1 00:00:00,530 --> 00:00:01,670 Welcome to From the Forfeit. 2 00:00:01,850 --> 00:00:03,550 Each week we bring you a different message 3 00:00:03,550 --> 00:00:05,370 from some of history's greatest speakers in the 4 00:00:05,370 --> 00:00:08,130 Christian faith, and powerful sermons from modern preachers 5 00:00:08,130 --> 00:00:08,410 too. 6 00:00:08,810 --> 00:00:10,910 This week we have Matt Gibson with his 7 00:00:10,910 --> 00:00:14,270 message, The Azusa Street Revival of 1906. 8 00:00:14,530 --> 00:00:17,370 The world had just entered the 20th century. 9 00:00:18,490 --> 00:00:21,150 The United States was under the leadership of 10 00:00:21,150 --> 00:00:24,290 its 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt. 11 00:00:24,290 --> 00:00:28,650 And Los Angeles was about to experience something 12 00:00:28,650 --> 00:00:31,009 it could never have imagined. 13 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,580 A sharing of beauty, a most remarkable speech, 14 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,500 the story of real events, real people. 15 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,400 It was a warm April day in the 16 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:00,600 spring of 1906, when a group of African 17 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,160 American Christians gathered in a simple home on 18 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,900 Bonnie Brake Street in downtown Los Angeles, where 19 00:01:07,900 --> 00:01:11,220 they prayed and waited on God's spirit. 20 00:01:12,140 --> 00:01:15,440 A pastor teacher named William Seymour was with 21 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:16,320 them that night. 22 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,060 The son of a slave who fought in 23 00:01:20,060 --> 00:01:23,840 the Civil War for the Union Army, Seymour 24 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:26,360 left his home in Louisiana at an early 25 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,860 age and became a committed Christian after smallpox 26 00:01:30,860 --> 00:01:32,740 blinded him in one eye. 27 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:38,560 The night of April 9th, Seymour met with 28 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:40,080 a small gathering of people. 29 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:44,640 He preached from the Bible, Acts 2-4. 30 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,020 All of them were filled with the Holy 31 00:01:49,020 --> 00:01:52,140 Spirit and began to speak in other tongues 32 00:01:52,140 --> 00:01:54,160 as the spirit enabled them. 33 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,080 A man named Edward S. 34 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,080 Lee was baptized in the spirit and began 35 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:01,340 to speak in tongues. 36 00:02:02,660 --> 00:02:05,880 Soon after, a woman named Jenny Moore was 37 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:07,720 also baptized in the spirit. 38 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:11,000 It seemed as if a vessel broke within 39 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,260 me and water surged up through my being, 40 00:02:14,460 --> 00:02:16,920 which, when it reached my mouth, came out 41 00:02:16,920 --> 00:02:19,740 in a torrent of speech and languages God 42 00:02:19,740 --> 00:02:20,620 had given me. 43 00:02:21,740 --> 00:02:22,560 Jenny Moore. 44 00:02:23,780 --> 00:02:26,480 What happened inside that house sat on a 45 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,820 hill, separated fathers from sons and mothers from 46 00:02:30,820 --> 00:02:31,300 daughters. 47 00:02:32,060 --> 00:02:35,260 It invited ridicule from the press and divided 48 00:02:35,260 --> 00:02:38,180 congregations in Los Angeles and all over the 49 00:02:38,180 --> 00:02:39,000 United States. 50 00:02:40,260 --> 00:02:44,180 At the same time, it changed lives forever 51 00:02:44,180 --> 00:02:48,460 and forged friendships that crossed racial and economic 52 00:02:48,460 --> 00:02:51,760 barriers that endured until death. 53 00:02:53,340 --> 00:02:56,360 By the end of April, the Bible study 54 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,300 on Barney Bray had grown so rapidly that 55 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:02,240 it moved to new quarters on Azusa Street. 56 00:03:03,060 --> 00:03:06,060 Within a year, as many as 1,300 57 00:03:06,060 --> 00:03:09,080 people crowded into the hall and gathered out 58 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,320 on the 3rd Street to attend meetings. 59 00:03:13,180 --> 00:03:16,740 Upstairs, walls were full of crutches and canes 60 00:03:16,740 --> 00:03:19,840 left behind by those who had been healed. 61 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:26,000 It spawned a dozen denominations, and today, roughly 62 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,580 600 million people worldwide trace their spiritual roots 63 00:03:30,580 --> 00:03:33,780 to its dirt floors and plain wooden altar. 64 00:03:34,940 --> 00:03:38,800 History refers to what happened inside the whitewashed 65 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,540 wood structure at 312 Azusa Street as the 66 00:03:43,540 --> 00:03:45,540 Azusa Street Revival. 67 00:03:45,540 --> 00:03:55,910 In the late 68 00:03:55,910 --> 00:04:00,690 1800s and early 1900s, America had one foot 69 00:04:00,690 --> 00:04:03,630 in its pioneer past and another in the 70 00:04:03,630 --> 00:04:04,670 Industrial Age. 71 00:04:05,610 --> 00:04:08,590 Sugar was four cents a pound, and eggs 72 00:04:08,590 --> 00:04:09,670 were a penny apiece. 73 00:04:10,550 --> 00:04:12,990 But a three-minute phone call from Denver 74 00:04:12,990 --> 00:04:16,690 to New York cost $11, more than a 75 00:04:16,690 --> 00:04:17,450 week's wages. 76 00:04:19,149 --> 00:04:21,750 Only one in ten Americans had a high 77 00:04:21,750 --> 00:04:22,610 school education. 78 00:04:23,550 --> 00:04:27,310 Yet, by 1903, the Wright brothers had lifted 79 00:04:27,310 --> 00:04:29,650 off from Kitty Hawk in a contraption they 80 00:04:29,650 --> 00:04:32,010 called a lighter-than-air plane. 81 00:04:33,070 --> 00:04:36,450 Thousands of miniature movie theaters known as Nickelodeons 82 00:04:36,450 --> 00:04:39,370 were offering Americans a five-cent peak at 83 00:04:39,370 --> 00:04:43,130 moving pictures, and Thomas Edison had already produced 84 00:04:43,130 --> 00:04:43,950 a feature film. 85 00:04:45,150 --> 00:04:47,890 The nation had one foot in the past, 86 00:04:48,270 --> 00:04:50,790 and the other tentatively placed in the future. 87 00:04:51,870 --> 00:04:53,510 And so did the church. 88 00:04:56,190 --> 00:04:58,930 Things began to change before the turn of 89 00:04:58,930 --> 00:05:02,270 the century when the Wesleyan Holiness Movement that 90 00:05:02,270 --> 00:05:06,270 sprang up after the Civil War claimed sanctification 91 00:05:06,270 --> 00:05:10,150 was a second work of grace and abandoned 92 00:05:10,150 --> 00:05:12,550 its attempts to convince the Methodist Church of 93 00:05:12,550 --> 00:05:13,070 the doctrine. 94 00:05:14,950 --> 00:05:18,430 New denominations sprang up around the country and 95 00:05:18,430 --> 00:05:21,550 gravitated toward a third work of grace. 96 00:05:22,190 --> 00:05:25,850 They called the baptism in the Holy Spirit. 97 00:05:26,870 --> 00:05:29,530 The first people in the world, the first 98 00:05:29,530 --> 00:05:31,350 time they heard about Pentecost was from Azusa 99 00:05:31,350 --> 00:05:31,710 Street. 