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by R. A. Torrey

Chapter VII

The Baptism with the Holy Spirit: How to Obtain It

Fe, have seen that the Baptism with the Holy
Spirit is a definite experience of which one

may know whether he has received it or not;

aera au and is sees for the purpose of testimony and service and that the one great result of that baptism

is power in the work to which God calls us. We have

we of every believer in every age of the Church’s history to have the Baptism with the Holy Spirit and that a most solemn responsibility rests upon every one of us to obtain it at any cost. We have seen that if we pay thrice of this blessing and therefore obtain it there will be y souls won to Christ through our work who, if we do not pay the price of this blessing and therefore do not obtain it, will not be thus won; and that therefore if we do not pay the price of this blessing and therefore do not obtain it, we shall be responsible before God for every one who might have been won but was not won because we did not pay the price and therefore did not obtain the blessing,

This brings us face to face with the all-important questremendous importance; but it is a question that is very plainly answered in the Word of God. There is a very plain path laid down in God’s Word, consisting of a few simple steps that anyone can take, and CERTAIN THAT ANY ONE WHO TAKES THESE STEPS WILL ITH THE Hoiy Spirit.”

That is a very positive statement and I would not dare be thus positive if the Word of God were not equally

positive, but when the Word of God definitely and distinctly says that if you do certain things there will be a certain result, what right have we to tone down the positiveness of God’s Word and say that if we do certain things there will “probably” be a certain result?

If any one should come to me and ask me, “Can you tell me what to do right now and here, and guarantee that if I do it I will be saved at once?” Without the slightest hesitation I would reply, “I can.” I can tell any one what to do right now and guarantee that if they do it, they will be saved instantly. If I could not tell you that, I would not be fit to be preaching the Gospel. And just so, if any one should come to me and say, “Dr. Torrey, can you tell me what to do right here and now and guarantee that if I will do it, I will be baptized with the Holy Ghost?”, without the slightest hesitation I would reply, “I can.” I can, because the Bible tells us in the plainest possible terms that very thing. It tells us that if we do certain things which are clearly defined in the Bible, we “shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.’ What right, then, have we to qualify God’s statement and say that if we do certain things we shall probably receive the gift of (or, the baptism with) the Holy Spirit?

It is oftentimes said that Dr. Torrey is a very dogmatic preacher. I trust that the charge is true. I aim to bea dogmatic preacher. I aim to be just as dogmatic as this Book. I do not think that I have attained to that as yet, but that is my aim, and if this Book says in the most positive and dogmatic terms that if you do certain things you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit, I do not hesitate to affirm without the slightest fear that my affirmation will prove untrue, that any one here who does these certain things, who takes these certain steps, will be immediately

baptized with the oe Spirit.”

refer to other passages that throw more Tote upon this passage and make some of the steps clearer, but they are all in this passage.

shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”

Now, Peter’s statement here is just as positive as mine. He says if we do certain things, the result will be that we “shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” What right, then, have we to say that if we do these things, perhaps we may receive the gift of the Holy Ghost? ‘There is no perhaps about it. We certainly shall,

The First Step. ‘The first two steps are found in the word “spent.” What does repentance mean? Doubtless many of you have been told time after time that ‘When you were told that, you were told the exact truth. But a change of mind about what? A change of mind about three things:

i Genes:” and we read in verse thirty-seven: “Now -when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, ‘ Brethren, what shall we do?’”, and then we read verse thirty-eight: “And Peter said unto them, ‘ Repent ye’” — that is, change your mind about Jesus Christ, change from that attitude of mind that rej ected chris and crucified

‘accepted Him? If I should go down aon this platform and go to you as you sit there in the seats, one after another, and put to you the question, “Have you received Jesus Christ as your Saviour?” I think that most of you would reply, “Yes, I have.” But suppose I should put to you a second question, “Upon what are you resting as the ground of your acceptance before God?” — I am sure some of you would answer me something like this, “Why, I go to church, I read my Bible, I have been baptized, I have joined the church (or, been confirmed, as the case may be), I go regularly to church, I partake of the communion, I give a tenth of my income to the church or the poor, and I am trying to live just as near right as I know how.” Well, if that is what you are resting upon as the ground of your salvation, you are not saved. All those things are your works; good things in their place, but every one of them your own works, and God tells us plainly in His Word, in Romans 3:20, “By the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in His sight”; therefore if these are the things you are trusting in as the ground of your acceptance before God, you are not justified, you are not saved. But if I should go to some of you and put to you the question, “Are you saved?” you would reply at once, “Yes, I am,” and if then I should put to you the second question, “On what are you resting as the ground of your salvation?”’, you would reply something like this: Ta ot resting upon. an hing I have done.or anyen irel upon

TL ACCEPTAN BEFORE God. ne

This thought comes out again and again in the Bible.

