WEBVTT 00:00:00.140 --> 00:00:06.620 Now, we are taking up the study of the fullness 00:00:06.620 --> 00:00:08.740 of the Holy Spirit. Call it whatever you wish. 00:00:09.199 --> 00:00:12.039 Call it the baptism with the Holy Spirit, the 00:00:12.039 --> 00:00:16.379 fullness of the Holy Ghost, or being filled with 00:00:16.379 --> 00:00:22.079 the Holy Spirit. I believe in it. I must accept 00:00:22.079 --> 00:00:27.379 this experience because the Bible clearly teaches 00:00:27.379 --> 00:00:33.859 it. Believe me. I want you to see something, 00:00:33.899 --> 00:00:39.380 though, and that is the Scripture, the biblical 00:00:39.380 --> 00:00:43.960 evidence of having been filled with the Holy 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:49.299 Ghost. There are those who say that the scriptural 00:00:49.299 --> 00:00:51.700 evidence of having been filled with the Holy 00:00:51.700 --> 00:00:54.780 Spirit is the speaking in an unknown tongue. 00:00:54.939 --> 00:01:00.939 In other words, how does one know? that one has 00:01:00.939 --> 00:01:05.239 been filled with the Spirit. What is the evidence 00:01:05.239 --> 00:01:12.340 of having received this experience? There are 00:01:12.340 --> 00:01:17.920 precious children of the King who say that the 00:01:17.920 --> 00:01:21.060 Scripture evidence is speaking in an unknown 00:01:21.060 --> 00:01:26.340 tongue, that one will definitely that the Holy 00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:31.180 Ghost will announce His own incoming through 00:01:31.180 --> 00:01:37.920 the speaking in an unknown tongue. Beloved, even 00:01:37.920 --> 00:01:44.640 though I believe with all of my heart, I believe 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:50.019 it both because it is God's Word, it is the promise 00:01:50.019 --> 00:01:54.920 of Jesus, and also because of my own promise. 00:01:54.909 --> 00:02:01.269 personal experience, I still cannot go along 00:02:01.269 --> 00:02:07.670 with those who contend that speaking in an unknown 00:02:07.670 --> 00:02:11.870 tongue is the evidence. Do you want to know why? 00:02:12.069 --> 00:02:18.770 Because Jesus never said that speaking in tongues 00:02:18.770 --> 00:02:24.020 would be the evidence. of having received this 00:02:24.020 --> 00:02:26.680 experience of being filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:35.479 This is what Jesus said. Ye shall receive power 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:41.979 after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and 00:02:41.979 --> 00:02:51.539 ye shall be witnesses unto me. the speaking in 00:02:51.539 --> 00:02:56.159 an unknown tongue was to have been the evidence 00:02:56.159 --> 00:03:01.979 and is to be the evidence of this marvelous experience 00:03:01.979 --> 00:03:05.539 of being filled with the Spirit, Jesus would 00:03:05.539 --> 00:03:12.080 have said so. He would have said, Ye shall receive 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:17.909 power and speak in an unknown tongue. After that, 00:03:17.930 --> 00:03:19.969 the Holy Ghost has come upon you. He did not. 00:03:21.050 --> 00:03:28.090 He gave but one evidence of being filled with 00:03:28.090 --> 00:03:35.650 the Spirit. Just one. Ye shall receive power. 00:03:37.250 --> 00:03:40.770 After that, the Holy Ghost has come upon you. 00:03:43.050 --> 00:03:46.090 Pause me just... a moment, beloved. Remember 00:03:46.090 --> 00:03:50.930 something. By his coming, by the coming of the 00:03:50.930 --> 00:03:56.430 Holy Ghost, he was able to give his own the power 00:03:56.430 --> 00:04:02.490 to show to a lost world the real value, the actual 00:04:02.490 --> 00:04:08.430 value of Christ's death. And remember something. 00:04:08.830 --> 00:04:17.860 You and I are the Only Christ. The world ever 00:04:17.860 --> 00:04:23.660 sees. You and I. Represent him. Here on earth. 00:04:25.420 --> 00:04:30.660 You and I. Members of the body of Christ. Members 00:04:30.660 --> 00:04:36.139 of his church. Are on exhibition. We represent 00:04:36.139 --> 00:04:43.420 him. Therefore. Through the coming of the Holy 00:04:43.420 --> 00:04:46.930 Spirit. And by means of this marvelous experience 00:04:46.930 --> 00:04:52.990 of being filled with the Spirit, we receive power 00:04:52.990 --> 00:05:01.670 for service, power to represent Him, power to 00:05:01.670 --> 00:05:06.529 show to a lost and dying world the real power 00:05:06.529 --> 00:05:12.949 that there is in the person and in the shed blood. 