WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.200 Gifts of the Spirit. And today we're going to 00:00:05.200 --> 00:00:07.419 have another one of those heart -to -heart talks. 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:13.060 And if ever there was a time when I prayed that 00:00:13.060 --> 00:00:19.920 the Holy Spirit would give me a definite anointing 00:00:19.920 --> 00:00:26.800 and give you an open heart and an open mind and 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:30.760 an understanding, of the things of the Spirit, 00:00:30.879 --> 00:00:37.579 I pray that prayer now. For some of you, perhaps, 00:00:37.859 --> 00:00:41.359 I will have come into your home today and will 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:45.539 have left, and you'll have no understanding whatsoever 00:00:45.539 --> 00:00:53.560 of that which I am speaking. Others, sitting 00:00:53.560 --> 00:00:58.060 there receptive to the Spirit, And as he opens 00:00:58.060 --> 00:01:03.500 your understanding, it will prove to be one of 00:01:03.500 --> 00:01:09.420 the greatest times of fellowship and the greatest 00:01:09.420 --> 00:01:14.239 time of communing with him that you and I have 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:22.140 had together. The gifts of the Spirit. And again, 00:01:22.180 --> 00:01:25.500 I am reminding you that nine gifts are mentioned 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:29.670 here. in the 12th chapter of 1 Corinthians. But 00:01:29.670 --> 00:01:34.849 don't limit the Holy Spirit. He who is limitless 00:01:34.849 --> 00:01:40.049 in power, then truly he must be limitless in 00:01:40.049 --> 00:01:45.730 his giving, even to the giving of gifts. I would 00:01:45.730 --> 00:01:51.989 not limit him to just nine gifts. I believe that 00:01:51.989 --> 00:01:55.840 there are gifts in operation today. in the lives 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.540 of individuals, in the church that few of us 00:02:00.540 --> 00:02:05.819 recognize. But the nine that are mentioned here 00:02:05.819 --> 00:02:09.000 in the 12th chapter of 1 Corinthians are the 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:15.319 gift of wisdom, the gift of the word of knowledge, 00:02:15.560 --> 00:02:23.860 the gift of faith, the gifts of healing, the 00:02:23.860 --> 00:02:28.280 gift of the working of miracles, the gift of 00:02:28.280 --> 00:02:34.060 prophecy, the discerning of spirits, diverse 00:02:34.060 --> 00:02:38.259 kinds of tongues, and the interpretation of tongues. 00:02:40.159 --> 00:02:43.680 All of these worketh by that one and selfsame 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:50.759 spirit, dividing to every man severally as he 00:02:50.759 --> 00:03:01.490 will. Remember, the Holy Spirit controls the 00:03:01.490 --> 00:03:06.110 giving of the gift. He will also control the 00:03:06.110 --> 00:03:10.250 gift. First of all, I want you to see something. 00:03:11.409 --> 00:03:16.610 And that is that the key regarding the gifts 00:03:16.610 --> 00:03:23.759 of the Spirit is found in... one verse of Scripture, 00:03:24.139 --> 00:03:29.500 and it's that sixth verse of the 12th chapter 00:03:29.500 --> 00:03:36.539 of 1 Corinthians. The manifestation of the Spirit 00:03:36.539 --> 00:03:42.340 is given to every man to profit withal. Therefore, 00:03:42.340 --> 00:03:47.280 we see here that the gifts of the Spirit are 00:03:47.280 --> 00:03:52.680 called manifestations of the Spirit. Therefore, 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:57.479 wherever you see gifts of the Spirit in operation, 00:03:57.800 --> 00:04:00.219 whether it's the gift of healing, whether it's 00:04:00.219 --> 00:04:02.360 the gift of faith, whether it's the gift of the 00:04:02.360 --> 00:04:04.340 working of miracles, whether it's the gift of 00:04:04.340 --> 00:04:09.639 wisdom or of knowledge, or the speaking in an 00:04:09.639 --> 00:04:12.099 unknown tongue, or the interpretation of tongue, 00:04:12.180 --> 00:04:19.079 or in the gift of prophecy, wherever you see 00:04:20.459 --> 00:04:24.800 The gifts of the Spirit in operation through 00:04:24.800 --> 00:04:32.160 a life, through a human being, always know that 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:38.360 