WEBVTT 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:02.779 The other morning, in picking up my personal 00:00:02.779 --> 00:00:07.019 mail here at the Carlton House, the desk clerk 00:00:07.019 --> 00:00:11.720 handed me a most imposing -looking envelope. 00:00:12.640 --> 00:00:19.179 It was marked United States Senate. The letter 00:00:19.179 --> 00:00:25.199 had been sent airmail. Upon opening the envelope, 00:00:25.280 --> 00:00:29.600 I found out that it had been written by... the 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:33.420 senator's wife. The letter was beautifully written. 00:00:34.460 --> 00:00:39.799 She has been listening to our radio broadcast. 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:44.359 She asks a question, though, that I feel that 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:51.920 I want to answer her question. In doing so, I 00:00:51.920 --> 00:01:00.359 may answer your question also. Because it is 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:04.920 a most important question. Let me read just a 00:01:04.920 --> 00:01:09.799 paragraph or two of her letter. I missed your 00:01:09.799 --> 00:01:14.280 exposition of the tongues movement. I should 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:18.219 so like to know your belief on this. These people 00:01:18.219 --> 00:01:21.799 seem to feel that they have something which the 00:01:21.799 --> 00:01:27.829 rest of us lack. If it is of the Lord, Why should 00:01:27.829 --> 00:01:31.909 I feel so embarrassed, so disgusted, when I hear 00:01:31.909 --> 00:01:36.170 someone speaking in tongues? In the hospital, 00:01:36.310 --> 00:01:41.510 a group of them visited me, and it was most embarrassing. 00:01:41.969 --> 00:01:46.730 One woman, whom I know, looked down her nose 00:01:46.730 --> 00:01:51.480 at me because I do not speak in tongues. She 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.859 teaches a Sunday school class, is very, very 00:01:54.859 --> 00:01:59.140 active in religious things, prayer groups, etc. 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:04.459 But she believes that while doing this work for 00:02:04.459 --> 00:02:09.240 the Lord, she can live exactly as she pleases, 00:02:09.300 --> 00:02:15.780 do exactly as she pleases, because her belief 00:02:15.780 --> 00:02:18.580 in Christ and her speaking in tongues sets her 00:02:18.580 --> 00:02:26.500 apart. from gods thou shalt not. I do not mean 00:02:26.500 --> 00:02:29.479 to condemn someone for something that I do not 00:02:29.479 --> 00:02:34.900 understand or have not experienced. But please 00:02:34.900 --> 00:02:40.319 help me, Ms. Komen, in answering my question. 00:02:41.180 --> 00:02:45.780 I miss your views on this subject because of 00:02:45.780 --> 00:02:49.840 maddening static and interference. some months 00:02:49.840 --> 00:02:54.960 ago when you preached on the Holy Spirit. The 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.860 Senator's wife signs her full name, gives her 00:02:57.860 --> 00:03:03.139 full address. You know, I sincerely believe that 00:03:03.139 --> 00:03:08.159 the lack of teaching on this subject is one reason 00:03:08.159 --> 00:03:13.180 why so much reproach has been brought on the 00:03:13.180 --> 00:03:19.909 most beautiful experience that can happen to 00:03:19.909 --> 00:03:24.729 one who has been born again. I want to first 00:03:24.729 --> 00:03:28.270 of all set you very straight on something and 00:03:28.270 --> 00:03:32.449 follow me very carefully. I do not know whether 00:03:32.449 --> 00:03:36.469 I'll be able to give the full answer to the Senator's 00:03:36.469 --> 00:03:40.590 wife in just as one broadcast. So I ask you please 00:03:40.590 --> 00:03:45.069 to follow me because I shall speak as simply 00:03:45.069 --> 00:03:49.610 as though I were speaking to a child. I feel 00:03:49.610 --> 00:03:52.770 that teaching on the subject of the Holy Spirit, 00:03:53.110 --> 00:03:59.270 good sound doctrinal teaching regarding this 00:03:59.270 --> 00:04:03.870 experience of being filled with the Spirit, good 00:04:03.870 --> 00:04:10.009 sound teaching as to the speaking in an unknown 00:04:10.009 --> 00:04:18.269 tongue is needed this hour. You know... It's 00:04:18.269 --> 00:04:22.850 so hard to cope with ignorance. And you'll find 00:04:22.850 --> 00:04:27.410 ignorance in every phase of life, always. Those 00:04:27.410 --> 00:04:30.410 in the medical profession will agree with me 00:04:30.410 --> 00:04:34.990 that there's ignorance among those in the medical 00:04:34.990 --> 00:04:42.029 profession. Take the profession of law. Not a 00:04:42.029 --> 00:04:45.009 lawyer, but what will agree with me that even 00:04:45.009 --> 00:04:50.439 in his profession, There is ignorance. But I 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:57.399 