Holy Spirit Baptism for Today: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 They told me that Holy Spirit baptism was one time on the day of Pentecost, or it was when you get saved, or it was when you got water baptized. And you people need to know how to answer this stuff, and you also need to know that there is an experience in God called the baptism of the Holy Ghost with power that is vitally important to your life, to the church life, and what God is doing in the earth. Okay, and I’m going to give you biology this morning. Are you ready? John 7:38-39. It is a promise to believers. Now, the Holy Spirit is called the Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth, Comforter, My Spirit, and we’re going to give you the facts of the Holy Spirit. All right, nothing but facts. “He that believes on Me.” Okay, how many of you believe on Jesus? Where’s the rest of you? Huh, now.

▶ 1:08 Okay, John 3:16 says, “He that believes on Me shall not perish but have everlasting life.” Same statement here, but instead of everlasting life, He says, “As the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” And this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive, for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. He hadn’t died and risen again, and so the Holy Spirit hadn’t been poured out on all flesh yet. But what’s the criteria for having the Holy Ghost? Believe. Okay, it’s not complicated. All right, and where will we experience this Holy Ghost? Out of your belly, innermost being. You’re going to experience it in that inner man that you really are, that spirit that’s really inside that body.

▶ 2:15 Let me just share with you here a minute. It said, “As the Scripture has said” in the Old Testament. In Job 32:18, Elihu said, “I am full of the matter, the spirit within me constrains me. Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent, it is ready to burst like new wine bottles.” See, in the Old Testament Scriptures God already said He was going to do this. All right, and it’s going to pour out of our innermost being. It’s not a ceremony, it’s not a ritual, it’s a real experience. In Isaiah 58:11: “You shall be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters fail not.” Hallelujah. And so this is the promise of that in John 7:38.

▶ 3:14 We find that Jesus is the baptizer in the Holy Ghost. All right, Luke 3:16: “I indeed baptize you with water, but One mightier than I comes,” this is John the Baptist talking, “the laces of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.” And that’s what happened on the day of Pentecost, tongues of fire, baptism of the Holy Ghost. All right, so Jesus is the baptizer, Jesus is the sender. Luke 24:49: “I send the promise of My Father upon you, but you wait in Jerusalem until you be clothed with power from on high.” You see, we receive and we are clothed with power when the Holy Ghost comes upon us. Acts 1:8: “You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you.” You see, the Scriptures don’t always use “baptized in the Holy Ghost” and “filled with the Holy Ghost.” It also uses a statement that the Holy Ghost comes upon you, so we put it on like a coat.

▶ 4:34 “And you shall be witnesses unto Me.” Everybody uses that as we’re witnessing to the world, in Jerusalem, Samaria, Judea, and the uttermost parts of the earth, but it isn’t stated that way. It’s “witnesses unto Me.” Now, a witness is someone who has seen or experienced facts. And so “witnesses unto Me,” we experience His salvation, we see His truths, we experience the baptism of the Holy Ghost, we experience water baptism. Witnesses unto Him. Are you there?

▶ 5:24 In Acts 22:15, God tells Paul, “You shall be His witnesses unto all men of what you have seen and heard.” Now here He’s saying, Paul, you’re going to go and be witnesses of what you’ve seen and heard. So Paul had the first what? See truth and hear truth, possess truth before he could go and be a witness to people that didn’t know the truth. Have you got it? See, first we’ve got to see, we’ve got to hear, we got to possess. That makes us witnesses unto Him. See, we are proof that His salvation works. We are proof, and then He sends us as witnesses to the world.

▶ 6:22 It is the Spirit of God with natural, supernatural signs. Okay, it is the Spirit of God. Acts 2:17: “It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out,” whose Spirit? My Spirit. So the Holy Ghost is whose Spirit? God’s Spirit. Are you with me? All right, “upon all flesh.” How many flesh? All. So you can be baptized, filled with, have the Holy Ghost come upon you with power. “Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy.” “Prophesy” there just simply means speaking by the inspiration of the Spirit. How many could use a tongue that’s spoke by the inspiration of the Spirit instead of the inspiration of your emotions? Yeah. See, this thing is important. This Holy Spirit is very important. “Your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your young men will see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.” Now these are indications of the manifestations of the Spirit of God.

