WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.919 Underneath all of those uncertainties of life 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:12.960 is Jesus. And you do not have to be defeated 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:21.219 on a single score. No matter what those difficulties 00:00:21.219 --> 00:00:25.800 are, no matter how deep those waters, they'll 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:30.399 never overflow. You'll never have to go down 00:00:30.399 --> 00:00:37.259 in defeat. Never. As long as your faith in God 00:00:37.259 --> 00:00:43.799 and in his word and his promises is still intact, 00:00:44.539 --> 00:00:50.719 he'll hear the cry of your heart. You and I are 00:00:50.719 --> 00:00:57.299 not only conquerors, we're more than conquerors. 00:00:58.159 --> 00:01:04.359 through Christ Jesus, who loves us. Well, today 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:07.060 again, for a few minutes, we're going to continue 00:01:07.060 --> 00:01:12.739 our heart -to -heart talk regarding the 13th 00:01:12.739 --> 00:01:19.700 chapter of 1 Corinthians. And I would like to 00:01:19.700 --> 00:01:22.140 do nothing better than to just spend an entire 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:25.799 week just talking to you about the wonderful 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:32.930 deep... in this one chapter. Again, I say that 00:01:32.930 --> 00:01:35.530 you and I cannot understand the 14th chapter 00:01:35.530 --> 00:01:40.650 of 1 Corinthians until after we have a clear 00:01:40.650 --> 00:01:46.810 understanding of this 13th chapter. Oh, I know. 00:01:47.790 --> 00:01:51.709 Somebody says, Catherine Kuhlman, are you going 00:01:51.709 --> 00:01:53.670 to go into the 14th chapter of 1 Corinthians? 00:01:53.790 --> 00:02:01.750 I certainly am. Because the 14th chapter is the 00:02:01.750 --> 00:02:10.310 basic chapter on tongues. And you cannot understand 00:02:10.310 --> 00:02:15.930 the 14th chapter until, first of all, you have 00:02:15.930 --> 00:02:21.409 a clear understanding of this wonderful chapter 00:02:21.409 --> 00:02:26.610 on love. First of all, I'm going to do something 00:02:26.610 --> 00:02:29.729 today because I feel it is vitally important. 00:02:30.990 --> 00:02:36.770 I know that in this 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians, 00:02:37.069 --> 00:02:42.090 there's a verse that literally hundreds of ministers 00:02:42.090 --> 00:02:48.289 use, and it's quoted very often by those who 00:02:48.289 --> 00:02:52.729 do not believe in speaking in an unknown tongue. 00:02:55.710 --> 00:02:59.949 is the only scripture that they can use to back 00:02:59.949 --> 00:03:07.110 up their theology that we are no longer to see 00:03:07.110 --> 00:03:10.110 the manifestation of the Holy Spirit in the speaking 00:03:10.110 --> 00:03:15.669 in an unknown tongue. Right now, I want to go 00:03:15.669 --> 00:03:22.550 on record as saying that I am as Pentecostal 00:03:22.550 --> 00:03:29.240 as the Word of God. I'm not as Pentecostal as 00:03:29.240 --> 00:03:36.379 some people are Pentecostal. Not in that sense. 00:03:37.960 --> 00:03:43.479 I'm as Pentecostal as they were in the early 00:03:43.479 --> 00:03:48.780 church. I'm as Pentecostal as the word of God. 00:03:51.949 --> 00:03:55.590 Somebody says, what a letdown. Catherine Kuhlman, 00:03:55.650 --> 00:04:01.949 I thought you were sane and sensible. Reserved. 00:04:02.810 --> 00:04:12.909 My friend, the Holy Spirit is always sane and 00:04:12.909 --> 00:04:23.180 sensible. And anything that he does, I can accept. 00:04:24.740 --> 00:04:29.220 And I must accept the speaking in an unknown 00:04:29.220 --> 00:04:34.040 tongue because the Bible teaches it. It's there. 00:04:34.120 --> 00:04:38.519 It's in the Word of God. I could not tell you 00:04:38.519 --> 00:04:42.120 that I believed in the Word and that I believed 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:46.139 everything that God's Word said and then turn 00:04:46.139 --> 00:04:50.040 around and say that I do not believe. in the 00:04:50.040 --> 00:04:54.740 speaking in an unknown tongue. I'll go one step 00:04:54.740 --> 00:04:57.699 further since we've been discussing this thing 00:04:57.699 --> 00:05:00.540 and I will probably be saying something more 00:05:00.540 --> 00:05:03.899 about it as we enter into the 14th chapter of 00:05:03.899 --> 00:05:10.160 1 Corinthians in the future. This is it. I do 00:05:10.160 --> 00:05:16.399 not believe that everyone who speaks in an unknown 00:05:16.399 --> 00:05:20.449 tongue has received the baptism with the Holy 00:05:20.449 --> 00:05:26.350 Spirit. There are those who have spoken in tongues 00:05:26.350 --> 00:05:31.370 who have not been filled with the Holy Spirit. 