1 00:00:00,630 --> 00:00:03,330 Welcome to From the Pulpit at Classic Sermons. 2 00:00:03,750 --> 00:00:06,070 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:06,070 --> 00:00:08,450 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:08,450 --> 00:00:12,270 Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers, 5 00:00:12,430 --> 00:00:12,630 too. 6 00:00:13,390 --> 00:00:15,190 This week we have Hans R. 7 00:00:15,290 --> 00:00:18,950 Waldvogel with his message, Being Filled with the 8 00:00:18,950 --> 00:00:19,270 Spirit. 9 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,300 When he talks about brethren, it means the 10 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:24,980 sisters, too. 11 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:33,520 Holy brethren, holy brethren, holy brethren, holy brethren, 12 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,680 partakers of the heavenly calling. 13 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:44,080 Really, there ought to be a tremendous improvement 14 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:46,460 and growth and change in us. 15 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:50,220 There is, if God makes the change. 16 00:00:51,180 --> 00:00:53,160 There was a long time when we tried 17 00:00:53,160 --> 00:00:55,680 to change ourselves, and it just didn't work. 18 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:58,740 But oh, it's such a different thing when 19 00:00:58,740 --> 00:01:01,060 you come to be changed by this master 20 00:01:01,060 --> 00:01:04,400 changer who makes a new creation out of 21 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:04,580 you. 22 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:08,700 And that's the lesson that God is striving 23 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:11,080 to bring to our hearts. 24 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:13,920 I think one of the best textbooks we 25 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:15,780 have is Ephesians. 26 00:01:16,320 --> 00:01:18,780 You remember how Paul came to a Baptist 27 00:01:18,780 --> 00:01:19,800 church in Ephesus? 28 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:23,820 And they thought they were good Baptists. 29 00:01:24,020 --> 00:01:25,360 We thought so, too. 30 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,260 We were taught to say, Ein Baptist ist 31 00:01:28,260 --> 00:01:30,360 ein Christ, und ein Christ ist ein Baptist. 32 00:01:30,980 --> 00:01:32,880 Und wer eins von beiden nicht ist, der 33 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:33,960 ist keins von beiden. 34 00:01:34,780 --> 00:01:37,260 And my, we were big, we were holy, 35 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:38,720 we were the best. 36 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:40,540 And as I knew for years, I was 37 00:01:40,540 --> 00:01:43,800 positively sure that the Baptist church was the 38 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:45,040 only church in the world. 39 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:48,300 All the others might have a slim chance 40 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:53,000 to get into heaven, but the Baptists, they 41 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:53,820 were the ones. 42 00:01:54,580 --> 00:01:58,140 Until I woke up, till Paul came, till 43 00:01:58,140 --> 00:01:59,120 the Lord came. 44 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:01,720 Have you received the Holy Ghost since you 45 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:02,120 believed? 46 00:02:03,060 --> 00:02:05,120 Why, we didn't know there was a Holy 47 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:05,500 Ghost. 48 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:08,220 Do you know how many people don't know 49 00:02:08,220 --> 00:02:09,680 there is a Holy Ghost? 50 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:14,000 And how many people in Pentecost don't know 51 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,020 who the Holy Ghost is? 52 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:17,660 He is the Lord. 53 00:02:18,540 --> 00:02:19,520 He is the King. 54 00:02:20,100 --> 00:02:22,860 He is our salvation, praise God. 55 00:02:23,500 --> 00:02:25,760 He is the light and the life of 56 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,780 the church of Jesus Christ. 57 00:02:28,140 --> 00:02:30,880 He is the resurrected Son of God. 58 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:34,960 He is the only potentate, the King of 59 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,000 kings and Lord of lords. 60 00:02:38,540 --> 00:02:40,780 He is the only one that can save 61 00:02:40,780 --> 00:02:41,120 you. 62 00:02:41,820 --> 00:02:43,940 Have you received the Holy... 63 00:02:43,940 --> 00:02:46,620 Why, we haven't even heard there was a 64 00:02:46,620 --> 00:02:47,460 Holy Ghost. 65 00:02:47,880 --> 00:02:49,300 And what happened next? 66 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,100 Unto what then were you baptized? 67 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:55,700 Whose banner did you swear to? 68 00:02:56,560 --> 00:02:58,620 What country did you join? 69 00:02:58,620 --> 00:03:00,660 Where is your citizenship? 70 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,940 Who did you swear allegiance to? 71 00:03:04,900 --> 00:03:06,480 Who is your King? 72 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,600 Who is it that controls your mind and 73 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:10,320 your heart? 74 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:12,940 Who is it that saves you? 75 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:17,820 Well, they said we were baptized unto John 76 00:03:17,820 --> 00:03:22,420 the Baptist and Baptistus and Christ and then 77 00:03:22,420 --> 00:03:23,740 Christus and Baptista. 78 00:03:23,740 --> 00:03:25,780 They knew that by memory. 79 00:03:25,940 --> 00:03:28,020 They had memorized that very well. 80 00:03:29,220 --> 00:03:30,700 Paul said that's no good. 81 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,500 You've got to be married to him that's 82 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:36,060 risen from the dead. 83 00:03:37,060 --> 00:03:39,580 You've got to be filled with the Holy 84 00:03:39,580 --> 00:03:40,220 Spirit. 85 00:03:40,740 --> 00:03:41,820 You're in the flesh. 86 00:03:42,540 --> 00:03:45,040 You can be baptized as Baptists a million 87 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,980 times over unless you're baptized with the Holy 88 00:03:47,980 --> 00:03:48,400 Ghost. 