Thank you so much.
Just, no, no, no, you stay up there.
Do you ever sing the doxology at the
beginning of the meeting?
That's what I'd like you to do this
morning.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow.
Come on, let's sing the doxology.
Praise God, from whom all blessings
flow.
Praise Him, Lord.
Open the words and give life and help
to your people today.
In Jesus' precious name.
And everybody said, Amen.
God bless you.
You may be seated.
Praise the Lord.
Thank you, brother.
Praise the Lord.
Oh, isn't Jesus wonderful?
I want you to keep your eyes on
Jesus.
Please keep your eyes on Jesus.
Don't be disturbed by anything else.
Keep your eyes on Jesus.
Would you say those words?
Keep your eyes on Jesus.
Write it in your notebooks.
If you've got a refrigerator at home, scribble
it on the front of it.
Keep your eyes on Jesus.
How many of you think God is bigger
than the devil?
I want you to know that.
I want you to believe that.
Keep your eyes on Jesus.
And He'll get you through any situation.
I don't care what it is.
He'll get you through.
He's the God of the universe.
He is able.
Our God is able.
Eh?
Our God is able.
Oh, I've just had glorious time being here
with you.
Thanks, brother Berkey, for inviting me.
I didn't know if I would come, if
Jesus wanted me to come.
But one morning, before I was wide enough
awake to think my own dumb thoughts, there
stood Jesus by my bed.
And He said, I'll be with you at
the Institute.
And I, oh, you want me to go?
And I just knew that I knew that
I was supposed to be here.
And He's been here.
Is He back there?
Oh, I love Him, don't you?
Just one more time, can I hear you
say His name?
Jesus.
Again.
Jesus.
And again.
Jesus.
I thank you so much.
Thank you.
And you know what the topic is supposed
to be this morning?
The Holy Ghost and the gifts.
I'm glad in suggesting these topics, brother Berkey,
always put the Holy Ghost first.
Do you know by this time, without Him,
we can do nothing?
Do you know without Him, we don't know
anything?
You know, I told you about my black
friend who says, leave them where the Lord
done flung them.
He says some of the richest things.
He said to me one day, you know,
I don't know nothing about nothing.
That's the reason you're so rich in the
things of God.
Because all we know has to come to
us by the precious Holy Spirit.
I want you to appreciate the precious Holy
Spirit.
Without Him, we can do nothing.
Without Him, we are nothing.
I of myself can do nothing.
Say it.
I of myself can do nothing.
We are so dependent on the precious Holy
Spirit.
Jesus knew that.
That's the reason He's sitting.
He knew how dumb we are.
Dumb, stupid, ignorant.
Isn't that a terrible tale to tell you
that you're dumb and stupid and ignorant?
Isn't that awful?
Well, you are.
And so am I about the things of
God.
All that we, any of us know, all
that any of us know, was revealed to
us by the precious Holy Spirit.
You can hear things by the hearing of
the ear, but you don't know the truth
of it until it is revealed to you
by the precious Holy Spirit.
And then that has to be worked out
in our life before we can really claim
it as our own.
Truth is not ours until it is personalized
in our lives.
We can quote all the scriptures about salvation,
all of them in the Bible.
That won't save us.
We can quote them frontwards and backwards.
That doesn't save us.
We have to have the experience.
Right?
And then that truth is ours and we're
saved.
It's true with the baptism of the Spirit.
Just knowing and being able to quote the
scriptures doesn't baptize us.
It has to be personalized in our lives.
And then that truth becomes our personal possession
and we know that we know that we
know we've been baptized in the precious Holy
Spirit.
The Holy Spirit.
These are the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
They're not ours.
None of us can claim them.
You know, I go among some of these.
I don't go to those groups.
I'm sorry.
But you know there are places, there are
churches that are called Pentecostal.
I don't belong there.
They have the strangest teachings and doctrines.
They'll come up with, Sister Hammond, how many
gifts do you have?
Are you asking me how many gifts I
claim?
Yeah, I'm sorry, but I don't have any.
And yet I believe that all of the
gifts have been in operation through my life.
But they don't belong to us.
They're not ours.
They belong to the Holy Spirit.
They're His.
And we don't own one of them.
Paul, who talks to us about the gifts,
never claimed to have one gift.
And yet we can see they're all in
operation in His life.
It is so necessary, necessary to be baptized
in the Holy Spirit if we want the
operation of the Holy Spirit, if we want
the ministry of the Spirit, if we want
the gifts of the Spirit, if we want
the manifestation of the gifts of the Spirit,
they can only be manifested through a life
that has been baptized with the precious Holy
Spirit.
How important it is, as I said, have
those altar services.
Get people baptized in the Holy Spirit and
don't be satisfied until they get the real
thing.
Out of your innermost being shall flow what?
Rivers.
Honey, you contend for rivers and not a
couple drops.
I heard Earthly, she spoke three words in
other tongues.
Hallelujah, she has the baptism.
I said, I don't believe it.
Out of your innermost being will flow rivers,
not just drops.
Rivers, rivers, rivers.
And this gusher of speaking in other tongues,
this gusher that releases the life, that opens
the Spirit, that releases and breaks us wide
open that we can give ourselves to God.
I want you to know reality and I
want you to contend for reality in your
churches.
Every pastor says, I will.
I love you.
God bless you.
Oh, now concerning spirituals.
Where's this found?
Where?
1 Corinthians 12.
Now concerning spirituals.
I may as well tell you before I
start, I have material enough for three hours.
Is that okay with you?
So I'm going to try to stick close
to my nodes so I have no idea
of holding you for three hours.
Sit down, brother.
I won't hold you for three hours.
I want to just stick close to my
nodes so I give you important things and
don't hold this too long.
Now concerning spirituals, spirituals, things of the Spirit,
spiritual gifts, I would not have you ignorant.
Oh, you know that you were Gentiles carried
away into these dumb idols even as you
were led.
Wherefore I give you to understand that no
man speaking by the Spirit of God calls
Jesus accursed and that no man can say
that Jesus is the Lord but by the
Holy Ghost.
Now there are diversities of gifts but the
same Spirit.
There are differences of administration but the same
Lord.
