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:''Just like now, this is going to hurt you. But I'm responsible with God's Word, willing to discuss It, any time. '''Here's where you Pentecostal people has made your mistake, many of you setting here, of teaching the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost''', speaking in tongues being the Holy Ghost. Why, speaking in tongues is all right, but that is an attribute. That isn't the Holy Ghost; that's what the Holy Ghost does. | :''Just like now, this is going to hurt you. But I'm responsible with God's Word, willing to discuss It, any time. '''Here's where you Pentecostal people has made your mistake, many of you setting here, of teaching the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost''', speaking in tongues being the Holy Ghost. Why, speaking in tongues is all right, but that is an attribute. That isn't the Holy Ghost; that's what the Holy Ghost does. | ||
:'''''The Holy Ghost is the love of God. I can prove it by the Bible.''' "Though I speak with tongue of men and Angels, and have not love, it profit me nothing." | :'''''The Holy Ghost is the love of God. I can prove it by the Bible.''' "Though I speak with tongue of men and Angels, and have not love, it profit me nothing." If you want a apple tree, and just got an apple, you're a long ways from getting a tree. See, it's an attribute.<ref>ISRAEL.AND.THE.CHURCH.2_ JEFF.IN IC 35-64 THURSDAY_ 53-0326</ref> | ||
If you want a apple tree, and just got an apple, you're a long ways from getting a tree. See, it's an attribute.<ref>ISRAEL.AND.THE.CHURCH.2_ JEFF.IN IC 35-64 THURSDAY_ 53-0326</ref> | |||
:''If you want to know what I think the evidence of the Holy Ghost is, it's love. And that's right. I don't care what else, you can scream, shout, or do whatever you want to, if you haven't got love, Paul said, "You got nothing." That's right. You got to have love to go with this there. You got that without love, you haven't got it yet, 'cause God is love. And no--and there he goes. And up into the country...<ref>GOD'S.PREPARATION_ LOUISVILLE.KY THURSDAY_ 54-0401</ref> | :''If you want to know what I think the evidence of the Holy Ghost is, it's love. And that's right. I don't care what else, you can scream, shout, or do whatever you want to, if you haven't got love, Paul said, "You got nothing." That's right. You got to have love to go with this there. You got that without love, you haven't got it yet, 'cause God is love. And no--and there he goes. And up into the country...<ref>GOD'S.PREPARATION_ LOUISVILLE.KY THURSDAY_ 54-0401</ref> | ||
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:'' Now, that's no evidence of the Holy Ghost. See? You can't rely upon that. '''You can't rely upon the fruit of the Spirit''', because the first fruit of the Spirit is love. And the Christian Science exercise more love than anybody I know of, and they even deny Jesus Christ being Divine. See? '''There's only one evidence of the Holy Spirit that I know of, and that is a genuine faith in the promised Word of the hour.'''<ref>QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.2_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823E</ref> | :'' Now, that's no evidence of the Holy Ghost. See? You can't rely upon that. '''You can't rely upon the fruit of the Spirit''', because the first fruit of the Spirit is love. And the Christian Science exercise more love than anybody I know of, and they even deny Jesus Christ being Divine. See? '''There's only one evidence of the Holy Spirit that I know of, and that is a genuine faith in the promised Word of the hour.'''<ref>QUESTIONS.AND.ANSWERS.2_ JEFF.IN COD SUNDAY_ 64-0823E</ref> | ||
:''Now we have been constantly saying that the '''true evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost is for the believer to receive the Word for the age in which he lives.'''<ref>155-2, SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE, CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4<ref> | :''Now we have been constantly saying that the '''true evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost is for the believer to receive the Word for the age in which he lives.'''<ref>155-2, SMYRNAEAN.CHURCH.AGE, CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.4</ref> | ||
:''The evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost today is just the same as it was back in the day of our Lord. It is receiving the Word of truth for the day in which you live. Jesus never did stress the importance of the Works as He did the Word.<ref>169-4, PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE, CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.5</ref> | :''The evidence of receiving the Holy Ghost today is just the same as it was back in the day of our Lord. It is receiving the Word of truth for the day in which you live. Jesus never did stress the importance of the Works as He did the Word.<ref>169-4, PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE, CHURCH.AGE.BOOK CPT.5</ref> | ||
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