WALKING
WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT
POWERFUL MESSAGE BY BILLY GRAHAM
00:00:02 Tonight I want you to turn with me to the
14th chapter of John and I want you to turn to the 16th verse now I have
several scriptures I'd like to read but I'm just going to limit myself to this
particular scripture the 14th chapter of John beginning at verse 16 if ye love
me keep my Commandments and I will pray the father and he shall give you
another comforter that he may abide with you forever even 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
00:00:51 you and shall be in you I will not leave
you comfortless I will come to you Pope John was once asked what the greatest
need in the world was and he said the teaching and the ministry of the Holy
Spirit my wife and I took a brief vacation several years ago with the great
Swiss Theologian Carl Bart and I asked Dr Bart I said what is going to be the
next theological emphasis in the world and that was before the charismatic
movement had come to Bloom as we know it today and Dr Carl Bart with great prophetic
Insight said
00:01:30 said the emphasis is going to be on the
work of the Holy Spirit and the Apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 12:1 now
concerning matters pertaining to the spirit I would not have you ignorant now
it's impossible to understand the Bible Christian Living the structure of the
church to understand your own relationship to God without the person and the
work of the Hol Holy Spirit now we have uh what is called today the charismatic
movement and I see it throughout the world I see it in V all sorts of phases
I've been to
00:02:09 some countries where they say that the
charismatic movement is moving so great in the Roman Catholic church and I find
that those people have never spoken in tongues at all they've just had a new
experience with Christ and yet they call themselves charismatic and they are
right because every true Christian is charismatic every true Christian is
charismatic it's the word charismata where we get our word Charisma from and
that is the plural for Caris which means gift a gift of Grace now there are 20 or
21 or 19 no matter
00:02:48 how you count them in my book I say 20 but
I think it's only a sample list of the gifts of the Spirit but every True
Believer has a gift of the Holy Spirit the gift of administration the gift of
helps the gift of knowledge the gift of wisdom the gift of an evangelist the
gift of a pastor the gift of a teacher whatever the gift is it is given by the
will of the holy spirit it's a gift from the Holy Spirit to you to help you to
guide you to lead you to strengthen you to edify to build up the body of Christ
and to witness for Christ
00:03:27 to the world round about us and so in that
sense every True Believer is charismatic now let's look a little bit at the
word the work of the Holy Spirit first of all he's not a he is not an it I hear
people talk about I want it he is a person the Bible says that he's not
something he's someone he is God there are three persons in the Trinity God the
Father God the son God the Holy Spirit you say I don't understand that neither
do I I'm not going to try to explain it at least at this point except by faith
that there's one
00:04:10 God expressed in three persons God the
Father God the son God the Holy Spirit now the Bible teaches that the holy
spirit is all powerful Micah 3:6 says I'm full of Power by the spirit of the
Lord the Bible says he's present everywhere no matter where you go he's there
whether shall I flee from thy Spirit or whether shall I flee from thy presence
Psalm 139:7 that is one of the reasons that Christ went away he went to get out
of a human body because Christ could only be in one place at one time he was
confined
00:04:48 to his body he went away so the Holy
Spirit could come in his place and be everywhere at the same time the Holy
Spirit can be in your heart and my heart and we may live a thousand miles apart
he said it is expedient for you that I go away and if I go not away the holy
spirit will not come he said so he said I have to go away so that the Holy
Spirit can come and do his great work throughout the history of the church now
he also has all knowledge the Bible says but God hath received them unto us by
his spirit for by the spirit
00:05:27 for the spirit searcheth all things yay
the Deep things of God it is the holy spirit that teaches us and takes us
deeper and deeper as we go along in our Christian life now in our Christian
Life we are to grow in the grace and knowledge of Christ but we can only grow
by the help of the holy spirit because the moment that you receive Christ as
your savior the Holy Spirit comes to live in your heart your body becomes the
Temple of the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is there to help you live the
Christian Life there's not a
00:06:00 person in this audience that can be a
Christian without the Holy Spirit there's not a person in this audience that
can follow Christ without the help of the holy spirit so the holy spirit is
extremely important all important in our lives the Bible also says that the
Holy Spirit has all knowledge but God hath revealed unto them by his spirit for
he searcheth all things ye the Deep things of God but in the Book of Revelation
it says that he has seven eyes the word seven is the word of perfection in the
scriptures he
00:06:36 has seven eyes perfect eyes he sees
everything that goes on he knows what goes on in your heart he knows what goes
on in your mind nothing is hidden from him the searching probing power of the
holy spirit with those seven eyes that see in every direction he has perfect
knowledge and then the Bible says he's Eternal in Hebrews 9:14 we have the
phrase the eternal spirit he is the co-eternal with God the father and God the
son to explain the Trinity again I do not know how but let's say you take an
00:07:18 apple you have the peeling on the outside
you have the meat and then you have the core but it all makes up the apple or
you have uh ice and water and Vapor they're all the the same but they take
different forms those are poor illustrations of the mighty Trinity God the
Father God the son and God the Holy Spirit now he's called holy 100 times he's
referred to as the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost is the old English translation
