WEBVTT 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:07.839 Open our understandings, please. Flesh and blood 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:10.439 hath not revealed this unto thee, but to my Father, 00:00:10.539 --> 00:00:15.900 which is in heaven. Open our understanding. Let 00:00:15.900 --> 00:00:19.640 him that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:29.719 saith. But remember, it was the sovereignty of 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:35.020 God when the heart Holy Spirit came upon the 00:00:35.020 --> 00:00:40.920 Old Testament saints, but that was changed after 00:00:40.920 --> 00:00:48.799 Jesus came. Jesus knew the secret of his power. 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:53.000 Those miracles you read are the miracles. When 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:57.020 you read the miracles in the New Testament, it 00:00:57.020 --> 00:01:00.590 was the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus knew 00:01:00.590 --> 00:01:03.049 that being in the flesh, he could not perform 00:01:03.049 --> 00:01:08.549 miracles. And yet he knew there would have to 00:01:08.549 --> 00:01:10.390 be the manifestation of the supernatural power 00:01:10.390 --> 00:01:11.969 of God. That's the reason in essence when he 00:01:11.969 --> 00:01:18.010 said to them, if you won't believe all that I 00:01:18.010 --> 00:01:22.810 say that I am, then believe me for the very work's 00:01:22.810 --> 00:01:25.230 sake. And he knew that there would have to be 00:01:25.230 --> 00:01:28.420 the supernatural power of God. Or they would 00:01:28.420 --> 00:01:30.620 never accept him. And that was the reason he 00:01:30.620 --> 00:01:34.680 offered himself first to the Holy Spirit. And 00:01:34.680 --> 00:01:37.099 he said, if you'll come, if you'll be with me, 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:41.640 if you'll manifest the supernatural power of 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:44.420 the Father through me, I'll go because I'll need 00:01:44.420 --> 00:01:48.680 that manifestation. I'll need it. And Jesus understood 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:51.540 every time there was a miracle. Jesus understood. 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:56.659 He understood perfectly well it was the Holy 00:01:56.659 --> 00:02:01.060 Spirit. And those miracles did not begin until 00:02:01.060 --> 00:02:03.239 after Jesus came up out of the waters of baptism. 00:02:05.439 --> 00:02:08.639 And God spoke. And in that hour, the Holy Spirit 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:15.840 came upon him as a dove. Then, before he went 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:21.580 away, he told about the Holy Spirit. He told 00:02:21.580 --> 00:02:25.300 him he would come. Read it there in John. He'll 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:29.400 teach you all things. He'll guide you. I'd give 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:30.960 anything in the world if I could stay with you 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:36.419 longer and take all of these scriptures. But 00:02:36.419 --> 00:02:38.719 when you read your scripture now in the light 00:02:38.719 --> 00:02:43.479 of that which I've been teaching you, light and 00:02:43.479 --> 00:02:50.560 light will come. He will glorify me. And always 00:02:50.560 --> 00:02:55.210 remember, that the Holy Spirit will always glorify 00:02:55.210 --> 00:03:02.129 Jesus. Always. Jesus said he would. And the Holy 00:03:02.129 --> 00:03:07.969 Spirit always magnifies. That's the reason I 00:03:07.969 --> 00:03:11.650 say to you sometimes we get so involved with 00:03:11.650 --> 00:03:15.590 our own ideas. There are those who run such a 00:03:15.590 --> 00:03:18.969 hobby on the Holy Spirit that they have forgotten 00:03:18.969 --> 00:03:25.120 all about Jesus. they have forgotten all about 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:30.780 Jesus. And Jesus made it very definite that the 00:03:30.780 --> 00:03:36.199 Holy Spirit will magnify and glorify me. It's 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:42.080 still Jesus. But just before he went away wanting 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:46.340 to give his church, now whenever I speak of the 00:03:46.340 --> 00:03:49.219 church, I'm talking about this body of believers 00:03:49.219 --> 00:03:53.259 because there is only one who can say, my church. 