100 00:05:31,710 --> 00:05:34,750 In Europe, they always said it started at 101 00:05:34,750 --> 00:05:35,330 Azusa Street. 102 00:05:35,930 --> 00:05:39,170 So as far as I'd say American Pentecostalism 103 00:05:39,170 --> 00:05:43,590 started in Topeka, worldwide Pentecostalism started at Azusa 104 00:05:43,590 --> 00:05:43,970 Street. 105 00:05:44,590 --> 00:05:47,090 Well, Azusa Street is, of course, a point 106 00:05:47,090 --> 00:05:52,110 which historically the contemporary Pentecostal charismatic movement points 107 00:05:52,110 --> 00:05:56,370 back to as perhaps the awakening that spawned 108 00:05:56,370 --> 00:05:59,150 so much of what is taking place globally 109 00:05:59,150 --> 00:05:59,710 today. 110 00:05:59,710 --> 00:06:03,250 Not just the remarkable nature of speaking with 111 00:06:03,250 --> 00:06:06,230 tongues, but the ongoing flow of the supernatural 112 00:06:06,230 --> 00:06:09,150 that is characterized by the gifts or the 113 00:06:09,150 --> 00:06:11,110 charismata of the Holy Spirit. 114 00:06:12,690 --> 00:06:16,210 Among those men and women who sought a 115 00:06:16,210 --> 00:06:19,450 closer walk with God was a young William 116 00:06:19,450 --> 00:06:19,810 J. 117 00:06:20,070 --> 00:06:20,530 Seymour. 118 00:06:21,430 --> 00:06:23,630 If you would have to say who was 119 00:06:23,630 --> 00:06:26,130 the Luther or the Calvin or the Wesley 120 00:06:26,130 --> 00:06:29,730 of the Pentecostal movement, you just about have 121 00:06:29,730 --> 00:06:30,710 to say Seymour. 122 00:06:32,090 --> 00:06:34,970 And that the movement really originated in a 123 00:06:34,970 --> 00:06:39,270 little black church that became integrated in Los 124 00:06:39,270 --> 00:06:39,670 Angeles. 125 00:06:39,970 --> 00:06:42,050 As near as we can tell, he was 126 00:06:42,050 --> 00:06:46,430 the child of individuals who had been, I 127 00:06:46,430 --> 00:06:47,790 think, formerly slaves. 128 00:06:50,130 --> 00:06:54,270 He spent some time trying to find, after 129 00:06:54,270 --> 00:06:57,430 the end of slavery, his relatives, his family, 130 00:06:58,010 --> 00:06:59,890 had some degree of success. 131 00:06:59,990 --> 00:07:01,830 Somewhere along the way he lost the sight, 132 00:07:02,490 --> 00:07:05,190 as near as we can tell, in one 133 00:07:05,190 --> 00:07:05,930 of his eyes. 134 00:07:06,470 --> 00:07:12,230 He became associated with religious circles and ultimately 135 00:07:12,230 --> 00:07:17,610 started to associate with individuals who were the 136 00:07:17,610 --> 00:07:20,090 precursors of modern-day Pentecostals. 137 00:07:20,470 --> 00:07:22,790 Seymour and those who were with him knew 138 00:07:22,790 --> 00:07:24,510 that the revival wasn't about them. 139 00:07:24,650 --> 00:07:26,010 They walked in great humility. 140 00:07:26,290 --> 00:07:28,430 They were people that were from the wrong 141 00:07:28,430 --> 00:07:30,050 side of town for the most part. 142 00:07:31,190 --> 00:07:33,790 And yet their humility was visited by God. 143 00:07:33,910 --> 00:07:36,710 It allowed for what many have considered some 144 00:07:36,710 --> 00:07:38,950 of the greatest harmony in the history of 145 00:07:38,950 --> 00:07:39,510 Christianity. 146 00:07:40,770 --> 00:07:45,190 Seymour's father, Simone Simone, was a slave and 147 00:07:45,190 --> 00:07:47,550 a brick-worker by trade, who fought in 148 00:07:47,550 --> 00:07:49,890 the Civil War with the Corps Africain. 149 00:07:50,690 --> 00:07:53,970 Simone died from diseases he contracted in the 150 00:07:53,970 --> 00:07:56,950 Louisiana swamps while serving with the Union Army, 151 00:07:57,610 --> 00:08:00,890 and his passing left his family destitute. 152 00:08:02,190 --> 00:08:05,250 His son, William, left behind his home in 153 00:08:05,250 --> 00:08:08,630 Centerville, where he straddled the fence between Baptist 154 00:08:08,630 --> 00:08:13,110 and Catholic traditions and migrated north to Indianapolis. 155 00:08:14,330 --> 00:08:18,010 There he joined an all-black congregation and 156 00:08:18,010 --> 00:08:20,130 worked as a waiter to support himself. 157 00:08:21,630 --> 00:08:26,230 From Indianapolis, Seymour moved to Cincinnati, where he 158 00:08:26,230 --> 00:08:29,930 experienced the second work of grace, known as 159 00:08:29,930 --> 00:08:33,049 sanctification to the people in the holiness movement. 160 00:08:34,309 --> 00:08:37,530 Sanctified means getting certain things out of your 161 00:08:37,530 --> 00:08:42,530 life that are destructive, that are sinful, and 162 00:08:42,530 --> 00:08:43,790 that's sanctifying oneself. 163 00:08:44,190 --> 00:08:46,570 I think sanctification is the second work, is 164 00:08:46,570 --> 00:08:49,430 a process, because once you're born again, you 165 00:08:49,430 --> 00:08:51,470 are set apart, and God begins to deal 166 00:08:51,470 --> 00:08:51,810 with you. 167 00:08:51,890 --> 00:08:53,150 You hate the things you once loved. 168 00:08:53,210 --> 00:08:54,430 You love new things. 169 00:08:54,850 --> 00:08:56,730 You know, you love things you never thought 170 00:08:56,730 --> 00:08:57,270 you would love. 171 00:08:57,470 --> 00:08:59,930 I think that's the process of sanctification. 172 00:09:00,590 --> 00:09:04,490 During that time, Seymour associated himself with the 173 00:09:04,490 --> 00:09:07,910 Evening Light Saints, also known as the Church 174 00:09:07,910 --> 00:09:09,910 of God, Anderson, Indiana. 175 00:09:11,290 --> 00:09:14,910 Daniel Warner's small denomination was known for its 176 00:09:14,910 --> 00:09:18,850 teachings on sanctification and on Christian unity. 177 00:09:20,190 --> 00:09:23,910 Members lived austere lives, patterned after the first 178 00:09:23,910 --> 00:09:24,690 century saints. 179 00:09:25,690 --> 00:09:28,050 They did not drink coffee, nor did they 180 00:09:28,050 --> 00:09:30,770 wear jewelry or attend popular entertainment. 181 00:09:32,110 --> 00:09:36,210 By 1904, Seymour had traveled south and west 182 00:09:36,210 --> 00:09:40,230 to Jackson, Mississippi, where he was discipled by 183 00:09:40,230 --> 00:09:41,110 Charles P. 184 00:09:41,310 --> 00:09:44,190 Jones, a co-founder of the Church of 185 00:09:44,190 --> 00:09:45,310 God in Christ. 186 00:09:46,390 --> 00:09:50,650 In 1905, Seymour moved to Houston, where a 187 00:09:50,650 --> 00:09:54,190 holiness preacher named Lucy Farrell introduced him to 188 00:09:54,190 --> 00:09:55,110 Charles F. 189 00:09:55,430 --> 00:09:55,610 Parham. 190 00:09:56,470 --> 00:09:59,150 Parham was the leader of the Topeka outpouring 191 00:09:59,150 --> 00:10:02,790 of 1901 and was a recognized full gospel 192 00:10:02,790 --> 00:10:03,230 preacher. 193 00:10:04,070 --> 00:10:06,530 There's been a lot of discussion between historians 194 00:10:06,530 --> 00:10:09,210 as to where the Pentecostal movement started. 195 00:10:10,210 --> 00:10:12,130 You have to say that the doctrine and 196 00:10:12,130 --> 00:10:15,010 the experience was pioneered by Charles Fox Parham 197 00:10:15,010 --> 00:10:17,710 in 1901 in Topeka, Kansas. 198 00:10:17,710 --> 00:10:19,650 That's the beginning of the movement as a 199 00:10:19,650 --> 00:10:24,530 distinct theological movement with a distinct experience. 200 00:10:24,970 --> 00:10:26,750 They called it the touch felt around the 201 00:10:26,750 --> 00:10:27,030 world. 202 00:10:28,010 --> 00:10:31,750 And then his disciple, Seymour, comes to Los 203 00:10:31,750 --> 00:10:34,450 Angeles and the great Azusa Street revival takes 204 00:10:34,450 --> 00:10:34,890 place. 205 00:10:36,170 --> 00:10:38,790 But it didn't become a worldwide movement until 206 00:10:38,790 --> 00:10:39,510 Azusa Street. 