Do you know the Holy Spirit is a
colorful personality?
Oh, that Holy Spirit is so colorful.
I've learned that a long time ago.
I'm having the time of my life, I'm
working like a dog, but I enjoy every
minute of it.
Oh, He's so colorful.
He has a sense of humor, I know
that He does.
And there's joy, it's glorious, it's just wonderful.
And it's so exciting.
There's never a dull moment, never.
I didn't know this morning that I was
going to speak on the baptism of the
Holy Spirit.
Someone came up with the questions about speaking
in an unknown tongue.
And I said, well, I'll tell you what
I'll do.
In this seminar, before I leave, I'll speak
on the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
Then I'll answer that question.
He said, when?
And so, we're answering the question this morning.
And I want to say to you, please,
homiletics has nothing to do with you ministers.
Oh, remember, I'm really not a preacher, not
real.
Not really.
That's the reason when you say you don't
believe in women preachers, I don't either.
I don't either.
A woman preacher.
And I don't think anyone ever considers me
a preacher.
When you think about Kathryn Kuhlman, I don't
believe anyone ever thinks of me as a
woman preacher.
Not really.
I never think of myself as a woman
preacher.
Never.
Nobody ever refers to me as Reverend Kuhlman.
Oh, that's the funniest thing.
You never think of me in that light,
do you?
Never.
And I don't think of myself in that
light as a woman preacher.
And you don't think I am, because I
can't preach.
Or that I know that I'm somebody who
loves the Lord with all my heart.
I just love the Lord.
It's so wonderful.
And so again today, if you've come here
expecting to hear a sermon, forget all about
homiletics.
I don't even know what it means.
I'm just here talking to you about the
Lord and my own personal experiences.
And as I talk to you about my
own personal experiences and the Word of God,
all that I ask of you to do
is to sit there with an open heart
and open mind.
No matter what your preconceived ideas have been,
all that I ask of you for the
next hour is to just sit there with
an open heart and open mind.
Your theology may be changed.
And the biggest person in the world is
that somebody who will say, I was wrong.
I was wrong.
Maybe you're like the Jewish gentleman, a very
influential, perhaps one of the most influential Jewish
gentlemen in the city of Portland, Oregon.
A Mr. Stern, Jerome Stern.
Began watching our telecast.
Very influential.
He was influential in raising all the money
for the new, beautiful synagogue in Portland, Oregon.
Everybody knows Jerome Stern.
Began watching our telecast.
And then he flew to Pittsburgh.
He and his wife were on their way
to New York.
He was in the service.
After the service, he spent hours talking to
me about the Messiah.
And then he came to the Shrine of
the Lord in Los Angeles.
And this is something that he said.
After that, the Holy Spirit had revealed to
him that Jesus is the true Messiah.
Those were the most pitiful things.
He has three children.
The oldest child is his son.
A son 17, 18 years of age.
And he said to me, Miss Goldman, I
see it.
I see it all now.
I know that Jesus is the true Messiah.
But the hardest thing for me to do
right now is to call my children in,
is to look into the face of my
oldest son, for remember, they're taught to believe,
to respect the word of their parents.
And in accepting this wonderful experience, I'm going
to have to say to my son, Son,
your father was wrong all these years.
Your father was wrong all of these years.
I taught you that when Jesus came in
the flesh, he was not the true Messiah.
I have to tell you now that I
was wrong.
He was the very Son of the Living
God.
Sit there with an open heart.
I pray, wonderful Jesus, please, somehow take every
person in this place, every minister in this
place, every church leader in this place, and
just kind of turn them upside down for
one hour.
Until we shake all of our preconceived ideas
out.
And then turn us right side up again.
And let the Holy Spirit speak to our
hearts, I pray.
As little children we come, willing to be
taught.
For Jesus' sake we ask this.
Amen.
The wonderful Holy Spirit is a person.
Remember, He has all the attributes of personality.
You must consider this before you'll understand the
work of the Holy Spirit.
Before I begin on the work of the
Holy Spirit, remember something.
Never forget it.
It is the blood that maketh an atonement
for the soul.
The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son.
You and I may differ on all the
doctrinal truths.
