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Well, for a few minutes, we're going to have

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one of those good heart -to -heart talks again.

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I don't think that you will consider this a sermon.

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Every once in a while, I just bring you a bit

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of teaching. And this shall be one of those times.

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Just as together, you and I study the Word of

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God. I want to make a very definite statement

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before I begin our little heart -to -heart talk

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together today. And I pray that after I will

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have left your home and you will have forgotten

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everything else that I may have said, remember

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this one statement. Any truth, no matter how

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good, Regardless of how good that truth, if emphasized

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to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance,

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is practical error. Know that. You will remember

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that over and over again in my teaching. I have

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told you that one cannot take a verse of Scripture

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out of its setting. and make a doctrine out of

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it. You can't do it. That is why we have false

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doctrine today. It's because somebody has come

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along and has just taken out one verse of Scripture.

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Do you want to know something? Do you know that

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I can talk with you five minutes? You and I can

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have a conversation together, say, for just five

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minutes. You can take... one sentence that I

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may have spoken in our conversation, just one.

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You may repeat just the one statement that I

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make, and somebody else will pick it up and it'll

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sound awful. It can be so misconstrued that it

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would put me in the wrong light entirely. It

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wasn't what I meant at all. Yet, in quoting me,

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In that one statement, it has only been a partial

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truth. If you're going to quote me, then take

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my entire conversation. Don't take just the one

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statement that I make out of its setting and

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quote me in that one statement. So it is with

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the Word of God when you study the Bible. You

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cannot take just one statement. You cannot take

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just one verse of Scripture out of its setting

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and make a doctrine out of it. You must take

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the entire truth, that which precedes and that

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which follows. You must keep it in its setting.

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Therefore, remember, any truth, no matter how

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good, if it's emphasized to the exclusion of

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other truth of equal importance, is practical

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error. I'm going to give an example. what I'm

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talking about. Take the incident that happened

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during the ministry of Jesus. It's recorded over

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there in the ninth chapter of John. Here's a

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blind man, a man who was born blind, and he's

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standing there in the presence of Jesus. And

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what did Jesus do? The scripture says, when he

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had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, made

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clay of the spittle, and he anointed the... eyes

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of the blind man with the clay. Now, get a better

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picture of it. Here's Jesus. Before him stands

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the blind man. And Jesus stooped down, spat on

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the ground, made clay of the spittle, and then

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he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the

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clay and said to him, now you go wash in the

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pool of Siloam. Now, there's another instance.

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When blind Bartimaeus, a beggar on the dusty

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highway, he too blind, calling unto Jesus, Jesus

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turned to him, did not make spittle or betlay,

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did not, methinks, even touch his blinded eyes,

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but just spoke. and said, Bartimaeus, receive

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thy sight. And he received perfect vision. Now,

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knowing human nature the way I do, I am quite

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sure that there were those in the crowd, even

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after the man had received his sight, said, did

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the master spit on the ground? Did he make clay

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of the spittle? Did he anoint your eyes with

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the clay? No, the man said he didn't. He didn't

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even touch me. They said you couldn't possibly

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be healed. Why you can't possibly see? We don't

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believe it. We don't believe that you can see

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because you couldn't possibly have received your

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healing if Jesus had not made clay of spittle

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and anointed your eyes. And there they were.

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Sure. Now watch something. In one instance, Jesus

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anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay.

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In another instance, he did not. Perhaps he did

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not even touch the second man. And yet in both

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instances, Both men received perfect sight. Now

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follow me. We find that God gave the gift of

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the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost and again

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at the household of Cornelius without any human

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agency whatsoever of the laying on of hands.

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You read in the second chapter of Acts that marvelous

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time when the Holy Ghost came upon the believers

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in the upper room. Oh, sure you know. But watch

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something. It does not say that there was the

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laying on of hands and they received the Holy

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Ghost. No, ma 'am. Go to the household of Cornelius.

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Read it carefully. And you'll find that they

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received the Holy Ghost. They were filled with

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the Holy Spirit without any human agency of the

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laying on of hands whatsoever. None. But at the

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Great Samaritan Revival, as recorded over there

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in the 8th chapter of Acts, and again at the...

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Ephesus revival, as recorded in the 19th chapter

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of Acts, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the

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filling of the Holy Spirit, was given by the

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laying on of hands. Sure, it's there. Read it.

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In the 8th chapter of Acts, the 17th verse, Then

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laid they their hands on them, and they received,

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the Holy Ghost. Knowing human nature, as I know

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human nature today, I dare say there were some

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who turned to others who had been filled with

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the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost and said,

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did anybody lay hands on you when you were filled

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with the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost?