▶ 7:48 In Acts 21:9, Philip had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy. Okay, they spoke by the inspiration of the Spirit. Agabus, he was the office of a prophet. There’s a big difference when you go into predicting. You are saying, “I’m in the office of a prophet. I’m like Jeremiah, I’m like Isaiah, I’m like John the Baptist, I’m like Jesus, I’m like Paul,” and if you miss one time, the Bible says you’re a false prophet and we’re not to fear you. Now, prophesying for edification, exhortation, and comfort is totally different. And so somebody over there brought up a false prophet to me, and I said, “What name did you say?”

▶ 8:42 And he repeated the name. I said, “That guy’s a false prophet. I know that guy.” I said, “He gives Spirit-filled people a bad name, and those guys with him are false prophets, because they miss.” And when you predict that something’s going to happen in your name and you miss, that’s it, it’s over. Could that be an amen? And Spirit-filled people need to stop being in fantasy land, thinking these guys have some kind of connection with God, and they are missing. They are prophesying and they are missing in the name of the Holy Ghost, and it does give us a bad name. Are you there?

▶ 9:34 So, visions. Remember, Peter had visions that the Gentiles were not unclean, and he had a vision of an angel coming to him in jail and bringing him out. Stephen was full of the Holy Ghost, he had a vision of Jesus standing at the right hand of God and saw the glory of God. Folks, that’s the kind of visions that we need, not pizza nightmares. Most people come to me with visions, and I just tell them, “Listen, did you have pizza last night and have a pizza nightmare?” There’s no message in it, there’s no edification in it, there’s nothing but you trying to show your kind of spiritual nothing, that you think you’re something that’s not. The visions. Other names of the Holy Spirit.

▶ 10:26 John 14:16: “I will pray the Father and He will give you another Comforter.” Okay, “Comforter” is a legal adviser, an advocate, a counselor, a helper. How many could use a counselor and a helper? Yes. And when it comes to God’s Word, could you use a little legal advice instead of men’s? Yes, this Holy Ghost is important. Okay, He’s the Comforter. He’s not out to condemn you, He’s not out to punish you, He is out to change you and help you in your time of need. There’s nothing weird about the Holy Ghost.

▶ 11:11 Just because some people make it weird doesn’t mean the Holy Ghost is weird. “Now He will abide with you” for how long? Yeah, see, Jesus said, “I will never leave you or forsake you,” and the Holy Ghost won’t forsake you. He’s going to stick with you. And He’s called the Spirit of Truth. Is He ever going to lie to you? Would He ever give a false prophecy? No. You can’t give a false prophecy and say it’s from the Spirit or from God. He’s a Spirit of Truth, He only speaks truth and only drives you to truth.

▶ 11:55 Okay, John 14:26: “The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, will teach you” what? “All things.” See, I can get up here and I can give you Bible knowledge, I can guide you through the Bible and teach you, but who has to really teach you? The Holy Spirit. You got to let the Holy Spirit enlighten you, open your spiritual understanding. So you can sit there and turn me off, you can sit there and turn the Holy Ghost off. In fact, I got up here, we can grieve the Holy Ghost, we can quench the Holy Ghost, and we can resist the Holy Ghost, and so many people resist Him. And a lot of people who got saved and moved on and got water baptized, were following the Spirit and all that, then they get worldly and they quench the Holy Ghost. They put Him out, they can’t hear His voice anymore. And you grieve Him when you live a bad lifestyle. You really grieve Him. Are you with me?

▶ 13:06 But see, when we’re living a bad lifestyle, we shove Him out of our life. We don’t want His voice telling us, “Straighten up.” And He’s only going to speak to us what? Truth. He is a Spirit of Truth. He’s not going to approve of you when you’re wrong. You got to get in your little clique and get them to approve of you, because the Holy Ghost isn’t going to do it, and that’s why we have our little cliques. We need to get into the Holy Spirit clique. The Bible says the scribes and the Pharisees rejected the counsel of God.

▶ 13:42 The Holy Spirit, we can reject the Holy Ghost. You can reject Him this morning. You can be a religious person and actually reject the Holy Spirit convicting you and trying to convince you of truth. You can just shove Him aside. I did it as a young man. I believed in God, but I had plans and I had purposes, and I would just shove that Holy Ghost away. I didn’t want to be convicted, I didn’t want to be convinced of another way, I wanted my way, until finally He got my attention, and it’s been a great life ever since.

▶ 14:16 Now, the fulfilled part. Okay, we’re going to show you that it’s a separate event from water baptism, it’s a separate event from salvation. Okay, these people said that the Holy Ghost was only given on the day of Pentecost, that was it. Or they said you get it at salvation, or they said you get it when you’re water baptized. And even though I showed them these Scriptures, they simply said, “We don’t interpret it that way.” That was their answer. Acts 1:14 through chapter 2:2. They were all in one accord in prayer and supplication. Okay, here’s how to get God’s presence in a church. We need to be in one accord and in worship.

