WEBVTT 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:03.040 Well, now for a very few minutes, you and I are 00:00:03.040 --> 00:00:04.900 going to have a heart -to -heart talk about something 00:00:04.900 --> 00:00:11.800 that I feel is most important. We're going to 00:00:11.800 --> 00:00:18.300 talk about what one believes. Do you want to 00:00:18.300 --> 00:00:23.280 know something? It makes all the difference in 00:00:23.280 --> 00:00:28.800 the world what you believe. We've come to the 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:36.859 time when we just accept as a truth that no matter 00:00:36.859 --> 00:00:42.640 what one believes, just so one is sincere in 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:48.079 his belief. That's all that's necessary. Just 00:00:48.079 --> 00:00:58.450 sincerity in one's belief. I repeat. It makes 00:00:58.450 --> 00:01:07.489 all the difference in the world what one believes. 00:01:07.969 --> 00:01:13.090 It makes the difference between heaven and hell 00:01:13.090 --> 00:01:21.909 as to what one believes. And your sincerity in 00:01:21.909 --> 00:01:33.000 your belief Help one bit if you believe in the 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:38.879 wrong thing. The most destructive disease in 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:42.439 our country today is neither cancer or heart 00:01:42.439 --> 00:01:54.079 disease. It is spiritual blindness. I know. Cancer 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:59.629 and... The disease of the heart are looked upon 00:01:59.629 --> 00:02:04.469 as the two most destructive diseases that we 00:02:04.469 --> 00:02:13.389 have today. But cancer and heart disease kill 00:02:13.389 --> 00:02:19.610 only the body. But spiritual blindness destroys 00:02:19.610 --> 00:02:23.169 the soul. And the most amazing thing in the whole 00:02:23.169 --> 00:02:26.599 world is the fact that in the case of... physical 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:31.939 illness, we waste no time, we waste no money 00:02:31.939 --> 00:02:36.240 in seeking the very best medical help that we 00:02:36.240 --> 00:02:42.039 can get. And if we're that concerned about the 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.740 physical, I wonder why in the world we're so 00:02:45.740 --> 00:02:51.539 unconcerned about the right help spiritually. 00:02:53.240 --> 00:03:02.409 When Our spiritual concerns should be our first. 00:03:04.930 --> 00:03:07.830 There's a portion of the Word of God here that 00:03:07.830 --> 00:03:11.110 I want to read. It's found in the fourth chapter 00:03:11.110 --> 00:03:18.150 of 2 Corinthians. In the fourth verse. In whom 00:03:18.150 --> 00:03:22.210 the God of this world hath blinded the minds 00:03:22.210 --> 00:03:27.620 of them which believe not. lest the light of 00:03:27.620 --> 00:03:33.120 the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:41.680 of God, should shine unto them. Oh, I pray that 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:44.800 somehow, in these next very few minutes, the 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:50.099 Holy Spirit will open your blinded eyes to the 00:03:50.099 --> 00:03:55.610 glorious light of the gospel. What? is Paul saying 00:03:55.610 --> 00:04:02.330 here? Oh, he knew. He knew so well of that which 00:04:02.330 --> 00:04:07.590 he was speaking. The glorious light of the gospel, 00:04:07.770 --> 00:04:16.209 he says. Who is the image of God? What is the 00:04:16.209 --> 00:04:26.360 image of God? The gospel. The word. You ask me 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:31.259 whether or not I have ever seen God. And I will 00:04:31.259 --> 00:04:37.779 have to say without hesitation, no. I have never 00:04:37.779 --> 00:04:41.439 looked upon the person of God. I have never seen 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:45.980 God. And immediately, the man without any spiritual 00:04:45.980 --> 00:04:49.160 understanding whatsoever will say, you're a fool. 