00:05:32.149 --> 00:05:35.629 I just do that in for good measure because somebody 00:05:35.629 --> 00:05:38.750 will be writing and asking me the question anyway, 00:05:38.870 --> 00:05:40.550 so I'll just save you that trouble and answer 00:05:40.550 --> 00:05:47.230 it right now. But back again to this verse, and 00:05:47.230 --> 00:05:51.639 it's the eighth verse. Verse of the 13th chapter 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:59.899 of 1 Corinthians. Love never faileth. Oh, that's 00:05:59.899 --> 00:06:08.560 great. That's great. Sometimes I think that we 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:11.959 should not dwell so much on the 14th chapter 00:06:11.959 --> 00:06:19.759 as the 13th chapter. Sometimes I think we get 00:06:19.759 --> 00:06:24.600 our minds so filled with tongues that we have 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:31.939 forgotten Jesus. We forget the importance of 00:06:31.939 --> 00:06:37.139 love. And love is the greatest force in the world 00:06:37.139 --> 00:06:44.540 today. Love never faileth. You can depend on 00:06:44.540 --> 00:06:54.120 it. Never. Love never faileth. But whether there 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:58.959 be prophecies, they shall fail. Whether there 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:06.259 be tongues, they shall cease. Now, somebody says, 00:07:06.620 --> 00:07:11.579 I've caught you in a contradiction. It says right 00:07:11.579 --> 00:07:16.860 there, plainly, that whether there be tongues, 00:07:17.259 --> 00:07:23.819 they shall cease. Sure, I know. That's the reason 00:07:23.819 --> 00:07:29.500 I want to talk about that today. But when shall 00:07:29.500 --> 00:07:37.500 they cease? That's the big question. They did 00:07:37.500 --> 00:07:44.339 not cease when the 120 were filled. in the upper 00:07:44.339 --> 00:07:51.939 room. They did not cease at the house of Cornelius. 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:59.920 They did not cease with Peter and Paul and with 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:04.980 those in the early church. Tongues will cease. 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:09.480 There's coming a day when men and women will 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:12.769 no longer be filled with the Holy Spirit. There's 00:08:12.769 --> 00:08:15.689 coming an hour when literally the last person 00:08:15.689 --> 00:08:22.029 will be baptized with the Holy Ghost. And that 00:08:22.029 --> 00:08:28.110 hour will come when the Holy Spirit leaves this 00:08:28.110 --> 00:08:34.850 old earth. You see, we speak much of the day 00:08:34.850 --> 00:08:41.940 of Pentecost and thousands of churches. observe 00:08:41.940 --> 00:08:48.240 the day of Pentecost. But the day of Pentecost 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:53.759 did not cease in the upper room. The day of Pentecost 00:08:53.759 --> 00:08:59.759 did not cease when the 120 were filled with the 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:06.899 Holy Ghost. We are still living in the day of 00:09:06.899 --> 00:09:13.019 Pentecost. Oh, glorious fact. If only something 00:09:13.019 --> 00:09:17.759 could happen that God could open our understanding 00:09:17.759 --> 00:09:21.500 to the day and the hour in which we are living. 00:09:21.600 --> 00:09:27.840 If somehow you could just get that glorious spiritual 00:09:27.840 --> 00:09:33.440 vision of that which is ours, yours and mine. 00:09:35.080 --> 00:09:38.100 Everything that they received in the early church. 00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.620 All the gifts, all the fruits of the Spirit, 00:09:41.779 --> 00:09:47.120 all the manifestations of the Spirit are ours 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:55.399 today because the day of Pentecost has not come 00:09:55.399 --> 00:10:01.639 to a close. The day of Pentecost will not come 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:08.789 to an end until the Holy Spirit who ushered in 00:10:08.789 --> 00:10:14.970 the day of Pentecost, leaves. And he leaves when 00:10:14.970 --> 00:10:17.289 we have the great catching up. That's what the 00:10:17.289 --> 00:10:21.909 great catching up is. The Holy Spirit will leave 00:10:21.909 --> 00:10:26.370 in exactly the same way that Jesus left. When 00:10:26.370 --> 00:10:29.289 his feet left the Mount of Olives and they saw 00:10:29.289 --> 00:10:35.490 him ascend in bodily form, so also the day is 00:10:35.490 --> 00:10:38.850 coming when the Holy Spirit will leave. He too 00:10:38.850 --> 00:10:44.350 will go back from whence he came. Only when the 00:10:44.350 --> 00:10:49.210 Holy Spirit leaves, he will not go alone. He 00:10:49.210 --> 00:10:53.409 will take the church, that glorious body of believers, 00:10:53.669 --> 00:10:57.870 the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, with him. 00:10:59.769 --> 00:11:06.950 It will be at that time that... tongues will 00:11:06.950 --> 00:11:17.269 cease. For after that, there will be no longer 00:11:17.269 --> 00:11:21.190 tongues, the interpretation of tongues. There 00:11:21.190 --> 00:11:24.730 will no longer be the gifts and the fruits of 00:11:24.730 --> 00:11:29.289 the Spirit. There will no longer be the baptism 00:11:29.289 --> 00:11:32.049 of the Holy Spirit, the fullness of the Holy 00:11:32.049 --> 00:11:36.759 Spirit. For he will have left. And he will have 00:11:36.759 --> 00:11:40.460 taken with him this wonderful, glorious body 00:11:40.460 --> 00:11:47.700 of Christ. And the gift that Jesus gave to the 00:11:47.700 --> 00:11:53.740 church will be taken up when the church goes. 00:11:56.080 --> 00:12:01.700 And the coming of the Holy Spirit was the gift 00:12:01.700 --> 00:12:09.100 that Jesus gave to the church. Oh, if only those 00:12:09.100 --> 00:12:16.059 who stand behind the pulpits, if only those who 00:12:16.059 --> 00:12:20.320 have been called to preach the gospel. And there 00:12:20.320 --> 00:12:24.039 are literally thousands of wonderful channels 00:12:24.039 --> 00:12:29.600 through whom the Holy Spirit wants to work. And 00:12:29.600 --> 00:12:32.080 there are literally... Thousands of these men 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:36.039 who are hungry for more of God. I know they've 00:12:36.039 --> 00:12:40.159 written to me. They've talked with me. And if 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:45.139 only they could realize that the greatest gift 00:12:45.139 --> 00:12:52.200 of that Jesus left the church was the Holy Spirit. 00:12:53.899 --> 00:12:58.039 Love is something that you do. You cannot help. 00:13:00.710 --> 00:13:06.889 giving when you love enough. It just goes hand 00:13:06.889 --> 00:13:14.710 in hand. That's why when you consecrate yourself 00:13:14.710 --> 00:13:18.509 and you give yourself completely unto Him, the 00:13:18.509 --> 00:13:23.590 first thing that you want to do is to give. When 00:13:23.590 --> 00:13:28.129 He baptizes you with His love, just automatically, 00:13:29.259 --> 00:13:36.259 Just spontaneously, you'll give. Jesus knew the 00:13:36.259 --> 00:13:39.639 secret to the power in his ministry. For remember 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:41.860 again that when Jesus walked this old earth, 00:13:41.980 --> 00:13:47.559 when he was here in the flesh, he knew, the Father 00:13:47.559 --> 00:13:54.019 knew, the Holy Ghost knew, that as one being 00:13:54.019 --> 00:13:59.409 in the flesh, He was as much man as though he 00:13:59.409 --> 00:14:03.730 were not God, even though in reality he was the 00:14:03.730 --> 00:14:09.610 very son of the living God. Yet, having taken 00:14:09.610 --> 00:14:16.250 upon himself the form of man in the flesh, he 00:14:16.250 --> 00:14:20.769 was as much man as though he were not God. How 00:14:20.769 --> 00:14:26.049 else could he be a righteous judge? How else? 00:14:26.090 --> 00:14:36.309 else could he judge man sincerely and righteously 00:14:36.309 --> 00:14:43.210 if he had not known what it was like to have 00:14:43.210 --> 00:14:48.250 been tempted? Had he never had all the feelings, 00:14:48.350 --> 00:14:55.210 all the emotions that you and I have in our everyday 00:14:55.210 --> 00:14:59.740 life? He could not be a righteous judge. He could 00:14:59.740 --> 00:15:08.659 not judge us unless he had experienced the same 00:15:08.659 --> 00:15:11.980 emotions. How often you've heard me say that 00:15:11.980 --> 00:15:16.159 no person can give to another more than he has 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:25.129 experienced. I can only give to that one in their 00:15:25.129 --> 00:15:29.950 hour of sorrow, in that hour when they're going 00:15:29.950 --> 00:15:32.370 through the deep waters and their heart is broken, 00:15:32.490 --> 00:15:40.669 I can only give to them that which I have experienced. 00:15:42.409 --> 00:15:46.210 I know what it's like to stand before an open 00:15:46.210 --> 00:15:52.850 grave. I know what it's like to come back. Home 00:15:52.850 --> 00:15:56.590 from the cemetery, and that which had been a 00:15:56.590 --> 00:16:04.370 home is just an empty house. And those feelings 00:16:04.370 --> 00:16:09.529 are just as real to me this moment as that afternoon 00:16:09.529 --> 00:16:12.549 that I returned from that little cemetery, Concordia, 00:16:12.549 --> 00:16:18.929 Missouri, and we left Papa out there. That's 00:16:18.929 --> 00:16:26.659 the reason. I can help another in their hour 00:16:26.659 --> 00:16:36.759 of sorrow. It isn't what I say. It's what I can 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:45.120 give to them through my love for them. And sincere 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:47.240 love comes through. I don't care what you say. 00:16:47.340 --> 00:16:54.840 I don't care what you say. His love. Sincere 00:16:54.840 --> 00:16:59.940 love comes through and you cannot counterfeit 00:16:59.940 --> 00:17:06.980 it. It isn't what one says. It doesn't necessarily 00:17:06.980 --> 00:17:13.180 have to be what one does. It's what you feel. 