You may not see eye-to-eye with
me when it comes to the baptism of
the Holy Spirit.
You may not see eye-to-eye with
me when it comes to divine healing.
You may not see eye-to-eye with
me when it comes to the great catching
up the wrath of the church.
The second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But if you've had that new birth experience,
if you've been born again, and you've been
born into this body of Christ, then you're
my brother and my sister.
Please, you must understand that.
Please understand it.
There are literally millions of God's precious children
who lived and died who were not baptized
with the Holy Spirit.
But they're in heaven today.
We have the Word and we must stay
with the Word.
How many understand?
Put your hands.
And don't let anyone tell you that you
have to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
This wonderful experience, the baptism of the Holy
Spirit, one of the most beautiful, the greatest
thing that can come into your life after
you've been born again.
It follows, this experience follows one's salvation, one's
conversion.
Know that.
Therefore, I must make it very clear to
you.
The baptism with the Holy Spirit has nothing
to do whatsoever with your salvation.
If you've been born again, I repeat it
to make it very clear.
That new birth experience where literally all things
have passed away and you have become a
new creature in Christ Jesus.
That's the most important experience of any individual's
life.
And the baptism of the Holy Spirit has
nothing to do with your salvation.
All right, the Holy Spirit is a person
and you must recognize this.
For He has intellect, emotion, will, all
the attributes that characterize personality.
Oh, you don't know what you're missing.
Whenever you think of the Holy Spirit as
just an influence, oh please, when you think
of the Holy Spirit as just a mystery,
you don't know what you're missing, you don't
know.
There's something about Him when you get acquainted
with Him.
When you get acquainted with Him, He becomes
a very living part of you.
And the Holy Spirit is not a new
personality just having come upon the scene.
Sometimes I think in the last days when
thousands of Roman Catholics are just becoming acquainted
with the Holy Spirit.
When literally thousands of our denomination church people,
hundreds of our ministers are just coming into
the light of the Holy Spirit, being filled
with the Holy Spirit.
We get the idea that the Holy Spirit
is just a new personality having come on
the scene.
He's not a new person.
He was there at the time of creation.
All three persons were there.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the
waters.
And whenever the word speaks of the Spirit
of God, it's the Holy Spirit.
The Old Testament saints knew of the power
of the Holy Spirit.
Oh, Moses knew of the power of the
Holy Ghost.
Read it there in Numbers, read it.
And when the Seventy were chosen, it's in
the 11th chapter of Numbers, when the Seventy
were chosen to help Moses, in the sovereign
day of God, God had not only filled
Moses with the Holy Spirit, but He also
came upon the Seventy to work with Him.
In the building of the tabernacle, God, in
His sovereign day, came upon those who helped
to build the tabernacle.
Gideon knew the Holy Spirit.
How do you think when you read the
Old Testament and the power that was on
some of these Old Testament saints?
What was it?
The secret was the power of the Holy
Ghost.
But in the Old Testament, it was the
sovereign day of God.
Not all of the Old Testament saints were
filled with the Holy Ghost.
Remember that.
Whenever they were filled with the Holy Spirit,
it was the sovereign day of God.
Joseph was filled with the Holy Spirit, and
Pharaoh recognized the power of the Holy Spirit
upon Joseph.
He was no stranger to the Old Testament
saints.
Read your Bible again in the light of
this.
It will be most revealing.
And that's what I said yesterday.
There's such a difference between religion and Christianity.
Christianity is revealing, and the Holy Spirit is
the great revealer.
The Old Testament prophets knew the power of
the Holy Ghost.
We were to call the Old Testament prophets
here in this auditorium this morning.
They could bear witness to the very power
of the one of whom I am speaking.
But always it was the sovereign day of
God.
Know that.
David knew.
How well David knew of the person of
the Holy Spirit.
David had received this wonderful experience.
I would like to know what they called
it then.
I don't think they called it the baptism
of the Holy Spirit.
I don't think they did.
They only knew it was the Holy Spirit.
That's the reason, David, the saddest cry we
have in the world of God is this
cry of David.
He cried, Take not thy Holy Spirit from
me.
Get not thy Holy Spirit from me.
