WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.919 We've been having some wonderful heart -to -heart 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:06.780 talks regarding the Holy Spirit. And I still 00:00:06.780 --> 00:00:10.720 contend that it stands to reason that if we would 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:14.539 pursue the same course of speaking and writing 00:00:14.539 --> 00:00:17.579 about the Holy Spirit as we do about the person 00:00:17.579 --> 00:00:21.760 and the work of Jesus Christ, much of the mystery, 00:00:21.940 --> 00:00:25.699 much of the misunderstanding as to his person 00:00:25.699 --> 00:00:31.629 and his work would disappear. So little is being 00:00:31.629 --> 00:00:37.250 taught. So little has been taught regarding the 00:00:37.250 --> 00:00:41.409 Holy Spirit that we more or less have accepted 00:00:41.409 --> 00:00:48.770 him as a mystery. And now suddenly, when we see 00:00:48.770 --> 00:00:54.770 the manifestation of his person, when we see 00:00:54.770 --> 00:01:02.009 this great moving of the... Holy Spirit. Thousands 00:01:02.009 --> 00:01:06.329 feel as though he is a new personality who has 00:01:06.329 --> 00:01:10.090 just come on the scene. And yet, in our heart 00:01:10.090 --> 00:01:15.469 -to -heart talks, we see that he has always existed. 00:01:16.450 --> 00:01:22.109 He has existed with God the Father and Jesus 00:01:22.109 --> 00:01:25.500 Christ the Son. All right. Now we go a little 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:28.560 deeper into the study of this person. And remember, 00:01:28.659 --> 00:01:33.700 he is a person. Always. Whenever Jesus spoke 00:01:33.700 --> 00:01:39.159 of the Holy Spirit, he always used the personal 00:01:39.159 --> 00:01:44.340 pronoun. Always. He, the Holy Spirit, he will 00:01:44.340 --> 00:01:48.159 guide you into all truth. The use of the personal 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:54.090 pronoun is always used. in the Word of God, whenever 00:01:54.090 --> 00:02:01.670 it is referring to the Holy Spirit. Exactly where 00:02:01.670 --> 00:02:05.010 I left off in our last heart -to -heart talk. 00:02:05.209 --> 00:02:10.610 Remember, the Holy Spirit's teachings and His 00:02:10.610 --> 00:02:17.610 communications are not His own. But that of the 00:02:17.610 --> 00:02:22.620 Lord Jesus Christ. I quote from this Bible. Howbeit 00:02:22.620 --> 00:02:26.180 when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will 00:02:26.180 --> 00:02:30.860 guide you into all truth, for He shall not speak 00:02:30.860 --> 00:02:34.879 of Himself, but whatsoever He shall hear, that 00:02:34.879 --> 00:02:39.520 shall He speak, and He will show you things to 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:47.060 come. Jesus continues, He shall glorify Me, for 00:02:47.060 --> 00:02:50.219 He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto 00:02:50.219 --> 00:02:55.080 you. Now, the office work of the Holy Spirit 00:02:55.080 --> 00:03:00.379 is twofold. First of all, he will glorify Jesus 00:03:00.379 --> 00:03:09.719 always. Without exception, the Holy Spirit magnifies 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:20.389 Jesus. He always glorifies Jesus. Second, The 00:03:20.389 --> 00:03:24.270 office work of the Holy Spirit is to equip the 00:03:24.270 --> 00:03:31.789 believer with power for service. You know, to 00:03:31.789 --> 00:03:34.110 this end, the preacher and the teacher of the 00:03:34.110 --> 00:03:39.550 word should be a Holy Ghost filled person. I 00:03:39.550 --> 00:03:44.949 still contend that. The Bible teaches it. The 00:03:44.949 --> 00:03:48.569 one who stands behind the pulpit. The one that 00:03:48.569 --> 00:03:54.629 is used as the vessel. The one who has been called 00:03:54.629 --> 00:04:01.849 out to preach the word should be a spirit -filled 00:04:01.849 --> 00:04:05.370 person. There's scripture. And it stands to reason. 00:04:06.090 --> 00:04:09.449 Peter said, you know, we have preached the gospel 00:04:09.449 --> 00:04:13.889 unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. 