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:21.139 The actual value of Christ's death. That was 00:05:21.139 --> 00:05:25.339 the reason. Exactly the reason that Paul said, 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:28.639 watch it. Oh, sure, he said, I speak with tongues 00:05:28.639 --> 00:05:34.000 more than all of you. Yet, in the church, I had 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:38.879 rather speak five words with my understanding 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:48.920 that by my voice, I might teach others also than 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:55.100 10 ,000 words in an unknown tongue. In just the 00:05:55.100 --> 00:05:56.639 next few minutes, you and I are going to do something. 00:05:57.740 --> 00:06:03.019 We are going to see the difference that this 00:06:03.019 --> 00:06:06.639 power that Jesus promised would be ours when 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:10.899 we were filled with Spirit. The difference that 00:06:10.899 --> 00:06:16.360 the Holy Spirit makes. in the life of a believer. 00:06:17.540 --> 00:06:21.399 Turn, if you will, please, to the 26th chapter 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:25.079 of Matthew. Begin with about the 69th verse. 00:06:25.899 --> 00:06:32.399 I shall give you a picture of the before. And 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.180 Mrs. Stevenson always carries them around with 00:06:34.180 --> 00:06:37.439 her. She has now for the past seven, eight, nine 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:41.720 years. You have the picture of Mr. Stevenson 00:06:41.720 --> 00:06:48.800 before he was healed. Skinny, bony, emaciated 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:53.620 fella, weighing around 100 pounds. And then she 00:06:53.620 --> 00:06:58.560 says, now look at him. Look at him after he was 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:01.800 healed. Look. And there you see a fella who's 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:06.000 taken on at least 50 more pounds. Healthy, robust. 00:07:06.300 --> 00:07:09.750 There he is. What is more convincing than the 00:07:09.750 --> 00:07:14.769 before and the after? All right, I shall give 00:07:14.769 --> 00:07:20.170 you the before of a man. Oh, you know him, Peter. 00:07:21.029 --> 00:07:24.550 We had the before recorded in the 26th chapter 00:07:24.550 --> 00:07:30.269 of Matthew. Now Peter sat without in the palace, 00:07:30.470 --> 00:07:39.149 and a damsel came unto him, saying, With Jesus 00:07:39.149 --> 00:07:43.550 of Galilee. Can't you see this little dame coming 00:07:43.550 --> 00:07:47.329 up to him? And she says, and there he is, all 00:07:47.329 --> 00:07:51.990 crouched down, ashamed, afraid of being discovered. 00:07:52.750 --> 00:07:58.689 Perhaps his arm over his head, hoping and praying 00:07:58.689 --> 00:08:01.790 that no one would recognize him. Here she comes, 00:08:01.870 --> 00:08:07.949 tantalizing him. Thou also wast with Jesus of 00:08:07.949 --> 00:08:12.389 Galilee. But he denied before them all, saying, 00:08:12.569 --> 00:08:18.850 I know not what thou sayest. And when he was 00:08:18.850 --> 00:08:23.009 gone out into the porch, another maid saw him. 00:08:23.129 --> 00:08:27.389 Here came another one. And said unto them that 00:08:27.389 --> 00:08:32.399 were there, This fellow pointing to The fellow 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:34.320 that was all crouched down in the corner, ashamed, 00:08:34.740 --> 00:08:38.279 afraid of being discovered, this fellow was also 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:42.240 with Jesus of Nazareth. And again he denied with 00:08:42.240 --> 00:08:47.259 an oath. This time he swore, I do not know the 00:08:47.259 --> 00:08:51.259 man. And after a while came unto him they that 00:08:51.259 --> 00:08:55.700 stood by and said to Peter, Surely thou also 00:08:55.700 --> 00:09:01.889 art one of them, for thy speech. betrayeth thee. 00:09:02.929 --> 00:09:06.409 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, 00:09:06.629 --> 00:09:11.289 I know not the man. And immediately the cock 00:09:11.289 --> 00:09:15.149 crew. