© 19 Colin Melbourne Edited and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel May 1922
God’s Testimonies
“This is that.” And God wants you to have that: Nothing less than that.
He wants you to receive the Baptism in the Holy Spirit according to this original pattern.
In Acts 10 we have another witness
Peter is in the house of Cornelius.
Cornelius had had a vision of a holy angel, and had sent for Peter.
A person said to me one day, “You don’t admit that I am filled and baptised with the Holy Spirit. Why, I was ten days and ten nights on my back before the Lord and He was flooding my soul with joy.”
I said, “Praise the Lord, Sister, that was only the beginning. The disciples were tarrying that time, and they were still, and the mighty power of God fell upon them then, and the Bible tells what happened when the power fell.”
And that is just what happened in the House of Cornelius. The Holy Ghost fell on them which heard the word. Acts 10:45 KJV;
And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
What convinced these prejudiced Jews that the Holy Ghost had come? Acts 10:46 KJV;
For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.
There was no other way for them to know.
This evidence could not be contradicted.
It is the Bible evidence
If some people in this district had an angel come and talk to them as Cornelius had, they would say they were baptised!
Do not be fooled by anything. Be sure that what you receive is according to the word of God.
We have heard two witnesses, and that is sufficient to satisfy the world: But God goes one better. Let us look at Acts 19:6 KJV;
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
These Ephesians received the identical Bible evidence as the Apostles at the beginning, and they prophesied in addition.
Three times the Scriptures show us this evidence of the Baptism in the Spirit.
I do not magnify tongues. No, by God’s Grace, I magnify The Giver of tongues. And I magnify above all Him whom the Holy Ghost has come to reveal to us: The Lord Jesus Christ. And I magnify Him because He makes no difference between us and those at the beginning.
But what are tongues for?
Look at the second verse of 1 Co. 14, and you will see a very blessed truth.
O Halleluia! Have you been there beloved? I tell you God wants to take you there.
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself;
Enter into the promises of God.
It is your inheritance.
You will do more in one year if you are really filled with the Holy Ghost, than you could do in fifty years apart from Him.
I pray that you may be so filled with Him, that it will not be possible for you to move without a revival of some kind resulting.
Smith Wigglesworth, Melbourne, Australia 1922
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© 19 Colin Melbourne Edited and annotated from The Pentecostal Evangel May 1922
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