it is the manifestation of the Spirit. That's 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:43.639 the reason, again, I repeat to you, I am convinced 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:51.819 that if one has been given a gift, and that one 00:04:51.819 --> 00:04:56.060 knows that they have been given that gift, that 00:04:56.060 --> 00:05:02.699 one will not speak of it, will not boast of it. 00:05:03.220 --> 00:05:09.579 That one cannot boast of it. That one will recognize 00:05:09.579 --> 00:05:15.259 the fact that it is nothing of himself. It is 00:05:15.259 --> 00:05:22.240 the manifestation of the spirit. Spirit does 00:05:22.240 --> 00:05:29.240 these wonderful things through a body and all 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:39.939 that that one gives is just himself. It is not 00:05:39.939 --> 00:05:43.160 some natural ability that the Holy Spirit blesses. 00:05:44.819 --> 00:05:50.509 All that the individual furnishes is just the 00:05:50.509 --> 00:05:58.230 body just the vessel the willingness the complete 00:05:58.230 --> 00:06:05.170 surrender to him a body soul and spirit and even 00:06:05.170 --> 00:06:09.529 jesus himself had to surrender himself completely 00:06:09.529 --> 00:06:13.629 to the father and to the holy spirit before he 00:06:13.629 --> 00:06:22.610 could be used even to those last hours when he 00:06:22.610 --> 00:06:28.230 faced the cross. Jesus, with the will separate 00:06:28.230 --> 00:06:33.970 and apart from the will of the Father, had to 00:06:33.970 --> 00:06:42.430 yield his own will to the Father. The words in 00:06:42.430 --> 00:06:49.379 the garden, nevertheless. Not my will, but thine, 00:06:49.379 --> 00:06:57.660 be done. When we yield ourselves completely unto 00:06:57.660 --> 00:07:05.939 him, he'll take that vessel and use it. But it 00:07:05.939 --> 00:07:11.920 is his power. It is the Holy Spirit himself. 00:07:13.740 --> 00:07:19.819 who gives the manifestation. Do you understand? 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:27.519 I would know more. And God knows that never once 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:36.860 in my life have I ever professed to have a gift. 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:41.980 I feel that whatever the Holy Spirit has given 00:07:41.980 --> 00:07:47.720 me is something that is so sacred. It's so precious. 00:07:47.779 --> 00:07:52.220 It is such a treasure. And I know that in the 00:07:52.220 --> 00:08:01.120 final analysis, it is the manifestation of the 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:08.730 Spirit and not Catherine Kuhlman. Without the 00:08:08.730 --> 00:08:12.769 manifestation of the spirit, without the power 00:08:12.769 --> 00:08:19.149 of the spirit, the greatest saint that ever lived 00:08:19.149 --> 00:08:31.149 was just an ordinary human being. Not a saint 00:08:31.149 --> 00:08:35.409 that ever lived had anything whereof he could 00:08:35.409 --> 00:08:44.399 boast. Paul himself never uttered a boastful 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:51.139 word in his life. Why? The deeper you go in your 00:08:51.139 --> 00:08:57.860 consecration, the more will you realize that 00:08:57.860 --> 00:09:04.600 you are nothing, absolutely nothing, without 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:13.070 the power of God. Without the manifestation of 00:09:13.070 --> 00:09:17.710 the Spirit, without the power of the Holy Ghost, 00:09:17.970 --> 00:09:34.370 man is just flesh and blood and bone. It is the 00:09:34.370 --> 00:09:40.620 Spirit, the Holy Ghost, who... gives the power. 00:09:41.940 --> 00:09:44.100 That's the reason whenever you talk about the 00:09:44.100 --> 00:09:46.980 gifts of the Spirit, the gifts are called manifestations 00:09:46.980 --> 00:09:51.460 of the Spirit. They are called gifts because 00:09:51.460 --> 00:09:57.039 the Spirit gives them. The apostles could only 00:09:57.039 --> 00:09:59.559 do the supernatural things as they were moved 00:09:59.559 --> 00:10:04.590 upon by the Spirit. I know when we read the account 00:10:04.590 --> 00:10:07.970 of the apostles, when we read regarding the manifestations 00:10:07.970 --> 00:10:10.750 of the power of God in their lives, we marvel, 00:10:10.830 --> 00:10:13.570 we thrill. But remember something, it's the same 00:10:13.570 --> 00:10:17.269 Holy Spirit that you and I know. And these precious 00:10:17.269 --> 00:10:22.269 apostles, the early Christians in the early church, 00:10:22.509 --> 00:10:27.730 could only do the supernatural things as they 00:10:27.730 --> 00:10:32.419 were moved upon by the Spirit. Jesus himself 00:10:32.419 --> 00:10:35.679 could only do these great and mighty things as 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:44.539 he was moved upon by the Spirit. Not of themselves. 