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Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers,
too.
This week we have Hans R.
Waldvogel with his message, Being Filled with the
Spirit.
When he talks about brethren, it means the
sisters, too.
Holy brethren, holy brethren, holy brethren, holy brethren,
partakers of the heavenly calling.
Really, there ought to be a tremendous improvement
and growth and change in us.
There is, if God makes the change.
There was a long time when we tried
to change ourselves, and it just didn't work.
But oh, it's such a different thing when
you come to be changed by this master
changer who makes a new creation out of
you.
And that's the lesson that God is striving
to bring to our hearts.
I think one of the best textbooks we
have is Ephesians.
You remember how Paul came to a Baptist
church in Ephesus?
And they thought they were good Baptists.
We thought so, too.
We were taught to say, Ein Baptist ist
ein Christ, und ein Christ ist ein Baptist.
Und wer eins von beiden nicht ist, der
ist keins von beiden.
And my, we were big, we were holy,
we were the best.
And as I knew for years, I was
positively sure that the Baptist church was the
only church in the world.
All the others might have a slim chance
to get into heaven, but the Baptists, they
were the ones.
Until I woke up, till Paul came, till
the Lord came.
Have you received the Holy Ghost since you
believed?
Why, we didn't know there was a Holy
Ghost.
Do you know how many people don't know
there is a Holy Ghost?
And how many people in Pentecost don't know
who the Holy Ghost is?
He is the Lord.
He is the King.
He is our salvation, praise God.
He is the light and the life of
the church of Jesus Christ.
He is the resurrected Son of God.
He is the only potentate, the King of
kings and Lord of lords.
He is the only one that can save
you.
Have you received the Holy...
Why, we haven't even heard there was a
Holy Ghost.
And what happened next?
Unto what then were you baptized?
Whose banner did you swear to?
What country did you join?
Where is your citizenship?
Who did you swear allegiance to?
Who is your King?
Who is it that controls your mind and
your heart?
Who is it that saves you?
Well, they said we were baptized unto John
the Baptist and Baptistus and Christ and then
Christus and Baptista.
They knew that by memory.
They had memorized that very well.
Paul said that's no good.
You've got to be married to him that's
risen from the dead.
You've got to be filled with the Holy
Spirit.
You're in the flesh.
You can be baptized as Baptists a million
times over unless you're baptized with the Holy
Ghost.
Why, that's the great job.
God Almighty charged Jesus Christ with doing.
He had to die that he might bring
life and immortality to life through the Gospel.
That he might be purchasing the gift of
the Holy Ghost.
That he might lead many sons unto glory.
That he might accomplish that which the law
could not do because it was weak through
the flesh.
That he might destroy the body of death.
That might raise the body of resurrection, the
new body.
Glory to God.
That we might receive the adoption of sons.
Have you received the Holy Ghost since you
believe?
Why, we have not so much heard as
that there was a Holy Ghost.
But when they had been baptized into Jesus
Christ and Paul laid his hands, these authoritative
hands upon them in the name of Jesus,
something happened to these Baptists.
Then they became real Baptists.
I never was a real Baptist until I
was baptized both in the name of Jesus
Christ and in the Holy Ghost.
And Jesus did it.
I used to look askance on the Pentecostal
people.
I didn't like it when they tried to
baptize me.
They tried it.
Oh, there's so much stupidity exercised even among
Holy Ghost people.
I always say, if we could raise the
tax for stupidity, boy, we wouldn't have such
a big national debt.
But, I said, Jesus Christ says that he
will baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire.
That was my first real meeting with Almighty
God when he baptized me with fire.
I was surrounded by flames of fire and
my whole body was charged with the power
of an endless life.
I was made to drink of the water
that Jesus gives and it became within me
a well of living water springing up into
everlasting life.
My life has been marvelously changed from that
moment on but it's continually being changed by
that Spirit that dwells within.
That's important.
We need to know the Holy Ghost because
he's our life.