89 00:03:48,780 --> 00:03:50,240 Why, that's the great job. 90 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:54,080 God Almighty charged Jesus Christ with doing. 91 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:57,160 He had to die that he might bring 92 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,740 life and immortality to life through the Gospel. 93 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:04,620 That he might be purchasing the gift of 94 00:04:04,620 --> 00:04:06,160 the Holy Ghost. 95 00:04:06,420 --> 00:04:09,580 That he might lead many sons unto glory. 96 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:12,580 That he might accomplish that which the law 97 00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:15,300 could not do because it was weak through 98 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:15,920 the flesh. 99 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,600 That he might destroy the body of death. 100 00:04:19,380 --> 00:04:23,380 That might raise the body of resurrection, the 101 00:04:23,380 --> 00:04:23,980 new body. 102 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:25,780 Glory to God. 103 00:04:25,860 --> 00:04:29,060 That we might receive the adoption of sons. 104 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,080 Have you received the Holy Ghost since you 105 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:32,380 believe? 106 00:04:32,820 --> 00:04:35,180 Why, we have not so much heard as 107 00:04:35,180 --> 00:04:37,460 that there was a Holy Ghost. 108 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:42,000 But when they had been baptized into Jesus 109 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:47,640 Christ and Paul laid his hands, these authoritative 110 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,800 hands upon them in the name of Jesus, 111 00:04:50,980 --> 00:04:53,120 something happened to these Baptists. 112 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,700 Then they became real Baptists. 113 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,680 I never was a real Baptist until I 114 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:02,580 was baptized both in the name of Jesus 115 00:05:02,580 --> 00:05:05,040 Christ and in the Holy Ghost. 116 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:06,720 And Jesus did it. 117 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:10,100 I used to look askance on the Pentecostal 118 00:05:10,100 --> 00:05:10,540 people. 119 00:05:10,540 --> 00:05:12,900 I didn't like it when they tried to 120 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:13,840 baptize me. 121 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:15,860 They tried it. 122 00:05:18,330 --> 00:05:22,010 Oh, there's so much stupidity exercised even among 123 00:05:22,010 --> 00:05:23,650 Holy Ghost people. 124 00:05:24,170 --> 00:05:26,330 I always say, if we could raise the 125 00:05:26,330 --> 00:05:30,430 tax for stupidity, boy, we wouldn't have such 126 00:05:30,430 --> 00:05:31,550 a big national debt. 127 00:05:34,230 --> 00:05:37,710 But, I said, Jesus Christ says that he 128 00:05:37,710 --> 00:05:40,530 will baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire. 129 00:05:40,530 --> 00:05:45,370 That was my first real meeting with Almighty 130 00:05:45,370 --> 00:05:48,390 God when he baptized me with fire. 131 00:05:48,710 --> 00:05:52,210 I was surrounded by flames of fire and 132 00:05:52,210 --> 00:05:56,490 my whole body was charged with the power 133 00:05:56,490 --> 00:05:58,210 of an endless life. 134 00:05:58,630 --> 00:06:00,650 I was made to drink of the water 135 00:06:00,650 --> 00:06:04,110 that Jesus gives and it became within me 136 00:06:04,110 --> 00:06:08,270 a well of living water springing up into 137 00:06:08,270 --> 00:06:09,370 everlasting life. 138 00:06:09,370 --> 00:06:12,610 My life has been marvelously changed from that 139 00:06:12,610 --> 00:06:16,730 moment on but it's continually being changed by 140 00:06:16,730 --> 00:06:18,590 that Spirit that dwells within. 141 00:06:19,050 --> 00:06:20,250 That's important. 142 00:06:22,880 --> 00:06:26,060 We need to know the Holy Ghost because 143 00:06:26,060 --> 00:06:27,100 he's our life. 144 00:06:27,940 --> 00:06:30,080 We need to drink of that fountain of 145 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:30,460 life. 146 00:06:30,820 --> 00:06:33,500 It isn't sufficient to be baptized with the 147 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:36,060 Holy Ghost but now to walk in the 148 00:06:36,060 --> 00:06:36,440 Spirit. 149 00:06:36,820 --> 00:06:39,060 He has translated you out of the kingdom 150 00:06:39,060 --> 00:06:39,940 of darkness. 151 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:43,640 How many people claim to be baptized with 152 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,380 the Holy Ghost and they're satisfied to still 153 00:06:46,380 --> 00:06:49,260 live in the flesh and they're satisfied to 154 00:06:49,260 --> 00:06:51,240 still be governed by the flesh? 155 00:06:51,460 --> 00:06:53,480 That's where our frowns come from. 156 00:06:56,300 --> 00:06:59,960 But, beloved, that, the Bible says, is dangerous. 157 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:01,900 If you live in the flesh, we shall 158 00:07:01,900 --> 00:07:02,160 die. 159 00:07:02,900 --> 00:07:04,100 We shall die. 160 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,900 But if you live in the Spirit, do 161 00:07:06,900 --> 00:07:07,840 you know the Spirit? 162 00:07:08,260 --> 00:07:09,540 Do you know the Holy Ghost? 163 00:07:09,540 --> 00:07:11,140 Is He your habitation? 164 00:07:12,060 --> 00:07:13,400 Is He your realm? 165 00:07:14,180 --> 00:07:16,560 Is He the ocean of life and of 166 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,920 light and of grace and of love and 167 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:22,180 of joy and of peace into which you've 168 00:07:22,180 --> 00:07:26,160 been sunk, deeply sunk so that your whole 169 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,320 being has been transformed into this ocean of 170 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:30,760 love? 171 00:07:31,220 --> 00:07:32,980 Have you received the Holy Ghost? 172 00:07:33,420 --> 00:07:35,460 Yes, they received the Holy Ghost and now 173 00:07:35,460 --> 00:07:38,860 the Apostle Paul, writing to the Ephesians church 174 00:07:38,860 --> 00:07:41,780 tells them of the blessing they couldn't possibly 175 00:07:41,780 --> 00:07:44,440 understand in the beginning when they spoke in 176 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,180 tongues and prophesied what it all meant. 