WEBVTT 00:00:00.650 --> 00:00:07.129 I have received a letter from one of the most 00:00:07.129 --> 00:00:12.289 influential, one of the finest religious magazines 00:00:12.289 --> 00:00:20.230 in circulation today. It's a large denominational 00:00:20.230 --> 00:00:27.710 magazine. And one of their reporters has listed 00:00:27.710 --> 00:00:36.460 42 questions. and has asked me to answer these 00:00:36.460 --> 00:00:41.920 questions for the magazine. I find these questions 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:48.719 most interesting. And remember, 42 of them. Oh, 00:00:49.119 --> 00:00:54.140 I tell you, I just love it. And I thought, well, 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.259 I think I'll do something. If the magazine were 00:00:57.259 --> 00:00:59.759 that interested in getting me answers to these 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:03.329 questions, And it's always amazing to me the 00:01:03.329 --> 00:01:06.510 questions that people ask. I guess that's one 00:01:06.510 --> 00:01:12.010 reason why I so enjoy these talk shows. I just 00:01:12.010 --> 00:01:18.769 love them because I feel perfectly free to answer 00:01:18.769 --> 00:01:21.730 any question. And it's always interesting to 00:01:21.730 --> 00:01:25.430 me as to what the public would like to know. 00:01:27.290 --> 00:01:30.560 You know, questions that I would never... Think 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:36.060 of asking about myself. And it gives me an opportunity 00:01:36.060 --> 00:01:39.200 to answer these questions when I'm invited to 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:45.239 be a guest on these talk shows. And whether they 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:48.859 open the lines to those who call in their questions 00:01:48.859 --> 00:01:53.640 by phone or whether it's a public audience, I 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:58.659 love it. I just thrill to it, believe me. And 00:01:58.659 --> 00:02:01.519 so... When these 42 questions were submitted 00:02:01.519 --> 00:02:08.060 to me by this gentleman representing this very 00:02:08.060 --> 00:02:12.080 excellent denominational church magazine, I'm 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.699 glad to answer them. And I thought if they would 00:02:15.699 --> 00:02:20.979 be interesting to those subscribing to a magazine, 00:02:21.340 --> 00:02:25.430 they would be interesting to you too. And so 00:02:25.430 --> 00:02:28.750 I'm going to just answer some of these questions. 00:02:30.030 --> 00:02:32.310 Now, this is the very first question I was asked. 00:02:32.669 --> 00:02:37.810 And remember that I'll read the question just 00:02:37.810 --> 00:02:42.050 as they were asked me. I'm reading them from 00:02:42.050 --> 00:02:46.389 the paper that was submitted to me. Number one, 00:02:46.449 --> 00:02:52.360 you must find your work very rewarding. You are 00:02:52.360 --> 00:02:55.120 the best known woman preacher in the world today. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.620 Now, this thing about the best known woman preacher 00:02:58.620 --> 00:03:04.979 in the world today, they have said that. I have 00:03:04.979 --> 00:03:08.400 not said that. And before I go on with the question, 00:03:08.500 --> 00:03:14.419 I want you to know that I always disassociate 00:03:14.419 --> 00:03:18.500 myself from anything that's written about me 00:03:18.500 --> 00:03:23.849 or that's said about me. I do not consider myself 00:03:23.849 --> 00:03:26.289 the best -known woman preacher in the world today. 00:03:26.909 --> 00:03:29.330 In fact, let's go back to the word preacher. 00:03:29.930 --> 00:03:33.689 I never think of myself in the terms of a preacher. 00:03:34.509 --> 00:03:36.629 That's the reason I have never used the word 00:03:36.629 --> 00:03:42.469 reverend. There is not one person in the world 00:03:42.469 --> 00:03:47.530 who can bring evidence where Catherine Kuhlman 00:03:47.530 --> 00:03:52.539 has ever used the word reverend. I really do 00:03:52.539 --> 00:03:56.960 not consider myself a woman preacher. Believe 00:03:56.960 --> 00:04:00.819 me, I'm just somebody who loves souls. I love 00:04:00.819 --> 00:04:09.500 people. I want to help. And it's just that simple. 