<i>♪ MUSIC ♪</i> >> WELCOME TO <i>GOSPEL TRUTH</i> WITH ANDREW WOMMACK, A TEACHING MINISTRY
THAT FOCUSES ON GOD'S UNCONDITIONAL >> LOVE AND GRACE. >> IT WAS LIKE HE WAS JUST PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER FOR ME IN SUCH A WAY THAT JUST WAS SIMPLE, BUT POWERFUL, AND I WAS LIKE, YEAH, THIS IS... THIS IS GOD'S TRUTH >> RIGHT HERE. >> IT WASN'T ALWAYS WHAT I... WHAT I WANTED TO HEAR, BUT I KNEW IT WAS THE TRUTH AND I ALWAYS WANTED >> THE TRUTH. >> AND NOW, HERE'S ANDREW. WELCOME TO OUR THURSDAY'S BROADCAST OF <i>THE GOSPEL TRUTH.</i> THIS WEEK I'VE BEEN SHARING WITH YOU ABOUT THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHICH IS WHERE
GOD EMPOWERS YOU WITH SUPERNATURAL ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. THE CHRISTIAN LIFE IS NOT JUST DIFFICULT OR HARD, IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO LAY HANDS ON THE SICK AND SEE THEM RECOVER IN OUR OWN ABILITY. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO BE ABLE TO REJOICE ALWAYS AS PAUL SAID IN PHILIPPIANS, CHAPTER 4, AND AGAIN I SAY, REJOICE. IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO COUNT IT ALL JOY WHEN YOU'RE IN PROBLEMS, UNLESS YOU'RE ENDUED WITH POWER FROM ON HIGH, AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS TOLD HIS DISCIPLES. AND SO, THIS WEEK I'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, HOW THAT ABSOLUTELY
TRANSFORMS YOUR LIFE. OUTSIDE OF YOUR PERSONAL, BORN AGAIN EXPERIENCE WITH JESUS, THE NEXT MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT YOU CAN DO IS RECEIVE THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE POWER
THAT COMES ALONG WITH THAT. THAT'S WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT ALL WEEK, AND I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND YOU THAT I'M GIVING AWAY THIS BOOK, FREE OF CHARGE. THIS IS A BOOK THAT WE GIVE TO EVERY PERSON
WHO COMES DOWN IN MY MEETINGS FOR EITHER SALVATION OR THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND WE HAVE GIVEN AWAY, AT LEAST, TENS OF THOUSANDS, I THINK IT'S OVER 100,000 OF THESE BOOKS THAT WE'VE GIVEN AWAY, AND WE WILL SUPPLY THIS AS A GIFT TO YOU. WE'VE ALSO GOT A PACKAGE THAT WE'RE OFFERING; OUR ANNOUNCER WILL MAKE THIS AT THE END OF THE PROGRAM, BUT WE WANT YOU
TO BE EMPOWERED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. I'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS; I HAVEN'T GOT TIME TO GO BACK THROUGH ALL OF THAT. I WANT TO JUST ZERO IN, DRILL DOWN, ON ONE ASPECT OF HAVING THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOUR LIFE, AND THAT IS PRAYING IN TONGUES. AND THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT THINK THAT THIS IS FOOLISHNESS, THEY THINK IT'S GIBBERISH, THEY THINK THAT THERE IS NO PRACTICAL PURPOSE. YOU'VE EVEN GOT A LOT OF CHRISTIANS WHO WILL SAY THAT IT'S OF THE DEVIL AND THAT IF YOU SPEAK IN THE TONGUE...IN...IN TONGUES, IT'S OF THE DEVIL. BUT YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE FOR THEM, IF THIS IS OF THE DEVIL, HOW COME YOU
