June 10, 2025 • 52 mins
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Rev. Dwain Galiher delivers a powerful, inspiring message about the baptism of the Holy Ghost, tracing its biblical landmarks and emphasizing its continuing relevance for believers today.
• Understanding the baptism of the Holy Ghost through biblical landmarks
• Jesus' ministry as the first landmark, emphasizing the Holy Ghost over evangelism and end-time discussions
• The evidence of speaking in tongues as the clear marker of Holy Ghost baptism
• Charles Price's testimony of seeing fire and receiving the Holy Ghost
• The emergence of power that follows baptism in the Holy Ghost
• Distinguishing between three types of baptism: into Christ's body at conversion, water baptism, and Holy Ghost baptism
• Personal testimonies of receiving the Holy Ghost, including Webb's own experience at home
• The continuing availability of this experience for all believers who fully surrender
If you want the baptism of the Holy Ghost, throw your hands up, throw your heart open, and say "Take all of me, God, and while you're at it, give me the Holy Ghost."
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Music.
Greetings everyone.
This is Brother David Webb fromHodgenville, kentucky.
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Thank you for listening toHoliness Preaching Online.
We want to present to you todaya great sermon from another
great preacher Amen.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Appreciate it.
Thank you, brother Ralston.
Thank you, my.
Hasn't this been a wonderfulconference this year.
I'm telling you, the Spirit ofGod has been here in just a
wonderful way, a challenging way.
I appreciate all the preachingthat I've heard and I want to
thank the board for theopportunity.
Thank you, brother Webb, andall of the board for the
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opportunity to be a part of thisconference this year.
I appreciate the focus ondoctrinal preaching.
Hey, the truth.
God's going to confirm histruth.
He said it will not return void, and so we have his promise on
that Boy.
I appreciate brother AndrewBlevins this morning, driving a
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stake of truth like a surveyorand stretching the line out and
showing us what's inbounds andwhat's out of bounds.
We need that kind of preachingfolks we really do.
Yeah, just give God thanks forthat this morning.
Praise God, I want you to turnhere.
I'll try not to be too longhere today, and I certainly
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would love for us to have analtar call here in a little
while.
And I'm just expecting the Lordnot only to help me tell you
about these wonderful truths ofthe baptism of the Holy Ghost
they're his truths.
But I'm expecting God toconfirm his truth and fill
somebody today with the HolyGhost.
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Am I predicting it?
Well, no, I'm not predicting it.
To confirm his truth and fillsomebody today with the Holy
Ghost.
Am I predicting it?
Well, no, I'm not predicting it.
I'm just saying I know how thisworks.
God's truth will not returnvoid.
Wasn't it wonderful to see somefolks receive the Holy Ghost
here last night?
I don't think God's done withthat.
I think he's wanting to do somemore of that.
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The book of Acts here thismorning I'm going to read from
two places rather quickly the19th chapter, and then I'm going
to read also from the 8thchapter.
We're talking about thelandmarks of the baptism of the
Holy Ghost.
And so put a hand up one moretime and ask God to open our
hearts.
Father, I thank you for theword of God that's already
anointed.
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I pray for a blessing on thereading of it.
Let it go into our hearts andproduce fruit.
In Jesus' name, I pray.
And the church said amen.
And it came to pass verse 1,that while Apollos was at
Corinth, paul yeah, you canstand with me having passed
through the upper coast, came toEphesus and finding certain
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disciples.
There was something about thesepeople that he realized.
They're not just Jews of thesynagogue.
He counted them disciples.
There was something about themthat he noticed.
And when he found them, he saidunto them have you received the
Holy Ghost since you believed?
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You notice there how he framesthat question Receive the Holy
Ghost since you believe?
Paul taught very clearly thatthere were two distinct
experiences.
And the church said amen.
His question wouldn't makesense if that was not the case.
And they said unto him we'venot so much as heard whether
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there be any Holy Ghost, what?
And he said unto them unto whatthen?
Were you baptized?
Another proof that the apostlesbaptized in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of theHoly ghost.
Else, the question would notmake any sense.
We know how to baptize.
You've not even heard.
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There was a Holy ghost.
How are you baptized?
They explain it here.
And they said, uh, uh, untoJohn's baptism.
Then said Paul, john barelybaptized with the baptism of
repentance, saying unto thepeople that they should believe
on him, which should come afterhim, which is on Jesus Christ.
When they heard this, they werebaptized in the name of the
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Lord Jesus.
Now I've already clarified howthe apostles baptized.
That simply means in theauthority of Jesus.
They baptized them in the nameof the Father, son and the Holy
Ghost.
Can I get a witness on thathere today?
And when Paul laid his handsupon them, the Holy Ghost came
on them and they spake withtongues and prophesied.
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And all the men were about 12.
Were about 12.
Quickly, acts, chapter 8, versenumber 14.
Now, when the apostles were atexcuse me, the apostles which
were at Jerusalem heard thatSamaria had received the word of
God.
Philip had been down therepreaching a powerful revival.
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They sent them Peter and Johnwho, when they were, come down,
prayed for them that they mightreceive the Holy Ghost.
They've already been gettingsaved.
Miracles have been happening,people are delivered.
But they come down and pray forthem that they might receive
the Holy Ghost, for as yet hewas fallen upon none of them.
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Only they were baptized in thename of the Lord Jesus or under
his authority, to Matthew,chapter 28, in the name of the
Father, son and Holy Ghost.
Then laid they their hands onthem and they received the Holy
Ghost.
God bless you.
Thank you for standing for thereading of the word of God here
today and you can be seated.
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I appreciate this idea here.
The theme of the conference hereof landmarks.
Brother Gallagher, while he wastrampling through the tulips,
let us know what a landmark was.
The other day, and BrotherRalston as well, they did a very
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effective job of describing tous what a landmark is.
Just a touchstone here on that.
It's an obvious and distinctmarker in the landscape that
clearly marks where you are Allright.
So perhaps a notable mountainwhen I'm coming to PFYC, that
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notable mountain is JellicoeMountain.
Perhaps a river If I'm going toOhio, that notable river is the
Ohio River, or a canyon, or itcan be, as Brother Ralston
pointed out, a prominentbuilding or a skyline.
Well, I've chosen someprominent earthly landmarks to
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kind of be the backdrop of myslides here because of how they
connect to the subject of thebaptism of the Holy Ghost, and
I'm also going to bounce off thebiblical method that teaches us
about the Holy Ghost and I'mgoing to use a couple of earthly
elements that are familiar tous that the Bible uses to teach
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us about the person of the HolyGhost.
Somebody say thank God for theHoly Ghost.
Now, I want to talk to you here, first of all, about this first
landmark and when, when I'mtalking about this first
landmark, the first idea thatcomes to my mind here, it comes
from the ministry of Jesus.
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All right, and that is theemphasis of the baptism of the
Holy Ghost.
Thank you, brothers, for askingme to preach on this wonderful
experience of the baptism of theHoly Ghost, preach on this
wonderful experience of thebaptism of the Holy Ghost, and
I'm glad that we have ageneration not only of preachers
but of young people who arehere and are interested to hear
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about this experience of thebaptism of the Holy Ghost.
I think we need to keep theemphasis up.
Can I hear an amen?
The ministry of Jesus was one ofthe things that was used to
emphasize the baptism of theHoly Ghost.
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Amen, now it was, it was, itwas something his ministry when,
when he began to minister inthis earth, his ministry in this
earth was the most monumentalevent in earth's history since
creation.
Creation obviously wasmonumental, but there was nobody
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there to witness creation, allright.
But in Jesus's ministry, thecreator manifests himself to
humanity in a human body.
Oh hallelujah.
Now God had manifested himselfin a cloud.
He had manifested himself in afire, in a bush, to Moses on
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Mount Sinai, to Moses on MountSinai.
He had manifested himself onMount Sinai to the nation of
Israel.
But nothing matches the factwhen God chose a day to manifest
himself in the flesh.
Great is the mystery ofgodliness.
God manifested himself in theflesh.
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A burning bush might intrigueyou.
A great pillar of cloud mightcaptivate your attention.