177 00:07:47,460 --> 00:07:50,640 They had just begun to taste of the 178 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,740 powers of the world to come but now 179 00:07:52,740 --> 00:07:55,460 he writes to them and he says, God, 180 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,220 O how He has blessed us with all 181 00:08:00,220 --> 00:08:04,900 spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ according 182 00:08:04,900 --> 00:08:08,080 as He has chosen us in Him before 183 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:10,880 the foundation of the world that we should 184 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:15,140 be holy and without blame before Him in 185 00:08:15,140 --> 00:08:15,540 love. 186 00:08:15,900 --> 00:08:18,580 Oh, that's the result of being filled with 187 00:08:18,580 --> 00:08:20,340 the Spirit, of walking in the Spirit. 188 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,080 Beloved, we need Ephesians. 189 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:24,800 We need these words of life. 190 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:27,640 They never meant much to me until the 191 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:30,340 Holy Spirit had come and He illumined my 192 00:08:30,340 --> 00:08:31,220 understanding. 193 00:08:31,780 --> 00:08:34,100 Oh, how differently I read Ephesians. 194 00:08:34,100 --> 00:08:36,960 I had given to me an English Bible 195 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,000 when I was a boy and it was 196 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:42,299 always new until that thing happened, until God 197 00:08:42,299 --> 00:08:43,039 came to me. 198 00:08:43,340 --> 00:08:45,320 And in three months' time that thing came 199 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:50,520 apart and Ephesians stuck out from among the 200 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:54,020 other pages because I wept over it, I 201 00:08:54,020 --> 00:08:56,200 laughed over it, I rejoiced in it. 202 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,400 I read it until I had memorized it 203 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:01,120 without trying to memorize it. 204 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,720 It had gone into my heart that you 205 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,260 should be holy and without blame before Him 206 00:09:07,260 --> 00:09:07,840 in love. 207 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:10,720 Beloved, we don't know the Holy Ghost unless 208 00:09:10,720 --> 00:09:13,780 we have accepted that call of God, unless 209 00:09:13,780 --> 00:09:16,700 we have made a vow, we've taken a 210 00:09:16,700 --> 00:09:18,080 vow of allegiance. 211 00:09:18,620 --> 00:09:19,840 Christ is my Lord. 212 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:21,780 The Holy Ghost is my Lord. 213 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,600 Beloved, we're not filled with the Spirit unless 214 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:27,740 we're submitting ourselves to the Holy Ghost, unless 215 00:09:27,740 --> 00:09:29,600 we allow Him to reign. 216 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:33,400 And when He reigns, something wonderful happens. 217 00:09:33,700 --> 00:09:35,120 And it happens every day. 218 00:09:36,060 --> 00:09:39,620 Every day His blessings new fall around me 219 00:09:39,620 --> 00:09:40,260 like a dew. 220 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:43,260 Every day He gives me His living bread. 221 00:09:43,580 --> 00:09:44,960 Every day He meets me. 222 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:46,800 Every day He instructs me. 223 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:48,500 Every day He talks to me. 224 00:09:48,820 --> 00:09:52,040 Every day He chastens me by His word. 225 00:09:52,380 --> 00:09:54,500 Every day He deals with me as with 226 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:57,780 a son that I might be partaker of 227 00:09:57,780 --> 00:09:58,460 His holiness. 228 00:09:58,460 --> 00:10:00,380 Every day He walks with me. 229 00:10:00,540 --> 00:10:02,540 He doesn't let me get away one inch 230 00:10:02,540 --> 00:10:03,040 from Him. 231 00:10:03,420 --> 00:10:06,260 He keeps such a careful watch over me. 232 00:10:06,660 --> 00:10:09,900 He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor 233 00:10:09,900 --> 00:10:10,260 sleep. 234 00:10:10,560 --> 00:10:13,020 But, beloved, this is the Israel of God. 235 00:10:14,420 --> 00:10:16,820 They're not born of the flesh, but they're 236 00:10:16,820 --> 00:10:18,240 born of the will of God. 237 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:20,220 They're begotten of the Spirit. 238 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,300 They're sons of Abraham by merit of the 239 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:26,920 cross of Christ and the resurrection of the 240 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:27,600 Son of God. 241 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,280 Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye 242 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:30,780 believed? 243 00:10:31,680 --> 00:10:34,740 Why, after that ye believed, He says, ye 244 00:10:34,740 --> 00:10:38,220 were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise 245 00:10:38,220 --> 00:10:42,720 which is the earnest of our inheritance until 246 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:46,580 the redemption of the purchased possession of God. 247 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:48,240 Why, that's the rapture. 248 00:10:48,620 --> 00:10:52,240 That's the rapid Jacob, Elagunta by Barazzo. 249 00:10:52,440 --> 00:10:55,920 That's the moment for which Jesus Christ bled 250 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:59,040 on the cross, for which He cried with 251 00:10:59,040 --> 00:11:02,520 great cries and tears unto Him that was 252 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:04,060 able to save Him from death. 253 00:11:04,340 --> 00:11:06,740 That's what He died for, that you and 254 00:11:06,740 --> 00:11:09,680 I might be gifted with a resurrection body, 255 00:11:10,220 --> 00:11:12,500 that we might be like unto Him, that 256 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:15,480 we might be sons of God without rebuke 257 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,320 in the midst of a crooked and perverse 258 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,040 generation and then rise to reign with Him 259 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,120 forever and forever. 260 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:25,320 Why, we didn't know there was a Holy 261 00:11:25,320 --> 00:11:25,660 Ghost. 