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:27.170 And it's just. And one of these days, beloved, 00:17:27.390 --> 00:17:33.369 you and I are going to fully realize all that 00:17:33.369 --> 00:17:39.809 could have been ours if only we had fully known. 00:17:42.410 --> 00:17:46.650 For the secret of the power in the ministry of 00:17:46.650 --> 00:17:55.460 Jesus was the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit. He 00:17:55.460 --> 00:18:00.980 was his glorious strengthener. Those great healings 00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:06.599 during the ministry of Jesus was the power of 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:15.559 the Holy Ghost. In that hour of temptation, who 00:18:15.559 --> 00:18:23.079 was his strengthener? The Holy Spirit. That is 00:18:23.079 --> 00:18:25.180 the reason that just before Jesus went away, 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:29.299 the greatest words that he could have spoken 00:18:29.299 --> 00:18:35.819 were in those words when he told us, and ye shall 00:18:35.819 --> 00:18:38.460 receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come 00:18:38.460 --> 00:18:44.500 upon you. In other words, knowing that love was 00:18:44.500 --> 00:18:50.079 something that one does, and you can't love without 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:56.640 giving. Jesus wanted to give his own, his church, 00:18:56.900 --> 00:19:04.180 the greatest gift possible. And knowing what 00:19:04.180 --> 00:19:06.799 the Holy Spirit had done for him, and knowing 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:10.559 the power of the Holy Spirit, and knowing that 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:13.779 there could be no defeat in the Holy Spirit, 00:19:14.019 --> 00:19:21.690 he looked up and said, Dearly beloved, Those 00:19:21.690 --> 00:19:26.089 whom I love more than life itself. And he'd given 00:19:26.089 --> 00:19:33.349 proof of it. I give you the gift of the Holy 00:19:33.349 --> 00:19:39.329 Spirit. And ye shall receive power. The same 00:19:39.329 --> 00:19:42.569 power that's manifested in my ministry, in my 00:19:42.569 --> 00:19:52.140 life. I give you that gift. And he gave his church 00:19:52.140 --> 00:19:57.640 the gift of the Holy Spirit. But there are thousands 00:19:57.640 --> 00:20:02.059 and thousands who have not appropriated, who 00:20:02.059 --> 00:20:06.839 have not accepted this wonderful gift. And you 00:20:06.839 --> 00:20:16.440 never force a gift on anyone. What are you doing 00:20:16.440 --> 00:20:20.930 with that gift? Pastor, what are you doing with 00:20:20.930 --> 00:20:25.930 that gift? Little lady, what are you doing with 00:20:25.930 --> 00:20:29.890 that gift? What is the church doing with that 00:20:29.890 --> 00:20:36.670 gift? Many will not recognize it. Others are 00:20:36.670 --> 00:20:40.950 turning their back on the gift. Still others 00:20:40.950 --> 00:20:47.289 are refusing the gift. And yet, that gift is 00:20:47.710 --> 00:20:55.769 That gift is for the church as long as the church 00:20:55.769 --> 00:21:01.289 is in existence and as long as the Holy Spirit 00:21:01.289 --> 00:21:08.829 is in the world. Yes, there is coming a day, 00:21:08.890 --> 00:21:16.109 beloved, when no longer there will be prophecies. 00:21:18.059 --> 00:21:23.680 There's coming a day when tongues shall cease. 00:21:24.339 --> 00:21:27.680 They'll no longer be speaking in an unknown tongue. 00:21:28.619 --> 00:21:33.059 And whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish 00:21:33.059 --> 00:21:40.740 away. Mm -hmm. When will that day be? Why, beloved, 00:21:41.180 --> 00:21:46.400 read the rest of that chapter. when we stand 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:53.099 in his glorious presence, when that which is 00:21:53.099 --> 00:22:02.759 perfect is come, then that which is in part shall 00:22:02.759 --> 00:22:11.059 be done away. That, my friend, is the word of 00:22:11.059 --> 00:22:20.589 God. And... I personally want all that he has 00:22:20.589 --> 00:22:27.710 for me. I shall not limit him. I shall not be 00:22:27.710 --> 00:22:31.609 satisfied with his second best.