God on a mountain might terrifyyou.
But when God manifested himselfin the flesh, he was doing it
in a way that he could talk tohumanity like he had never
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talked to humanity before.
John said that which was fromthe beginning.
We beheld with our eyes, wehandled with our hands.
We got a hold of God like wenever had before.
When Jesus came in the flesh,oh hallelujah.
And it wasn't just him coming,oh hallelujah.
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And it wasn't just him coming,but his ministry was a
manifestation of god.
Now I'm just going to tell youthis is beyond my comprehension,
but it is a biblical truth thatought to be preached, and the
scripture says that Jesus wasthe fullness of the Godhead
bodily.
I'm still trying to wrap mymind about, around the idea that
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he can fully represent thesecond person of the Godhead,
and then I realized that the NewTestament teaches us that he's
the fullness of the Godheadbodily.
I don't understand that.
I don't understand that.
One thing I do understand aboutthat, and that is simply this
when Jesus began to minister inthis earth, he began to display
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to this world the workings ofthe triune God.
What had went on in thebackdrop, behind the scenes, in
the mystery realm, now, becauseone of the members of the
Trinity is walking the earth inthe flesh, now we see God
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working in our world and westart to understand something
about the workings of theTrinity that we've never
understood before.
Jesus is here.
He's God in the flesh, but he'stalking about somebody else.
He's talking about my father.
I am come to do the work of myfather.
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I am come to do the will of myfather and, in fact, that's one
of the rules that he operates byas a man.
He will not do anything unlessit is prompted to him by the
father.
It's the father's timing andit's the father's will.
I didn't come to do my own will.
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I came to do the will of thefather.
Can I hear an amen?
Why don't you turn these stonesto bread?
Oh, you can tell me to do it,you can give me a good reason,
but my father is not promptingme to do it and I will not do it
.
Why don't you change this waterinto wine?
Or why don't you do somethingabout this wedding feast here?
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Because they have no wine Woman, what have I to do with thee?
Mine hour is not yet come.
You're a good mother and Irespect you, but I cannot be
prompted by the voice of my goodmother.
I must only work by theprompting of the voice of my
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father.
Hang with me, amen, because notonly does he talk about the
father towards the end of hisministry, he starts talking
about somebody else more freely.
I've got to go away, because ifI don't go away, the Holy Ghost
won't come.
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Oh, but if I go away, he'sgoing to come.
And when he comes, greaterworks than this shall you do,
because I go to my Father.
Oh, hallelujah, peter caught it.
He tells us about it when hepreaches at Cornelius' house, in
Acts 10.38.
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He says how God anointed Jesusof Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and power who went about doinggood, healing all that were
oppressed of the devil, for Godwas with him.
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Can I get a witness?
I want you to hear me real goodhere today.
Here today, jesus was the firstand the best Trinity preacher
that this world has ever seen.
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He displayed it like it hadnever been displayed before.
I know the old Testament talksabout it, but we really don't
comprehend it until we look atit through the lens of the
ministry of Jesus Christ.
Can I hear an amen?
If there's no triune God, thenJesus' ministry amen and his
words are misleading and he is agreat imposter.
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But he's not a great imposter.
He's a second person of theGodhead and he's working like he
always did with God, the Father, and God, the Holy Ghost, and I
want to understand who he isand the church said amen.
Well, he declares the Godhead,but at the end of his ministry
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he begins to emphasize thebaptism of the Holy Ghost.
He emphasizes it with his life.
He is the message, themessenger and the model for us
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in this experience of thebaptism of the holy ghost.
If jesus christ, by whom wereall things made?
And without, without him, wasnot anything made, if jesus
christ, when he was in a humanbody, will not do ministry
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without the power of the HolyGhost, then I must ask us here
this morning, brothers andsisters, how can we who are now
the body of Christ, since he,the head, has ascended into
heaven, how can we expect tocarry on what he started without
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the power of the Holy Ghost?
Hey, I want to tell yousomething here today Jesus, not
just, not, not just.
He didn't just do this to showus the workings of the triune
God, but you got to remember hewas in a human body and he also
did it to show us how he wantsus to live in our frailty in
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this world.
He emphasized it with his life.
He emphasized this message somuch, even before he ascended.
He's still making this messageplain to the disciples that they
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need to be filled with the HolyGhost.
He emphasizes it overevangelism.
I'm going to tell you somethingevangelism is a pretty important
thing.
He came to seek and save thatwhich was lost.
He commissions preachers topreach the gospel to the lost,
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but before he ascends intoheaven, he looks at these
disciples who had been preachingand he tells them what you need
to do now.
Number one priority is you needto go to jerusalem and you need
to tarry in jerusalem until yoube endued with power from on
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high.
When you get get it, you'regoing to go into Judea and
Samaria and all the uttermostparts of the earth and you're
going to preach this gospel toevery creature.
But before you can accomplishthat great task, I've got
something for you.
It's assignment number one Godown to Jerusalem and wait until
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the Holy Ghost comes, becauseyou're not going to be able to
get this job done without thepower of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I showed you how I worked in the power of the Holy.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Ghost and that's how you're going, thrusted in
working with Jesus.
I love end time events andtruth.
I love to preach on thosedoctrines In the scripture, but
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Jesus Emphasized this experienceof the baptism of the Holy
Ghost even over a discussionwith the disciples about the end
time.
They're walking with him out onthe Mount of Olives and that's
the backdrop I've got here.
The Mount of Olives.
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It's a landmark here.
It didn't have all this stuffthat's there right now that you
see in this picture, certainlynot that Muslim dome of the rock
, but he's walking out and he'sgoing to ascend from the Mount
of Olives.
This is kind of a view of thecity of Jerusalem here and he's
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ascending up on that mount whereyou can see the city, kind of
like in this picture here, andthe disciples are saying to him
are you going to now restore thekingdom?
Is this it?
These are the end time events.
We've always heard about himand now it looks like these
things we didn't understand havehappened.
Is now the day that you'regoing to do that?
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He said it's not for you toknow the times and seasons which
the father hath kept in his ownpower, but I tell you what you
do need to do.
You need to go down there injerusalem and you need to tarry
until the holy ghost comes uponyou.
He'll teach you things to come.
There's a whole lot about intime that the Holy Ghost will
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teach you.
He will lead you and guide youinto all truth, but what you've
got to do right now is you'vegot to go get the Holy Ghost.
Let me tell you what we've gotto do right here, as young
people in 2025.
We've got to do right here, asyoung people in 2025.
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More than anything, we needblood-bought believers that have
been baptized in the Holy Ghost.
Do you have it?
Wave at me if you've got it.
We sing that old song sometimeswe get to praying for people to
pray through to the Holy Ghost.
Have you got it?
Have you got it?
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Have you got it like the Biblesays?
How many of you have it?
Like the Bible says?
Then we'll roll over what didyou call that, brother Webb?
Into one of those 711 verses.
We'll roll over into verse 2.
Do you want it?
Do you want it?
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Do you want it?
Like the Bible says?
Anybody here want the baptismof the Holy Ghost?
You can have it.
You can have it.
You can have it.
You can have it like the Biblesays.
I got another landmark here andI just got four, and I'm not
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going to be long today.
My second landmark is simplythis there is an evidence of the
baptism of the Holy Ghost Right.
An experience like this that isso notable and life changing,
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there has to be something thatvisibly marks this moment that
can be readily used to identify.
It's happened.
That's how we know it hashappened.
I'm going to tell you somethinghere today You're armed with
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more information than what theywere armed with on the day of
Pentecost.
They knew nothing aboutspeaking with other tongues.
Can I hear an amen?
They knew that they needed tobe filled with the Holy ghost
and they had observed theministry of Jesus, but they
didn't understand what we havein the book of acts today.
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Well, there is this marker,this landmark, this visible
thing that happens, that isreadily used to identify that we
have received the Holy Ghostand, according to the book of
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Acts, it is to speak with othertongues as the Spirit of God
gives the utterance.
Do I have any bonafide holyrolling tongue-talking believers
in the house?
It's the overwhelmingidentifying phenomena that is
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the sign of being filled withthe holy ghost is to speak with
other tongues as the spirit ofgod gives the utterance.