262 00:11:25,660 --> 00:11:27,820 Listen, if you don't know there is a 263 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:31,680 Holy Ghost, if you don't know the Holy 264 00:11:31,680 --> 00:11:33,520 Ghost who is with you all the time, 265 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,800 who is within you, who reigns within you, 266 00:11:37,180 --> 00:11:40,560 who governs you, who controls your mind, who 267 00:11:40,560 --> 00:11:43,840 controls your tongue, who controls your feet and 268 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:47,580 your hands, your body, soul and spirit, beloved, 269 00:11:47,980 --> 00:11:51,240 we'll never be presented spotless before the presence 270 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:52,080 of His glory. 271 00:11:52,420 --> 00:11:53,560 Moses can't do it. 272 00:11:53,560 --> 00:11:56,280 You can be the choice Pharisee in the 273 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:56,620 world. 274 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,880 You can graduate from every school of learning 275 00:12:00,880 --> 00:12:02,860 of the Jews and the Buddhists and the 276 00:12:02,860 --> 00:12:06,380 Confucianists of Christian science and unity and Father 277 00:12:06,380 --> 00:12:08,900 Divine and whatever you call it and you'll 278 00:12:08,900 --> 00:12:09,440 never. 279 00:12:09,860 --> 00:12:12,500 Beloved, there must come to me a righteousness 280 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:15,540 which Jesus Christ Himself lives out within me. 281 00:12:16,980 --> 00:12:20,020 Oh, when He lives within me. 282 00:12:21,140 --> 00:12:23,320 But we didn't know there was a Holy 283 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:23,760 Ghost. 284 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:25,360 Do you know there's a Holy Ghost? 285 00:12:26,420 --> 00:12:27,740 Do you know who He is? 286 00:12:28,380 --> 00:12:30,320 Do you know what a powerful being? 287 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:31,500 And you! 288 00:12:32,940 --> 00:12:35,960 Paul is looking upon a gang of robbers 289 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,700 and adulterers and murderers and thieves and liars. 290 00:12:40,060 --> 00:12:42,140 That's what they were, he says, such were 291 00:12:42,140 --> 00:12:42,820 some of you. 292 00:12:43,100 --> 00:12:49,640 But you're washed, you're sanctified, you're justified and 293 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:50,380 you! 294 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:56,840 And today he would say, you dumpers, you 295 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,800 jealous folks, you carnal Christians. 296 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:02,920 You has He quickened. 297 00:13:03,340 --> 00:13:04,540 He's made you alive. 298 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,400 Oh, beloved, I'm not quickened until I let 299 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:10,040 Jesus Christ live out His life within me. 300 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:12,280 This morning I wrote a letter to someone 301 00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:14,740 in Germany and I quoted a text. 302 00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:17,960 Draw night to God and He will draw 303 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:18,780 night to you. 304 00:13:19,060 --> 00:13:21,340 And there flashed into my soul a light. 305 00:13:21,740 --> 00:13:23,760 And I said, why, is there a Christian 306 00:13:23,760 --> 00:13:26,600 in the world who doesn't consider it a 307 00:13:26,600 --> 00:13:29,820 great privilege to draw night to God? 308 00:13:30,460 --> 00:13:35,680 Draw night to God and He will draw 309 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:37,320 night to you. 310 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:40,000 And Paul says, it's good for you that 311 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:41,520 I'm locked up in jail. 312 00:13:42,060 --> 00:13:43,700 You took too much stock in me. 313 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:46,240 You had too much confidence in the flesh. 314 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,620 Today we know no man after the flesh. 315 00:13:48,980 --> 00:13:51,040 Draw night to God and He will draw 316 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:51,800 night to you. 317 00:13:52,180 --> 00:13:52,960 What a privilege! 318 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:54,540 What a call! 319 00:13:55,040 --> 00:13:58,320 Abide in me and I in you. 320 00:13:58,620 --> 00:13:59,280 What a call! 321 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:01,500 Why is it not so real to us 322 00:14:01,500 --> 00:14:04,580 that it grips every atom of our being 323 00:14:04,580 --> 00:14:07,700 so that we count everything but refuse, but 324 00:14:07,700 --> 00:14:11,080 dung for the excellency of the knowledge of 325 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:12,860 Christ Jesus our Lord? 326 00:14:13,420 --> 00:14:16,780 Why is it that we question but, beloved, 327 00:14:17,300 --> 00:14:19,360 there ought to be no question about it. 328 00:14:19,660 --> 00:14:20,620 There shouldn't be. 329 00:14:20,940 --> 00:14:22,060 Why, we didn't know there was. 330 00:14:22,180 --> 00:14:23,520 Oh, is there a Holy Ghost? 331 00:14:23,700 --> 00:14:26,420 Listen, is there a fire burning within you 332 00:14:26,420 --> 00:14:29,600 that consumes the man of sin, that consumes 333 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,260 the works of the flesh, that re-habajo, 334 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:37,500 re-cambajo, that puts some real pep into 335 00:14:37,500 --> 00:14:39,560 you when I see people go to sleep 336 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:40,320 on the job? 337 00:14:41,940 --> 00:14:43,540 We used to have a lot of trouble 338 00:14:43,540 --> 00:14:46,000 with people that always came late to meeting. 339 00:14:47,060 --> 00:14:49,060 Die kommen zu spät in den Himmel. 340 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,060 If it was a coffee clutch, they'd be 341 00:14:52,060 --> 00:14:54,200 here way ahead of time to get the 342 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:55,940 best cup of coffee and the best donut. 343 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,500 But to come to church and especially to 344 00:15:00,500 --> 00:15:03,540 a prayer meeting, beloved, Paul says, I count 345 00:15:03,540 --> 00:15:04,640 everything but refuse. 346 00:15:05,460 --> 00:15:08,580 Oh, the excellency, the excellency. 347 00:15:08,980 --> 00:15:10,460 I die daily. 348 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:13,680 We talk about death as if it were 349 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:14,800 somewhere in the future. 