We find it, for example, very plainly stated in Galatians

3:2. In this passage, Paul says: “This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?” What does Paul mean by this? On one occasion Paul was passing through (ralatia and was detained there by some physical infirmity. We are not told what it was; presumably it was some trouble with his eyes. But that does not matter for our present purpose. At all events, he was not so ill that he could not preach and he did preach to these Galatians. He preached to them that Christ had redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse in our place (Gal. 3:13), and that by simple faith in Him Who died in their place, all their sins were forgiven and they were justified from all things (2 Cor. 5:21; Acts 13:38, 39). The Galatians believed this proclamation of the Gospel and put their trust in the atoning death of Jesus Christ on the cross as their ground of acceptance before God, and God immediately set His seal to their faith by giving them as a conscious, experimental possession, the Holy Spirit. But after Paul had gone away, certain men came down from Jerusalem who mixed up the Jewish law with the simple Gospel of Christ and told these people, these believers in Galatia, that merely believing in Jesus Christ was not enough, that in addition to that, if they were to be saved, they must be circumcised according to the law of Moses. (Just as the Seventh Day Adventist people come along nowadays and tell young Christians that it is not enough to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, that in addition to that, they must keep the seventh day Sabbath according to the law of Moses. It is the same old controversy, only breaking out at a new point.)

These young believers in Galatia were all upset. They did not know whether they were saved (or, justified) or not. ‘This reaches the ears of the Apostle Paul and he is very indignant. Nothing makes true Christian workers more indignant, nor more righteously indignant, than to “ave false teachers come along and try to upset young converts and get them confused. So he wrote this epistle to the Galatians to show the Galatian believers the truth and expose the error of these Judaizers. I am glad that these Judaizers came down, for, while they upset these Galatian believers for a while, the ultimate outcome was good, for it gave rise to this wonderful epistle to the Galatians, which is the greatest exposition of the doctrine of justification by faith that is to be found in the Bible, even greater on this one point than the epistle to the Romans.

First of all, Paul called the attention of the young believers in Galatia to the fact that Abraham himself was justified before he was circumcised, that ‘“Abraham simply) believed God” and his simply believing God was “counted unto him for righteousness” (Gal. 3:6). He showed them that after Abraham was thus justzfie by simple faith, he was circumcised, not in order to be justified, but as “a seal of the faith that he had while he was still in uncircumcision” (Romans 4:11, R. V.).

Then Paul exposes the error of these Judaizers in a second way. He appeals directly to the experience of the believers in Galatia. He says to them, in effect, “You received the Holy Spirit, did you not, as a definite experience?” “Yes, Paul, we did.” “Well, then,” he says in substance, “let me ask you a question? How did you receive the Holy Spirit — by works of the law’ (that is, by keeping the Reis low) or ae the ele of And they replied, “Why, of course, Paul, — received the Holy Spirit by the ‘hearing of faith.’” And that is the way every one of us must receive Him. This, the very first step, the mo ndamental. step. of all in receiving the Baptism with the Hol Spirit, to rest abso-

Holy.Spirit, becomes, our. birthright...