believe that in any profession, even though there's 00:04:57.399 --> 00:05:02.860 ignorance there, it is most appalling and most 00:05:02.860 --> 00:05:06.860 detrimental when you find ignorance when it comes 00:05:06.860 --> 00:05:09.660 to the things spiritual and the things of God. 00:05:11.300 --> 00:05:17.990 Because it brings such reproach. shh, on the 00:05:17.990 --> 00:05:21.970 Lord Jesus Christ, on his word, on God the Father, 00:05:22.110 --> 00:05:27.509 and especially on the Holy Spirit, the mighty 00:05:27.509 --> 00:05:32.649 third person. ignorance has brought such reproach 00:05:32.649 --> 00:05:37.970 on something that is so beautiful, so wonderful, 00:05:38.230 --> 00:05:45.819 so real, so vitally important to Every child 00:05:45.819 --> 00:05:49.839 of God. Therefore, I'm going to take you step 00:05:49.839 --> 00:05:53.660 by step. And please, as we begin our little heart 00:05:53.660 --> 00:05:57.259 -to -heart talk on this subject, will you just 00:05:57.259 --> 00:06:00.360 sit there with an open mind? That's all that 00:06:00.360 --> 00:06:05.399 I ask of you. Will you please just now turn yourself 00:06:05.399 --> 00:06:10.699 upside down and shake yourself from all preconceived 00:06:10.699 --> 00:06:16.819 ideas? and sit there with an open mind, an open 00:06:16.819 --> 00:06:22.459 heart, open to the teaching of the Holy Spirit. 00:06:23.259 --> 00:06:29.319 I find some folk who are so set in their ideas, 00:06:29.720 --> 00:06:37.420 so set in what they believe, that if an angel 00:06:37.420 --> 00:06:39.579 were to come all the way from glory to earth, 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:46.240 and try to teach them, they would disregard the 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:52.699 teaching of an angel and would still hold to 00:06:52.699 --> 00:06:59.120 their own belief. We're going to take the word 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:06.439 of God. Beloved, no person can take issue with 00:07:06.439 --> 00:07:11.079 God's word. That's the highest authority in heaven 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:14.819 and earth. Regardless of what you have been taught 00:07:14.819 --> 00:07:21.160 by man, regardless of the theology of the organization 00:07:21.160 --> 00:07:26.300 that you belong to, regardless of what your pastor 00:07:26.300 --> 00:07:30.759 has taught you or your priest has taught you 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:36.019 or what your neighbors have said, if it's... 00:07:36.269 --> 00:07:43.370 Contrary to what God's Word says, remember God's 00:07:43.370 --> 00:07:50.769 Word is always right. There can be no question 00:07:50.769 --> 00:07:55.990 about it. All that I ask of you as we begin these 00:07:55.990 --> 00:07:57.790 heart -to -heart talks on this vital subject 00:07:57.790 --> 00:08:03.589 is that you allow your mind to be open to the 00:08:03.589 --> 00:08:08.230 Word of God. And in answering the question asked 00:08:08.230 --> 00:08:13.250 by the senator's wife, I'm going to begin with 00:08:13.250 --> 00:08:17.170 something that may seem to you to be very remote. 00:08:18.189 --> 00:08:25.149 And yet, here is really the answer. Turn, if 00:08:25.149 --> 00:08:29.990 you will, please, to the 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians. 00:08:31.610 --> 00:08:35.570 Oh, but somebody says, Miss Gorman. What has 00:08:35.570 --> 00:08:41.269 that to do with Acts 2 -4? Everything is the 00:08:41.269 --> 00:08:44.889 same person. I want you to become acquainted 00:08:44.889 --> 00:08:50.889 with this wonderful person of the Holy Spirit. 00:08:51.730 --> 00:08:58.029 And remember, he is a person. All that some people 00:08:58.029 --> 00:09:00.610 think of whenever you speak of the Holy Spirit 00:09:00.610 --> 00:09:06.419 is just one thing, tongues. Speaking in tongues, 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:15.519 you just mention the Holy Spirit. And invariably, 00:09:15.580 --> 00:09:20.399 there's only one thought that enters their mind. 00:09:20.940 --> 00:09:28.840 Tongues. They have never become acquainted with 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:34.019 the power of the Trinity. the person of the Holy 00:09:34.019 --> 00:09:41.679 Spirit. Let's see what he is really like. I want 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:48.019 you to, first of all, get acquainted with the 00:09:48.019 --> 00:09:56.360 ministry of the gifts that he gives. He gives 00:09:56.360 --> 00:10:01.679 wonderful gifts. But I want you to see the ministry 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:07.539 of the gifts. I want you to see the fruits of 00:10:07.539 --> 00:10:12.720 the Spirit. Let me read it to you. Oh, you know 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:16.080 what that 13th chapter, 1 Corinthians, involved. 