Nothing in the world is like the Holy Spirit. Any child of God without the baptism of the Holy Spirit is living far beneath his or her privilege, missing out daily on many great benefits from Heaven. If you don’t have Him, let me encourage you to tarry before the Lord until you receive this wonderful baptism.

Jesus, our example, received the Holy Ghost; John the Baptist was a witness to it: And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he [John] saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him (Matthew 3:16). Jesus did not begin His Earth ministry until He was baptized in the Holy Ghost. Every preacher, every worker should be baptized in the Holy Ghost as well. The Holy Ghost is our teacher, our guide; we need to be taught by Him so we can teach others. He is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, leading us into all truth.

God didn’t mean for people to only have a Calvary but also a Pentecost. God proved that when He came down on Mt. Sinai with the fire of the Holy Ghost and set the mountain ablaze with His Spirit. The pillar of fire and the burning bush represent that great Holy Ghost who was working in and through Moses. The power of the Holy Ghost was the reason Moses had so many miracles and healings; all nine gifts of the Spirit worked in Moses’ life. Through the power of the Holy Ghost, Moses was able to lead the Israelites out of Egypt, and through the same power of the Holy Ghost the Bride will be taken from the earth when Jesus comes again.

Jesus Sent the Comforter

We’re in the final hour, the most exciting time in Church history. Every child of God should be deep in Calvary’s blood and on fire with the Holy Ghost. Teaching us the blood, the Holy Ghost quickens our spirits, enlivens us, gives us life until, as we yield, we are living through the blood.

I’ve been to man’s school, studied under some great professors, but the greatest professor of all is the Holy Spirit. Spending thousands of hours with me, He is ever teaching and I’m ever learning, ever coming into the knowledge of the truth. He guides us in prayer, makes intercession to the Father for us.

The disciples depended heavily on Jesus when He was here, but He told them, Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come (John 16:7,13).

The Outpouring of the Holy Spirit Was Foretold

Joel prophesied about the great pouring-out of the Holy Spirit that would take place in our day. Joel 2:28, And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions. The Early Church received the early rain of the Holy Spirit, but this latter rain will be even greater. Today we are seeing the greater pouring-out everywhere. Some won’t accept it; even many churches and ministries refuse the power of the Holy Ghost, but we welcome it.

The Holy Ghost is the reason the gifts of the Holy Spirit operate, the reason we have signs, wonders, miracles and healings in our services. Because of the power of the Holy Ghost, people travel from all over the world to get here.

Peter Came Back

For forty days after Jesus had risen from the tomb, He was with Peter and the others. Peter was the one who had backslidden, but Jesus forgave him and he was there in the Upper Room along with the mother of Jesus and others to be baptized in the Holy Ghost. Now, with the fire of the Holy Ghost burning in his soul, Peter was standing up before a crowd and preaching Jesus. Thank God he had come back! Filled with the Holy Ghost, Peter became one of the strongest of the apostles. He didn’t let his failure destroy him. More determined than ever, he took his stand for Jesus in a great way.

Respond to the Right Drawing Power

How sad that so many today don’t feel the need for the Holy Ghost! That means they are not born again of the Spirit of God the way they ought to be. I contend that when people make it to Calvary, they will want to go on to the Upper Room to respond to that drawing power that gives them a deeper walk with the Lord. The divine blood that washes away your sins gives you the great call to the Upper Room, gives you an appetite, a thirst and hunger for more of the Lord. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said, Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled (Matthew 5:6).

Some people say they tried to receive the Holy Ghost, but the Lord didn’t baptize them. What they imply is that they were ready, but the Holy Spirit wasn’t, that some day when the Lord gets ready to baptize them He will. I have news for them: He’s been ready to baptize them the way He was ready to save them long before they gave their heart to Him. If you have been born again and not received the Holy Ghost, it isn’t because He wasn’t ready. He was ready to baptize you long ago, but you haven’t really yielded to Him; you haven’t given over to His power.

The Holy Ghost comes into a holy temple; for the Holy Ghost to live in you, the temple must be holy, the tongue pure because He will use the tongue when He comes in.

Robbed of the Image

What does God think about the Holy Spirit? He thinks He is a partner, a helper. The Holy Spirit helped create man. It was the Godhead who made man. When God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness (Genesis 1:26), He was talking to God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, not to the angels who were made a little higher than we. By the Godhead, man and woman were created in the image of God. Unfortunately, the day came when man let the devil rob him of that image. No longer did man look to or live in righteousness and holiness like the Godhead.

A New and Living Way

Many, many years after the Garden of Eden, the second Adam, the very Son of God, came to Earth to restore what the devil had stolen. The first Adam had failed us, and we needed a second Adam to come to make sons and daughters for God.