207 00:10:39,510 --> 00:10:43,290 So what I see is that you had 208 00:10:43,290 --> 00:10:47,310 two major founders of the movement, Parham and 209 00:10:47,310 --> 00:10:47,690 Seymour. 210 00:10:48,550 --> 00:10:50,310 And you had to have both. 211 00:10:53,060 --> 00:10:56,960 Seymour studied under the apostolic faith evangelist who 212 00:10:56,960 --> 00:10:59,760 taught three separate works of the Holy Spirit, 213 00:11:01,740 --> 00:11:05,660 salvation, sanctification, and the baptism in the spirit. 214 00:11:06,300 --> 00:11:07,900 Based on the second work of grace, the 215 00:11:07,900 --> 00:11:11,300 sanctifying aspect is quite key because it was 216 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:14,180 in the aspect of being sanctified that the 217 00:11:14,180 --> 00:11:16,020 group in Topeka, Kansas and other parts of 218 00:11:16,020 --> 00:11:19,160 the country seriously sought God. 219 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:21,560 They sought God because now when you start 220 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:23,520 talking about living a certain life, ordering your 221 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,040 life a certain way, now you understand that 222 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,320 your energies aren't sufficient for that. 223 00:11:30,460 --> 00:11:30,980 Salvation. 224 00:11:31,340 --> 00:11:33,900 When a person receives Jesus Christ into their 225 00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:36,020 heart, the power of God is now living 226 00:11:36,020 --> 00:11:36,620 within them. 227 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:40,600 Sanctification is the cleansing up of the old 228 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:43,300 person into this new person because of the 229 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:45,380 power of God operating in their life. 230 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:51,160 Curiously, Parham's Bryan Hall Bible School was racially 231 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,920 segregated, and Seymour was obliged to listen to 232 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:56,860 Parham's lessons from the hallway. 233 00:11:57,680 --> 00:11:59,480 He was not allowed to sit with his 234 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,620 white brothers and sisters in class, nor was 235 00:12:02,620 --> 00:12:04,600 he allowed to tarry with them at the 236 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:04,880 altar. 237 00:12:07,180 --> 00:12:11,240 Those humbling circumstances did not make William Seymour 238 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:11,580 bitter. 239 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:16,280 Instead, they focused his attention on God. 240 00:12:17,100 --> 00:12:20,560 Years later, Parham would call Seymour, the most 241 00:12:20,560 --> 00:12:22,660 humble man I ever met. 242 00:12:32,980 --> 00:12:36,880 While God humbled Seymour in Houston, the prayers 243 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,220 of thousands and the work of many hands 244 00:12:39,220 --> 00:12:41,640 prepared Los Angeles for revival. 245 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,360 It would be a great mistake to attribute 246 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,720 the Pentecostal beginning in Los Angeles to any 247 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:48,520 one man, either in prayer or preaching. 248 00:12:49,260 --> 00:12:51,520 Pentecost did not drop suddenly out of heaven. 249 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:52,920 Frank Bartleman. 250 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:58,020 This was especially true during 1905, when a 251 00:12:58,020 --> 00:13:01,320 physically infirmed Bartleman worked the streets of Los 252 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,380 Angeles and called for revival wherever he went. 253 00:13:05,420 --> 00:13:08,660 Like a modern-day John the Baptist, Bartleman, 254 00:13:08,940 --> 00:13:11,700 an itinerant pastor, spent most of his nights 255 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:12,380 in prayer. 256 00:13:12,860 --> 00:13:16,540 His days preaching, distributing tracts, and promising Los 257 00:13:16,540 --> 00:13:18,960 Angeles that revival was coming. 258 00:13:19,520 --> 00:13:21,340 Frank Bartleman is a funny guy. 259 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:24,360 He has an odd pedigree, in a sense. 260 00:13:25,180 --> 00:13:27,120 He's reared in Pennsylvania. 261 00:13:27,340 --> 00:13:28,640 His father's a Roman Catholic. 262 00:13:28,860 --> 00:13:30,060 His mother is a Quaker. 263 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:31,760 It's an odd mix. 264 00:13:32,320 --> 00:13:34,340 He is converted as a young man, I 265 00:13:34,340 --> 00:13:36,740 think, through Temple Baptist Church in Philadelphia. 266 00:13:37,780 --> 00:13:40,820 And it feels like he's called into ministry. 267 00:13:41,180 --> 00:13:43,700 Frank Bartleman was not involved with the Topeka 268 00:13:43,700 --> 00:13:44,160 revival. 269 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:47,040 He had come to Los Angeles from the 270 00:13:47,040 --> 00:13:49,800 east, but there was no connection between him 271 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:52,360 and Charles Palm before he came and met 272 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:53,040 William Seymour. 273 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:56,620 Bartleman used to come and see my father. 274 00:13:57,620 --> 00:14:04,460 And I remember he was kind of a 275 00:14:04,460 --> 00:14:09,520 tall, stiff man and carried a little black 276 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:09,840 bag. 277 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:14,220 Oh, I was probably seven or eight or 278 00:14:14,220 --> 00:14:14,580 nine. 279 00:14:15,060 --> 00:14:16,580 Bartleman wasn't alone. 280 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:21,520 Joseph Smale, pastor of the First Baptist Church 281 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:24,780 of Los Angeles, sought more of God and 282 00:14:24,780 --> 00:14:28,000 traveled to Wales to meet Evan Roberts, leader 283 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,740 of the Great Welsh Revival of 1904. 284 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:34,960 That revival so changed the complexion of Welsh 285 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:37,920 society that mules pulling coal loads out of 286 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:41,040 the mines had to be retrained because the 287 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,720 teamsters who urged them on now did so 288 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:45,360 without anger or cursing. 289 00:14:46,460 --> 00:14:50,500 When Smale returned to Los Angeles, energized by 290 00:14:50,500 --> 00:14:53,720 the experience in Wales, he was instrumental in 291 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:55,620 the birth of a revival that went on 292 00:14:55,620 --> 00:14:56,840 for four months. 293 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,140 Smale promised his congregation, Pentecost has not come, 294 00:15:01,660 --> 00:15:02,760 but it is coming. 295 00:15:04,220 --> 00:15:08,580 After 15 weeks of nonstop revival meetings, detached 296 00:15:08,580 --> 00:15:11,860 his congregation's patience and tested their commitment, and 297 00:15:11,860 --> 00:15:14,720 then the pastoral committee of the First Baptist 298 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,820 Church of Los Angeles voted to dismiss Smale. 