WEBVTT 00:00:02.250 --> 00:00:08.050 Now watch. Though I speak with the tongues of 00:00:08.050 --> 00:00:16.730 men and of angels and have not love, I am become 00:00:16.730 --> 00:00:21.350 a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And though 00:00:21.350 --> 00:00:28.089 I have the gift of prophecy, understand all the 00:00:28.089 --> 00:00:33.390 mysteries, read it, that 13th chapter. of 1 Corinthians. 00:00:34.450 --> 00:00:37.630 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the 00:00:37.630 --> 00:00:42.149 poor, though I gave my body to be burned and 00:00:42.149 --> 00:00:48.950 have not love, it profiteth me nothing. Now, 00:00:49.210 --> 00:00:54.810 if you want to know whether one has really been 00:00:54.810 --> 00:01:01.890 filled with Holy Spirit, There will be the evidence 00:01:01.890 --> 00:01:10.409 of the fruit. There will be the evidence. Love 00:01:10.409 --> 00:01:16.730 suffereth long. Always patient. And is kind. 00:01:20.150 --> 00:01:25.189 Can your experience measure up with this? Endeth 00:01:25.189 --> 00:01:30.099 not. Sometimes I think we have more jealousies 00:01:30.099 --> 00:01:33.079 in our assemblies and in our churches than any 00:01:33.079 --> 00:01:38.079 place else in the world. The sin of jealousy 00:01:38.079 --> 00:01:40.980 is so prevalent. And it's the first sin that 00:01:40.980 --> 00:01:44.239 we have any record of whatsoever. That's what 00:01:44.239 --> 00:01:51.959 caused an angel to fall and become sick. Bonteth 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:56.400 not itself. Is not puffed up. I'm going to stop 00:01:56.400 --> 00:02:03.060 right there and say something. You do not have 00:02:03.060 --> 00:02:12.539 the fruits of the Spirit. Watch this. If you 00:02:12.539 --> 00:02:19.560 have spiritual pride, you say, I have been filled. 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:21.659 This gets me more than almost anything else. 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:25.870 Somebody comes along and said, Oh, Ms. Gomez, 00:02:25.990 --> 00:02:29.770 so nice meeting you. I want you to know that 00:02:29.770 --> 00:02:32.490 I've been filled with the Holy Spirit. I've had 00:02:32.490 --> 00:02:35.969 the baptism of the Holy Spirit. I have all the 00:02:35.969 --> 00:02:39.069 gifts of the Spirit. And the more they talk, 00:02:39.129 --> 00:02:46.349 the more puffed up. I feel like taking a pin 00:02:46.349 --> 00:02:51.590 and just puncture the balloon. And I get away 00:02:51.590 --> 00:03:00.210 from that one so fast. Because, beloved, the 00:03:00.210 --> 00:03:03.210 greatest of all Christian graces is humility. 00:03:07.110 --> 00:03:09.990 And if you have received the baptism of the Holy 00:03:09.990 --> 00:03:14.810 Spirit, remember, one of the fruits of the Spirit 00:03:14.810 --> 00:03:20.490 is humility. And some folks, after they think 00:03:20.490 --> 00:03:21.569 that they've been filled with the Holy Spirit, 00:03:21.710 --> 00:03:24.659 you can't... Touch them with a 10 -foot pole, 00:03:24.860 --> 00:03:35.280 they're so proud. Everybody else is on a lower 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:44.639 level because they have received the baptism 00:03:44.639 --> 00:03:49.199 of the Holy Spirit. How many understand? Put 00:03:49.199 --> 00:03:55.389 up a hand. I'll go a step further when it comes 00:03:55.389 --> 00:03:57.849 to, and I'd like to take this whole thing, I'll 00:03:57.849 --> 00:04:01.310 go a step further when it comes to not only the 00:04:01.310 --> 00:04:10.370 fruits, but the gifts of the Spirit. If you have 00:04:10.370 --> 00:04:14.550 really received one or more of the gifts of the 00:04:14.550 --> 00:04:19.750 Spirit, you're not going to boast of it. You're 00:04:19.750 --> 00:04:26.899 not going to talk about it. Because these things 00:04:26.899 --> 00:04:30.120 are so sacred. These things are so sacred. They're 00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:41.740 so wonderful. It's like a beautiful jewel. It's 00:04:41.740 --> 00:04:46.620 precious. It's precious. You got it so well. 00:04:47.300 --> 00:04:56.220 No one will ever hear Catherine cool. ever admit 00:04:56.220 --> 00:05:00.519 that she has been given any gift to the Spirit. 