God wanted sons and daughters. He said, I will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty (II Corinthians 6:18). So Jesus came with the holy, divine blood that made it possible for people to be made new, to become those sons and daughters of God that He wanted. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new (II Corinthians 5:17).

Too many people think salvation is nothing more than joining a church and being baptized in water. Although they haven’t received a true born-again experience, still they assume they are going to Heaven at the end of their journey. How distraught they will be when they find they have missed Heaven by millions of miles. At their funeral the preacher will say they are in Heaven, but they won’t be there. To reach Heaven they had to have been born new.

Jesus is the way; He brought a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh (Hebrews 10:20). It’s a holy way He brought. Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14). When you take on the holiness and righteousness of God, you’re ready to be filled with the Holy Ghost.

Are You a Friend of the World?

We live in a pouring-out time, I say again. For hundreds and hundreds of years the Holy Ghost hadn’t been poured out in a full measure like it had in the first thirty-three years of the Early Church. When the Church began to go the way of the world, it lost that incredible power. You can’t be a friend to the world and still be a friend to God. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him (I John 2:15).

In the seventeenth chapter of John, we find Jesus praying to the Father about His followers. He said, They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth (John 17:16,17). Jesus was truth, life. Sanctify them, He prayed, make them holy so they can be one like we are one.

It’s wonderful to be sanctified, to be brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus! In this pouring-out time, are you seeking the fullness of the Holy Spirit?

He That Committeth Sin Is of the Devil

The majority of so-called Christians today belong to the world church. Not born-again, they don’t believe in holy living, in living free from sin. If you don’t live free from sin, the Bible says you belong to the devil. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil (I John 3:8). Even in Old Testament days people were warned that the soul that sinneth, it shall die (Ezekiel 18:20).

The devil contradicted God’s warning to Adam and Eve: You will not surely die if you only just taste of the forbidden fruit he said. He convinced Eve to listen to him, and then she influenced Adam to listen. They not only listened, they sold out to the devil for a handful of ashes. Today the same old devil is using the same old tactics, convincing people that no one lives free from sin. No one—unless he or she has Jesus and the divine blood applied to their souls. People must have that divine blood.

Witnesses with Power

Jesus taught the disciples about the Holy Ghost, how He, as the Spirit of Truth, not the spirit of error, would teach and guide them. The last thing Jesus said to His followers before they watched Him ascend back to Heaven was, Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth (Acts 1:8).

God will make you a witness—after you receive the power of the Holy Ghost. It’s hard to understand how people can read what Jesus said about the Holy Ghost and still think they don’t need His baptism. So many claim to believe the Bible, yet they evidently don’t believe receiving the Holy Ghost is necessary; they contend that speaking in tongues is fanaticism, not of God.

Speaking in tongues is the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost; Jesus commanded His followers to not depart from Jerusalem until they received it. And, being assembled together with them [Jesus], commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence (Acts 1:4,5).

Two Separate Experiences

Some people think they received salvation and the Holy Ghost at the same time. Many preachers teach it. No, they don’t get it all at one time. Salvation is just the beginning; salvation and the Holy Ghost baptism are two separate experiences. The Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you (John 14:17). Jesus told the disciples that the Spirit of Truth—the Holy Spirit—was with them since they were saved and would be in them when they were baptized in the Holy Spirit.

The real Holy Ghost is definitely of God; however, today some have invented their own Pentecost: Speaking in tongues at will, prophesying at will both come from the devil.

The Holy Ghost is a person; He’ll speak for Himself using your vocal organs. Some people say, Listen to me and talk like I talk. We don’t allow that in the altar at Grace Cathedral. Here people get the real baptism the way I received Him, like those in the Upper Room received Him on the Day of Pentecost, speaking as the Holy Spirit gave utterance. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:4).

The Fire Is Falling

We have the same Holy Ghost baptism that Jesus received, that John the Baptist had from his mother’s womb. John said, I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire (Matthew 3:11). I love that fire, don’t you?

In this pouring-out time, the fire of God is falling, winning thousands of souls for the Lord in each crusade overseas. It, remember, is the same power of the Spirit that Joel prophesied would come, the same power that saves, heals and baptizes in the Holy Spirit. The heathen are coming into the greatness of God; they’re hungry for it. They don’t want a dead church; they don’t want anything dead. The power of God being poured out is the reason so many are coming out of witchcraft, voodooism, and being healed of HIV/AIDS as well as all other kinds of death diseases and afflictions.

The mail pours in daily from people who have been healed and are thrilled beyond words. Pastors are sending for the blest cloths. One pastor reported that in a Sunday morning service in Ghana ninety people were healed of AIDS as he prayed for them using the blest cloth as a point of contact. They went back to their doctors, who could find no sign of AIDS. Of course not; God had healed them. In Malawi, a pastor used the blest cloth in prayer for forty people with AIDS, and they were healed. The doctors verified the healings, but they didn’t know what to make of them.

