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And Father, just now, lay that strengthening

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hand on that someone who needs that added faith.

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Just now, make your presence real to that one

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who's going in the deep water. For we are not

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only conquerors, we are more than conquerors

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in all things through Christ who loved us. And

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not one of us needs ever to be down in defeat.

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Thanks. Amen. I left you yesterday. in a heart

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-to -heart talk about something that I felt I

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had to talk to you about because, as I told you

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at the beginning of our talk, that there's never

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a week but when somebody asks the same question.

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Is it necessary to have the baptism of the Holy

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Spirit to go up in the rapture? And I still contend.

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And I say it very boldly that the next great

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world event will be the rapture of the church,

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the great catching up, when literally this great

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body of believers will be caught up to meet Christ

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in the air. Now this is the question. Will only

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those who have been baptized in the Spirit, only

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those who have been filled with the Spirit, receive

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the baptism of the Holy Spirit, be those who

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will be caught up in the air to meet the Lord?

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That's the question. It's just that simple. Who

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are going to be taken? And in that heart -to

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-heart talk yesterday, I gave you the work of

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the Holy Spirit as Jesus gave it in the Word.

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All I did yesterday was to quote the Word of

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God. And the very last thing that Jesus talked

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about before he went away was the work of the

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Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. And

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ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost

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has come upon you. And he... answered the question

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as to why is one to be filled with the Spirit?

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What will be the result of having been filled

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with the Spirit? And ye shall be witnesses unto

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me. And the Holy Spirit is given the believer

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for power for service. All right? Then we went

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to the fourth chapter of 1 Thessalonians that

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talks about this great event, the rapture of

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the church. Again, I read to you the word of

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God. Read with me, if you will, please, the 16th

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verse, the fourth chapter of 1 Thessalonians.

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For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven

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with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,

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and with the trump of God. And the dead in Christ

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shall rise first. It makes it very plain. Don't

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add anything to this. Take it just as it is in

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the word of God. It does not say that the dead

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in Christ and those who were filled with the

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Holy Spirit. No. The dead in Christ. In other

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words, every saint of God, every man, every woman

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from the very first Adam who died in Christ.

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That means the new birth experience. They were

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born again. They accepted Jesus as the very son

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of the living God. Their sins were forgiven.

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They died in Christ. And every Christian listening

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to me knows what that means. The dead in Christ.

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And there are thousands who died in Christ who

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knew nothing. about being filled with Spirit.

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Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught

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up together with them in the clouds to meet the

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Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with

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the Lord again. It says nothing. regarding the

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baptism with the Holy Spirit. I believe with

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every atom of my being, if the baptism with the

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Holy Spirit was required for those of us who

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are now living to be caught up in the air to

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meet the Lord, there would have been a very definite

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statement regarding it right here. because nothing

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more will be required of us to meet the Lord

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in the air than those who died in Christ. Say,

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for instance, in exactly five minutes, we'd had

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the great catching up, the raptures of church.

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Five minutes ago, A saint of God died. Now watch.

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That one would be in the first resurrection.

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She will have died in Christ. She was not filled

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with the Holy Spirit. The scripture plainly teaches

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that because she died in Christ, that when the

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trump of the Lord shall sound, she would be resurrected

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immediately. Then, five minutes later, this glorious

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experience, then we which are alive and remain

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shall be called up together with them in the

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clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Why would

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it be required of... One to be filled with the

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Spirit, to have the baptism of the Holy Spirit,

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and the other's not. It's not consistent. Don't

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put things in the Scripture that are not there.

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Now let me give you another portion of the Word

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of God. It's familiar. It's very familiar to

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all of you. It's... Jesus talking to Martha at

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the time of the death of Lazarus. And the amazing

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thing is, he's talking about exactly the very

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same thing that is mentioned right here in the

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fourth chapter of 1 Thessalonians. Exactly the

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same thing. And he's talking to Martha. And this

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is what Jesus said himself. I am the resurrection

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and the life. He that believeth in me, though

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he were dead, yet shall he live. He talked about

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the same thing that is spoken of here in the

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fourth chapter of 1 Thessalonians, and the dead

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in Christ shall rise first. To Martha, he says,

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I am the resurrection and the life. He that believeth

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in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.

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That's the resurrected saints. But don't stop.

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And whosoever liveth is alive when I come back.

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whosoever liveth. Pause. Go back again to 1 Thessalonians.