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, 00:09:15.409 --> 00:09:20.610 which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou 00:09:20.610 --> 00:09:26.230 shalt deny me thrice. And he went out and wept 00:09:26.230 --> 00:09:33.039 bitterly. Did you? ever see a man who was more 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:39.559 of a weakling than this fella, ashamed of Jesus, 00:09:39.919 --> 00:09:46.919 ashamed to be numbered among the disciples, absolutely 00:09:46.919 --> 00:09:50.779 denying him, what was it? A weakness of character, 00:09:51.159 --> 00:09:56.320 a weakness of the flesh, afraid, a great big 00:09:56.320 --> 00:10:00.620 yellow streak right there. down his backbone. 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:06.620 Here's the before. There he is. Ah, I'm even 00:10:06.620 --> 00:10:11.720 ashamed to be a part of the family that he belongs 00:10:11.720 --> 00:10:14.399 to if that's the way he's gonna act, you know? 00:10:14.779 --> 00:10:18.820 Now watch. What did Jesus say would happen? What 00:10:18.820 --> 00:10:21.320 did Jesus say would be the evidence of having 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:23.419 been filled with the Holy Ghost? What did he 00:10:23.419 --> 00:10:30.490 say? Ye shall receive power. After that, the 00:10:30.490 --> 00:10:35.570 Holy Ghost has come upon you. Now I shall give 00:10:35.570 --> 00:10:43.269 you the after. The same man, the same personality, 00:10:43.509 --> 00:10:49.809 the same body. Only one thing has happened to 00:10:49.809 --> 00:10:53.850 make him different. He had been filled with the 00:10:53.850 --> 00:10:57.409 Holy Ghost. on the day of Pentecost. Here he 00:10:57.409 --> 00:11:04.750 is. Watch it now. But Peter, standing up with 00:11:04.750 --> 00:11:08.690 the eleven. Watch it. He's standing up now. He's 00:11:08.690 --> 00:11:11.029 not all crouched down there in the corner. He's 00:11:11.029 --> 00:11:18.450 not ashamed. Oh, you can't find one trace of 00:11:18.450 --> 00:11:24.029 that yellow streak in his backbone. you can find 00:11:24.029 --> 00:11:29.190 no timidity whatsoever. No, ma 'am. He's standing 00:11:29.190 --> 00:11:33.950 up with the eleven and lifted up his voice and 00:11:33.950 --> 00:11:39.009 said unto them, Ye men of Judea and all ye that 00:11:39.009 --> 00:11:45.470 dwell in Jerusalem, be this known unto you and 00:11:45.470 --> 00:11:49.590 hearken to my words, for these are not drunken 00:11:49.590 --> 00:11:53.000 as ye suppose, seeing it is but... the third 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:57.500 hour of the day. But this is that which was spoken 00:11:57.500 --> 00:12:00.940 by the prophet Joel, and he's quoting now the 00:12:00.940 --> 00:12:04.360 Old Testament. And it shall come to pass in the 00:12:04.360 --> 00:12:07.539 last days, saith God, that I will pour out of 00:12:07.539 --> 00:12:11.039 my spirit upon all flesh. and your sons and your 00:12:11.039 --> 00:12:13.580 daughters shall prophesy, and your young men 00:12:13.580 --> 00:12:16.120 shall see visions, and your old men shall dream 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:20.000 dreams, and all my servants and all my handmaidens, 00:12:20.019 --> 00:12:25.120 I will pour out in those days of my spirit, and 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:31.320 they shall prophesy. Oh, this is glorious. Go 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:35.120 on down to the 22nd verse. Here's some more of 00:12:35.120 --> 00:12:37.539 the evidence of having been filled with the Holy 00:12:37.539 --> 00:12:42.250 Ghost. He's still speaking. To meditate? Oh, 00:12:42.370 --> 00:12:48.169 none whatsoever. He's bold. He's given the Holy 00:12:48.169 --> 00:12:52.950 Ghost boldness. He's being given the power to 00:12:52.950 --> 00:12:57.509 witness that Jesus said believers would have 00:12:57.509 --> 00:13:01.289 as an evidence of having been filled with the 00:13:01.289 --> 00:13:05.690 Holy Ghost. He continues. Ye men of Israel, hear 00:13:05.690 --> 00:13:10.529 these words. Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved 00:13:10.529 --> 00:13:13.250 of God among you by miracles and wonders and 00:13:13.250 --> 00:13:18.850 signs, which God did by him in the midst of you. 00:13:19.269 --> 00:13:24.409 As ye yourselves also know, him being delivered 00:13:24.409 --> 00:13:27.350 by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge 00:13:27.350 --> 00:13:32.690 of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have 00:13:32.690 --> 00:13:37.210 crucified and slain. whom God hath raised up, 00:13:37.289 --> 00:13:41.669 having loosed the pains of death, because it 00:13:41.669 --> 00:13:46.769 was not possible that he should be holden of 00:13:46.769 --> 00:13:53.289 it. Now, what was the result? What was it? This 00:13:53.289 --> 00:13:59.830 now is why Paul said in 1 Corinthians, I would 00:13:59.830 --> 00:14:04.039 rather speak five words. With my understanding 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:09.139 that by my voice I might teach others also, than 00:14:09.139 --> 00:14:11.940 ten thousand words in an unknown tongue, why, 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:16.879 in speaking in an unknown tongue, what profit 00:14:16.879 --> 00:14:21.120 would it be to those who hear me? If they cannot 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:24.240 understand what I am saying, how can they be 00:14:24.240 --> 00:14:30.220 converted? Here is Peter speaking in the tongue 00:14:30.220 --> 00:14:34.190 that they could understand. Speaking with Holy 00:14:34.190 --> 00:14:38.789 Ghost boldness. Speaking with firmness. Speaking 00:14:38.789 --> 00:14:44.190 with Holy Ghost knowledge. What was the result? 00:14:44.529 --> 00:14:50.669 We have the result right here in the same portion 00:14:50.669 --> 00:14:52.789 of God's word. There it is, second chapter of 00:14:52.789 --> 00:14:58.769 Acts. He continued. And with many other words, 00:14:58.889 --> 00:15:05.600 did he testify and exhort. saying, Save yourselves 00:15:05.600 --> 00:15:13.100 from this untoward generation. Here's the result. 00:15:13.340 --> 00:15:19.919 Then they that gladly received his word were 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:26.570 baptized. And the same day there were added unto 00:15:26.570 --> 00:15:36.070 them about three thousand salts. Isn't that thrilling? 00:15:36.809 --> 00:15:44.149 Oh, to me, there is no place for argument. It's 00:15:44.149 --> 00:15:48.029 as simple as can be. Just take the word of God, 00:15:48.090 --> 00:15:52.629 that's all. It all adds up. Jesus said after 00:15:52.629 --> 00:15:55.610 I'm gone away, I'm going to send the Holy Spirit. 00:15:57.509 --> 00:16:01.629 I'm going to send the third person. He shall 00:16:01.629 --> 00:16:05.750 give you an experience the likes of which you've 00:16:05.750 --> 00:16:09.649 never had before. For he is with you, but he 00:16:09.649 --> 00:16:13.750 shall be in you. He will fill you with himself. 00:16:15.490 --> 00:16:19.409 And the evidence of having received this experience 00:16:19.409 --> 00:16:27.299 is that you shall receive Not of yourself. A 00:16:27.299 --> 00:16:33.220 supernatural power. His power. The power to witness. 00:16:34.820 --> 00:16:40.000 And he will use that witness. He will use your 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:44.399 vessel. And through the work of the Holy Ghost, 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:50.230 there shall be definite results. And the result 00:16:50.230 --> 00:16:56.490 will be the conversion of men and women. We see 00:16:56.490 --> 00:17:02.009 that in action in the life of Peter. Peter before, 00:17:02.269 --> 00:17:14.849 weak. Peter before, spineless. Afraid. A weakling. 00:17:16.690 --> 00:17:20.359 After he was filled. There was a power not his 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:25.420 own. There was a boldness not his own. It was 00:17:25.420 --> 00:17:29.000 the boldness, it was the power, it was the result 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:33.460 of that experience of having been filled with 00:17:33.460 --> 00:17:38.059 the spirit. And what was the result? I'll tell 00:17:38.059 --> 00:17:46.380 you. There were added unto them about three thousand 00:17:46.380 --> 00:17:51.839 souls. who heard him speak under the anointing 00:17:51.839 --> 00:17:56.359 of the Holy Ghost and received the Lord Jesus 00:17:56.359 --> 00:18:00.720 Christ as their personal Savior. Do you want 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:03.240 to know what we need in our pulpits today, spirit 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:06.920 -filled men and women? Do you want to know what 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:10.700 the believer needs today more than anything else? 00:18:10.900 --> 00:18:17.380 To be filled with the Holy Spirit. It will be 00:18:17.380 --> 00:18:21.359 then that the unsaved man, the unsaved woman, 00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:28.380 will feel our influence as Christians. And not 00:18:28.380 --> 00:18:30.140 until. Amen.