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:14.939 And if you become known for being somebody who's 00:04:14.939 --> 00:04:22.019 trying to help people, then that's me. All right, 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:26.639 I go on, and this is the question. You increasingly 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:31.180 represent the lost hope of the seriously ill. 00:04:31.699 --> 00:04:37.779 Is this not an awesome as well as thrilling responsibility? 00:04:40.420 --> 00:04:47.350 First of all, I want you to know... that helping 00:04:47.350 --> 00:04:51.449 people is the most rewarding thing in the whole 00:04:51.449 --> 00:04:55.930 world. You do not have to be a Catherine Kuhlman 00:04:55.930 --> 00:05:02.569 to help people. I don't care who you are. Every 00:05:02.569 --> 00:05:11.730 Christian, every born -again man and woman should 00:05:11.730 --> 00:05:18.879 have as his goal help. I believe that you and 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:25.360 I were born to serve. It's not just my responsibility 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:30.959 to help people. If you are a real Christian, 00:05:31.220 --> 00:05:35.639 remember that's what Jesus did. Jesus lived to 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:40.139 serve. And if you are a born -again man or woman, 00:05:40.220 --> 00:05:45.540 you too will... Feel your responsibility in serving 00:05:45.540 --> 00:05:48.699 and helping people. It's the most rewarding thing 00:05:48.699 --> 00:05:56.079 in the world. I want you to know that. You'll 00:05:56.079 --> 00:06:00.019 never realize what it meant to me last Christmas 00:06:00.019 --> 00:06:05.819 when among the cards, the gifts that I received, 00:06:06.120 --> 00:06:11.319 a little card with a great big Santa Claus on 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:19.160 it. came from a 12 -year -old girl. And the doctors 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:23.699 had said that perhaps she would not be living 00:06:23.699 --> 00:06:28.360 by Christmas. They had suggested that a leg be 00:06:28.360 --> 00:06:34.439 amputated because of cancer. She sent me this 00:06:34.439 --> 00:06:39.939 card. And in the card, she had written these 00:06:39.939 --> 00:06:48.439 words. I am living to see this Christmas. I still 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:55.759 have two good legs because God answered prayer 00:06:55.759 --> 00:07:05.759 and you helped. I cannot begin to tell you the 00:07:05.759 --> 00:07:09.420 tears that I shed over that Christmas card and 00:07:09.420 --> 00:07:15.920 it was the greatest gift. that I received. You 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:18.220 may have had an angel at the top of your Christmas 00:07:18.220 --> 00:07:22.959 tree, or some beautiful ornament. I felt that 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:28.939 I had the most beautiful gift at the top of my 00:07:28.939 --> 00:07:33.540 Christmas tree, for I put the little girl's card 00:07:33.540 --> 00:07:44.110 at the very top of the tree. rewarding. It's 00:07:44.110 --> 00:07:51.490 something you'd give your very life for. Now 00:07:51.490 --> 00:07:58.490 you talk about my responsibility? When I walk 00:07:58.490 --> 00:08:03.329 out on the stage and I realize that sitting there 00:08:03.329 --> 00:08:06.649 in that great audience, there are men and women 00:08:06.649 --> 00:08:09.050 who have made a great sacrifice to have attended 00:08:09.050 --> 00:08:14.339 that service. When I realize that for many a 00:08:14.339 --> 00:08:17.800 person sitting out there, it is their last hope. 00:08:17.819 --> 00:08:22.540 Remember something. The question probably is 00:08:22.540 --> 00:08:30.740 asked in terms of physical healing. But the spiritual 00:08:30.740 --> 00:08:35.899 healing is far greater than the physical. It 00:08:35.899 --> 00:08:40.929 