00:03:55.039 --> 00:04:00.340 Only one. When you say my church, you talk about 00:04:00.340 --> 00:04:05.039 the denomination to which you belong. But the 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:11.240 one who could really say my church was Jesus, 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:15.090 this glorious body of believers. And every person, 00:04:15.110 --> 00:04:18.829 whether they be Jew or Gentile, Catholic or Protestant, 00:04:19.029 --> 00:04:22.329 whoever that one may be, when they have this 00:04:22.329 --> 00:04:27.149 wonderful new birth experience, they are automatically 00:04:27.149 --> 00:04:36.209 born into this body of beliefs. Mine. These that 00:04:36.209 --> 00:04:41.589 thou hast given unto me, Jesus said when he talked 00:04:41.589 --> 00:04:47.560 to the Father. There is literally this kinship, 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:54.360 this relationship. We are a part of him and he 00:04:54.360 --> 00:04:58.139 is the head of this wonderful body of believers. 00:04:58.819 --> 00:05:01.459 In this holy sanctuary this morning, it makes 00:05:01.459 --> 00:05:04.860 no difference who you are. And I dare say that 00:05:04.860 --> 00:05:07.680 we have practically every denomination represented 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:15.759 here. It makes no difference. where you have 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:20.220 the church membership, if you have had that new 00:05:20.220 --> 00:05:24.680 birth experience, then you are my brother and 00:05:24.680 --> 00:05:31.100 my sister. And we are a member of this great 00:05:31.100 --> 00:05:35.319 body of believers, this body of Christ. But remember, 00:05:35.540 --> 00:05:42.420 before he went away, he wanted to give to this 00:05:42.420 --> 00:05:47.850 body of believers. the greatest gift that he 00:05:47.850 --> 00:05:55.870 could possibly give. The Holy Spirit had been 00:05:55.870 --> 00:06:00.949 so faithful to him. The Holy Spirit had come 00:06:00.949 --> 00:06:08.089 through every time. The Holy Spirit had been 00:06:08.089 --> 00:06:18.509 so faithful. He depended on him. We had not let 00:06:18.509 --> 00:06:27.910 him down. And so, knowing he was going to go 00:06:27.910 --> 00:06:30.569 away, he said, it's expedient for you that I 00:06:30.569 --> 00:06:34.649 go away. I have to go away, for I'm soon to take 00:06:34.649 --> 00:06:37.589 the position of great high priest, ever living 00:06:37.589 --> 00:06:41.269 to make intercession for you. And that's the 00:06:41.269 --> 00:06:43.689 reason not one of us needs ever be defeated. 00:06:43.790 --> 00:06:48.149 Not one. There isn't one of his children that 00:06:48.149 --> 00:06:51.470 needs ever go down in defeat for one second. 00:06:51.569 --> 00:06:53.949 Not one second. I don't care what the temptation 00:06:53.949 --> 00:06:57.670 is. I don't care. Not one of us need ever go 00:06:57.670 --> 00:07:02.689 down in defeat. We have a great high priest. 00:07:02.810 --> 00:07:05.129 We have one who ever liveth to make intercession 00:07:05.129 --> 00:07:09.370 for us. And he'll be right there to give you 00:07:09.370 --> 00:07:17.589 the strength to come through victoriously. So 00:07:17.589 --> 00:07:22.129 he says, I'll give you the gift. Now remember, 00:07:22.410 --> 00:07:27.069 he came upon only a few in the Old Testament. 