Now we've got some passages inthe scripture here, and thank
you, brother Trent Brewer, is it?
Yeah, thank you so much,brother Trent, for helping me
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with this PowerPoint here today.
I'm not going to read all these, but if you want to look at
this for reference and studylater, we've got a list of
places in the book of Acts, ofcourse the most well-known Acts,
chapter two, verses one throughfour.
That's where the Holy ghostfell on the day of Pentecost.
Cloven tongues like as a firesat upon each of them.
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They heard the sound like, likea noise of a mighty rushing
wind, and they all began tospeak with other tongues as the
Spirit of God gave themutterance.
Acts, chapter 8, I read thattext today, verses 14 through 17
.
Maybe somebody can bring me abottle of water.
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Acts 8, verses 14 through 17,.
That's in Samaria.
It's clear that they weregetting saved in Samaria, but
the Holy Ghost had not yetfallen on any of them and when
Peter and John come down, theylay hands on them and they
receive the Holy Ghost, adistinct amen experience.
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Thank you so much, brother fromsalvation.
And they are baptized with theHoly Ghost.
Somebody raise their hand andsay hallelujah, so much, brother
, from salvation, and they arebaptized with the holy ghost.
Somebody raise a hand, sayhallelujah acts.
Chapter 10, cornelius's house.
Peter is preaching there and,and an unusual thing happens
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there, while he is preaching theword, the Holy Ghost falls on a
group of Gentiles in Cornelius'house and they get saved and
sanctified and filled with theHoly Ghost all in one shot and
they begin to speak with othertongues as the Spirit gives them
utterance.
And Peter makes a note of itthere.
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He says they received the HolyGhost, just like we did in the
beginning.
Acts 19, our other text that weread have you received the Holy
Ghost since you believed?
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The distinction of experiencesis there.
But also it tells usspecifically that when they
received it in Ephesus, thatthey spake with other tongues
and prophesied.
Now you'll note that some ofthese references are highlighted
in red.
Those are the references whereit distinctly says that they
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spoke with other tongues.
Acts chapter 19 is where Paul isprayed for by Ananias.
Ananias says very plainly theHoly Ghost sent me to pray for
you that you might receive yoursight and that you might receive
the Holy Ghost.
He had been praying amen forabout three days and he had got
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right with God.
In fact he called Jesus Lord onthe Damascus Road.
But now, when Ananias layshands on him, the scales fall
off of his eyes.
It doesn't say in Acts, chapter9, that that's where he got the
Holy Ghost, but I think Ananias, if he knew he was going to
heal his blind eyes and he saidGod's going to give him the Holy
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Ghost.
I think it's just understoodthat that happened too.
And Paul tells us later in 1Corinthians, chapter 14.
And verse 18.
I thank my God that I speak withtongues more than you all.
I'm going to tell you somethingIf you talk in tongues more
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than the Corinthian church,that's a lot of tongue talking.
Paul was a tongue talkingbeliever.
Can I hear an amen?
They spoke with tongues inEphesus.
They spoke with tongues atCornelius' house.
They spoke with tongues on theday of Pentecost and something
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happened in Samaria.
Simon saw miracles.
Simon saw people delivered ofthe devil.
Simon saw sinners get saved.
But when they laid their handson them and they got the Holy
Ghost, he starts pulling hisbillfold out and he says let me
give you some money.
This is the most impressivething I've seen in this whole
revival Samaritans getting thebaptism of the Holy Ghost.
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I won't tell you something heretoday we still need this tongue
talking baptism of the HolyGhost today.
Why tongues?
Well, in a nutshell, I can'thelp but think it's the opposite
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of Babel.
Babel is a judgment to scatterthe people and divide them.
Pentecost is a blessing togather them in to the harvest
for the glory of God.
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One is God's power to judge andthe other is part of the power
that carries God's message ofsalvation.
And the church said amen.
But there's another thing thatdeeply impresses me about
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speaking with tongues.
Why?
I mean, if God chooses it,that's good enough.
But we're logical creatures andwe're prone to ask questions,
and I think God gives us someanswers through the principles
of his word, some answers to theprinciples of his word, one of
the real reasons that this isthe initial sign, evidence of
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the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Now, if you really get it,you're going to walk in the
spirit too.
Brother Andrew, that's thecontinuing evidence.
But the initial sign, evidenceof the baptism of the Holy Ghost
is to speak with tongues, andit's beautiful evidence that God
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has complete control.
Surrender, total surrender,surrender, total surrender.
James tells us that our mostunruly member in our body is the
tongue.
And when the Holy Ghost comesin, brother Webb and we are
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filled.
He don't do it unless we obeyhim.
He gives the Holy Ghost to themthat obey him.
That's not just talking aboutif he tells you to run, you need
to run, and I'm not againstthat.
But that idea goes a whole lotdeeper than that.
He's talking to Pharisees whenhe says that, and those that
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resist the gospel.
And he said he gives the HolyGhost to them that obey Him,
them that obey and repent oftheir sins, them that obey and
say Lord, you can have completecontrol in my life.
I am ultimately and totally andcompletely surrendered.
And when we get to that point,the Holy Ghost takes our tongue,
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that most unruly member, and heruns it up like a flag on a
flagpole and he waves it infront of everybody to a divine
wind that says I have conquered.
Here I am ruling here.
I have set this up as myterritory and I have set this up
as a beachhead through whichI'm going to pour forth my
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gospel into this world.
I want it, don't you?
I'm telling you, it's theoverwhelming, overwhelming
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evidence that clearly showspeople were full of the Holy
Ghost.
Brother Enoch mentioned CharlesPrice last night.
I mentioned Charles Price lastnight.
I read that biography, probably35, 36 years ago Brother Beam
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counseled me to.
It was in the library at FreeGospel, and the stories in that
book are just incredible.
I think perhaps one of the mostincredible ones is when he
tells about getting the HolyGhost.
He got saved at one of thosePentecostal meetings and he
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started attending the littlecottage-type prayer meetings and
he was at one of those prayermeetings and he was at one of
those prayer meetings and theywere praying for God to fill him
with the Holy Ghost.
And you know how we dosometimes when we pray for
people to get the Holy Ghost,and I love it.
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But you can't help but wondersometimes if some folks don't
get the Holy Ghost.
In self-defense they just, ohGod, give him more, oh God, give
him more.
Just screaming, hollering,praying for him.
His hands were raised, he wasdoing everything he knew to do.
The old preacher was prayingand screaming God, give him more
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, god, give him more.
And he got so frustrated,brother John Burdine, they
finally opened his eyes and helooked at that preacher and he
said if I get any more it'sgoing to kill me.
And the preacher said amen,kill him, god, kill him.
He was all nervous.
He had seen people get the HolyGhost and they fell down when
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they got the Holy Ghost.
He was too dignified for that.
He didn't want to fall downwhen he got the Holy Ghost.
And you don't have to fall downwhen you get the Holy Ghost.
He actually went to a pastor.
He was so concerned about itand and in the discussion he
said do I have to fall down toget the Holy Ghost?
No, charles, you don't have tofall down to get the Holy Ghost.
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No, charles, you don't have tofall down to get the Holy Ghost.
But he didn't feel relief verylong because the pastor then
looked back at him and said butyou probably will have to fall
down to get it, charles.
He was in that cottage prayermeeting and that old preacher
said kill him, god, kill him.
You know what happened aboutthat time Down he went and he
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said kill him, god, kill him.
You know what happened Aboutthat time.
Down he went and he said when Iwent down I looked up at the
ceiling and there was a ball offire that came down into the
building and as it descendedinto the room it's in his
biography it burst into piecesand little balls of fire shot
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out and began to hit people thatwere in the room.
He said it was so real in mysight that the first one that
shot at me I dodged it and theold preacher hollered at me
again and said let it hit you,charles, let it hit you.
And he said the next one thatcame my way, I let it hit me.
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And I began to speak withanother tongue as the Spirit of
God gave the utterance.
I don't know if we'll hear awin today.
We could, we could.
I don't know if we'll see aball of fire today, we could.