Some years ago an engineer on the Rock Island Railroad was converted in the Moody church in Chicago. Not long after this, one of the well-instructed members of the church was crossing the Rock Island Railroad tracks in the south part of Chicago and this engineer came down the track on a switch engine. He saw this other man about to cross the track and slowed down the engine and said, “John, don’t you want to take a ride?” He replied, “Yes,” and climbed up into the cab with the engineer. They had not gone very far when Mr, Morrison began to draw the young convert out. After the young convert had talked some time, Mr. Morrison said quietly to him, “You have a different religion from mine.” “What, John,” he said, “a different religion from yours? I thought we had the same religion.” “No,” Mr. Morrison replied, “you have a different religion from mine. You have a religion of two letters. I have a religion of four letters.” “What do you mean, John?” the man asked. John replied, “Your religion is D-O, Do;; you are all the time talking about what you do. My fatipion is D-O-N-F, pong, Iam ine. to...wha

Jesus Christ has done, when He bore my sins in His owny TOSS [hat, let me repeat, is the first step to ree agrarae the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, that

wey restentirely and absolutely not on anything we do,

but upon. what..Jesus..Christ has already done, in dying in our place upon the cross of Calvary (Gal. 3:13; 2 Corea: 217.

piel STEP

mind that loves sin or indulges in sin, to that attitude of a The second a then, toward ism with the Holy Here again we touch on one of the most vital points in| receiving..the,.Baptism..with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Aoly.Spirit, and we must make a clean-cut choice between the Holy Spirit and unholy sin. We cannot have both, It is just at this point that many people fail of the blessing. They read books on the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, they go to conferences and listen to various speakers, they go to “tarrying meetings,” they pray long alone for the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, but with no results, Why is it? Because they are holding on to some sin.

Men and women oftentimes come to me and say, “I have been praying for the Baptism with the Holy Spirit for a year,” or two years, or three years or five years, as the case may be. A missionary came up to me one day in the First Presbyterian Church in New York, at the close of the sermon, and said to me, “I have been praying for the Baptism with the Holy Spirit for twenty years. I have been twenty years a missionary in Persia and I have never had a convert.” Think of it! a missionary twenty years and not a convert. Then this minister said, “What is the matter?” When a man comes to me and tells me he has been praying for the Baptism with the Holy Spirit and gets no answer and asks what the trouble is, I generally look him right square in the eye and say, “My brother, it is S-I-N, sin.” And to you here this morning who have been praying for a long time for the Baptism with the Holy Spirit and receiving nothing, in all probability the trouble with you is sin; and if I could look down right into your heart right now, just as God is looking right down into your heart at this present moment, I could put my finger on the specific sin that is shutting you out of the blessing. Oftentimes it is what we are pleased to call “a small sin” that shuts us out of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit. In reality there are no small sins. There are sins about small things, but every sin is an act of rebellion against God, no matter how small the thing is in itself and no act of rebellion against God is a small thing. Suppose your little child in a fit of anger throws a book on the floor and you say to the child, “Pick up that book.” Now that certainly is a small thing in itself, but suppose the child says, “I won’t!” Is it a small thing now? And every sin, no matter how small the thing is in itself, is saying “I won’t” to God, and seen in this light, every sin is an appalling thing.

Mr. Finney somewhere tells of a woman in the central part of New York state, who became greatly concerned about the Baptism with the Holy Spirit. When the meetings were over at night, she would go to her room and pray long into the night and lose necessary sleep, and her friends were afraid she would go insane. But there came no answer to her prayers. One night she came home from the meeting and went up to her room, As she knelt there in prayer for the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, some little matter of head adornment came up before her, something that probably would not trouble anybody here, but which was a matter of controversy between her and God, and as she knelt there, she put her hand to her head and took out the pins, threw them across the floor and said, “’There! go!” and instantly the Holy Ghost fell upon her. Now, what was it that shut her out of the

beessing Pins? No, controversy..with God — sin.

Some years ago I was So! a Bible conference at

Dr. Broughton’s Tabernacle in Atlanta, Ga. One afternoon when I was to speak on this subject, a minister came in and took a seat over on the right hand side of the tabernacle. As he was taking his seat, Dr. Broughton nudged me and whispered, “Don’t look now, or he will think we are talking about him, but that man who is taking his seat is the pope of our denomination in north Georgia. Everything he says goes, but he is not with us at all in this matter. I am glad he is here.” As I spoke that afternoon, I would occasionally look over toward that man. He was listening very intently. When the meeting was over and I had gone out into the vestibule of the church, that man was waiting. He came up and said, “I did not stand up this afternoon when you asked people to stand up.” I replied, “I noticed you did not.” “I thought,” he said, “that you said that only those