00:07:28.569 --> 00:07:40.389 But now, now it was different. Now. And ye shall 00:07:40.389 --> 00:07:46.069 receive a power. And he's talking to his own. 00:07:48.750 --> 00:07:57.829 His own. His own. Members of this great body. 00:07:59.689 --> 00:08:03.569 You cannot limit it just to the few in the upper 00:08:03.569 --> 00:08:10.610 room. You cannot limit it to the 120. For he 00:08:10.610 --> 00:08:15.430 was not speaking to just the 120. And he made 00:08:15.430 --> 00:08:21.129 it known. The Holy Spirit made it known to whom 00:08:21.129 --> 00:08:24.490 this glorious power was to come upon. He made 00:08:24.490 --> 00:08:33.870 it known to the lips of Peter. To you. To this 00:08:33.870 --> 00:08:37.110 generation. to the generation that follows and 00:08:37.110 --> 00:08:39.490 the generation after that and the generation 00:08:39.490 --> 00:08:44.870 after that. Even to that hour in the First Methodist 00:08:44.870 --> 00:08:50.970 Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This promise is unto 00:08:50.970 --> 00:08:55.710 you and your children and your children's children 00:08:55.710 --> 00:09:05.960 and their children. And he included me. You dare 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:11.860 not limit the Holy Spirit to just the early church. 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:15.120 You dare not limit to this wonderful experience 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:24.740 to just 120. And ye shall receive power. What 00:09:24.740 --> 00:09:28.600 power? The same power that was manifested in 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:39.269 his life and ministry. The same. Manifestation. 00:09:39.269 --> 00:09:44.230 After that, the Holy Ghost is come upon you. 00:09:46.110 --> 00:09:51.649 And the greatest gift that Jesus could possibly 00:09:51.649 --> 00:09:56.470 give to his church was the gift of the Holy Spirit. 00:10:00.679 --> 00:10:03.539 It's a part of your inheritance. It's yours. 00:10:04.899 --> 00:10:09.220 It's a part of your inheritance. You don't know 00:10:09.220 --> 00:10:12.940 what you're missing. You don't know what you've 00:10:12.940 --> 00:10:17.100 been missing all this time. You don't know. You 00:10:17.100 --> 00:10:22.220 don't know. It's a glorious experience. It's 00:10:22.220 --> 00:10:25.960 a marvelous experience. But you say to this woman, 00:10:26.059 --> 00:10:30.929 how is one filled with the Holy Spirit? It's 00:10:30.929 --> 00:10:35.549 so simple. It's like that about everything when 00:10:35.549 --> 00:10:38.889 it comes to the spiritual things. Healing is 00:10:38.889 --> 00:10:42.490 so simple. There's some hard thing he'd asked 00:10:42.490 --> 00:10:46.649 us to do. It's so simple that most folk miss 00:10:46.649 --> 00:10:53.669 it. Now we come to the thing of tongues and the 00:10:53.669 --> 00:10:57.889 experience. First of all, let me answer this 00:10:57.889 --> 00:11:02.049 as simply as I can. How is one filled with the 00:11:02.049 --> 00:11:07.950 Holy Spirit? He is with you, the scripture says, 00:11:08.330 --> 00:11:13.350 but he shall be in you. The Holy Spirit is with 00:11:13.350 --> 00:11:17.289 every Christian. If you're born again, the Holy 00:11:17.289 --> 00:11:21.690 Spirit is with you. He was even with you before 00:11:21.690 --> 00:11:25.350 you were born again because it's the Holy Spirit 00:11:25.350 --> 00:11:28.049 who convicts the sinner of sin and of judgment. 00:11:29.389 --> 00:11:31.570 The Holy Spirit is the mighty convicting power. 00:11:31.690 --> 00:11:34.690 Know that. If only you could realize the importance 00:11:34.690 --> 00:11:37.230 of the Holy Spirit. He is the convicting power. 00:11:37.370 --> 00:11:43.269 No man comes to the Lord of himself. If you're 00:11:43.269 --> 00:11:47.649 convicted, that is the Holy Spirit. He is with 00:11:47.649 --> 00:11:52.929 every Christian. If you're born again, He is 00:11:52.929 --> 00:11:58.789 with you. He's with every child of God. But when 00:11:58.789 --> 00:12:02.950 it comes to this experience, but he shall be 00:12:02.950 --> 00:12:10.909 in you. In. In. In. That makes a mighty close. 00:12:12.450 --> 00:12:19.590 In you. Here. But how? Let me give you a simple 00:12:19.590 --> 00:12:23.909 illustration that I possibly can. When we're 00:12:23.909 --> 00:12:28.009 born again. Let's say, for instance, our heart 00:12:28.009 --> 00:12:33.490 has four wounds in it. You want to know something? 