00:10:45.720 --> 00:10:48.000 And it was not something that was promiscuous. 00:10:48.100 --> 00:10:53.200 Not something that they could do at will. Oh, 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:55.399 this is very thrilling. This is very marvelous. 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:04.190 And I want you to see something. You know, it 00:11:04.190 --> 00:11:08.169 was one of the things for a long time that troubled 00:11:08.169 --> 00:11:10.409 me. I'm going to take the lid off of my heart 00:11:10.409 --> 00:11:14.629 for just a few minutes. That's the reason I pray 00:11:14.629 --> 00:11:19.110 that you'll understand. Please, if you have no 00:11:19.110 --> 00:11:24.649 understanding of what I am saying to you, then 00:11:24.649 --> 00:11:27.409 just forget this little heart -to -heart talk 00:11:27.409 --> 00:11:31.019 today. I would not have you misconstrue. anything 00:11:31.019 --> 00:11:34.019 that I would say for any in the world. And yet 00:11:34.019 --> 00:11:41.279 I must say it because it may help another. I 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:45.220 had been on the platform, and the power of the 00:11:45.220 --> 00:11:49.779 Holy Spirit has come and taken the vessel. There 00:11:49.779 --> 00:11:54.039 have been times that I was completely, as it 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:58.840 were, out of the body, completely detached from 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:03.899 that which was going on. Many a time after a 00:12:03.899 --> 00:12:06.360 service, perhaps weeks afterwards, folk would 00:12:06.360 --> 00:12:09.820 say, Miss Cooman pointed a finger at me and she 00:12:09.820 --> 00:12:14.080 said so and so and so and so. And I would say, 00:12:14.100 --> 00:12:17.259 did I? I have no recollection of it whatsoever. 00:12:19.159 --> 00:12:24.080 I tell you the truth. When the anointing of the 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:26.019 Holy Spirit comes upon me in a great miracle 00:12:26.019 --> 00:12:31.690 service, Kathryn Kuhlman, my flesh, my bone, 00:12:31.929 --> 00:12:39.029 my blood becomes completely detached from that 00:12:39.029 --> 00:12:41.809 which is taking place in the service. I could 00:12:41.809 --> 00:12:45.850 well be one in the audience or somebody just 00:12:45.850 --> 00:12:49.950 sitting on the platform. It is not Kathryn Kuhlman 00:12:49.950 --> 00:12:56.820 whatsoever. I know that. That is the reason I 00:12:56.820 --> 00:13:01.759 am just as thrilled, perhaps more so, when there's 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.259 a great miracle of healing. Because I know better 00:13:05.259 --> 00:13:09.279 than anyone else that I have had no part whatsoever 00:13:09.279 --> 00:13:14.759 in the healing of that sick body. Don't tell 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:20.899 me that I am humble or speak of my humility. 00:13:21.259 --> 00:13:26.629 Please, it isn't that at all. It's that I know 00:13:26.629 --> 00:13:31.470 that I know that I have no healing virtue, that 00:13:31.470 --> 00:13:35.470 I have had no part whatsoever in that healing. 00:13:36.149 --> 00:13:40.350 I know better than anyone else. I know better 00:13:40.350 --> 00:13:42.909 than anyone else that it was the manifestation 00:13:42.909 --> 00:13:47.210 of the Holy Spirit, the power of God, and not 00:13:47.210 --> 00:13:54.870 something that Catherine Kuhlman has. And then, 00:13:55.009 --> 00:13:59.649 as I walk down the street, someone will stop 00:13:59.649 --> 00:14:03.490 me on the street and say, Oh, Miss Coleman, I'm 00:14:03.490 --> 00:14:07.309 so glad to see you. Would you just stop and pray 00:14:07.309 --> 00:14:11.370 for me here on the street right now? Pray for 00:14:11.370 --> 00:14:17.129 me now. And the one to whom they are speaking 00:14:17.129 --> 00:14:21.769 is just Catherine Coleman, an ordinary person. 