▶ 15:05 How do you stay in one accord? Who do you follow? The song leader. If the song leader claps their hands, you clap your hands. Song leader raises the hand, you raise your hand. See, that way we can be in unity. It’s that simple, church. It’s not a mystery. If the song leader asks you to stand, what do we do? Stand, unless there’s something physically wrong. There’s no problem if you physically can’t stand. All right, and if you don’t want to lift your hands, you don’t have to. But if you want the glory of God to come in the church, if you’re part of the church and you want God’s presence to come, He is telling you to get in unity.

▶ 15:53 Amen. And the Bible says to lift your hands, the Bible says to sing unto God, the Bible says to stand in His presence, the Bible says to kneel before Him. All these are Bible things. And so when we join together, then people come in, and I’ve seen it in days past, not so much here because we’re all doing our little thing, but I’ve seen it in days past when the church was in unity, unbelievers come in and they, well, everybody’s got their hands up, I better raise my hand up, and God honors it. Amen. Everybody’s clapping, I better clap, and then God honors it.

▶ 16:28 God touches them. But when you got everybody doing their own thing, no one sees Jesus exalted, they see you. When you go to the military, those guys are in step. If one guy is out of step, you don’t see the other group, you see that one guy that’s out of step. That’s who your attention is drawn to. And see, when we want to do our own thing, we bring attention to ourselves, not to Jesus. Amen. You got the principle, folks. This stuff works. I’m telling you, it works. God honors it, and we need the Spirit of God in our services.

▶ 17:20 They were praying and they were supplicating, they were petitioning God for this Holy Ghost. Supplication is a petition. “A sound came from heaven as a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the house where they were sitting. There appeared unto them cloven tongues like as fire.” That’s what John said, He would baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire. That’s what happened on the day of Pentecost, and it sat upon each one of them. All right, and they were what? All filled. All 120 people in that upper room were filled with the Holy Ghost, not just the apostles.

▶ 17:55 And they began to what? Speak. You see, I got it in red because this is a result of the Holy Ghost. He affects your tongue, and you’re going to learn how to speak from the Holy Spirit. And they spoke with other languages, okay, “as the Spirit gave them utterance.” They didn’t fake it, they didn’t pretend it like I saw in Pentecostal churches when I was a young believer. They would come up and tickle their chin and say, “Jibber jibber jib jra.” That ain’t it. I’m a young Christian and I know better than that. You don’t manufacture, God does it. Hallelujah.

▶ 18:41 And someone asked me, “Well, how do you know when you’ve been filled with the Holy Ghost?” Believe me, you will know. It comes from your innermost being. It is a visitation of power, supernatural ability. Believe me, you will know, tongues or no tongues, you will know. All right, “the Spirit gave them utterance.” Do we want the Spirit to come in our church and speak? Amen, to build the church of God and touch people’s lives. Yeah, folks, without Him we’re just a social club. Don’t you get it? You take the Holy Ghost out of this, we just got a social club. You get the Holy Ghost in it, you got a church.

▶ 19:26 Now, also over there they’re teaching this communal living doctrine. I haven’t heard that since the hippies. God, and I went down in Acts 2, it said they all had all things in common, and they sold the properties, and later, you know, no one said anything was their own. And I told the guy, I said, “Man, you’re a millionaire. You’re a graduate of Yale, and you say that is communal living?”

▶ 19:58 I said, “Don’t you know that Philip had a house? Are you there? Simon had a house. They taught from house to house. These people still lived in a house by themselves.” And folks, they sold their properties for the, they understood the abomination of desolation that was coming. They understood that the property around Jerusalem was going to be worthless because Daniel’s abomination of desolation was coming, and so they sold all this other stuff and their investments because they knew it was not going to have any value, but they kept their houses. All right, and then they were persecuted and sent out all over.

▶ 20:45 Okay, are they already believers? Yes. Okay, have they all been baptized? Yes, the apostles have been baptized. They were already believers, and now the Holy Ghost came, a separate experience from water baptism and salvation. And the Bible also says to covet to prophesy and “forbid not to speak in tongues.” I said, “What do you do with that verse? You guys don’t even believe in tongues.” The one worried about, for, you know, heaven to forbid it. I said, “What do you do with that verse? That verse implies there’s going to be tongues, there’s going to be languages. Isn’t that right?” And he says, “Don’t stop it, just get it organized.”