We need to drink of that fountain of
life.
It isn't sufficient to be baptized with the
Holy Ghost but now to walk in the
Spirit.
He has translated you out of the kingdom
of darkness.
How many people claim to be baptized with
the Holy Ghost and they're satisfied to still
live in the flesh and they're satisfied to
still be governed by the flesh?
That's where our frowns come from.
But, beloved, that, the Bible says, is dangerous.
If you live in the flesh, we shall
die.
We shall die.
But if you live in the Spirit, do
you know the Spirit?
Do you know the Holy Ghost?
Is He your habitation?
Is He your realm?
Is He the ocean of life and of
light and of grace and of love and
of joy and of peace into which you've
been sunk, deeply sunk so that your whole
being has been transformed into this ocean of
love?
Have you received the Holy Ghost?
Yes, they received the Holy Ghost and now
the Apostle Paul, writing to the Ephesians church
tells them of the blessing they couldn't possibly
understand in the beginning when they spoke in
tongues and prophesied what it all meant.
They had just begun to taste of the
powers of the world to come but now
he writes to them and he says, God,
O how He has blessed us with all
spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ according
as He has chosen us in Him before
the foundation of the world that we should
be holy and without blame before Him in
love.
Oh, that's the result of being filled with
the Spirit, of walking in the Spirit.
Beloved, we need Ephesians.
We need these words of life.
They never meant much to me until the
Holy Spirit had come and He illumined my
understanding.
Oh, how differently I read Ephesians.
I had given to me an English Bible
when I was a boy and it was
always new until that thing happened, until God
came to me.
And in three months' time that thing came
apart and Ephesians stuck out from among the
other pages because I wept over it, I
laughed over it, I rejoiced in it.
I read it until I had memorized it
without trying to memorize it.
It had gone into my heart that you
should be holy and without blame before Him
in love.
Beloved, we don't know the Holy Ghost unless
we have accepted that call of God, unless
we have made a vow, we've taken a
vow of allegiance.
Christ is my Lord.
The Holy Ghost is my Lord.
Beloved, we're not filled with the Spirit unless
we're submitting ourselves to the Holy Ghost, unless
we allow Him to reign.
And when He reigns, something wonderful happens.
And it happens every day.
Every day His blessings new fall around me
like a dew.
Every day He gives me His living bread.
Every day He meets me.
Every day He instructs me.
Every day He talks to me.
Every day He chastens me by His word.
Every day He deals with me as with
a son that I might be partaker of
His holiness.
Every day He walks with me.
He doesn't let me get away one inch
from Him.
He keeps such a careful watch over me.
He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor
sleep.
But, beloved, this is the Israel of God.
They're not born of the flesh, but they're
born of the will of God.
They're begotten of the Spirit.
They're sons of Abraham by merit of the
cross of Christ and the resurrection of the
Son of God.
Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye
believed?
Why, after that ye believed, He says, ye
were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise
which is the earnest of our inheritance until
the redemption of the purchased possession of God.
Why, that's the rapture.
That's the rapid Jacob, Elagunta by Barazzo.
That's the moment for which Jesus Christ bled
on the cross, for which He cried with
great cries and tears unto Him that was
able to save Him from death.
That's what He died for, that you and
I might be gifted with a resurrection body,
that we might be like unto Him, that
we might be sons of God without rebuke
in the midst of a crooked and perverse
generation and then rise to reign with Him
forever and forever.
Why, we didn't know there was a Holy
Ghost.
Listen, if you don't know there is a
Holy Ghost, if you don't know the Holy
Ghost who is with you all the time,
who is within you, who reigns within you,
who governs you, who controls your mind, who
controls your tongue, who controls your feet and
your hands, your body, soul and spirit, beloved,
we'll never be presented spotless before the presence
of His glory.
Moses can't do it.
You can be the choice Pharisee in the
world.