Churches Should Be Soul-Saving Stations

It is essential for people to have this power of the Holy Ghost. Churches without it are not soul-saving stations but cemeteries for the dead. Many churches don’t even have—or use—an altar. Some Pentecostal churches are ashamed of the Holy Ghost and won’t let people seek Him in the open but in a room off from the congregation.

The Holy Ghost is not a back-room person. We’re proud of Him; here people can receive the Holy Ghost at the altar or in the congregation. Here it’s, Welcome, Holy Ghost! We love your ways better than our own. We honor you, Holy Spirit!

On the Highway of Holiness

It’s by His Spirit that we’re taking the Gospel to the world. Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts (Zechariah 4:6). By the Holy Spirit, not by the spirit of man, His message is going forth. It’s the Holy Spirit we must have. The Holy Spirit is preaching sermons penetrating into the innermost being of people; and as they give their lives to God, they go on to receive power from On High.

Bible Pentecost days are here again; we’re thrilled with it, proclaim it to the whole world. It’s the power of God. Do you have a real Bible Pentecost in your life? Have you been to the Upper Room? Are you in fanaticism, modernism, or do you have the Spirit of Truth?

With the Spirit of Truth we’re going right down the highway of holiness. And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it (Isaiah 35:8). You who don’t have the good Holy Ghost, that power from On High, I hope you get so hungry for Him that you can’t eat or sleep until you are baptized in Him. Get down before God and seek the Holy Ghost with your whole heart. Seek Him until He baptizes you right there in your church or in your home, and then grow in His power, wisdom and understanding day after day.

The Jesus Ministry

The Holy Ghost worked throughout the Old Testament with special people, with the prophets both major and minor. In the New Testament we find that the Holy Ghost was to be given to every child of God, the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Ghost is falling on people, slaying them in His Spirit while my radio and TV programs are being broadcast. The power of God is paramount in this ministry. Power from On High is the power of the Holy Ghost. This is not an Ernest Angley ministry; it’s a Jesus ministry, a Holy Ghost ministry! Praise God for the fire of the Holy Ghost! Thank Him for the fire! We’re not ashamed of the fire of the Spirit, I say again; we want it; we desire it. We fast and pray that it will be manifested more and more. The works of the Holy Spirit, the signs and wonders are growing stronger and stronger in this last and final hour. I preach the Holy Ghost; my three associate pastors preach Him. Through the power of the Holy Ghost we preach, and the Lord confirms what we preach with signs, wonders, miracles and healings. That’s the reason you’re hearing about this ministry.

Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? Perhaps you are in a church that claims you get it all when you receive salvation. You didn’t get it all then. Look around and see if your church has the signs and wonders of the Holy Ghost manifested. I preach the Word and in a few minutes the Lord confirms what I preached—and He will never confirm a lie. People see the Spirit of Truth working, the works of the Holy Spirit, the signs and wonders of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Ghost. I believe in miracles because I believe in the God of the Bible.

It’s wonderful when the Holy Spirit is able to take a holy tongue and speak in any language or dialect He chooses. I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting (I Timothy 2:8). Lift up holy hands in praises to the Lord!

They Spoke the Word with Boldness

Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:38). Some people say that God and Jesus are the same person. No, there are three distinct individuals in the Godhead. Here Peter is directing people to be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins—salvation—and then go on to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. God said it, I believe it, and that settles it with me. How about you?

And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness (Acts 4:31). You are not going to speak the Word of God with boldness until you have power from On High. The Lord let the disciples know they were not to start His church until they received that power.

And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49). When did that power come? When the fire of the Spirit fell on the Day of Pentecost they received the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost was a must in the beginning of the Church, and it’s a must in this last hour of the Church. There is only one flight out of here: the Rapture. You won’t have a reservation on that flight without first receiving the Holy Ghost baptism.

The Holy Ghost Is Promised to the Obedient

The Holy Ghost has come to get the Bride ready for Jesus, the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him (Acts 5:32). The obedient are candidates for the Holy Ghost. Do you think the disobedient will be taken on that one flight out? No. Even the lukewarm will not be taken. Jesus said, So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth (Revelation 3:16).

In this last hour, there is no room on the fence for those seeking the Holy Ghost. You will go with either God or with the world, with the Jesus church or the world church. Under the guise of religion, the world church is full of deceit, sin, disobedience, ungodliness—if that’s what you want, join the world church. We here want the holiness church, the true holiness church. We want the Bible Pentecostal church—and that’s what we have, praise God! Where the book of Acts ended, we have taken up and we will continue in that same manner until Jesus comes again.