There are diversities of operation but it's the
same God which worketh all in all.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given
to every man to profit withal.
To one is given by the Spirit a
word of wisdom.
To another the word of knowledge by the
same Spirit.
To another faith by the same Spirit.
To another the gifts of healing by the
same Spirit.
He's emphasizing over and over and over and
over.
You've got to have the Holy Ghost.
To another the working of miracles.
To another prophecy.
To another discerning of spirits.
To another divers kind of tongues.
To another the interpretation of tongues.
All these worketh that one and the self
same Spirit dividing to every man severally as
he will.
And then he uses the body and the
members of the body as an illustration of
how this is supposed to work.
I'm so glad that Paul shares with us
his dealings with the Corinthians in their uses
and misuses of the gifts of the Spirit.
It's so necessary.
Wasn't Paul wise?
How did he learn all this?
Where did he get it?
He didn't even have a Bible.
Where did he get it?
By the same Spirit.
And if he got all of this by
this same Holy Ghost honey, do you realize
the wealth, the riches, the treasures that are
ours in Christ Jesus if we appreciate and
yield to the same Holy Ghost?
Do you appreciate the Holy Spirit?
Tell me.
And I want you to appreciate him more
and more and more.
The poverty that's in our churches because we
don't have the operation and the manifestation of
the gifts of the Spirit because so many
pastors don't realize the wealth, the
wealth that is ours in this marvelous baptism
of the Holy Spirit.
God does a marvelous thing in us when
he baptizes us with the Spirit.
I told you the real baptism of the
Spirit baptizes the Holy Spirit.
Our intellect.
The Spirit, he says.
Pray that you will have the Spirit of
wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him.
Oh, what wealth is ours.
And in the gift of the baptism of
the Spirit did you ever receive a box
that was to be your birthday present?
And you opened up that box and there
were nine other small boxes inside of that
box?
Well, that's what happens here.
We have the baptism this marvelous gift which
is the promise of the Father and when
we open it up we find out there
are nine gifts inside the package and they're
all at our disposal to minister to us
to edify to build up to comfort to
encourage to strengthen to meet the need in
the assembly to minister to the whole as
your members of the body ministers to the
body.
It's crippled if you don't have a hand.
You're crippled if you don't have a foot
and the hand can't say to the foot
I don't need you and the foot can't
say to the hand I don't need you
and no member of the body can say
to any other member I don't need you
and the body certainly can't say to the
head I don't need you.
How many of you need your head?
Well don't you think the church needs our
head?
Don't you think we need our head?
The head of the church?
And that's why, that's why I've said it
before and I'll say it again Don't start
your meetings in the body of Christ without
opening that service by inviting the head to
come but we sing 74, 35, 62 and
have all our doings and down the road
halfway through the meeting Oh, I remember I
do have a head.
Oh Jesus, well thank you you said we're
two or three together you'd be there and
we thank you that you're here and then
the death, the poverty because we don't know
that we need our head but he's the
head of the assembly he's the head of
the church if there's any vision it's in
the head if there's any hearing it's in
the head the word of life comes from
the head Invite the head to come we
must have the ministry So open your meetings
by inviting the head to come Oh, oh
and when he comes, isn't it different?
Isn't it different?
But nothing happens till he gets there Have
you ever been present when he really came?
Whoo There's a great big church a great
big church in our Assemblies of God that
has, oh it seats I don't know I
don't get along with numbers I don't know
much about it but right down here in
front is just this, not more than 20
people and the pianist has arthritis and so
she goes like this poor darling, she's doing
her best and they invited me to come
well, Jesus said you go you go, so
I went and saw these most of them
elderly people sitting down here in the front
and the dear pianist began to play Ah,
the pastor turned the service over to me
and I said, do you mind if I
I'd like to sing another song because I
can't handle this I can't get along in
a service any time until he comes so
I said I want to sing Come Thou
Almighty King Let's sing Come Thou Almighty King
We sang the first verse and sang Come
blessed Holy Spirit Come three in one Come
and I sang that thing I sang it
I sang it I've got to have you
Lord Where are you?
Come Come, come, come I can't do anything
until you get here Honey, as sure as
you're there, I'm here He came in that
door and he let me see him come
down that aisle and I said to those
people Jesus just came He's here in the
aisle and those people just bowed towards that
aisle by the Spirit to worship him Oh,
there happened to be a big a big
name evangelist walked in the back he says,
I'm going over there and see what Sister
Hammond will do with that big church and
that little crowd so he was sitting in
the back and oh, everybody turned towards him
Jesus, it was, his presence was everywhere The
next night that big fella was having a
big rally in the city and all the
Christians were there so he went around and
he said I wish you were at Bethel
Temple last night Jesus came I wish you
were there Jesus was there and he talked
on a little while in his sermon It
was wonderful at Bethel Temple last night Jesus
was there and he talked on a little
further Oh, that you had been in Bethel
Temple last night when Jesus came Jesus was
there Honey, he gave me thousands of dollars
worth of advertising He really did The next
night all those people were in Bethel Temple
That same marvelous presence was there and we
went on for three weeks the place filled
night after night and that marvelous presence stayed
with us service after service You know dear,
Jesus always has the key to any and
every situation Oh, isn't he wonderful?
Oh, I can't get along without him All
these gifts Paul's Paul shared with us the
gifts are in the body The body, of
course, is the church Then we have to
know what is the church What is the
church anyhow?
What is the church?
You know dear, I have to deal with
reality with reality I know there are problems
in our assemblies of God I know that
But if you pastors will deal with realities
your problems are all solved I'm going to
ask you again How many of you think
God is bigger than the devil?
You don't have to worry Get in touch
with God He can handle any Goliath He
knows the answer He has the strategy He
can get in there and solve the problem
My God says, with God anything can happen
Nothing is impossible Nothing We just say, oh
God can do anything That's not what it
says It says, with God anything can happen
So you've got to get in union and
oneness with Him and then things will happen
So first of all, what is the church?
What is the church?