299 00:15:18,260 --> 00:15:22,340 A disappointed Frank Bartleman commented, What an awful 300 00:15:22,340 --> 00:15:24,040 position for a church to take. 301 00:15:24,580 --> 00:15:25,880 To throw God out. 302 00:15:33,590 --> 00:15:37,530 While attending Bible school in Houston in 1905, 303 00:15:38,110 --> 00:15:42,070 William Seymour pastored Lucy Farrell's Small Holiness Church 304 00:15:42,070 --> 00:15:44,790 while she traveled to Kansas with the Palms. 305 00:15:44,790 --> 00:15:48,830 A visitor from Los Angeles named Neely Terry 306 00:15:48,830 --> 00:15:52,570 attended services and came away impressed with Seymour. 307 00:15:53,230 --> 00:15:56,430 When she returned to Los Angeles, she recommended 308 00:15:56,430 --> 00:15:59,490 Seymour to a small group of believers pastored 309 00:15:59,490 --> 00:16:00,930 by Julia Hutchins. 310 00:16:01,490 --> 00:16:05,290 They sent Seymour train fare and invited him 311 00:16:05,290 --> 00:16:06,390 to come west. 312 00:16:07,530 --> 00:16:10,230 Although Palm did not feel Seymour was ready, 313 00:16:10,790 --> 00:16:12,050 Seymour felt differently. 314 00:16:12,770 --> 00:16:16,290 It was divine call that brought me from 315 00:16:16,290 --> 00:16:18,250 Houston, Texas to Los Angeles. 316 00:16:19,310 --> 00:16:20,850 The Lord put it in the heart of 317 00:16:20,850 --> 00:16:23,510 one of the saints in Los Angeles to 318 00:16:23,510 --> 00:16:26,010 write to me that she felt the Lord 319 00:16:26,010 --> 00:16:28,290 would have me come over there and do 320 00:16:28,290 --> 00:16:30,270 her work when I came. 321 00:16:30,890 --> 00:16:33,050 For I felt it was the leading of 322 00:16:33,050 --> 00:16:33,610 the Lord. 323 00:16:34,730 --> 00:16:38,110 The Lord sent the means, and I came 324 00:16:38,110 --> 00:16:40,230 to take charge of a mission on Santa 325 00:16:40,230 --> 00:16:40,890 Fe Street. 326 00:16:43,110 --> 00:16:45,810 Seymour crossed an America in which two out 327 00:16:45,810 --> 00:16:47,510 of three citizens lived rurally. 328 00:16:48,130 --> 00:16:50,250 There were 8,000 cars in the United 329 00:16:50,250 --> 00:16:54,290 States, but only 144 miles of paved roads. 330 00:16:54,970 --> 00:16:57,470 There were no skyscrapers in the Los Angeles 331 00:16:57,470 --> 00:17:00,170 of that day, even though the traffic was 332 00:17:00,170 --> 00:17:00,930 quite modern. 333 00:17:08,490 --> 00:17:13,890 Los Angeles had 256 churches, or one church 334 00:17:13,890 --> 00:17:15,670 for every 1,000 people. 335 00:17:16,329 --> 00:17:20,430 By February 1906, the hearts of many believers 336 00:17:20,430 --> 00:17:23,750 in those churches were on fire, stirred up 337 00:17:23,750 --> 00:17:25,010 by the Holy Spirit. 338 00:17:25,750 --> 00:17:28,670 They felt that God himself was standing in 339 00:17:28,670 --> 00:17:29,250 the doorway. 340 00:17:30,430 --> 00:17:33,370 The Pentecostal manifestation did not come like a 341 00:17:33,370 --> 00:17:34,390 huge prairie fire. 342 00:17:34,390 --> 00:17:36,990 For years there had been a necessary time 343 00:17:36,990 --> 00:17:39,310 of preparation as God readied the hearts of 344 00:17:39,310 --> 00:17:39,790 his people. 345 00:17:40,330 --> 00:17:43,250 At Reverend Smale's New Testament Church, believers joined 346 00:17:43,250 --> 00:17:45,610 hands one afternoon in February after a service 347 00:17:45,610 --> 00:17:47,770 and prayed that God would pour out his 348 00:17:47,770 --> 00:17:49,650 Spirit speedily with signs following. 349 00:17:50,290 --> 00:17:50,890 Frank Bartlett. 350 00:17:51,830 --> 00:17:56,350 As Smale's congregation prayed, Julia Hutchins and the 351 00:17:56,350 --> 00:17:59,110 eight families that had sent Seymour train fare 352 00:17:59,110 --> 00:18:01,990 left the Bonny Bray home of Richard and 353 00:18:01,990 --> 00:18:04,930 Ruth Asbury and leased a building on Santa 354 00:18:04,930 --> 00:18:05,310 Fe. 355 00:18:05,930 --> 00:18:08,850 There they waited for the arrival of William 356 00:18:08,850 --> 00:18:10,170 Joseph Seymour. 357 00:18:16,460 --> 00:18:20,500 As Seymour's train chugged westward across the Arizona 358 00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:23,700 desert, there were 46 states in the Union 359 00:18:23,700 --> 00:18:26,680 and $46 million in the Treasury. 360 00:18:27,820 --> 00:18:30,760 Construction on the Titanic had not yet begun, 361 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:34,080 and the tallest structure in the world was 362 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:35,140 the Eiffel Tower. 363 00:18:36,340 --> 00:18:37,500 Babe Ruth was 11. 364 00:18:38,780 --> 00:18:41,820 Seymour arrived at the Santa Fe Railway's Legram 365 00:18:41,820 --> 00:18:43,940 Station on February 22. 366 00:18:44,660 --> 00:18:47,300 On that platform a traveler was just as 367 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:50,620 likely to hear Spanish, German, Chinese or Russian 368 00:18:50,620 --> 00:18:51,640 as he was English. 369 00:18:53,980 --> 00:18:56,980 Even though some claim Hutchins wanted to turn 370 00:18:56,980 --> 00:19:00,160 over her small flock to Seymour, his emphasis 371 00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:03,720 on tongues and his pre-millennialist views alarmed 372 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:04,000 her. 373 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:07,460 After Seymour preached enough sermons to clarify his 374 00:19:07,460 --> 00:19:10,700 doctrinal position, she locked him out of the 375 00:19:10,700 --> 00:19:11,220 facility. 376 00:19:14,340 --> 00:19:16,980 After only a week in Los Angeles, the 377 00:19:16,980 --> 00:19:19,880 holiness man from Houston had worn out his 378 00:19:19,880 --> 00:19:20,320 welcome. 379 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:25,660 Unemployed and discouraged, Seymour accepted an invitation to 380 00:19:25,660 --> 00:19:28,680 break bread at the home of Edward S. 381 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:30,460 Lee of the Peniel Mission. 382 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:33,720 The gracious Lee knew his guest had nowhere 383 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:36,740 to go, so he invited Seymour to remain 384 00:19:36,740 --> 00:19:37,400 at his home. 385 00:19:38,420 --> 00:19:41,900 Except to offer him hospitality, Lee did not 386 00:19:41,900 --> 00:19:45,000 know what to do with Seymour, and Seymour 387 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,920 did not know where to turn next. 388 00:19:48,140 --> 00:19:51,140 Together, the two men turned to prayer. 389 00:19:51,940 --> 00:19:55,320 Sometimes they prayed all night, and in the 390 00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:57,900 morning, Lee would get off his knees and 391 00:19:57,900 --> 00:19:59,800 leave for his job at a local bank 392 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:04,080 while Seymour remained behind, praying and reading God's 393 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:04,460 word. 394 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,700 As the days went by, other believers heard 395 00:20:07,700 --> 00:20:10,920 of Seymour's devotion to prayer and came to 396 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:12,440 the Lee home and joined him. 397 00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:17,400 Soon, Seymour increased his daily prayer time from 398 00:20:17,400 --> 00:20:20,200 five hours to seven hours a day. 399 00:20:21,180 --> 00:20:24,160 Richard and Ruth Asbury invited him to hold 400 00:20:24,160 --> 00:20:26,060 a prayer meeting at their home. 401 00:20:26,980 --> 00:20:30,720 After their invitation, Seymour sent to Houston for 402 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,260 two helpers, Joseph A. 403 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:35,340 Warren and Lucy F. 404 00:20:35,380 --> 00:20:38,780 Farrell, and entered into a season of prayer 405 00:20:38,780 --> 00:20:40,680 at the home on Bonnie Brae. 406 00:20:40,680 --> 00:20:44,840 On April 6th, the humble pastor proposed a 407 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,120 ten-day fast to his small band of 408 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:47,540 believers. 