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My pastor, brother CarlosBurdine, standing back over
there when he was in his late30s at the Glorious Church of
God he had been seeking the HolyGhost and they made an altar
call one Sunday morning he wasup playing the guitar and
singing and he said theatmosphere changed in the room.
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The Holy Ghost came in and hesaid about that time I looked up
.
And when I looked up he said Isaw a ball of fire come into
that old, glorious church of God.
That's where me and Sister Kimgot married.
Amen, I think it was built inthe 1800s, amen.
But the Holy Ghost came down inthat building.
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He said it hit me in the top ofthe head and I began to speak
with other tongues as the Spiritof God gave the utterance.
And I've never been the samesince.
I don't know if we'll see aball of fire today.
I don't know if we'll hear aball of fire today.
I don't know if we'll hear thewind today.
They didn't see a ball of firein Acts chapter 8 or Acts
chapter 10 or Acts chapter 19 orActs chapter 9.
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But I want to tell you whatthey did.
They spoke with other tonguesas the Spirit of God gave the
utterance and that's been theevidence down through the ages
and it's still the evidence anda landmark today.
I don't know if that's reallythe upper room.
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It's an upper room in Jerusalem.
But I'm going to tell you whatwe need a landmark right here at
BFYC Today.
Can I get a witness quickly?
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Another landmark of the baptismof the Holy Ghost is an
emergence of power.
Jesus said in Acts, chapter one, verse eight but ye shall
receive power after that.
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The Holy Ghost has come uponyou and you shall be witnesses
unto me, jerusalem, judea andSamaria and the uttermost parts
of the earth.
And I'm not going to take along time on this landmark, but
I will simply tell you this theHoly Ghost comes to give us
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power to do the work of God, andthe body of Christ said Amen To
do the work of God, and thebody of Christ said amen.
He compares what Jesus does inJohn, chapter 7.
To rivers Of living water, notjust crossing a river and going
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into another state, but riversPlural that get down inside of
you and carry you into places,for God, that you would never go
on your own.
I'm going to tell you what youneed here today and I'm getting
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ready to bring to a close here.
You need your landmark.
Oh, hallelujah, you need yourlandmark.
I've got this chart here.
Amen, brother Trent, if you'llgive me that next slide.
Amen, three baptisms here.
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All right, top left hand corner.
When we get saved, there is thebaptism into the body of Christ.
It happens.
The time is at conversion, andit is the Holy Ghost the
scripture teaches that baptizesus into the body of Christ.
Well, at our conversion, webelieve in water baptism, which
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is a public profession thatbaptizes us into the body of
Christ.
Well, at our conversion, webelieve in water baptism, which
is a public profession Of theinward work Of salvation, and so
that is a water baptism.
We're baptized in water.
The time Is after conversion inour public profession, and the
agent that baptizes us is theminister who baptizes us in
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water in the name of the Fatherand Son and the Holy Ghost.
But then there's the baptism I'mpreaching about here today, and
that is the baptism in the HolyGhost.
Oh, hallelujah.
It is after conversion.
That is solidified from theteaching of the book of Acts,
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it's clear from the life of thedisciples, from what happened,
amen, in Samaria and at Ephesusand all through history.
But Jesus himself is the onewho John the Baptist said is
coming after me, the shoelatchet of whom I'm not worthy
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to bow down and unloose.
I baptize you in water, but heshall baptize you with the Holy
Ghost and with fire, I guaranteeyou.
If you want to.
You've got a preacher that canbaptize you in water here today.
I guarantee you that if you getsaved, that the Holy Ghost can
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baptize you into the body ofChrist.
And I'm here to report to youagain this morning that if you
get hungry enough and you wantit and you fully surrender,
jesus will still.
He shall, he shall, oh yes, heshall baptize you with the Holy
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Ghost and fire Singers.
Get ready.
I'm about ready to get you uphere.
I just got a few more minutes.
Oh God, help me.
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Are you saved?
Are you saved?
Do you remember where you gotsaved?
Do you remember where you gotsaved?
Wave at me real big.
If you remember when you gotsaved, you've been baptized in
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water.
Well, you got me real big when?
At Baptistry River Creek.
I was talking to Brother Jasonand Sister Tara Turner the other
day and she began to recount.
I know Brother Webb's heresomewhere.
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She began to recount that Ithink it was a Sunday afternoon,
but it was an October afternoon.
It was warm, but that mountaincreek wasn't warm.
I don't know how many webaptized that day and I was
about 50 pounds lighter, Ididn't have as much insulation.
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I got the shivering and I triednot to shake and I couldn't.
I just shook in that cold water.
As we baptized a bunch of themIn water.
That day I'm going to tell youwhat some of you need here today
.
How many remembers when you gotthe Holy Ghost?
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I was in my bedroom.
I've been praying, pouring myheart out to God.
God was sanctifying me.
Brother Shad, I cleaned mycloset out.
I got rid of my television.
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I got rid of my television.
I would have sold it but Iwasn't allowed to because I
didn't buy it.
But I unplugged it and I quitwatching it until they finally
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figured out.
We might as well get rid ofthis thing.
Are you going to help me preacha little while here?
I got rid of some music becauseI was getting closer to God.
I got rid of some relationshipsoh, somebody wave at me here
today had to let some friends gobecause I was getting closer to
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another friend and their waysweren't like his ways.
I'll never forget.
I'll never forget that eveningwhen I was in my room and I went
and got my mother.
She was.
She was in the other room.
I said mama, would you come andpray with me?
And she came in there and kneltdown beside me.
Brother Webb, I'll never forgetit.
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I was on my knees and I threwmy hands up and I threw my heart
open.
And I threw my hands up and Ithrew my heart open and I threw
my head back and all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the third
person of the Trinity came rightinto that little bedroom at
Tomahawk Drive in Somerset,kentucky, and I began to speak
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with other tongues as the Spiritof God gave utterance and I
began to sing in other tonguesas the Spirit of God gave
utterance, and I began to singin other tongues as the Spirit
of God gave utterance and I gavea message in tongues and my
mama interpreted it.
And I've never been the samesince that landmark moment in my
life when God filled me withthe Holy Ghost, who wants it,
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leave us 15.
I'm closing.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
I took him to a little youth camp.
He was nine years old.
Oh praise God, I couldn't go tothe whole camp.
All I could go was Fridaymorning.
Brother Zach Kaufman waspreaching.
I took him up there.
He was nine, wasn't he?
Nine years old, yeah, and abouttwo foot shorter.
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He sat on the front pew.
They asked me to sit on theplatform.
I said, brother Danny, I wantto sit with my boy today, if
you'll permit me to.
And he did.
And Brother Zach preached onthe Holy Ghost and Levi was the
first one in the altar.
Friday morning, oh hallelujah.
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And in just a little bit, on aFriday morning, the only service
in that camp we could go to hecame out of there, speaking with
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other tongues, as the Spirit ofGod gave the utterance.
I promise it's not me, I can'ttell you.
It'll make you taller if youget the Holy Ghost.
It kind of looks like it didn'tleave us life, but it didn't
work in my life.
But I will tell you this it'llmake you stand a whole lot
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taller in the spirit.
I appreciate everybody that'sprayed for me.
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So many people shook my handand said I've been praying for
you.
Thank you, I felt it today andin the days leading up to this.
Has anybody prayed for God tofill somebody with the Holy
Ghost today?
Come on, I want to see yourhand up high.
Did anybody put a number on it?
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It's alright if you didn't.
Did anybody put a number on it?
Well, let me ask you God filledsix at least I know boys over
here with the Holy Ghost lastnight.
Right, how many believes Godcan fill six more boys right
over here with the Holy Ghost?
Man, if I was a boy and didn'thave the Holy Ghost, I'd make
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sure I was one of those six.
But guess what?
If you're not one of those six,you know what I believe?
I believe he can fill six moreright here.
No, I'm not trying to hype thisup.
I'm here to tell you that's noteven 10% of what God did the
first time he filled people withthe Holy Ghost.
It was 120 and it was everybodythat was in the house.
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They were all filled with theHoly Ghost and began to speak
with other tongues, and theSpirit of God gave the others.