Again, Paul tells us what the church is
Second Corinthians, the fifth chapter and the seventeenth
verse says If any man be in Christ
he is a new creation All things are
passed away Behold, all things are become new
Only those are in the church no matter
how many people sit in the pew Only
those are the church who are really and
truly new creatures in Christ Jesus New creation
They have to be born again They have
to be new creations People in whom the
law of the spirit of life in Christ
Jesus has set them free from the law
of sin and death and they're out of
that old strategy and that old creation and
they are new creatures in Christ Jesus Really
born again Do you know what happened to
you when you were born again?
You've got to know this You've got to
know what really happened to you when you
were born again If you don't, the rest
of your life you'll be trying to put
the pieces of the puzzle together and how
does this fit with this and how does
this Christian life all go together and that
is the majority of our problems and our
trouble You have to know what happened to
you when you were really born again Peter,
the first chapter, turn to it Turn to
1 Peter The very first chapter, the 23rd
verse Being born again not of corruptible
seed but of incorruptible by the word of
God which liveth and abideth forever Now look
at it, underscore it Remember it, pray over
it Being born again not of corruptible seed
but of incorruptible by the word of God
which liveth and abideth forever You've got to
know that you are a new creation in
Christ Jesus and your church members are new
creatures in Christ Jesus because God cannot do
anything with the old creation It's full of
the law of sin and death It's a
corruptible thing It is slated for corruption It's
no good to God unless it is changed
and that person is redeemed and made a
new creation A new creature The church of
Jesus Christ is a new thing in the
world A new creation A new tribe of
people A new creation type of people born
of incorruptible seed Alright, I want to show
you something We have three lives that we
live and I'm not talking about reincarnation We
have three lives that we live The first
life is the result of corruptible seed Corrupt
A little tiny eeny weeny seed that you
could get hundreds of them on the end
of your finger That little tiny seed was
the beginning of you Right?
Say yes Are you with me?
Don't go to sleep Don't get tired If
you do, just stand up and sit down
Yes The beginning of you was a little
tiny eeny weeny seed But inside that seed
was everything that you are today Is that
right?
In that seed was your eyes In that
seed was your ears Your brain Your heart
Your liver Your lungs Your mind Your arms
Your legs Was all in that little eeny
weeny tiny seed It just had to grow
It had to develop It had to mature
That little life Your first life was nine
months long And during that nine months You
were fed You were warm You were clothed
You were happy Why didn't they leave us
alone?
You were growing, growing arms and legs You
were growing organs You were growing a brain
You were developing eyes You were getting ready
for another life And the word of God
said When that which is perfect is come
That which is in part is done away
And when that little nine month old came
to maturity That old envelope was thrown in
the garbage And this little new life came
into another world to live That's our second
life Here we are And we found out
after a while We needed those legs to
walk on We needed those hands And you
found out they were worth To be something
to be used more than to bite on
And you had eyes to see And you
came into this world You're here, you're here
But all that you are now And if
you live to be a hundred years old
The doctor is not going to inject something
more into you All that you ever need
is in that little eensy seed And here
you are Well this is our second existence
But honey this isn't the real thing Are
you sure it's right?
You agree?
Alright, alright This isn't the real thing We're
only given in this second phase Three score
year and ten And in this three score
year and ten God just gives us this
short life Time in this second phase For
us to make our decisions Make our choices
To become a bed Human nature becomes a
seed bed For another seed to be planted
in us And this other seed is an
incorruptible seed Which is the word of God
Who's the word of God?
Yes?
And so human nature just becomes a seed
bed For another seed to be planted in
us And that other seed that's planted in
us Is the Christ The Holy Christ The
Holy Christ Paul got the revelation And we
hear him screaming out the revelation in Galatians
Christ liveth in me Christ liveth in me
Christ is in me Christ liveth in me
I live yet not I Christ liveth in
me The life that I live I don't
live it by any other power But the
power of the Holy Christ that lives in
me Listen to me Are you listening?
Are you listening, honey?
Thank you, please get it This is the
most important message you will ever hear Christ
lives in me Christ lives in me Listen,
dear The old you is not you anymore
Would you say those words?
The old you is not you anymore Write
that in your notebook The old me is
not me anymore There's a new life has
come into me There's another seed sown in
the soil of my life Jesus Christ came
into me This is the new birth This
is what happens in the new birth It's
not just thank the Lord for forgiving my
sins Honey, that is an Old Testament experience
In the Old Testament you could go up
to the temple and the synagogue And take
your little lamb And have your sins forgiven
So, when I ask people in my meetings
Tell me, let's have a testimony They told
me, I like to have testimony meetings You
know where people are You know what they're
thinking You're able to help them I thank
the Lord for forgiving my sins Is that
all you have?
Just the forgiveness of sins?
That's an Old Testament experience You're not even
a New Testament Christian Well, my sins are
forgiven Yes, honey, you could have that in
the Old Testament It's more than making a
decision It's more than praying the sinner's prayer
Don't let those people leave the altar If
you want the real church of Jesus Christ
in your church Don't let them leave that
altar Until they are born again And are
a new creation in Christ Jesus Then old
things pass away That old dependence on the
old life passes away We are a new
creation A new creature Jesus Christ lives in
me And listen to me Listen, honey The
real you now Is not the old John
The old Mary The old person that used
to live on the things of this world
Satisfy the flesh Follow the desires of the
natural man And do all of these things
that the natural man does There's another person
living inside of me Jesus Christ has come
in Jesus Christ is formed in me Those
who backslid Paul says, I pray for you
Until Jesus Christ is formed in you And
now listen to me The Christ in you
Is the life that God has his eyes
on And is concerned about Your spirituality Depends
on how much you let Jesus Christ live
in you How much he's matured Just like
this corruptible seed Grew and grew and grew
Until you are what you are now Forty,
fifty, sixty years old The Christ inside began
in you In an incorruptible seed Listen to
me dear Inside that incorruptible seed Planted in
your heart and life Listen Is all that
God will ever ask of you Will ever
require of you Throughout the countless ages of
eternity In Christ in you He's building eyesight
too Spiritual eyes He's building spiritual legs To
walk in the spirit He's building spiritual ears
To hear by the hearing of the spirit
I want to tell you dear When God
looks at you Now, when he looks on
you He will say to you John, turn
around Let me see my son in you
I want to see how he's growing I
want to see how he's maturing I want
to see if you're nourishing him I want
to see if he's developing in you Isn't
this what the gifts are for?