The same Holy Spirit that you know, the
same Holy Spirit whose presence is here this
very hour.
I prayed that prayer ten thousand times.
Take not thy Holy Spirit from me.
Samson knew that's the reason, the word.
He wished not that the Spirit had departed
from him.
He wished not that the Holy Spirit had
departed from him.
It was the power of the Holy Ghost.
The power of the Holy Spirit in the
life of Samson.
The Holy Spirit had departed.
And he tried to get up and shake
himself this other time.
And I've seen it over and over and
over again.
And you've seen it.
And that's the tragedy.
You can say the same words.
You can go through the same action.
But when the Holy Spirit is no longer
there, when the Holy Spirit no longer does
the shaking, we have fanaticism, and we have
manifestations of the flesh.
That, my friends, is what brings me reproach
on the Holy Spirit.
You see, I love him so much.
I couldn't do without him.
I couldn't do without the Holy Spirit.
I couldn't.
I'm the most ordinary person in the world.
Is there a woman living today who's more
ordinary than the one who's standing before you
now?
I know from whence I have come.
I know.
I know from whence I have come.
A little crossroads of a town in Concordia,
Missouri.
I'm the most unlikely person in the whole
world that God would use.
I know.
I know the secret of the power in
this ministry.
I know better than anyone else.
I know that I have nothing to do
with the power of the Holy Spirit when
this wonderful power in person comes upon men
and women and they're slain.
I know that I have nothing to do
with it.
When men and women are so wonderfully healed
with the power of God, I know better
than anyone else living that I have nothing
to do with it.
I'm absolutely dependent on the power of the
Holy Spirit.
That's the reason I can hear the cry
of David when he said, Take not thy
Holy Spirit from me.
David knew the secret of his power.
And I do not want anyone to bring
a reproach on this person who means everything
in the world to me.
He's precious.
He's holy.
I can never put into audible words.
There are no words in the human vocabulary.
Because it is a heavenly language, you can't
tell it.
You can't tell it.
What this wonderful Holy Spirit means to me,
this fellowship that I have with him, this
communion that I have with him, is I
almost have a sense of perfectedness.
And I don't want anyone to bring a
reproach on this one who means so much
to me.
Don't bring a reproach on the Holy Spirit,
please.
I beg of you.
But please, so much reproach has been brought
on the Holy Spirit.
Fanaticism is a result of either ignorance and
spiritual ignorance itself.
It is disastrous.
Never, never, never act contrary to the Word
of God.
Never.
If your actions are contrary to the Word
of God, if you cannot back up your
action with the Word of God, then there's
something wrong someplace with your experience.
In other cases, the thing that brings such
reproach on this wonderful person, the Trinity, the
Holy Spirit, is the same thing of Samson.
He risked not that the Spirit had departed,
and then they try to shake themselves, and
the flesh enters into it, and there's nothing
more revolting or disgusting than the shaking and
the manifestations of the flesh after that the
Holy Spirit has departed.
I don't care what you experienced 25 years
ago.
I don't care what you experienced 15 years
ago.
Oh, you say, 15 years ago I was
wonderfully filled with the Holy Spirit.
It was glorious.
And then you relate the experience that you
had.
It was so new to you.
You walked in the light.
This experience, the Holy Spirit came in.
It was glorious.
But my friend, let me ask you, what
do you have today?
Some of you who were filled with the
Holy Spirit 20 years ago, 10 years ago,
8 years ago, today you're as wired up
as last year's corn shocks.
And yet you're still trying to go through
the same motions.
You're still trying to go through the same
demonstrations.
The same thing.
But you say, I was baptized with the
Holy Spirit back there.
Remember something.
I too received the baptism with the Holy
Spirit, but there is never a time when
I'm in a great miracle service but when
I receive a fresh baptism of the Holy
Spirit.
A fresh baptism.
Now, when it comes to conversion, remember, when
it comes to the conversion, that, my friend,
is a definite experience.
It's a definite transaction.
That is it.
You're born again.
There's a wonderful new birth experience when you
become a new creature in Christ Jesus.
An heir of God and a joint heir
with Christ Jesus.
And the mighty Creator becomes your heavenly Father.