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.300 I would no more than anything in the world. I 00:05:04.300 --> 00:05:09.439 would no more. I would no more stand before an 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:13.639 audience or even speak privately of any gift 00:05:13.639 --> 00:05:15.980 to the Spirit the Holy Spirit has ever given 00:05:15.980 --> 00:05:22.319 me. It's a gift. A responsibility that goes with 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:27.160 it. And you got it. carefully in your God's gathering. 00:05:30.800 --> 00:05:36.300 And He gives you a reward for what the Holy Spirit 00:05:36.300 --> 00:05:43.339 has done and has given. I beg of you, if there's 00:05:43.339 --> 00:05:48.420 one in this place who's going around boasting 00:05:48.420 --> 00:05:55.139 of some gift of the Spirit, be careful. Be very 00:05:55.139 --> 00:06:02.540 careful how you use it. Be very careful. It's 00:06:02.540 --> 00:06:06.399 a sacred trust. It's something so precious you 00:06:06.399 --> 00:06:13.259 don't talk about. Much as I've said this morning 00:06:13.259 --> 00:06:16.620 may be absolutely contrary to your theology. 00:06:20.959 --> 00:06:28.310 I'm not going to speak on tongues. There shall 00:06:28.310 --> 00:06:37.949 be no doubt in your mind. I believe in the speaking 00:06:37.949 --> 00:06:42.449 in an unknown tongue. But when the Holy Spirit 00:06:42.449 --> 00:06:46.230 does the speaking, it's going to be beautiful. 00:06:48.009 --> 00:06:59.569 Wonderful. And he speaks perfectly. He speaks 00:06:59.569 --> 00:07:06.930 perfectly. Sometimes, in some of the actions 00:07:06.930 --> 00:07:11.069 of the fever, you would almost get the idea that 00:07:11.069 --> 00:07:20.529 the Holy Spirit was illiterate. He's not an imbecile. 00:07:24.870 --> 00:07:28.899 The one through whom Jesus... offered himself 00:07:28.899 --> 00:07:34.480 to be cured. Perfect wisdom, perfect knowledge, 00:07:34.779 --> 00:07:40.939 perfect in all things. And when he speaks, he'll 00:07:40.939 --> 00:07:45.220 speak beautifully. I'll tell you my first experience 00:07:45.220 --> 00:07:50.399 when I was young. I was so young. not more than 00:07:50.399 --> 00:07:53.660 16 years of age in Joliet, Illinois. And the 00:07:53.660 --> 00:07:55.079 things that I've been talking to you about this 00:07:55.079 --> 00:07:57.060 morning was so new to me. I knew nothing about 00:07:57.060 --> 00:08:00.160 the nothing. And all that I knew when I first 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:01.819 started out in the ministry was just salvation. 00:08:01.819 --> 00:08:05.120 I knew nothing more. Nothing. I knew nothing 00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:07.980 more. I only knew that I'd been born again. That's 00:08:07.980 --> 00:08:12.839 all. And you do not give to anyone else any more 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:17.220 than what you've experienced. It was astounding. 00:08:21.340 --> 00:08:24.600 One night, I'd given an altar call. My personal 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:28.939 work, I wasn't too wise in it. I practically 00:08:28.939 --> 00:08:30.839 locked the door, and if there was an unsaved 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:32.899 person there, they didn't get out until I had 00:08:32.899 --> 00:08:36.080 them down on their knees. I pounded the devil 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:39.759 right out of them. The Lord didn't do it. I did 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:48.519 it for him. Oh, so unwise. I'd given the altar 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:54.120 call. And then the services ended. There were 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:57.559 still about three or four who were still kneeling. 00:08:57.740 --> 00:09:03.799 This was my first experience. I was sitting back 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:08.259 with Isabel Drake's mother. Practically all the 00:09:08.259 --> 00:09:10.340 lights were turned out. I was saving electricity. 