WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:07.669 You know, I have a very decided dislike for negative 00:00:07.669 --> 00:00:13.109 preaching. And I mean just exactly that. Those 00:00:13.109 --> 00:00:15.789 of you who follow this ministry will have to 00:00:15.789 --> 00:00:22.269 agree that very few times do I ever bring anything 00:00:22.269 --> 00:00:26.250 negative in any of our little heart -to -heart 00:00:26.250 --> 00:00:32.000 talks or in my preaching. Oh, sure, my friend. 00:00:33.179 --> 00:00:36.859 I believe in hell with every atom of my being. 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:40.979 As surely as there is a heaven, there's a hell. 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:47.539 The Bible teaches it. We've got to believe in 00:00:47.539 --> 00:00:53.299 it. But instead of preaching about hell, I'd 00:00:53.299 --> 00:00:58.840 rather point men and women to heaven. The positive. 00:01:01.450 --> 00:01:05.609 There have been literally hundreds and hundreds 00:01:05.609 --> 00:01:07.849 of men and women who have been delivered from 00:01:07.849 --> 00:01:12.989 liquor to this ministry. And yet, I dare say 00:01:12.989 --> 00:01:16.769 that there is not one person who can bear witness 00:01:16.769 --> 00:01:20.829 that Catherine Kuhlman has ever preached a sermon 00:01:20.829 --> 00:01:26.909 against liquor. Not a man who has been delivered 00:01:26.909 --> 00:01:30.819 from liquor to this ministry. can say that it 00:01:30.819 --> 00:01:35.140 was some sermon that I preached against liquor 00:01:35.140 --> 00:01:40.120 that brought him to the Lord Jesus Christ or 00:01:40.120 --> 00:01:47.439 that made him aware of his drinking. No. I have 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:53.000 always felt that if I preach the positive and 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:58.969 lifting up Jesus is the positive, And when we 00:01:58.969 --> 00:02:03.890 preach the positive and we get that new birth 00:02:03.890 --> 00:02:08.150 experience, then these other things will just 00:02:08.150 --> 00:02:12.710 naturally fall off and we become a new creature 00:02:12.710 --> 00:02:18.650 in Christ Jesus. There have been literally hundreds, 00:02:19.030 --> 00:02:24.789 and I say that conservatively, many women who 00:02:24.789 --> 00:02:28.330 have been delivered from smoking. in his ministry. 00:02:28.469 --> 00:02:33.210 And yet, I have never made an issue at any time 00:02:33.210 --> 00:02:39.330 regarding smoking. And I resent it when I see 00:02:39.330 --> 00:02:46.370 folk who make a big issue over smoking when it 00:02:46.370 --> 00:02:53.669 comes to a new born again child of God. And they'll 00:02:53.669 --> 00:02:55.430 point an accusing thing at that one and say, 00:02:55.509 --> 00:03:01.009 if you've really been born again, you won't touch 00:03:01.009 --> 00:03:07.370 that old cigarette. I say, my friend, you left 00:03:07.370 --> 00:03:15.689 that young convert alone. The Holy Spirit has 00:03:15.689 --> 00:03:20.810 convicted him of his sin. Jesus has bought... 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:26.659 given him his sin. Now let the Holy Spirit do 00:03:26.659 --> 00:03:34.219 the rest of the work. And the Holy Spirit will 00:03:34.219 --> 00:03:42.219 reveal to that one the deliverance there is in 00:03:42.219 --> 00:03:48.360 Christ Jesus. And it's just like that. Now, I'm 00:03:48.360 --> 00:03:55.800 only telling you my conviction. I repeat, I have 00:03:55.800 --> 00:04:00.280 a very decided dislike for negative preaching. 00:04:02.139 --> 00:04:04.659 There's some preaches that all they can talk 00:04:04.659 --> 00:04:08.340 about every time you go to church. It's against 00:04:08.340 --> 00:04:13.340 everything. Against a certain kind of dress. 00:04:13.979 --> 00:04:20.389 Against the way a woman should look against the 00:04:20.389 --> 00:04:25.730 way a woman should wear her hair. Now, all these 00:04:25.730 --> 00:04:31.569 things, I know these things are very much involved. 