00:04:17.259 --> 00:04:21.860 remember what paul said oh that glorious spiritual 00:04:21.860 --> 00:04:27.180 giant the one to whom god entrusted such wonderful 00:04:27.180 --> 00:04:30.339 knowledge i do not believe that the heavenly 00:04:30.339 --> 00:04:34.600 father entrusted to any one individual greater 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:38.740 knowledge greater spiritual knowledge than he 00:04:38.740 --> 00:04:43.759 entrusted to paul and yet paul said and my speech 00:04:44.389 --> 00:04:47.110 And my preaching was not with enticing words 00:04:47.110 --> 00:04:49.769 of man's wisdom, but in the demonstration of 00:04:49.769 --> 00:04:56.509 the Spirit and of power. Now see something. The 00:04:56.509 --> 00:05:01.110 instrument that the Holy Spirit uses to convict 00:05:01.110 --> 00:05:08.250 and convert men is the Word of God. That's why 00:05:08.250 --> 00:05:10.709 I say to you over and over again, you and I have 00:05:10.709 --> 00:05:14.839 got to get back. to the bible there is no substitute 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:19.160 for the bible i don't care how wonderful those 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:24.500 religious books may be i don't care who the authors 00:05:24.500 --> 00:05:32.420 are there is no substitute for the word of god 00:05:32.420 --> 00:05:37.000 the bible and the instrument that the holy spirit 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:42.689 uses to convict men and women, is the Word of 00:05:42.689 --> 00:05:49.829 God. And the seed is the Word of God. That's 00:05:49.829 --> 00:05:53.430 clearly stated in the 8th chapter of Luke, the 00:05:53.430 --> 00:05:59.069 11th verse. But as in the natural world, the 00:05:59.069 --> 00:06:03.550 seed must be alive to generate, and there can 00:06:03.550 --> 00:06:09.579 be no life without pre -existing life. For if 00:06:09.579 --> 00:06:13.699 there is no such thing as spontaneous generation 00:06:13.699 --> 00:06:18.519 of life, so it is true also in the spiritual 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:24.439 world. The seed, the Word of God, must be vitalized 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:29.100 by the Holy Spirit. Otherwise, it's barren. This 00:06:29.100 --> 00:06:32.519 explains why skeptics and scientists and philosophers 00:06:32.519 --> 00:06:38.199 and others may know the Scripture, mentally they 00:06:38.199 --> 00:06:43.250 know it, Look at Dr. Jarman for over 50 years. 00:06:44.029 --> 00:06:48.170 He knew the scriptures so well, he had memorized 00:06:48.170 --> 00:06:53.430 literally chapters and could stand behind his 00:06:53.430 --> 00:06:59.389 pulpit, never reading from the Bible, but quoting 00:06:59.389 --> 00:07:03.810 from memory, chapter after chapter. And he was 00:07:03.810 --> 00:07:07.470 proud of the fact. And members of the congregation... 00:07:08.139 --> 00:07:14.360 were proud to be able to say, we attend Dr. Jarman's 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:18.100 church. The man of great intellect. The man who 00:07:18.100 --> 00:07:21.680 never has to read the scripture from the Bible. 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:27.319 He stands and quotes it perfectly. What was it? 00:07:27.639 --> 00:07:33.819 He had a mental conception of the word of God. 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:39.399 He had memorized it beautifully. But there was 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:46.379 not the life in the word that the Holy Spirit 00:07:46.379 --> 00:07:52.000 must give before it can convict of sin and of 00:07:52.000 --> 00:07:59.279 the judgment to come. The letter killeth, but 00:07:59.279 --> 00:08:04.100 the Spirit maketh alive. The Spirit gives it 00:08:04.100 --> 00:08:11.110 life. I want to repeat it again. The seed is 00:08:11.110 --> 00:08:16.310 the Word of God. But exactly as in the natural 00:08:16.310 --> 00:08:23.230 world, the seed must be alive to germinate. It 00:08:23.230 --> 00:08:27.250 has to be. And so in the spiritual world, the 00:08:27.250 --> 00:08:32.570 seed, the Word of God, must be vitalized by the 00:08:32.570 --> 00:08:36.230 Holy Spirit. Otherwise, just the Word itself. 