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:20.460 You know. But just sit there with an open heart 00:10:20.460 --> 00:10:25.820 as I read it to you under the anointing of the 00:10:25.820 --> 00:10:34.240 Holy Spirit. speak with the tongues of men and 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:41.720 of angels and have not love, I am become as sounding 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:47.419 brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have 00:10:47.419 --> 00:10:52.799 the gifts of prophecy, watch it. Is there a gift 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:57.700 more coveted than the gift of prophecy or the 00:10:57.700 --> 00:11:01.120 gift of the word of knowledge? or the gift of 00:11:01.120 --> 00:11:05.700 the word of wisdom? Is there anything that we 00:11:05.700 --> 00:11:10.500 could covet more than these gifts? And yet, watch 00:11:10.500 --> 00:11:15.799 this. Though I have the gift of prophecy and 00:11:15.799 --> 00:11:20.820 understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and 00:11:20.820 --> 00:11:25.320 though I have all faith, so that I can remove 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:32.700 mountains and have not... Love, I am nothing. 00:11:33.840 --> 00:11:36.779 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the 00:11:36.779 --> 00:11:40.059 poor, and though I give my body to be burned, 00:11:40.220 --> 00:11:47.700 and have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Now 00:11:47.700 --> 00:11:53.600 watch. Love suffereth long and is kind. Love 00:11:53.600 --> 00:12:01.450 envieth not. Love vaunteth not itself, is not 00:12:01.450 --> 00:12:07.470 huffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh 00:12:07.470 --> 00:12:11.250 not its own, is not easily provoked, and thinketh 00:12:11.250 --> 00:12:16.830 no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth 00:12:16.830 --> 00:12:20.799 in the truth. beareth all things, believeth all 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:24.460 things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:30.139 Love never faileth. But whether there be prophecies, 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:34.759 they shall fail. Whether there be tongues, they 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:38.460 shall cease. Whether there be knowledge, it shall 00:12:38.460 --> 00:12:44.720 vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy 00:12:44.720 --> 00:12:48.580 in part. But when that which is perfect is come, 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:54.039 then that which is in part shall be done away. 00:12:54.700 --> 00:12:57.840 When I was a child, I spake as a child. I understood 00:12:57.840 --> 00:13:01.080 as a child. I thought as a child. But when I 00:13:01.080 --> 00:13:06.059 became a man, I put away childish things. For 00:13:06.059 --> 00:13:11.360 now we see through a glass darkly, but then face 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:15.750 to face. Now I know in part. But them shall I 00:13:15.750 --> 00:13:21.850 know, even as also I am known. And now abideth 00:13:21.850 --> 00:13:29.049 faith, hope, love, these three. But the greatest 00:13:29.049 --> 00:13:36.549 of these is love. I have just given you, from 00:13:36.549 --> 00:13:42.690 the word of God, the fruits of the Spirit. The 00:13:42.690 --> 00:13:47.220 fruits... of the Holy Spirit. He gives gifts. 00:13:49.559 --> 00:13:55.620 Marvelous gifts. And may I remind you again that 00:13:55.620 --> 00:13:58.559 the nine gifts that we speak of as nine gifts 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:02.860 of the Spirit are only a part of the gifts that 00:14:02.860 --> 00:14:07.980 he gives to God's children. They are only an 00:14:07.980 --> 00:14:12.519 example. Don't limit him when it comes to his 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:18.980 giving of gifts. But as truly as He gives gifts, 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:28.399 there will be certain roots from these gifts. 00:14:28.620 --> 00:14:33.840 There are certain roots of the Spirit. There 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:40.460 are certain evidences by which we know. The fact 00:14:40.460 --> 00:14:47.440 which one possesses is real, is genuine. By their 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:53.879 fruits, ye shall know them. By their lives, ye 00:14:53.879 --> 00:15:01.580 shall know them. By their deeds, we shall know 00:15:01.580 --> 00:15:10.230 them. You see? The experience is personal. Whatever 00:15:10.230 --> 00:15:12.669 experience we receive from the Lord, when it 00:15:12.669 --> 00:15:16.190 comes to the new birth experience, it is an experience 00:15:16.190 --> 00:15:21.690 between the master and the