DON'T GO INTO BARS AND INTO NIGHTCLUBS, INTO, YOU KNOW, THESE PLACES WHERE ALL KINDS OF EVIL IS HAPPENING AND HEAR EVERYBODY SPEAKING IN TONGUES? YOU KNOW, THIS STATEMENT THAT IT'S OF THE DEVIL, IT CERTAINLY HASN'T BEEN OF THE DEVIL IN MY LIFE. IT HAS BEEN, UH, SOMETHING THAT HAS TRANSFORMED ME, AND I'M GOING TO SHARE SOME PERSONAL TESTIMONIES WITH YOU OF MIRACULOUS THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED THROUGH ME PRAYING IN TONGUES. BUT LET ME JUST START WITH THIS, IN 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 14, AND IN VERSE 14, IT SAYS, FOR IF I PRAY IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, MY SPIRIT PRAYETH, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFUL. NOW, I'M GOING TO GO ON AND TALK ABOUT
HOW YOU CAN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND AND BENEFIT FROM WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT UNLESS YOU BELIEVE FOR AN INTERPRETATION AND KNOW HOW TO RECEIVE THIS, WHEN YOU PRAY IN TONGUES, YOUR UNDERSTANDING... THIS IS TALKING ABOUT, YOUR MIND DOESN'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT THE PART I WANTED TO FOCUS ON, THAT WHEN YOU PRAY IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, MY SPIRIT PRAYETH... AND I TELL YOU THIS IS POWERFUL. I'VE GOT A TEACHING ENTITLED: <i>SPIRIT, SOUL & BODY,</i> WHICH IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT GOD EVER SHOWED ME, AND TO JUST SUMMARIZE IT QUICKLY IT'S YOUR SPIRIT THAT GETS BORN AGAIN AND THAT IS TOTALLY CHANGED, OLD THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY; ALL THINGS HAVE BECOME NEW, 2 CORINTHIANS 5:17. THAT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT YOUR BODY. IF YOU WERE OVERWEIGHT BEFORE YOU GOT SAVED, YOU'LL STILL BE OVERWEIGHT AFTER YOU GET SAVED UNLESS YOU GO ON A DIET AND DO SOMETHING. YOUR BODY'S NOT SAVED. WE HAVE A PROMISE THAT WE ARE GOING TO GET A GLORIFIED BODY, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE THAT NOW. YOUR MIND ISN'T INSTANTLY CHANGED. MATTER OF FACT, THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, IN ROMANS, CHAPTER 12, VERSE 2, THAT YOU HAVE TO
BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND. YOUR MIND ISN'T IX...INSTANTLY CHANGED. WHEN YOU GET BORN AGAIN, YOU DIDN'T GET A NEW MIND, YOU GOT A NEW HEART. SO, IT'S THE SPIRIT THAT'S CHANGED, AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS IS THAT GOD IS A SPIRIT, JOHN 4:24, AND YOU MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH, NOT IN...THE FLESH, AND SO MUCH WHAT IF... WHAT IS CALLED CHRISTIANITY AND WORSHIP OF GOD TODAY, IT IS NOT IN SPIRIT. PEOPLE GO THROUGH THESE PHYSICAL, MECHANICAL THINGS WHERE YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT TO PRAY IN A CERTAIN POSITION, YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE YOUR HANDS FOLDED OR YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE YOUR EYES CLOSED OR YOU'VE GOT TO BE LOOKING UP TO HEAVEN. THEY GO THROUGH THESE RITUALS, THAT YOU'VE GOT TO SAY AND REPEAT CERTAIN THINGS AND GO THROUGH A...A...I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT YOU CALL IT, BUT ALL THOSE BEADS AND STUFF. FORGIVE ME FOR MY IGNORANCE, BUT ANYWAY, THEY GO... ALL OF THESE THINGS. THAT IS NOT WORSHIPPING GOD IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. WHAT...WHAT...IN SPIRIT IS THE PART OF YOU THAT WAS BORN AGAIN, THAT'S CHANGED. YOU ARE NOW