00:04:31.670 --> 00:04:37.269 I know it. I agree with you. But I still contend 00:04:37.269 --> 00:04:42.769 that when you get the heart changed, all these 00:04:42.769 --> 00:04:47.500 things must begin on the inside. And when it 00:04:47.500 --> 00:04:51.060 begins with in, then the outside will be taken 00:04:51.060 --> 00:04:57.079 care of too. You see what I mean? It's not sufficient 00:04:57.079 --> 00:05:04.779 for a preacher or a speaker or an author to discuss 00:05:04.779 --> 00:05:13.839 the disease. That's not enough for me. To satisfy 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:17.699 my soul and my mind, he must give me the cure. 00:05:18.199 --> 00:05:21.339 Oh, we've got a lot of politicians running around 00:05:21.339 --> 00:05:26.079 today who's telling us everything that's wrong 00:05:26.079 --> 00:05:30.100 with the world. Everything that's wrong with 00:05:30.100 --> 00:05:33.259 our government. Everything that's wrong with 00:05:33.259 --> 00:05:35.459 the Democrats. Everything that's wrong with the 00:05:35.459 --> 00:05:40.660 Republicans. There's... Bouting off on television, 00:05:40.980 --> 00:05:45.120 the radio. Every time they'll get in somebody's 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:49.360 ear, they talk about everything that's going 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:54.959 with the world. Sure, we all know it. Every American 00:05:54.959 --> 00:06:00.279 living knows that things are wrong. Things are 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:06.300 going badly. I want to listen to the person who 00:06:06.300 --> 00:06:12.519 will give me a kiss. cure for the thing. Not 00:06:12.519 --> 00:06:16.779 the negative. Anybody can stand on a soapbox 00:06:16.779 --> 00:06:20.220 and tell the world what's wrong with it. Any 00:06:20.220 --> 00:06:26.019 politician can get up on a soapbox and tell the 00:06:26.019 --> 00:06:30.360 whole world what's wrong with the condition today. 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:35.120 There it is, hubby. I'm waiting for the person 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:42.300 to come and Tell me how to right the things that 00:06:42.300 --> 00:06:47.600 are wrong. To give me an answer. Give us a solution. 00:06:49.860 --> 00:06:55.600 You see that? Oh, there's so much popping off 00:06:55.600 --> 00:07:03.800 these days. And so few people who come up with 00:07:03.800 --> 00:07:08.870 the cure. It's the easiest thing in the world 00:07:08.870 --> 00:07:14.170 to point out what's wrong. But I want to know 00:07:14.170 --> 00:07:21.269 what is right. Sometimes that's a little more 00:07:21.269 --> 00:07:26.350 difficult than one would suppose. However, when 00:07:26.350 --> 00:07:32.939 at last, Arm's mistakes had been rectified. and 00:07:32.939 --> 00:07:36.300 we're back on the path of truth, it may be that 00:07:36.300 --> 00:07:40.879 in the providence of God, the wrong trail will 00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:45.180 leave us a heritage of blessing. Think it over 00:07:45.180 --> 00:07:51.620 for a moment. To know that you're on the right 00:07:51.620 --> 00:07:56.420 road is a fine thing, but to return to it after 00:07:56.420 --> 00:08:01.800 being on the wrong one multiplies its blessing. 00:08:03.500 --> 00:08:09.579 And it's the big person who will say, I have 00:08:09.579 --> 00:08:17.240 been on the wrong road for a long time. I will 00:08:17.240 --> 00:08:22.600 now come back to the right road. It's after the 00:08:22.600 --> 00:08:26.860 rain that we appreciate the sunshine. After the 00:08:26.860 --> 00:08:30.600 cold and icy blasts of winter that we appreciate 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.490 the bursting buds. the delicate green of the 00:08:33.490 --> 00:08:38.090 early spring. Us Phyllistan clouds, we appreciate 00:08:38.090 --> 00:08:45.429 the calm of a blue sky. And it's just like that. 00:08:47.309 --> 00:08:52.970 And the thing above all else that I want you 00:08:52.970 --> 00:08:59.470 to see is that you cannot generate this thing 00:08:59.470 --> 00:09:05.139 that's called... And there had been thousands 00:09:05.139 --> 00:09:09.379 of sermons preached on faith. There had been 00:09:09.379 --> 00:09:15.259 volumes, literally volumes, written on faith. 