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Thank you.
I think, Ms. O'Toole, this afternoon, that the
reason we have asked me no preliminary, there
are many things that I could say, I
shall not say.
The very fact that I am here, you
know that I am happy to be here.
I am here because I want to be
here.
I would rather be where I am in
this very hour than any other place in
the whole world, you know that.
I am in the perfect will of God
standing where I am in this very hour.
And this has been one of the greatest
thrills of my life.
And I have preached to literally millions and
millions of people, but I want you to
know that I have never had a greater
thrill in preaching to a congregation, or in
holding a miracle service, not held many, many
miracle services in my life.
But this has been one of the greatest
miracles of it, that I am expecting that
has ever been held in this ministry.
I want to explain something to you very,
very quickly before I enter into a little
heart-to-heart talk.
And remember again, I am talking about a
person.
That wonderful person of the Trinity, the Holy
Spirit.
But before I do, I want to make
something very clear to you.
I think I should make an explanation.
Some of you may have never seen the
slave in power of the Holy Spirit.
And again I say I am very sorry
that we cannot all be in the same
great auditorium.
But those of you in the great overflow
auditorium, those who are standing in all the
corridors, remember something, you do not have to
be in the same auditorium where Catherine Kuhlman
is.
The Holy Spirit, His glorious presence, is literally
flooding every part of these great auditoriums.
And you may be seeing the slave in
power of the Holy Spirit for the very
first time in your life.
You may not understand the slave in power
of the Holy Spirit.
And I am very thankful to you as
I stand before you, before many of you
for the very first time, that neither do
I understand the slave in power of the
Holy Ghost.
I am being perfectly frank and honest with
you.
I want you to know that I have
seen literally thousands and thousands slain by the
power of the Holy Spirit.
And to this very hour I do not
understand the slave in power of the Holy
Ghost.
One thing I do know and that is
that Catherine Kuhlman has nothing to do with
the slave in power of the Holy Spirit.
Please believe me.
There will be those who will plead and
say, oh touch me, touch me.
It is not my touch, it is His
touch.
Know that.
That's one thing I can promise you, that's
one thing that I know about the slain
by the Holy Spirit.
It is not in my touch.
It is not Catherine Kuhlman, it's the supernatural
power of the Holy Ghost.
And the very thing that will happen in
this great auditorium in this building today happened
to Paul not very far from this building.
That's what's so funny about it all.
Just a very short distance from this building
one day.
Paul on the road to Damascus.
Think of it, this is so wonderful.
I pray to come open your spiritual understanding
because some of these things that I'm going
to say to you today, flesh and blood
cannot reveal unto you but God Himself.
And as Paul was going on the road
to Damascus, something happened, something glorious happened.
Suddenly he was slain by the Holy Ghost
and he found himself prostrate on the ground.
Some of you may have walked on the
very same spot where the Holy Spirit did
to save Paul.
Did I believe in that moment?
Any one of us would have come to
him and would have said, what happened?
Suddenly you found yourself prostrate on the ground.
What happened?
You think you would have gotten up and
looked at us and would have said, it
was wonderful.
I don't understand what happened.
I don't know what happened.
But it was a glorious experience.
It was a glorious experience.
Something I never had happen to me.
The only way that I can explain the
slain power of the Holy Spirit is that
these old physical bodies of ours just are
not geared for so much power.
That's the reason you don't need a physical
body.
This is corruption.
Know that.
This which is mortal has not yet put
on immortality.
Do you realize how great is the power
of the Holy Ghost?
Do you fully realize?
I've heard it before, the benediction of this
great service before this day will have passed
into history, that somehow you may have gotten
a glimpse of the extent of the power
of the Holy Ghost.
When you realize that people just sitting there
in your seat can remember something, we do
not have prayer lines.
I do not go down and lay hands
on people.
You do not need me to lay hands
upon you.
You do not need me to pray for
you.
I would ask you to please forget all
about Catherine Kuhlman.
I would get on my knees if it
would help.
I would plead and implore you please do
not see Catherine Kuhlman.
I beg of you, as you sit there
in the auditorium, in the auditoriums in this
great auditorium, remember something.
So great will be the moving of the
Holy Spirit that there will be folks sitting
there with cancer in their bodies and that
cancer will be burned out by the fire
and the power of the Holy Spirit.
Limbs will be loosened by the power of
the Holy Spirit.
You don't need Catherine Kuhlman to pray for
you.
You don't need me to lay hands on
you.
You don't need me.
