. My personal work, I wasn't too wise in it. I practically locked the door, and if there was an unsaved person there, they didn't get out until I had them down on their knees. I pounded the devil right out of them. The Lord didn't do it. I did it for him. Oh, so unwise. I'd given the altar call. And then the services ended. There were still about three or four who were still kneeling. This was my first experience. I was sitting back with Isabel Drake's mother. Practically all the lights were turned out. I was saving electricity. Isabel Drake, a schoolteacher who would commute from Joliet, Illinois. into Chicago a very fine young lady was kneeling at the altar for salvation and I was sitting there quietly talking with her mother and suddenly Isabel Drake put back her head and the most beautiful singing the most Beautiful singing. As clean as a bell. It was beautiful. I never hear an opera singer. I never. When they hit those C's. I never. It was so deeply moved and affected. That's been years ago. It was perfect. I think I know a little bit of what the music is going to be like in heaven. Remember, when the Holy Spirit does it, it's perfection. There's never a wrong note. It's never flat. It's never sharp. When the Holy Spirit does it, it's perfection. And a mother grabbed my hand. She says, my daughter can't even carry a tune. That's not my daughter singing. That's not my daughter singing. And her face shone like an angel. And as she sang, oh, the perfection of it. She was glorifying and magnifying Jesus. And this continued for about five minutes. I thought it was it. I heard the singing of the Holy Spirit. My mother had never heard me preach it. If you only knew Mama. If you only knew Mama. Mama has died since. Mama had never heard me preach. The very first time was when she came to Denver, Colorado. I've got to believe in the speaking in a non -tongue. I've got to believe. But what I'm trying to say to you when he does it. It'll be perfection. It'll be perfection. Everything the Holy Spirit does is perfection. And after I finished preaching, I said, now there's a prayer room back here. And I thought, oh, what'll Mama think? What'll Mama think? And I'd been preaching on the power of the Holy Spirit. I don't think Mama understood one thing that I said. I don't think she did. Mama knew nothing about the Holy Spirit. Mama was Methodist. She didn't know too much about the new birth experience. I had to just slip back in the prayer room, and I'll go back with you. And so they came. When I walked off of that platform, Mama was just sitting there. She didn't come. She didn't know what it was all about. After about 15 minutes, the door of the prayer room opened. There must have been about a hundred or so more kneeling there praying. Everyone with their heads down. And I saw Mama come through that door. She only knew my mom. You can't appreciate this. You could not have convinced my mama. Spiritual things. She was so set in a way. If the Methodists didn't believe it, then it wasn't so. It wasn't so. Her father, my grandfather, was so Methodist that when he died, he would have staked life that only Methodists would be in heaven. I've often thought since, think what a surprise that Grandpa Walkenhurst got. And Mama knelt down. She hadn't been on her knees very long. I slowly walked over to her. Everybody was praying. And I laid my hands on her. She's such a quiet woman. When I touched her, my mama began to speak in a heavenly language. Mama never knew there was such a thing. My mama did not know there was such a thing as speaking in an unknown tongue. She didn't know it. She had never read it. She had never heard it. She had no light on it. She was not seeking for it. Explain these things, who can? Who can? And my mother began speaking just as softly and fluidly. It was glorious. I have to believe in speaking in an unknown tongue. I have to, I have to. I have no choice. Would you open your eyes? She took my hands and hers for the first time. ever approved me being in the work that I was in. I just took both of my hands in hers and she said, Catherine, preach it that others might receive what I have just received. You want to know something? My mother did not sleep. For three days and two nights. But I did not sleep. So great was the joy of the Lord upon her. She couldn't sleep. She couldn't sleep. There was no sleep in her. She couldn't destroy. The next morning, they came to say the joy. It's a joy. It's something. Who can explain it? There are no words in the human vocabulary. You know it. You know it. You know it. My mother was never the same again. Never. The next day, there was no sleep. This joy. I had a new mama. My mama was a new person. This love that radiated from her, this love. Nobody had to prompt her. Nobody had to teach her. This joy, this love, this love. And my mother never, never, never, never again was the same. My own experience. When I died, and I told you last night, I came to the place of a dead end street when I gave him body, soul, and spirit. I gave him body, soul, and spirit. And he came in, and he spoke through lips of clay. It was not Catherine Kuhlman, but it was when I gave him myself, all of me, all. All of me. All of me. It's so natural. It's so simple. You do not have to seek the manifestation. You just surrender to him and he does the rest. You know not how to pray or what to ask for. It's the Holy Spirit's over here in Romans. This is precious. I wish I had an entire hour on this. Likewise, the Spirit also help with our infirmities. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought. But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is in the mind of the Spirit because he maketh intercession. He maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. You say, have you ever spoken in tongues since? There are times when in my ignorance, my lack of knowledge, I know not how to pray. And a dear old brother McCloud, when I was so young and he was in his 80s, took my hand in his ears and said, never get out of the will of God, girl. And I didn't know what he was talking about. I know now. My own nature. is to be impulsive. But when it comes to the things of God, I'm so slow to move. I'm so afraid of getting out of the will of God. I'm so afraid of getting out of His will. I wouldn't get out of the will of God for anything in the world. And there are times I don't know. I don't know how to pray. I don't know. I come and stand there in that moment of crisis and I don't know. And I look up and always remember, when you get to the place where you have no will of your own, you cannot miss the will of God. It's not an easy place to get. That's the reason why when you come to those places you rush over to your neighbors and you rush over to somebody else and you want them to say what you want to hear. There is a place when you call and this is where the speaking in an unknown tongue comes in my life. I know now and remember something. The Holy Spirit is not given for our own pleasure and our own enjoyment. It is not. The Holy Spirit is given for service. It is not for our own pleasure. You're misusing the Holy Spirit. You're misusing this wonderful person if you're using him for your own pleasure. A little spiritual picnic when you get together with some of the saints of God. You're misappropriating the power of the Holy Ghost. But there is a time when you know not how to pray. But there is one who knows the perfect will of God. And he never works separate and apart from the Father. He never works separate and apart from Jesus. He has perfect knowledge as to the will of God. And when I get to the place, I have no will of my own. And I throw my stuff. upon the person who dwells within. And he comes before the throne and he makes intercession for me. And he speaks for me. And I can never miss the God, for he knows his will and talks to the Father for me.