You can graduate from every school of learning
of the Jews and the Buddhists and the
Confucianists of Christian science and unity and Father
Divine and whatever you call it and you'll
never.
Beloved, there must come to me a righteousness
which Jesus Christ Himself lives out within me.
Oh, when He lives within me.
But we didn't know there was a Holy
Ghost.
Do you know there's a Holy Ghost?
Do you know who He is?
Do you know what a powerful being?
And you!
Paul is looking upon a gang of robbers
and adulterers and murderers and thieves and liars.
That's what they were, he says, such were
some of you.
But you're washed, you're sanctified, you're justified and
you!
And today he would say, you dumpers, you
jealous folks, you carnal Christians.
You has He quickened.
He's made you alive.
Oh, beloved, I'm not quickened until I let
Jesus Christ live out His life within me.
This morning I wrote a letter to someone
in Germany and I quoted a text.
Draw night to God and He will draw
night to you.
And there flashed into my soul a light.
And I said, why, is there a Christian
in the world who doesn't consider it a
great privilege to draw night to God?
Draw night to God and He will draw
night to you.
And Paul says, it's good for you that
I'm locked up in jail.
You took too much stock in me.
You had too much confidence in the flesh.
Today we know no man after the flesh.
Draw night to God and He will draw
night to you.
What a privilege!
What a call!
Abide in me and I in you.
What a call!
Why is it not so real to us
that it grips every atom of our being
so that we count everything but refuse, but
dung for the excellency of the knowledge of
Christ Jesus our Lord?
Why is it that we question but, beloved,
there ought to be no question about it.
There shouldn't be.
Why, we didn't know there was.
Oh, is there a Holy Ghost?
Listen, is there a fire burning within you
that consumes the man of sin, that consumes
the works of the flesh, that re-habajo,
re-cambajo, that puts some real pep into
you when I see people go to sleep
on the job?
We used to have a lot of trouble
with people that always came late to meeting.
Die kommen zu spät in den Himmel.
If it was a coffee clutch, they'd be
here way ahead of time to get the
best cup of coffee and the best donut.
But to come to church and especially to
a prayer meeting, beloved, Paul says, I count
everything but refuse.
Oh, the excellency, the excellency.
I die daily.
We talk about death as if it were
somewhere in the future.
Someday, someday maybe we'll die to the flesh.
Someday maybe we'll bear the cross.
Today we sing about it.
The way of the cross leads home.
But we're, we're hesitating.
We're really...
But Paul says, I tell you the truth,
I die daily.
I bear in my body the dying of
the Lord Jesus and he didn't do it
with a frown.
But he did it with great happiness.
Read Philippians.
That epistle that's written from jail where their
feet were made fast in the stocks and
their bodies were bleeding and they were lying
in the muck and mire among rats and
bedbugs and fleas and they were praising God.
Hallelujah.
They were praising so loud that the prisoners
outside the wall in other cells heard them.
But God heard them.
And as someone said, God said, Amen, with
a mighty earthquake.
God will say that to you and to
me.
When you know the Holy Ghost.
When you know who the Holy Ghost is.
Beloved, in Ephesians 1, the Apostle Paul says,
You've received that earnest of your inheritance and
now I pray that you might know the
Holy Ghost.
Oh beloved, we've been learning to know the
Holy Ghost, haven't we?
Last night's meeting was another revelation.
A German meeting.
But oh, how God came.
And it was sort of a lazy meeting.
Well, we get tired.
I was tired myself.
I'm glad when I can get up to
preach.
Then I wake up.
I stir myself, praise the Lord.
But oh, how God came.
You know, at the end of the meeting
when everybody was tired and wanted to go
home, God quickened us.
And you have He quickened.
He's made you alive.
Listen, it's your privilege to be alive.
Your privilege to be alive.
Not with natural life.
Not with vitamins X, Y, Z.
But with the life of Jesus Christ pulsating
within you.
In your very body.
In your very vessels, blood vessels.