Until we all come to that maturity In
his image That doesn't mean we have a
nose like he has And ears like he
has But his spiritual likeness and image Feed,
feed the Christ in you Feed that holy
thing in you Honey, any urge that's in
you to pray For God's sake pray That's
the Christ in you Hungering to commune with
his own father When you read this word
Feed on this word This is the nourishment
for that man inside of you Feed on
the word of God Do what it says
Jesus said, what was his nourishment?
My meat and my drink is to do
the will Of him that sent me Find
out what his will is Walk in it,
walk in it, walk in it I want
to tell you, I want to tell you
something When the rapture takes place And Jesus
Christ comes for his own You know what
will go?
I want, please hear this You know what
will go?
The only thing that will go Is whatever
Jesus Christ has developed to inside of you
This flesh, this flesh we sing This robe
of flesh I'll drop and rise I'll drop
off the old natural man God doesn't have
any use for the old natural man He
doesn't in any way adjust or conform There's
nothing in him that fellowships with the living
God All in you that fellowships with the
living God Is the Christ inside of you
Where are you in growth?
In development In Jesus Christ In you When
Jesus comes, I'll say it again When Jesus
comes All that will go Is the Christ
inside of you And the rest drops off
Is left behind, there's no use for it
It doesn't in any way fit into the
new order of things In this realm of
the spirit This is what happened to you
When you were born again You received the
living Christ A new seed, the new man
The new man, Christ Jesus The new man
God does things for us So he can
do things in us In us In us
On that seed that's planted in you On
that seed he pours out the latter rain
When you plant a garden and you plant
seed in that garden The first thing you
want to happen, you want it to rain
On that seed And our Father did too
Jesus knew how important it was And he
says, the very first order of business When
I get home, I will pray the Father
To send you the Holy Ghost The first
order of business He realized that seed must
have rain And then with the latter rain
The precious Holy Ghost on that holy seed
If we yield to the spirit of life
In Christ Jesus within us Anything can happen
What is the church?
The church are these Jesus people People in
whom Jesus Christ has been formed And that's
why I can say The old you isn't
you anymore God doesn't deal with the old
you Only to get rid of it To
take it to the cross To crucify the
flesh He's done with it, get rid of
that thing And now we're getting ready for
the real thing And he's coming soon, dear
He's really coming soon For his church These
are the very last days We're having our
last opportunities To make our decisions for him
To make our choices To make our surrenders
And I want to say to you God
is dealing with you about anything To surrender,
for God's sake surrender If he's dealing with
you to make any commitment For God's sake
make that commitment Throw yourself into God You
can trust him in any situation And God
will see you through He will, I know
it I could tell you miracle after miracle
after miracle That God has performed for me
In situations where only God could handle things
There are times lawyers can't help you There
are times your families can't help you There
are times counselors can't help you There's times
medication can't help you God save us from
depending on tranquilizers Tranquilizers are only ground up
demons That's all they are, they can't help
you So when you receive Jesus Christ
When you receive Jesus Christ Listen to me
This is the beginning of God This is
the beginning of God's life in you This
is the beginning of God in you And
this is who you will be Throughout the
countless ages of eternity We make our choices
and decisions And stake off our claim down
here I was in a church The preacher
was preaching on the coming of the Lord
Fifteen hundred people at least there And the
preacher says I don't want you to be
uptight Don't be uptight saints Don't be uptight
And I knew right then that preacher wasn't
even in the race He didn't know anything
about it Don't be uptight saints When Jesus
comes You know we will be changed on
the way up To meet him And if
you aren't all you're supposed to be You
will be changed on the way up What
false doctrine How terrible, terrible To tell those
people that And let them go out Let
them go out and live in the flesh
Live in the flesh, satisfy the flesh Do
what they want to do Do what they
want to do I heard another preacher say
Do what you want to do And if
you sin Then you can ask God to
forgive you And he's a God of love
He'll forgive you But do what you want
to do Oh God in heaven Have mercy
on us in this hour This is why
I'm so happy to be with you To
give you direction People are saying Pastors are
saying to me We don't know what to
do We don't know what to go We're
in confusion I say honey I know it
I know it I want to give you
direction There is reality There is reality Get
to God Get into God Pray, pray, pray
Hours of prayer Get along with God In
this precious word God will answer your prayers
And come to you and help you We
do need wisdom God knows we need wisdom
But you can pray I love Ephesians That
first chapter of Ephesians Pray for the spirit
of wisdom and revelation In the knowledge of
him to be upon you That's the best
wisdom we can have That's the best wisdom
we can have When the precious spirit of
wisdom and revelation I love that verse It's
one of my favorite verses in the whole
Bible Ephesians 1, 17 Underscore it with red
pencil Right in your notebook Ephesians 1, 17
Pray that the God of our Lord Jesus
Christ The Father of glory May give unto
you the spirit of wisdom and revelation In
the knowledge of him The eyes of your
understanding be enlightened That ye may know what
is the hope of his calling And what
the riches of the glory Of his inheritance
in his saints Isn't that rich?
Isn't that rich?
But that's ours That's ours Everything in this
book Is for us It's ours We can
have it Oh What are these gifts for?
What are they for?
The purpose of the gifts 1 Corinthians 12,
7 To profit with awe 1 Corinthians 14,
3 He that prophesies speaketh unto men to
edification, exhortation, and comfort 1 Corinthians 14, 4
He that prophesies edifies the church Ephesians 4,
11, 13 What are they for?
