What if no one else is enjoying answering the
questions that a very marvelous evangelical magazine
sent to me and asked me to answer? No one else
is enjoying them. I certainly am. I just love
it. And they have presented me with 40... 42
questions. Now, that's an awful lot of questions.
How would you, now you put yourself in my place.
How would you like for someone to submit to you
42 questions and those questions involve every
part of your life? How would you like to say
okay? I'll answer them. Not just to one person,
but the whole world. You know, kind of like that.
Uh -huh. If you're going to be used of God, your
whole life has to be open for inspection. You
know, it's like that. And so, I've been having
an awful good time. I hope that, uh... You've
been enjoying it. Remember, we're only down to
our ninth question. And they submitted 42 questions.
You may say, oh, I've got some questions I would
ask. Well, you just hold steady. Your question
is more than likely in the 42 that I am going
to be answering. We come now to the ninth question.
How effective has your television ministry been?
What has been the response in numbers of letters?
Now, let me answer the second part of this question
before the first part. When you come to the number
of letters that I receive, it's sort of like
the number of folk who come forward when we give
an altar call. You have never heard Catherine
Kuhlman say there were 500 who were converted
in the Great Service Sunday. I can say to you
that there were 500 who came forward. But when
it comes to those who were really born again,
only God knows that. When it comes to the response
in the number of letters received, of course,
great is the response. Because there are those
who will respond to anything that's on television.
I don't care what it is. No matter why it is.
And yet the thing that impresses me most, are
those letters that come in saying, I have never
in my life ever written a letter like this. I
want to be born again. I'm hungry for that spiritual
experience. I want that more than anything else
in the whole world. You see, people write in
only because they're hungry for the Lord. They
need spiritual help, supported entirely by the
freewill contributions of those who've been so
blessed, who've been so helped, those who see
the great results. After all, If you're a child
of God, we're in this thing together. It's an
investment in the preaching of the gospel of
the Lord Jesus Christ. How effective has been
your TV ministry? I can only tell you that the
most unlikely people will stop me on the street.
and say I wouldn't miss one good telecast for
anything in the world. I'd just returned from
one of the most remote parts of the United States.
I was shocked to find that everyone, everywhere
I went, said, Oh, you're Catherine Kuhlman. We
watch your telecast. And I responded at first
by saying, but we're not on television from such
and such a place. How do you get it? Through
the means of cable. I'm thrilled when I get into
a cab. And seldom do I ever get into a cab, but
what? In hearing my voice, the cab driver will
say, Uh -oh, I know that voice. You're Catherine
Kuhlman. My wife and I watch you on television
all the time. There's seldom a time that I go
into a restaurant to eat, but what the waitress
or the waiter, when I give my order, will say,
that voice. You'll never know. but my family
has gotten from your telecasts. Financially,
the telecasts do not pay for themselves. If you'd
like that question answered, I'll just throw
that in for good measure. And sometimes we have
to pray like a house of fire, as we used to say
in Missouri. But I'm still depending on the Lord.
They come through, and he's never failed us yet.
But the greatest combination is television and
radio. Through means of the radio, we teach.
The combination of both, the television and the
radio, and you have a ministry that's unbeatable.
The tenth question, what is the role and place
of speaking in tongues? And what is its relationship
to justification and sanctification? Is it a
sign or the sign of the Spirit's control? Right
now, somebody is stopping everything that they're
doing. To be sure to hear the answer to that
question. Well, let's just lay it on the line
and that's the way I like it. And that's the
kind of person I am. What you want to know is
whether or not I believe in speaking in tongues.
And the answer is yes. I have to believe. that
there is such a thing as speaking in an unknown
tongue, because I believe the Bible. And one
cannot just take the Word of God and take out
whatever is not agreeable with them. If you did
that, if you cut out everything that you wished
was not there, it wouldn't be long before you
would no longer have a Bible. Oh, maybe you'd
have the 23rd Psalm left. That's wonderful. You'd
keep everything in that the Word says regarding
heaven. That's glorious. But either we accept
the whole Word of God or don't accept anything.
And I'm a firm believer that one needs to stay
with the Word of God. isn't in the word of God,
don't do it. We're in an hour of great deception.
And the Lord himself warned us regarding the
day in which we're living. An hour of great deception.
If it were possible, the very elect would be
deceived. I repeat, if it isn't in the Bible,
don't Do it. If it is in the Word of God, accept
it. I believe that's one reason why this ministry,
through the years, has stood the test of time
and the test of the critics. We have no fanaticism.
None whatsoever. No one can... ever accuse me
of being fanatical or can speak the word of truth
and say this ministry is a fanatical ministry.
You attend the services. Nothing is unseemly.
It is done according to God's word, His scripture.