I believe God can fill sixgirls right here and six more
right here and six more backthere and six more over here.
Oh, somebody help me heretonight.
If I didn't have the baptism ofthe Holy Ghost, I'd be getting
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as close as I can to the firehere tonight and I'd have a
landmark at PFYC.
I'd throw my hands up, I'dthrow my heart open and I'd say
take all of me, god, and whileyou're at it, give me the Holy
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Ghost.
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Appreciate it.
Thank you, brother Ralston.
Thank you, my.
Hasn't this been a wonderfulconference this year.
I'm telling you, the Spirit ofGod has been here in just a
wonderful way, a challenging way.
I appreciate all the preachingthat I've heard and I want to
thank the board for theopportunity.
Thank you, brother Webb, andall of the board for the
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opportunity to be a part of thisconference this year.
I appreciate the focus ondoctrinal preaching.
Hey, the truth.
God's going to confirm histruth.
He said it will not return void, and so we have his promise on
that Boy.
I appreciate brother AndrewBlevins this morning, driving a
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stake of truth like a surveyorand stretching the line out and
showing us what's inbounds andwhat's out of bounds.
We need that kind of preachingfolks we really do.
Yeah, just give God thanks forthat this morning.
Praise God, I want you to turnhere.
I'll try not to be too longhere today, and I certainly
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would love for us to have analtar call here in a little
while.
And I'm just expecting the Lordnot only to help me tell you
about these wonderful truths ofthe baptism of the Holy Ghost
they're his truths.
But I'm expecting God toconfirm his truth and fill
somebody today with the HolyGhost.
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Am I predicting it?
Well, no, I'm not predicting it.
To confirm his truth and fillsomebody today with the Holy
Ghost.
Am I predicting it?
Well, no, I'm not predicting it.
I'm just saying I know how thisworks.
God's truth will not returnvoid.
Wasn't it wonderful to see somefolks receive the Holy Ghost
here last night?
I don't think God's done withthat.
I think he's wanting to do somemore of that.
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The book of Acts here thismorning I'm going to read from
two places rather quickly the19th chapter, and then I'm going
to read also from the 8thchapter.
We're talking about thelandmarks of the baptism of the
Holy Ghost.
And so put a hand up one moretime and ask God to open our
hearts.
Father, I thank you for theword of God that's already
anointed.
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I pray for a blessing on thereading of it.
Let it go into our hearts andproduce fruit.
In Jesus' name, I pray.
And the church said amen.
And it came to pass verse 1,that while Apollos was at
Corinth, paul yeah, you canstand with me having passed
through the upper coast, came toEphesus and finding certain
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disciples.
There was something about thesepeople that he realized.
They're not just Jews of thesynagogue.
He counted them disciples.
There was something about themthat he noticed.
And when he found them, he saidunto them have you received the
Holy Ghost since you believed?
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You notice there how he framesthat question Receive the Holy
Ghost since you believe?
Paul taught very clearly thatthere were two distinct
experiences.
And the church said amen.
His question wouldn't makesense if that was not the case.
And they said unto him we'venot so much as heard whether
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there be any Holy Ghost, what?
And he said unto them unto whatthen?
Were you baptized?
Another proof that the apostlesbaptized in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of theHoly ghost.
Else, the question would notmake any sense.
We know how to baptize.
You've not even heard.
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There was a Holy ghost.
How are you baptized?
They explain it here.
And they said, uh, uh, untoJohn's baptism.
Then said Paul, john barelybaptized with the baptism of
repentance, saying unto thepeople that they should believe
on him, which should come afterhim, which is on Jesus Christ.
When they heard this, they werebaptized in the name of the
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Lord Jesus.
Now I've already clarified howthe apostles baptized.
That simply means in theauthority of Jesus.
They baptized them in the nameof the Father, son and the Holy
Ghost.
Can I get a witness on thathere today?
And when Paul laid his handsupon them, the Holy Ghost came
on them and they spake withtongues and prophesied.
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And all the men were about 12.
Were about 12.
Quickly, acts, chapter 8, versenumber 14.
Now, when the apostles were atexcuse me, the apostles which
were at Jerusalem heard thatSamaria had received the word of
God.
Philip had been down therepreaching a powerful revival.
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They sent them Peter and Johnwho, when they were, come down,
prayed for them that they mightreceive the Holy Ghost.
They've already been gettingsaved.
Miracles have been happening,people are delivered.
But they come down and pray forthem that they might receive
the Holy Ghost, for as yet hewas fallen upon none of them.
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Only they were baptized in thename of the Lord Jesus or under
his authority, to Matthew,chapter 28, in the name of the
Father, son and Holy Ghost.
Then laid they their hands onthem and they received the Holy
Ghost.
God bless you.
Thank you for standing for thereading of the word of God here
today and you can be seated.
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I appreciate this idea here.
The theme of the conference hereof landmarks.
Brother Gallagher, while he wastrampling through the tulips,
let us know what a landmark was.
The other day, and BrotherRalston as well, they did a very
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effective job of describing tous what a landmark is.
Just a touchstone here on that.
It's an obvious and distinctmarker in the landscape that
clearly marks where you are Allright.
So perhaps a notable mountainwhen I'm coming to PFYC, that
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notable mountain is JellicoeMountain.
Perhaps a river If I'm going toOhio, that notable river is the
Ohio River, or a canyon, or itcan be, as Brother Ralston
pointed out, a prominentbuilding or a skyline.
Well, I've chosen someprominent earthly landmarks to
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kind of be the backdrop of myslides here because of how they
connect to the subject of thebaptism of the Holy Ghost, and
I'm also going to bounce off thebiblical method that teaches us
about the Holy Ghost and I'mgoing to use a couple of earthly
elements that are familiar tous that the Bible uses to teach
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us about the person of the HolyGhost.
Somebody say thank God for theHoly Ghost.
Now, I want to talk to you here, first of all, about this first
landmark and when, when I'mtalking about this first
landmark, the first idea thatcomes to my mind here, it comes
from the ministry of Jesus.
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All right, and that is theemphasis of the baptism of the
Holy Ghost.
Thank you, brothers, for askingme to preach on this wonderful
experience of the baptism of theHoly Ghost, preach on this
wonderful experience of thebaptism of the Holy Ghost, and
I'm glad that we have ageneration not only of preachers
but of young people who arehere and are interested to hear
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about this experience of thebaptism of the Holy Ghost.
I think we need to keep theemphasis up.
Can I hear an amen?
The ministry of Jesus was one ofthe things that was used to
emphasize the baptism of theHoly Ghost.
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Amen, now it was, it was, itwas something his ministry when,
when he began to minister inthis earth, his ministry in this
earth was the most monumentalevent in earth's history since
creation.
Creation obviously wasmonumental, but there was nobody
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there to witness creation, allright.
But in Jesus's ministry, thecreator manifests himself to
humanity in a human body.
Oh hallelujah.
Now God had manifested himselfin a cloud.
He had manifested himself in afire, in a bush, to Moses on
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Mount Sinai, to Moses on MountSinai.
He had manifested himself onMount Sinai to the nation of
Israel.
But nothing matches the factwhen God chose a day to manifest
himself in the flesh.
Great is the mystery ofgodliness.
God manifested himself in theflesh.
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A burning bush might intrigueyou.
A great pillar of cloud mightcaptivate your attention.
God on a mountain might terrifyyou.
But when God manifested himselfin the flesh, he was doing it
in a way that he could talk tohumanity like he had never
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talked to humanity before.
John said that which was fromthe beginning.
We beheld with our eyes, wehandled with our hands.
We got a hold of God like wenever had before.
When Jesus came in the flesh,oh hallelujah.
And it wasn't just him coming,oh hallelujah.
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And it wasn't just him coming,but his ministry was a
manifestation of god.
Now I'm just going to tell youthis is beyond my comprehension,
but it is a biblical truth thatought to be preached, and the
scripture says that Jesus wasthe fullness of the Godhead
bodily.
I'm still trying to wrap mymind about, around the idea that
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he can fully represent thesecond person of the Godhead,
and then I realized that the NewTestament teaches us that he's
the fullness of the Godheadbodily.