may be somebody's last hope. last call for the 00:08:40.929 --> 00:08:45.490 spiritual healing. The physical healing is so 00:08:45.490 --> 00:08:50.090 very secondary, believe me. You can well afford 00:08:50.090 --> 00:08:53.970 to live and die with a sick body, not having 00:08:53.970 --> 00:08:59.389 been healed physically. But when those last moments 00:08:59.389 --> 00:09:02.830 come, and the Holy Spirit is speaking at the 00:09:02.830 --> 00:09:06.850 close of the service, And we turn and give an 00:09:06.850 --> 00:09:09.309 altar call and remember the spiritual healing 00:09:09.309 --> 00:09:14.389 is far greater than the greatest physical healing 00:09:14.389 --> 00:09:16.389 that you ever saw in your life. It's wonderful 00:09:16.389 --> 00:09:20.370 to see a body healed from cancer. It's glorious 00:09:20.370 --> 00:09:23.330 to see men and women get up from out of a wheelchair 00:09:23.330 --> 00:09:26.690 and that wheelchair is pushed down the aisle 00:09:26.690 --> 00:09:31.909 empty. But there's something that's far greater, 00:09:32.009 --> 00:09:36.879 that spiritual healing. that new birth experience. 00:09:37.299 --> 00:09:40.220 And when I stand there in those last moments 00:09:40.220 --> 00:09:42.139 of a great service and give the altar call, and 00:09:42.139 --> 00:09:47.320 I realize that there may be those who are receiving 00:09:47.320 --> 00:09:52.679 the last call from God spiritually, and the destiny 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:58.960 of their soul is at stake, that, my friend, is 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:06.480 the most awesome feeling. great responsibility 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:13.059 is really felt. And when the lights have been 00:10:13.059 --> 00:10:16.899 turned out of the great auditorium, you wonder 00:10:16.899 --> 00:10:21.340 whether you gave every ounce of strength that 00:10:21.340 --> 00:10:26.480 you had, whether you could have done a better 00:10:26.480 --> 00:10:33.960 job for the Lord than what you did. sure there's 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:37.100 a responsibility when it comes to those who came 00:10:37.100 --> 00:10:40.580 for a physical healing. And I'm just human enough 00:10:40.580 --> 00:10:45.100 to tell you that the responsibility is so great 00:10:45.100 --> 00:10:54.679 that sometimes I wish that I had never been called 00:10:54.679 --> 00:11:02.399 to this part of the ministry. You may not understand, 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:08.759 what I'm trying to say. Sometimes that responsibility 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:15.440 is almost overwhelming. It isn't the hard work. 00:11:15.539 --> 00:11:20.100 I can stand on a platform. I can stand there 00:11:20.100 --> 00:11:22.919 on that stage three and a half, four, four and 00:11:22.919 --> 00:11:27.799 a half hours. Sometimes it has been five hours. 00:11:28.179 --> 00:11:34.649 It isn't the hard work. It's that responsibility. 00:11:37.049 --> 00:11:41.490 It's that complete yieldedness to the Holy Spirit. 00:11:41.970 --> 00:11:46.629 And that's a secret. I know better than anyone 00:11:46.629 --> 00:11:48.950 else that Catherine Kuhlman has no healing virtue. 00:11:50.710 --> 00:11:54.850 I'm not a faith healer. Please understand that. 00:11:56.690 --> 00:12:00.769 I resent very much being called a faith healer. 00:12:02.190 --> 00:12:08.610 You'll never know how much I really resent being 00:12:08.610 --> 00:12:14.549 tagged a faith healer. When I see it in print, 00:12:14.690 --> 00:12:21.009 I resent it very much because I'm not a healer. 00:12:22.789 --> 00:12:25.470 I have no healing virtue. I have no healing power. 