409 00:20:48,260 --> 00:20:48,900 Edward S. 410 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:51,540 Lee and his wife signed on, as did 411 00:20:51,540 --> 00:20:55,180 Emma Cotton, the Asburys, and a woman who 412 00:20:55,180 --> 00:20:59,360 later became Seymour's wife, Jenny Moore. 413 00:21:03,020 --> 00:21:05,960 Lee and Seymour walked to the Asbury home. 414 00:21:06,790 --> 00:21:10,880 After singing and lots of prayer, Seymour preached 415 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:12,680 on Acts 2-4. 416 00:21:13,660 --> 00:21:16,120 All of them were filled with the Holy 417 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:18,840 Spirit and began to speak in other tongues 418 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:20,820 as the Spirit enabled them. 419 00:21:22,180 --> 00:21:25,300 The baptism of the Holy Spirit is the 420 00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:27,040 infilling of God. 421 00:21:30,470 --> 00:21:33,550 God is operating in such a way, there 422 00:21:33,550 --> 00:21:34,730 are manifestations. 423 00:21:34,730 --> 00:21:38,330 Speaking in tongues is when we aren't able 424 00:21:38,330 --> 00:21:42,490 to articulate the way we are accustomed to, 425 00:21:42,890 --> 00:21:45,370 because it's not cognitive, it becomes a spiritual 426 00:21:45,370 --> 00:21:46,070 experience. 427 00:21:46,690 --> 00:21:50,550 Speaking in tongues is a spiritual communication connecting 428 00:21:50,550 --> 00:21:51,930 us directly with God. 429 00:21:52,470 --> 00:21:55,030 The infill of the Holy Spirit, we believe, 430 00:21:55,170 --> 00:21:59,510 is the initial physical evidence, and the proof 431 00:21:59,510 --> 00:22:02,430 of that is down through the years, those 432 00:22:02,430 --> 00:22:05,270 who have received this experience have spoken and 433 00:22:05,270 --> 00:22:08,250 do speak in other tongues, as the Spirit 434 00:22:08,250 --> 00:22:09,210 gives the enablement. 435 00:22:09,550 --> 00:22:12,150 So not only is it biblical and Bible 436 00:22:12,150 --> 00:22:15,810 -based, but it is historical because of the 437 00:22:15,810 --> 00:22:18,510 subsequent experiences by those who have received the 438 00:22:18,510 --> 00:22:19,410 infill of the Holy Spirit. 439 00:22:19,950 --> 00:22:21,830 Your spirit joins in with the Holy Spirit 440 00:22:21,830 --> 00:22:27,390 as you pray in tongues, so that you're 441 00:22:27,390 --> 00:22:30,070 brought into the presence of God in a 442 00:22:30,070 --> 00:22:30,970 new way. 443 00:22:30,970 --> 00:22:32,750 I think a lot of people have lack 444 00:22:32,750 --> 00:22:35,450 of knowledge, and they don't bother to study 445 00:22:35,450 --> 00:22:37,790 and to learn about the gifts of the 446 00:22:37,790 --> 00:22:37,930 Spirit. 447 00:22:37,990 --> 00:22:41,270 So I would really encourage anyone that doesn't 448 00:22:41,270 --> 00:22:42,750 know much about the gifts of the Spirit, 449 00:22:42,930 --> 00:22:45,050 or has been taught against speaking in tongues, 450 00:22:45,170 --> 00:22:46,730 doesn't speak in tongues, but would like to 451 00:22:46,730 --> 00:22:48,390 speak in tongues, don't know if they want 452 00:22:48,390 --> 00:22:51,150 to speak in tongues, I encourage them to 453 00:22:51,150 --> 00:22:54,750 be open, and to study, and to read, 454 00:22:55,010 --> 00:22:59,350 and to pray about it, and to ask 455 00:22:59,350 --> 00:23:01,670 God to do a full work in their 456 00:23:01,670 --> 00:23:04,270 life, with everything that He wants them to 457 00:23:04,270 --> 00:23:04,530 have. 458 00:23:04,990 --> 00:23:08,610 Around 6 p.m., Seymour prayed for Lee, 459 00:23:08,830 --> 00:23:12,050 and his friend began speaking in tongues. 460 00:23:12,630 --> 00:23:15,550 At the same time, Jenny Moore fell from 461 00:23:15,550 --> 00:23:16,050 her stool. 462 00:23:17,030 --> 00:23:19,190 The power of God fell, and I was 463 00:23:19,190 --> 00:23:22,470 baptized in the Holy Ghost and fire, with 464 00:23:22,470 --> 00:23:24,350 the evidence of speaking in tongues. 465 00:23:24,350 --> 00:23:27,470 As I looked to God, it seemed as 466 00:23:27,470 --> 00:23:30,130 if a vessel broke within me, and water 467 00:23:30,130 --> 00:23:32,910 surged up through my being, which, when it 468 00:23:32,910 --> 00:23:35,570 reached my mouth, came out in a torrent 469 00:23:35,570 --> 00:23:37,730 of speech in the languages God had given 470 00:23:37,730 --> 00:23:38,030 me. 471 00:23:38,410 --> 00:23:41,390 The message came with power, so quick that 472 00:23:41,390 --> 00:23:43,350 but few words would have been recognized. 473 00:23:44,390 --> 00:23:47,210 Interpretation of each message followed in English. 474 00:23:47,930 --> 00:23:49,990 I sang under the power of the Spirit 475 00:23:49,990 --> 00:23:52,230 in many languages, and in the home where 476 00:23:52,230 --> 00:23:54,810 the meeting was held, the Spirit led me 477 00:23:54,810 --> 00:23:57,710 to the piano, where I played and sang 478 00:23:57,710 --> 00:24:00,770 under inspiration, although I had not learned to 479 00:24:00,770 --> 00:24:01,110 play. 480 00:24:02,650 --> 00:24:04,610 Acts 2-4 said that they were all 481 00:24:04,610 --> 00:24:06,370 filled with the Spirit and began to speak 482 00:24:06,370 --> 00:24:08,690 with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them 483 00:24:08,690 --> 00:24:09,110 utterance. 484 00:24:09,410 --> 00:24:11,030 I think you have to do some things 485 00:24:11,030 --> 00:24:11,550 in faith. 486 00:24:12,170 --> 00:24:14,710 You begin, you open your mouth, you move 487 00:24:14,710 --> 00:24:16,890 your lips, you move your tongue, but He 488 00:24:16,890 --> 00:24:20,430 gives the shape of that beautiful sound, and 489 00:24:20,430 --> 00:24:22,230 He knows what He's praying through you. 490 00:24:22,230 --> 00:24:24,210 And this goes beyond your mind. 491 00:24:24,450 --> 00:24:26,870 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, 492 00:24:27,490 --> 00:24:32,070 my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful, 493 00:24:32,110 --> 00:24:32,890 that means my mind. 494 00:24:33,370 --> 00:24:34,470 Now listen to this carefully. 495 00:24:35,170 --> 00:24:37,490 For if I pray, that's if I do 496 00:24:37,490 --> 00:24:39,970 this, if I pray in an unknown tongue, 497 00:24:40,510 --> 00:24:42,310 my spirit prayeth. 498 00:24:42,890 --> 00:24:45,010 1 Corinthians 14, I think it's the first 499 00:24:45,010 --> 00:24:46,630 verse, says He that speaketh in an unknown 500 00:24:46,630 --> 00:24:49,110 tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God. 501 00:24:49,110 --> 00:24:51,930 For no man understandeth Him, howbeit in the 502 00:24:51,930 --> 00:24:53,090 Spirit he speaketh mysteries. 503 00:24:53,310 --> 00:24:54,630 So that means God's going to let me 504 00:24:54,630 --> 00:24:55,910 speak to Him in the Spirit, and He's 505 00:24:55,910 --> 00:24:56,650 not going to let you. 506 00:24:56,930 --> 00:24:58,350 God is not a respecter of persons. 