This is That
Scripture: Acts 2:16Devotional Series: The Spirit of Truth
Teaching: The Spirit Of Truth pt. 2 (WED 2021-09-15) by Pastor Star R Scott
I’ve seen it. I’ve watched Kathryn Kuhlman. I sat on the platform one night—young man, young preacher, watching everything she did. She was weird. It’s not bad to be “weird” for God. If you’re going to be weird, at least be weird for God; amen? And what I mean by weird was she patterned her ministry some after Aimee Semple McPherson, who she watched move in the power of God. And people can make fun of her or not, but the Bible says you will receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you; amen? And we’ve talked about our heritage here and how we need to know and understand that it’s for us today.
Remember this: we talked about the fallacy of the people that are teaching the doctrine of the latter rain in our generation— “There’s going to be a latter rain, there’s going to be a great spiritual revival, the church is going to be revived, signs and wonders done, people by the millions drawn in.” Would to God! But the Bible says in the last days, there will be a falling away; many will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
Let me remind you what the Bible says, and we’ve said it many times. The latter rain is spoken of in Joel. Joel spoke of this latter-day power that would come and bring that revival, that refreshing, that restoration aspect, and the interesting thing on the day of Pentecost as you read in Acts, Chapter 2, the Bible specifically says, “This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.” (Acts 2:16) Amen? If the apostles who were being filled with the Holy Spirit… Now remember, when Peter had his revelation of the sheet being laid down and went to Cornelius’s house—the Gentile, the first Gentiles to ever receive the Holy Ghost—it was forbidden for them to come and minister to the Jews at that time. But they came, and Peter told the other believers, “Listen, this is what God told me to do, and I went and did it.” Well, are you sure about that revelation? Are you sure about that word? “Let me tell you,” Peter says, “what took place. The Holy Ghost fell on them just as He fell on us in the beginning.” They’re like, “What can we say then?” Let me tell you: there’s something about the Holy Ghost falling in our midst. There’s something about a Spirit-filled people who have encountered the third person of the Trinity, God living in us; amen? We are the temple of the living God, the Scripture says. We need to allow Him to stir our hearts. The Bible says He will teach us, remind us of all things that Jesus taught.
We need to be listening in this hour, that we’re not deceived by these lying spirits and doctrines of devils, that we would be able to discern between what’s God and what’s antichrist. It’s coming. And the Bible says the majority are going to fall. There’s no reason for it to happen to us. Oh, not because we’re better than anybody else. We’re not more spiritual than anybody else. Very likely, it will happen to us and fall upon us because we’re simpler than everybody else. We just choose to read it and do it. What’s the Bible say? That’s what I’m going to do. “Well, y’know, philosophers say this, psychologists say this; we’ve taken him to psychiatrists and we think, y’know, that there’s something back, and Freudian, we dig back in—what about your mother” and all this kind of stuff. Let me tell you what it is: it’s a devil. Cast him out, praise God! Can it be that simple? Ask Jesus.
Read in the life of Jesus, how simplistically He dealt with so many things, whether it was manifesting itself physiologically or psychologically. The one man brings his kid, the demon throws him down, he’s flopping around, he goes into the fire. The Lord’s standing there, all of this going on, craziness going on, and Jesus is just standing near the father and says, “How long’s this been going on?” Kid’s over here, you know…. Most people would be panicking, “Somebody do something!” “It’s taken him since he was a child.” And Jesus cast him out. And his disciples had power to cast out demons. They came back rejoicing, when He had sent them to minister, that the demons were obeying them. He said, “Wait a minute, don’t get too caught up in this stuff; just rejoice in this, that your names are written down in heaven.” Amen? But at the same time, go out and demonstrate my power.
Remember this: we talked about the fallacy of the people that are teaching the doctrine of the latter rain in our generation— “There’s going to be a latter rain, there’s going to be a great spiritual revival, the church is going to be revived, signs and wonders done, people by the millions drawn in.” Would to God! But the Bible says in the last days, there will be a falling away; many will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.
Let me remind you what the Bible says, and we’ve said it many times. The latter rain is spoken of in Joel. Joel spoke of this latter-day power that would come and bring that revival, that refreshing, that restoration aspect, and the interesting thing on the day of Pentecost as you read in Acts, Chapter 2, the Bible specifically says, “This is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel.” (Acts 2:16) Amen? If the apostles who were being filled with the Holy Spirit… Now remember, when Peter had his revelation of the sheet being laid down and went to Cornelius’s house—the Gentile, the first Gentiles to ever receive the Holy Ghost—it was forbidden for them to come and minister to the Jews at that time. But they came, and Peter told the other believers, “Listen, this is what God told me to do, and I went and did it.” Well, are you sure about that revelation? Are you sure about that word? “Let me tell you,” Peter says, “what took place. The Holy Ghost fell on them just as He fell on us in the beginning.” They’re like, “What can we say then?” Let me tell you: there’s something about the Holy Ghost falling in our midst. There’s something about a Spirit-filled people who have encountered the third person of the Trinity, God living in us; amen? We are the temple of the living God, the Scripture says. We need to allow Him to stir our hearts. The Bible says He will teach us, remind us of all things that Jesus taught.
We need to be listening in this hour, that we’re not deceived by these lying spirits and doctrines of devils, that we would be able to discern between what’s God and what’s antichrist. It’s coming. And the Bible says the majority are going to fall. There’s no reason for it to happen to us. Oh, not because we’re better than anybody else. We’re not more spiritual than anybody else. Very likely, it will happen to us and fall upon us because we’re simpler than everybody else. We just choose to read it and do it. What’s the Bible say? That’s what I’m going to do. “Well, y’know, philosophers say this, psychologists say this; we’ve taken him to psychiatrists and we think, y’know, that there’s something back, and Freudian, we dig back in—what about your mother” and all this kind of stuff. Let me tell you what it is: it’s a devil. Cast him out, praise God! Can it be that simple? Ask Jesus.
Read in the life of Jesus, how simplistically He dealt with so many things, whether it was manifesting itself physiologically or psychologically. The one man brings his kid, the demon throws him down, he’s flopping around, he goes into the fire. The Lord’s standing there, all of this going on, craziness going on, and Jesus is just standing near the father and says, “How long’s this been going on?” Kid’s over here, you know…. Most people would be panicking, “Somebody do something!” “It’s taken him since he was a child.” And Jesus cast him out. And his disciples had power to cast out demons. They came back rejoicing, when He had sent them to minister, that the demons were obeying them. He said, “Wait a minute, don’t get too caught up in this stuff; just rejoice in this, that your names are written down in heaven.” Amen? But at the same time, go out and demonstrate my power.