You sit there and the Holy Spirit moves
upon this people.
Physical bodies will be healed.
Don't try to analyze it.
You can no more analyze the power of
God than you can analyze God himself.
How many understand what I have.
But this can be one of the greatest
experiences and one of the greatest hours of
your life.
Sometimes I think that thousands who are just
entering into this great charismatic movement, who are
becoming acquainted with the Holy Spirit for the
very first time, who are being filled with
the Holy Ghost, who are fellowshipping the Holy
Spirit for the very first time, feel as
though the Holy Spirit is just a new
personality who has just come on the scene.
Many are becoming acquainted with him for the
very first time.
And somehow you feel he's a new personality
just having come on the scene.
Remember the Holy Spirit was there at the
great creation when the Spirit of God moved
upon the world.
Oh, but not that the Old Testament saints
knew the power of the Holy Spirit.
Pharaoh recognized the power of the Holy Ghost
in the life of Joseph.
Moses knew the power of the Holy Ghost.
If this hour we could bring Moses forth,
he could tell you regarding this wonderful third
person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit.
The seven who walked with him knew the
mighty power of the Holy Ghost.
Samson knew the power of the Holy Spirit.
Yes, beloved.
The Old Testament saints knew the power of
this wonderful third person of the Trinity.
And he came upon them as an act
of sovereignty.
David knew the power of this wonderful third
person.
The saddest cry that was ever heard was
the cry of David when he looked up
and said, Take not thy holy
spirit from me.
I cried the same prayer thousands and thousands
of times.
I understand the cry of David better than
perhaps most of them.
Take not thy holy spirit from me.
You can take everything I have.
Leave me but a covering from my body.
Leave just enough to cover my body.
Take everything that I have.
I gladly live on bread and water the
remaining days of my life.
But take not thy holy spirit from me.
For I know better than anyone else the
secret of the success of this ministry and
the secret of these miracles that take place.
If I ever walk out on any platform,
on any stage, and the anointing of the
Holy Spirit so long comes upon me, I'll
never, so help me, I'll never stand behind
a pulpit again.
For he is the secret of the power
of these miracles.
Know that.
Jesus understood the power of the Holy Spirit,
this wonderful third person of Trinity, better than
anyone else.
And see something, the Holy Spirit opens your
mind and understanding to something.
Me think that one day the three persons
of Trinity sat down at the great conference
table, the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Ghost.
And they were talking about the plan for
man's redemption, precious blood had to be spilled,
had to be shed.
For it is the blood that maketh an
atonement for the soul.
And me think that Jesus turned to the
Holy Spirit and said, I'll do it.
I'll take the form of flesh.
I'll become as much man as though I
were not God.
Knowing that he'd be tempted the enemy, and
just a very short distance from here, you
are still in the very spot where Satan
himself tempted the very Son of the living
God.
And those temptations were real.
Remember something, if Jesus could not have yielded
to temptation, then those temptations would have been
a farce.
Jesus knew the price that he would have
to pay coming in the form of man.
The price that he would have to pay
being as much man as though he were
not God.
But turning to the Holy Spirit he said,
I'll go if you'll be with me.
If you'll go with me, I'll go.
Blimey, how often I thought if Jesus could
trust the Holy Spirit, how much more should
you and I be able to trust him.
Those today who become so frightened every time
we talk about the Holy Ghost.
Every time the Holy Spirit is mentioned they
become so frightened.
Don't be afraid.
All the time I tell you as a
child, you never know the responsibility you'll have.
There are times when I would give anything
in the world if he had not called
me.
Believe me, I'm giving my soul to you
this hour.
You don't know the responsibility.
I'd gladly to have given my life, the
living sacrifice for the responsibility.
Even as I stand before you in this
very moment, I know that there are those
who come from practically every nation in Europe.
I know the sacrifice that you have made
to be here.
It's somebody's last hope to hide
everything.
I mean, instead if I could just get
in that service.
If I could just be there.
I'm surprised that you paid to be some
place in one of these auditoriums that day.
The sleepless hours.
The suffering that you've gone through to be
here.
Respectful.
You don't know what it's like.
You can't begin to know what it's like.
It isn't the hard work.
I work long hours.
I've given it every ounce of strength that
I have.
It isn't that.
It's that responsibility.
Many a time I've looked up and I
wish he'd never called me.
I wish.
And sometimes, before I walk out on stage,
I become as a frightened child.
I'm burying my soul to you this hour.
But if I could give it to you
through hard work, I would gladly work the
flesh from off my bones.