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:29.679 a sinner saved by the grace of God. I hesitate 00:14:29.679 --> 00:14:34.480 it would almost be a sacrilege for me to stop 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:39.700 and lay my hands on that one and pray that God 00:14:39.700 --> 00:14:48.480 will heal them. Why? Because, beloved, without... 00:14:49.610 --> 00:14:54.029 the power of the Holy Spirit without that anointing, 00:14:54.049 --> 00:14:59.690 without that gift, without the person of the 00:14:59.690 --> 00:15:07.549 Holy Spirit manifesting himself, I am only an 00:15:07.549 --> 00:15:13.830 ordinary person like any other Christian, saved 00:15:13.830 --> 00:15:17.820 by the grace of God. I wanted to see something. 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:19.740 Something that's very thrilling, something that's 00:15:19.740 --> 00:15:23.120 very wonderful to me. And I've read it over and 00:15:23.120 --> 00:15:26.759 over again. It's recorded over there in, oh, 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:33.159 it's the 16th chapter of Acts. In about, yes, 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:36.299 here it is. It's the 16th verse. It's something 00:15:36.299 --> 00:15:39.820 in the life of Paul. And it came to pass that 00:15:39.820 --> 00:15:42.759 as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed 00:15:42.759 --> 00:15:46.659 with the spirit of divination met us. In other 00:15:46.659 --> 00:15:50.700 words, she was demon -possessed, which brought 00:15:50.700 --> 00:15:54.080 her master much gain by soothsaying. And the 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:58.259 same followed Paul and us, and cried, saying, 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:01.340 These men are the servants of the Most High God, 00:16:01.559 --> 00:16:06.980 which show unto us the way of salvation. And 00:16:06.980 --> 00:16:18.259 this did she many days. Paul, day after day. 00:16:19.820 --> 00:16:23.740 Why didn't he cast the demon out of her the very 00:16:23.740 --> 00:16:28.500 first time that he saw her? She was possessed 00:16:28.500 --> 00:16:35.840 with a demon. Paul was God's servant. Watch this. 00:16:36.259 --> 00:16:39.500 On the surface, it would have seemed that the 00:16:39.500 --> 00:16:42.519 logical thing for him to have done was to have 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:47.090 cast the demon out of her. the first time that 00:16:47.090 --> 00:16:52.610 she began heckling him. But he didn't. The Word 00:16:52.610 --> 00:16:59.610 of God says, and this did she many days. But 00:16:59.610 --> 00:17:04.650 he did not cast the demon out of her until the 00:17:04.650 --> 00:17:09.319 power of the Holy Spirit came upon him. Had he 00:17:09.319 --> 00:17:11.859 tried to cast the demon out of her the very first 00:17:11.859 --> 00:17:15.200 time that he saw her, he would have tried to 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:22.000 have done it in his own power. But when the Holy 00:17:22.000 --> 00:17:28.000 Ghost came upon him and he was given that gift 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:31.900 at that moment to cast out the demon, he did 00:17:31.900 --> 00:17:39.450 it without fear, without hesitancy. I command 00:17:39.450 --> 00:17:41.690 thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out 00:17:41.690 --> 00:17:47.730 of her. And he came out the same hour. Had he 00:17:47.730 --> 00:17:53.009 tried to do it before he was given the gift of 00:17:53.009 --> 00:18:00.450 the Spirit, it would have only been a Christian 00:18:00.450 --> 00:18:09.259 trying to cast out a demon. Mm -hmm. The gifts 00:18:09.259 --> 00:18:13.359 are all called manifestations of the Spirit. 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:18.460 All right? Go again. Something else is very, 00:18:18.559 --> 00:18:24.680 very marvelous. And let me see. It's in the Book 00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:29.680 of Acts. See something. And always remember that 00:18:29.680 --> 00:18:33.160 even the apostles could only do supernatural 00:18:33.160 --> 00:18:36.779 things as they were moved upon by the Spirit. 