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:56.139 You're a fool, Catherine Kuhlman. giving your 00:04:56.139 --> 00:05:02.360 life for someone that you have never seen. And 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:06.939 believe me, I tell you the truth, I would not 00:05:06.939 --> 00:05:14.860 work the long hours that I work for any employer 00:05:14.860 --> 00:05:19.680 that I know anything about. You could not pay 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:27.399 me enough money. to work as hard as I work and 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:31.600 to live the kind of life that I live. A life 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:35.680 of separation, a life of consecration. All the 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:39.079 money in the world couldn't pay me to live the 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:45.319 life that I am living. And the man without any 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:50.639 spiritual understanding will say, you are living 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:55.529 that kind of a life? for someone that you have 00:05:55.529 --> 00:06:04.670 never seen. My friend, I have learned to know 00:06:04.670 --> 00:06:13.790 him through the word. I have seen him, his image, 00:06:13.870 --> 00:06:19.709 his personality through the light of the glorious 00:06:19.709 --> 00:06:26.970 gospel. God the Father is very real to me. Believe 00:06:26.970 --> 00:06:32.629 me, I tell you the truth. God the Father is as 00:06:32.629 --> 00:06:40.430 real to me as my own dad was in the flesh. Sure, 00:06:40.730 --> 00:06:46.930 I have put my arms around Papa's neck. I have 00:06:46.930 --> 00:06:52.040 laid my head on Papa's shoulder. I have felt 00:06:52.040 --> 00:06:56.459 his strong arms folding me close to his body. 00:06:58.240 --> 00:07:05.839 Papa was something tangible. He was my papa. 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:11.800 But I tell you of a truth and try to explain 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:14.480 it to someone who has no spiritual understanding 00:07:14.480 --> 00:07:20.970 is almost impossible. But I swear to you. that 00:07:20.970 --> 00:07:29.829 my Heavenly Father is as real to me, the person 00:07:29.829 --> 00:07:32.689 of the Heavenly Father, the personality of the 00:07:32.689 --> 00:07:36.110 Heavenly Father, the nearness of the Heavenly 00:07:36.110 --> 00:07:40.370 Father, the power of the Heavenly Father, is 00:07:40.370 --> 00:07:49.759 as real to me as Papa ever was. Yet one I have 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:55.920 seen with my natural eye. The other I have seen 00:07:55.920 --> 00:08:03.920 through the light of the glorious gospel. You 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:11.560 say, have you ever seen Jesus? Not really. I 00:08:11.560 --> 00:08:16.670 have never looked upon that wonderful face. I 00:08:16.670 --> 00:08:22.610 have never heard him speak to me audibly. And 00:08:22.610 --> 00:08:28.829 yet, beloved, he is as real to me as any earthly 00:08:28.829 --> 00:08:34.350 human being could possibly be. So close to me 00:08:34.350 --> 00:08:41.649 that there are times when I have actually, and 00:08:41.649 --> 00:08:47.129 I admit it, reached out my hand, almost expecting 00:08:47.129 --> 00:08:55.769 to feel his person. There have been times when 00:08:55.769 --> 00:09:03.370 I think I can almost hear the rustling of his 00:09:03.370 --> 00:09:08.350 garment. There are times when I've stood alone 00:09:08.350 --> 00:09:16.039 and I've looked at a darkened sky. not the tiniest 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:23.100 star shining. And through the darkness, the blackness 00:09:23.100 --> 00:09:33.340 of the night, I think I can almost see him. And 00:09:33.340 --> 00:09:40.200 yet, I have never looked upon his person, but 00:09:40.200 --> 00:09:45.200 I would gladly give my best body to be burned 00:09:45.200 --> 00:09:52.559 at the stake. I gladly give my body, my life, 00:09:52.559 --> 00:10:00.559 myself as a living sacrifice for him. For I have 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:06.860 learned to know him through the glorious gospel 00:10:06.860 --> 00:10:17.320 of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is The word. And 00:10:17.320 --> 00:10:21.759 you cannot know him. You will never know him. 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:28.919 Except you know him through the word. For he 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:37.059 is the word. Pause with me for just a minute. 