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Then we which are alive and remain. That's us.

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Jesus says to Martha, and whosoever liveth is

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alive when I come back and believeth in me. shall

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never die. He didn't add any more. He didn't

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take anything away. In other words, the saints

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who died and those who are living at the time

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of the great catching up, there's one represent.

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and he that believeth in me. It is the blood

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that maketh an atonement for the soul. It's the

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blood. It's the blood. The blood of Jesus Christ,

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the Son of God. All right, let's go a little

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bit deeper into this thing as to who are to be

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taken. There are some that claim that all, the

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entire church, are to pass through the tribulation.

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There are others that say that all, the entire

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church, will be caught out before the tribulation.

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There are those that claim that only the waiting

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and the watching saints shall be caught out before

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the tribulation and that the rest must pass through

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their great time of suffering. Now, I want you

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to see something. Please stay with the Word of

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God. I know. that in Hebrews, the ninth chapter,

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the 28th verse, says, unto them that look for

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him shall he appear the second time without sin

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unto salvation. Now, while this might apply to

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the living when he appears, it certainly does

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not apply to the dead, for there are tens and

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thousands, of saints of God who died, who never

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heard of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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or at least they never grasp its meaning, and

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who therefore never watched, never waited, never

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looked for His coming. But surely they are in

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Christ, and they died in Christ. The Bible says

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they will. When they have the great rapture,

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they will be raised again. Paul does not say

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here in the fourth chapter of 1 Thessalonians

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that it will be the dead who watched, the dead

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who waited, the dead who looked for, and those

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who are alive and watched and waited. and look

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for his appearing, that shall be caught out.

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But the dead in Christ, and we who are alive

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and remain. And Jesus made it very clear to Martha,

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and whosoever is alive liveth at that time. and

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believeth in me shall never die, shall never

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taste of death. Then remember something else.

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This body of Christ, oh, we need some good sound

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teaching on the body of Christ. It's so glorious.

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It's so wonderful. For as the body is one and

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has many members, and all the members of that

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one body being many are one body, so also is

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Christ. For by one Spirit are we all, A -double

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-L, baptized into one body. If you are born again,

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you are born into this wonderful body of Christ

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and you do not separate the body of Christ. You

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don't. One body. All members of that one body.

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all baptized into one body. Sure. Therefore,

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to be born again makes you a part of Christ's

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body. And I cannot for the life of me conceive

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of Christ's body being divided, part of it remaining

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in the grave. Part of it raised in the glory.

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Part of it left to pass to the tribulation. Part

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of it changed and caught up to meet him in the

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air. The church, the bride of Christ. I can,

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after the life of me, conceive of a divided bride.

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Here goes the bride to meet her bridegroom. Can

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you... honestly now? Conceive of a divided bride?

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No, of course not. It isn't logical. It isn't

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reasonable. The bride of Christ is not divided.

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It is one body. And when the bride of Christ

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goes out to meet the bridegroom, it is not a

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divided bride. It's those who had been born again.

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For it is the blood that maketh an atonement

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for the soul. It's just like that. Oh, it's so

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simple. It is so simple. The bride couldn't be

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divided. It just is impossible. Now remember

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again. He always speaks of his saints. He's coming

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for his saints. Then he returns with the saints.

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Not divided saints. Now, don't you think for

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one minute that in any way I am minimizing the

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baptism with the Holy Spirit. I am not. Believe

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me. Deals say it is in the plan of Jesus, in

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the will of God. It is part of your inheritance

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as a Christian to receive this glorious experience.

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Oh, how I believe in the baptism of the Holy

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Spirit. I believe in that experience. I have

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experienced the baptism with the Holy Spirit.

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He is the... power in my life. He is the controlling

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factor. He is the power in my body. He is the

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secret of the fruits of this ministry. I could

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not witness as I do without the power of the

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Holy Spirit. The baptism with the Holy Spirit.

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There are those who say the greatest miracle

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of this entire ministry is Catherine Kuhlman

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herself. But I know from whence cometh that power.

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That miracle is none other than the power of

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the Holy Spirit. I am not minimizing this wonderful

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experience or the person of the Holy Spirit.

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What I am saying to you is that when it comes

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to entering into the presence of Jesus, when

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it comes to gaining entrance into heaven, there

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is just one requisite, the blood of Jesus Christ,

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God's Son. It is the blood that maketh an atonement

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for the soul. God bless you.