The Bible Evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit by Kenneth E. Hagin

Author:Kenneth E. Hagin
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Holy Spirit baptism, Bible, Christ, Christianity, gifts of the spirit, Jesus, The Bible Evidence of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
Published: 2011-09-30T10:52:47+00:00

The important thing is not what you felt; the important thing is what you did. "They spake with tongues . . . . " If you spoke with tongues, then you received. That is the fullness. I don't care how good you feel. If you didn't speak with tongues, you didn't receive.

Emotions Not Evidence

I was preaching once in Oregon, and a number had come to receive the Holy Spirit, so I laid hands on them. One woman was sitting very calmly speaking with other tongues. I went down the line laying hands on folks, and every one received and spoke with tongues until I came to the last woman.

I laid hands on this woman and the Holy Spirit came on her, but she didn't receive the Holy Spirit and didn't speak with tongues that night. But she jumped up and began to shout and dance a little jig for joy. A woman nearby said, "That is the way I like to see them get it."

I said, "She hasn't got it. These other folks have, but she hasn't." (This woman had assumed that the woman who was shouting and dancing had received while the others who were just sitting there calmly speaking in tongues had not.)

In another one of my meetings, a contractor in the church came to receive the Holy Spirit. I laid hands on him, and he began to speak in tongues.

He talked in tongues for 15 minutes while I laid hands on others to receive. Then I went back to him and said, "Brother, the Lord reveals to me that there is a thought in your mind that is hindering you from accepting the fact that you have received the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit told me that you have always thought that when you got the Holy Spirit you would jump or dance or run—just have a time."

He said, "Yes, that is exactly what I thought."

I said, "Well, if you want to run, tear out. It's all right with me. Or if you want to jump, go ahead.

You have the Holy Spirit."

"But if you ever see me shout, it will be God," he said.

"What do you mean that will be God?" I asked.

"That wouldn't be God shouting."

"But I mean it will be because He made me,"

he replied.

"You'll never do it, then, because He'll never make you," I said.

He told us later, "I went home disappointed, mumbling to myself, 'I don't feel like I thought I would. I didn't receive the Holy Spirit. If I had, I would have felt different from this. I am not happy, I am not exuberant, I am not in a state of ecstasy. I have felt better than this, and have gotten a bigger blessing than this many times. I just didn't receive.'

"In the night I couldn't sleep. I got to thinking, After all, how am I going to know? Just what does the Bible say? The Scripture in Acts 2:4

came to me: And [they] began to speak with other tongues.' Then it dawned on me and I said, 'Dear Lord, forgive me for being a doubter.

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