350 00:15:15,020 --> 00:15:18,160 Someday, someday maybe we'll die to the flesh. 351 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,600 Someday maybe we'll bear the cross. 352 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:22,480 Today we sing about it. 353 00:15:22,780 --> 00:15:24,540 The way of the cross leads home. 354 00:15:24,820 --> 00:15:26,660 But we're, we're hesitating. 355 00:15:27,080 --> 00:15:27,700 We're really... 356 00:15:27,700 --> 00:15:29,580 But Paul says, I tell you the truth, 357 00:15:29,660 --> 00:15:30,580 I die daily. 358 00:15:31,340 --> 00:15:33,720 I bear in my body the dying of 359 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,620 the Lord Jesus and he didn't do it 360 00:15:35,620 --> 00:15:36,640 with a frown. 361 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,300 But he did it with great happiness. 362 00:15:39,740 --> 00:15:40,820 Read Philippians. 363 00:15:40,820 --> 00:15:44,680 That epistle that's written from jail where their 364 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:46,940 feet were made fast in the stocks and 365 00:15:46,940 --> 00:15:49,840 their bodies were bleeding and they were lying 366 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,060 in the muck and mire among rats and 367 00:15:52,060 --> 00:15:55,700 bedbugs and fleas and they were praising God. 368 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:56,720 Hallelujah. 369 00:15:57,180 --> 00:15:59,800 They were praising so loud that the prisoners 370 00:15:59,800 --> 00:16:03,160 outside the wall in other cells heard them. 371 00:16:03,380 --> 00:16:04,560 But God heard them. 372 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:09,100 And as someone said, God said, Amen, with 373 00:16:09,100 --> 00:16:10,100 a mighty earthquake. 374 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:12,760 God will say that to you and to 375 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:12,960 me. 376 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:15,360 When you know the Holy Ghost. 377 00:16:15,860 --> 00:16:17,860 When you know who the Holy Ghost is. 378 00:16:18,260 --> 00:16:21,540 Beloved, in Ephesians 1, the Apostle Paul says, 379 00:16:21,660 --> 00:16:24,660 You've received that earnest of your inheritance and 380 00:16:24,660 --> 00:16:26,620 now I pray that you might know the 381 00:16:26,620 --> 00:16:27,260 Holy Ghost. 382 00:16:28,580 --> 00:16:31,080 Oh beloved, we've been learning to know the 383 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:32,340 Holy Ghost, haven't we? 384 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,560 Last night's meeting was another revelation. 385 00:16:35,560 --> 00:16:36,960 A German meeting. 386 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:39,640 But oh, how God came. 387 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:41,620 And it was sort of a lazy meeting. 388 00:16:41,700 --> 00:16:42,520 Well, we get tired. 389 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:43,660 I was tired myself. 390 00:16:44,760 --> 00:16:46,620 I'm glad when I can get up to 391 00:16:46,620 --> 00:16:46,960 preach. 392 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:48,140 Then I wake up. 393 00:16:49,420 --> 00:16:52,220 I stir myself, praise the Lord. 394 00:16:52,580 --> 00:16:53,840 But oh, how God came. 395 00:16:53,920 --> 00:16:55,100 You know, at the end of the meeting 396 00:16:55,100 --> 00:16:57,100 when everybody was tired and wanted to go 397 00:16:57,100 --> 00:16:59,080 home, God quickened us. 398 00:16:59,460 --> 00:17:01,760 And you have He quickened. 399 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:03,119 He's made you alive. 400 00:17:03,119 --> 00:17:05,680 Listen, it's your privilege to be alive. 401 00:17:06,460 --> 00:17:08,619 Your privilege to be alive. 402 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:10,599 Not with natural life. 403 00:17:11,380 --> 00:17:13,220 Not with vitamins X, Y, Z. 404 00:17:13,660 --> 00:17:16,680 But with the life of Jesus Christ pulsating 405 00:17:16,680 --> 00:17:17,240 within you. 406 00:17:17,500 --> 00:17:18,540 In your very body. 407 00:17:19,020 --> 00:17:21,440 In your very vessels, blood vessels. 408 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:24,599 Your very nervous system to be quickened. 409 00:17:25,040 --> 00:17:26,160 Oh, Jesus. 410 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:29,660 Jesus Christ for this body. 411 00:17:29,960 --> 00:17:32,080 And this body for Jesus Christ. 412 00:17:32,080 --> 00:17:34,460 Oh, that we might know the Holy Ghost. 413 00:17:35,180 --> 00:17:35,920 We can. 414 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:37,240 We ought to. 415 00:17:37,900 --> 00:17:38,580 We should. 416 00:17:39,180 --> 00:17:41,720 And when we talk about being changed into 417 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:44,560 His image, let's remember who makes the change. 418 00:17:44,800 --> 00:17:46,220 It's the Holy Ghost. 419 00:17:47,620 --> 00:17:50,000 And as we pray in the Holy Ghost. 420 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,000 And you've got to learn that lesson. 421 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:55,780 That's why the Lord insists in our living 422 00:17:55,780 --> 00:17:57,040 lives of praise. 423 00:17:57,220 --> 00:17:59,960 That's the mightiest prayer in the Holy Ghost 424 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:00,580 you can pray. 425 00:18:01,180 --> 00:18:02,260 Praise the Lord. 426 00:18:02,940 --> 00:18:03,440 Hallelujah. 427 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:06,360 Glory be to God. 428 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:08,140 Why, we didn't know there was a Holy 429 00:18:08,140 --> 00:18:10,660 Ghost until we began praising the Lord. 430 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:12,180 And He gripped us. 431 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:13,560 And He quickened us. 432 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:16,540 And He breathed upon us His breath of 433 00:18:16,540 --> 00:18:16,880 life. 434 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:19,040 And we began to learn how to walk 435 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:20,920 in the strength of the Son of God. 436 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:22,860 You come to meeting dead tired. 437 00:18:23,620 --> 00:18:25,080 God doesn't blame you for that. 438 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,100 He says, my strength is made perfect in 439 00:18:28,100 --> 00:18:28,500 weakness. 