For the perfecting of the saints For the
work of the ministry For the edifying of
the body of Christ Till we all come
in the unity of the spirit And the
knowledge of the Son of God Unto a
perfect man Unto that full stature that he
wants And that's what happens in the new
birth You have the germ You have the
seed You have the Christ inside of you
And it's the Christ in us who grows
and matures And comes into the full stature
Jesus can only be satisfied with himself And
his own nature And this is what he
gives to us And he wants a bride
just like himself And this is how the
bride of Christ will be Just like himself
She'll be what he is Because of that
incorruptible seed The seed of the word of
God dropped into us That we feed and
nourish And the Christ in us to grow
To grow I know the old man is
still there I know that how well we
all know it And we'll never get rid
of him until we get out of here
To me, to me, you know Our worst
enemy is our carnal mind This carnal mind
That's our worst enemy All sin, all unholiness,
all unrighteousness Begins in the carnal mind We
think it before we do it And so
when the thought comes When the thought first
comes You say, I'm not going to do
it So I'm not going to think it
Say amen I'm not going to think it
Rebuke the thought And to me, the most
marvelous thing about the rapture On this side
of the cloud Will be to get rid
of the carnal mind Do you ever feel
like you'd like to pull down the zipper
And get out And get released Get out,
get released Get out of this, this human
thing This natural, this carnal thing That we
can't get rid of We've got this old
man with us One of our missionaries tell
us that One of the natives came to
him And he said, Sob There's something wrong
He says, I know I'm a Christian I
know I'm a Christian But he says, it's
like there's two dogs inside of me And
they're fighting One's a good dog and one's
a bad dog And these dogs are fighting
And I don't know what to do about
it And the missionary said, Well Which dog
is winning?
And the native thought about it for a
little while And he says, The one I'm
feeding He's the one that's winning Do you
understand parables?
Yeah So feed the Christ Feed the new
man Feed him and starve the flesh Starve
the old man Starve that carnal thing Starve
him out Have nothing to do with him
The moment he lifts his head And you
know that's carnality That's flesh Rebuke it Be
done with it And move with Christ And
live in him Amen Oh, wisdom Yeah Solomon
says, Wisdom is the important thing Therefore get
wisdom Therefore get wisdom You know there's only
one Holy Ghost Only one And this same
Holy Ghost that baptized you and me This
is the Holy Ghost that was upon Those
old prophets Those old prophets This is the
same Holy Ghost That gave them the wisdom
they had to move as they did It
was the Holy Ghost on Isaiah Wasn't, don't
you love Isaiah?
Don't you love Isaiah?
It was the Holy Ghost on Isaiah It
was the Holy Ghost on Jeremiah On Elijah
It was the Holy Ghost on Jesus Jesus
didn't come to us as son of God
He came as son of man Born a
little eensy weensy tiny baby Had humbled himself
to become nothing more than a seed in
a virgin's womb When he was born he
didn't know any more than you know His
mother taught him And then the Holy Ghost
began to talk to him Oh, what happened
those nights out there in the mountain Alone
with his father He was being taught You
and I depend on the Holy Ghost Jesus
came to show us how we could live
And move in God Like he did Only
he didn't have a fallen nature like we
have We know when the gifts are manifest
through us Jesus will always be glorified He'll
never exalt a personality He will always exalt
the Lord Jesus Christ Wisdom and knowledge really
go together And we see it I like
to use Joseph Joseph, God revealed to Joseph
What was going to happen There'll be seven
years of plenty and there'll be seven years
of famine He had that knowledge and then
God gave him wisdom to know what to
do about it Alright God gave to John
Out on the Isle of Patmos He gave
him knowledge of the condition of the churches
The seven churches And then he gave him
wisdom to know what to do about it
I want to tell you men who are
opening churches And you say, I don't know
what to do Where do I start?
I don't know what to do Honey, remember
you got a head Remember you got a
head Say yes And the head of the
church has the key to every city and
every village He knows exactly what to do
And if you wait on him If you
wait on him If you wait on him
He'll show you exactly what to do He'll
answer these problems I promise you In the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ He's got
the key to every city He will show
you what to do Any problem that you
have He is wisdom In him dwells all
the fullness of wisdom and knowledge Which really
says he knows all there is to know
on every subject Your car goes wrong What
do you do?
You're out on the highway 50 miles from
a garage and the car goes wrong What
do you do?
Tell me what you do You pray So
you make Jesus a mechanic Yes You make
him a mechanic Will you come and fix
this car?
He's a pretty good mechanic And he comes
and fixes your car You women are sewing
And things are going crooked And you rip
and you sew and you rip and you
sew and you rip What do you do?
Jesus help me You make a seamstress out
of him And he comes and helps you
You're baking a cake And you want it
to come out right Like one of our
missionaries in Russia It was her husband's birthday
And she says Father I'd love to give
John a cake I must give John a
cake She says all I have in the
house is flour and water Oh God won't
you please She stirred up flour and water
And put it in a cake pan And
put it in the oven Left it in
there for 30-45 minutes When she opened
the oven door And pulled out the cake
It had vanilla in it It had salt
in it It had everything in there Everything
She pulled out a perfect cake He ain't
saying anything Do you think he can supply
salt and vanilla and everything?
Yeah In him All the wisdom The riches
of wisdom and knowledge He can We say
oh God can do anything No it says
with God All things are possible With him
Gotta get with him One with him He
gives us wisdom All of us need wisdom
All of us need to know what to
do I could tell you stories I've opened
three churches One church that I opened Jesus
said I want a church in Norristown, Pennsylvania
I want you to go over to Norristown
And I'll be with you I want a
church there Go over there and give yourself
to prayer and fasting That's what I did
And to shorten the story One day Jesus
said to me Let's go for a walk
And I thought it wouldn't be so bad
to go for a walk with Jesus And
so I left the room And Jesus and
I walked down the street And we turned
and walked on And came to a red
light And I stopped as you usually do
A man came up beside me Isn't this
a lovely day?
I said yes This is the day Jesus
is giving us today And he said Jesus,
do you know him?
Yes, I love Jesus Will you come to
my house and tell us about Jesus?
My wife and I want to get saved
And we don't know what to do If
she calls me I'll come So I went
to their house And they invited me for
dinner Before we sat down for dinner He
says wait a minute Just wait a minute
Don't talk until I get back And he
went out You know in that Philadelphia area
How the houses are built a block at
a time And he went out the door
And went down the block Rang every door
But get up to my house Get up
to my house as fast as you can
Don't ask why, just get up there And
I came up the street on the other
side Get over to my house Come right
away Don't ask why Please just get up
there And when he came back He had
about 12 people with him I don't remember
eating the dinner We pushed back the food
And I began to tell them about Jesus
This was my congregation And then Jesus said
Now you go down to There's a Methodist
church In the center of the city And
those Methodists have gone out And built another
church You go down to bank And rent
that church So I went down And here
I could hardly see Through the window I
want to talk to the vice president And
they brought him on And I said Sir,
I'd like to rent that Methodist church That
you people own When those other groups left
And you took over that church Could I
rent it?