00:18:38.670 --> 00:18:44.170 Peter did not heal the lame man. And you all 00:18:44.170 --> 00:18:48.369 know that glorious incident. Every little child 00:18:48.369 --> 00:18:51.049 who has ever gone to a Sunday school knows the 00:18:51.049 --> 00:18:58.269 incident of Peter and John healing the lame man 00:18:58.269 --> 00:19:05.289 at the gate beautiful. But see something. Peter 00:19:05.289 --> 00:19:10.390 did not heal the lame man. the very first time 00:19:10.390 --> 00:19:17.250 that he saw him. Peter no doubt had seen that 00:19:17.250 --> 00:19:22.769 lame man scores of times, for day after day he 00:19:22.769 --> 00:19:25.849 was one of the beggars at the gate of the temple. 00:19:26.170 --> 00:19:30.150 He no doubt had passed him by many, many times. 00:19:30.329 --> 00:19:35.950 He had seen him, poor thing. But it wasn't until 00:19:35.950 --> 00:19:43.880 he was moved upon by the Spirit that he spoke 00:19:43.880 --> 00:19:50.960 to him. In that moment, the Holy Spirit came 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:56.220 up on Peter. In that moment, he was given by 00:19:56.220 --> 00:20:03.500 the Spirit that wonderful gift of healing. Had 00:20:03.500 --> 00:20:10.289 he tried to heal the lame man, Without the Spirit, 00:20:10.430 --> 00:20:13.730 nothing would have happened. Nothing, absolutely 00:20:13.730 --> 00:20:22.549 nothing. For without the Holy Spirit, and without 00:20:22.549 --> 00:20:26.450 the gift of the Spirit, and without the power 00:20:26.450 --> 00:20:39.640 of the Spirit, Peter was an ordinary man. A Christian, 00:20:39.779 --> 00:20:49.259 sure, saved by the grace of God. But there'll 00:20:49.259 --> 00:20:59.200 be no manifestations except the Spirit does the 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:03.559 manifesting. Oh, that's wonderful. That's something. 00:21:04.660 --> 00:21:10.200 There they are. He had passed that lame man by 00:21:10.200 --> 00:21:14.940 many and many and many a time. Because as you 00:21:14.940 --> 00:21:16.920 read the scripture, the scripture reveals the 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:19.680 fact that the apostles had a church established 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:22.980 in Jerusalem and that they met daily in the temple 00:21:22.980 --> 00:21:29.279 long before this lame man was healed. Long before 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:33.089 the lame man was healed. But the lame man was 00:21:33.089 --> 00:21:36.349 not healed until Peter was moved upon by the 00:21:36.349 --> 00:21:42.730 Spirit to heal him. And it's just like that. 00:21:43.690 --> 00:21:47.450 That's the reason Paul understood it. Paul says, 00:21:47.630 --> 00:21:53.890 it is God that worketh in you both to will and 00:21:53.890 --> 00:22:01.769 to do of his good pleasure. I pray the Holy Spirit 00:22:01.769 --> 00:22:05.029 is making this truth very real to your heart. 00:22:05.630 --> 00:22:11.349 You see, that is the reason that I don't believe 00:22:11.349 --> 00:22:16.910 that any one of us really fully understands this 00:22:16.910 --> 00:22:23.029 thing of faith. Faith is not something that we 00:22:23.029 --> 00:22:27.180 carry around with us. It's not something that 00:22:27.180 --> 00:22:29.680 we can put in our pocket and take it out every 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:35.259 once in a while and look at it. I've often wished 00:22:35.259 --> 00:22:36.440 it was something that I could put in a little 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:42.539 capsule and pass it out. And whenever you needed 00:22:42.539 --> 00:22:47.019 a little capsule of faith, I could send it to 00:22:47.019 --> 00:22:54.480 you. But, beloved, all I can tell you is that... 00:22:54.839 --> 00:23:00.200 Jesus is our faith. And faith is not something 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:07.099 that you can manufacture. Faith is a gift that's 00:23:07.099 --> 00:23:16.720 given of God. Jesus is our faith. It is something 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:20.240 given us by the Spirit.