440 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:32,180 And you look to Him and Baju, Gurakha, 441 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:36,500 Elozele, Goboja, the dynamo begins to hum within 442 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:36,880 you. 443 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,500 Glory to God. 444 00:18:39,500 --> 00:18:42,460 And every member of your body is quickened 445 00:18:42,460 --> 00:18:43,580 and electrified. 446 00:18:43,980 --> 00:18:44,660 What is it? 447 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:46,420 You ought to say, who is it? 448 00:18:47,220 --> 00:18:49,400 Oh, that you might receive the spirit of 449 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:52,760 wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. 450 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:54,880 Beloved, we have hardly begun. 451 00:18:56,640 --> 00:18:58,940 God gives us a little taste of it. 452 00:18:59,140 --> 00:19:01,340 And then we run away and grow careless. 453 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,040 When I began seeking the Lord, every once 454 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:07,860 in a while, there was a flash of 455 00:19:07,860 --> 00:19:08,260 light. 456 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:10,720 I wrote to Elder Brooks one day. 457 00:19:11,180 --> 00:19:13,160 And I said, He's looked at me through 458 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:13,820 the lattice. 459 00:19:14,580 --> 00:19:15,880 You know, the Venetian blinds. 460 00:19:16,620 --> 00:19:18,180 And then after a while, you lose that 461 00:19:18,180 --> 00:19:18,520 vision. 462 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:20,140 And then after a while, He comes again. 463 00:19:20,380 --> 00:19:21,820 And then He comes again. 464 00:19:22,060 --> 00:19:23,340 The face at the window. 465 00:19:23,980 --> 00:19:25,720 But oh, what a face. 466 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:29,320 But beloved, He wants me to get up 467 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:31,380 to become hungry for Him. 468 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:33,900 Oh, what you've come under the spell of 469 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:34,960 the beauty of Jesus. 470 00:19:35,500 --> 00:19:36,660 You're Jesus. 471 00:19:38,020 --> 00:19:39,220 You're bridegroom. 472 00:19:39,740 --> 00:19:40,720 You're king. 473 00:19:41,140 --> 00:19:42,540 The lover of your soul. 474 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:45,860 The only one that has power to rescue 475 00:19:45,860 --> 00:19:48,140 from death, to save you. 476 00:19:48,400 --> 00:19:51,180 The only one that has power to do 477 00:19:51,180 --> 00:19:53,620 what the law could not do, to deliver 478 00:19:53,620 --> 00:19:56,280 you from the flesh, to deliver you from 479 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:59,980 every bondage, and to rid you of the 480 00:19:59,980 --> 00:20:06,260 slightest discrepancy, of the least infirmity and fault, 481 00:20:06,660 --> 00:20:08,860 and to present you faultless. 482 00:20:09,320 --> 00:20:12,320 Oh beloved, you'll cease running after anything else. 483 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:14,660 You'll get up and you'll run after Him 484 00:20:14,660 --> 00:20:15,780 until you find Him. 485 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,080 And you'll hold Him. 486 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:18,680 And you won't let Him go. 487 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:22,280 Oh, that spirit of wisdom and revelation in 488 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,280 the knowledge of Him will make you be 489 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:25,780 a goner, absolutely. 490 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,200 I have seen the face of Jesus. 491 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:33,040 Tell me not of what besides. 492 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:37,320 You know, you can quickly recognize Christians that 493 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:38,980 really have met the Lord. 494 00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:42,360 Oh, you don't have to make any laws 495 00:20:42,360 --> 00:20:43,000 for them. 496 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:45,920 You don't. 497 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:48,380 You don't have to tell them what to 498 00:20:48,380 --> 00:20:49,540 do and what not to do. 499 00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:51,960 Love compels them. 500 00:20:52,540 --> 00:20:55,020 If any man love me, and you can't 501 00:20:55,020 --> 00:20:56,780 help but love him when you see him. 502 00:20:57,100 --> 00:20:59,540 Oh beloved, do you know the Holy Ghost? 503 00:21:00,260 --> 00:21:02,060 Do you know there is a Holy Ghost? 504 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:03,980 Is He at home with you? 505 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:07,640 Or do you grieve Him by careless talking 506 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,800 and foolishness, and by talking too much, or 507 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:14,900 living in the flesh, or careless thoughts? 508 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,320 Beloved, the Holy Ghost is life. 509 00:21:19,940 --> 00:21:23,420 And outside of that life, everything is dead. 510 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,660 I have not found your works perfect before 511 00:21:26,660 --> 00:21:27,520 my God. 512 00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:32,240 I counsel thee, be zealous therefore and repent. 513 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:36,000 Strengthen the things that remain, that are ready 514 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:36,740 to die. 515 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,760 Beloved, these things can be talked about, and 516 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,100 I've often marveled at the things God gives 517 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:43,840 us to say in this place. 518 00:21:44,540 --> 00:21:45,160 Mysteries. 519 00:21:46,260 --> 00:21:49,220 Like Paul says, we speak wisdom in a 520 00:21:49,220 --> 00:21:49,660 mystery. 