And he looked at me What would you
do with the church?
I said Sir, I want to preach there
I want to tell the people about Jesus
He said You're going to preach there?
I said Yes sir Well he says How
many people do you have?
And I said Well I don't have any
people yet But they'll come sir I promise
you they'll come They'll come And who's going
to pay the rent?
I'll pay the rent Jesus is with me
And he'll help me pay the rent Would
you please rent me this church?
And Jesus He looked at me You want
to rent a church?
You're going to pay the rent You don't
have any people This is something He says
I'll rent you the Methodist church For one
dollar a month It's got an organ, a
piano Hymn books Cushion pews For one dollar
a month And this group that sent They
brought into the home These were my first
people And the Lord Just prophesied through me
That day And I said You come You
come I'm going to have services Sunday afternoon
And I told them about the baptism of
the Spirit I said If you will come
I promise you You will see somebody receive
the baptism of the Spirit And I said
When I got back to my room I
said Jesus I didn't say that I didn't
say that I didn't say somebody would receive
the baptism I don't know who's going to
be there I don't know if anybody said
it Jesus You said that I didn't You
said that I didn't You said that Somebody
would get the baptism That service came And
here we were And this group were my
first people And I spoke to them The
first sermon was on the baptism of the
Holy Spirit And then I said I don't
know you folks But would any of you
like to have this experience?
And a beautiful, well-dressed woman came Knelt
at the altar The only one that came
And she said Yes, I would like to
have this experience And I laid hands on
her And prayed for her And God baptized
her in the Holy Ghost Marvelous baptism of
the Spirit When it was over I said
Honey, would you please tell me your name?
And she said I am Mrs. DuPont Hallelujah
Mrs. DuPont Hallelujah God has the answer God
knows exactly what to do Get in touch
with God He has wisdom And He has
knowledge And He has everything else that we
need I could spend just a lot of
time on that Faith Faith Let's look at
faith Faith cometh by hearing Thee Thee Word
of God When God speaks That word of
faith into your heart You know that you
know that you know that you know Faith
It was my privilege to visit Lillian Trasher
Does that name mean anything to you?
Lillian Trasher It was my privilege to visit
her And faith I really saw faith in
action One day here they had hundreds and
hundreds of orphans And I think 200 widows
And all these hundreds and hundreds of orphans
And somebody came in and says Mama G,
there's no food We have no food whatsoever
And she says Well, alright you tell the
children to pray Go and tell the widows
to pray And we'll pray here Well, Brother
Ernest Williams and Sister Williams And Daddy Welch
Who was President of the Bible College in
Springfield We went out and visited Sister Trasher
And we She said Now folks, let's pray
There's no food for all these children Oh,
I said Father, I wanted to see this
I wanted to see this And we She,
when we knelt She says Brother Williams, will
you pray?
Well, if you knew Brother Williams Dear, precious
man of God He would When he was
really getting through He would shake his head
Oh, God And he prayed Daddy Welch, will
you pray?
Daddy Welch prayed I wanted to hear her
pray Because she had made a covenant with
God She says God, I'll take care of
these children But you have to be the
husband And the husband supplies the needs And
supplies the food And I'll take care of
the children I'll wash their faces And take
care of their snotty nose And wash their
diapers And everything else But you've got to
supply the food And she said That was
my covenant with God And he had put
that in her heart And I wanted to
hear her pray So when they were through
praying She did pray Now, Father Your children
Don't have any bread And you are the
father of these children And there's no bread
There's no food in this place And I'm
trusting you to send us food And I
thank you for food Amen Let's get up
And so we got up And it wasn't
five minutes, I guess Until the bell rang
on the gate And the servant came in
He says Mama G Baker baked too many
loaves last night Much bread left over He
wants to know Could you use bread?
She said Tell him to drive in And
here was our bread Next five minutes The
gate rang again And the servant came Mama
G The wind last night Brought down many,
many, many oranges The man wants to know
Could we use oranges?
She said Just tell him to drive in
And things began to happen Faith in operation
When God Faith cometh by hearing The Word
of God And when God puts His Word
in your heart You can stand on that
Word You don't open the Bible and find
it yourself You don't say Oh, let me
see Oh, this No, that doesn't fit And
then you lose America No, that's not right
Judas went out and hung himself That doesn't
fit But God gives you a Word
And you know it's going to happen You
just know that you know It's going to
happen A little woman sat down Here in
front of me The meeting was dismissed Everybody
was gone But this black woman And I
could not leave the platform So I just
went back and sat in the chair And
the Spirit of the Lord said to me
He healed all who came to Him I
said, yes, yes, yes, Lord So the pastor's
wife came down the aisle And I said
to her That black woman wants something What
is it she wants?
And she looked it up at me And
she said Oh, Sister Emma, you must be
tired She wants prayer But she can come
back and be prayed for tonight I said,
you bring her to me And so she
came up on the platform And the Lord
had already said He healed all who came
So when she came up I said, sit
down here, honey And she sat down in
the platform chair beside me And I laid
my hands over Fully knowing God had spoken
I had His word And I said, honey
In the name of Jesus Christ of Calvary
You're healed I know you're healed Later on,
I learned who she was You know that
fella in Uganda That killed all those people
Idi Amin You remember that?
Old Idi Amin This woman was the wife
Of Idi Amin's personal physician When he was
killing off everybody His physician and his wife
Went through the forest Eating berries and roots
and leaves And her stomach was in a
terrible condition And here they were in my
meetings And this poor dear suffering And Jesus
healed that woman of her condition What about
the gifts of healing?
