The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1916-03-25
THE INFILLING OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT
Continued from last week.


baptized which have received the Holy Ghost we'll we
GENERAL OvERSEER: Now some have asked me it a
person receive the Holy Ghost before baptism with tr
immersion. answer, eyes" In this they receiv
ed the Holy Ghost and then baptized because they had
been taught about the Holy Spirit; but in the regular
order baptism comes first This exceptional case;
and want to tell you if you desire to receive the Holy
Spirit then you obey God and all His commandments
There is blessing in baptism.
repeat: what happened on the Day of Pentecost has
never happened What took place in the house of Cor
neius and what took place in the nineteenth Of Acts was
not the speaking tongues they spoke in tongues on the
Day of Pentecost
SPEAKING IN TONGUES NOT THE GREATEST GIFT.
want to mention, before Elder Moot reads the four
eenth chapter of first Corinthians When this gift of
tongues" business first struck Zion City, you remember
said that the devil brought that thing here and say it
yet have not altered my d-no an ota. When that
thing first came to Zion City, there three persons who
came to this Tabernacle. Word sent into office
that they desired to let them come in One of
the ladies wished to speak in tongues said mo, cannot
permit you to speak will try the spirit you have first and
see whether it is of Cod In the of the conversation
this lady made the statement that the speaking in tongues
the greatest of the nine gifts. sad THAT is false
doctrine. You deluded. Paul that speaking in
tongues is not the greatest of the nine gt is one OF
the least the nine gifts So the DID, subtle
pen that beguled Adam and Eve beguied good people
and them think that the speaking in tongues is the
greatest of the nine gifts.
In the second place, still damnabe doctrine
which led to insanity here and elsewhere that no one
had the baptism of the Holy Ghost who did not speak in
tongues Don't you how the devil got them? The devil
comes along and he says Now unless you speak in
tongues you have received the Holy Ghost Il he
believes that e it will ruin him. Paul says, in the twelfth
chapter of first Corinthians in describing the Body of
Christ "Are all apostles?" No care all prophets? No.
care all teachers?" No. "Do all work miracles No Do all
have the gifts of heang?" No. "Do all speak in tongues
No.
Then there are members of the Body of Christ that
never spoke in tonguebu they have been baptized with
the Holy Ghost they would have been IN the BODY
of Christ So a lot of those people good Zion
Seventies and they would have died for Zon but they list
ened to that the devil and they agonzed here for SIX
solid months and received the milling OF the Holy
Spirit Now they nfdels. Some of them don't be-
eve in the Bible They say that God lied to them when it
was the devil that lied to them. 1t the devil that lied
to Them and had they examined the Book they never would
have been rpped by those two es because they doc
trne of demons and not the doctrines of the Holy Spirit
Speaking tongues of the least of the nine gifts
Speaking in tongues is only one of the signs of the
reception of the Holy Ghost
Now let us follow the fourteenth of Corinthians very
closely
No WARRANT IN SCRIPTURE TO PRAY FOR GIFTS
HOLY SPIRIT.
ELDER Moot Follow after charity, and desire spr-
ftual gifts, but rather that we may prophesy.
GENERAL OVERSEER: Just point there. challenge
anv of YOU to show of Scripture to warrant
one in praying for the gifts of the Holy Spirit If Of
YOU can find line of Scripture to authorize this
ooh Cod give the GIFTS of the Holy Spirit, would
like to have it. say it does not exist say there is no
authority for man to ask God for the gifts of the Holy Spr
it. will give you all the proof require for the giving OF
the HOLY Spirit but the Bible says that "He dvideth the
GIFTS severaly He WILL" and it is absolutely in His
hands, but where is the Scripture authorizing to
for the gifts of the Holy Sprit God the gift of
tongues for instance?
will give you Scripture to prove that if you speak in
tongues you the right to for the gift Of nterpre
aton of tongues you not to speak the meeting
at ALL will give you that You must for the gift of
of the Holy Spir-but what does Corinthians about
he gifts of the Holy Spirit? He dvideth severay He
will and He giveth to every man to profit withal Don't
you think God is all wise? Don't you think God knows
where and upon whom to besOw His gifts? And would
Cod in distributing these gifts, do what sensible
would do?
"For he that speaketh in unknown tongue speaketh
not unto men, but unto Cod"
GENERAL OvERsEER: Why don't you omit that word