CREATED IN HIS IMAGE AND YOU HAVE TO CONNECT TO GOD SPIRIT TO SPIRIT. NOW THERE'S MULTIPLE WAYS OF DOING THAT. I'M NOT SAYING SPEAKING IN TONGUES IS THE ONLY WAY OF DOING THAT, BUT THIS VERSE MAKES IT VERY CLEAR THAT WHEN YOU ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES, YOUR SPIRIT IS PRAYING. YOU AREN'T PRAYING OUT OF YOUR INTELLECT. YOU AREN'T PRAYING OUT OF YOUR EMOTIONS. YOU'RE PRAYING DIRECTLY OUT OF YOUR SPIRIT TO GOD, SPIRIT TO SPIRIT. NOW THAT IS HUGE. THAT IS POWERFUL. IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT I'VE JUST SAID, IT'S BECAUSE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT
REALLY HAPPENED TO YOU WHEN YOU GOT BORN AGAIN AND THA...WHAT YOU GOT IN THE SPIRIT. WHAT YOU HAVE IN THE SPIRIT IS PERFECT. IT SAYS, IN EPHESIANS, CHAPTER 1, VERSES 18, 19, THROUGH THE END
OF THE CHAPTER, IT SAYS, THAT YOU HAVE THE SAME POWER THAT RAISED JESUS CHRIST FROM THE DEAD, AND THAT'S NOT OUT THERE IN HEAVEN, AVAILABLE TO YOU IF YOU COULD JUST REACH OUT AND SOMEHOW OR ANOTHER, PULL IT DOWN. NO, IT'S IN YOU. IT'S IN YOU RIGHT NOW. IT'S NOT JUST WHEN YOU DIE AND GO TO HEAVEN. IN YOU RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE RAISING FROM THE DEAD POWER. 1 JOHN, CHAPTER 4, VERSE 17, SAYS, AS HE IS, SPEAKING OF JESUS. SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. NOT TALKING ABOUT IN THE WORLD TO COME. NOT IN HEAVEN, BUT SO ARE WE IN THIS WORLD. NOW, IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS YOUR SPIRIT THAT GOT CHANGED, IF YOU DON'T...IF YOU'RE JUST LOOKING AT YOURSELF AS A PHYSICAL HUMAN BEING AN... WITH AN EMOTIONAL PART THAT THE BIBLE CALLS THE SOUL, THEN YOU'LL NEVER UNDERSTAND 1 JOHN 4:17, THAT AS JESUS IS, SO ARE YOU IN THIS WORLD. BECAUSE YOUR BODY'S NOT LIKE JESUS YET. YOUR BODY IS STILL CORRUPTIBLE, BUT YOU ARE GOING TO GET AN INCORRUPTIBLE BODY WHEN WE GO TO BE WITH THE LORD. YOUR MIND IS NOT LIKE JESUS YET. IT MAY BE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING RENEWED, BUT YOU CAN'T CLAIM THAT YOU KNOW ALL THINGS, EVEN AS ALSO YOU ARE KNOWN, 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 13. NO, YOUR MIND IS STILL IN THE PROCESS OF
BEING RENEWED, BUT IN YOUR SPIRIT, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT, AND WHEN YOU PRAY IN TONGUES, IT IS YOUR SPIRIT PRAYING. THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS, 1 CORINTHIANS 14:14. 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 2, VERSE 16, SAYS, WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST. WHERE IS THAT? IT'S NOT UP HERE IN YOUR BRAIN, BUT IN YOUR SPIRIT, YOU KNOW ALL THINGS. 1 JOHN, CHAPTER 2, VERSE 20, SAYS, YOU HAVE AN UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE, AND YOU KNOW ALL THINGS. NOT SOME THINGS, ALL THINGS. NOW I CAN GUARANTEE YOU, SOME OF YOU WATCHING THIS PROGRAM, YOU CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER WHERE YOU PUT YOUR KEYS. YOU CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE YOUR GLASSES ARE AND THEY'RE ON
TOP OF YOUR HEAD. WE DON'T KNOW ALL THINGS WITH THIS MIND UP HERE, BUT IN YOUR SPIRIT, YOU KNOW ALL THINGS, AND WHEN YOU PRAY IN TONGUES, YOUR SPIRIT THAT KNOWS ALL THINGS IS PRAYING. MAN, THAT IS AWESOME, IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT. AND SOMEBODY'S THINKING, WELL, WHAT GOOD IS IT GOING TO DO ME IF I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? WELL, GO BACK TO 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 14, AND VERSE 13. IT SAYS, WHEREFORE LET HIM THAT PRAYETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE PRAY THAT HE MAY INTERPRET. SO VERSE 14, SAYS, WHEN YOU'RE PRAYING IN TONGUES, IT'S YOUR SPIRIT