Your very nervous system to be quickened.
Oh, Jesus.
Jesus Christ for this body.
And this body for Jesus Christ.
Oh, that we might know the Holy Ghost.
We can.
We ought to.
We should.
And when we talk about being changed into
His image, let's remember who makes the change.
It's the Holy Ghost.
And as we pray in the Holy Ghost.
And you've got to learn that lesson.
That's why the Lord insists in our living
lives of praise.
That's the mightiest prayer in the Holy Ghost
you can pray.
Praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
Glory be to God.
Why, we didn't know there was a Holy
Ghost until we began praising the Lord.
And He gripped us.
And He quickened us.
And He breathed upon us His breath of
life.
And we began to learn how to walk
in the strength of the Son of God.
You come to meeting dead tired.
God doesn't blame you for that.
He says, my strength is made perfect in
weakness.
And you look to Him and Baju, Gurakha,
Elozele, Goboja, the dynamo begins to hum within
you.
Glory to God.
And every member of your body is quickened
and electrified.
What is it?
You ought to say, who is it?
Oh, that you might receive the spirit of
wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.
Beloved, we have hardly begun.
God gives us a little taste of it.
And then we run away and grow careless.
When I began seeking the Lord, every once
in a while, there was a flash of
light.
I wrote to Elder Brooks one day.
And I said, He's looked at me through
the lattice.
You know, the Venetian blinds.
And then after a while, you lose that
vision.
And then after a while, He comes again.
And then He comes again.
The face at the window.
But oh, what a face.
But beloved, He wants me to get up
to become hungry for Him.
Oh, what you've come under the spell of
the beauty of Jesus.
You're Jesus.
You're bridegroom.
You're king.
The lover of your soul.
The only one that has power to rescue
from death, to save you.
The only one that has power to do
what the law could not do, to deliver
you from the flesh, to deliver you from
every bondage, and to rid you of the
slightest discrepancy, of the least infirmity and fault,
and to present you faultless.
Oh beloved, you'll cease running after anything else.
You'll get up and you'll run after Him
until you find Him.
And you'll hold Him.
And you won't let Him go.
Oh, that spirit of wisdom and revelation in
the knowledge of Him will make you be
a goner, absolutely.
I have seen the face of Jesus.
Tell me not of what besides.
You know, you can quickly recognize Christians that
really have met the Lord.
Oh, you don't have to make any laws
for them.
You don't.
You don't have to tell them what to
do and what not to do.
Love compels them.
If any man love me, and you can't
help but love him when you see him.
Oh beloved, do you know the Holy Ghost?
Do you know there is a Holy Ghost?
Is He at home with you?
Or do you grieve Him by careless talking
and foolishness, and by talking too much, or
living in the flesh, or careless thoughts?
Beloved, the Holy Ghost is life.
And outside of that life, everything is dead.
I have not found your works perfect before
my God.
I counsel thee, be zealous therefore and repent.
Strengthen the things that remain, that are ready
to die.
Beloved, these things can be talked about, and
I've often marveled at the things God gives
us to say in this place.
Mysteries.
Like Paul says, we speak wisdom in a
mystery.
Not the wisdom of this world, not of
the princes of this world that come to
know, but we speak the hidden wisdom, which
God has ordained before the world unto our
glory, which none of the princes of this
world knew.
But beloved, it can be spoken a thousand
times, and unless your heart's prepared to receive
it, unless you receive it by the Spirit
that searches the deep things of God.
Why, we didn't know there was a Holy
Ghost.
No, you won't know until He becomes the
life-giving portion, until He becomes the driving
force of your life, until your mind has
been transformed and renewed by the Spirit of
God.
You'll think differently.
We ought to be able to register a
change in our mind.
We do.
When we started these meetings three weeks ago,
they were different from the way they are
now.
Have you noticed how quiet they've become?
How still?
What's happened?
Why, these rattly minds of ours have been
quieted.
Only God can do that.