individual. The actual 00:15:21.690 --> 00:15:27.350 transaction is not seen by even the one who may 00:15:27.350 --> 00:15:31.629 be standing very near to that one. It's an individual, 00:15:31.809 --> 00:15:41.519 a personal transaction. But... There will be 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:47.559 an outward evidence of that which has taken place 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:52.700 internally by that one's actions, by the life 00:15:52.700 --> 00:15:58.639 that he lives. By this shall all men know that 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:02.940 you have been born again. There will be the outward 00:16:02.940 --> 00:16:06.759 manifestation, and there'll be no doubt whatsoever 00:16:06.759 --> 00:16:11.629 as to whether or not that... one has been born 00:16:11.629 --> 00:16:14.669 again in exactly the same way when it comes to 00:16:14.669 --> 00:16:19.889 one who's been healed of the spirit. That wonderful 00:16:19.889 --> 00:16:24.070 experience is something that's individual. When 00:16:24.070 --> 00:16:29.610 literally the Holy Spirit comes into that body 00:16:29.610 --> 00:16:35.870 and takes that body and makes it his temper. 00:16:38.570 --> 00:16:43.509 temple of the holy spirit the most sacred the 00:16:43.509 --> 00:16:46.950 most wonderful experience and believe me it's 00:16:46.950 --> 00:16:51.049 vitally important to every born again christian 00:16:51.049 --> 00:16:54.450 i believe with all of my heart and being filled 00:16:54.450 --> 00:16:58.149 with the spirit call it the baptism of the spirit 00:16:58.149 --> 00:17:05.150 i believe in it and every christian should start 00:17:05.150 --> 00:17:12.859 possessing his possessions in the spirit. But 00:17:12.859 --> 00:17:18.859 watch something. There will be no doubt as to 00:17:18.859 --> 00:17:23.119 whether or not that one has literally been filled 00:17:23.119 --> 00:17:27.559 with the spirit, has actually received the fullness 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:31.900 of the spirit because there will be evidences 00:17:31.900 --> 00:17:40.099 of that experience. evidences, outward evidences 00:17:40.099 --> 00:17:46.440 of that one having yielded their body as the 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:53.480 temple of the Holy Spirit. This 13th chapter 00:17:53.480 --> 00:18:04.420 of 1 Corinthians gives us definitely these outward 00:18:04.420 --> 00:18:12.410 evidences. that we are to expect from the life 00:18:12.410 --> 00:18:19.509 of one who has been filled with the Spirit. Oh, 00:18:19.509 --> 00:18:26.390 my friend, there's much more than speaking in 00:18:26.390 --> 00:18:34.170 an unknown tongue. Paul begins in that very first 00:18:34.170 --> 00:18:42.980 part. By saying, though I speak with the tongues 00:18:42.980 --> 00:18:53.420 of men and of angels and have not love, I am 00:18:53.420 --> 00:18:58.599 become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. 00:18:58.819 --> 00:19:03.980 And a lot of folks are sounding off. But there's 00:19:03.980 --> 00:19:10.460 no power. There's no fruit. It's just noise. 00:19:12.299 --> 00:19:18.720 All right. Let's analyze the fruit of the spirit. 00:19:20.859 --> 00:19:27.220 Love suffereth love. There goes the impatience. 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:35.900 Love is kind. There's no room for... Unkindness. 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:47.339 Love endeth not. Watch it. There goes jealousy. 00:19:49.160 --> 00:19:55.740 There goes jealousy, my friend. Where you find 00:19:55.740 --> 00:20:00.099 jealousy in a life and jealousy in the heart. 00:20:01.829 --> 00:20:05.829 You're not going to find the abiding presence 00:20:05.829 --> 00:20:11.970 of the Holy Spirit. Watch it. And sometimes I 00:20:11.970 --> 00:20:16.230 think one of the most prevalent sins among Christians 00:20:16.230 --> 00:20:20.990 is the sin of jealousy. And yet when it comes 00:20:20.990 --> 00:20:26.390 to the fruit of the Spirit, love envieth not. 00:20:27.890 --> 00:20:35.500 Love vaunteth not. itself. Boasting. Is not puffed 00:20:35.500 --> 00:20:39.859 up. There goes pride. Does not behave unseemly. 00:20:40.660 --> 00:20:44.960 Seeketh not its own. Is not provoked. Taketh 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:47.220 no account of evil. There goes backbiting and 00:20:47.220 --> 00:20:50.099 malice. Beareth all things, no more complaining. 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:53.900 Believeth all things, no more mistrust. Hopeth 00:20:53.900 --> 00:20:58.039 all things. There goes anxiety, worry, despondency. 00:21:00.200 --> 00:21:07.559 Hear it. For me to live is Christ, and Christ 00:21:07.559 --> 00:21:14.339 is love, and that's the real evidence when one 00:21:14.339 --> 00:21:20.180 has the Holy Spirit in his life.