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Result
Of The Infilling Of The Holy Spirit
There was thundering. What
is thundering a symbol of in the Revelation? It is nothing
more than thundering out the prophecies of the past. He
takes literal things to teach us spiritual things. Even as
He did in the days of Christ, He used natural things to
teach spiritual things. Can you see the lightning and
maybe hear the thundering three or four seconds later?
Even so, the prophets got lightning.
Here was Peter when the
Holy Ghost hit, the first thing that happened was that
they all got to their feet and began praising God. It put
light within them and the upstairs room. Don’t look
down, look up! They began to praise God, the Scripture
said, and the upper room got too small. They went out in
the street, and began to witness. “Well, they were
emotional fellows.” No, they weren’t. They were a
bunch of dead, old dried up Jews. How do you know it? A
few days before this day, when Jesus was walking and the
little children praised God and said Hossana to the King,
Peter and the disciples said, make them be silent, they
make us nervous. Well, that is Bible. Jesus said, “If
these little children don’t cry out and shout, the rocks
will cry out.” Somebody is going to praise God. Brother,
I’m not going to let a rock take my place.
If these were emotional
people, if they were people that were know to shout;
nobody got excited, but here came these old dead, dried
fellows that could not stand any shouting or rejoicing,
coul not eve stand for the little children to sing praises
to Jesus. Various fellowmen came around and said, what has
happened to you fellows? You have been hitting the wine.
You might be followers of Jesus, but you have been in the
wine because you would not act like that if you were not
drunk. There was a great demonstration there. “There
were voices and thunderings.”
Then, Peter stood up and
felt like preaching. That’s the kind of man I like to
hear. If there is anything I hate, it is somebody you have
to coax to preach. Peter stood up…the Revelation said,
there was thundering, what is that? He stood up and
thundered out the light that Joel had. You read in the
16th verse, “But this is that, which was spoken by the
prophet Joel:” Joel said it would come to pass in the
last days that the Lord would pour out His Spirit on all
flesh. And what will happen? Your young women will preach.
(“But I don’t believe in women preachers.”) Well,
you don’t believe in the Holy Ghost, because Joel said
when the Holy Ghost will come the young women will
prophesy. And the young men will see visions. And the old
will dream dreams. What will they dream about? They will
dream about the same thing the young men will be seeing a
vision of and the young women will be preaching about.
Why, I have seen it
happen…perhaps you have too! People get baptized with
the Holy Ghost. I can show more than one illustration,
when the Spirit of God moves on a young man and gives him
a call. His father, maybe grandmother, right while he was
seeing a vision of his word, neither one of them talked to
the other, but they both came to me. He told me about a
vision he saw of his work, and a father in one case told
me that he was dreaming of his son. I said keep on looking
and keep on dreaming. You know what happened? On Sunday
morning, the son came to one end of the altar and the
father on the other. Then I pulled the two together and
said, he was dreaming about the same thing you saw. The
father could hardly give the son up to the work, and the
son was having a time consecrating. If we will thunder out
the light of the past, God will give us new light.
Peter stood there and
preached the light of the prophets prophecy, and it
wasn’t very long until God gave him new light. He will
do the same thing for you and me. I humbly submit: We will
never find the light that God has for the church in this
present day if we do not thunder out the light that He has
given us up this far. If we will thunder out the light
that made us the Church, God will give us light to lead us
on. The reason many cannot see seventh seal light is
because they lost their vision of the sixth seal light.
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