WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:02.209 Today, for a few minutes again, we're going to 00:00:02.209 --> 00:00:07.190 go deep into the study of the gifts of the Spirit. 00:00:09.570 --> 00:00:14.810 I want you to get out your Bibles and follow 00:00:14.810 --> 00:00:17.609 me in the reading of a portion of the Word of 00:00:17.609 --> 00:00:24.410 God. Remember that nothing that I can say is 00:00:24.410 --> 00:00:30.839 as powerful as the written Word. The Word of 00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:36.399 God. And always remember one thing. If Catherine 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:39.659 Kuhlman says one thing and the Bible says another, 00:00:39.840 --> 00:00:43.659 the Bible is right. If you have been taught one 00:00:43.659 --> 00:00:49.560 thing, if your church teaches one thing, if your 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:53.939 pastor teaches one thing, if your priest teaches 00:00:53.939 --> 00:00:58.320 one thing, and the... Bible says another. The 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:04.400 Bible is always right. Know that sometimes I 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:05.799 think it's the hardest thing in the world for 00:01:05.799 --> 00:01:09.519 some folk to get rid of some of their preconceived 00:01:09.519 --> 00:01:15.239 ideas and come back again to the Word of God. 00:01:15.739 --> 00:01:20.840 It would be a wonderful day if all professing 00:01:20.840 --> 00:01:27.310 Christians everywhere, both protestant and catholic 00:01:27.310 --> 00:01:33.870 could get back to the word of god back again 00:01:33.870 --> 00:01:41.069 to thus saith the lord we have so much church 00:01:41.069 --> 00:01:46.909 ology we have so much theory there's so much 00:01:46.909 --> 00:01:52.549 creed there's so much of man's doctrine and so 00:01:52.549 --> 00:02:01.980 little And so again, I'm going to ask you to 00:02:01.980 --> 00:02:05.680 please get out your Bible. Follow me in the reading 00:02:05.680 --> 00:02:09.659 of the Scripture. The 12th chapter, 1 Corinthians. 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:15.400 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:19.840 Spirit. There is only one Holy Spirit. And whenever 00:02:19.840 --> 00:02:24.159 I speak of the gifts of the Spirit, the one person, 00:02:25.229 --> 00:02:30.650 The Holy Spirit is the giver of these gifts that 00:02:30.650 --> 00:02:35.229 you and I are talking about. There are differences 00:02:35.229 --> 00:02:39.669 of administrations, but the same Lord. There 00:02:39.669 --> 00:02:43.610 are diversities of operations, but it's the same 00:02:43.610 --> 00:02:47.729 God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation 00:02:47.729 --> 00:02:53.129 of the Spirit is given to every man to profit 00:02:53.129 --> 00:03:00.430 withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the 00:03:00.430 --> 00:03:03.389 word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge 00:03:03.389 --> 00:03:07.590 by the same Spirit, to another faith by the same 00:03:07.590 --> 00:03:11.430 Spirit, to another the gifts of healing by the 00:03:11.430 --> 00:03:15.789 same Spirit, to another the working of miracles, 00:03:15.830 --> 00:03:20.569 to another prophecy, to another discerning of 00:03:20.569 --> 00:03:24.460 spirits, to another diverse kinds of... tongues 00:03:24.460 --> 00:03:29.580 to another the interpretation of tongues but 00:03:29.580 --> 00:03:34.680 all these worketh that one and the self same 00:03:34.680 --> 00:03:42.180 spirit dividing to every man severally as he 00:03:42.180 --> 00:03:49.240 will all right we can get right down to the meat 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.860 of the truth of the word and for just a minute 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.340 We're going to talk about this gift of prophecy. 