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And they said, no, nobody laid hands on me. The

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Holy Ghost just came upon us. Then you didn't

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receive the Holy Ghost. You were never filled

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with the Holy Spirit. You go right back and you

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have hands laid on you. Hands were laid on me

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and I received the fullness of the Holy Ghost.

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And you can't receive the fullness of the Holy

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Ghost unless hands were laid upon you. Watch,

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I repeat. Any truth, no matter how good, if it's

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emphasized to the exclusion of other truth of

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equal importance, is practical error. Watch something

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now. Both blind men received their sight with

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and without clay. The believers were filled with

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the Holy Spirit with and without the laying on

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of hands. Therefore, we find that 50 % of the

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scripture speaks of laying on of hands in the

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receiving of the Holy Ghost and 50 % without

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human agency. For anyone to press either way

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or be dogmatic either way or make it an issue

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is guilty of error before God and man. Are you

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following me? All right. Here we go now. Stay

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with me a little longer. Acts 2 -4. What did

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they do? Oh, beloved in that upper room, that

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marvelous experience. There was no laying on

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of hands. But you and I cannot doubt the fact

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that those believers were wonderfully filled

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with the Holy Spirit. And the scripture clearly

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states that they spoke in an unknown tongue.

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The Bible says so. And they did. Go to the household

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of Cornelius in the 10th chapter of Acts. Read

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it. It's there. The 44th verse, what happened?

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Again, they were filled with the Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Ghost came upon them and they did speak

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in an unknown tongue. But watch something. Go

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to Acts 4, the 31st verse. The believers were

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filled with the Holy Spirit and you can find...

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No scriptures saying that they spoke in an unknown

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tongue. Go to the 8th chapter back. There it

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is. Read it. Read that account. It speaks of

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the believers again being filled with the Holy

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Spirit. But you can find nothing that says that

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they spoke in an unknown tongue. Go further.

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Go to the 9th chapter back. What do you find

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in the 9th chapter back? Paul being filled with

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the Spirit, that marvelous spiritual giant. Oh,

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who can doubt the fact that Paul was not filled

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with the Holy Spirit? He was. But what does the

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Scripture say? Let me read it. And Ananias went

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his way and entered into the house, and putting

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his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord,

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even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way

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as thou comest, hath sent me that thou mightest

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receive thy sight and be filled with the Holy

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Ghost. And no theologian in the whole world can

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prove that at that time time when Paul was filled

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with the Holy Ghost that he spoke in an unknown

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tongue. But beloved, watch it. On the day of

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Pentecost they were filled with the Holy Ghost

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with tongues. In the household of Cornelius they

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were filled with the Holy Ghost and spoke in

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tongues. At that great Samaritan Revival. They

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were filled with the Holy Ghost. But there's

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no record that they spoke in an unknown tongue.

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Oh, look at Ephesus. Read it. Read it when the

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power of the Holy Ghost came upon them. No tongues.

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But they were all filled with the Holy Spirit.

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Remember. For anyone to press either way or make

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it an issue is guilty of error before God and

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man. And I repeat, and I pray that you shall

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never forget it, that any truth, no matter how

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good that truth, if that truth is emphasized

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to the exclusion of other truth of equal importance.

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It's error. And it's just like that. Let me just

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give you a little illustration and I'll show

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you how it's very easy to become confused and

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get off into error. I was tempted to fall into

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another error of similar character. Oh, I was

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so hungry to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

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I read the testimony of John Wesley. I read the

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life of Charles Finney. I've read books on Dwight

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Lyman Moody and others. And I noted that after

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they were filled with the Spirit, they obtained

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the gift of an evangelist. Do you want to know

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something? I was tempted to think that anyone

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filled... with the Spirit would receive the gift

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of an evangelist. But I thought in error. I was

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wrong. It is just as unscriptural to say that

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everyone will speak in an unknown tongue when

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he receives the fullness of the Holy Spirit as

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to say that Everyone receives the gift of an

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evangelist when he is filled with the Spirit.

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Know that. Be careful about being dogmatic about

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some things that are not the complete truth.

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I appreciate something very much. Aletheia wrote

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a very beautiful letter the other day. And these

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are her closing words. She's a very intelligent,

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a very marvelous woman. I quote from her letter.

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With or without speaking in tongues. With or

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without the laying on of hands. The church surely

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needs the mighty Holy Ghost today. And it's just

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like that. What you and I need today, what the

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church needs today, is the power and the person

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of the Holy Spirit. Power for service, and ye

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shall receive power. With or without speaking

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in the non -tongue, with or without the laying

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on of hands, ye shall receive power. After that,

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the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and ye shall

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be witnesses. Make the word real to hearts, I

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pray for Jesus' sake. Amen.