PRAYING. WHAT IS IT PRAYING? IT'S PRAYING THE HIDDEN WISDOM OF GOD, IT'S PRAYING THIS PART OF YOU THAT HAS AN UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE AND KNOWS ALL THING... IT'S THE MIND OF CHRIST THAT'S IN YOUR SPIRIT PRAYING. YOU ARE PRAYING PERFECTLY. THERE ISN'T ANY OF THE CONFUSION, ANY OF THE DOUBT IN YOUR SPIRIT THAT EXISTS IN YOUR MIND. SO, WHEN YOU'RE PRAYING IN TONGUES, YOU'RE BYPASSING ALL OF THIS CLUTTER, ALL OF THIS STUFF THAT CAN CLOG UP US BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE WITH GOD. AND YOU'RE BYPASSING THE LIMITATIONS OF YOUR MIND. AND YOU'RE PRAYING OUT OF YOUR SPIRIT, AND YOU HAVE THE COMMAND RIGHT HERE, THAT WHEN YOU PRAY IN TONGUES, PRAY ALSO THAT YOU INTERPRET. NOW, THIS IS SPECIFICALLY TALKING ABOUT HOW THE GIFT OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES OPERATES IN A CHURCH AND THERE ARE QUALIFICATIONS HERE IN THIS 14TH CHAPTER, THAT EVERYTHING THAT IS DONE AT CHURCH NEEDS TO BE DONE FOR THE BENEFIT
OF OTHER PEOPLE. THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, THE EDIFYING OF THE OTHER PEOPLE. AND SO WHEN YOU COME TOGETHER IN CHURCH, YOU SHOULDN'T ALL JUST BE UP THERE... LIKE IF THE PREA...PREACHER GETS UP AND JUST SPEAKS IN TONGUES, WELL THEN THAT'S NOT GOING TO BENENFIT...BENEFIT ANYBODY, SO PAUL SAID NOT TO DO THAT. HE SAID, IF SOMEBODY DOES SPEAK IN TONGUES, IT HAS TO BE, AT THE MOST, THREE PEOPLE, AND IT HAS TO BE INTERPRETED. SO, THIS IS SPECIFICALLY TALKING ABOUT THAT IF YOU PRAY IN TONGUES IN CHURCH, YOU NEED TO ALSO PRAY FOR AN INTERPRETATION OF IT SO THAT OTHER PEOPLE CAN BENEFIT. AND THAT IS SPECIFICALLY WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. BUT IN THIS EXACT SAME CHAPTER, THE APOSTLE PAUL SAID, THAT HE SPOKE IN TONGUES MORE THAN THEM ALL, AND YET HE SAID IN THE CHURCH, HE WOULD RATHER
SPEAK FIVE WORDS IN A KNOWN LANGUAGE THAN 10,000 WORDS IN AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE. SO, WHEN PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT SPEAKING IN TONGUES, IT IS NOT LIMITED TO THE CHURCH. HE SAID HE SPOKE IN TONGUES MORE THAN THEM ALL, AND IT'S CLEAR IT WASN'T IN CHURCH. SO, THIS APPLIES NOT ONLY TO AN ASSEMBLY, A CHURCH GATHERING, BUT THIS CAN APPLY TO YOU PERSONALLY, THAT IF YOU ARE PRAYING IN TONGUES, YOUR SPIRIT IS PRAYING, THE PART OF YOU THAT KNOWS THE MIND OF CHRIST, THAT HAS ALL OF THIS UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE AND YOU KNOW ALL THINGS, YOU ARE PRAYING THE PERFECT WISDOM OF GOD, AND YOU CAN PRAY THAT YOU INTERPRET. MAN, THAT IS POWERFUL. SO, WHAT THIS MEANS IS, THAT INSTEAD OF US GOING THROUGH LIFE AND SAYING, WELL, FURTHER ALONG WE'LL KNOW ALL ABOUT IT, SOMEDAY WE'LL UNDERSTAND ALL OF THIS STUFF, BUT YOU KNOW, I JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE THINGS OF GOD... YOU KNOW, LET ME USE A VERSE RIGHT HERE IN 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 2. THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS TALKING ABOUT THE W...HI...WISDOM OF GOD. HE WAS SPEAKING THE WISDOM OF GOD IN A MYSTERY, AND RIGHT HERE IN 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 2, VERSE 9, HE SAYS, BUT AS IT IS WRITTEN, EYE HATH NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, THE THINGS WHICH GOD HATH PREPARED FOR THEM