If there was something that I could do
in raising money could give to you, I
would do it.
I would do it.
But don't you understand how dependent I am
on the mercy of the Lord Jesus Christ
and on the power of the Holy Ghost?
Don't you understand?
When I stand before you the most ordinary
person that you've ever looked upon, no Christ
to lean upon, completely dependent on the power
of the Holy Spirit, and then that moment
when I become the frightened child that I
always remember, if Jesus could trust the Holy
Spirit, then surely I can trust the Holy
Spirit.
My brethren, remember.
Always remember.
If Jesus could trust the Holy Spirit, holy
symbol, you and I can trust.
Always.
In that moment, the three persons of the
Trinity were together again as Jesus came up
out of the waters of baptism.
Oh, that was a glorious moment.
A voice spoke and said, This is my
beloved Son in whom I am one.
No man or woman can plead ignorance as
to who Jesus Christ was when God the
Father himself spoke and said, This is my
beloved Son in whom I dwell.
And in that moment something happened.
The Holy Spirit, the mighty third person of
God, came upon Jesus anointing him with power
of service.
And we see the three persons united again.
It was the first time that we had
an event of the being united.
From the time that Jesus left heaven to
see God.
Remember something.
The secret of the power of the ministry
of Jesus was the Holy Spirit.
We talk about the miracles of Jesus.
We talk about him performing these wonderful miracles.
Read the scripture again.
Read it again.
Jesus knew the secret of his power.
He understood well, for the secret of that
power in the ministry of Jesus was the
power of the Holy Spirit.
The same power, the same person, who is
here in this great auditorium, this very hour
before Jesus went away.
He wanted to give to his own the
greatest gift that was possible for him to
give.
And love is something that you do.
You cannot love without giving.
It is impossible.
It is the very nature of God.
You cannot love without giving.
Love is giving.
And Jesus wanted to give his own to
the church the greatest gift that was possible
for him to give.
And he gave that gift to the church.
And ye shall receive power.
What power?
Jesus, what power?
You are talking to your own.
The wonderful gift that the Father gave to
you.
Remember the church is wonderful.
It is precious.
It is sacred.
We speak of the church so lightly.
Remember this glorious body of believers was the
gift that God the Father gave to Jesus.
Again I say, love is something that you
do.
I can prove to you that the church
was the gift to Jesus from the Father.
For in that wonderful conversation that Jesus the
Father had, remember Jesus reminded the Father when
he said, These that thou hast given unto
me.
These thou hast given unto me.
The church, the bride of Christ, the gift
that God the Father gave to his son.
And in turn, Jesus wanting to give to
his own, his bride, the greatest gift that
is possible for him to give.
There is no greater gift.
The wonderful, precious gift, beloved.
There is hell on earth than the gift
that Jesus gave to the church.
That the one who had been so faithful
to him, the one who had been so
powerful in his own ministry, the one who
had never let him down for a split
second, the last thing that Jesus said before
he went away, And he shall receive power
after that which the Holy Ghost has come
upon him.
And he came, and the gift was given.
Beloved, see something that is so meaningful.
The church is about to leave.
We are living in the closing moments of
this distance.
We are living in the closing seconds of
this distance.
The day of Pentecost is about to come
to a close.
The church is not going out in defeated
bodies.
This wonderful church will never go out in
defeated bodies.
The bride of Christ will never go out
in defeated bodies.
Going out in great glory.
And all the gifts of the Spirit are
again being restored to the church.
How often we speak of this glorious hour
as a time of great revival, no, beloved.
This is not an hour of great revival.
It's an hour of great restoration.
Great restoration.
All of the fruits.
Somehow the Holy Spirit could make this real
to your heart.
That which is happening in the United States
and America, that which is happening in these
great services here in this auditorium, is happening
around the world.
What is it?
It's a time of great restoration when he
is pouring out of his Spirit upon all
men.
Men and women who never have seen anyone
receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit should
remember something.
You do not teach someone how to speak
in an unknown tongue.
It's the Holy Ghost that gives the utterance.
A woman in darkest Pakistan, two months ago,
who knew absolutely nothing about the new birth
experience, who knew absolutely nothing about the baptism
of the Holy Spirit, who had never seen
anyone receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit,
she did not know there was such a
thing as speaking in an unknown tongue.
The Holy Spirit gave her this glorious testimony.
She told a story.
She said each morning she had borrowed a
Bible from a Catholic sister, a Catholic nun.
