WEBVTT 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:04.679 What if no one else is enjoying answering the 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:13.279 questions that a very marvelous evangelical magazine 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:18.879 sent to me and asked me to answer? No one else 00:00:18.879 --> 00:00:23.539 is enjoying them. I certainly am. I just love 00:00:23.539 --> 00:00:30.500 it. And they have presented me with 40... 42 00:00:30.500 --> 00:00:32.659 questions. Now, that's an awful lot of questions. 00:00:32.939 --> 00:00:35.859 How would you, now you put yourself in my place. 00:00:36.420 --> 00:00:44.340 How would you like for someone to submit to you 00:00:44.340 --> 00:00:52.359 42 questions and those questions involve every 00:00:52.359 --> 00:01:01.079 part of your life? How would you like to say 00:01:01.079 --> 00:01:05.340 okay? I'll answer them. Not just to one person, 00:01:05.379 --> 00:01:08.799 but the whole world. You know, kind of like that. 00:01:10.700 --> 00:01:14.500 Uh -huh. If you're going to be used of God, your 00:01:14.500 --> 00:01:20.599 whole life has to be open for inspection. You 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:26.040 know, it's like that. And so, I've been having 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:29.379 an awful good time. I hope that, uh... You've 00:01:29.379 --> 00:01:32.859 been enjoying it. Remember, we're only down to 00:01:32.859 --> 00:01:40.280 our ninth question. And they submitted 42 questions. 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.980 You may say, oh, I've got some questions I would 00:01:42.980 --> 00:01:48.280 ask. Well, you just hold steady. Your question 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:52.640 is more than likely in the 42 that I am going 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:57.739 to be answering. We come now to the ninth question. 00:01:59.819 --> 00:02:04.159 How effective has your television ministry been? 00:02:05.140 --> 00:02:09.039 What has been the response in numbers of letters? 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:17.120 Now, let me answer the second part of this question 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:20.460 before the first part. When you come to the number 00:02:20.460 --> 00:02:24.580 of letters that I receive, it's sort of like 00:02:24.580 --> 00:02:29.960 the number of folk who come forward when we give 00:02:29.960 --> 00:02:34.680 an altar call. You have never heard Catherine 00:02:34.680 --> 00:02:38.599 Kuhlman say there were 500 who were converted 00:02:38.599 --> 00:02:45.479 in the Great Service Sunday. I can say to you 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:50.800 that there were 500 who came forward. But when 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:52.599 it comes to those who were really born again, 00:02:52.800 --> 00:03:00.099 only God knows that. When it comes to the response 00:03:00.099 --> 00:03:04.780 in the number of letters received, of course, 00:03:04.780 --> 00:03:10.259 great is the response. Because there are those 00:03:10.259 --> 00:03:16.580 who will respond to anything that's on television. 00:03:16.699 --> 00:03:20.159 I don't care what it is. No matter why it is. 00:03:21.960 --> 00:03:28.370 And yet the thing that impresses me most, are 00:03:28.370 --> 00:03:34.610 those letters that come in saying, I have never 00:03:34.610 --> 00:03:43.610 in my life ever written a letter like this. I 00:03:43.610 --> 00:03:48.550 want to be born again. I'm hungry for that spiritual 00:03:48.550 --> 00:03:53.330 experience. I want that more than anything else 00:03:53.330 --> 00:04:00.159 in the whole world. You see, people write in 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:05.400 only because they're hungry for the Lord. They 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:12.300 need spiritual help, supported