00:08:36.600 --> 00:08:40.659 is barren and there's no life there and that's 00:08:40.659 --> 00:08:43.799 just exactly why there are thousands who stand 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:46.740 in their purpose today they can quote the scripture 00:08:46.740 --> 00:08:57.200 glibly and yet nothing happens the natural man 00:08:57.200 --> 00:09:01.179 receiveth not in other words the natural man 00:09:01.179 --> 00:09:04.820 cannot understand the things of the spirit of 00:09:04.820 --> 00:09:09.429 god for their foolishness unto him, neither can 00:09:09.429 --> 00:09:16.490 he know them. Why? Because they are only spiritually 00:09:16.490 --> 00:09:23.029 discerned. I can back every word that I've just 00:09:23.029 --> 00:09:30.769 now told you. This is all recorded in 1 Corinthians, 00:09:30.909 --> 00:09:35.809 the second chapter, the 14th verse. Mm -hmm. 00:09:36.809 --> 00:09:39.789 You may wonder why you can't understand the Bible. 00:09:41.049 --> 00:09:44.929 You've never been born again. You sit there and 00:09:44.929 --> 00:09:50.090 read it. It's weak to you. Why? Because you've 00:09:50.090 --> 00:09:56.549 never been born of the Spirit. There's no life 00:09:56.549 --> 00:10:02.909 in the seed. The seed is barren. But oh, when 00:10:02.909 --> 00:10:06.950 you've been born again and there's life in the 00:10:06.950 --> 00:10:11.230 seed, something happens. The word of God is no 00:10:11.230 --> 00:10:18.149 longer Greek to you. You read it and the Holy 00:10:18.149 --> 00:10:22.190 Spirit gives you the understanding of the word. 00:10:22.250 --> 00:10:27.690 I know what I'm talking about. I know what I'm 00:10:27.690 --> 00:10:32.799 talking about because... I have had no training 00:10:32.799 --> 00:10:36.000 whatsoever. I've never gone to seminary in my 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:40.039 life. Everything that I've gotten, I have had 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:42.779 to depend on the Holy Spirit to give it to me. 00:10:44.659 --> 00:10:48.419 Every bit of revelation, every bit of spiritual 00:10:48.419 --> 00:10:52.860 understanding, I have never gotten it secondhand. 00:10:53.980 --> 00:10:57.870 I've gotten it... Straight from the Holy Spirit. 00:10:57.909 --> 00:11:00.990 He has been my teacher. And you can get it the 00:11:00.990 --> 00:11:03.850 same way. But if you're going to lean to your 00:11:03.850 --> 00:11:08.789 own understanding, the word will just become 00:11:08.789 --> 00:11:16.769 dead. If you're going to lean on your education, 00:11:17.110 --> 00:11:26.070 the seed is barren. Only the Holy Spirit can 00:11:26.070 --> 00:11:33.289 give life to that seed. The letter killeth, but 00:11:33.289 --> 00:11:38.830 the Spirit maketh alive. All right, let's go 00:11:38.830 --> 00:11:42.210 a little deeper. When we come now to the person 00:11:42.210 --> 00:11:46.070 of the Holy Spirit, there's something that has 00:11:46.070 --> 00:11:48.409 meant an awful lot to me, and I pray that in 00:11:48.409 --> 00:11:52.320 the next several minutes, It will be one of the 00:11:52.320 --> 00:11:54.759 most helpful things that I have ever given you. 00:11:57.139 --> 00:12:00.799 It's Romans, the eighth chapter. I'm going to 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:04.679 read just two verses, the 26th, the 27th verses. 00:12:06.320 --> 00:12:11.419 You know, I think one of the hardest things in 00:12:11.419 --> 00:12:18.460 the whole world is to know the will of God. You 00:12:18.460 --> 00:12:20.889 can come to me and you can say, Miss Kuhlman, 00:12:21.009 --> 00:12:27.190 this is my problem. To you it is. Now, what shall 00:12:27.190 --> 00:12:36.669 I do about this thing? I cannot tell you God's 00:12:36.669 --> 00:12:41.009 will for you. The one thing that I can be dead 00:12:41.009 --> 00:12:44.129 sure of, and that is the fact that if you're 00:12:44.129 --> 00:12:47.009 not sure of God's perfect will regarding a certain 00:12:47.009 --> 00:12:51.409 thing, His will will never be contrary to his 00:12:51.409 --> 00:12:56.110 word. That's one thing you can be sure of. If 00:12:56.110 --> 00:12:59.490 there's something right now that you're debating 00:12:59.490 --> 00:13:03.269 about and you're seeking the will of God, the 00:13:03.269 --> 00:13:08.169 first question I would ask you, if in making 00:13:08.169 --> 00:13:12.610 one decision or the other, in making that decision, 00:13:12.730 --> 00:13:16.049 it would be contrary to the teaching of the word, 00:13:16.849 --> 00:13:22.029 then you know that one decision would be wrong. 