Oh, I love that I love that When
there's gifts of healing And these gifts should
be operating in the church And it is
so beautiful to see God use members of
the church To minister to other members of
the church In the gifts of healing I
was preaching And in the midst of my
sermon Right down here a woman stood up
And she stood up and waved her hand
Like a child in school And I kept
on preaching And she stood there waving her
hand And I said Honey, do you want
something?
She said Sister Hammond, may I testify?
I thought Well, I'm preaching She said I
feel the Lord wants me to testify Alright,
I said If it's God, you testify And
she says Five years ago And I thought
Oh dear And she sat there And she
talked on and on and on About the
symptoms And what was wrong with her And
so on And she just talked on and
on For a couple minutes And after a
while Over here on this side of the
church And I said Now what's happening over
here?
And she said Jesus just healed me Jesus
just healed me She said I have gallbladder
trouble And I was beginning to have a
gallbladder attack And I just told my husband
He had to take me out of the
meeting I was having a gallbladder attack But
when that lady began to testify Oil started
coming down on my head And I was
so afraid She stopped talking Before that oil
flowed down Hit my gallbladder And that oil
flowed down Finally hit the gallbladder She was
absolutely healed Well, and of course They could
both sit down And the meeting went on
And she didn't have to leave the service
Here's the gifts of healing One member of
the church Ministering to another When the need
arose in the assembly Isn't it beautiful the
way God does things?
It's so beautiful He works Ministers All kinds
of gifts of healing And then Can I
touch on miracles?
Can I touch on miracles?
How many of you have ever seen a
miracle?
How many of you would like to see
one this morning?
Alright dear How many of you would like
to be a miracle?
Would you like to be a miracle?
To be a miracle Is certainly more than
seeing a miracle And this is what God
wants God is a miracle working God To
be a miracle is worth more than seeing
a miracle If we were all healed If
all of our eyes were opened If all
of our If you grow arms and legs
on people It doesn't matter what happens That
body will go back to dust But it
is what happens in us In the spirit
That is eternal The spirit is more important
to God Than the body The spirit will
live on eternally So God God is a
miracle working God And God's His best miracles
are wrought in the lives of his people
God can perform miracles in the lives of
preachers Say yes Yes he can Yes he
can And I want to tell you this
I want to tell you this miracle that
God wrought When I was asked to go
to this church I did not want to
go I knew the program in that church
I knew how things moved in that church
I did not want to go I bawled
about it I didn't want to go And
the Lord spoke to my heart If you
will go I will be with you God
told me The people will leave you You
will be persecuted in that place They will
turn against you I want you to go
I want you to go for two weeks
And if you will stay for two weeks
I will perform miracles The people will all
come back And I'll take care of everything
If you'll just go and stay there for
two weeks And that's the time he asked
me for two weeks So I had to
say I would go And God gave me
an intercessor to go there with me Well
that fella advertised me I tell you he
had my picture on every telephone pole Any
way that you turn I was in the
newspaper I walked on my own face down
the street in the rain He had advertised
me He advertised me as the biggest little
Bible teacher in the world Yes he did
Yes he did The biggest little Bible teacher
in the world There's nobody like this Bible
teacher Yuckity yuck yuck yuck And so it
was And when the first service came The
Lord said to me I want you to
preach on I am crucified with Christ Nevertheless
I live yet not I Christ liveth in
me And I said Father You don't begin
meetings preaching on I'm crucified with Christ If
you want a revival And preach on the
cross and crucifixion In the first service you
don't do that Father Well I want you
to do it And nothing happens unless you
obey you know So I went and opened
my Bible I tell you In the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ And I prayed
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
Please come and help me That place was
packed and jammed with chairs down the aisle
They had come to hear this biggest little
Biggest thing in the world And here they
were And God had told me they'd leave
me And I preached on I am crucified
with Christ And I could feel the temperature
going down As the service went on I
could feel I could see the restlessness I
could feel their spirit I could feel the
preacher behind me Sometimes you know I could
feel his spirit What's going on here Well
Sunday, Monday night, Tuesday night rather There weren't
that many people The balconies were empty Wednesday
night there were fewer Thursday night the choir
told him They weren't coming back Friday night
the orchestra said Don't look for us anymore
We're not sitting through this We don't want
this This crucifying of the flesh thing We
don't want this We don't want this The
orchestra left me Sitting down here in the
front There was three or four women Who
came up to me And they said Sister
Hammond We have prayed and prayed and prayed
and prayed That God would perform a miracle
And would change this whole situation Oh please
don't leave us Please, please We will pray,
we'll fast and pray We'll do anything If
you'll just stay with us Please don't go
Came the second Sunday morning And before we
went into the church The pastor said to
me Are you staying another week I said
Sir, you invited me for two weeks Yes,
I'll stay another week So we went into
the church And when he made the announcements
This is word for word what he said
He made announcements And he says Get that
man out of the chair And there he
was stretched out on the platform The preacher
The preacher God just slew him Flung him
out there And there he lay And I
thought what did I do What did I
do And the power of God Came into
that church Came into that church And people
began to scream And ran out of this
The few that were I don't suppose there's
more than 30 people there They ran They
ran down to the altar And began to
scream and cry to God to help them
And so I just slid down behind the
desk And hid myself here And said God
just go on Do whatever you're doing God
I don't know what But do whatever you're
doing And here was this preacher Stretched out
here on the platform And he was saying
Oh God Oh God I didn't know you
were like this God I didn't know you
were this kind of a God God I
didn't know you Oh God I didn't I
didn't know you And God had just pinned
him down there He had a real Saul
of Tarsus experience On the road to Damascus
God just pinned him down there And dealt
with that preacher It was between 2 and
3 o'clock in the afternoon Before that
fellow could get up from there And finally
when he did get up He came to
me and said I'm going to resign the
pastor And he said I'm not fit to
take these people on in God I'm going
to resign You take the church You take
the people on I'm going to resign I
said indeed you're not going to resign You
never were so fit to take the people
on Now that you know who God is