00:09:15.879 --> 00:09:22.419 You have your idea of faith. I have my idea of 00:09:22.419 --> 00:09:27.779 faith. Our ideas of faith may not be the same. 00:09:28.139 --> 00:09:30.080 And as you well know if you've been following 00:09:30.080 --> 00:09:34.350 this ministry, I say very little about faith, 00:09:34.509 --> 00:09:39.029 even though this is a faith ministry. And you 00:09:39.029 --> 00:09:42.389 will probably see more faith exercised in this 00:09:42.389 --> 00:09:49.429 ministry than in many ministries. And yet, I 00:09:49.429 --> 00:09:52.870 say so very little about faith, because I still 00:09:52.870 --> 00:09:58.490 contend that you really can't analyze faith. 00:10:00.250 --> 00:10:05.230 You really can't tell another what faith is. 00:10:06.769 --> 00:10:11.690 It's something that's so indefinable. When I 00:10:11.690 --> 00:10:15.990 put it all in a nutshell, as I told you before, 00:10:16.629 --> 00:10:23.009 Jesus is our faith. So I'm going to ask you in 00:10:23.009 --> 00:10:25.929 this little heart -to -heart talk, Whatever your 00:10:25.929 --> 00:10:28.230 preconceived ideas had been regarding faith, 00:10:28.389 --> 00:10:32.850 will you just sit there with an open heart and 00:10:32.850 --> 00:10:36.730 an open mind? And maybe you'll find out that 00:10:36.730 --> 00:10:40.710 you have been on the wrong road regarding this 00:10:40.710 --> 00:10:45.509 thing of faith for lo many years. You'll be a 00:10:45.509 --> 00:10:49.909 big person when you will admit that you have 00:10:49.909 --> 00:10:55.679 been on the wrong road and you'll... Come and 00:10:55.679 --> 00:11:03.039 travel the right road. I repeat, the thing above 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:08.500 all else that I want you to see in the heart 00:11:08.500 --> 00:11:12.159 -to -heart talk is the fact that you absolutely 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:18.620 cannot generate faith. You cannot work it out. 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:25.639 You cannot manufacture it. It is impossible for 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:33.580 you to manufacture faith. It is imparted and 00:11:33.580 --> 00:11:42.759 infused by God himself. It must be given you 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:47.799 by the Holy Spirit. It is literally something 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:55.019 that must come from God. I still think it is 00:11:55.019 --> 00:11:58.679 something that is so simple that most folks miss 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:04.860 it, and yet it's supernatural. You cannot sit 00:12:04.860 --> 00:12:09.600 in your homes and struggle to have faith and 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:15.980 affirm that something is. Nor can you turn your 00:12:15.980 --> 00:12:18.899 hope and desire into faith. By your own power, 00:12:19.019 --> 00:12:21.820 you can't do it. See, that's one of the things 00:12:21.820 --> 00:12:25.240 that has brought such reproach on divine healing. 00:12:27.220 --> 00:12:34.840 Somebody says, I was healed of a tumor. And yet, 00:12:34.940 --> 00:12:42.379 the tumor is there. It's just there. You say, 00:12:42.440 --> 00:12:47.240 well, it's there. Oh, I know it's still there, 00:12:47.320 --> 00:12:53.080 but by... space, I've taken the healing for that 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:59.700 tumor. But any intelligent person will say, but 00:12:59.700 --> 00:13:02.019 how can you say that you're healed when it's 00:13:02.019 --> 00:13:12.139 still there? I still contend, my friend, that 00:13:12.139 --> 00:13:17.220 if you're healed of a tumor by the power of God, 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:24.279 that Tumor will not be there. Faith isn't something 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.440 that you can just close your eyes and say, it 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:32.279 isn't there. I'm not going to acknowledge it. 