Try the Spirits

Ephesians 5:18, And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit. Just as on the day of Pentecost the Holy Ghost began to speak in beautiful dialects and languages through those in the Upper Room, the Lord can speak in any language under the sun. I say again, never try to talk for the Holy Spirit. Some churches are in such fanaticism that they all get together and try to sing in the Spirit, but it’s their own spirit, and God is nowhere to be found in such a meeting. That’s the spirit of man, not of God.

We must know the spirits. Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world (I John 4:1). Why is it important that we be able to separate the spirits, the spirit of man, the spirit of the devil and the Spirit of God? Deceiving spirits will take a person over if he or she fails to recognize them and where they’re coming from. When you’re filled with the Holy Spirit, you know His Spirit, know you have been baptized in power from On High.

They Received the Holy Ghost

Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God [salvation], they sent unto them Peter and John: Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost (Acts 8:14-17). This is the same baptism I received. The Holy Ghost works in my life to deliver the people, to set the captives free. He preaches through me and has preached through me for years—the good Holy Ghost.

While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God (Acts 10:44-46). Some don’t believe that happened. It doesn’t matter what people believe or don’t believe. The Bible says, For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written (Romans 3:3,4). That’s the reason I preach the way I do: I know God is true.

He [Paul] said unto them, Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed [since they received salvation]? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any Holy Ghost. And he said unto them, Unto what then were ye baptized? And they said, Unto John’s baptism. Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied (Acts 19:2-6).

Pentecost Came to My Family

My family always believed in a born-again experience, in holy living. My parents taught us that we had to live free from sin or we couldn’t go to God’s Heaven. Then my sixteen-year-old sister received the Holy Ghost, and it spread to other members of the family. Pentecost had come.

For over fifty years my dear Baptist granny thought she had the Holy Ghost, and then she found out she didn’t when the Holy Ghost began to fall in her hometown. However, she went on to receive the Holy Ghost; He spoke through her just as He had spoken through those in the Upper Room on the Day of Pentecost.

Receiving the Holy Ghost is Bible; it’s the Word of the Living God. I proclaim it; I stand on it; it’s real. People get the real Holy Ghost in my services, talking not by their own will but by the Holy Spirit of God.

Salvation Prayer

Sinner, come to Jesus. Backslider, come home. If you never have been saved, come to Jesus. You who have been saved and then gone astray, come back home before it’s too late. Help me pray the sinners’ prayer for yourself, if that’s your need, and for people all over the world: Oh, God, save my soul! I’m so sorry I sinned against you, but I have come home and I will serve you, Lord, the rest of my life. I believe the blood of Jesus washes away all my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus! Come on in!

If you meant that prayer, now you can say, Hallelujah, He has come! Hallelujah, Jesus is mine!

Go on praising the Lord and receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that power from On High. Study the second chapter of Acts; tell the Lord you want the same experience the Lord poured out on the Day of Pentecost. He is still pouring it out in this hour in a greater way than ever before. It’s whosoever will, let him come and receive from the table of the Lord.

Healing for You Is God’s Will

You who need healing: Your miracle is on the Lord’s table. You can be healed—God healed me. I was dying at twenty-three. Had it not been for the healing power of God, you never would have heard of me. I watched my body go down to almost a skeleton. I was convinced that in a few more days I would be gone. However, in a few more days Jesus came, made me whole all over, healed all my afflictions. Suddenly I was well. The Lord lingered to talk with me. “Later,” He said, “you will go on a long fast. When you come out of that fast, you’ll have my healing for the people.”

Lord, you have given that healing for the people through this servant of yours; you are the healer. I curse the AIDS, the AIDS virus, leprosy, cancer, heart trouble, lung disease, paralysis; through the divine blood name of Jesus, I curse all kinds of diseases. Heal! Heal in the all-powerful name of Jesus! The healing power is flowing to you. Be thou made whole! And I command the little children to be made whole, those little deformed ones, those born with only part of a brain. God is re-creating brains; He’s done it again and again, and I command it done for your child in the holy, holy name of the Lord.

I love to preach the Word because, I say again, the Lord confirms it with signs, wonders, miracles and healings. God is the healer; I give Him all the honor, praise and the glory. Feel His presence; the miracle power is in the air. It’s the work of the great God; man can’t do these things. Everything you need is in the power of the divine blood. Victory is in the blood; accept it and praise God for it.

What does God say about the Holy Ghost? This message gives you only some of what He says, but it is more than enough to convince the honest-hearted that everyone needs Him. He is amazingly wonderful!

I am here, saith the Lord, to give you another ultimate anointing. You need this anointing now and for all your tomorrows to do what I have ordained you to do. Feel me now and know I am your Lord, I am your God and I love you with unending love. Open your heart’s door, saith the Lord, and my Spirit will flow this great anointing into your innermost being.

The Lord has spread a table before you; ask what you will; take what you will from the table of the Lord. The call of the Lord is “Come and dine! Come and dine! Take what you will!”