521 00:21:50,220 --> 00:21:52,560 Not the wisdom of this world, not of 522 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:54,560 the princes of this world that come to 523 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,660 know, but we speak the hidden wisdom, which 524 00:21:57,660 --> 00:22:01,360 God has ordained before the world unto our 525 00:22:01,360 --> 00:22:04,320 glory, which none of the princes of this 526 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:04,780 world knew. 527 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,080 But beloved, it can be spoken a thousand 528 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:10,400 times, and unless your heart's prepared to receive 529 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:13,100 it, unless you receive it by the Spirit 530 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:15,820 that searches the deep things of God. 531 00:22:16,260 --> 00:22:18,080 Why, we didn't know there was a Holy 532 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:18,380 Ghost. 533 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,240 No, you won't know until He becomes the 534 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:24,920 life-giving portion, until He becomes the driving 535 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,420 force of your life, until your mind has 536 00:22:28,420 --> 00:22:31,780 been transformed and renewed by the Spirit of 537 00:22:31,780 --> 00:22:32,100 God. 538 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:33,900 You'll think differently. 539 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:37,160 We ought to be able to register a 540 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:38,360 change in our mind. 541 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:39,540 We do. 542 00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:43,040 When we started these meetings three weeks ago, 543 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:45,540 they were different from the way they are 544 00:22:45,540 --> 00:22:45,840 now. 545 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,980 Have you noticed how quiet they've become? 546 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:50,260 How still? 547 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:51,360 What's happened? 548 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:54,840 Why, these rattly minds of ours have been 549 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:55,660 quieted. 550 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:57,440 Only God can do that. 551 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:01,860 Do you know how tremendously important that change 552 00:23:01,860 --> 00:23:02,220 is? 553 00:23:02,820 --> 00:23:06,040 Someone said to me today, Look, so-and 554 00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:10,300 -so, so-and-so, nervous breakdown, nervous breakdown, 555 00:23:10,820 --> 00:23:11,320 nervous... 556 00:23:11,320 --> 00:23:12,820 What in the world's happening? 557 00:23:13,180 --> 00:23:14,200 I'll tell you what's happening. 558 00:23:15,300 --> 00:23:17,800 Jesus Christ has been breaking the seals. 559 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:21,820 And as He broke the seals, these powers 560 00:23:21,820 --> 00:23:24,940 of hell are coming forth to pounce upon 561 00:23:24,940 --> 00:23:25,640 the carcass. 562 00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:28,880 While the bride of Jesus Christ is getting 563 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:29,840 ready for the wedding. 564 00:23:30,580 --> 00:23:32,080 How is she getting ready? 565 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:35,700 Why, by the works that are righteous by 566 00:23:35,700 --> 00:23:36,520 Jesus Christ. 567 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,840 The love, the joy, the peace. 568 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,760 Those things that are despised by an apostate 569 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:44,600 Christianity. 570 00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:50,900 Despised, brushed aside, rejoicing evermore. 571 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:52,920 Pray without ceasing. 572 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:55,520 I used to work with a minister years 573 00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:55,980 ago. 574 00:23:56,820 --> 00:23:58,840 We had much praise in the meeting, and 575 00:23:58,840 --> 00:23:59,860 he despised it. 576 00:24:00,140 --> 00:24:01,400 He used to laugh at us. 577 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,100 He used to make fun of us. 578 00:24:03,860 --> 00:24:05,740 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord. 579 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,040 He was able to preach wonderful sermons, really 580 00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,140 wonderful sermons. 581 00:24:12,020 --> 00:24:14,300 And when we talked about the presence of 582 00:24:14,300 --> 00:24:15,460 the Lord, he couldn't feel it. 583 00:24:16,300 --> 00:24:21,280 He said, Ah, that's emotionalism, that's soulish, that's 584 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:21,700 psychic. 585 00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:25,520 But the day came when he got into 586 00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:26,680 a great trial. 587 00:24:27,740 --> 00:24:29,600 Great darkness came upon him. 588 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,840 I recognized it was the devil. 589 00:24:32,980 --> 00:24:34,440 But he had stuck out his neck. 590 00:24:34,540 --> 00:24:35,600 He had asked for it. 591 00:24:36,540 --> 00:24:37,720 And I went to see him. 592 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,580 I tried to talk to him. 593 00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:43,360 He said, I can't feel the presence of 594 00:24:43,360 --> 00:24:44,060 God anymore. 595 00:24:44,380 --> 00:24:46,340 I said, well, you've always been teaching about 596 00:24:46,340 --> 00:24:48,200 living by faith and not by feeling. 597 00:24:49,180 --> 00:24:53,600 Yes, but he says, I'm crushed by this 598 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:54,120 darkness. 599 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,160 Sure, you are beloved. 600 00:24:56,300 --> 00:24:57,140 It isn't feeling. 601 00:24:57,140 --> 00:24:59,300 It's the kingdom of God. 602 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,240 It's the reign of Christ. 603 00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,800 And if Christ does not reign within you, 604 00:25:06,120 --> 00:25:09,440 if Jesus Christ does not reign, there are 605 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:12,200 a thousand potent states that are just waiting 606 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,480 to take over, and they will. 607 00:25:15,300 --> 00:25:17,800 Jesus says, when the evil spirit's gone out 608 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:19,800 of a man and the heart has been 609 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,060 cleansed and not been occupied by the king 610 00:25:23,060 --> 00:25:25,860 of glory, then that demon will come back 611 00:25:25,860 --> 00:25:28,000 with seven that are worse than he, and 612 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:29,640 they'll come back into that house. 