00:09:15.279 --> 00:09:19.340 Isabel Drake, a schoolteacher who would commute 00:09:19.340 --> 00:09:24.710 from Joliet, Illinois. into Chicago a very fine 00:09:24.710 --> 00:09:27.889 young lady was kneeling at the altar for salvation 00:09:27.889 --> 00:09:31.570 and I was sitting there quietly talking with 00:09:31.570 --> 00:09:40.389 her mother and suddenly Isabel Drake put back 00:09:40.389 --> 00:09:50.330 her head and the most beautiful singing the most 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:56.500 Beautiful singing. As clean as a bell. It was 00:09:56.500 --> 00:10:03.840 beautiful. I never hear an opera singer. I never. 00:10:04.860 --> 00:10:14.580 When they hit those C's. I never. It was so deeply 00:10:14.580 --> 00:10:22.899 moved and affected. That's been years ago. It 00:10:22.899 --> 00:10:28.200 was perfect. I think I know a little bit of what 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:31.500 the music is going to be like in heaven. Remember, 00:10:31.580 --> 00:10:33.500 when the Holy Spirit does it, it's perfection. 00:10:33.700 --> 00:10:35.700 There's never a wrong note. It's never flat. 00:10:35.899 --> 00:10:39.440 It's never sharp. When the Holy Spirit does it, 00:10:39.500 --> 00:10:44.159 it's perfection. And a mother grabbed my hand. 00:10:45.940 --> 00:10:48.620 She says, my daughter can't even carry a tune. 00:10:51.340 --> 00:11:01.000 That's not my daughter singing. That's not my 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:08.240 daughter singing. And her face shone like an 00:11:08.240 --> 00:11:15.279 angel. And as she sang, oh, the perfection of 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:19.720 it. She was glorifying and magnifying Jesus. 00:11:21.480 --> 00:11:27.659 And this continued for about five minutes. I 00:11:27.659 --> 00:11:38.559 thought it was it. I heard the singing of the 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:48.039 Holy Spirit. My mother had never heard me preach 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:51.179 it. If you only knew Mama. If you only knew Mama. 00:11:53.240 --> 00:12:00.480 Mama has died since. Mama had never heard me 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:06.539 preach. The very first time was when she came 00:12:06.539 --> 00:12:12.419 to Denver, Colorado. I've got to believe in the 00:12:12.419 --> 00:12:14.700 speaking in a non -tongue. I've got to believe. 00:12:15.059 --> 00:12:17.919 But what I'm trying to say to you when he does 00:12:17.919 --> 00:12:21.850 it. It'll be perfection. It'll be perfection. 00:12:21.970 --> 00:12:23.669 Everything the Holy Spirit does is perfection. 00:12:29.629 --> 00:12:35.470 And after I finished preaching, I said, now there's 00:12:35.470 --> 00:12:39.509 a prayer room back here. And I thought, oh, what'll 00:12:39.509 --> 00:12:43.350 Mama think? What'll Mama think? And I'd been 00:12:43.350 --> 00:12:47.169 preaching on the power of the Holy Spirit. I 00:12:47.169 --> 00:12:49.149 don't think Mama understood one thing that I 00:12:49.149 --> 00:12:52.690 said. I don't think she did. Mama knew nothing 00:12:52.690 --> 00:13:03.370 about the Holy Spirit. Mama was Methodist. She 00:13:03.370 --> 00:13:05.809 didn't know too much about the new birth experience. 00:13:11.529 --> 00:13:13.610 I had to just slip back in the prayer room, and 00:13:13.610 --> 00:13:20.450 I'll go back with you. And so they came. When 00:13:20.450 --> 00:13:22.409 I walked off of that platform, Mama was just 00:13:22.409 --> 00:13:27.009 sitting there. She didn't come. She didn't know 00:13:27.009 --> 00:13:31.870 what it was all about. After about 15 minutes, 00:13:31.909 --> 00:13:34.490 the door of the prayer room opened. There must 00:13:34.490 --> 00:13:36.809 have been about a hundred or so more kneeling 00:13:36.809 --> 00:13:39.330 there praying. Everyone with their heads down. 00:13:40.590 --> 00:13:45.750 And I saw Mama come through that door. She only 00:13:45.750 --> 00:13:53.250 knew my mom. You can't appreciate this. You could 00:13:53.250 --> 00:14:00.370 not have convinced my mama. Spiritual things. 