entirely by the 00:04:12.300 --> 00:04:15.400 freewill contributions of those who've been so 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:23.139 blessed, who've been so helped, those who see 00:04:23.139 --> 00:04:28.740 the great results. After all, If you're a child 00:04:28.740 --> 00:04:32.579 of God, we're in this thing together. It's an 00:04:32.579 --> 00:04:35.959 investment in the preaching of the gospel of 00:04:35.959 --> 00:04:40.019 the Lord Jesus Christ. How effective has been 00:04:40.019 --> 00:04:48.899 your TV ministry? I can only tell you that the 00:04:48.899 --> 00:04:54.300 most unlikely people will stop me on the street. 00:04:55.269 --> 00:04:58.329 and say I wouldn't miss one good telecast for 00:04:58.329 --> 00:05:03.029 anything in the world. I'd just returned from 00:05:03.029 --> 00:05:07.410 one of the most remote parts of the United States. 00:05:08.850 --> 00:05:15.250 I was shocked to find that everyone, everywhere 00:05:15.250 --> 00:05:20.329 I went, said, Oh, you're Catherine Kuhlman. We 00:05:20.329 --> 00:05:24.509 watch your telecast. And I responded at first 00:05:24.509 --> 00:05:30.230 by saying, but we're not on television from such 00:05:30.230 --> 00:05:34.550 and such a place. How do you get it? Through 00:05:34.550 --> 00:05:42.509 the means of cable. I'm thrilled when I get into 00:05:42.509 --> 00:05:47.209 a cab. And seldom do I ever get into a cab, but 00:05:47.209 --> 00:05:51.769 what? In hearing my voice, the cab driver will 00:05:51.769 --> 00:05:57.470 say, Uh -oh, I know that voice. You're Catherine 00:05:57.470 --> 00:06:02.870 Kuhlman. My wife and I watch you on television 00:06:02.870 --> 00:06:09.629 all the time. There's seldom a time that I go 00:06:09.629 --> 00:06:12.769 into a restaurant to eat, but what the waitress 00:06:12.769 --> 00:06:16.990 or the waiter, when I give my order, will say, 00:06:17.069 --> 00:06:23.329 that voice. You'll never know. but my family 00:06:23.329 --> 00:06:29.009 has gotten from your telecasts. Financially, 00:06:29.149 --> 00:06:36.250 the telecasts do not pay for themselves. If you'd 00:06:36.250 --> 00:06:39.430 like that question answered, I'll just throw 00:06:39.430 --> 00:06:43.509 that in for good measure. And sometimes we have 00:06:43.509 --> 00:06:45.470 to pray like a house of fire, as we used to say 00:06:45.470 --> 00:06:50.870 in Missouri. But I'm still depending on the Lord. 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:54.399 They come through, and he's never failed us yet. 00:06:55.579 --> 00:06:59.519 But the greatest combination is television and 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:05.120 radio. Through means of the radio, we teach. 00:07:07.240 --> 00:07:11.439 The combination of both, the television and the 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:16.779 radio, and you have a ministry that's unbeatable. 00:07:20.040 --> 00:07:25.500 The tenth question, what is the role and place 00:07:25.500 --> 00:07:29.540 of speaking in tongues? And what is its relationship 00:07:29.540 --> 00:07:34.800 to justification and sanctification? Is it a 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:41.259 sign or the sign of the Spirit's control? Right 00:07:41.259 --> 00:07:46.720 now, somebody is stopping everything that they're 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:50.949 doing. To be sure to hear the answer to that 00:07:50.949 --> 00:07:58.170 question. Well, let's just lay it on the line 00:07:58.170 --> 00:08:01.970 and that's the way I like it. And that's the 00:08:01.970 --> 00:08:07.009 kind of person I am. What you want to know is 00:08:07.009 --> 00:08:10.750 whether or not I believe in speaking in tongues. 