Topic: The Holy Spirit

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Was the Church meant to be led by a program or by the Holy Spirit?

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We got our programs all drawed out, and lined out, and so forth, I don’t believe it was ever intended for the apostolic Church of God to be led by a program, I believe it’s God’s program to lead us by His Holy Spirit, just the way He will.

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How is the Holy Spirit related to Christ?

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Now, He sits at the right hand of the Father tonight, God Almighty, to make—as a high Priest, to act in our stead (Do you believe that?) to make intercessions upon our confession. Is that right? Hebrews 3:1. “He is the high Priest of our confession.” Whatever we confess that He has done…First, we ha...

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Can spiritual gifts be imparted by the laying on of hands?

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Now, that man can’t help because he doesn’t dream. Neither can you help because you do dream. Now, look. God made you that way. Is that right? Now, what if I told you, “Dream me a dream.” Could you do it? No, sir. Yet, you dream dreams. But I say, “Dream me a dream.” You can’t do it. The one who put...

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Why did Philip leave the revival in Samaria?

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Philip would have stayed in Samaria, very happily would he have stayed. What a revival he was having, preaching, healing, demons screaming, and people confessing their sins. And God called him right out of there to go out to the desert to meet one colored man coming down from Ethiopia. Is that right...

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What happens to the Spirit that was on a prophet when the prophet dies?

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Come, lady. Don’t fear, have faith. God is going to do something for you, sister, the miraculous. Have faith. Believe me as His prophet. The same Spirit was upon the Hebrew prophets is the same Spirit here now. See? God takes His prophet, but never His Spirit. It moves on. When one dies, the Spirit...

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Does the devil come against a person right after they are baptized with the Holy Ghost?

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Now, look. Then I seen John, when he came out there and begin to preach, my, just with repentance, as hard as he could preach. Laying at the axe to the root of the tree, and every tree that bringeth forth not good fruit, is hewn down and cast into the sea. And then notice, or into the fire, rather....

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What determines what a person gets from a gift God sends?

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It’s your attitude towards it. Your attitude towards God’s Divine gift, will purchase just what you ask for. Do you understand? Oh, how I’d like to stop right here, Brother Boze, and punch that for about a half hour, but I can’t do it. Your attitude: God can send a gift, and no matter what you…Depen...

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Who is God's major representative on earth today?

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So there…She knew. And she run right up to Him. Look at her. I love this. She run right up, this young beautiful Jewish maiden fell down unto His feet and said, “Lord.” That’s what He was. There’s your title. I believe You’re the Lord. “Lord, if Thou would have been here, my brother would not have d...

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When does a person receive their gifts and callings from God?

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Gifts and callings are without repentance. You absolutely receive them when you’re borned in this world. The Bible says that. How many believes in predestination, foreordination, election, calling, so forth? If you believe the Bible, you have to. Some of you didn’t put your hands up. I want to ask y...

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How did Simeon know he would not die before he saw the Lord's Christ?

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…wonderful character, waiting for the consolation of Israel. I want to kinda speak just a moment about Simeon. Let’s take him as an old sage, wonderful old character. Some Orient theologians tell us…The historians tell us that he was in his eighties, white beard, white hair. And as he…?…go around, m...

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Do gifts from God come by the laying on of hands?

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Now, I was born by a gift. Those gifts don’t come by laying on of hands. Those gifts come by the sovereignty of God. Gifts and calling are without repentance. They was foreordained of God to be. Gifts are born. Jesus Christ in the garden of Eden, He was the woman’s Seed that would bruise the serpent...

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What is a gift of healing?

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Only faith can heal you, your own individual faith. Don’t you see what a gift of healing is? A gift of healing isn’t something that’s in somebody to heal somebody else. The man that’s being prayed for has to have the—the healing. He has to have the faith. Is that right? (Excuse me.) All right.

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How can Jesus be the same yesterday, today, and forever if the world sees Him no more?

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Now, if Jesus is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and do we believe that the Holy Spirit is on earth today? How many believes that? Well, that Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit of God. Is that right? The third Person of the trinity, Jesus Christ. “Yet a little while, the world seeth Me no more,...

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What made the Holy Spirit come on the Day of Pentecost?

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Here, not long ago…Now, I’m not a politician, neither am I a warmonger; I’m a minister of the Gospel. But here not long ago, everything you seen was Red Russia, Red Russia, we was talking about, until the German and the Second World War broke out, and then them people who did not believe in God, the...

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Can God take back a gift once He has given it?

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Now, the reason that I believe that He will, is because gifts and callings are without repentance. See? God gives the gifts. He won’t take that away, but if I use it wrong, then He will deal with me for it. See? Now, that’s the reason I’m trying to just say all that I can, and you hear me bragging o...

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Is it scriptural to speak of 'the gift', or should it be 'a gift'?

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But I said that the Lord said, that these things that would take place would—would come from Him, that He sent me to—not to heal people. But watch. He said, “You were given a gift.” Now, when you call, talk about “the gift,” there is no such a thing. That’s unscriptural. “The gift…” First Corinthian...

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Was Jesus' knowing what was in people's hearts a form of mental telepathy?

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Jesus, they seen that He…He knew the peoples thoughts. He knew what they were thinking of. He saw visions and told them that He couldn’t do nothing till the Father showed Him. And what He said that the Father would do, that the Father had done, that every time was right. Isn’t that right? So they fi...

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What does the oil represent when a sick person is anointed with oil and prayed for?

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Now, here comes a man up here, maybe, that’s sick. He’s standing here with a…The doctor says he’s going to die. He’s filled with TB. Here he comes up to the pastor, he says, “Pastor, I—I’m…The doctor tells me I’m going to die. I—I’m—I pray, you pray with me, pastor.” The pastor says, “All right.” No...

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Is the Holy Ghost received at the moment a person believes?

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I’ve never been ashamed and God help me, to always be man enough, to stand up and speak my convictions. For if I’m not, I’d be a traitor to Christ. I believe in the old fashion baptizing of the Holy Ghost. I believe that a man’s got to be born again, or he’s still a sinner. I believe it’s only throu...

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Is it better to be a minister than a lay member of the church?

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Now, gifts and callings, now, let’s get back to what they are. God sets them aside. God places them in the church as He will. God gives severally as He will (Is that right?), not as I will, but as He will. Now, if God wanted me to be a—a lay member of the church, I’d be better off a lay member, than...