00:14:02.750 --> 00:14:10.210 She was so set in a way. If the Methodists didn't 00:14:10.210 --> 00:14:18.149 believe it, then it wasn't so. It wasn't so. 00:14:19.269 --> 00:14:23.450 Her father, my grandfather, was so Methodist 00:14:23.450 --> 00:14:25.990 that when he died, he would have staked life 00:14:25.990 --> 00:14:30.990 that only Methodists would be in heaven. I've 00:14:30.990 --> 00:14:33.970 often thought since, think what a surprise that 00:14:33.970 --> 00:14:38.909 Grandpa Walkenhurst got. And Mama knelt down. 00:14:41.870 --> 00:14:48.799 She hadn't been on her knees very long. I slowly 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:53.120 walked over to her. Everybody was praying. And 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.779 I laid my hands on her. She's such a quiet woman. 00:14:57.740 --> 00:15:06.700 When I touched her, my mama began to speak in 00:15:06.700 --> 00:15:09.080 a heavenly language. Mama never knew there was 00:15:09.080 --> 00:15:13.320 such a thing. My mama did not know there was 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:15.139 such a thing as speaking in an unknown tongue. 00:15:15.279 --> 00:15:20.929 She didn't know it. She had never read it. She 00:15:20.929 --> 00:15:25.610 had never heard it. She had no light on it. She 00:15:25.610 --> 00:15:32.049 was not seeking for it. Explain these things, 00:15:32.190 --> 00:15:42.009 who can? Who can? And my mother began speaking 00:15:42.009 --> 00:15:49.029 just as softly and fluidly. It was glorious. 00:15:55.660 --> 00:16:00.159 I have to believe in speaking in an unknown tongue. 00:16:00.440 --> 00:16:10.100 I have to, I have to. I have no choice. Would 00:16:10.100 --> 00:16:14.620 you open your eyes? She took my hands and hers 00:16:14.620 --> 00:16:23.940 for the first time. ever approved me being in 00:16:23.940 --> 00:16:27.519 the work that I was in. I just took both of my 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:30.580 hands in hers and she said, Catherine, preach 00:16:30.580 --> 00:16:35.539 it that others might receive what I have just 00:16:35.539 --> 00:16:41.659 received. You want to know something? My mother 00:16:41.659 --> 00:16:48.899 did not sleep. For three days and two nights. 00:16:57.179 --> 00:17:04.380 But I did not sleep. So great was the joy of 00:17:04.380 --> 00:17:08.160 the Lord upon her. She couldn't sleep. She couldn't 00:17:08.160 --> 00:17:13.000 sleep. There was no sleep in her. She couldn't 00:17:13.000 --> 00:17:22.720 destroy. The next morning, they came to say the 00:17:22.720 --> 00:17:29.680 joy. It's a joy. It's something. Who can explain 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:32.539 it? There are no words in the human vocabulary. 00:17:33.220 --> 00:17:36.500 You know it. You know it. You know it. My mother 00:17:36.500 --> 00:17:40.480 was never the same again. Never. The next day, 00:17:40.579 --> 00:17:47.980 there was no sleep. This joy. I had a new mama. 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:54.420 My mama was a new person. This love that radiated 00:17:54.420 --> 00:17:59.259 from her, this love. Nobody had to prompt her. 00:17:59.680 --> 00:18:04.339 Nobody had to teach her. This joy, this love, 00:18:04.539 --> 00:18:11.880 this love. And my mother never, never, never, 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:15.160 never again was the same. My own experience. 00:18:18.509 --> 00:18:23.849 When I died, and I told you last night, I came 00:18:23.849 --> 00:18:26.509 to the place of a dead end street when I gave 00:18:26.509 --> 00:18:31.210 him body, soul, and spirit. I gave him body, 00:18:31.210 --> 00:18:37.150 soul, and spirit. And he came in, and he spoke 00:18:37.150 --> 00:18:41.869 through lips of clay. It was not Catherine Kuhlman, 00:18:42.009 --> 00:18:46.609 but it was when I gave him myself, all of me, 00:18:46.829 --> 00:19:03.940 all. All of me. All of me. It's so natural. It's 00:19:03.940 --> 00:19:10.980 so simple. You do not have to seek the manifestation. 00:19:12.420 --> 00:19:16.660 You just surrender to him and he does the rest. 00:19:18.029 --> 00:19:23.569 You know not how to pray or what to ask for. 00:19:24.529 --> 00:19:30.369 It's the Holy Spirit's over here in Romans. This 00:19:30.369 --> 00:19:33.329 is precious. I wish I had an entire hour on this. 00:19:33.410 --> 00:19:37.269 Likewise, the Spirit also help with our infirmities. 