THAT LOVE HIM. NOW, THAT'S A QUOTATION FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT, BUT HERE IT IS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT BEING QUOTED, AND THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WILL JUST LATCH ON TO THIS AND SAY, WE JUST CAN'T KNOW THE THINGS OF GOD. WELL, THAT'S WHAT THIS IS SAYING IN THE NATURAL. YOU, IN YOUR NATURAL SELF, WITH YOUR LITTLE PEANUT BRAIN AND OUR LIMITED UNDERSTANDING, WE CANNOT REALLY GRASP AND UNDERSTAND THE THINGS OF GOD. BUT, THE NEXT VERSE, LOOK AT THIS; IT SAYS, BUT GOD HATH REVEALED THEM UNTO US BY HIS SPIRIT... AND THEN THE NEXT FEW VERSES GO ON TO TALK ABOUT HOW THAT THE SPIRIT SEARCHES OUR HEART AND KNOWS US, AND THERE'S SOME THINGS, IN VERSE 14, IT SAYS, BUT THE NATURAL MAN RECEIVETH NOT THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD: THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS UNTO HIM: NEITHER CAN HE KNOW THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. SEE, THIS IS A COMMENTARY ON THAT VERSE, WHERE IT SAYS, EYE HASN'T SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER HAS ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN... THIS ISN'T SAYING THAT YOU CAN'T KNOW THE THINGS OF GOD, IT'S SAYING THAT YOU CAN'T KNOW THE THINGS OF GOD BY JUST HUMAN ABILITY, HUMAN REASONING. YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT QUICKEN YOUR UNDERSTANDING, AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS MY TESTIMONY, THAT I GOT BORN AGAIN WHEN I WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD AND I WAS GENUINELY SAVED. BUT WHEN I RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN I WAS 18 YEARS OLD, MARCH THE 23RD, 1968; WHEN I RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT, MY UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AND OF THE WORD OF GOD JUST EXPLODED. PRIOR TO THAT TIME, AND I KNOW THAT SOME OF YOU CAN RELATE TO WHAT I'M SAYING RIGHT HERE, BUT PRIOR TO THAT TIME, I READ THE BIBLE EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE. I MEMORIZED SCRIPTURE, BUT IT WAS ALL ACADEMIC. I DON'T EVEN HAVE THE WORDS TO DESCRIBE THIS, BUT IF YOU WOULD HAVE ASKED ME, I COULD HAVE QUOTED SOME SCRIPTURES, BUT IT...THERE WAS A DISCONNECT. I WOULD READ THESE SCRIPTURES, BUT IT DIDN'T INFLUENCE THE WAY I THOUGHT...IT DIDN'T INFLUENCE THE WAY I ACTED, EXCEPT IN A VAGUE WAY, LIKE THE STANDARDS OF MORALITY. I WOULDN'T HAVE GONE OUT AND COMMITTED ADULTERY, I WOULDN'T CUSS, I WOULDN'T STEAL. IT INFLUENCED ME IN THAT WAY, BUT IT DIDN'T, I DIDN'T APPLY IT TO MY...I DIDN'T APPLY MY LIFE TO THE WORD OF GOD THE WAY I SHOULD. BUT WHEN I RECEIVED THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN YOU PRAY IN TONGUES, YOUR SPIRIT IS PRAYING. YOUR SPIRIT IS COMMUNICATING. YOUR SPIRIT IS BEGINNING TO RELEASE THIS REVELATION THAT THESE VERSES WAS TALKING ABOUT, AND MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IS THAT WHEN I RECEIVED THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND STARTED
SPEAKING IN TONGUES, THIS QUIT BEING JUST A BOOK ABOUT GOD, BUT THIS STARTED BEING A BOOK FROM GOD, AND I COULDN'T OPEN THE BIBLE AND READ WITHOUT GOD TALKING TO ME, NOT IN AN AUDIBLE VOICE, BUT IN MY HEART. I JUST WAS