should stand who could say that they were fully sur- t rendered to God.” I answered, “That was exactly what I did say.” “Well,” he answered, “I could not say that.” “All right, then you did perfectly right in not getting up. I did not want you to lie.” “Say,” he continued, “you hit me pretty hard this afternoon.” I replied, “That is what I am here for.” “You said that if there is anything that always came up when we got nearest to God, that was the thing to deal with. Well, there is something that always comes up when I get nearest to God. I am not going to tell you what it is. I think you know.” I replied, “I think I do” — I could smell it. “Well,” he said, “I just wanted to tell you, that’s all.” This was on Friday. I left that evening for Augusta, Georgia. The following Tuesday I was coming back through Atlanta on my way to Chicago. The train stopped a few minutes in the station and I got off. Dr. Broughton was waiting in the station to speak to me. He said, “I wish you could have been in our Baptist preachers’ meeting yesterday morning. That man from north Georgia came into our meeting and got up and said, ‘ Brethren, we have been all wrong about this matter,’ then he told what he had done [he had put away his sin], then he ‘said, ‘ Brethren, I have a more definite experience now than I had when I was converted.’” A more definite experience, than. you.) had when you were converted i is awaiting you this morn-|

ing, if you wi nodal put away your sin,

‘THIRD STEP e he third step is also in this verse,|‘ Be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ unto the remission of your sins.”

i BE OF OUR RENUNCIATION oF SIN. AND. OF OUR “ACCEPTANCE Pure BRAM NIM AR AAR RIEE

oF JESUS Curist. - The Baptism n with the Holy “Spirit i is not for the secret believer, bu

and I went around the world, there were efhadeets of people who had been trying to be secret disciples for years who came out and made a public confession of Christ in our meetings and who received blessing through that act.

Of course, God’s appointed way of confession of our renunciation of sin and acceptance of Jesus Christ is baptism, and it is in the very act of baptism with water that many receive the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, because that is where they make an open confession of renunciation of sin and acceptance of Jesus Christ. I never felt the importance of baptism before as I did when I was in India. I found that there were in India large numbers of men who really believed the truth about Jesus Christ, who did not hesitate to say that they believed in His Deity and in His atonement, but who would not be baptized. Their reason was that being baptized in India meant great losses to many. For example: A student in the University of Calcutta came to me when I was holding meetings in Calcutta. He said to me, “I believe everything that you have preached.” JI said, “Why don’t you come out, then, and confess Christ in baptism?” He said, “Because if I did, it would cost me everything I have in the world. I am a student of law in the university here in Calcutta. I have not completed my education. My father is a rich man in southern India and I am heir to a fortune; but if I should come out and be baptized, my father would cut me off without an ana. There is nothing I could do. I cannot work, for I belong to the Brahmin caste. I cannot prac’ tise law, because I have not yet completed my course.

What shall I do?” TI replied, “Do what God tells you to do, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.” After some thought and some reasoning with him, he said, “I will.” I was leaving Calcutta, so I could not baptize him, but he went to Dr. Charles Cuthbert Hall, of Brooklyn, New York, who was at that time lecturing in India on the Haskel Foundation, and asked him to baptize him.

Dr. Hall consented. The young man sent to his father in southern India, telling him he was to be baptized. His father came up to witness the ceremony and as soon as his son was baptized, he cut him off without an ana, I tell you, baptism means something in India. It means something everywhere. If you have not been baptized, either as a child or as an adult, be baptized, ake an open

But if you have been baptized, even then there should be that for which baptism stands, an open confession of your renunciation of sin and acceptanceo

But some one may ask, “Suppose one is a Friend, or, as they are commonly called, a Quaker, who do not believe in the outward sacraments of either the Lord’s Supper or baptism? Are they never baptized with the Holy Spirit?” ‘To this I would say that some of those that I have known who gave the clearest evidence of being baptized with the Holy Spirit belonged to the Friends, but I am here to expound the Word of God, and this is what the Word of God says. Lf”

THE FourtH STEP / Now let us turn to Acts 5:32 and t we will find the fourth step: “And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, Whom God hath given to them that obey Him.” ‘THE FouRTH sTEpP, as set forth in this

to some of you will make it more clear.