00:19:38.089 --> 00:19:42.029 For we know not what we should pray for as we 00:19:42.029 --> 00:19:48.279 ought. But the Spirit itself maketh intercession 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:53.680 for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:58.220 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what 00:19:58.220 --> 00:20:00.660 is in the mind of the Spirit because he maketh 00:20:00.660 --> 00:20:06.880 intercession. He maketh intercession for the 00:20:06.880 --> 00:20:10.180 saints according to the will of God. You say, 00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:16.029 have you ever spoken in tongues since? There 00:20:16.029 --> 00:20:20.269 are times when in my ignorance, my lack of knowledge, 00:20:20.630 --> 00:20:29.549 I know not how to pray. And a dear old brother 00:20:29.549 --> 00:20:32.450 McCloud, when I was so young and he was in his 00:20:32.450 --> 00:20:35.789 80s, took my hand in his ears and said, never 00:20:35.789 --> 00:20:37.789 get out of the will of God, girl. And I didn't 00:20:37.789 --> 00:20:42.789 know what he was talking about. I know now. My 00:20:42.789 --> 00:20:48.069 own nature. is to be impulsive. But when it comes 00:20:48.069 --> 00:20:52.230 to the things of God, I'm so slow to move. I'm 00:20:52.230 --> 00:20:54.069 so afraid of getting out of the will of God. 00:20:54.970 --> 00:20:59.750 I'm so afraid of getting out of His will. I wouldn't 00:20:59.750 --> 00:21:01.210 get out of the will of God for anything in the 00:21:01.210 --> 00:21:05.210 world. And there are times I don't know. I don't 00:21:05.210 --> 00:21:18.349 know how to pray. I don't know. I come and stand 00:21:18.349 --> 00:21:20.609 there in that moment of crisis and I don't know. 00:21:23.950 --> 00:21:28.970 And I look up and always remember, when you get 00:21:28.970 --> 00:21:32.109 to the place where you have no will of your own, 00:21:32.289 --> 00:21:39.950 you cannot miss the will of God. It's not an 00:21:39.950 --> 00:21:46.549 easy place to get. That's the reason why when 00:21:46.549 --> 00:21:48.950 you come to those places you rush over to your 00:21:48.950 --> 00:21:50.970 neighbors and you rush over to somebody else 00:21:50.970 --> 00:21:54.589 and you want them to say what you want to hear. 00:21:57.990 --> 00:22:04.009 There is a place when you call and this is where 00:22:04.009 --> 00:22:06.509 the speaking in an unknown tongue comes in my 00:22:06.509 --> 00:22:13.039 life. I know now and remember something. The 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:15.759 Holy Spirit is not given for our own pleasure 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:19.539 and our own enjoyment. It is not. The Holy Spirit 00:22:19.539 --> 00:22:24.019 is given for service. It is not for our own pleasure. 00:22:24.700 --> 00:22:30.099 You're misusing the Holy Spirit. You're misusing 00:22:30.099 --> 00:22:34.680 this wonderful person if you're using him for 00:22:34.680 --> 00:22:38.920 your own pleasure. A little spiritual picnic 00:22:38.920 --> 00:22:41.019 when you get together with some of the saints 00:22:41.019 --> 00:22:45.039 of God. You're misappropriating the power of 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:48.599 the Holy Ghost. But there is a time when you 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:53.400 know not how to pray. But there is one who knows 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.839 the perfect will of God. And he never works separate 00:22:56.839 --> 00:22:59.019 and apart from the Father. He never works separate 00:22:59.019 --> 00:23:02.619 and apart from Jesus. He has perfect knowledge 00:23:02.619 --> 00:23:06.180 as to the will of God. And when I get to the 00:23:06.180 --> 00:23:10.220 place, I have no will of my own. And I throw 00:23:10.220 --> 00:23:15.279 my stuff. upon the person who dwells within. 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:21.920 And he comes before the throne and he makes intercession 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:30.119 for me. And he speaks for me. And I can never 00:23:30.119 --> 00:23:34.779 miss the God, for he knows his will and talks 00:23:34.779 --> 00:23:35.880 to the Father for me.