UNDERSTANDING THINGS. YOU KNOW, I...FOR INSTANCE, IN ACTS, CHAPTER 3, IS WHERE PETER AND JOHN WERE GOING INTO THE TEMPLE AND THEY PRAYED FOR A MAN WHO WAS LAME. OR ACTUALLY, THEY DIDN'T EVEN PRAY FOR HIM, THEY JUST COMMANDED HEALING ON HIM, GRABBED HIM BY THE HAND, AND HE WAS INSTANTLY HEALED AND WENT WALKING AND LEAPING AND PRAISING GOD. I HAD READ THAT DOZENS, MAYBE HUNDREDS OF TIMES BEFORE I RECEIVED THE BAPTISM, BUT AFTER I RECEIVED THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE HOLY SPIRIT BEGAN TO GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING, AND FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY LIFE, IT DAWNED ON ME THAT THIS WAS AN ACTUAL, PHYSICAL HEALING. PRIOR TO THAT TIME, IN THE BAPTIST CHURCH, THEY WOULD USE
THOSE SCRIPTURES, BUT THEY WOULD SAY THINGS LIKE, WE WERE ALL CRIPPLES SPIRITUALLY. EMOTIONALLY WE WERE CRIPPLED AND WHEN YOU COME TO THE LORD, HE MAKES YOU WHOLE, AND THEY WOULD SPIRITUALIZE IT, AND IT HAD NEVER DAWNED ON ME. I KNOW THAT THIS...SOME OF YOU ARE GOING TO THINK, WELL, YOU'RE...YOU'RE PRETTY SLOW AND MAYBE I AM, BUT I'M JUST TELLING YOU, THAT IT HAD NOT DAWNED ON ME THAT THIS WAS A PHYSICAL THING. BUT AFTER I RECEIVED THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, STARTED SPEAKING IN TONGUES, I READ THAT, AND, I MEAN, GOD STARTED SPEAKING TO ME THAT HEALING IS A PART OF WHAT HE DID. JUST LIKE JESUS PHYSICALLY HEALED THAT PERSON, HE DOESN'T JUST SPIRITUALLY HEAL US, HE WANTS TO PHYSICALLY HEAL US, AND HE STARTED SHOWING ME THAT PAU...PETER DIDN'T EVEN PRAY A PRAYER. HE SAID, SUCH AS I HAVE NOT SUCH AS GOD HAS. I COULD PRAY AND ASK GOD IF HE WOULD HEAL YOU, NO, GOD HAD GIVEN HIM THAT HEALING POWER AND HE RELEASED IT, AND, I MEAN, THESE VERSES JUST CAME ALIVE. I COULDN'T OPEN THE BIBLE WITHOUT GOD SPEAKING TO ME, AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THESE VERSES ARE SAYING. WITH YOUR NATURAL MIND, YOUR PHYSICAL EYE, YOUR MENTAL HEARING, YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND
THE THINGS OF GOD, BUT GOD HAS REVEALED THEM UNTO US BY HIS SPIRIT, BECAUSE THE SPIRIT REVEALS THINGS TO US, AND WHEN YOU
RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, THERE'S MANY
THINGS THAT HAPPEN. IT OPENS YOU UP TO ALL KINDS OF GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE SUPERNATURAL GIFTS AND STUFF; THE SPEAKING IN TONGUES, BUT IT JUST BRINGS REVELATION KNOWLEDGE TO YOU. YOU KNOW, I HAVE MINISTERED IN CHURCHES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE HAD DOCTOR'S DEGREES, MULTIPLE DOCTOR'S DEGREES, AND SOME OF THEM
JUST REJECT ME BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE THE EDUCATION THAT THEY DO, BUT I'VE HAD MANY PEOPLE WITH DOCTOR'S
DEGREES THAT HAVE BEEN THROUGH CEMETERY, I MEAN, SEMINARY, AND THEY HAVE
STUDIED FOR YEARS, AND THEY'LL HEAR ME MINISTER ON THE SCRIPTURE AND THEY ARE JUST AMAZED AND THEY SAY, WHERE DID YOU GET THAT? I'VE READ THIS, I'VE STUDIED IT, I'VE BEEN THROUGH SEMINAR... I'VE DONE ALL THESE THINGS, AND I NEVER SAW THAT, AND YOU KNOW HOW I GOT IT? THROUGH PRAYING IN TONGUES AND ASKING GOD TO GIVE ME UNDERSTANDING AS I STUDY THE WORD. AND THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS REVEALED HIS WORD TO ME. I'M TELLING YOU, THIS TO ME IS THE GREATEST BENEFIT OF RECEIVING THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SPEAKING IN TONGUES. IT DOES MANY THINGS, BUT ONE OF THEM IS, IT GIVES SUPERNATURAL
REVELATION AND UNDERSTANDING