00:13:23.250 --> 00:13:28.409 His will under any and all circumstances will 00:13:28.409 --> 00:13:34.049 never be contrary to his word. And you and I 00:13:34.049 --> 00:13:37.750 will never be an exception. We like to kind of 00:13:37.750 --> 00:13:39.250 kid ourselves, you know, once in a while. We 00:13:39.250 --> 00:13:42.129 want something so much. Oh, we want it so much. 00:13:42.629 --> 00:13:46.940 And we just started. Tease the Lord and say, 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:49.779 won't you just this once close your eyes to it 00:13:49.779 --> 00:13:54.320 and don't look. Because I want it so badly that 00:13:54.320 --> 00:14:01.419 make me an exception, you know. Sometimes we 00:14:01.419 --> 00:14:03.700 all become little children. But the thing is, 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:07.759 you never argue God out of his word. You never 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:11.700 change his mind when it comes to his word. It 00:14:11.700 --> 00:14:15.769 holds true to each individual. No matter how 00:14:15.769 --> 00:14:21.269 much he loves us, many a parent, being teased 00:14:21.269 --> 00:14:25.610 by a youngster, will give in to the youngster, 00:14:25.690 --> 00:14:30.169 even though they know it will be detrimental 00:14:30.169 --> 00:14:35.070 to them, but they, well, they do it for two reasons. 00:14:35.370 --> 00:14:41.210 They keep the youngster quiet. You know, oh, 00:14:41.269 --> 00:14:45.600 just stop teasing me. Please, anything for peace. 00:14:45.820 --> 00:14:51.399 Yes, eat all the candy that you want to. But 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:56.399 just be quiet. And then there may be a parent 00:14:56.399 --> 00:15:01.480 who will say, Oh, I can't say no to my child. 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:08.759 I love him so much. That's natural love. But 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:12.159 the Heavenly Father loves us with a perfect love. 00:15:13.070 --> 00:15:17.230 And his love, because it is a perfect love, will 00:15:17.230 --> 00:15:21.009 never give us something that would be detrimental 00:15:21.009 --> 00:15:30.529 to us. And you can tease forever and ever. He'll 00:15:30.529 --> 00:15:33.110 never give it to you. He'll never break his word 00:15:33.110 --> 00:15:38.350 just to keep you from constantly teasing and 00:15:38.350 --> 00:15:44.269 begging him. So in seeking for his perfect will, 00:15:44.370 --> 00:15:49.830 always remember it may not be as great a problem 00:15:49.830 --> 00:15:54.269 as you think it is. It may be answered even now 00:15:54.269 --> 00:15:59.669 when you realize that his will will never in 00:15:59.669 --> 00:16:03.789 any given matter be contrary to his word. Never. 00:16:05.330 --> 00:16:12.980 But let's say that You're honest. Oh, I've gone 00:16:12.980 --> 00:16:16.360 through this. Dear God, how often I've gone through 00:16:16.360 --> 00:16:20.480 it. You see, I have some tremendous decisions 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:24.179 to make. I've got to live what I preach. I wouldn't 00:16:24.179 --> 00:16:29.340 dare backslide for a day. Do you realize if I 00:16:29.340 --> 00:16:35.990 would backslide for one hour, I'd be sunk. I'd 00:16:35.990 --> 00:16:39.049 get myself in such a jam and so much trouble. 00:16:39.450 --> 00:16:45.250 I've got to keep in contact with him. That line 00:16:45.250 --> 00:16:50.070 from here to there has got to be kept open. And 00:16:50.070 --> 00:16:54.370 power has got to keep flowing. My responsibilities 00:16:54.370 --> 00:16:58.210 and to whom else can I go? I don't have anyone 00:16:58.210 --> 00:17:01.929 else to whom I can depend or to whom I can go. 00:17:02.860 --> 00:17:06.220 And it's a constant thing. Nobody but the Lord 00:17:06.220 --> 00:17:10.619 himself knows the decisions that I have to make. 