00:08:11.790 --> 00:08:17.819 And the answer is yes. I have to believe. that 00:08:17.819 --> 00:08:19.899 there is such a thing as speaking in an unknown 00:08:19.899 --> 00:08:24.579 tongue, because I believe the Bible. And one 00:08:24.579 --> 00:08:29.740 cannot just take the Word of God and take out 00:08:29.740 --> 00:08:35.259 whatever is not agreeable with them. If you did 00:08:35.259 --> 00:08:39.899 that, if you cut out everything that you wished 00:08:39.899 --> 00:08:42.980 was not there, it wouldn't be long before you 00:08:42.980 --> 00:08:46.179 would no longer have a Bible. Oh, maybe you'd 00:08:46.179 --> 00:08:50.779 have the 23rd Psalm left. That's wonderful. You'd 00:08:50.779 --> 00:08:54.360 keep everything in that the Word says regarding 00:08:54.360 --> 00:08:59.419 heaven. That's glorious. But either we accept 00:08:59.419 --> 00:09:03.480 the whole Word of God or don't accept anything. 00:09:03.899 --> 00:09:08.440 And I'm a firm believer that one needs to stay 00:09:08.440 --> 00:09:13.919 with the Word of God. isn't in the word of God, 00:09:14.059 --> 00:09:19.200 don't do it. We're in an hour of great deception. 00:09:20.860 --> 00:09:24.559 And the Lord himself warned us regarding the 00:09:24.559 --> 00:09:29.480 day in which we're living. An hour of great deception. 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:33.100 If it were possible, the very elect would be 00:09:33.100 --> 00:09:41.340 deceived. I repeat, if it isn't in the Bible, 00:09:41.580 --> 00:09:49.429 don't Do it. If it is in the Word of God, accept 00:09:49.429 --> 00:09:54.169 it. I believe that's one reason why this ministry, 00:09:54.490 --> 00:09:59.250 through the years, has stood the test of time 00:09:59.250 --> 00:10:05.409 and the test of the critics. We have no fanaticism. 00:10:06.529 --> 00:10:11.830 None whatsoever. No one can... ever accuse me 00:10:11.830 --> 00:10:15.210 of being fanatical or can speak the word of truth 00:10:15.210 --> 00:10:20.769 and say this ministry is a fanatical ministry. 00:10:21.610 --> 00:10:27.629 You attend the services. Nothing is unseemly. 00:10:29.190 --> 00:10:34.450 It is done according to God's word, His scripture. 00:10:35.370 --> 00:10:39.799 And it should be so because the foundation of 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:45.480 this ministry is God's Word. Therefore, when 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:47.659 we come to the speaking in an unknown tongue, 00:10:47.779 --> 00:10:52.759 remember, it's in the Word of God. The Bible 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:56.480 teaches it. And the speaking without the tongues 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:00.799 is the supernatural experience which characterizes 00:11:00.799 --> 00:11:05.019 the Pentecostal movement of today all over the 00:11:05.019 --> 00:11:14.190 world. Not just here in the United States, but 00:11:14.190 --> 00:11:19.669 all over the world. You can say, but I don't 00:11:19.669 --> 00:11:24.330 believe it. I can't accept it. That's all right. 00:11:25.889 --> 00:11:29.789 Whatever you think or believe will not stop the 00:11:29.789 --> 00:11:34.669 Holy Spirit. He just continues baptizing believers. 00:11:36.570 --> 00:11:42.129 filling believers, and thousands will continue 00:11:42.129 --> 00:11:47.149 to speak in an unknown tongue. Because it's something 00:11:47.149 --> 00:11:50.250 that's supernatural. It's the power of the Holy 00:11:50.250 --> 00:11:56.990 Spirit. For so long, we were afraid of that word 00:11:56.990 --> 00:12:03.490 Pentecostal. Oh, it was easy to accept anything 00:12:03.490 --> 00:12:07.240 that was done on the day of Pentecost. And millions 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:14.120 observe the day of Pentecost. But what millions 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:18.759 have not accepted is the fact that we are still 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:23.860 living in the day of Pentecost. Everything that 00:12:23.860 --> 00:12:28.120 happened on the day of Pentecost should be happening 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:30.860 in every church in the world at this very