▶ 21:37 He also said that tongues are a sign for who? For who? The unbeliever. Oh, now that should jar a lot of us Pentecostal people, because we get in our little tongue-talking contest, and tongues are a sign for who? The unbeliever. You want to get unbelievers’ attention, let the Holy Spirit move in a language that you don’t know. It will get their attention if they know it. Power. Power to speak, power to smite the enemies, power to do miracles, power to convert souls. Acts 4:8: Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost. Now, Peter had already been filled with the Holy Ghost in Acts chapter 2, right? Now he’s filled again, as an individual, not a group. This one, this is an individual. He was filled with the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost came upon him, and he said unto the leaders that were angry because they healed that guy at the temple, he spoke a powerful word of God to them. So the result of the Holy Ghost coming on Peter was speaking.

▶ 22:48 All right, chapter 4:31: “When they had prayed.” Okay, the church got together. They persecuted, they beat the apostles, the church got together and they prayed in one accord. Now, what’s being in one accord? Everybody doing the same thing at the same time. We worship, we pray, you know, that’s being in one accord. We pray for the what? We want God to do, and we pray together, we worship together. See, when they were in one accord praying, the place was shaken. Boy, how many would like to see this barn shake? Amen. Yeah, some of us need to see something shake. You know, we say we serve a supernatural God, then we take the supernatural out of Him.

▶ 23:46 “And they were all filled.” How many? All that were in there with the Holy Ghost, “and they spoke the word of God with boldness.” Here there’s no tongues. They just spoke the Word of God with what? Confidence. Confidence. Are you confident when you speak the Word of God? The Holy Ghost will give you that confidence, because He will only allow you to speak truth, not your opinion, so you can speak confidently. And I try to tell young ministers, speak like it’s God’s Word. It’s truth. Don’t speak like it’s a suggestion, it’s your opinion. Speak like it is. It is truth. Amen.

▶ 24:41 “Confidently, and with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of Jesus. Great power, great grace was upon them all.” We told you that grace is to grow. We’re supposed to grow in grace. That grace has a doctrine. Grace isn’t just favor from God and I’m His little, you know, believer that He just favors me. No, grace is divine enablement. There’s power in grace, and “great grace” was upon them, not a little bit of grace. So how many would like more grace? Yeah, it’s Bible to want more grace. Don’t believe these people that just, “You’re just favored and God just loves you no matter what.”

▶ 25:26 There is divine enablement for greater things. Okay, this is the second time they were filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts 13:9. Paul already had been filled with the Holy Spirit, had his eyes open, met Jesus on the road to Damascus, but here in 13:9, Paul was filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on the sorcerer, and smote him with blindness. The sorcerer was trying to distract the people from hearing the Word, and Paul just looked at it and said, “God smite you with blindness.” Bam, the guy went blind. You see, it gives us power to smite our enemies, cast out demons. There’s power in the Holy Ghost. It gives us power to embarrass the enemy.

▶ 26:19 Verse 52: the disciples were filled with joy and with the what? Holy Ghost. They already been filled twice, and here they are filled again. So it is a what? Continual experience. So that means they weren’t always filled with the Holy Ghost, but when the Holy Ghost wanted to do something, He come upon them, and out of their innermost being these words flow out and things happened. And this is what us Pentecostals have got to get together. I don’t know, you know this, but your pastor is a Spirit-filled person. He has spoken in tongues.

▶ 27:05 When I spoke in Third World countries, I interpreted a lot of tongues. All right, it is a sign for the unbeliever. Doesn’t happen so much in America. And this happened in Iconium, and they so spoke that a great multitude believed. They so spoke by the Holy Ghost that a great multitude believed. How many would like to see [unclear] really get a word from the Spirit of God? Amen, yes. See, that’s our cry, that’s my cry, that we get past the form and into the force. Yes, see, we get past the fear and into the force.

▶ 27:55 Okay, are they already believers? Yep. Have they been water baptized? Yeah. See, it didn’t happen at water baptism, it didn’t happen when they believe, it happened when God made it happen. It happens when it happens. Acts 8:12: “When they believed Philip preaching the things of the kingdom of God,” he went down to Samaria, and the name of Jesus Christ, and miracles, “they were all baptized, both men and women.” Okay, so they believed. Okay, are they filled with the Holy Ghost? Not yet. Are they baptized in water? Yes. Are they filled with the Holy Ghost yet? No. Verse 14: Peter and John came down and prayed for them to receive the Holy Ghost, “as yet He was fallen upon none of them.”