507 00:24:58,830 --> 00:25:00,910 Everybody should want to speak directly to God. 508 00:25:01,250 --> 00:25:02,990 So that's one of the few scriptures that 509 00:25:02,990 --> 00:25:05,290 tell you you can speak directly to God. 510 00:25:05,630 --> 00:25:07,790 And then Jude 20 says build up yourselves 511 00:25:07,790 --> 00:25:10,290 on your most holy faith, praying in the 512 00:25:10,290 --> 00:25:10,870 Holy Spirit. 513 00:25:11,030 --> 00:25:12,230 Everybody should want to do that. 514 00:25:13,170 --> 00:25:16,030 Several other believers were knocked to the ground 515 00:25:16,030 --> 00:25:17,530 by the power of the Spirit. 516 00:25:17,530 --> 00:25:20,450 Their shouts of joy could be heard throughout 517 00:25:20,450 --> 00:25:21,250 the neighborhood. 518 00:25:22,110 --> 00:25:25,310 Curious neighbors gathered, and when the faithful moved 519 00:25:25,310 --> 00:25:27,990 to the front porch, they spoke in tongues 520 00:25:27,990 --> 00:25:29,790 and praised God. 521 00:25:30,310 --> 00:25:32,070 And the word spread rapidly. 522 00:25:32,870 --> 00:25:35,570 By the next morning, the crowd of witnesses 523 00:25:35,570 --> 00:25:37,930 had grown so great that it was difficult 524 00:25:37,930 --> 00:25:39,310 to approach the house. 525 00:25:39,890 --> 00:25:43,190 Standing on a slight rise, the structure's placement 526 00:25:43,190 --> 00:25:45,490 made the porch a natural pulpit. 527 00:25:46,330 --> 00:25:49,970 For three days and nights, the prayer group 528 00:25:49,970 --> 00:25:51,670 worshiped God continually. 529 00:25:52,530 --> 00:25:53,890 Hundreds came to Christ. 530 00:25:54,470 --> 00:25:56,370 And at four in the morning on the 531 00:25:56,370 --> 00:26:00,330 third day, Brother Seymour was baptized in the 532 00:26:00,330 --> 00:26:01,010 Holy Ghost. 533 00:26:02,110 --> 00:26:04,750 You see, if I am not desirous of 534 00:26:04,750 --> 00:26:07,370 the infilling of the Holy Spirit, the Holy 535 00:26:07,370 --> 00:26:09,870 Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is 536 00:26:09,870 --> 00:26:12,010 not going to force Himself upon a person. 537 00:26:12,010 --> 00:26:14,670 It's a result of desire. 538 00:26:15,390 --> 00:26:18,070 They that hunger and thirst after righteousness shall 539 00:26:18,070 --> 00:26:18,590 be filled. 540 00:26:18,810 --> 00:26:22,530 Then in February of 1976, I was crying 541 00:26:22,530 --> 00:26:23,950 out to God, and I'll never forget it. 542 00:26:24,210 --> 00:26:25,550 And I was on my way to work, 543 00:26:25,630 --> 00:26:26,770 and I just said, God, there's got to 544 00:26:26,770 --> 00:26:27,410 be more than this. 545 00:26:27,490 --> 00:26:28,570 Something's wrong in my life. 546 00:26:28,630 --> 00:26:29,490 You have to do something. 547 00:26:29,590 --> 00:26:30,850 I can't go on like this anymore. 548 00:26:31,350 --> 00:26:34,390 And that day, in my automobile, I was 549 00:26:34,390 --> 00:26:35,490 filled with the Holy Spirit. 550 00:26:36,110 --> 00:26:38,950 I just had a phenomenal touch from God. 551 00:26:38,950 --> 00:26:41,210 You know, different people experience a touch from 552 00:26:41,210 --> 00:26:43,510 God and express it in different ways. 553 00:26:43,570 --> 00:26:45,030 For me, I felt like someone took my 554 00:26:45,030 --> 00:26:46,450 head off, filled me full of liquid love, 555 00:26:46,510 --> 00:26:47,650 and put my head back on and turned 556 00:26:47,650 --> 00:26:48,090 me loose. 557 00:26:48,970 --> 00:26:50,430 And I know in the book of Acts, 558 00:26:51,170 --> 00:26:53,350 the early disciples were accused of being drunk 559 00:26:53,350 --> 00:26:55,250 because they were acting very unusual. 560 00:26:55,530 --> 00:26:57,670 Well, I felt like I was drunk, but 561 00:26:57,670 --> 00:26:58,350 in a different way. 562 00:26:58,410 --> 00:26:59,870 I felt like for about three weeks I 563 00:26:59,870 --> 00:27:01,150 was drunk on the love of God. 564 00:27:07,620 --> 00:27:10,660 Many strange things had happened in Los Angeles 565 00:27:10,660 --> 00:27:11,960 in the name of religion. 566 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,700 And A.G. Osterberg, pastor of the Full 567 00:27:15,700 --> 00:27:18,640 Gospel Assembly, felt it was his duty to 568 00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,760 protect his flock from fanaticism and to lead 569 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:23,420 them in the paths of righteousness. 570 00:27:24,420 --> 00:27:27,740 He decided to secretly attend the Bonnie Braid 571 00:27:27,740 --> 00:27:28,440 prayer meeting. 572 00:27:29,300 --> 00:27:31,100 My idea of going alone was a lost 573 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:31,560 cause. 574 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,300 When three of my deacons, Brothers Worthington, Weaver, 575 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,180 and Dodd, announced they were going to the 576 00:27:36,180 --> 00:27:39,300 prayer meeting, that meeting on Bonnie Braid convinced 577 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:41,540 me, not because of the speaking in tongues 578 00:27:41,540 --> 00:27:43,240 or the pattern of the meeting, but because 579 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:45,160 I could sense they were spiritual people. 580 00:27:45,860 --> 00:27:47,500 There was no nonsense going on. 581 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:50,700 Although I didn't quite understand the matter of 582 00:27:50,700 --> 00:27:53,660 speaking in tongues, I was convinced these people 583 00:27:53,660 --> 00:27:54,340 were sincere. 584 00:27:55,220 --> 00:27:56,980 That night, as I drove home, I asked 585 00:27:56,980 --> 00:27:59,920 myself, Arthur, what are you going to do? 586 00:28:00,900 --> 00:28:05,580 A.G. Osterberg, Full Gospel Businessman's Voice, May 587 00:28:05,580 --> 00:28:06,620 1966. 588 00:28:08,060 --> 00:28:11,300 Osterberg's response was to gather his church together 589 00:28:11,300 --> 00:28:13,400 and study the book of Acts. 590 00:28:22,290 --> 00:28:24,610 Some persons attending the meeting in those early 591 00:28:24,610 --> 00:28:26,790 days of revival were not seekers of truth, 592 00:28:27,450 --> 00:28:29,270 but came to mock them and find fault, 593 00:28:29,830 --> 00:28:31,170 and they do so presently. 594 00:28:31,730 --> 00:28:33,630 But this is true of every mighty work 595 00:28:33,630 --> 00:28:34,190 of the Spirit. 596 00:28:35,490 --> 00:28:37,190 It would be unlike Satan not to stir 597 00:28:37,190 --> 00:28:41,110 up opposition, indiscretions, and counterfeiting, because he is 598 00:28:41,110 --> 00:28:42,650 an expert at such things. 599 00:28:43,410 --> 00:28:45,530 Yes, he has as many counterfeits among the 600 00:28:45,530 --> 00:28:47,310 Pentecostals as he does among the Methodists. 601 00:28:48,430 --> 00:28:49,330 A.W. Oregon. 602 00:28:49,810 --> 00:28:52,030 If, for example, in one of our services, 603 00:28:53,190 --> 00:28:54,890 someone, which is common in a lot of 604 00:28:54,890 --> 00:28:58,190 charismatic Pentecostal churches, but if someone just started 605 00:28:58,190 --> 00:29:00,190 running up and down the aisles, you know, 606 00:29:02,210 --> 00:29:02,990 I feel the Lord. 607 00:29:03,350 --> 00:29:06,890 I always feel a little bit conflicted, because 608 00:29:06,890 --> 00:29:08,890 on the one hand, if that's the Lord, 609 00:29:09,110 --> 00:29:10,350 I don't want to turn that down. 610 00:29:11,130 --> 00:29:12,310 On the other hand, I wonder, but is 611 00:29:12,310 --> 00:29:14,150 that just that person responding to the Holy 612 00:29:14,150 --> 00:29:15,690 Spirit and kind of getting a little bit 613 00:29:15,690 --> 00:29:16,250 out of order? 