OF GOD'S WORD. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE ONE WHO WROTE THE BIBLE. HE INSPIRED PEOPLE TO WRITE IT, AND WHEN YOU START PRAYING IN TONGUES AND RE...RECEIVING THIS POWER FROM ON HIGH, IT GIVES YOU THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND AND RECEIVE THE WORD OF GOD. MAN, THAT'S AWESOME. TO ME, IF THAT WAS THE ONLY BENEFIT OF THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SPEAKING IN TONGUES, THAT WOULD BE PRICELESS, BUT IT GOES FAR BEYOND THAT. YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE OTHER GIFTS. YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO LAY HANDS ON THE SICK, AND THEY SHALL RECOVER. YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO HEAR THE VOICE OF GOD
SO MUCH BETTER THAN YOU EVER HAVE BEFORE, AND JUST ON AND ON IT GOES. I'M TELLING YOU, THE HOLY SPIRIT IS ESSENTIAL TO THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID, THAT I CAN DO NOTHING OF MYSELF, BUT WHAT I SEE THE FATHER DO, THAT'S WHAT I DO. AND I'VE ACTUALLY HEARD PEOPLE TAKE THOSE PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE AND SAY, THAT THIS WAS JESUS SHOWING THAT HE WASN'T TRULY GOD BECAUSE HE COULDN'T
DO ANYTHING BY HIMSELF. NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT IT'S SAYING. IT'S JUST THE OPPOSITE. IT'S SHOWING HIS ONENESS WITH GOD, THE FATHER, AND WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. THEY ARE SO ONE. THEY ARE SO INTERDEPENDENT UPON EACH OTHER THAT THEY CAN'T
OPERATE SEPARATE FROM EACH OTHER. INSTEAD OF THAT BEING SOME ADMISSION BY JESUS THAT HE WAS LESS THAN GOD, IT IS A STATEMENT BY JESUS HOW ONE WITH GOD HE WAS. HE COULD NOT OPERATE INDEPENDENTLY. AND SO, I'M MAKING THIS SAME THING TO SAY THAT A PERSON WHO SAYS, OH, I'VE RECEIVED JESUS AS MY SAVIOR AND I'M BORN AGAIN, BUT I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THESE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. YOU JUST CANNOT
EFFECTIVELY LIVE THE CHRISTIAN LIFE AND SEPARATE THE HOLY SPIRIT FROM THE MINISTRY OF GOD, THE FATHER, AND GOD, THE SON, JESUS. YOU NEED THE HOLY SPIRIT. JESUS DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT. IN CREATION, YOU CAN READ IN THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE BOOK OF GENESIS; IT SAYS, THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS, AND IF YOU LOOK THAT UP IN THE HEBREW, IT'S LITERALLY TALKING ABOUT, HE BROODED OVER IT. THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS INVOLVED IN ALL OF THE CREATION. GOD DOESN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND YOU CAN'T EFFECTIVELY DO ANYTHING WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT. WHEN YOU ARE
PRAYING IN TONGUES, IT IS YOUR SPIRIT PRAYING AND WHAT IS IT PRAYING? IT'S PRAYING THE HIDDEN WISDOM OF GOD, 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 2, IT IS PRAYING THE MIND OF CHRIST. IT'S THE PART OF YOU THAT HAS AN UNCTION FROM THE HOLY ONE AND KNOWS ALL THINGS. THAT'S THE PART OF YOU THAT'S PRAYING. YOU'RE PRAYING OUT THESE TREMENDOUS