I don't understand that.
I don't understand that.
One thing I do understand aboutthat, and that is simply this
when Jesus began to minister inthis earth, he began to display
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to this world the workings ofthe triune God.
What had went on in thebackdrop, behind the scenes, in
the mystery realm, now, becauseone of the members of the
Trinity is walking the earth inthe flesh, now we see God
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working in our world and westart to understand something
about the workings of theTrinity that we've never
understood before.
Jesus is here.
He's God in the flesh, but he'stalking about somebody else.
He's talking about my father.
I am come to do the work of myfather.
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I am come to do the will of myfather and, in fact, that's one
of the rules that he operates byas a man.
He will not do anything unlessit is prompted to him by the
father.
It's the father's timing andit's the father's will.
I didn't come to do my own will.
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I came to do the will of thefather.
Can I hear an amen?
Why don't you turn these stonesto bread?
Oh, you can tell me to do it,you can give me a good reason,
but my father is not promptingme to do it and I will not do it
.
Why don't you change this waterinto wine?
Or why don't you do somethingabout this wedding feast here?
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Because they have no wine Woman, what have I to do with thee?
Mine hour is not yet come.
You're a good mother and Irespect you, but I cannot be
prompted by the voice of my goodmother.
I must only work by theprompting of the voice of my
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father.
Hang with me, amen, because notonly does he talk about the
father towards the end of hisministry, he starts talking
about somebody else more freely.
I've got to go away, because ifI don't go away, the Holy Ghost
won't come.
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Oh, but if I go away, he'sgoing to come.
And when he comes, greaterworks than this shall you do,
because I go to my Father.
Oh, hallelujah, peter caught it.
He tells us about it when hepreaches at Cornelius' house, in
Acts 10.38.
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He says how God anointed Jesusof Nazareth with the Holy Ghost
and power who went about doinggood, healing all that were
oppressed of the devil, for Godwas with him.
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Can I get a witness?
I want you to hear me real goodhere today.
Here today, jesus was the firstand the best Trinity preacher
that this world has ever seen.
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He displayed it like it hadnever been displayed before.
I know the old Testament talksabout it, but we really don't
comprehend it until we look atit through the lens of the
ministry of Jesus Christ.
Can I hear an amen?
If there's no triune God, thenJesus' ministry amen and his
words are misleading and he is agreat imposter.
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But he's not a great imposter.
He's a second person of theGodhead and he's working like he
always did with God, the Father, and God, the Holy Ghost, and I
want to understand who he isand the church said amen.
Well, he declares the Godhead,but at the end of his ministry
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he begins to emphasize thebaptism of the Holy Ghost.
He emphasizes it with his life.
He is the message, themessenger and the model for us
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in this experience of thebaptism of the holy ghost.
If jesus christ, by whom wereall things made?
And without, without him, wasnot anything made, if jesus
christ, when he was in a humanbody, will not do ministry
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without the power of the HolyGhost, then I must ask us here
this morning, brothers andsisters, how can we who are now
the body of Christ, since he,the head, has ascended into
heaven, how can we expect tocarry on what he started without
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the power of the Holy Ghost?
Hey, I want to tell yousomething here today Jesus, not
just, not, not just.
He didn't just do this to showus the workings of the triune
God, but you got to remember hewas in a human body and he also
did it to show us how he wantsus to live in our frailty in
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this world.
He emphasized it with his life.
He emphasized this message somuch, even before he ascended.
He's still making this messageplain to the disciples that they
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need to be filled with the HolyGhost.
He emphasizes it overevangelism.
I'm going to tell you somethingevangelism is a pretty important
thing.
He came to seek and save thatwhich was lost.
He commissions preachers topreach the gospel to the lost,
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but before he ascends intoheaven, he looks at these
disciples who had been preachingand he tells them what you need
to do now.
Number one priority is you needto go to jerusalem and you need
to tarry in jerusalem until yoube endued with power from on
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high.
When you get get it, you'regoing to go into Judea and
Samaria and all the uttermostparts of the earth and you're
going to preach this gospel toevery creature.
But before you can accomplishthat great task, I've got
something for you.
It's assignment number one Godown to Jerusalem and wait until
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the Holy Ghost comes, becauseyou're not going to be able to
get this job done without thepower of the Holy Ghost.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I showed you how I worked in the power of the Holy.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Ghost and that's how you're going, thrusted in
working with Jesus.
I love end time events andtruth.
I love to preach on thosedoctrines In the scripture, but
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Jesus Emphasized this experienceof the baptism of the Holy
Ghost even over a discussionwith the disciples about the end
time.
They're walking with him out onthe Mount of Olives and that's
the backdrop I've got here.
The Mount of Olives.
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It's a landmark here.
It didn't have all this stuffthat's there right now that you
see in this picture, certainlynot that Muslim dome of the rock
, but he's walking out and he'sgoing to ascend from the Mount
of Olives.
This is kind of a view of thecity of Jerusalem here and he's
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ascending up on that mount whereyou can see the city, kind of
like in this picture here, andthe disciples are saying to him
are you going to now restore thekingdom?
Is this it?
These are the end time events.
We've always heard about himand now it looks like these
things we didn't understand havehappened.
Is now the day that you'regoing to do that?
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He said it's not for you toknow the times and seasons which
the father hath kept in his ownpower, but I tell you what you
do need to do.
You need to go down there injerusalem and you need to tarry
until the holy ghost comes uponyou.
He'll teach you things to come.
There's a whole lot about intime that the Holy Ghost will
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teach you.
He will lead you and guide youinto all truth, but what you've
got to do right now is you'vegot to go get the Holy Ghost.
Let me tell you what we've gotto do right here, as young
people in 2025.
We've got to do right here, asyoung people in 2025.
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More than anything, we needblood-bought believers that have
been baptized in the Holy Ghost.
Do you have it?
Wave at me if you've got it.
We sing that old song sometimeswe get to praying for people to
pray through to the Holy Ghost.
Have you got it?
Have you got it?
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Have you got it like the Biblesays?
How many of you have it?
Like the Bible says?
Then we'll roll over what didyou call that, brother Webb?
Into one of those 711 verses.
We'll roll over into verse 2.
Do you want it?
Do you want it?
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Do you want it?
Like the Bible says?
Anybody here want the baptismof the Holy Ghost?
You can have it.
You can have it.
You can have it.
You can have it like the Biblesays.
I got another landmark here andI just got four, and I'm not
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going to be long today.
My second landmark is simplythis there is an evidence of the
baptism of the Holy Ghost Right.
An experience like this that isso notable and life changing,
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there has to be something thatvisibly marks this moment that
can be readily used to identify.
It's happened.
That's how we know it hashappened.
I'm going to tell you somethinghere today You're armed with
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more information than what theywere armed with on the day of
Pentecost.
They knew nothing aboutspeaking with other tongues.
Can I hear an amen?
They knew that they needed tobe filled with the Holy ghost
and they had observed theministry of Jesus, but they
didn't understand what we havein the book of acts today.
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Well, there is this marker,this landmark, this visible
thing that happens, that isreadily used to identify that we
have received the Holy Ghostand, according to the book of
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Acts, it is to speak with othertongues as the Spirit of God
gives the utterance.
Do I have any bonafide holyrolling tongue-talking believers
in the house?
It's the overwhelmingidentifying phenomena that is
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the sign of being filled withthe holy ghost is to speak with
other tongues as the spirit ofgod gives the utterance.
Now we've got some passages inthe scripture here, and thank
you, brother Trent Brewer, is it?
Yeah, thank you so much,brother Trent, for helping me
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with this PowerPoint here today.
I'm not going to read all these, but if you want to look at
this for reference and studylater, we've got a list of
places in the book of Acts, ofcourse the most well-known Acts,
chapter two, verses one throughfour.
That's where the Holy ghostfell on the day of Pentecost.
Cloven tongues like as a firesat upon each of them.
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They heard the sound like, likea noise of a mighty rushing
wind, and they all began tospeak with other tongues as the
Spirit of God gave themutterance.
Acts, chapter 8, I read thattext today, verses 14 through 17
.