I didn't know God was like this I
didn't know he was this kind of a
God I said yes God is a holy
God We're dealing with a holy God And
you didn't know him That's the reason you
opposed me the way you did That's the
reason you've acted the way you have You
didn't know God Who God is And God
in his mercy Is showing himself to you
That's the reason some pastors act the way
they do They don't know God They don't
know the Holy Ghost They don't know who
God really is They don't understand They don't
know They don't know And I tell you
word got around Of what had happened in
that morning service And Sunday night The choir
was back Because in the afternoon They came
to where I was being living In a
home I was living Sister Hammond will you
forgive me Sister Hammond will you forgive me
Oh yes honey You're forgiven Come on and
sing The choir The orchestra Will you forgive
me I want to come back Come on
back Come on back I had my orchestra
I had my choir The people came back
And oh God moved Honey this is what
I say Would you Do you want to
see a miracle Or do you want to
be a miracle Are you willing for God
to take you in hands Huh Fling you
around a little bit And give you a
revelation of yourself Until you really know Who
God is Are you willing for this What
happened The meetings went on for five weeks
God sent such a revival Such healings One
woman God created A new stomach In her
body She'd come just from the hospital Where
the doctor had operated on an ulcer And
told her she'd have to live on On
liquids the rest of her life And she
came and said Oh oh pray for me
Pray for me She came to one of
our prayer meetings We prayed for her And
she said Oh please excuse me I'll have
to go to the restroom She went to
the restroom And passed her old stomach Picked
it up in her hands And carried it
to the doctor And asked him what this
was He said lady that's your stomach And
there were where the old stitches were And
she says I'm so hungry She called me
on the phone I'm hungry I'm just so
hungry I said if I were you I'd
start with some bouillon or something Light soup
She said bouillon nothing I want something to
eat I said what do you want She
said I want a steak I said okay
In Jesus name And I'm telling you In
Jesus name Her first meal was steak and
baked potatoes With her brand new stomach God
that is the creative power of God That
word went out over the city Went out
over the city A Baptist church heard about
it The Baptist came I had to send
for another evangelist To come and help me
Because we had to have two meetings every
night In that church I was upstairs He
was downstairs They'd get saved upstairs Go down
there and get the baptism Or go down
there and Yes And God God Oh Five
weeks We had a brand new pastor We
had a brand new orchestra We had a
brand new choir And God was doing his
work In that whole congregation And the whole
city Knew about it That Jesus Christ was
passing by I believe in miracles Don't you?
Yes And this I'm supposed to preach on
prophecy I told you I could keep you
for three hours But prophecy is like You
speak just like you speak in tongues Only
it comes out in English And your brain
doesn't have anything to do with it And
I tell you that is a marvelous experience
The real thing I was in Dearborn, Michigan
on Easter morning And I felt an unusual
touch of the spirit But I didn't know
he was going to do this And I
read the scripture He showed himself alive And
that's the last word that came from my
brain And the Holy Ghost took over And
the rest of it Oh, I was listening
to what was coming out of my mouth
And I said, oh, Jesus, that's so beautiful
Jesus, that's so beautiful And it was like
speaking in tongues Only it was coming out
in English Pure, pure Not prophesying of what's
going to happen We've had that kind of
prophecy That Mussolini was going to be the
Antichrist And Hitler was going to be the
Antichrist Now Gorbachev is going to be the
Antichrist And so it goes, no But real
prophecy You remember 13th of Corinthians says It's
as though I prophesy And understand all mysteries
So prophecy has to do with the mysteries
Of the word of God Unlocking them, unfolding
them Revelation coming to us And when the
prophets prophesied The word says all the prophets
prophesied of Him When Mary prophesied Mary and
Elizabeth, what a time they must have had
Mary prophesied was all about Jesus When Elizabeth
prophesied was all about Jesus The mysteries of
God The gifts of the Spirit are the
gifts of the Holy Spirit They're in the
Spirit, they're operated by the Spirit The manifestation
is so of the Spirit Everybody knows this
is the real thing And it's God, it's
God Real interpretation is not Oh my, some
interpretations are frightening I the Lord thy God
am in your midst And I say to
you If that was true, ever one of
us be knocked over Yea, yea, yea, yea
I don't know why we have to always
have yea, yea, yea, yea Yea, thus saith
the Lord If that was God, none of
us would be standing But He interprets and
there's comfort There's not judgmental interpretations But comfort
and exhortation And that which will build up
the body of Christ And bring Jesus to
us I've got to close, I can't go
on Oh, His name is what?
Take Him home with you Talk about Him
in the car, on the way Live in
Him, eat Him, drink Him Give Him to
your people When you're going into that church
Sunday morning I pray you'll have living bread
To feed the body of Christ Father, Father,
Oh Father I just lift up all these
pastors and their wives I just lift them
up Father, I hold them before you Oh,
I pray for that holy anointing Of the
precious Holy Spirit To flow down all over
them Oh God, bring them in the Spirit
with you Help them to live in the
Spirit Help them to know a life in
God In the Holy Ghost Make these pastors
men of God Oh Father, men of God
Who walk with God Who talk with God
Who hears from God And can take that
living word Week after week to their people
Do send revival, Jesus Just, you come We
know, we know Revival is your coming among
us Come, Jesus We need you so much
Oh Father, we thank you for these Heaven
appointed days together Thank you, Father We give
it all back to you now We give
it back to you And ask you to
please preserve everything that you've done And we
want you in the days to come, Father
To be worshipped and adored and glorified In
the name of the Father, the Son, the
Holy Ghost We ask it, and everybody said
Thank you, Sister Hammond Would you all stand
with me I want us to sing what
she has suggested Take the name of Jesus
with you We have so appreciated These life
-changing messages And above all, the ministry of
the Spirit In our midst It's imperative that
you and I When we get home Allow
the changes that have been happening in our
lives To be really flesh and blood Put
into our ministries Altering our services And I
pray that every one of us Shall truly
be a different preacher That stands before that
congregation Next Sunday morning Let this be but
the beginning The wonderful things Let's sing this
chorus together First verse, then chorus Take the
name of Jesus with you Take the name
of Jesus with you Child of sorrow and
of woe It will joy and comfort give
you Take it, then where'er you go
Precious name Oh, how sweet How
motherland, joy of heav'n Precious
name Oh, how sweet How
motherland, joy of heav
'n Hallelujah We praise
you, Jesus Hallowed be thy wonderful name Hallelujah