And the Holy Spirit began to reveal the
word to her heart.
And each day she would say, now, wonderful
Jesus, would you like to sit in the
gold chair?
Or would you like to sit in this
chair?
And then the Holy Spirit would begin to
reveal to her the deep truths of the
worship.
No one ever talked to her about the
new birth experience.
For the lady of whom I speak is
the most influential woman politically and socially in
Pakistan this hour.
And then she saw her baptism.
And there was no one to baptize her,
so she baptized herself.
And then she saw in the script the
baptism of the Holy Spirit.
She had never talked to a soul about
the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
She looked up and said, surely dear Jesus,
if the apostles needed this wonderful power, then
surely I need it.
And she was baptized with the Holy Ghost
and power.
Before she had ever talked to a single
soul about the deep spiritual things of God.
A young Bolivian, only twenty years of age,
a pre-med student, came to the United
States to study medicine.
And many of you have read because the
news media has had it in every country
in the world.
You've read about him.
Came to the United States of America about
a year ago to study medicine.
A friend had brought him to the Shrine
of the Lord, even one of the services
there.
No one prayed with him.
There was no personal worker.
To this hour I have not spoken with
him.
You do not need Catholic improvement.
All that we need is the power of
the Holy Ghost.
Sometime during that service he had this wonderful
experience, this beautiful experience, where he knew that
his sins were covered with the blood of
the faithfulness of the Holy Ghost, the faithfulness
of the Holy Spirit.
I knew nothing about it.
These things are only spiritually revealed.
They're living a day of great grace and
mercy.
When he's pouring out of the Spirit upon
all flesh.
He came back a month later, but I
returned.
I knew nothing about it.
Always, when the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles
is filled with 7,000 people, the doors
are always locked.
Because the city will not allow any more
than 7,000 people in the Great Auditorium.
When he came, the doors were locked.
Several thousand on the outside that he was
not discouraged.
He found himself a folding chair, wherever he
found a folding chair, no one will ever
know.
And he stood on that folding chair, and
in broken English, he began telling those in
the great overflow audience on the outside what
had happened to him, his great spiritual experience
the month before.
And as he was speaking, God gave him
the gift of healing.
The news media has carried it in every
nation in the world.
For he went back to his own country,
and I understand that the first person to
be healed under his ministry of healing was
the wife of the President of Bolivia.
God knows exactly what he's doing.
And the crowds have numbered from 20,000
to 70,000.
But he's the most unlikely person in the
world.
And time is running out, beloved.
Time is running out.
This is the Church's greatest hour.
This is your greatest hour.
For this is my greatest hour.
I never wanted to live so much of
my life.
I never have been kind to you when
I've had so important experiences, when I have
just been human enough, kind enough in God,
when I've looked up and been so dear
to you.
I'm so close now.
The responsibility has been so great.
Won't you let somebody else carry the water?
I've been just human enough to pray that
prayer more than once.
But I tell you frankly, I've not prayed
that prayer for the past 18 months.
For I've never wanted to live so much
in my life as now.
It's the most exciting time in the history
of the Church.
It's the most exciting hour in the life
of Christians everywhere.
He's pouring out of His Spirit upon all
of us.
It didn't just happen that over 4,000
have gathered together, where it all began, in
the city of Jerusalem.
You're not here by chance, and neither am
I, and neither is Corrie Kimblee.
It was right here when the 120 were
filled with the Holy Spirit.
Only so happens today the room is a
little larger.
But it's the same Holy Spirit.
I pray to God that not one shall
leave this conference without being filled with the
Holy Spirit.
Had you lived and died and never had
seen Catherine Kuhlman, you wouldn't have missed a
thing.
But if you leave this great conference not
having been filled with the Holy Spirit, all
that fellowship of the Holy Ghost, I'm not
merely talking about some emotional experience.
I'm talking about a fellowship with the Holy
Spirit.
I could not live without that fellowship.
I could not live without the guidance of
the Holy Spirit.
I could not minister without the anointing of
the Holy Spirit.
My friend, most
important person in your life, is not here
to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
Only to be filled with the Holy Spirit.
He has not given me anything in my
life of any worth or value.
You can only pay the price.
Know that.
My brethren in the Lord have not given
Catherine Kuhlman one thing that he'll not give
any one of you.
If you pay the price, it
costs much.
But it's worth the cost.
It costs everything.
If you really want to know the price,
really want to know the price, I'll tell
you, it'll cost you everything.
Catherine Kuhlman died a long time ago.
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