And there doesn't really be no tenderness among
the shouting, that's
the reason.
I think that's what has happened to our
nation, it's a good thing, it'll bring all
of us closer together.
Like a family, at the time of death,
you don't really know your wife until the
youngsters at the point of death.
You don't really know a person, you don't
really know their worth, not worth.
You don't really, until that hour of crisis,
you don't really, don't
really know.
But I've never seen, and yet, I stake
everything that I have, not only my life,
I stake the destiny of my soul, life
beyond the grave, and remember something.
Homeless, prostitutes, lost, weak, that's not the end,
it's just the beginning.
I stake everything I have, not life itself,
but that which is beyond this earthly life,
when my own heart takes its last beat,
that last beat, and I take my last
breath.
I stake everything I have on Him, one
whom I have never seen, look on your
feet.
Do you feel sorry for me for being
such a fool with you?
You know, my friend, I have seen the
way.
I have seen His marvelous transforming power in
the lives of men and women, the greatest
miracle in the world, the transformation of a
life.
Do you know something?
These physical things are so secondary, they're so
psychedelic, psychedelic.
It's marvelous to see a body here, just
wonderful.
It's glorious to have a woman stand before
me, and to speak over me again.
It's marvelous.
I know that it's glorious to be with
a gentleman that's so secondary.
The greatest miracle in the world is that
transformation of a life, and I have seen
Him take a man's feet into Him.
Out of the very gutter I have seen
Him.
I have seen Him so low-down, so
worthless, so despicable.
I have seen Him take him, clothe him
in the garment of righteousness, cover his sins
with that precious life, His own grace.
I have seen an instantaneous thing.
Not a gradual thing, but an instantaneous thing.
Instantly.
Salvation is a transaction.
Salvation is accepting what Jesus Christ did on
the cross for every man and every woman.
When it comes to predestination, I believe that
when Jesus died, He died with no exception
whatsoever.
He's not willing that any should perish, but
that all should come into eternal life.
I have seen Him take that man the
lowest of the low, give him a new
mind, give him new ambitions, new desires.
All things passed away, and behold, all things
have become new.
A new creature in Christ Jesus, that which
was born of the flesh is flesh, and
that's something that we all have in common.
Every man, every living human being has that
one thing in common.
We've been born of the flesh.
But Jesus was talking about the second birth,
the spiritual birth, that new birth experience.
I've seen that burn, burn, that burn, burn
of the flesh.
In the friend's mall, and the woman has
said, I have a new husband.
And the kid who used to run from
him, afraid when he came home drunk, now
put their arms around him, and he loves.
Who can transform a life like that in
people?
Only one.
I've never seen Jesus.
I've never heard Him speak.
But I have seen the way.
I'm satisfied.
And if you don't know what I'm talking
about today, I feel proud when I say
the Holy Spirit.
Those who know me best know how I've
said over and over again, I'm completely dependent
on the mighty third person, the Trinity, the
Holy Spirit.
When I say to you that the Holy
Spirit is a person, He's more than just
one of these attributes.
He's more than an influence.
The Holy Spirit is a person.
As definitely as God the Father is a
person, as definitely as Jesus Christ the Son
is a person, the Holy Spirit is a
person with a definite personality.
And if ever I walk out on the
stage or on the platform, and all know
the truth that I have screamed with the
Holy Spirit, the house of my life and
my heart, I'll never again, I'll never again
walk out on the stage or platform without
too much pretense now in the ministry.
And I'm not going to add to it.
But ever, I'll stand behind the pulpit and
the anointing of the Holy Spirit no longer
comes upon me.
It'll only be a mockery.
Never again stand behind the pulpit.
It's a sacred place.
I'm no better than anyone else, what David
meant in the word of God.
And he cried out, Take not thy Holy
Spirit from me.
He can take everything I've got.
And I tell him that, thank you.
The angels that are coming to my body,
you are my children of Israel.
Take not thy Holy Spirit from me.
I pray that you'll take me in death.
And I say it sincerely before the angels,
before the Father, before the Lord High Priest
in the presence of the Holy Spirit, I
pray that you'll take me in death before
he takes the Holy Spirit from me, pours
out the Holy Spirit.
Oh, man.
Sweet spring.
Nine miles from Nepalia.
I knew it from whence I had come.
I'm completely detached from any significance, good or
bad.
You can say anything you want.
You know, go to that call center, you
can say anything you want about the courts.
You're not back my way.
You're not losing my power.
Try it sometime.
Say anything you want.
You never say.
You may not know what I'm talking about.
You know, my friend, I follow the Holy
Spirit.
I follow him, you'll never know.
I follow him.
In a miracle service, I follow him.
So close, so peaceful.
There's not a crowd out there.
You're so in tune with a person.
You're so real with yourself.
You're a person.
A person.
In this place today, in this auditorium, there
is a person.
God the Father sits upon his throne.
In his right hand at this very moment,
the position of the great high priest.
The very Son of the living God, ever
living to make a reception for you and
for me.
But in this place, this very moment, is
the person of the Holy Spirit.
The person to whom Jesus offered himself before
he ever came to this earth in the
form of life.
The greatest gift that was ever given to
the church.
Let me say something again.
To those of you in the gray charismatic
room, sometimes I think we get so familiar
with God.
It's too familiar.
We speak of him so lightly.
There's a reason why we refer to him
by Jesus himself as the Holy.
In his presence, I feel like taking the
strings from off my feet.
We have forgotten how to worship.
We have forgotten the holiness of the mighty,
strong person that's in us.
Sometimes I think we have become too familiar
with things that are so.