and the Bible says God says be ye holy even as I am Holy the holy spirit's job
one of his jobs is to help
00:07:56 make you holy and we ought to be more holy
today than we were yesterday we should always be growing more into the image
and Conformity to Jesus Christ and it's the holy spirit that helps us in this
growing process now the Bible also teaches that where he is there's liberty our
brother a moment ago talked about Liberty the Liberty that he has in Jesus
Christ he gives us Liberty out of the bondage of the law and out of the bondage
of legalism because you see even though you may be a slave to sin to drugs to
00:08:37 alcohol or whatever it may be you're a
slave of sin Jesus said but Jesus Christ comes and liberates us because of his
death on the cross and the Holy Spirit also liberates us and there's liberty
where the spirit is and I can go into a service and tell you in 5 minutes in
that service if the those people have been liberated by the Holy Spirit the
work of the Holy Spirit what is the work of the Holy Spirit the work of the
Holy Spirit first of all is to convict he convicts us of sin and when he has come
he will reprove the world of
00:09:16 sin and of righteousness and of judgment
in John 16 he uses a mother's prayers as our brother a moment ago said or a
tragic experience or a pastor's sermon or some other experience maybe this
telecast he will use to convict you of your sin and of your need of turning
your life over totally to Jesus Christ that's the work of the Holy Spirit and
many times he Disturbed you I've had people get up out of their seats and come
and stand in front and shake their fist in my face they were so disturbed by the
00:09:55 spirit of God but they'll come back one
man came back the next night and accepted Christ one man came at 5:00 in the
morning to our hotel to receive Christ the Holy Spirit sometimes makes you
angry he disturbs you you don't like for people to point right in your
direction and say I'm a you're a sinner the Holy Spirit points right at you he
puts a dagger in your heart and he says you're a sinner you need to repent we
don't like to hear that but that's the work of the Holy Spirit and without the
work of the Holy
00:10:28 Spirit you could never go to heaven Heaven
you could never have your sins forgiven you could never be saved and the Holy
Spirit has been working with some of you all week whether you've been here or
haven't been here and then secondly he gives new life you see the Bible says
that we are dead in sins and trespasses our spirit within us made in the image
of God is dead toward God and what does mankind need tonight mankind needs life
all have sinned therefore all are dead toward God and a dead man needs to
00:11:06 life and the Holy Spirit comes to give us
that new life in Jesus Christ bertran Russell once wrote to a friend I could
think of nothing but suicide for over man and his Works he said night falls
pitless and dark is that the way you feel night is falling pitless and dark for
you you see Man Without God is dead but Jesus said except a man be born again
he cannot see the kingdom of God you must be born again and the Holy Spirit is
the one that does the work of making you a born again person it's a
00:11:47 supernatural act not by works of
righteousness which we've done not all your good works and all the good things
that you've done are going to save you Titus Paul said to Titus but according
to his Mercy he saved us we're saved by the mercy of God by the grace of God I
don't deserve Heaven I don't deserve to have my sins forgiven I don't deserve
to be saved I don't deserve to have this peace in my heart I don't deserve this
deep-seated joy that I have it's by Grace by Mercy something I didn't earn
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received a gift the gift of God the gift of salvation but according to his
Mercy saved us by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the holy spirit
it's the holy spirit that does it and then thirdly as I've mentioned already he
indwells many of you are spiritually dead and surfed with the issues or with
the life in which we live today in our hedonistic culture the Holy Spirit can
come into you and indwell you right now you can start all over again brand new
life the life of the
00:13:12 spirit the Holy Spirit indwelling you the
Holy Spirit pulsating spiritual life through and in you and I will put my
spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and you shall keep my
judgments and do them says Ezekiel 3 6 think of it God said I'll put my spirit
in you I'll come to live in you think of your body hous in God and that's what
happens your body becomes the temple where God dwells by his holy spirit that's
the reason we should never take anything unclean into our bodies that's the
reason we should discipline
00:13:53 our bodies that's the reason we should
watch our bodies because it's the Temple of the Holy Spirit God loves you a
body he doesn't want it polluted and filed up by fleshly lust and things that
you give yourself to he dwelleth with you and shall be in you said Jesus in our
text know ye not that you are the temple of God and that the spirit of God
dwelleth in you said First Corinthians 3:16 and then fourthly the holy spirit
gives you power to serve Christ but ye shall receive power after that the Holy
Ghost has come upon
00:14:32 you and you shall be Witnesses unto me I
can't do the work I can I'm doing without the power of the Holy Spirit people
always you know bless their hearts I love newspaper reporters some of them are
my best friends and uh but many of them who do not know Christ cannot possibly
understand what it's all about they study and they try to penetrate and they
try to figure it out they think it's advertisement they think it's promotion
they think it's uh something else one fellow said that he knew the secret of
00:15:06 of why the crowds came to these meetings
he said it was my eyes well you can't see my eyes four rows back no I'll tell
you the secret it's the Holy Spirit the spirit of God where Christ is exalted I
don't claim to be a great preacher I'm just a community unic Ator of God's
message he called me and gave me that gift he gave Cliff his gift he gave Ted
his gift he gave bevay his and John his and all these team members he gave them