And it should be so because the foundation of
this ministry is God's Word. Therefore, when
we come to the speaking in an unknown tongue,
remember, it's in the Word of God. The Bible
teaches it. And the speaking without the tongues
is the supernatural experience which characterizes
the Pentecostal movement of today all over the
world. Not just here in the United States, but
all over the world. You can say, but I don't
believe it. I can't accept it. That's all right.
Whatever you think or believe will not stop the
Holy Spirit. He just continues baptizing believers.
filling believers, and thousands will continue
to speak in an unknown tongue. Because it's something
that's supernatural. It's the power of the Holy
Spirit. For so long, we were afraid of that word
Pentecostal. Oh, it was easy to accept anything
that was done on the day of Pentecost. And millions
observe the day of Pentecost. But what millions
have not accepted is the fact that we are still
living in the day of Pentecost. Everything that
happened on the day of Pentecost should be happening
in every church in the world at this very hour.
The coldness, the... The lack of power in many
of our churches today is the unnatural and not
the natural. For wherever you find the Holy Spirit,
you'll find action. You'll find the supernatural
manifestation of the mighty third person of the
Trinity. And now the word... Pentecostal is not
a word that one whispers, but very boldly. You'll
find Catholic priests saying, I am a Pentecostal
Catholic priest. You'll find a Baptist minister
saying, I am a Pentecostal Baptist minister.
Oh, those wonderful Pentecostal Lutheran ministers,
you know? It's glorious. And thousands around
the world are enjoying the Pentecostal experience.
Speaking in an unknown tongue. But remember something.
Speaking in an unknown tongue has nothing to
do whatsoever with one's experience of justification.
It is the blood that maketh an atonement for
the soul. I want to repeat it. It is the shed
blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son. That makes
us an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ
Jesus. If your sins are covered with the blood,
if you have accepted the Christ in the forgiveness
of your sins, accepting him as absolute deity
and divinity, whether you've ever spoken in an
unknown tongue or not, when the old heart takes
its last beat, and your soul goes all the way
from earth to glory, you will stand in the wonderful
presence of the great high priest, your Christ,
your Redeemer. No. The Holy Spirit. That wonderful
experience, call it the baptism with the Holy
Spirit. I think that is the most scriptural.
term to use. The experience that they received
on the day of Pentecost, when they were all filled
with the Holy Spirit, immersed in the Spirit.
Remember, the Holy Spirit was not given for our
justification. Jesus is the one who perfected
our justification. But this wonderful experience
that we call The baptism of the Holy Spirit is
given for one purpose and one purpose only, and
that's for power for service. And just before
Jesus went away, he did not leave this message
for someone else to give. He gave it himself.
When he said, and ye shall receive power, However,
after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and
the greatest evidence of having been filled with
the Holy Spirit, the greatest evidence there
is as to whether or not one has been immersed
with the Holy Spirit, the greatest scriptural
evidence that there is regarding the filling
of the Holy Spirit power in an individual's life
after this experience. You may speak in tongues
every hour on the hour, but my friend, if your
life isn't measuring up with the power of the
Holy Ghost, then I wouldn't give you much for
your experience. of speaking in an unknown tongue.
And it's just like that. The eleventh question.
Do you feel that you have the gift of healing?
What gift do you have? No one has ever heard
Catherine Kuhlman. say that she had one or more
than one of the gifts of the spirit. I'm always
afraid of the folk who boast of having received
the gift of the spirit. I've come in contact
with those who very boldly stood before me and
say, you know, I have all of the gifts of the
spirit. And they say it as though they felt they
had arrived. And there was nothing more for them.
I'm always a little leery, a little skeptical
of those folk. Because... The greatest of all
Christian graces is humility. And when one has
been filled with the Holy Spirit, when one is
controlled by the Holy Spirit, and if one has
received a gift or more than one gift of the
Holy Spirit, that one will never be boastful.
Never. And I'm always afraid of a boastful...
I would not say that I have received a gift or
that I have anything special. All that I know
is that I have yielded my body to Him to be filled
with the Holy Spirit. I have surrendered myself
to Him. My life is no longer my own. He possesses
me, body, soul, and spirit. And anything that
the Holy Spirit has given me, anything, anything
that He does through me, any results that there
might be through this life of mine, It's not
Catherine Coleman. It's the Holy Spirit. If he
has given me something very special, it is still
not Catherine Coleman. It's still what the Holy
Spirit does through a yielded vessel. That's
the reason we must be so very careful to give
Him the praise and the glory for everything the
Holy Spirit does. That is one thing I am so afraid
of. I'm afraid lest I grieve the Holy Spirit,
for when the Holy Spirit is lifted from me, I
am the most ordinary person that ever lived.
There's no woman living today more ordinary.
than Catherine Coleman. I know that better than
anyone else. I would not boast of something special.
I would not boast of a gift. But I can tell you
what the Holy Spirit does. And I vow to be careful
to give God all the praise and all the glory.
everything he does.