Now, when it comes to your conversion, remember,
when it comes to your conversion, that, my friend,
is a definite experience. It's a definite transaction.
That is it. You're born again. There's that wonderful
new birth experience when you become a new creature
in Christ Jesus. An heir of God and a joint heir
with... Christ Jesus and the mighty creator becomes
your heavenly father. And you're born into the
body of Christ. That's a definite transaction.
I belong. He's my heavenly father. I am his by
adoption. that I know to whom I belong. But when
it comes to the Holy Spirit, it's something that's
constant, this fellowship, this fellowship, this
constant communion. And if you're trying to measure
up to some experience that you received a way
back there and you say, I got it. I got it. I
got it. No. It's a daily communion with him.
Daily. Daily. Under the anointing of the Holy
Spirit. Oh, you're ministers in this place. Have
you stood before your people with an anointing?
Until you feel that anointing from the top of
your head to the soles of your feet. You're so
under the anointing, my brother, that literally
your ears hear. But he is speaking to your mouth.
Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit, I stood
there. And he's taught me. As he has spoken through
my lips and my ears have heard. And I knew it
wasn't Catherine Kuhlman. I knew. I knew it wasn't
Catherine Kuhlman. If he only knew me a little
better, he would understand why I'm so sold on
the Holy Spirit. I'm so sold on the Holy Spirit,
I do not know how better to say it to you. I'm
so sold on the Holy Ghost. It just becomes worse
and worse. The choice of words that you speak,
my brother. So far as the intellect is concerned.
It was a masterpiece. But how many were saved?
What was the result? Was there a supernatural
manifestation? Wherever you find the Holy Ghost,
wherever you find the presence of the Holy Spirit,
Always be the supernatural. Always. Know that.
And the supernatural does not come through a
great organization. Sometimes I think we've organized
ourselves to death. I mean that. Sometimes I
think we're so organized. that the Holy Spirit
can't get in. He can't work. It'll be the greatest
day that the church has ever known when the church
gets to the place where it no longer is completely
dependent on organization. Yeah. The Holy Spirit
must have freedom. The Holy Spirit must have
liberty. And wherever you find the Holy Spirit,
you know, I'm going to say something and I hope
that I'm not misconstrued. I hope I'm not. What
I'm about to say, I've never seen more holy laughter.
I'll get it out in a few minutes, but I want
to throw this in. I have never... I've never,
in all of these years, have seen more holy laughter.
And there is such a thing as holy laughter. And
in miracle services, holy laughter. That's the
reason I tell you the Holy Spirit is such a colorful
personality. I'm so glad I had sense enough never
to write a book on theology, on doctrine. I'm
so glad I've been pressed and pressed by different
publishers who come from New York City and they've
asked me to write a book on doctrine. Well, I'll
tell you, that's one smart thing I did. Because
you see, Had I written a book on doctrine, about
six months later, I'd have to call them all in
and say, I made a mistake. That's right. Because
as you watch the Holy Spirit work, as you watch
Him work, He's so colorful that it isn't always
the same, not really. You can't put Him... in
a certain category and then put a fence around
him. And that's exactly what we're trying to
do in some of our little circles. We're trying
to fence him in. We're trying to put a fence
around the Holy Spirit and keep him in this fence
because it's our idea. And we believe it thus
and so. And it isn't long before he jumps a fence
and all that you've got is a fence. And he's
gone. And he's gone. Some of you Pentecostal
people were dead sure that nothing would ever
happen. In a first Methodist church, such as
you saw last night, your theology has told you
that if you were not filled with the Holy Spirit
in the assembly of God's church, then you didn't
get it. How many know I'm right? Keep your hands
down. And you say, come to my church. Come on,
come on. You'll get it. You'll get it. You'll
get it. Come on to my church. You'll get it.
You'll get it. Come on. You'll never be filled
in the First Methodist Church. You'll never receive
the baptism of the Holy Spirit in the First Baptist
Church. Never. Never. You'll never see the supernatural
power of the Holy Spirit. Never. In the denominational
churches. The Bible doesn't say that. And there
you are in your own little circle. We have him.
We got him. And we have a corner on him. And
you never this, you'll never get him. Look out,
look out. One of these days you may awaken to
find out that you are the one from whom he has
departed. He's bigger than denominational lines.
The Holy Spirit is greater than man's idea. The
Holy Ghost is greater than our own preconceived
idea. Know that. When he's so powerful, Jesus
knew. I think of that over and over again. Who
knew the Holy Spirit better than Jesus? He'd
been with him from the beginning of time. Jesus
knew him. Jesus knew his power. And the Holy
Ghost is the power of the Trinity. Knowing the
power of the ghost is Jesus William. Before Jesus
ever offered himself to the Father to be given,
he first of all offered himself through the Holy
Spirit to be given. But he knew his power. I'm
not talking about something that is just mediocre.
I'm coming back again. to this holy laughter
is happening. But you want to know something?
I see it so much among those in Catholicism who
are just coming into the light of the Holy Spirit.
We've had so much of the holy laughter recently.
I watched this. Like I told you, all that I know
about the Holy Spirit is I see him and watch
him. And watch him. And you get to know him.
You watch his personality. You know what pleases
him. You know what grieves him. You just know
and you know instantly. It's as though you're
in the presence of someone that you know so well
and you know when they're grieved. And you know
when they happen, you know when they're pleased.
I follow him that carefully. And sometimes I
think he's allowed this wonderful holy laughter
to come forth from some of these precious folk
because they have been released from the bondage
they were in. This bondage, this bondage, this
bondage. You're no longer under bondage when
the Holy Spirit comes in. This bondage that men
and women are living in. I pray to God you'll
come from out of that bondage. Come out from
that bondage. Some of you are bound. in spiritual
darkness. Some of you are bound by some organization.
Literally bound. Your heart cries. Everything
within you cries out. You're hungry. You're hungry.
But the bondage that you're in, this terrific
bondage, Bound by people. You're bound by organization.
You're bound by those in higher authority than
you are. Many of you in Catholicism, you've been
bound so long. Some of you have been bound by
sin so long. And sometimes I think this wonderful
holy laughter that we see is glorious if you've
never heard it. It's different. It's different
than any laughter. It's different. It's the laughter
of freedom. It's the laughter of liberty. But
everything is in good taste. When the Holy Spirit
does it, and always remember this, if you never
again hear me speak to you, in a heart -to -heart
talk regarding this person, the Holy Spirit,
he is never unseemly in his actions. Never. Never.
If it's revolting, it's not the Holy Spirit.
Know that. Know that. If it's revolting, it is
not the Holy Spirit. If it's obnoxious, it's
not the Holy Spirit. Like it's the flesh. When
it's holy, it's something that's contagious.
It's something that's beautiful. It's something
that's wonderful. for everything the Holy Spirit
does. I have such high regard for him. I've never
known him to ever manifest himself in a revolting
way. It's perfection. It's perfection. And I
know there are things that happen in the flesh.
and labeled as the Holy Spirit cannot be the
Holy Spirit for it's contrary to his personality
and his beauty and his loveliness.