Do you know how tremendously important that change
is?
Someone said to me today, Look, so-and
-so, so-and-so, nervous breakdown, nervous breakdown,
nervous...
What in the world's happening?
I'll tell you what's happening.
Jesus Christ has been breaking the seals.
And as He broke the seals, these powers
of hell are coming forth to pounce upon
the carcass.
While the bride of Jesus Christ is getting
ready for the wedding.
How is she getting ready?
Why, by the works that are righteous by
Jesus Christ.
The love, the joy, the peace.
Those things that are despised by an apostate
Christianity.
Despised, brushed aside, rejoicing evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
I used to work with a minister years
ago.
We had much praise in the meeting, and
he despised it.
He used to laugh at us.
He used to make fun of us.
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord.
He was able to preach wonderful sermons, really
wonderful sermons.
And when we talked about the presence of
the Lord, he couldn't feel it.
He said, Ah, that's emotionalism, that's soulish, that's
psychic.
But the day came when he got into
a great trial.
Great darkness came upon him.
I recognized it was the devil.
But he had stuck out his neck.
He had asked for it.
And I went to see him.
I tried to talk to him.
He said, I can't feel the presence of
God anymore.
I said, well, you've always been teaching about
living by faith and not by feeling.
Yes, but he says, I'm crushed by this
darkness.
Sure, you are beloved.
It isn't feeling.
It's the kingdom of God.
It's the reign of Christ.
And if Christ does not reign within you,
if Jesus Christ does not reign, there are
a thousand potent states that are just waiting
to take over, and they will.
Jesus says, when the evil spirit's gone out
of a man and the heart has been
cleansed and not been occupied by the king
of glory, then that demon will come back
with seven that are worse than he, and
they'll come back into that house.
And that's what happens.
Demons can be cast out, but they'll come
back en masse.
But when Jesus Christ comes in, why, we
didn't know there was a Holy Ghost.
Listen, do you know there is a Holy
Ghost?
Jesus Christ has been glorified.
The Bible says the Holy Ghost was not
yet because Jesus was not yet glorified.
It means he has not yet received his
kingdom.
But thank God he's been glorified a long
time.
You don't have to crown him.
He is the king, but you and I
can bow to his scepter.
What a call!
How wonderful that we know the kingdom of
God.
And beloved, God the Father has been pleased
to give that kingdom to us.
Do you want it?
If you want it, you'll want the Holy
Ghost.
If you want that kingdom, you will not
stoop to the works of the flesh anymore.
He says, put ye on the Lord, Jesus
Christ.
I like that scripture.
He is Lord.
Put on the Lord.
What a transformation.
What a change.
Not I, but Christ.
And I may be the weakest of the
weak, or like the Apostle Paul, the least
of all saints.
But he says, the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ was exceeding abundant with faith and
love, which is in Christ Jesus.
He laid aside the garment of the Pharisee
with all its paraphernalia, with all its Sunday
school medals.
Clang, clang, clang.
There they are in the Eckebesen basin, Zeiskebesen.
He says, I count it but refuse.
And he put on the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah.
And God, my dear God, beloved, God has
a salvation for us.
How shall we escape if we neglect so
great salvation?
And here we try to fix up a
salvation to fit our flesh.
It fits, doesn't it?
Sure, it fits your flesh.
Then why did Saddleker fit over the dead
dry bones and the horrible stench?
I was up in Brant Lake sleeping one
night and I woke up at midnight and
I thought the skunk had come into my
bedroom.
It hadn't.
There was a garbage can outside my bedroom
and that skunk had gotten into the garbage
can.
And sometimes you may smell the stuff but
keep it out of your heart.
Keep it out of your bedroom.
Guard your heart with all diligence.
Your heart.
Oh, beloved, we have heard of the Holy
Ghost.
We've heard of him with the hearing of
the ear.
But now the Spirit will enlighten us.
Oh, Jesus, how wonderful thou art.
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