And you're born into the body of Christ.
That's a definite transaction.
I belong.
He's my heavenly Father.
I'm His by adoption.
And I know to whom I belong.
But when it comes to the Holy Spirit,
it's something that's constant, this fellowship, this fellowship,
this constant communion.
And if you're trying to measure up to
some experience that you received a way back
there and you say, I got it!
I got it!
No.
It's a daily communion with Him.
Daily.
Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
All you ministers in this place, if you
stood before your people with an anointing, and
did you feel that anointing from the top
of your head to the soles of your
feet?
You're so under the anointing, my brother, that
literally your ears hear what He is speaking
through your mouth.
Under the anointing of the Holy Spirit I
stood there.
And He's taught me as He has spoken
through my lips and my ears have heard.
And I knew it wasn't Kathryn Kuhlman.
I knew.
I knew it wasn't Kathryn Kuhlman.
If you only knew me a little better,
you would understand why I'm so sold on
the Holy Spirit.
I'm so sold on the Holy Spirit, I
do not know how better to say it
to you.
I'm so sold on the Holy Ghost.
Just become loose words.
The choice of words that you speak, my
brother.
So far as the intellect is concerned, it
was a masterpiece.
But how many were saved?
What was the result?
Was there a supernatural manifestation?
Wherever you find the Holy Ghost, wherever you
find the presence of the Holy Spirit, there
will always be the supernatural.
Always.
Know that.
And the supernatural does not come through a
great organization.
Sometimes I think we've organized ourselves to death.
I mean that.
Sometimes I think we're so organized that the
Holy Spirit can't get in.
He can't work.
It'll be the greatest day that the church
has ever known.
When the church gets to the place where
it no longer is completely dependent on organization.
Yeah.
The Holy Spirit must have freedom.
The Holy Spirit must have liberty.
And wherever you find the Holy Spirit, you
know, I'm going to say something, and I
hope that I'm not misconstrued.
I hope I'm not.
What I'm about to say, I've never seen
more holy laughter.
I'll get to that in a few minutes,
but I want to throw this in.
I have never, I've never, in all of
these years, have seen more holy laughter.
And there is such a thing as holy
laughter.
And in miracle services, holy laughter.
That's the reason I tell you the Holy
Spirit is such a colorful personality.
I'm so glad I had sense enough never
to write a book on theology, on doctrine.
I'm so glad I've been pressed and pressed
by different publishers who come from New York
City, and they've asked me to write a
book on doctrine.
Well, I'll tell you, that's one smart thing
I did.
Because you see, had I written a book
on doctrine, about six months later, I'd have
to call them all in and say, I
made a mistake.
That's right.
Because as you watch the Holy Spirit work,
as you watch Him work, He's so colorful,
but He isn't always the same, not really.
You can't put Him in a certain category
and then put a fence around Him.
And that's exactly what we're trying to do
in some of our little circles.
We're trying to fence Him in.
We're trying to put a fence around the
Holy Spirit and keep Him in this fence
because it's our idea.
And you believe it, thus and so, and
it isn't long before He jumps a fence
and all that you've got is a fence.
And He's gone.
So what?
Are you Pentecostal people?
We're dead sure that nothing would ever happen
in a First Methodist Church such as you
saw last night.
Your theology has told you that if you
were not filled with the Holy Spirit in
assembly of God Church, then you didn't get
it.
How many know I'm right?
Keep your hands down.
And you say, come to my church.
Come on, come on.
Come on to my church.
You'll get it.
Come on.
You'll never be filled in a First Methodist
Church.
You'll never receive the baptism of the Holy
Spirit in the First Baptist Church.
Never.
You'll never see the supernatural power of the
Holy Spirit.
Never.
In the denominational churches.
The Bible doesn't say that.
And there you are in your own little
circle.
We have Him.
We got Him.
We have a corner on Him.
And you Methodists, you'll never get Him.
Look out, look out.
In these days you may awaken to find
out that you are the one from whom
He has departed.
He's bigger than denominational line.
The Holy Spirit is greater than man's ideal.
The Holy Ghost is greater than our own
preconceived ideas.
Know that.
When He's so powerful, Jesus knew.
