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     1. Pentecost is Loving Jesus   (24:24)
     2. More Love to Thee, O Christ   (2:06)

I Corinthians 16:22.  If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.

John 15:9.  As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

Ephesians 3:16-19.  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; ¹⁷That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, ¹⁸May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; ¹⁹And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

Pentecost really is simply a love affair between Jesus and His own.  If it isn’t that, why then it’s a farce.  If we don’t come to this place because we love Jesus and we love to meet Him and because we know He’s going to meet us, why then our meetings will soon become churchy.   And already they are becoming churchy with a lot of people. 

But I’m so thankful that when God brought me into Pentecost, He brought me into this lovership with Jesus Christ.  I didn’t see the building; I didn’t see the people, but I saw Jesus through the power of the Holy Ghost, and Jesus revealed Himself to me, and He became so wonderful—alive.  He became to me such a living lover.  Now that’s something you can’t explain, but God promises to do that for us if we want Him to.  God tells us that that’s what He sent the Holy Ghost from heaven for: to deliver us of “a form of godliness,” and to make us “alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

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We ought to pray God to make us love Jesus just for Himself more.  You’d think God would answer a prayer like that.  Well, the whole New Testament is full of it.  Do you notice how Jesus Himself pleads with His disciples?  What wonderful words He says, “As the Father hath loved Me…”  And we cannot imagine that tremendous love of the Father to the Son.  Oh, my Lord and my God, there is no love anywhere like that: “As the Father hath loved Me…”  Why, God loved Him so much that He gave Him charge of everything.  He says, “All things are delivered unto Me of My Father.”  That’s how the Father loved the Son.

And now Jesus says, “That’s how I love you—with the same love.”  Boy, that ought to make our hearts leap with joy!  It ought to wake us up, but it doesn’t.  It does not wake us up.  We’re dead; we’re really dead, or we’re rusty.  I tell you, it’s a dreadful thing to wither.

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Oh, when you love Jesus—Jesus Christ!—why, then He becomes your “All and in all.”  “The Lord is my light and my salvation.”  The Lord!  “Delight thyself also in the Lord.”  Do you think Jesus knows whether you delight yourself in Him or something else—whether you find your delight in blessings, or in some good feeling, or in yourself?  Do you think the Lord knows that you delight yourself in Him alone—that your whole heart beats only for Him: “Oh, to have Him!”  Does He know that?  Oh, I tell you He does.

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That Bible will become my textbook.  But more than that, it will be a holy love letter from my heavenly Lover.  Oh, that’s what it is.  And I don’t say, “Well, I gotta do this and that.  I guess I gotta be crucified.  Well, I guess I gotta keep my mouth shut.  Well, I guess I have to forgive her now—what a person she is!”  And goodness me, and “My husband!” and “My wife!” and so on.  But when you love Jesus, you “delight yourself in the Lord.”  You delight yourself in the law of the Lord, and you get acquainted with it, and you eat it, and it becomes “the joy and the rejoicing of your heart.”  It’s a love letter, this wonderful book.

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Many people love Jesus when He blesses them.  And when He doesn’t, then they don’t love Him anymore.  Or if He makes big people out of them, oh, how they love Jesus then!  But when He demands of them to suffer a little bit, to deny themselves for His name’s sake, to do some menial job…

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Now don’t you think it would be good for us to pray, “O God, make me love Jesus more.”  He will.  You know that wonderful prayer, “That he might grant you according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus to be strengthened with might by His spirit in the inner man.”  We look at the outer man, and we’re satisfied with that outer man.

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But listen, this is far more wonderful: to be “rooted and grounded in love, and that you might know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.”

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HRW’s early experience with Pentecostal meetings.  “There I felt at home, and it was Jesus. … Everything that happened in the meeting was Himself. … The Lord told me later that sometimes—or many times—He turned the meeting in my direction because He said, ‘You took the word.’”    (from 1:42)

An example of losing the presence of Jesus through carelessness.  “He said, ‘…Oh, I had such a sweet touch with Jesus.  And then, there was a newspaper lying on the seat in front of me, and I picked it up and I began to be interested.  And presently, that unction was gone.’… We’re so accustomed to being outward and careless that we don’t notice it anymore.”    (from 6:33)

The spirit of Christ seen in humble serving.    (from 14:14)

A young man who cleaned himself for the sake of a girl.  “He looked like a hobo…  Then one day, he came like a dude.”    (from 16:38)

A man who was proud of spiritual manifestations.  “He got so proud of manifestations, mind you, he want to the restaurant and showed them how to speak in tongues. …They shout, they speak in tongues to show off. … But oh, how different when every thought—you’re ‘strengthened with might by the Holy Ghost in the inner man.’  For what?  ‘That Christ may dwell in your heart by faith.’”    (from 19:47)

Solang’ Mein Jesus Lebt, a translation by Ernst Gebhardt (1832-1899) of the hymn While My Redeemer’s Near by Anne Steele, 1760:

A modified quote from the second stanza of O hochbeglückte Seele, a hymn by Philip Spitta, 1833.  The English version of the hymn is How Blessèd, from the Bonds of Sin.

A quote, somewhat altered, from Die rechte Liebestreue by Philip Spitta (1801–1859):

A modified quote from Mein Herz singt ein Lied, a hymn by Ernst Gebhardt (1832-1899):

Man sagt in deutsch: die Liebe ist erfinderisch. — In German one says, “love is ingenious.”

Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned, a hymn by Samuel Stennett:

Since from His bounty I receive
Such proofs of love divine,
Had I a thousand hearts to give,
Lord, they should all be Thine.

Audio Quality: Good

The right channel was clearer and had less distortion, so we selected that channel only.  Light hiss reduction was run, DeHummer 16 filter, -30dB at 58.55Hz, and compression.  A number of stutters, coughs, clicks, and pops were removed.

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