Let me repeat, the fourth step is,obedience. But what is obedience? Some one will say, it is doing what God tells you to do. Yes. But how much that God tells you to do. One thing? two things? three things? No, everything! There is a denomination that greatly emphasizes obedience, as well they might, for it is constantly emphasized throughout the entire Bible; but this particular denomination makes obedience to consist in just one thing, that is, one certain ceremonial act. No, that is not the

hole of obedience.| Obedience..is.not merely doing oné,

wo or three things,that.God commands, but doing, ever )-

ca PER TOT Wise More people miss the Baptism with the Spirit at this point, and more people enter experimentally into the Baptism with the Holy Spirit at this point than at almost any other. There are many who go a long ways in the matter of sacrificing for Christ, they even go so far as to go as foreign missionaries and leave home and friends and all the comforts of their own land, to go through sacrifice and suffering on the foreign field, who still stop short of full surrender to God and so stop short of the blessing. Man after man and woman after woman told me in India, men and women who had gone so far as to go to the danger and discomfort of that trying climate, men and women who had given up home and friends and comforts of countless kinds and pretty much everything that most of us hold dear, to go as foreign missionaries, but nevertheless they had not made a full surrender to God as yet. Thank God many of them did then, and therefore were then and there baptized with the Holy Spirit. There is absolutely no use of your praying for the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, nor of going to “tarrying meetings,” nor any other kind of meetings, if you will not surrender your will to God, holding absolutely nothing back. You will not receive the Baptism with the Holy Spirit though you pray for it to the crack of doom unless you make an absolute surrender of your will to God.

Many are afraid to make a full surrender to God. They fear that if they should make a full surrender to God, that God would require of them some hard thing, or even some absurd thing. Who is your God, anyway? He certainly is not the God of the Bible. The name of God in the Bible is love, “God is love;” and absolute surrender to God is simply absolute surrender to infinite love. Is there anything to be dreaded in that? And God’s love is not only wiser than that of any earthly father, but more tender than that of any earthly mother.

Some years ago, at one of the Northfield conferences, a gentleman came to me and said, “You must speak on the subject of full surrender. A good many of the men and women over at East Hall (one of the school buildings at which many attendants at the conference were stopping) are greatly troubled on the subject of full surrender. They are afraid that if they make a full surrender to God, that God will require some hard thing of them, or even some absurd thing. The women are afraid that if they tell God they will make a full surrender to Him, He will take away their husbands or do some other dreadful thing, and the men are afraid of some other things.” That afternoon I took up the subject of full surrender and repeated what this man had said. Then I said to them, “Who is your God, anyway, that you are afraid to make a full surrender to Him? He certainly is not the God of the Bible, for the name of the God of the Bible is Love. Absolute surrender to God is simply putting yourself into the hands of Infinite Love. God’s love is not only wiser than that of any earthly father, but more tender than any earthly mother.”

Then I used this illustration: “Suppose when I get back to Chicago, my son (who was then perhaps ten years of age), as soon as he hears my ring at the front door-bell, should come running down-stairs and open the door and throw himself into my arms and say, ‘ Father, I am so glad you are back. We have so greatly missed you since you were away. I want to make this a red-letter day to celebrate your homecoming. I am not going to have any will of my own at all today; I am going to do just what you tell me to do at every turn. Please sit down, Father, and make me out a program for the whole day, telling me just what to do at every hour of the day.’

Now,” I said, “suppose my son said that to me, what do you think I would do? Do you think I would call for my wife to bring me a sheet of paper and then sit down and say, ‘Clara, what are the things that Reuben most dislikes to do?’ and then make him out a program for the day, putting in all the things he most disliked to do? Don’t you know that I would not do that? Don’t you know that I would make that the brightest, happiest day that Reuben A. Torrey, Jr., ever knew in all his life?” And just so it is with God. When we make an absolute surrender of our wills and all we have to Him, He brings into play all the resources of infinite wisdom and grace and power, to fill our lives with sunshine. He may ask of us things that we would not of ourselves have chosen to do, but if He does, those things will be the very happiest things that we have to do. For years I held back from full surrender to God, indeed from becoming a Christian at all, because I was afraid that God would command me to preach the Gospel; and I was determined to be a lawyer. And God did tell me to preach the Gospel. But today I would rather preach the Gospel than de anything else I know. And so, if any of you are holding back, make a full surrender of your will to God and God will bring into play all the resources of infinite wisdom and love and power to fill your lives with sunshine.

