22-0919P_PERFECT STRENGTH BY PERFECT WEAKNESS PT.13(UNDER THE STRENGTH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT)

2Co 12:1  It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 

2Co 12:2  I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 

2Co 12:3  And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) 

2Co 12:4  How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter. 

2Co 12:5  Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. 

2Co 12:6  For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool; for I will say the truth: but now I forbear, lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. 

2Co 12:7  And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 

2Co 12:8  For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. 

2Co 12:9  And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 

1Co 2:1  And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. 

1Co 2:2  For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. 

1Co 2:3  And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. 

1Co 2:4  And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 

1Co 2:5  That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 

1Co 2:6  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: 

1Co 2:7  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 

1Co 2:8  Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. 

1Co 2:9  But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 

1Co 2:10  But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 

1Co 2:11  For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 

1Co 2:12  Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. 

1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 

1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 

1Co 2:15  But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 

1Co 2:16  For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. 

THAT OUGHT TO MAKE A MAN RISE FROM A COT UNDER THE STRENGTH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WALK RIGHT OUT.

 JEHOVAH.JIREH_  SIOUX.FALLS.SD  FRIDAY_  56-0224

 E-22    Now, we find out, last night we left Abraham on the 17th chapter of--of Genesis, when God appeared to him in the name of El Shaddai. "Shaddai," some of them pronounce it. I don't know just exactly the term of it. But I always pronounce it "Shaddai." And the word, I looked it up and searched it, and I come to find out, that it means, "the breast." And God appeared to Abraham in the name of "the Breasted One." Isn't that a marvelous name to appear to a man a hundred years old now? It's gone, his strength the blood steam has dried up; his body is practically dead. And Sarah, his wife, her womb was dead. And all this, and then God appears in that name, as the Nourisher, or the Life-giver, the Strength-giver.

"Abraham, I am your strength." Oh, sick folks, can you believe that tonight? That ought to make a man rise from a cot under the strength of the Holy Spirit, walk right out. It'll make him when he's crippled, the arms come straight, or legs straight, and walk right away, when you feel and know by assurance by the revelation of God, that God is your Strength.

THE STRENGTH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT SHOULD BE IN EVERY MEMBER OF THE CHURCH.

THE.QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_  LA.CA  SUNDAY_  59-0405E

E-16    And they would keep speaking about the great things that Solomon would do.

Now, faith cometh by what? Hearing, hearing the Word of God. And you know, when this word kept coming to this little queen, she begin to believe that it was the truth, and she begin to thirst to go find out about it.

Oh, Jesus said, "Ye are the salt of the earth." But if the salt has lost its saviour, or its strength, it's henceforth, good for nothing, but to be cast out and trod under the feet of man--made roads out of.

THE.QUEEN.OF.SHEBA_  LA.CA  SUNDAY_  59-0405E

  E-17    Well, I do not wish to be critical, but to a certain degree, we are letting this great blessing go to that. The strength of the Holy Spirit should be in every member of the Church. What do you mean, "strength?" The power of the resurrection. The life that Jesus gave for the Church should be operating in every member of it--the body. The strength... Salt will only save if it contacts. But it must contact. And if the Church gets that burden on their heart to contact someone, get someone saved, then the strength's coming back into the Church again and into the people.

THE.TESTIMONY.OF.A.TRUE.WITNESS_  JEFF.IN  V-15 N-6  SUNDAY_  61-1105

38    Let's just go back and read. I got Isaiah 28:11. Let's just read for a moment and find out here what he said about the coming of the Holy Spirit. Isaiah the 28th chapter, let's begin at the 5th verse,

In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory...

He's speaking of this great day that when the Witness would come. What is our crown? The Holy Spirit crowns us.

... a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

The residue, the "people that's left over." He'll be a diadem, a crown of glory, a diadem of beauty. Think, this is seven hundred years before it happened.

... for a spirit of judgment to him that is sitting in judgment... (That's what He does to us at the altar.)

... for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate... (Let me see.)... that turn the battle to the gate.

THE.TESTIMONY.OF.A.TRUE.WITNESS_  JEFF.IN  V-15 N-6  SUNDAY_  61-1105

  141    Them who is standing for Him and with Him, this great Spirit (Holy Spirit that's prophesied) will be the strength of him that stands at the gate in the battle. He is our Strength. We rely upon Him; not upon culture, not upon education, not upon things of the world: "Not by power, not by might, but by My Spirit, saith the Lord." The Church rests solemnly in that. "He will be the Strength of him that stands in the gate." Not his theological background, not his denomination, but the Holy Ghost will be his Strength. He'll be the one that'll stand at the gate. He'll rely upon the strength of the Holy Spirit to turn the alien away.