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:36.159 I'm going to act like it never happened. And 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:38.639 you close your eyes. Well, everybody else has 00:13:38.639 --> 00:13:43.519 their eyes open. You're the only one who has 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:48.080 your eyes closed. Everybody else can see. You 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:51.279 absolutely cannot sit there in your homes and 00:13:51.279 --> 00:13:55.559 struggle to have faith and affirm that something 00:13:55.559 --> 00:14:01.059 is when it isn't. Nor can you turn your hope 00:14:01.059 --> 00:14:04.200 and desire into faith by your own power. You 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:06.919 can't do it. You can't just say, now I'm going 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:13.240 to have faith. It doesn't work that way. The 00:14:13.240 --> 00:14:18.580 only place you can get it is from the Lord. For 00:14:18.580 --> 00:14:21.659 the word clearly and distinctly and definitely 00:14:21.659 --> 00:14:27.320 states that faith is one of two things. It's 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:31.899 either a gift of God or of fruit of the Spirit. 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:36.240 And we're told in Paul's epistle to the Corinthians, 00:14:36.620 --> 00:14:42.779 Now abideth faith, hope, and love. But the greatest 00:14:42.779 --> 00:14:49.190 of these is love. While love might be the greatest, 00:14:49.470 --> 00:14:54.590 it certainly is not the first. It must be preceded 00:14:54.590 --> 00:14:58.769 by faith. Let me give you an example. Look out 00:14:58.769 --> 00:15:02.649 of your window at the tree on the outside. Oh, 00:15:02.690 --> 00:15:06.190 what a thing of loveliness it is. That's right, 00:15:06.250 --> 00:15:11.669 literally. Look out of your window. See that 00:15:11.669 --> 00:15:14.830 tree out there? It's lovely. It's beautiful. 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:21.399 only god can make a tree that's what i like to 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:25.659 say to the old infidel all right you have no 00:15:25.659 --> 00:15:33.460 faith in a god higher power only god can make 00:15:33.460 --> 00:15:41.679 a tree only god can make a human hand four fingers 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:48.090 one thumb If you're so smart and you try to do 00:15:48.090 --> 00:15:52.370 away with the deity and divinity and the existence 00:15:52.370 --> 00:15:57.750 of God Almighty, just take your hand out of your 00:15:57.750 --> 00:16:01.710 pocket and look at those four fingers and one 00:16:01.710 --> 00:16:05.330 thumb. If you should lose that hand, all the 00:16:05.330 --> 00:16:09.669 wealth in the world could never buy you a new 00:16:09.669 --> 00:16:14.100 one. You can buy most everything else, but when 00:16:14.100 --> 00:16:21.759 you lose a limb, when you lose a hand, only God 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:28.279 can create that hand, that limb of your body. 00:16:30.220 --> 00:16:36.259 Look out of your window. Only God can make a 00:16:36.259 --> 00:16:40.879 tree. Beauty in its twisted branches. There's 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:45.220 loveliness in its trembling leaves. Every leaf 00:16:45.220 --> 00:16:48.960 of the little world unto itself. With its tiny 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:52.419 little veins carrying the life that God supplies. 00:16:53.460 --> 00:16:58.360 That gives it all that it possesses in its native 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:02.559 realm. Yet there is something back of the tree. 00:17:04.119 --> 00:17:07.970 Beneath. the surface of the ground, there is 00:17:07.970 --> 00:17:16.549 a great system of roots. You will never behold 00:17:16.549 --> 00:17:20.009 them. Even while you're looking at the tree at 00:17:20.009 --> 00:17:23.329 this very moment. You see the beauty of the tree. 00:17:23.450 --> 00:17:28.470 You see the leaves. But you are not looking at 00:17:28.470 --> 00:17:35.210 the roots. But without those roots, tree would 00:17:35.210 --> 00:17:40.710 die. It would have no life at all. The roots 00:17:40.710 --> 00:17:44.930 are ugly. They're hard in comparison to the beautiful 00:17:44.930 --> 00:17:49.730 greenery above the ground. Yet, the greenery 00:17:49.730 --> 00:17:54.210 is there partly because of those roots. Now, 00:17:54.269 --> 00:17:58.089 let us call the top of the tree love. You can 00:17:58.089 --> 00:18:02.769 see it. You can contact it. You can enjoy its 00:18:02.769 --> 00:18:06.690 fragrance. You behold this beauty. It is there 00:18:06.690 --> 00:18:09.670 because