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:02.000 And we can look upon these gifts as being temporary 00:04:02.000 --> 00:04:08.439 gifts, but watch it not in the sense that it 00:04:08.439 --> 00:04:12.360 has been taught by some. Whenever I speak of 00:04:12.360 --> 00:04:16.759 these gifts as being temporary gifts, they will 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:22.569 be in operation as long... as the Church of the 00:04:22.569 --> 00:04:27.370 Lord Jesus Christ is here on earth. These gifts 00:04:27.370 --> 00:04:31.050 did not cease. These gifts that the Holy Spirit 00:04:31.050 --> 00:04:37.850 gives will not cease. They will continue to be 00:04:37.850 --> 00:04:42.649 in operation as long as the Church of the Lord 00:04:42.649 --> 00:04:46.970 Jesus Christ is here on earth. They will only 00:04:46.970 --> 00:04:52.029 cease. When the Holy Spirit leads, the time of 00:04:52.029 --> 00:04:54.610 the great catching up, and the church of the 00:04:54.610 --> 00:05:00.149 Lord Jesus Christ is caught up with him. Don't 00:05:00.149 --> 00:05:06.350 let anybody tell you that these gifts and many, 00:05:06.470 --> 00:05:09.310 many more, which are not mentioned here in the 00:05:09.310 --> 00:05:14.970 Word, are in operation now and will continue 00:05:14.970 --> 00:05:18.939 to be in operation. operation in the church. 00:05:20.060 --> 00:05:24.939 You know, we have really sold ourselves short. 00:05:25.480 --> 00:05:30.060 Christians have really sold themselves short. 00:05:30.220 --> 00:05:33.259 Or should I say, they have allowed themselves 00:05:33.259 --> 00:05:39.100 to be sold. Little do you know what you're missing 00:05:39.100 --> 00:05:44.180 by having been sold short. For many a pastor 00:05:44.180 --> 00:05:48.250 stands his pulpit. and will say that these gifts 00:05:48.250 --> 00:05:55.790 ceased with the early church. Anything, my friend, 00:05:55.790 --> 00:06:00.930 that Peter received, anything that John received, 00:06:01.230 --> 00:06:05.910 anything that was given to the early church is 00:06:05.910 --> 00:06:13.290 for us today. And don't let... Anybody sell you 00:06:13.290 --> 00:06:16.269 short when it comes to the things of the Spirit. 00:06:17.329 --> 00:06:20.689 All right, here we go. We come to this gift of 00:06:20.689 --> 00:06:27.329 prophecy. What is this gift of prophecy? It's 00:06:27.329 --> 00:06:30.230 very simple. It's explained in 1 Corinthians, 00:06:30.449 --> 00:06:35.370 the 14th chapter, the third verse. He that prophesieth 00:06:35.370 --> 00:06:41.329 speaketh unto men to edification and... exhortation, 00:06:41.329 --> 00:06:49.149 and comfort. It's so simple. There it is. He 00:06:49.149 --> 00:06:54.829 that prophesied speaketh unto men to edification. 00:06:56.730 --> 00:07:01.230 Revelation is not mentioned. Sometimes I think 00:07:01.230 --> 00:07:04.170 we get very confused when it comes to the gift 00:07:04.170 --> 00:07:09.850 of prophecy. And there are those who have... 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:14.120 hallucinations that they had been given some 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:20.259 gift to prophesy beyond that which is in the 00:07:20.259 --> 00:07:25.240 word of god and that's when we get off into fanaticism 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:33.379 beloved the holy spirit will never give to an 00:07:33.379 --> 00:07:37.360 individual he'll not give to any man any woman 00:07:37.360 --> 00:07:43.810 more than that which is written in the word. 00:07:45.529 --> 00:07:51.930 Know that. In Revelation, the 22nd chapter, the 00:07:51.930 --> 00:07:56.170 19th verse, if any man shall take away from the 00:07:56.170 --> 00:07:59.870 words of the book of this prophecy, God shall 00:07:59.870 --> 00:08:03.189 take away his part out of the book of life and 00:08:03.189 --> 00:08:06.410 out of the holy city and