Maybe somebody can bring me abottle of water.
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Acts 8, verses 14 through 17,.
That's in Samaria.
It's clear that they weregetting saved in Samaria, but
the Holy Ghost had not yetfallen on any of them and when
Peter and John come down, theylay hands on them and they
receive the Holy Ghost, adistinct amen experience.
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Thank you so much, brother fromsalvation.
And they are baptized with theHoly Ghost.
Somebody raise their hand andsay hallelujah, so much, brother
, from salvation, and they arebaptized with the holy ghost.
Somebody raise a hand, sayhallelujah acts.
Chapter 10, cornelius's house.
Peter is preaching there and,and an unusual thing happens
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there, while he is preaching theword, the Holy Ghost falls on a
group of Gentiles in Cornelius'house and they get saved and
sanctified and filled with theHoly Ghost all in one shot and
they begin to speak with othertongues as the Spirit gives them
utterance.
And Peter makes a note of itthere.
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He says they received the HolyGhost, just like we did in the
beginning.
Acts 19, our other text that weread have you received the Holy
Ghost since you believed?
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The distinction of experiencesis there.
But also it tells usspecifically that when they
received it in Ephesus, thatthey spake with other tongues
and prophesied.
Now you'll note that some ofthese references are highlighted
in red.
Those are the references whereit distinctly says that they
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spoke with other tongues.
Acts chapter 19 is where Paul isprayed for by Ananias.
Ananias says very plainly theHoly Ghost sent me to pray for
you that you might receive yoursight and that you might receive
the Holy Ghost.
He had been praying amen forabout three days and he had got
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right with God.
In fact he called Jesus Lord onthe Damascus Road.
But now, when Ananias layshands on him, the scales fall
off of his eyes.
It doesn't say in Acts, chapter9, that that's where he got the
Holy Ghost, but I think Ananias, if he knew he was going to
heal his blind eyes and he saidGod's going to give him the Holy
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Ghost.
I think it's just understoodthat that happened too.
And Paul tells us later in 1Corinthians, chapter 14.
And verse 18.
I thank my God that I speak withtongues more than you all.
I'm going to tell you somethingIf you talk in tongues more
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than the Corinthian church,that's a lot of tongue talking.
Paul was a tongue talkingbeliever.
Can I hear an amen?
They spoke with tongues inEphesus.
They spoke with tongues atCornelius' house.
They spoke with tongues on theday of Pentecost and something
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happened in Samaria.
Simon saw miracles.
Simon saw people delivered ofthe devil.
Simon saw sinners get saved.
But when they laid their handson them and they got the Holy
Ghost, he starts pulling hisbillfold out and he says let me
give you some money.
This is the most impressivething I've seen in this whole
revival Samaritans getting thebaptism of the Holy Ghost.
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I won't tell you something heretoday we still need this tongue
talking baptism of the HolyGhost today.
Why tongues?
Well, in a nutshell, I can'thelp but think it's the opposite
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of Babel.
Babel is a judgment to scatterthe people and divide them.
Pentecost is a blessing togather them in to the harvest
for the glory of God.
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One is God's power to judge andthe other is part of the power
that carries God's message ofsalvation.
And the church said amen.
But there's another thing thatdeeply impresses me about
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speaking with tongues.
Why?
I mean, if God chooses it,that's good enough.
But we're logical creatures andwe're prone to ask questions,
and I think God gives us someanswers through the principles
of his word, some answers to theprinciples of his word, one of
the real reasons that this isthe initial sign, evidence of
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the baptism of the Holy Ghost.
Now, if you really get it,you're going to walk in the
spirit too.
Brother Andrew, that's thecontinuing evidence.
But the initial sign, evidenceof the baptism of the Holy Ghost
is to speak with tongues, andit's beautiful evidence that God
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has complete control.
Surrender, total surrender,surrender, total surrender.
James tells us that our mostunruly member in our body is the
tongue.
And when the Holy Ghost comesin, brother Webb and we are
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filled.
He don't do it unless we obeyhim.
He gives the Holy Ghost to themthat obey him.
That's not just talking aboutif he tells you to run, you need
to run, and I'm not againstthat.
But that idea goes a whole lotdeeper than that.
He's talking to Pharisees whenhe says that, and those that
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resist the gospel.
And he said he gives the HolyGhost to them that obey Him,
them that obey and repent oftheir sins, them that obey and
say Lord, you can have completecontrol in my life.
I am ultimately and totally andcompletely surrendered.
And when we get to that point,the Holy Ghost takes our tongue,
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that most unruly member, and heruns it up like a flag on a
flagpole and he waves it infront of everybody to a divine
wind that says I have conquered.
Here I am ruling here.
I have set this up as myterritory and I have set this up
as a beachhead through whichI'm going to pour forth my
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gospel into this world.
I want it, don't you?
I'm telling you, it's theoverwhelming, overwhelming
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evidence that clearly showspeople were full of the Holy
Ghost.
Brother Enoch mentioned CharlesPrice last night.
I mentioned Charles Price lastnight.
I read that biography, probably35, 36 years ago Brother Beam
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counseled me to.
It was in the library at FreeGospel, and the stories in that
book are just incredible.
I think perhaps one of the mostincredible ones is when he
tells about getting the HolyGhost.
He got saved at one of thosePentecostal meetings and he
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started attending the littlecottage-type prayer meetings and
he was at one of those prayermeetings and he was at one of
those prayer meetings and theywere praying for God to fill him
with the Holy Ghost.
And you know how we dosometimes when we pray for
people to get the Holy Ghost,and I love it.
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But you can't help but wondersometimes if some folks don't
get the Holy Ghost.
In self-defense they just, ohGod, give him more, oh God, give
him more.
Just screaming, hollering,praying for him.
His hands were raised, he wasdoing everything he knew to do.
The old preacher was prayingand screaming God, give him more
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, god, give him more.
And he got so frustrated,brother John Burdine, they
finally opened his eyes and helooked at that preacher and he
said if I get any more it'sgoing to kill me.
And the preacher said amen,kill him, god, kill him.
He was all nervous.
He had seen people get the HolyGhost and they fell down when
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they got the Holy Ghost.
He was too dignified for that.
He didn't want to fall downwhen he got the Holy Ghost.
And you don't have to fall downwhen you get the Holy Ghost.
He actually went to a pastor.
He was so concerned about itand and in the discussion he
said do I have to fall down toget the Holy Ghost?
No, charles, you don't have tofall down to get the Holy Ghost.
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No, charles, you don't have tofall down to get the Holy Ghost.
But he didn't feel relief verylong because the pastor then
looked back at him and said butyou probably will have to fall
down to get it, charles.
He was in that cottage prayermeeting and that old preacher
said kill him, god, kill him.
You know what happened aboutthat time Down he went and he
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said kill him, god, kill him.
You know what happened Aboutthat time.
Down he went and he said when Iwent down I looked up at the
ceiling and there was a ball offire that came down into the
building and as it descendedinto the room it's in his
biography it burst into piecesand little balls of fire shot
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out and began to hit people thatwere in the room.
He said it was so real in mysight that the first one that
shot at me I dodged it and theold preacher hollered at me
again and said let it hit you,charles, let it hit you.
And he said the next one thatcame my way, I let it hit me.
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And I began to speak withanother tongue as the Spirit of
God gave the utterance.
I don't know if we'll hear awin today.
We could, we could.
I don't know if we'll see aball of fire today, we could.
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My pastor, brother CarlosBurdine, standing back over
there when he was in his late30s at the Glorious Church of
God he had been seeking the HolyGhost and they made an altar
call one Sunday morning he wasup playing the guitar and
singing and he said theatmosphere changed in the room.
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The Holy Ghost came in and hesaid about that time I looked up
.
And when I looked up he said Isaw a ball of fire come into
that old, glorious church of God.
That's where me and Sister Kimgot married.
Amen, I think it was built inthe 1800s, amen.
But the Holy Ghost came down inthat building.
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He said it hit me in the top ofthe head and I began to speak
with other tongues as the Spiritof God gave the utterance.
And I've never been the samesince.