of something that is back of it. Something 00:18:09.670 --> 00:18:14.230 that is hidden away that causes it. They are 00:18:14.230 --> 00:18:19.750 the roots. Now you expect me to say that those 00:18:19.750 --> 00:18:25.990 roots are the roots of faith. No. Faith is the 00:18:25.990 --> 00:18:32.960 light that flows into the roots. It is that mystical 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:36.180 quality that only God can produce, that only 00:18:36.180 --> 00:18:41.200 God can give. There are roots that you could 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:47.240 plant and they will never, never grow. You yourself 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:53.640 and your inner nature are those roots. Your senses, 00:18:53.779 --> 00:18:56.500 your avenues of approach to the expressions of 00:18:56.500 --> 00:19:00.759 life itself are buried below the surface where 00:19:01.049 --> 00:19:11.950 People cannot see them. I am a different person 00:19:11.950 --> 00:19:17.450 than probably thousands and thousands of people 00:19:17.450 --> 00:19:25.009 know. You see me as I stand on the stage. You 00:19:25.009 --> 00:19:31.029 visualize me as I am speaking to you now. But 00:19:31.029 --> 00:19:38.630 inside of me, the real me, the me that God knows, 00:19:39.009 --> 00:19:46.109 inside of me, you've got to be a good person 00:19:46.109 --> 00:19:52.009 on the inside of you before you'll be a good 00:19:52.009 --> 00:19:58.869 person in extending your love. It's like that. 00:20:01.349 --> 00:20:04.130 Do you want to know why some people are bad in 00:20:04.130 --> 00:20:08.369 their actions? Because they're bad on the inside. 00:20:10.630 --> 00:20:15.009 Because they're mean on the inside. Your senses, 00:20:15.410 --> 00:20:18.490 your avenues of approach to the expressions of 00:20:18.490 --> 00:20:22.630 life itself are buried below the surface where 00:20:22.630 --> 00:20:28.079 people cannot see them. They can only see the 00:20:28.079 --> 00:20:31.680 result. They can only see the fruit of that which 00:20:31.680 --> 00:20:39.500 is the real you inside. All the world beholds 00:20:39.500 --> 00:20:45.259 is what you produce and not you yourself. What 00:20:45.259 --> 00:20:50.819 did Jesus mean when he said, By their fruit ye 00:20:50.819 --> 00:21:02.069 shall know them? shall know them. The fruit that 00:21:02.069 --> 00:21:08.210 is produced is an index to what the tree really 00:21:08.210 --> 00:21:12.990 is. Let me repeat something that's vitally important. 00:21:13.890 --> 00:21:20.029 The roots of the tree are not faith. The tree 00:21:20.029 --> 00:21:27.279 can grow its own roots. but it cannot grow its 00:21:27.279 --> 00:21:31.880 own life. And what I mean by that is just this, 00:21:32.099 --> 00:21:36.559 that the roots do not produce the life, but the 00:21:36.559 --> 00:21:43.519 life produces the roots. It is the life that 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:47.319 is the faith. It's that wonderful and glorious 00:21:47.319 --> 00:21:53.460 quality that is of gift. of the divine heart 00:21:53.460 --> 00:21:55.799 that flows into us when we need it and for the 00:21:55.799 --> 00:22:00.880 purpose that this life will be manifest. And 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:05.339 manifest to the world by the fruit we bear, by 00:22:05.339 --> 00:22:08.859 the arms of love outstretched, by the things 00:22:08.859 --> 00:22:11.480 of grace and beauty that through God we grow 00:22:11.480 --> 00:22:16.779 day by day on the tree of our lives. How foolish 00:22:16.779 --> 00:22:20.509 it would be for that tree to... in an attempt 00:22:20.509 --> 00:22:24.710 to create the life that flows into it. It need 00:22:24.710 --> 00:22:30.650 not struggle. It does not struggle. All it has 00:22:30.650 --> 00:22:37.170 to do is to drink it in. All it needs to do is 00:22:37.170 --> 00:22:42.069 to function in obedience to the laws divine. 00:22:42.970 --> 00:22:49.859 And if the life is there, It simply has to manifest 00:22:49.859 --> 00:22:56.019 that life in the fruit that it bears and the 00:22:56.019 --> 00:23:05.500 beauty with which it gives to the world. And 00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:11.880 for me to live is Christ, and Christ is love.