ST...STATEMENTS OF GOD. LOOK AT THIS VERSE IN CHAPTER 14, 1 CORINTHIANS, CHAPTER 14, VERSE 2, HE THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE SPEAKETH NOT UNTO MEN, BUT UNTO GOD: FOR NO MAN UNDERSTANDETH HIM; HOWBEIT IN THE SPIRIT HE SPEAKETH MYSTERIES. IN THE SPIRIT, YOU ARE SPEAKING THE HIDDEN MYSTERIES OF GOD, AND THEN IN VERSE 4, IT SAYS, HE THAT SPEAKETH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE EDIFIETH HIMSELF... THE WORD EDIFY MEANS, TO BUILD UP, TO PROMOTE SPIRITUAL GROWTH. YOU KNOW, IF YOU EVER GET DISCOURAGED, IF YOU EVER GET FEARFUL, IF IT SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE FIGHTING UNBELIEF, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO IS JUST START SPEAKING IN TONGUES, BECAUSE YOU EDIFY YOURSELF, YOU BUILD YOURSELF UP, YOU PROMOTE SPIRITUAL GROWTH. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE DISCOURAGING THINGS HAPPEN TO THEM. YOU KNOW, THEY EXPERIENCE PEOPLE DYING; THEY EXPERIENCE POVERTY, THEY EXPERIENCE PEOPLE REJECTING THEM, PERSECUTING THEM, AND ON AND ON IT GOES, AND THEY HAVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, THEY HAVE THIS ABILITY TO SPEAK IN TONGUES, BUT THEY DON'T DO IT, AND YET, THE BIBLE SAYS, RIGHT HERE THAT WHEN YOU SPEAK IN TONGUES, YOU'RE PROMOTING SPIRITUAL GROWTH. IT SAYS, OVER IN ISAIAH, THAT WHEN YOU ARE SPEAKING IN TONGUES, THAT YOU ARE CAUSING YOURSELF TO REST, THIS IS THE REST AND THIS IS THE REFRESHING, WHEREWITH YOU MAY CAUSE THE WEARY TO REST... AND SPEAKING IN TONGUES WILL CAUSE REST AND REFRESHMENT IN YOU. I'VE ACTUALLY BEEN IN CHURCH SERVICES WHERE SO MANY BAD THINGS WERE BEING SAID CONTRARY TO THE WORD OF GOD THAT IT WAS GRIEVING ME, AND IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO SURVIVE THAT CHURCH SERVICE, I'VE LITERALLY PUT MY FINGER ON THIS VERSE AND QUIETLY, TO MYSELF, SO THAT I DIDN'T DISTRACT ANYBODY ELSE, I WOULD SIT THERE AND PRAY IN TONGUES AND SAY, I AM BUILDING MYSELF UP PROMOTING SPIRITUAL GROWTH, EDIFYING MYSELF BY SPEAKING IN TONGUES. EVERY PERSON WATCHING THIS NEEDS ENCOURAGEMENT, AND SOMETIMES WE PRAY AND ASK GOD FOR IT AND THEN JUST SIT THERE WAITING ON SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL TO HAPPEN. IF YOU'VE RECEIVED THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, YOU CAN SPEAK IN TONGUES AND YOU CAN
ENCOURAGE YOURSELF IN THE LORD, YOU CAN EDIFY YOURSELF IS WHAT IT SAYS. YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO FINISH THIS UP TOMORROW. I'VE STILL GOT SOME MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO SHARE, BUT I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT THIS IS A BOOK THAT I'M GIVING AWAY TO ANY OF YOU WHO WOULD CALL IN OR GO TO OUR WEB SITE AND ASK FOR IT. IT'S ENTITLED: <i>THE NEW YOU AND HOLY SPIRIT</i> AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SPEAKING IN TONGUES, AND EVERYTHING I'VE TALKED ABOUT TODAY, IT WILL EXPLAIN IN A LOT MORE DETAIL, PLUS, IT'LL GIVE YOU MUCH MORE INFORMATION. THERE'S ALSO A PLACE IN THE BACK OF THE BOOK THAT WOULD TELL YOU MY NEXT TEACHINGS THAT I HAVE THAT COULD HELP YOU GROW. THIS IS MY GIFT TO YOU. WE DO HAVE A PACKAGE WHERE WE HAVE A STUDY GUIDE AND DVDs AND CDs AND YOU CAN LISTEN; OUR ANNOUNCER WILL GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION, BUT IF YOU WANT THIS ONE FREE OF CHARGE, MY PARTNERS HAVE ENABLED ME TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS AND GIVE IT TO YOU, AND I PROMISE YOU, IT WOULD HELP YOU. SO, LISTEN TO OUR ANNOUNCER AND PLEASE CALL OR WRITE TODAY. >> YOU CAN GET ANDREW'S BOOK TITLED, <i>THE NEW YOU & THE HOLY SPIRIT</i> IN EITHER ENGLISH OR SPANISH TODAY ABSOLUTELY FREE AS A SPECIAL OFFER WHEN YOU CALL OUR HELPLINE AT 719-635-1111. OR GO TO OUR WEB SITE AT AWMI.NET THIS OFFER IS LIMITED TO ONE FREE BOOK
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