00:12:26.610 --> 00:12:31.289 I have never healed anyone. knew that, believed 00:12:31.289 --> 00:12:36.649 me, and absolutely depended on the power of the 00:12:36.649 --> 00:12:42.590 Holy Spirit, on the power of God. I have stood 00:12:42.590 --> 00:12:50.029 before sick people. If only I could give to them 00:12:50.029 --> 00:12:54.049 the strength for my own body. And I always remember 00:12:54.049 --> 00:12:57.009 something that my papa, who worked so very hard, 00:12:57.049 --> 00:13:00.990 said to me when I was a little girl. And I remember 00:13:00.990 --> 00:13:05.350 him as he extended his hands. Both hands were 00:13:05.350 --> 00:13:10.049 opened. And he said, you know, baby, you can 00:13:10.049 --> 00:13:12.490 have anything in the world that you want if you 00:13:12.490 --> 00:13:17.570 work hard enough with these hands. That made 00:13:17.570 --> 00:13:21.450 a very great impression on me because my papa 00:13:21.450 --> 00:13:26.429 was a hard worker. I've learned to work and work 00:13:26.429 --> 00:13:33.549 very hard. But Papa didn't quite understand the 00:13:33.549 --> 00:13:37.149 work of the Holy Spirit. And I've stood before 00:13:37.149 --> 00:13:43.070 people, and I thought, oh, if only it was hard 00:13:43.070 --> 00:13:48.750 work that was needed, I'd work the flesh off 00:13:48.750 --> 00:13:52.909 my bones, believe me. When that daddy stands 00:13:52.909 --> 00:13:59.519 there with a little baby and that child, has 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:06.399 cancer. Or perhaps there's a deformity. And I 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:08.840 see those great big tears rolling down the cheeks 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:12.899 of that big strong man. And as he holds that 00:14:12.899 --> 00:14:16.200 child in his arms, I know that he'd gladly give 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:20.480 his life, literally, if that child could live. 00:14:20.899 --> 00:14:27.620 He'd exchange his own life if he... could only 00:14:27.620 --> 00:14:33.799 see that child of his healed. And standing there, 00:14:33.940 --> 00:14:41.419 a great spiritual love in my own heart. And I 00:14:41.419 --> 00:14:47.500 tell you the truth, I would gladly give my life 00:14:47.500 --> 00:14:51.779 or pay any price possible if I in that moment 00:14:51.779 --> 00:14:54.440 could see that child healed. And it's in a moment 00:14:54.440 --> 00:14:57.440 like that. that I know better than anyone else 00:14:57.440 --> 00:15:03.779 how dependent I really am on the power of God. 00:15:07.440 --> 00:15:17.700 And it's just like that. You ask me, is this 00:15:17.700 --> 00:15:21.679 not an awesome as well as thrilling responsibility? 00:15:24.620 --> 00:15:35.840 No, not thrilling, but awesome. And sometimes 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:51.220 so awesome, I wish I had never been called. The 00:15:51.220 --> 00:15:57.460 second question. you don't bother to answer critics 00:15:57.460 --> 00:16:01.639 and skeptics. But would you grant that there 00:16:01.639 --> 00:16:06.779 are some Christians who have some honest, conscientious 00:16:06.779 --> 00:16:12.919 doubts about you and your ministry? And if so, 00:16:13.059 --> 00:16:16.320 do they deserve to know more about what you believe 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:20.940 and how you operate than you normally state publicly? 00:16:23.179 --> 00:16:28.580 I tell you the truth. I answer every question 00:16:28.580 --> 00:16:32.500 that's asked of me. I do not believe there's 00:16:32.500 --> 00:16:38.320 anyone in the religious field today who is more 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:45.940 honest in answering questions than I am. And 00:16:45.940 --> 00:16:48.480 it's just like that. That is the reason I'm talking 00:16:48.480 --> 00:16:51.539 to you now. That is the reason I'm answering 00:16:51.539 --> 00:16:55.080 these questions now. I'm being perfectly honest. 