614 00:29:16,570 --> 00:29:18,450 The balance between the move of the Spirit 615 00:29:18,450 --> 00:29:20,850 and what Paul says, doing things decently and 616 00:29:20,850 --> 00:29:22,750 in order, which you wrote to a charismatic 617 00:29:22,750 --> 00:29:24,890 church, that's always a tough balance. 618 00:29:25,350 --> 00:29:28,310 On the other hand, I believe sometimes God 619 00:29:28,310 --> 00:29:31,870 can give us even eccentric people, and God 620 00:29:31,870 --> 00:29:34,050 gave them to us, not so much for 621 00:29:34,050 --> 00:29:35,510 us to settle them down. 622 00:29:35,990 --> 00:29:37,370 Maybe they need to learn to be more 623 00:29:37,370 --> 00:29:39,450 mature, but he also gives us people like 624 00:29:39,450 --> 00:29:41,410 that to raise our spiritual temperature. 625 00:29:41,910 --> 00:29:43,890 So even when I correct things, when something 626 00:29:43,890 --> 00:29:45,350 to me gets a little bit out of 627 00:29:45,350 --> 00:29:47,850 whack, I always ask myself, but is God 628 00:29:47,850 --> 00:29:49,310 still saying something through this? 629 00:29:57,770 --> 00:30:01,390 Three times a day, seven days a week, 630 00:30:01,590 --> 00:30:05,590 for three years the services went on, led 631 00:30:05,590 --> 00:30:08,030 by the Spirit, not by the will of 632 00:30:08,030 --> 00:30:08,410 men. 633 00:30:10,790 --> 00:30:12,570 One of the brothers would open in prayer 634 00:30:12,570 --> 00:30:15,330 and commit the meeting to God to keep 635 00:30:15,330 --> 00:30:17,850 us from emotionalism and crooked spirits. 636 00:30:18,410 --> 00:30:20,570 Apostolic Faith, 1908. 637 00:30:22,870 --> 00:30:24,930 If someone would pound the seat with their 638 00:30:24,930 --> 00:30:28,010 hand, Brother Seymour would go to them gently 639 00:30:28,010 --> 00:30:29,830 and tap them on the shoulder and say, 640 00:30:30,650 --> 00:30:32,970 Brother, that is the flesh. 641 00:30:32,970 --> 00:30:37,090 And a holy hush and quietness would settle 642 00:30:37,090 --> 00:30:38,950 down upon those tarrying there. 643 00:30:40,150 --> 00:30:44,770 At times, someone or some teacher would get 644 00:30:44,770 --> 00:30:46,610 up in the audience to read a scripture 645 00:30:46,610 --> 00:30:49,390 or preach a sermon, or give a long 646 00:30:49,390 --> 00:30:53,730 testimony, and Brother Seymour would say, Dear loved 647 00:30:53,730 --> 00:30:57,290 one, these meetings are different from any you 648 00:30:57,290 --> 00:30:58,070 have ever seen. 649 00:30:58,750 --> 00:31:02,090 These are holy ghost meetings, and no flesh 650 00:31:02,090 --> 00:31:04,470 can glory in the presence of our God. 651 00:31:05,690 --> 00:31:06,890 Rachel Sizelove. 652 00:31:08,810 --> 00:31:12,010 A word concerning Brother Seymour, who is the 653 00:31:12,010 --> 00:31:13,370 leader of the movement under God. 654 00:31:14,470 --> 00:31:16,810 He is the meekest man I have ever 655 00:31:16,810 --> 00:31:17,150 met. 656 00:31:18,090 --> 00:31:19,850 He walks and talks with God. 657 00:31:21,030 --> 00:31:22,570 His power is in his weakness. 658 00:31:23,850 --> 00:31:26,310 He seems to maintain a helpless dependence on 659 00:31:26,310 --> 00:31:28,710 God, and is as simple-hearted as a 660 00:31:28,710 --> 00:31:31,790 little child, and at the same time so 661 00:31:31,790 --> 00:31:33,790 filled with God that you feel the love 662 00:31:33,790 --> 00:31:35,810 and power every time you get near him. 663 00:31:36,910 --> 00:31:37,730 Apostolic Faith. 664 00:31:38,490 --> 00:31:40,750 February, March, 1907. 665 00:31:41,730 --> 00:31:44,310 Testimony of William Durham, pastor of the North 666 00:31:44,310 --> 00:31:45,510 Avenue Mission in Chicago. 667 00:31:47,330 --> 00:31:50,430 Brother Seymour generally sat behind two empty shoeboxes, 668 00:31:50,490 --> 00:31:51,330 one on top of the other. 669 00:31:51,750 --> 00:31:53,570 He usually kept his head inside the top 670 00:31:53,570 --> 00:31:54,910 one during the meeting and prayer. 671 00:31:55,490 --> 00:31:56,690 There was no pride there. 672 00:31:58,510 --> 00:32:01,310 The services ran almost continuously, and the place 673 00:32:01,310 --> 00:32:03,310 was never closed, and it was never empty. 674 00:32:04,470 --> 00:32:06,290 The meetings did not depend on a human 675 00:32:06,290 --> 00:32:09,310 leader, but God's presence became more and more 676 00:32:09,310 --> 00:32:09,890 wonderful. 677 00:32:10,570 --> 00:32:13,270 In that old building, with its low rafters 678 00:32:13,270 --> 00:32:16,370 and bare floors, God broke strong men and 679 00:32:16,370 --> 00:32:18,710 women and then put them together again for 680 00:32:18,710 --> 00:32:19,390 his glory. 681 00:32:19,950 --> 00:32:22,530 Pride and self-assertion, self-importance and self 682 00:32:22,530 --> 00:32:24,930 -esteem did not survive for long in that 683 00:32:24,930 --> 00:32:25,310 place. 684 00:32:25,310 --> 00:32:26,570 Frank Bartolin. 685 00:32:29,020 --> 00:32:30,260 No collections were taken. 686 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,040 No bills were posted to advertise the meetings. 687 00:32:33,660 --> 00:32:35,880 No church or organization was back of it. 688 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,940 All who are in touch with God realized 689 00:32:38,940 --> 00:32:40,760 as soon as they entered the meetings that 690 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,140 the Holy Ghost led us. 691 00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:43,680 Apostolic Faith. 692 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:45,500 November, 1906. 693 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,800 No subjects or sermons were announced ahead of 694 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,460 time, and there were no special speakers. 695 00:32:52,100 --> 00:32:54,500 All was spontaneous, ordered of the Spirit. 696 00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:57,640 We wanted to hear from God through whomever 697 00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,220 he might choose to have speak. 698 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,280 Frank Bartolin. 699 00:33:02,420 --> 00:33:06,300 Don't leave this meeting and talk about tongues. 700 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,260 Instead, try to get people saved. 701 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:15,960 But when you go, remember apostolic power will 702 00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,120 bring apostolic persecution. 703 00:33:18,980 --> 00:33:22,340 If God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven your 704 00:33:22,340 --> 00:33:23,900 sins, you know it. 705 00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:26,740 And if you do not know it better 706 00:33:26,740 --> 00:33:30,480 than you know anything in this world, you 707 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:31,940 are still in your sins. 708 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,000 If he has given you a clean heart 709 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,600 and sanctified your soul, you know it. 710 00:33:40,060 --> 00:33:43,740 If you do not know it, the work 711 00:33:43,740 --> 00:33:44,560 is not done. 712 00:33:46,990 --> 00:33:50,690 When you are sanctified, people can see it 713 00:33:50,690 --> 00:33:51,530 in your life. 714 00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:54,630 But when he baptizes you in the Holy 715 00:33:54,630 --> 00:33:58,730 Ghost, it brings a holy boldness to stand 716 00:33:58,730 --> 00:34:01,410 up before the world without fear. 717 00:34:02,570 --> 00:34:05,110 Men may say it is of the devil 718 00:34:05,110 --> 00:34:08,570 and you are drunk, but glory to God, 719 00:34:08,850 --> 00:34:11,630 there is a power behind you that men 720 00:34:11,630 --> 00:34:13,710 and women cannot deny. 721 00:34:22,250 --> 00:34:25,210 The enchanting strains of the heavenly choir that 722 00:34:25,210 --> 00:34:27,630 sang hymns under the evident direction of the 723 00:34:27,630 --> 00:34:30,350 Holy Spirit, both as to words and tune, 724 00:34:30,469 --> 00:34:31,730 thrilled my whole being. 