00:10:37.460 --> 00:10:40.600 I want you to see something that is very glorious 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:44.980 to my own heart. And it's something that I am 00:10:44.980 --> 00:10:48.840 learning. I am constantly learning. I am constantly 00:10:48.840 --> 00:10:53.700 growing in the things of the Lord. And these 00:10:53.700 --> 00:10:56.340 things that I'm talking to you about today are 00:10:56.340 --> 00:11:04.720 things that you do not learn in attending a seminary 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:18.980 or a Bible school. decrying an education, are 00:11:18.980 --> 00:11:24.220 underestimating that which is being taught in 00:11:24.220 --> 00:11:29.899 our seminaries, our Bible schools. Watch just 00:11:29.899 --> 00:11:37.860 a minute. I am saying to you that to know Him, 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:48.549 to become acquainted with Him, to fully appreciate 00:11:48.549 --> 00:11:55.990 him. You can only find that fellowship, that 00:11:55.990 --> 00:11:59.230 closeness, that great revelation through the 00:11:59.230 --> 00:12:06.049 Word. You do not get it through the studying 00:12:06.049 --> 00:12:11.870 of the Word in the classroom. Neither do you 00:12:11.870 --> 00:12:16.909 receive it secondhand. It will only become a 00:12:16.909 --> 00:12:22.409 mental conception of him when you get it from 00:12:22.409 --> 00:12:27.889 someone else. You don't get it from much learning. 00:12:30.129 --> 00:12:36.110 Jesus reveals himself to you. God the Father 00:12:36.110 --> 00:12:42.700 reveals himself to you. The Holy Spirit will 00:12:42.700 --> 00:12:50.600 reveal Himself to you through the Word. The glorious 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:57.639 power of the Gospel. The magnificent light of 00:12:57.639 --> 00:13:07.600 the Gospel. A second ago, I told you that one 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:09.909 of the most amazing One of the most thrilling 00:13:09.909 --> 00:13:14.230 things about the entire life of Jesus was the 00:13:14.230 --> 00:13:20.289 fact that he personally gave proof of his authority. 00:13:21.049 --> 00:13:24.230 Oh, to me, that's very marvelous. Follow me for 00:13:24.230 --> 00:13:30.110 just a few minutes. Someone recently in a letter 00:13:30.110 --> 00:13:36.029 asked me the true meaning of the incident that 00:13:36.029 --> 00:13:41.259 happened. in the upper room when Jesus took a 00:13:41.259 --> 00:13:47.940 towel, did gird himself with the towel, and washed 00:13:47.940 --> 00:13:53.580 the feet of his disciples. The writer of the 00:13:53.580 --> 00:14:00.360 letter asked me for an understanding of that 00:14:00.360 --> 00:14:10.669 incident. We love it. It was so simple, so natural, 00:14:10.830 --> 00:14:15.970 so wonderful that you and I must accept it exactly 00:14:15.970 --> 00:14:23.590 as Jesus meant it to be accepted. The greatest 00:14:23.590 --> 00:14:31.850 of all Christian graces is humility. I repeat 00:14:31.850 --> 00:14:41.789 that statement. greatest of all Christian graces 00:14:41.789 --> 00:14:52.190 is humility. And Jesus Christ himself gave the 00:14:52.190 --> 00:14:59.809 example of what every real Christian should be, 00:15:00.049 --> 00:15:08.860 a servant. We are to serve. Oh, pause a minute. 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:16.059 Visualize it. Do you know who that one was with 00:15:16.059 --> 00:15:21.580 a towel around him, kneeling there in that room, 00:15:21.879 --> 00:15:33.000 washing the dusty feet of mere humanity? Men? 00:15:36.110 --> 00:15:39.529 Men created in the image and likeness of Almighty 00:15:39.529 --> 00:15:49.049 God. Sinners saved by the grace of God. Just 00:15:49.049 --> 00:15:56.029 humanity. Follow humanity at that. And the one 00:15:56.029 --> 00:15:59.750 who was kneeling there washing those dusty feet 00:15:59.750 --> 00:16:07.720 was literally God in the flesh. He had been present 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:12.080 when the world was spoken into existence. He 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:17.519 was there. The Bible gives proof of it. The Son, 00:16:17.700 --> 00:16:20.799 the Father, the Holy Spirit, all three persons 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:25.379 were present when the worlds, the planets were 00:16:25.379 --> 00:16:31.360 spoken into existence. That was the very Son 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:34.059 of the living God. That was God in the flesh. 