I don't know if we'll see aball of fire today.
I don't know if we'll hear aball of fire today.
I don't know if we'll hear thewind today.
They didn't see a ball of firein Acts chapter 8 or Acts
chapter 10 or Acts chapter 19 orActs chapter 9.
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But I want to tell you whatthey did.
They spoke with other tonguesas the Spirit of God gave the
utterance and that's been theevidence down through the ages
and it's still the evidence anda landmark today.
I don't know if that's reallythe upper room.
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It's an upper room in Jerusalem.
But I'm going to tell you whatwe need a landmark right here at
BFYC Today.
Can I get a witness quickly?
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Another landmark of the baptismof the Holy Ghost is an
emergence of power.
Jesus said in Acts, chapter one, verse eight but ye shall
receive power after that.
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The Holy Ghost has come uponyou and you shall be witnesses
unto me, jerusalem, judea andSamaria and the uttermost parts
of the earth.
And I'm not going to take along time on this landmark, but
I will simply tell you this theHoly Ghost comes to give us
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power to do the work of God, andthe body of Christ said Amen To
do the work of God, and thebody of Christ said amen.
He compares what Jesus does inJohn, chapter 7.
To rivers Of living water, notjust crossing a river and going
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into another state, but riversPlural that get down inside of
you and carry you into places,for God, that you would never go
on your own.
I'm going to tell you what youneed here today and I'm getting
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ready to bring to a close here.
You need your landmark.
Oh, hallelujah, you need yourlandmark.
I've got this chart here.
Amen, brother Trent, if you'llgive me that next slide.
Amen, three baptisms here.
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All right, top left hand corner.
When we get saved, there is thebaptism into the body of Christ.
It happens.
The time is at conversion, andit is the Holy Ghost the
scripture teaches that baptizesus into the body of Christ.
Well, at our conversion, webelieve in water baptism, which
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is a public profession thatbaptizes us into the body of
Christ.
Well, at our conversion, webelieve in water baptism, which
is a public profession Of theinward work Of salvation, and so
that is a water baptism.
We're baptized in water.
The time Is after conversion inour public profession, and the
agent that baptizes us is theminister who baptizes us in
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water in the name of the Fatherand Son and the Holy Ghost.
But then there's the baptism I'mpreaching about here today, and
that is the baptism in the HolyGhost.
Oh, hallelujah.
It is after conversion.
That is solidified from theteaching of the book of Acts,
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it's clear from the life of thedisciples, from what happened,
amen, in Samaria and at Ephesusand all through history.
But Jesus himself is the onewho John the Baptist said is
coming after me, the shoelatchet of whom I'm not worthy
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to bow down and unloose.
I baptize you in water, but heshall baptize you with the Holy
Ghost and with fire, I guaranteeyou.
If you want to.
You've got a preacher that canbaptize you in water here today.
I guarantee you that if you getsaved, that the Holy Ghost can
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baptize you into the body ofChrist.
And I'm here to report to youagain this morning that if you
get hungry enough and you wantit and you fully surrender,
jesus will still.
He shall, he shall, oh yes, heshall baptize you with the Holy
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Ghost and fire Singers.
Get ready.
I'm about ready to get you uphere.
I just got a few more minutes.
Oh God, help me.
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Are you saved?
Are you saved?
Do you remember where you gotsaved?
Do you remember where you gotsaved?
Wave at me real big.
If you remember when you gotsaved, you've been baptized in
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water.
Well, you got me real big when?
At Baptistry River Creek.
I was talking to Brother Jasonand Sister Tara Turner the other
day and she began to recount.
I know Brother Webb's heresomewhere.
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She began to recount that Ithink it was a Sunday afternoon,
but it was an October afternoon.
It was warm, but that mountaincreek wasn't warm.
I don't know how many webaptized that day and I was
about 50 pounds lighter, Ididn't have as much insulation.
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I got the shivering and I triednot to shake and I couldn't.
I just shook in that cold water.
As we baptized a bunch of themIn water.
That day I'm going to tell youwhat some of you need here today
.
How many remembers when you gotthe Holy Ghost?
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I was in my bedroom.
I've been praying, pouring myheart out to God.
God was sanctifying me.
Brother Shad, I cleaned mycloset out.
I got rid of my television.
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I got rid of my television.
I would have sold it but Iwasn't allowed to because I
didn't buy it.
But I unplugged it and I quitwatching it until they finally
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figured out.
We might as well get rid ofthis thing.
Are you going to help me preacha little while here?
I got rid of some music becauseI was getting closer to God.
I got rid of some relationshipsoh, somebody wave at me here
today had to let some friends gobecause I was getting closer to
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another friend and their waysweren't like his ways.
I'll never forget.
I'll never forget that eveningwhen I was in my room and I went
and got my mother.
She was.
She was in the other room.
I said mama, would you come andpray with me?
And she came in there and kneltdown beside me.
Brother Webb, I'll never forgetit.
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I was on my knees and I threwmy hands up and I threw my heart
open.
And I threw my hands up and Ithrew my heart open and I threw
my head back and all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the third
person of the Trinity came rightinto that little bedroom at
Tomahawk Drive in Somerset,kentucky, and I began to speak
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with other tongues as the Spiritof God gave utterance and I
began to sing in other tonguesas the Spirit of God gave
utterance, and I began to singin other tongues as the Spirit
of God gave utterance and I gavea message in tongues and my
mama interpreted it.
And I've never been the samesince that landmark moment in my
life when God filled me withthe Holy Ghost, who wants it,
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leave us 15.
I'm closing.
Speaker 1 (47:03):
Come on.
Speaker 2 (47:05):
I took him to a little youth camp.
He was nine years old.
Oh praise God, I couldn't go tothe whole camp.
All I could go was Fridaymorning.
Brother Zach Kaufman waspreaching.
I took him up there.
He was nine, wasn't he?
Nine years old, yeah, and abouttwo foot shorter.
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He sat on the front pew.
They asked me to sit on theplatform.
I said, brother Danny, I wantto sit with my boy today, if
you'll permit me to.
And he did.
And Brother Zach preached onthe Holy Ghost and Levi was the
first one in the altar.
Friday morning, oh hallelujah.
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And in just a little bit, on aFriday morning, the only service
in that camp we could go to hecame out of there, speaking with
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other tongues, as the Spirit ofGod gave the utterance.
I promise it's not me, I can'ttell you.
It'll make you taller if youget the Holy Ghost.
It kind of looks like it didn'tleave us life, but it didn't
work in my life.
But I will tell you this it'llmake you stand a whole lot
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taller in the spirit.
I appreciate everybody that'sprayed for me.
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So many people shook my handand said I've been praying for
you.
Thank you, I felt it today andin the days leading up to this.
Has anybody prayed for God tofill somebody with the Holy
Ghost today?
Come on, I want to see yourhand up high.
Did anybody put a number on it?
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It's alright if you didn't.
Did anybody put a number on it?
Well, let me ask you God filledsix at least I know boys over
here with the Holy Ghost lastnight.
Right, how many believes Godcan fill six more boys right
over here with the Holy Ghost?
Man, if I was a boy and didn'thave the Holy Ghost, I'd make
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sure I was one of those six.
But guess what?
If you're not one of those six,you know what I believe?
I believe he can fill six moreright here.
No, I'm not trying to hype thisup.
I'm here to tell you that's noteven 10% of what God did the
first time he filled people withthe Holy Ghost.
It was 120 and it was everybodythat was in the house.
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They were all filled with theHoly Ghost and began to speak
with other tongues, and theSpirit of God gave the others.
I believe God can fill sixgirls right here and six more
right here and six more backthere and six more over here.
Oh, somebody help me heretonight.
If I didn't have the baptism ofthe Holy Ghost, I'd be getting
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as close as I can to the firehere tonight and I'd have a
landmark at PFYC.
I'd throw my hands up, I'dthrow my heart open and I'd say
take all of me, god, and whileyou're at it, give me the Holy
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Ghost.
Speaker 3 (50:55):
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This is Laura Steele from Pekin, Illinois.
I am part of the team ofgraphic designers here at
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We are beyond grateful forevery listen and stream we
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