00:12:34.830 --> 00:12:39.110 I don't think we could take it all at once. You 00:12:39.110 --> 00:12:46.490 know it? I really don't. Do you really want to 00:12:46.490 --> 00:12:49.029 know how powerful is the Holy Spirit? Do you 00:12:49.029 --> 00:12:50.909 really want to know? That's the reason when it 00:12:50.909 --> 00:12:52.850 comes to the slaying power of the Holy Spirit. 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:55.960 And there are those who witness to the fact that 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.059 it was like a bowl of electricity. Do you know 00:12:58.059 --> 00:13:01.539 what you're dealing with? Something greater than 00:13:01.539 --> 00:13:05.820 any electricity. These old physical bodies of 00:13:05.820 --> 00:13:09.960 ours can just take so much. They're not geared 00:13:09.960 --> 00:13:14.519 for all this power. You understand? That's the 00:13:14.519 --> 00:13:17.000 reason no man can look upon the face of God and 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:20.480 live. All that Moses saw was the hinder part. 00:13:20.679 --> 00:13:22.860 That's the reason I know that God has a body. 00:13:25.230 --> 00:13:27.730 He's more than something ethereal. He's more 00:13:27.730 --> 00:13:35.909 than spirit. Moses literally saw. God is more 00:13:35.909 --> 00:13:42.370 than just spirit. Oh, I'd like to spend the next 00:13:42.370 --> 00:13:46.950 hour just on that, but I can't do it. But remember, 00:13:47.330 --> 00:13:54.169 the four rooms of our hearts and at the time 00:13:54.169 --> 00:13:59.590 of salvation, we think we've given him everything. 00:14:00.190 --> 00:14:04.129 We think we have. And we open, as it were, one 00:14:04.129 --> 00:14:06.730 room of our heart and say, come in, Lord Jesus. 00:14:07.090 --> 00:14:13.769 Come in. And he comes in. We're born again. But 00:14:13.769 --> 00:14:15.529 there's something about the next day, you know. 00:14:17.429 --> 00:14:20.649 It's a light. It's something that's constant. 00:14:22.090 --> 00:14:25.250 It's glorious. It's a definite transaction. That 00:14:25.250 --> 00:14:26.830 new birth experience is a definite transaction. 00:14:27.769 --> 00:14:31.350 The songwriter had it when he wrote the words 00:14:31.350 --> 00:14:36.250 in the first stanza, some of self and some of 00:14:36.250 --> 00:14:43.789 thee. Then the next verse, less of self and more 00:14:43.789 --> 00:14:56.250 of thee. And then, none of self I can't put it 00:14:56.250 --> 00:15:08.230 better. None of self. But all of these. None 00:15:08.230 --> 00:15:12.929 of self. And it's the hardest thing in the world 00:15:12.929 --> 00:15:18.309 sometimes, I think, is for men and women to die. 00:15:19.570 --> 00:15:29.019 To die. None of self. None of self. none of self, 00:15:29.500 --> 00:15:40.440 but all thee. But remember, he comes in as you 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.679 worship and adore Jesus, for Jesus said he'd 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:49.500 magnify me. And you get exactly what you seek 00:15:49.500 --> 00:15:57.159 for. And many a person has sought tongues. tongues 00:15:57.159 --> 00:16:04.899 you cannot show to me from the word of God you 00:16:04.899 --> 00:16:10.440 cannot no theologian can show me and prove to 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:14.200 me in the word of God that you and I were ever 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:21.500 commanded to seek tongues and I believe in the 00:16:21.500 --> 00:16:25.710 speaking in an unknown tongue I believe in it 00:16:25.710 --> 00:16:30.470 with every atom of my being. Don't you dare go 00:16:30.470 --> 00:16:33.049 out of here. Don't you dare. I'll pray conviction 00:16:33.049 --> 00:16:41.769 on you that you won't sleep. And no sleeping 00:16:41.769 --> 00:16:48.830 pill will help you out. Don't you dare. I believe 00:16:48.830 --> 00:16:51.429 in the speaking in an unknown tongue. I've got 00:16:51.429 --> 00:16:56.500 to believe it. It's here. In the house of Cornelius, 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:01.000 I believe. But they were at no time commanded 00:17:01.000 --> 00:17:11.079 to seek them. Never. Repel himself. They were 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:15.799 seeking the Holy Spirit. In the upper room is 00:17:15.799 --> 00:17:20.140 120. They were seeking him, the Holy Spirit. 