hour. 00:12:32.179 --> 00:12:41.460 The coldness, the... The lack of power in many 00:12:41.460 --> 00:12:47.320 of our churches today is the unnatural and not 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:49.940 the natural. For wherever you find the Holy Spirit, 00:12:50.100 --> 00:12:55.679 you'll find action. You'll find the supernatural 00:12:55.679 --> 00:13:00.100 manifestation of the mighty third person of the 00:13:00.100 --> 00:13:06.669 Trinity. And now the word... Pentecostal is not 00:13:06.669 --> 00:13:13.830 a word that one whispers, but very boldly. You'll 00:13:13.830 --> 00:13:18.250 find Catholic priests saying, I am a Pentecostal 00:13:18.250 --> 00:13:24.590 Catholic priest. You'll find a Baptist minister 00:13:24.590 --> 00:13:28.789 saying, I am a Pentecostal Baptist minister. 00:13:32.059 --> 00:13:36.840 Oh, those wonderful Pentecostal Lutheran ministers, 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:43.259 you know? It's glorious. And thousands around 00:13:43.259 --> 00:13:48.220 the world are enjoying the Pentecostal experience. 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:55.480 Speaking in an unknown tongue. But remember something. 00:13:56.250 --> 00:14:00.610 Speaking in an unknown tongue has nothing to 00:14:00.610 --> 00:14:04.350 do whatsoever with one's experience of justification. 00:14:06.230 --> 00:14:09.669 It is the blood that maketh an atonement for 00:14:09.669 --> 00:14:20.149 the soul. I want to repeat it. It is the shed 00:14:20.149 --> 00:14:25.409 blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son. That makes 00:14:25.409 --> 00:14:29.009 us an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ 00:14:29.009 --> 00:14:33.549 Jesus. If your sins are covered with the blood, 00:14:33.710 --> 00:14:37.429 if you have accepted the Christ in the forgiveness 00:14:37.429 --> 00:14:42.269 of your sins, accepting him as absolute deity 00:14:42.269 --> 00:14:46.870 and divinity, whether you've ever spoken in an 00:14:46.870 --> 00:14:52.950 unknown tongue or not, when the old heart takes 00:14:52.950 --> 00:14:58.090 its last beat, and your soul goes all the way 00:14:58.090 --> 00:15:03.269 from earth to glory, you will stand in the wonderful 00:15:03.269 --> 00:15:07.009 presence of the great high priest, your Christ, 00:15:07.090 --> 00:15:16.730 your Redeemer. No. The Holy Spirit. That wonderful 00:15:16.730 --> 00:15:19.309 experience, call it the baptism with the Holy 00:15:19.309 --> 00:15:24.370 Spirit. I think that is the most scriptural. 00:15:25.049 --> 00:15:28.970 term to use. The experience that they received 00:15:28.970 --> 00:15:34.590 on the day of Pentecost, when they were all filled 00:15:34.590 --> 00:15:39.950 with the Holy Spirit, immersed in the Spirit. 00:15:40.350 --> 00:15:44.870 Remember, the Holy Spirit was not given for our 00:15:44.870 --> 00:15:49.269 justification. Jesus is the one who perfected 00:15:49.269 --> 00:15:52.590 our justification. But this wonderful experience 00:15:52.590 --> 00:15:57.789 that we call The baptism of the Holy Spirit is 00:15:57.789 --> 00:16:02.570 given for one purpose and one purpose only, and 00:16:02.570 --> 00:16:09.409 that's for power for service. And just before 00:16:09.409 --> 00:16:13.669 Jesus went away, he did not leave this message 00:16:13.669 --> 00:16:17.470 for someone else to give. He gave it himself. 00:16:19.350 --> 00:16:24.850 When he said, and ye shall receive power, However, 00:16:24.870 --> 00:16:30.730 after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and 00:16:30.730 --> 00:16:33.610 the greatest evidence of having been filled with 00:16:33.610 --> 00:16:36.250 the Holy Spirit, the greatest evidence there 00:16:36.250 --> 00:16:40.350 is as to whether or not one has been immersed 00:16:40.350 --> 00:16:45.049 with the Holy Spirit, the greatest scriptural 00:16:45.049 --> 00:16:50.870 evidence that there is regarding the filling 00:16:50.870 --> 00:16:57.370 of the Holy Spirit power in an individual's life 00:16:57.370 --> 00:17:06.349 after this experience. You may speak in tongues 00:17:06.349 --> 00:17:12.849 every hour on the hour, but my friend, if your 00:17:12.849 --> 00:17:17.089 life isn't measuring up with the power of the 00:17:17.089 --> 00:17:21.630 Holy Ghost, then I wouldn't give you much for 00:17:21.630 --> 00:17:26.910 your experience. of speaking in an unknown tongue. 