725 00:34:32,650 --> 00:34:34,610 It was not something that could be repeated 726 00:34:34,610 --> 00:34:37,929 at will, but was supernaturally given for each 727 00:34:37,929 --> 00:34:40,790 special occasion and was one of the most 728 00:34:40,790 --> 00:34:44,150 indisputable evidences of the presence of God's power. 729 00:34:44,989 --> 00:34:47,750 The singing inspired a holy awe, a feeling 730 00:34:47,750 --> 00:34:50,409 of indescribable wonder in hearers with a devout 731 00:34:50,409 --> 00:34:50,949 attitude. 732 00:34:55,060 --> 00:35:01,320 March 18th, April 8th, 1916 No instruments of 733 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:04,300 music are used, none are needed, no choir, 734 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:06,600 but bands of angels have been heard by 735 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:08,580 some in the Spirit, and there is a 736 00:35:08,580 --> 00:35:10,820 heavenly singing that is inspired by the Holy 737 00:35:10,820 --> 00:35:11,280 Ghost. 738 00:35:12,180 --> 00:35:19,840 Apostolic Faith, November 1906 Twenty persons joined in 739 00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:21,140 singing the heavenly chorus. 740 00:35:22,060 --> 00:35:25,300 It was the most ravishing and unearthly music 741 00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:27,000 that ever fell on mortal ears. 742 00:35:28,020 --> 00:35:31,200 It seemed to me then, and still does, 743 00:35:31,820 --> 00:35:34,000 that I did not belong in that chorus, 744 00:35:34,680 --> 00:35:36,540 for it came directly from heaven. 745 00:35:48,180 --> 00:35:50,480 I was a boy and had accompanied my 746 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,180 mother, a devout Catholic woman, before she came 747 00:35:53,180 --> 00:35:53,800 to Asusa. 748 00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:56,760 As we moved to an open spot on 749 00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,280 a near bench, I suddenly felt a chill, 750 00:35:59,820 --> 00:36:01,800 and the hair on my arms, legs, and 751 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:02,960 head stood on end. 752 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,920 It felt as if I was surrounded by 753 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:06,280 God. 754 00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,480 I was trembling, and so was my mother 755 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:10,580 and everybody else. 756 00:36:11,580 --> 00:36:14,160 In most churches, children would be twisting in 757 00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:15,920 their seats and running up and down the 758 00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,720 aisles, but not at Asusa. 759 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,940 Everyone was quiet, even babies in their mothers' 760 00:36:24,180 --> 00:36:24,560 arms. 761 00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:27,640 It was not their parents who kept them 762 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:31,640 quiet, because nobody said a word, not even 763 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:32,460 a whisper. 764 00:36:33,420 --> 00:36:35,920 As my hands shook and the hair on 765 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,480 my arms stood up, people suddenly rose to 766 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,520 their feet and their hands shot towards heaven. 767 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,180 My hands went up with theirs, though I 768 00:36:44,180 --> 00:36:45,300 hadn't tried to raise them. 769 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:49,220 Even the hands of babes in arms shot 770 00:36:49,220 --> 00:36:50,020 towards heaven. 771 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:54,060 Strong men began to cry out loudly, and 772 00:36:54,060 --> 00:36:55,180 then the women followed. 773 00:36:55,900 --> 00:36:58,460 As I looked over the congregation, another chill 774 00:36:58,460 --> 00:36:59,640 ran down my spine. 775 00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,300 It was as if ocean waves moved from 776 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:05,860 one end of the congregation to the other. 777 00:37:06,860 --> 00:37:09,780 Wave after wave of the Spirit rippled through 778 00:37:09,780 --> 00:37:13,840 the hall like a breeze passing over a 779 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:14,420 cornfield. 780 00:37:16,260 --> 00:37:18,660 When the hair on my arms settled down, 781 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:20,600 so did the people. 782 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:23,980 They settled back into their seats and prayers, 783 00:37:24,240 --> 00:37:25,260 buzzed through the hall. 784 00:37:26,180 --> 00:37:28,960 Then tongues of fire suddenly appeared over the 785 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,740 heads of some of them, and a black 786 00:37:30,740 --> 00:37:33,200 man with a shiny face began to speak 787 00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:34,000 in tongues. 788 00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:38,380 As he spoke, a blind white woman came 789 00:37:38,380 --> 00:37:40,080 off the bench like a jack-in-the 790 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:42,740 -box, and she cried out, Oh my blessed 791 00:37:42,740 --> 00:37:45,100 Jesus, I can see! 792 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:47,000 I can see! 793 00:37:49,670 --> 00:37:52,070 Praise for the precious blood of Jesus sprang 794 00:37:52,070 --> 00:37:52,810 to our mouths. 795 00:37:53,630 --> 00:37:55,710 The crowd seemed to have forgotten how to 796 00:37:55,710 --> 00:37:58,030 sing in English, and out of their mouths 797 00:37:58,030 --> 00:38:01,810 came new languages, in a heavenly harmony that 798 00:38:01,810 --> 00:38:03,690 no human being could have learned. 799 00:38:04,870 --> 00:38:07,270 I cannot describe it, and no human being 800 00:38:07,270 --> 00:38:08,570 could ever duplicate it. 801 00:38:09,470 --> 00:38:13,050 We sang heavenly choruses, and in between each 802 00:38:13,050 --> 00:38:15,850 chorus our eyes filled with tears. 803 00:38:16,770 --> 00:38:19,970 A.C. Valdez, Fire at Azusa. 804 00:38:23,210 --> 00:38:27,490 Lives were changed at Azusa Street, and through 805 00:38:27,490 --> 00:38:32,830 them, thousands came to experience the baptism with 806 00:38:32,830 --> 00:38:33,930 the Holy Spirit. 807 00:38:35,050 --> 00:38:40,250 And through those thousands, tens of thousands, and 808 00:38:40,250 --> 00:38:42,950 then millions more. 809 00:38:43,830 --> 00:38:45,650 You've been listening to From the Pulpit. 810 00:38:45,930 --> 00:38:48,190 This week you heard Matt Gibson with his 811 00:38:48,190 --> 00:38:51,350 message, The Azusa Street Revival of 1906. 812 00:38:51,610 --> 00:38:53,510 Tune in next week for another powerful message 813 00:38:53,510 --> 00:38:55,470 from God's Word on From the Pulpit.