from the things which 00:08:06.410 --> 00:08:12.100 are written in this book. If any man shall add 00:08:12.100 --> 00:08:16.699 unto these things, God shall add unto him the 00:08:16.699 --> 00:08:20.040 plagues that are written in this book. He will 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:27.540 not give to any individual lower than that which 00:08:27.540 --> 00:08:35.179 is written in the Bible. Know that. This may 00:08:35.179 --> 00:08:39.399 not seem vitally important to you. But it is 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:44.259 vitally important because if someone should stand 00:08:44.259 --> 00:08:46.200 up and say that they've been given the gift of 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:53.860 prophecy and would give something contrary to 00:08:53.860 --> 00:08:58.879 the Word of God or add to the Word of God, they 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:03.399 are committing a gross sin. And the Holy Spirit 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:08.879 has no part in that whatsoever. That makes, my 00:09:08.879 --> 00:09:16.840 friend, for false doctrine and false cults are 00:09:16.840 --> 00:09:24.960 born from that very thing. No? There can be no 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:30.039 doubt as to what is meant by the gift of prophecy. 00:09:30.980 --> 00:09:37.610 He that prophesieth. speaketh unto men to edification, 00:09:38.009 --> 00:09:42.690 exhortation, and comfort. I think the simplest 00:09:42.690 --> 00:09:46.070 way of explaining the gift of prophecy is to 00:09:46.070 --> 00:09:54.830 say that it is a gift of communication. The word. 00:09:55.870 --> 00:10:01.009 The word, beloved. And I consider the gift of 00:10:01.009 --> 00:10:07.740 prophecy one... of the three greatest gifts that 00:10:07.740 --> 00:10:12.539 the Holy Spirit can give. And we know that there 00:10:12.539 --> 00:10:15.399 are gifts that are greater than other gifts because 00:10:15.399 --> 00:10:20.220 the word itself says, covet earnestly the best 00:10:20.220 --> 00:10:26.940 gifts. Personally, I consider the three greatest 00:10:26.940 --> 00:10:32.610 gifts the gift of the word of knowledge. Remember, 00:10:33.269 --> 00:10:38.769 he is perfect knowledge. And for him to give 00:10:38.769 --> 00:10:46.289 a gift to an individual, a part of his absolute 00:10:46.289 --> 00:10:52.590 knowledge, it is like giving us literally a part 00:10:52.590 --> 00:11:01.679 of himself, a part of the world. of his knowledge, 00:11:01.899 --> 00:11:07.259 he who is perfect wisdom, absolute wisdom, to 00:11:07.259 --> 00:11:12.139 have him to give an individual, literally a part 00:11:12.139 --> 00:11:20.259 of himself, the gift of the word of wisdom, of 00:11:20.259 --> 00:11:26.360 something that is absolute perfection. This wonderful 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:36.789 gift of prophecy. Where you can stand and have 00:11:36.789 --> 00:11:43.330 the Holy Spirit so speak through lips of clay, 00:11:43.529 --> 00:11:49.409 where the Holy Spirit can so take the mind, where 00:11:49.409 --> 00:11:53.169 the Holy Spirit can so take the yieldedness of 00:11:53.169 --> 00:12:03.639 that vessel and commute and communicate. to those 00:12:03.639 --> 00:12:08.019 who are out there in the audience the true meaning 00:12:08.019 --> 00:12:12.539 of the Word of God. That is one of the greatest 00:12:12.539 --> 00:12:14.539 gifts that the Holy Spirit can give to an individual. 