separate gifts he gives as he Wills there's some of the the team members
00:15:46 here that we have with us and some of the
people here that can do things I would give anything in my possession to be
able to do by way of organization by way of music I wish I could sing like some
of these people I can't sing a note in fact I don't even sing when I'm standing
beside somebody because I throw them off and I'm not the greatest organizer in
the world but God gave me my little gift the gift of communicating the gospel
and the thing that counts is the message that Christ died for our sins
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again according to the scripture that he's coming back again and that he's
ready to come into your heart right now by the Holy Spirit and make you a new
person that's the gospel that's the one message Christ gave me that's the one
message God gave me I was reading about something in Wakefield England the
other day and a woman had tried her driver's test for the 38th time and failed
38 time times and failed perhaps you've tried that many times for a license
00:17:06 spiritually to sit in the driest seat of
your life but it hasn't worked how many people come have gone to meetings and
you've rededicated your life and you've come forward or you've gone out of
there and said I'm going to live different or I'm going to do better it it just
hasn't worked this may be the 38th time and tonight it may work because you're
going to turn your life over to Christ in the right way by repentance of your
sin and by faith in Christ and the Holy Spirit is going to come supernaturally
and renew you and
00:17:41 give you a new nature and then the Holy
Spirit produces the fruit of the spirit what are the fruit nine of them but the
fruit of the spirit is love and joy and peace and longsuffering and gentleness
and goodness and faith and meekness and temperance that's produced by the Holy
Spirit they are people that you may not be able to love normally they're just
not your kind but the holy spirit will give you the power to love them and the
greatest thing in the world what is it love the greatest evidence that you know
Christ
00:18:17 is love and you can't love that person
well I know there are some people that are just hard to love but the Holy
Spirit can love through you he can love through you and then you you don't have
joy there are a lot of times that I feel that I don't have joy and I get on my
knees and I say Lord where is the fruit of the spirit of joy in my life and the
joy is there down deep it's a Deep River whatever the circumstances there's a
River of joy and then the peace that passeth understanding comes from the Holy
Spirit
00:19:05 whatever the circumstances let the world
fall apart I have peace in my heart I know where I'm going I know where I've
been and I know where I'm here by the Holy Spirit do you know Christ you see
the Holy Spirit comes to do this he comes to magnify to glorify and exalt the
son John 16 13 says he shall not speak of himself the Holy Spirit shall not
speak of himself in other words we're not to go around saying the holy spirit
this the holy spirit this the holy spirit that and ignore Christ he came to
00:19:45 magnify the Lord Jesus Christ he came to
glorify Christ and the Holy Spirit is pleased when you glorify Christ in your
life now the Bible says that you can sin against the Holy Spirit the Bible says
you can anger the spirit the Bible says you can grieve the spirit the Bible
says you can lie against the Holy Spirit the Bible says you can tempt the Holy
Spirit the Bible says that you can resist the Holy Spirit and if you resist the
Holy Spirit there's no forgiveness because you see it's the holy spirit that
draws you to Christ it
00:20:32 is the holy spirit that convicts you of
your need of Christ and if you resist him keep resisting your heart getting
harder and harder all the time then there's no more repentance no more
salvation there's only one way of Salvation and that's Christ a solemn thing to
resist the Holy Spirit Spirit you detect his voice and yet you deliberately
refuse it's a dangerous thing to resist the spirit he that despiseth Moses law
died without Mercy under two or three Witnesses of how much sore punishment
suppose ye
00:21:12 shall be thought worthy who have trotten
Under Foot the Son of God and have counted the blood of the Covenant wherewith
he was Sanctified an Unholy thing and have done despite under the spirit of
Grace I'm ask asking you tonight to give in to the call of the Holy Spirit I'm
asking you to come by the hundreds and say I want Christ in my life to be my
Lord and my savior and I want to be sure of it you may be a faithful in the
church but you really don't know Christ or you may not have any religion
00:21:53 you may be Catholic or Protestant or
Jewish or no religion at all I don't know who you are what you are but I would
assume that the majority of the people here tonight are churchgoers and I know
thousands of churchgoers that need to come to Christ in a new way and have a
new experience with the Lord Jesus Christ led by the holy spirit because you
see there's many people that need to be filled with the Holy Spirit I don't
have time to go into what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit or to be baptized
with the holy
00:22:27 spirit all that's in my book book because
I'm here tonight to talk to you about what the Holy Spirit can do for you right
tonight right here and now and I'm going to ask you to get up out of your seat
hundreds of you as we've seen night after night and I want you to come and
stand here in front of the platform and say by coming I want Christ in my heart
I want to know I'm going to heaven I want my sins forgiven I want to start a
new life if you're with friends or relatives they'll wait if you come
00:22:56 from that top balcony up there it'll take
you about 2 minutes so start now you can bring your friend with you and there
are thousands of you here tonight that God has been speaking to you get up and
come right now quickly and say by coming I want Christ in my heart I want the
Holy Spirit to come into my life tonight I want Christ to forgive my sins you
get up and come quickly we're going to wait on you.
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