613 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:30,840 And that's what happens. 614 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:35,040 Demons can be cast out, but they'll come 615 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:36,340 back en masse. 616 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:40,940 But when Jesus Christ comes in, why, we 617 00:25:40,940 --> 00:25:42,540 didn't know there was a Holy Ghost. 618 00:25:43,060 --> 00:25:45,120 Listen, do you know there is a Holy 619 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:45,660 Ghost? 620 00:25:46,340 --> 00:25:48,640 Jesus Christ has been glorified. 621 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:51,440 The Bible says the Holy Ghost was not 622 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,580 yet because Jesus was not yet glorified. 623 00:25:54,740 --> 00:25:56,940 It means he has not yet received his 624 00:25:56,940 --> 00:25:57,240 kingdom. 625 00:25:57,580 --> 00:26:00,060 But thank God he's been glorified a long 626 00:26:00,060 --> 00:26:00,320 time. 627 00:26:00,420 --> 00:26:01,760 You don't have to crown him. 628 00:26:02,220 --> 00:26:04,500 He is the king, but you and I 629 00:26:04,500 --> 00:26:05,920 can bow to his scepter. 630 00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:07,060 What a call! 631 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,380 How wonderful that we know the kingdom of 632 00:26:10,380 --> 00:26:10,840 God. 633 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,820 And beloved, God the Father has been pleased 634 00:26:15,820 --> 00:26:17,540 to give that kingdom to us. 635 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:18,540 Do you want it? 636 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,300 If you want it, you'll want the Holy 637 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:21,700 Ghost. 638 00:26:22,820 --> 00:26:26,000 If you want that kingdom, you will not 639 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,720 stoop to the works of the flesh anymore. 640 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:31,680 He says, put ye on the Lord, Jesus 641 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:32,240 Christ. 642 00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:33,800 I like that scripture. 643 00:26:34,180 --> 00:26:34,980 He is Lord. 644 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:36,920 Put on the Lord. 645 00:26:38,780 --> 00:26:39,960 What a transformation. 646 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:41,960 What a change. 647 00:26:42,420 --> 00:26:44,240 Not I, but Christ. 648 00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:47,140 And I may be the weakest of the 649 00:26:47,140 --> 00:26:50,320 weak, or like the Apostle Paul, the least 650 00:26:50,320 --> 00:26:52,180 of all saints. 651 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,740 But he says, the grace of our Lord 652 00:26:55,740 --> 00:27:01,580 Jesus Christ was exceeding abundant with faith and 653 00:27:01,580 --> 00:27:03,480 love, which is in Christ Jesus. 654 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,240 He laid aside the garment of the Pharisee 655 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,620 with all its paraphernalia, with all its Sunday 656 00:27:09,620 --> 00:27:10,440 school medals. 657 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:13,500 Clang, clang, clang. 658 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:16,880 There they are in the Eckebesen basin, Zeiskebesen. 659 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,980 He says, I count it but refuse. 660 00:27:19,780 --> 00:27:23,840 And he put on the Lord, Jesus Christ. 661 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:24,760 Hallelujah. 662 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,820 And God, my dear God, beloved, God has 663 00:27:28,820 --> 00:27:30,040 a salvation for us. 664 00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:32,560 How shall we escape if we neglect so 665 00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:33,600 great salvation? 666 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,520 And here we try to fix up a 667 00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,080 salvation to fit our flesh. 668 00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,360 It fits, doesn't it? 669 00:27:39,420 --> 00:27:41,180 Sure, it fits your flesh. 670 00:27:42,020 --> 00:27:45,160 Then why did Saddleker fit over the dead 671 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,720 dry bones and the horrible stench? 672 00:27:49,900 --> 00:27:52,040 I was up in Brant Lake sleeping one 673 00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:53,960 night and I woke up at midnight and 674 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,060 I thought the skunk had come into my 675 00:27:56,060 --> 00:27:56,440 bedroom. 676 00:27:57,820 --> 00:27:58,880 It hadn't. 677 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:00,920 There was a garbage can outside my bedroom 678 00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:03,140 and that skunk had gotten into the garbage 679 00:28:03,140 --> 00:28:03,460 can. 680 00:28:04,500 --> 00:28:08,460 And sometimes you may smell the stuff but 681 00:28:08,460 --> 00:28:09,660 keep it out of your heart. 682 00:28:09,660 --> 00:28:10,840 Keep it out of your bedroom. 683 00:28:12,180 --> 00:28:14,240 Guard your heart with all diligence. 684 00:28:15,020 --> 00:28:15,600 Your heart. 685 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,740 Oh, beloved, we have heard of the Holy 686 00:28:18,740 --> 00:28:19,100 Ghost. 687 00:28:19,220 --> 00:28:20,820 We've heard of him with the hearing of 688 00:28:20,820 --> 00:28:21,140 the ear. 689 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:25,240 But now the Spirit will enlighten us. 690 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,760 Oh, Jesus, how wonderful thou art. 691 00:28:30,380 --> 00:28:32,560 You have been listening to the From the 692 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,200 Pulpit in Classic Sermon series. 693 00:28:34,940 --> 00:28:36,700 This week you heard Hans R. 694 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,600 Waldvogel with his message Being Filled with the 695 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:41,020 Spirit. 696 00:28:42,140 --> 00:28:44,660 Tune in next week for another powerful message 697 00:28:44,660 --> 00:28:47,680 from God's Word on From the Pulpit and 698 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:48,840 Classic Sermons.