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:15.000 There's a ministry at stake. There are thousands 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:18.960 and thousands of lives who are dependent upon 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.640 this ministry. The responsibility sometimes is 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:26.440 overwhelming. And there have been times when 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:33.980 I've almost wished If he had called someone else, 00:17:34.099 --> 00:17:39.019 it would have been so much easier. To have married 00:17:39.019 --> 00:17:43.619 one of those Missouri farmers. It would have 00:17:43.619 --> 00:17:46.579 been so peaceful out there with the chickens 00:17:46.579 --> 00:17:53.420 and the cows on a Missouri farm. The responsibility 00:17:53.420 --> 00:17:59.140 sometimes is overwhelming. And many a time, I've 00:17:59.140 --> 00:18:04.720 come face to face with something not know what 00:18:04.720 --> 00:18:09.259 decision to make. One was right, one was wrong. 00:18:09.980 --> 00:18:15.279 My will was surrendered to His will. I was perfectly 00:18:15.279 --> 00:18:21.220 willing to do either thing, and yet I didn't 00:18:21.220 --> 00:18:27.319 know what decision to make. Here is when the 00:18:27.319 --> 00:18:30.759 Holy Spirit is so important, and I read from 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:36.339 the Word of God, Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth 00:18:36.339 --> 00:18:41.980 our infirmities. It means our defects, our personal 00:18:41.980 --> 00:18:47.640 failing. For we know not what we should pray 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:54.740 for as we ought. But the Spirit itself maketh 00:18:54.740 --> 00:18:59.839 intercession for us with groanings which cannot 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:05.789 be answered. And he that searcheth the hearts 00:19:05.789 --> 00:19:09.890 knoweth what is in the mind of the Spirit, because 00:19:09.890 --> 00:19:13.490 he maketh intercession for the saints according 00:19:13.490 --> 00:19:21.069 to the will of God. Over and over again there 00:19:21.069 --> 00:19:24.589 had been those who have said, Shall we pray? 00:19:24.829 --> 00:19:29.890 Oh, this loved one of mine is in such great suffering. 00:19:31.109 --> 00:19:35.650 My precious little godly pet. The suffering is 00:19:35.650 --> 00:19:40.670 so tense, Miss Cooman. Should I pray that God 00:19:40.670 --> 00:19:44.349 will take him, or shall I pray that God will 00:19:44.349 --> 00:19:49.549 heal him? Let's get right down to where folks 00:19:49.549 --> 00:19:53.410 live. This is practical. You've stood by the 00:19:53.410 --> 00:19:56.849 bedside of your loved one, and you did not know 00:19:56.849 --> 00:20:02.809 how to pray. should I pray that this one shall 00:20:02.809 --> 00:20:08.430 be healed or should I pray that God will take 00:20:08.430 --> 00:20:13.829 him? And when you can stand there with the will 00:20:13.829 --> 00:20:17.170 completely surrendered to the will of the Father, 00:20:17.230 --> 00:20:21.289 having no will of your own, and you just look 00:20:21.289 --> 00:20:25.990 up with an honest heart and say, please, I pray 00:20:25.990 --> 00:20:31.250 that in this moment, the Holy Spirit, who searcheth 00:20:31.250 --> 00:20:37.710 and knoweth my heart. And he knows what is the 00:20:37.710 --> 00:20:45.869 mind of God. Please, intercede for me before 00:20:45.869 --> 00:20:53.049 the Father's throne and do the perfect will of 00:20:53.049 --> 00:20:59.759 God. I've given you something. that I feel is 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:02.819 one of the greatest secrets that I could give 00:21:02.819 --> 00:21:07.720 you when it comes to your prayer life. When you 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:12.440 do not know how to pray, turn it over to the 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:18.420 Holy Spirit. He knows the perfect will of God 00:21:18.420 --> 00:21:24.420 in the matter. And you cannot, you will not miss. 00:21:25.660 --> 00:21:26.660 God bless you.