00:17:22.190 --> 00:17:27.930 And in the final analysis, my friend, when you 00:17:27.930 --> 00:17:31.710 talk about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it's 00:17:31.710 --> 00:17:35.170 still just more of Jesus and more and more and 00:17:35.170 --> 00:17:40.329 more and more and more and more of Jesus. And 00:17:40.329 --> 00:17:43.730 what, my friend, is the speaking in an unknown 00:17:43.730 --> 00:17:47.150 tongue if you do not have the power of the Holy 00:17:47.150 --> 00:17:53.539 Ghost and the love of Jesus? I'll go back to 00:17:53.539 --> 00:17:58.339 that in just a second. If you seek tongues and 00:17:58.339 --> 00:18:02.200 you're not scriptural, you're absolutely not 00:18:02.200 --> 00:18:07.380 scriptural. If you get down on your knees and 00:18:07.380 --> 00:18:12.660 pray for tongues, you're not scriptural. You're 00:18:12.660 --> 00:18:18.640 not scriptural. You seek more of Jesus. And the 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:22.220 Holy Spirit comes in through praise. and adoration. 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:30.220 You worship Jesus. He will glorify me. And when 00:18:30.220 --> 00:18:32.500 you get to the place where you love Jesus with 00:18:32.500 --> 00:18:37.380 all of your heart, it's so easy to die to self 00:18:37.380 --> 00:18:43.140 when you have Jesus, when you love Jesus. It 00:18:43.140 --> 00:18:47.279 isn't a matter of struggling. It's so easy when 00:18:47.279 --> 00:18:50.079 you love Jesus enough to surrender to Jesus. 00:18:50.829 --> 00:18:55.170 And you love him and you adore him. And the Holy 00:18:55.170 --> 00:19:01.750 Spirit comes in. And he will announce his own 00:19:01.750 --> 00:19:06.970 incoming. It isn't that you seek any evidence. 00:19:07.130 --> 00:19:14.750 You don't seek the evidence. The evidence will 00:19:14.750 --> 00:19:20.299 come. And you don't have to seek the evidence. 00:19:20.420 --> 00:19:24.400 The evidence will come. How many understand? 00:19:24.619 --> 00:19:31.279 Put up a hand. And the greater of the two evidences 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:36.200 is the power that's manifested in your life. 00:19:37.440 --> 00:19:41.579 For Jesus himself said, and he shall receive 00:19:41.579 --> 00:19:47.519 power. Don't let us put words. in the mouth of 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:52.619 Jesus. Don't go contrary to the teaching of the 00:19:52.619 --> 00:19:56.400 Master. His last words. He knew human nature 00:19:56.400 --> 00:20:02.119 so well. And ye shall receive power after that 00:20:02.119 --> 00:20:08.460 Holy Ghost has come upon you. And the greatest 00:20:08.460 --> 00:20:10.799 evidence of having been filled with the Holy 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:18.759 Spirit will be the fruit of the Spirit. Yeah? 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:25.420 I'm gonna tell you something. When you plant 00:20:25.420 --> 00:20:32.339 a peach tree, and if that's a genuine peach tree, 00:20:32.559 --> 00:20:40.099 you're not gonna get crab apples. And remember 00:20:40.099 --> 00:20:53.250 something else. Noise is in power. Yeah. I had 00:20:53.250 --> 00:20:56.490 an old Model T Ford one time. First car I rode. 00:20:56.730 --> 00:21:01.410 Oh, man. I'm going to tell you something. It's 00:21:01.410 --> 00:21:06.549 that old Ford. If noise had been power, that 00:21:06.549 --> 00:21:07.890 would have been the most powerful thing that 00:21:07.890 --> 00:21:12.809 ever was on the road. Back in Idaho. Love is 00:21:12.809 --> 00:21:17.089 the only thing. I think I got it for $35. It's 00:21:17.089 --> 00:21:21.819 all I could afford. But say you die one of Tinker 00:21:21.819 --> 00:21:24.039 Wilkerson's new imperials.