▶ 28:51 Now here they use the word “fallen.” See, come upon. “Only they were baptized in the name of the Lord.” Had they been water baptized? Had they been water baptized? The story is the story, church. Do you get it? Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost. A different experience from salvation, a different experience from water baptism. Already believers, they were already baptized. Okay, now separate event. You agree? Is that what the Scripture says? Yes. Say amen if you got it. Amen. All right, say it with fortitude. Amen. All right, now I believe you.

▶ 29:49 Now, this one is really interesting. God really dazzles you when you come to Cornelius. All right, I mean, everything is backwards here. God just don’t fall into our little pattern all the time, and He does have a pattern, but He’s God, He can go outside His pattern. We’re not allowed to, but He’s God, He can do anything He wants when He wants. Okay, Cornelius is a Roman soldier, praying and fasting. An angel came, told him go down and get Peter to come up and preach to him. So he went down and got Peter, Peter come up and spoke, and as Peter spoke the Word of God, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the Word.

▶ 30:30 All these people came to Cornelius’s house. They were unbelievers. Peter had to come and preach the gospel to them. These were unbelievers, and before he could have an altar call for salvation, God just filled them with the Holy Ghost. How could He do such a thing? Because He knew these dumbbells in the future would twist the Scriptures and rob people of a real experience in God, a powerful experience in God, by their theological interpretations. And so here He really just messes everything up.

▶ 31:08 They were filled with the Holy Ghost before a salvation call and before their water baptism, and they of the circumcision, the Jews that came with Peter, were astonished because on the Gentiles was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. They were just astonished. How can this be? You know, it’s us [unclear], no more. You know, it’s just us people, with the, we’re the people. Hallelujah. And God said He would pour out His Spirit on how many flesh? All flesh. You are a candidate for the Holy Ghost. “For they heard them speak with tongues.” Oh, tongues again.

▶ 31:43 My gosh, how could God do such a thing? They spoke with tongues again and magnified God, or praised God. Remember, on the day of Pentecost they spoke the mighty works of God. Here they praise and enlarged, magnified God. Then commanded Peter that they be baptized in water in the name of the Lord. Amen. First you got the Holy Ghost, then you got them believing, and then you got them water baptized. He’s God. He had definitely, this is a what? Separate experience from water baptism and the salvation of your soul. Unbelievers, not baptized, they got the Holy Ghost.

▶ 32:37 All right, now we go to Acts 19. Here Paul comes to Ephesus, and Paul says, “Have you people received the Holy Ghost since you believed?” And of course they were in a group that didn’t teach the Holy Ghost. And see, when you don’t teach the baptism of the Holy Ghost, you are robbing the people of a powerful experience in God that will help them in daily life and help us reach the world for Christ. You got that? And here’s a group that wasn’t teaching. They said, “We never heard of it.” So when Paul preached to them, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

▶ 33:23 Paul laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came upon them, and they spoke with tongues. Oh my God, that tongue again. That tongue just drives people nuts. They spoke in languages again, and they prophesied. They spoke by the inspiration, they did both of them. All right, so three out of five times they spoke with tongues, and we don’t know one of those times if they did or not because he didn’t say. He just didn’t say. And tongues are a sign for who? The unbeliever. Don’t forget that. Tongues are a sign for the unbeliever, prophecy is for the believer. Hallelujah.

▶ 34:16 Now, I tell these brethren, you know, us Pentecostals, we do make mistakes. Okay, we get too shaken, we slain in the Spirit, we fall for this stuff, and we even have babies in Christ that speak some silly things. Okay, me and Mr. Barnes heard some of that in one of the services. Didn’t bother us any, we just knew they were babies in Christ. And you know, children, they say strange things, and we just laugh and we don’t kick them out of the house and condemn them. These things hurt no one. I asked them, “How does tongues hurt you?” It doesn’t hurt you. There’s no physical harm, there’s no spiritual harm because somebody speaks in tongues. If somebody shakes and falls down on the ground, how does that hurt you? Why are you offended at that? That does no personal harm to you, does it? You’re only hurt because they’re not believing what you believe. That’s why you’re hurt. It’s called pride.

▶ 35:27 But I said, “Now, let’s get to your end. You’re telling people that the Holy Ghost isn’t for today. That hurts them because you’re robbing them of a tremendous experience and truth in God. I said, are you over here, you’re telling them that they get the Holy Ghost when they were water baptized and they didn’t get anything. You’re robbing them. I said, who’s really doing the hurting here? You’re robbing people of an experience in God.” Amen. So we have a few funny things going on.