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:42.960 He who could speak and the very elements were 00:16:42.960 --> 00:16:51.100 controlled. He who spoke and demon power listened. 00:16:52.139 --> 00:16:59.600 He who had control of all spiritual power. He 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:08.450 who could move a hand, a mere finger. and a generation 00:17:08.450 --> 00:17:15.990 of mankind could be mowed down as though a sickle 00:17:15.990 --> 00:17:23.009 had mowed down the grain in the field. And yet 00:17:23.009 --> 00:17:33.690 he was there, kneeling before a man, a mere man. 00:17:35.619 --> 00:17:40.920 washing his dusty feet. The greatest example 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:49.460 that could possibly be given of humility. An 00:17:49.460 --> 00:17:55.400 example for you and for me. As Christians, you 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:59.640 and I are here to serve. We are to be the servant. 00:18:01.200 --> 00:18:06.900 Oh, beloved, again I repeat, The greatest of 00:18:06.900 --> 00:18:14.619 all Christian graces is humility. I do not believe 00:18:14.619 --> 00:18:17.380 that there's a greater sin than spiritual pride. 00:18:18.140 --> 00:18:22.240 Those today who are in our churches, who are 00:18:22.240 --> 00:18:27.720 humble and proud of it. And that one thing has 00:18:27.720 --> 00:18:30.740 caused more splits in our churches than anything 00:18:30.740 --> 00:18:34.230 that I know anything about. When somebody feels 00:18:34.230 --> 00:18:37.210 as though they are not getting the approbation 00:18:37.210 --> 00:18:44.789 that they should have. And they rise up and cause 00:18:44.789 --> 00:18:48.869 dissension. Just a second, I want to say something 00:18:48.869 --> 00:18:53.529 else while we're on this subject. I believe in 00:18:53.529 --> 00:18:56.609 the power of the Holy Spirit. I believe in spiritual 00:18:56.609 --> 00:19:03.890 gifts. I... I want to go on record of saying 00:19:03.890 --> 00:19:12.150 that I believe in spiritual gifts. The Bible 00:19:12.150 --> 00:19:18.069 teaches that we are to receive spiritual gifts. 00:19:21.150 --> 00:19:28.210 But listen, my friend. I believe that if God, 00:19:28.349 --> 00:19:36.460 in his mercy, in his goodness, in his love, gives 00:19:36.460 --> 00:19:42.339 to one a spiritual gift, a gift of the spirit, 00:19:42.700 --> 00:19:49.559 that one will be so humbled with having received 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:54.660 that gift, they'll not boast of it. They'll not 00:19:54.660 --> 00:19:57.920 talk about it. It'll be something that's so precious. 00:19:58.799 --> 00:20:04.279 They'll guard it. Oh, they'll guard it. That's 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:06.799 the reason when somebody confronts me with the 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:12.200 fact that they have received all the gifts of 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:17.259 the spirit. And how often there have been those 00:20:17.259 --> 00:20:21.539 who have said that very thing. Oh, Miss Kuhlman, 00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:27.269 I want you to know I'm spiritual. Miss Kuhlman, 00:20:27.410 --> 00:20:33.210 I want you to know that I have received all the 00:20:33.210 --> 00:20:39.750 gifts of the spirit. I smile and I say, that's 00:20:39.750 --> 00:20:49.190 wonderful. I would be so humbled if he would 00:20:49.190 --> 00:20:57.180 just count me worthy. to receive just one of 00:20:57.180 --> 00:21:05.779 the gifts of the spirit. Secretly, I question 00:21:05.779 --> 00:21:14.500 what they have actually received. For I believe 00:21:14.500 --> 00:21:23.480 with all my heart that any person who is so consecrated 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:29.059 to Almighty God, so completely surrendered to 00:21:29.059 --> 00:21:36.559 Him, so completely died out to self, so lost 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:43.200 in the Spirit, that if they had received a gift 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:48.200 of the Spirit, they would not boast of it. They 00:21:48.200 --> 00:22:00.079 would not. before others. In humility, they would 00:22:00.079 --> 00:22:06.099 guard it carefully. For it's something that's 00:22:06.099 --> 00:22:11.559 priceless. Yes, my friend. The greatest of all 00:22:11.559 --> 00:22:17.539 Christian graces is humility. And Jesus himself 00:22:17.539 --> 00:22:20.819 was our... Example.