00:16:55.159 --> 00:17:03.440 Honest with you. I bare my soul to you. I answer 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:09.579 them the best that I know how. And when it comes 00:17:09.579 --> 00:17:18.400 to answering critics and skeptics, remember when 00:17:18.400 --> 00:17:25.119 the skeptics came to Jesus. answered them and 00:17:25.119 --> 00:17:31.920 said to them, in substance, if you do not believe 00:17:31.920 --> 00:17:39.779 that I am all that I say that I am, then believe 00:17:39.779 --> 00:17:45.660 me for the very work's sake. And that is his 00:17:45.660 --> 00:17:53.380 only answer. I believe that. If the Lord himself 00:17:53.380 --> 00:17:59.599 would return in person and do the same works 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:06.660 today that he did when he walked this earth in 00:18:06.660 --> 00:18:13.880 person, he'd have more skeptics than he had when 00:18:13.880 --> 00:18:22.119 he was here the first time in the flesh. You 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:25.680 see, flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto 00:18:25.680 --> 00:18:29.880 thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And spiritual 00:18:29.880 --> 00:18:34.640 things are only spiritually revealed. You cannot 00:18:34.640 --> 00:18:38.700 force a human being to believe something they 00:18:38.700 --> 00:18:45.279 do not want to believe. If you do not want to 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:49.480 believe in the absolute power of Almighty God, 00:18:51.150 --> 00:18:58.210 If you do not want to believe that God has the 00:18:58.210 --> 00:19:03.210 power to heal, if you refuse to believe that 00:19:03.210 --> 00:19:08.589 divine healing is for us today, then if one were 00:19:08.589 --> 00:19:12.369 to be raised from the dead before your very eyes, 00:19:12.710 --> 00:19:20.919 you would still not believe and you'd find some 00:19:20.919 --> 00:19:25.259 excuse for not believing. You still would say 00:19:25.259 --> 00:19:32.420 probably it was psychosomatic. Or the person 00:19:32.420 --> 00:19:37.039 had been hypnotized. Or you'd be dead sure there 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:41.700 was a catch in it someplace. And so, when it 00:19:41.700 --> 00:19:44.319 comes to the skeptics and it comes to the critics, 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:55.269 I leave them with... And when it comes to answering 00:19:55.269 --> 00:20:04.730 questions, I answer the questions of the believer 00:20:04.730 --> 00:20:11.089 and the unbeliever the best that I know how. 00:20:13.009 --> 00:20:17.670 All right, here comes the third question. Do 00:20:17.670 --> 00:20:21.329 you feel it? there to come under journalistic 00:20:21.329 --> 00:20:26.150 scrutiny from questioners who may not be entirely 00:20:26.150 --> 00:20:30.630 sympathetic with your ministry. You know, sometimes 00:20:30.630 --> 00:20:37.450 it's a very difficult thing for me to take because 00:20:37.450 --> 00:20:44.950 someone comes in, a reporter comes in to a great 00:20:44.950 --> 00:20:48.650 miracle service. He knows nothing about the power 00:20:48.650 --> 00:20:51.809 of God. He knows nothing about the power of the 00:20:51.809 --> 00:20:57.529 Holy Spirit. Nothing whatsoever about the spiritual 00:20:57.529 --> 00:21:04.970 things. He may be a very wise person, a very 00:21:04.970 --> 00:21:13.210 intelligent person. But when he comes into a 00:21:13.210 --> 00:21:18.009 great religious service, He has no idea, no conception 00:21:18.009 --> 00:21:22.450 whatsoever of the spiritual things and the working 00:21:22.450 --> 00:21:27.690 of the Holy Ghost. I think it's quite unfair, 00:21:28.009 --> 00:21:37.170 really, to himself and to the servant of God. 00:21:41.269 --> 00:21:48.799 And I'm just being very honest about it. And 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:59.980 so, I leave them also in the hand of God. But 00:21:59.980 --> 00:22:07.119 remember, very recently, a reporter from St. 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:10.440 Petersburg, Florida, who had attended the service 00:22:10.440 --> 00:22:17.119 in the Great Auditorium in Tampa, who was most 00:22:17.769 --> 00:22:23.869 Honest. After the great service, even coming 00:22:23.869 --> 00:22:27.170 back to the dressing room, after the benediction 00:22:27.170 --> 00:22:29.470 had been pronounced and the great crowd had left, 00:22:29.609 --> 00:22:37.869 was very honest in not only telling me, but the 00:22:37.869 --> 00:22:50.619 whole area. I came a skeptic. But I left a believer.