▶ 36:15 I would, listen, I would rather be in a Spirit-filled church with some funny things going on, and believe me, I have the authority to control things. You don’t believe me, you watch funny things happen. Yeah, we don’t have to hurt people and step on them, we can just guide them. We can grow in this thing. How many, when you first got on a bicycle, didn’t crash it? Most of us wrecked the bike, don’t we? Okay, so we do some funny things with the Holy Ghost. They’re babies, we’re babies, we’re learning. Could that be an amen? Amen, yes. What we need is that power. We need that power that changes people’s life in our services.

▶ 37:01 Okay, they are believers, they are baptized. Clearly the Holy Ghost baptism is another separate experience. Amen. Now, conclusion: “Clothed with power,” “receive power,” “witnesses unto Me.” The baptism of the Holy Ghost is another spiritual miracle like salvation. Okay, the Bible says that, I don’t care what you believe, the Bible say you have to preach above your experience before you’re going to experience it. You have to believe above your experience before you’re going to experience it. Don’t take your experience and bring the Bible down to your lack of experience. You speak the Bible and He will bring your experience up to what you’re speaking and believing. Separate from water baptism and salvation, we saw it clearly, didn’t we? There’s nothing to interpret, is there? Power to speak, smite your enemies, do miracles, and win souls. Do we need that in the church at Mountainside? Yes.

▶ 38:13 As John says, “I must decrease and He must increase.” How many of you realize we got to decrease and let God increase in this church? We got to get out of our opinions, we got to get out of our cultural antics, and we got to say, “God, arise,” if we want to see a visitation. And I guarantee you, when God starts moving, people will come. The Holy Ghost baptism is for a purpose, either in the assembly or individually, whether they’re filled, baptized, or the Spirit comes upon them. All right, it’s for a purpose. It’s not for you to feel good, and that’s not totally true. There are times of refreshing, you need to be refreshed, but not to where you have to roll around on the floor and shake and bake. And just that refreshing on the inner man, that strengthening in the inner man. You see, it’s for a purpose. He’s a Comforter, He’s a Spirit of Truth that teaches us all things.

▶ 39:17 So I challenge this church today. People need power, freeing them from sin, Satan, and self, and they need refreshing from God. This is what I liked about the Spirit-filled churches when I went to them. You could feel God. He would penetrate your being. He would convict you that you’re wrong. I was always wrong. I hadn’t given my heart to Christ yet. I believed in God, but I wasn’t about to serve Him because I had plans, man, I had plans. But that presence comes, you can feel Him. It’s like putting gas in your tank.

▶ 40:06 You know, we run out of gas, we run out of spiritual gas, we get refilled. It’s a refreshing, and people need that. And people need the Holy Ghost to convict them of sin, forgive them of sin, and cleanse them of sin, and encourage them. Remember, prophecy is for edification, exhortation, and comfort. People need that comfort, people need that building up. See, and Paul said in 1 Corinthians 14, “Let all things be done to edify.” Everything we do should be to build up the people of God, make them better people, and that’s what the ministry of the Holy Ghost is for.

▶ 40:53 We’ve got to get the word out. They told me over there they send us to go to politicians, politicians is of the devil, you know, and all this stuff. I go, man, this world is still believing the lies of Satan in the garden when Satan told Jesus that all these kingdoms are given to me and I can give them to who I want. He’s lying through his teeth. The Bible plainly tells us over and over that the nations, the kingdoms, belong to the Lord. Amen. He was lying. Politicians need to hear the Word of God.

▶ 41:27 Unbelievers need to hear the Word of God. Unlearned people, unlearned people, they’re believers but they’re unlearned, they need to hear this Word that God has given this church. And to whom much is given, much is required. Folks, we got to get this word out. We’ve got to buck up, we’ve got to get together and get this word out: printed, Internet, radio, TV, CD. You know, Christine and Mike were really good on a camera, I’ve noticed. They really have camera appeal. Me and Mr. Barnes, we don’t, you know, we don’t look so good on camera.

▶ 42:07 And remember, the Holy Ghost will guide you into all truth. When you really get filled with the Holy Ghost, you will not only know because of the feeling. He will not allow you to be lazy in the Word of God, because it’s the Word that set you free. He will drive you to the Word, He will drive you to church to learn the Word. You will have a motivational factor in your life.