However that may be, you will not receive the Baptism with the Holy Spirit until you do thus make a full surrender to God, until you come to Him and say from our heart and re ean it, “‘ Heavenly Father, here I am. I am Thy property. Thou hast bought me with a price and I acknowledge Thine ownership. Send me where Thou wilt, do with me what Thou wilt, use me as Thou wilt.” Through not doing this, thousands today are missing the Baptism with the Holy Spirit and through doing it, thousands upon thousands have entered into blessing.

Some years ago I was attending a Bible Conference at Grove City, Pa. One day a Presbyterian minister came to me and asked if he might have a private conversation with me. I made an appointment with him, and at the time appointed we met. ‘This man was one of the leading Presbyterian ministers in all that part of the state, a man greatly honoured and beloved. When we met, he told me this experience; he said, “Some time ago three young men from my church went to one of the Student Conferences at Northfield. They heard you speak on The Baptism with the Holy Spirit. When they came back, they called upon me in my study and said, ‘ Pastor, we think we have heard of something at Northfield about which you do not know.’” It seemed to me that that was a rather presumptuous thing for young men in their position to do with a pastor in his position. But notice the quality of the man. He said to them, “Young men, if you have something that I have not, and I ought. to have, I want to know about it.” Then they told him what they heard at Northfield about the Baptism with the Holy Spirit. ‘“Then,” he continued, “when they had gone, I took my hat and walked out into the woods and sat down on a log and looked up to God and said, ‘Oh God, if these young men have something that I have not and that I ought to have, I want it right now, and the best I know, I make a full surrender of all I am and all I have to Thee.’ Immediately,” he continued, “there came stealing into my heart such a sense of peace and

joy as I had never known before.” Oh, a filling with the Holy Spirit brings to ) you not only a peace and joy

REP. ARETE L NS RIG IE ALR SEN SENT HE TED A I ts you never knew before, but a power in rer se vic

Many years ago I was speaking in the city of Washington, D. C., at an International Convention of Christian Workers on the Baptism with the Holy Spirit. God was wonderfully present that night. As I closed my address and we joined in prayer, the Holy Spirit manifested His presence in a wonderful way. As I came down from the pulpit, the Chaplain of the United States Senate came to e and said, “I never experienced anything like this efore. It seemed to me that if I had opened my eyes, I ould ave fairly seen the Holy Spirit in this place to-But, while many had really entered into the blessing, some had not; and we were there dealing with inquirers for about been hours. About eleven o’clock some one came to me and said, “Do you see that young woman over on the right, with whom Miss Bertha Wright, of Ottawa, Canada, is dealing? Well, she is in great agony. Miss Wright has been dealing with her for two hours. Won’t you go over and speak to her?” I went over and stepped into the pew just back of her and leaned over and said, “What is your trouble?’ She replied, “I came from Baltimore for just one purpose, and that was that I might be baptized with the Holy Spirit, and I cannot go back to Baltimore until I am.” “Ts your will fully surrendered to God?” “I do not think it really is.” ‘“Well,” I said, “it will do no good to pray unless your will is fully surrendered to God. Will you just surrender your will right now?” She replied, “I cannot.” “Are you willing that God should lay your will down for you?” “Yes,” she replied. “Then,” I said, “ask Him to do it.” - ig She bowed her head on the back of the pew in front

[Sorat sen Th Yes, it ct It be. I have soled God for sonieiing apes to His will and I know He

has heard me and I have what I have asked (1 Jno.

5:14, 15). Yes, it is done, my will is laid down.” Then ‘T’said, .“Now ask Him for the Baptism with the Holy irit.” Again she bowed her head on the back of the

seat in front of her and prayed, “Oh God, baptize me with the Holy Spirit at now. I ask it in ae name,”

God is waiting ae pene pera to me any a you who never were baptized with the Holy Spirit before and

you LTE Te oe they

Spirit before the moment

’ somewhere and do it at once.

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