00:17:28.390 --> 00:17:36.490 And it's just like that. The eleventh question. 00:17:37.970 --> 00:17:42.869 Do you feel that you have the gift of healing? 00:17:44.029 --> 00:17:50.509 What gift do you have? No one has ever heard 00:17:50.509 --> 00:17:59.170 Catherine Kuhlman. say that she had one or more 00:17:59.170 --> 00:18:06.029 than one of the gifts of the spirit. I'm always 00:18:06.029 --> 00:18:11.549 afraid of the folk who boast of having received 00:18:11.549 --> 00:18:17.369 the gift of the spirit. I've come in contact 00:18:17.369 --> 00:18:20.130 with those who very boldly stood before me and 00:18:20.130 --> 00:18:26.039 say, you know, I have all of the gifts of the 00:18:26.039 --> 00:18:33.480 spirit. And they say it as though they felt they 00:18:33.480 --> 00:18:39.779 had arrived. And there was nothing more for them. 00:18:41.299 --> 00:18:45.460 I'm always a little leery, a little skeptical 00:18:45.460 --> 00:18:52.230 of those folk. Because... The greatest of all 00:18:52.230 --> 00:18:58.369 Christian graces is humility. And when one has 00:18:58.369 --> 00:19:01.650 been filled with the Holy Spirit, when one is 00:19:01.650 --> 00:19:07.289 controlled by the Holy Spirit, and if one has 00:19:07.289 --> 00:19:10.089 received a gift or more than one gift of the 00:19:10.089 --> 00:19:14.769 Holy Spirit, that one will never be boastful. 00:19:15.450 --> 00:19:20.430 Never. And I'm always afraid of a boastful... 00:19:22.839 --> 00:19:31.420 I would not say that I have received a gift or 00:19:31.420 --> 00:19:35.740 that I have anything special. All that I know 00:19:35.740 --> 00:19:41.579 is that I have yielded my body to Him to be filled 00:19:41.579 --> 00:19:47.720 with the Holy Spirit. I have surrendered myself 00:19:47.720 --> 00:19:55.619 to Him. My life is no longer my own. He possesses 00:19:55.619 --> 00:20:00.500 me, body, soul, and spirit. And anything that 00:20:00.500 --> 00:20:07.299 the Holy Spirit has given me, anything, anything 00:20:07.299 --> 00:20:13.000 that He does through me, any results that there 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:20.250 might be through this life of mine, It's not 00:20:20.250 --> 00:20:28.430 Catherine Coleman. It's the Holy Spirit. If he 00:20:28.430 --> 00:20:33.970 has given me something very special, it is still 00:20:33.970 --> 00:20:40.349 not Catherine Coleman. It's still what the Holy 00:20:40.349 --> 00:20:45.430 Spirit does through a yielded vessel. That's 00:20:45.430 --> 00:20:47.609 the reason we must be so very careful to give 00:20:47.609 --> 00:20:50.009 Him the praise and the glory for everything the 00:20:50.009 --> 00:20:57.769 Holy Spirit does. That is one thing I am so afraid 00:20:57.769 --> 00:21:02.670 of. I'm afraid lest I grieve the Holy Spirit, 00:21:02.769 --> 00:21:07.309 for when the Holy Spirit is lifted from me, I 00:21:07.309 --> 00:21:09.450 am the most ordinary person that ever lived. 00:21:10.269 --> 00:21:13.049 There's no woman living today more ordinary. 00:21:14.599 --> 00:21:17.640 than Catherine Coleman. I know that better than 00:21:17.640 --> 00:21:24.160 anyone else. I would not boast of something special. 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:32.039 I would not boast of a gift. But I can tell you 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:38.799 what the Holy Spirit does. And I vow to be careful 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:42.440 to give God all the praise and all the glory. 00:21:44.509 --> 00:21:45.950 everything he does.