I think of that over and over again.
Who knew the Holy Spirit better than Jesus?
Who?
He'd been with Him from the beginning of
time.
Jesus knew Him.
Jesus knew His power.
And the Holy Ghost is the power of
the Trinity.
Knowing the power of the Ghost, Jesus knew
Him.
Before Jesus ever offered Himself to the Father
to be given, He first of all offered
Himself through the Holy Spirit.
For He knew His power.
I'm not talking about something that is just
mediocre.
I'm coming back again to this Holy Laughter.
It's happening.
But you want to know something?
I see it so much among those in
Catholicism who are just coming into the light
of the Holy Spirit.
We've had so much of the Holy Laughter
recently.
I've watched this.
Like I told you this, all that I
know about the Holy Spirit is I see
Him and watch Him.
And watch Him.
And you get to know Him.
You watch His personality.
You know what pleases Him.
You know what grieves Him.
You just know.
And you know instantly.
It's as though you're in the presence of
someone that you know so well.
And you know when they're grieved.
And you know when they're happy.
And you know when they're pleased.
I follow Him back again.
And sometimes I think you're allowed in this
wonderful Holy Laughter to come forth from some
of these precious folk because they have been
released from the bondage they were in.
You're no longer under bondage when the Holy
Spirit comes in.
This bondage that men and women are living
in.
I pray to God you come from out
of that bondage.
Come out from that bondage.
Some of you are bound in spiritual darkness.
Some of you are bound by some organization.
Literally bound.
Your heart cries.
Everything within you cries out.
Cries out.
You're hungry.
But the bondage that you're in, this terrific
bondage, you're bound by people.
You're bound by organization.
You're bound by those in higher authority.
Many of you in Catholicism, you've been bound
so long.
Some of you have been bound by sin
so long.
And sometimes I think this wonderful Holy Laughter
that we see is glorious if you've never
heard it.
It's different.
It's different than any laughter.
It's different.
It's the laughter of freedom.
It's the laughter of liberty.
But everything is in good taste.
When the Holy Spirit does it, and always
remember this, if you never again hear me
speak to you in a heart-to-heart
talk regarding this person, the Holy Spirit, he
is never unseemly in his actions.
Never.
If it's revolting, it's not the Holy Spirit.
Know that.
If it's revolting, if
it's obnoxious, it's the flame.
When it's Holy Laughter, it's something that's contagious.
It's something that's beautiful.
It's something that's wonderful.
But everything the Holy Spirit does, I have
such high regard for him.
I've never known him to ever manifest himself
in a revolting way.
It's perfection.
And I know there are things that happen
in the flame.
And labeled as the Holy Spirit cannot be
the Holy Spirit, for it's contrary to his
personality and his beauty and his loveliness.
Open our understandings, please.
Flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto
thee, but of my Father which is in
heaven.
Open our understandings.
Let him that hath an ear let him
hear what the Spirit say.
But remember, it is the sovereignty of God
when the Holy Spirit came upon the Old
Testament saints.
But that was changed after Jesus came.
Jesus knew the secret of his power.
Those miracles you read are the miracles when
you read the miracles in the New Testament.
It was the power of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus knew that being in the flesh he
could not perform miracles.
And yet he knew there would have to
be the manifestation of the supernatural power of
God.
That was in essence when he said to
them, If you want to believe all that
I say that I am, then believe me
for the very work's sake.
And he knew that there would have to
be the supernatural power of God or they
would never accept him.
And that was the reason he offered himself
first to the Holy Spirit.
And he said, If you'll come, if you'll
be with me, if you'll manifest the supernatural
power of the Father through me, I'll go
because I'll need that manifestation.
I'll need it.
And Jesus understood every time there was a
miracle.
Jesus understood.
He understood perfectly well it was the Holy
Spirit.
And those miracles did not begin until after
Jesus came up out of the waters of
baptism.
And God spoke.
And in that hour the Holy Spirit came
upon him as a dove.
Then, before he went away, he told about
the Holy Spirit.
He told him he would come, meet up
there in John.
He'll teach you all things.
He'll guide you.
I'd give anything in the world if I
could stay with you longer and take all
of these scriptures.