I could never tell you even about the
Holy Spirit.
I could never.
Maybe it's because I'm so completely dependent upon
him.
You see, when I tell you I have
never seen him, one of whom, I can
honestly say take everything.
But don't leave him.
Don't leave me.
You're calling me a fool.
But I say publicly that I've never seen
him.
He's never spoken an audible word to me.
But I've seen the evidence.
I've seen the way.
I've seen the manifestation.
You don't understand.
You just don't understand.
You can't analyze the things that I've been
talking about today.
You don't analyze God.
You don't analyze Jesus.
You don't analyze the Holy Spirit.
You don't analyze miracles.
No.
The Father didn't say, give me greater proof.
Give me greater proof.
I have to see Joseph first.
I have to look upon the face of
my son first before I believe.
I have to hear his voice first before
I can believe.
No.
When he saw the way, my son is
alive.
I'll go to him.
My son is alive.
My heavenly Father is alive.
My heavenly Father.
And he needs no defense.
My wonderful baby is alive.
Every day I'll go to him.
He's alive.
There isn't a doubt right now.
There isn't a doubt.
I can only tell you, because it isn't
the Holy Spirit of the person.
So everyone will answer forever.
They'll be saved.
Could never save.
You can answer the question of the Holy
Spirit from now forever.
You can answer the fact in the wind.
Let's do practice.
Recently talking with Colonel Ernst, a great astronaut,
with black eyes, he said, you know, Captain,
to me, by that gentleman, I felt the
pressure that I had never known this pressure
to begin telling you some of this wonderful,
beautiful experience with that man because the pressure
I might have said, Colonel Ernst, have you
ever seen the wind when you walked on
the moon?
Have you ever seen the wind?
It would be such a silly question, such
a small question.
One of our greatest astronauts is probably with
a smile.
His eyes, with an inkling.
He'd say, oh, I know.
No.
No one has seen the wind.
I know.
But there isn't a person living.
He does not accept the fact of the
wind because you see the wind stop from
the force of that wind.
You do not deny that the wind blows
just because you have not seen the wind.
I stand before you and remember something.
The Bible needs no defense.
God needs no defense.
You need no defense.
The Holy Spirit needs no defense.
I'm not defending a thing.
I've only lifted the lip of my heart
and I'm telling you why I believe.
The heart can see
the Holy Spirit and you and I cannot
see the Holy Spirit in this place of
the earth.
But we see the wind stop from the
force of the head-bound of
the Holy
Spirit.
In a moment like this, when I feel
like looking up and saying, forgive me, Father,
for not having told it better, I'm so
limited, so limited in my vocabulary.
I'm so limited, so limited.
These things have been told to you by
the Spirit, child.
And only the Spirit can reveal.
Only the Spirit can make the things that
I've been talking about real to you.
Only the Spirit.
Flesh and blood have not revealed unto me,
but my Father, which is in me.
Right now, when you're sitting, and I do
not believe that I've ever done this before,
I don't think at this time, before a
miracle service, I've got to be ordained in
the Spirit.
When you're sitting there, we make this entire
auditorium alter.
I want every person in this place to
say, Catherine Kuhn, I've never had that spiritual
experience of being born again.
I have never been born again.
I have to know it.
When you're here in the Moon Sanctuary, or
when you're in the other auditoriums, you play
circuits.
It's something that's personal.
It's something that's very personal.
You must be born again.
I have got to know it because there's
something much more vitally important.
And it comes from your heart.
It's what's in you.
Way down deep in that heart that you're
sitting there.
That sinful prayer.
And so dear Jesus, that's what I want.
I want to be born again.
I want you to forgive my sins.
I want the blood of Jesus Christ, the
God Son, to cleanse me from all sin.
That's what I want.
That's what I want more than anything else
in the world.
I can't have you come part of this
place that's too small.
But I want you to do something that's
Holy Spirit is present that permeates this entire
auditorium.
It's as sacred as bone you are standing
in this auditorium of God.
Forget there's anyone else here in this auditorium.
I'm going to pray the prayer from this
place.
I want every person in this auditorium to
say, That's what I want.
I want Jesus to forgive my sins.
And the scripture says, You're coming to me
just enough to stand me.
And that person will say, That's what I
want.
Stand right now.
And I'm going to pray right on this
purpose.
Stand up right now.
Every person will say, That's what I want.
I want that you just stand.
Just stand right wherever you are in the
auditorium.
I'm not asking you to come part of
the car that's waiting in the front.
Just stand and say, That's what I want.
I want that new birth experience.
I want Jesus to forgive my sins.
Just stand right and they're still standing.
Everybody who knows how to pray.
Everybody, every person in this place who knows
how to pray, pray right now.
The other auditoriums, when they have closed circuits,
just standing, Jesus will hear that prayer there.
That's right.
Just standing in the other auditorium.
Just stand right there as though you were
standing before the throne of God.
It's so simple.
If we confess our sins, He is able
and just to forgive us our sins.
It's so simple.
All we say is, Dear Jesus, I come.
Dear Jesus, I confess I'm a sinner.
I know I'm a sinner.
And the only person who's sinful cannot forgive
that, then he'll not confess he's a sinner.
Unashamedly, all over the auditorium, right out loud,
all of us, say, Dear Jesus, say it
again.
I confess I'm a sinner.
I know I'm a sinner.
I'm sorry for my sins.
Come into my heart.
I promise to live for you from this
moment on.
Help me just as I am, for Jesus'
sake.
Amen.
In this moment, I pray that your spirit,
the Holy Spirit, shall bear witness.
Oh, that witness.
The Holy Spirit shall bear witness with every
man.