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:21.159 Oh, beloved, I believe that of all of the gifts, 00:12:21.379 --> 00:12:24.700 including the gift of the Word of Knowledge, 00:12:24.899 --> 00:12:29.840 including the gift of the Word of Wisdom, I still 00:12:29.840 --> 00:12:36.700 believe... that i would personally rather that 00:12:36.700 --> 00:12:41.759 the holy spirit would give me that gift of prophecy 00:12:41.759 --> 00:12:48.919 where i could stand before men and women under 00:12:48.919 --> 00:12:54.440 the anointing of the holy spirit and could communicate 00:12:54.440 --> 00:13:01.019 through the holy spirit the word of the living 00:13:01.549 --> 00:13:06.529 God that it would become life to you and you 00:13:06.529 --> 00:13:12.789 could understand it and understanding you would 00:13:12.789 --> 00:13:15.110 accept the Christ as the personal savior through 00:13:15.110 --> 00:13:20.350 the understanding of the word you would seek 00:13:20.350 --> 00:13:24.110 to be filled with the holy spirit through the 00:13:24.110 --> 00:13:29.090 understanding of the word as the holy spirit 00:13:29.090 --> 00:13:35.690 gives it the Bible would open up to you. It would 00:13:35.690 --> 00:13:46.350 become alive, a living thing. Oh, to speak, to 00:13:46.350 --> 00:13:54.090 preach, and have men and women have an understanding 00:13:54.090 --> 00:14:03.129 of the Word of God. And that's what the Bible 00:14:03.129 --> 00:14:11.009 says. He that prophesieth speaketh unto men to 00:14:11.009 --> 00:14:19.009 edification, exhortation, and comfort. Jesus 00:14:19.009 --> 00:14:22.750 had that gift. The Holy Spirit had given Jesus 00:14:22.750 --> 00:14:27.309 that marvelous gift. No one ever sat in the presence 00:14:27.309 --> 00:14:33.159 of Jesus. and did not fully understand everything 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:38.559 that he said. So simple, children could understand. 00:14:40.139 --> 00:14:44.139 I can't begin to tell you this moment how I covet 00:14:44.139 --> 00:14:51.059 that gift. The word of God so profound that in 00:14:51.059 --> 00:14:57.179 the natural, the most intellectual person cannot 00:14:57.179 --> 00:15:00.679 understand it. They read it, they have no understanding 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:08.480 whatsoever. Men of law, men of medicine, statesmen, 00:15:08.580 --> 00:15:14.960 brilliant people intellectually, and yet in reading 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:20.360 the Word, the living Word, they have no understanding. 00:15:20.620 --> 00:15:23.200 The Bible is different than any other book in 00:15:23.200 --> 00:15:29.710 the whole world. Only the Holy Spirit, can reveal 00:15:29.710 --> 00:15:40.950 the Word. There is a gift that the Holy Spirit 00:15:40.950 --> 00:15:46.210 gives to certain people. And it is a gift. It 00:15:46.210 --> 00:15:48.570 is not their own natural ability. It is not their 00:15:48.570 --> 00:15:51.769 own talent. I told you before that talent and 00:15:51.769 --> 00:15:57.110 gifts of the Spirit are not the same. There is 00:15:57.110 --> 00:16:03.850 a... that the Holy Spirit himself gives to an 00:16:03.850 --> 00:16:15.409 individual where that one in speaking can communicate 00:16:15.409 --> 00:16:21.750 with the one who is listening and that one receives 00:16:21.750 --> 00:16:24.750 the revelation of the word and understanding 00:16:24.750 --> 00:16:32.450 of the word. And that one grows. That one goes 00:16:32.450 --> 00:16:40.049 deep into the things of God. That, I believe, 00:16:40.169 --> 00:16:46.830 is the gift that I covet more than anything else 00:16:46.830 --> 00:16:50.990 in the world. I know me. I know my own heart. 00:16:52.009 --> 00:16:55.389 Sure, it's wonderful to see bodies healed with 00:16:55.389 --> 00:16:59.049 the power of God. I thrill in every miracle service 00:16:59.049 --> 00:17:02.769 to see sick bodies healed. But there's something 00:17:02.769 --> 00:17:07.470 greater to have someone say, Oh, Miss Cooman, 00:17:07.589 --> 00:17:12.390 as I listened to the preaching of the word, as 00:17:12.390 --> 00:17:17.089 those words left your lips, I had an understanding 00:17:17.089 --> 00:17:24.990 of the word. That, my friend, is a gift that 00:17:24.990 --> 00:17:29.450 only the Holy Spirit can give.