The Holy Spirit In You, Guiding Your Conscience and Making Intercession For You
By Dr. Henry C. Kinley
(c) Jan.-Feb. PLIM REPORT 1993
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Dr. Kinley: Thank you ever so much. I’m always happy and glad to be here to talk with you about the purpose of God through the dispensations and ages. I want to first admit that here in the past few weeks I have been somewhat in a state of depression. I’m troubled. I’m concerned. But I don’t want to stay here overtime. We want to get out of here so another meeting can follow this. But one of the things that’s important for me to tell you is this. I know why I’m in the state and condition that I am in. I know. I understand it thoroughly. There are many reasons: some of them I could convey to your mind and could say it to you real simple and plain. You could check up on your own self and see whether I have told the truth about it or not.
You will pay for actions contrary to your conscience.
It’s just not out there. I’ve faced you up with the reality of it. Yes, I’m hurt. I’m deeply concerned about the conduct and the deportment of the people. The world is looking at them that attend this class. All of the things that come to me, I’m complaining about them. And I want to tell you this, listen to me now. If your conduct and your deportment after coming down here to this school - if it’s not the truth out there, you will have to pay for it. Paul says, “ye are epistles.” You are our epistles, read and known of all men. People are looking at you. A lot of times they get the wrong impression of you. I’m not saying they won’t, but the things that you do which you and them both know are wrong and you shouldn’t do them. I’m telling you, you’re going to have to pay for it. That’s blaspheming against the Word of God. That’s just open blaspheming. That’s all it is. You’re going to have to pay for it too. Don’t you come down here and say, “well, I know this is right down here,” and inviting somebody to come down here, then you go out there and live those kind of lies. They can’t see anything good within you at all, one way or the other. It is about time to go home, isn’t it?
Why don’t we pray from a book?
We’ve asked you to go out here and bring in the people, preachers, teachers, and Baptist preachers, Methodist preachers, and Roman Catholics. All of them out there have access to this school and we haven’t isolated or discriminated against anybody. Right? You’ve been here with me and we’ve permitted them to get up here and disagree. I don’t appreciate it if they disagree with me on something I teach. They don’t think it’s right. I don’t get any of them up here saying they agree with what I’m talking about. Here’s the reason why. Because we don’t have to try to make God be around, just like it was here. We’ve been going to Bahai meetings and I’ve been going along with you. Their custom and practice is to get up and read something out of the Bahai Book. They say, “Let’s pray.” They get up and read what they call a prayer. I said no, no sir. It’s not like that. Nobody is writing out prayers for anyone. That would sound strange to some people; because that’s been their custom all their life. That’s their teaching in the Roman Catholic Church and that’s their teaching in a lot of these churches. Here’s a nice little prayer here in the prayer book. They’re very particular about the reading of it, just like you have rituals for many other things. We disagree with the whole thing. Here’s WHY we disagree with it. It isn’t because we have a different Bible than anybody else. It’s not that. It’s not just because we want to be contrary and different from someone else. That’s not it.
The Lord’s prayer has been misinterpreted.
The reality of the thing is this - there’s always someone saying, “Well, you read over there in Matthew 6:9, the Lord’s Prayer. A divine book, says: “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” They say that’s the disciple’s prayer. I beg your pardon, that’s not the disciple’s prayer nor the Lord’s Prayer - and thy kingdom come, thy will be done. They’re talking about Him jumping down out of the sky, setting up a kingdom on earth and ruling here for a thousand years. Now that’s not the way it is.
The Lord’s Prayer is in the 17th chapter of St. John. That’s where He was when He was about to be betrayed - was out there in the Garden of Gethsemane. Great drops of sweat dropped off of Him out there in that garden. “Well, what’s He praying out there in the garden for?” You see, you have to tell me something. It’s got to become a reality to me. Why was it great drops of sweat? Why did He go in a garden? Why did He tell the disciples to tarry ye here while I go yonder and pray? What for? Until some of these things can become a reality to you, just reading doesn’t mean anything. We’ve told you time and time again anybody can get up here and read the Bible. We don’t come down here to read the Bible. You ought to have one in your own home. But now, what you got in there (the Bible) - now here, let me explain this. Here’s why I don’t believe in getting up here and reading. Yes, David, you can get a lot of prayers out of there. I’m not ARGUING with that.
The Messiah is praying today in you.
The very same one that taught the disciples to pray before He died, the very same one that prayed out there in the Garden of Gethsemane IS IN YOU, making intercession for you, sitting right there and you don’t need to read it out of a book. See that now? You are the epistles, not that (the Bible) . Maybe you don’t like that. Romans 8:25 through 26, ... the name Our Heavenly Father revealed to Moses?
In "Romeo and Juliet," act two, scene two, the great playwright Shakespeare wrote, "What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." This quote makes great let’s read it out of the Bible.
Reader: But if we hope for that which we see not,
Dr. Kinley: But if we hope for which we see not. Can’t you see something in a book? All right, read.
Reader: then do we with patience wait...
Dr. Kinley: then so we with patience wait for it.
Reader: Likewise
Dr. Kinley: LIKEWISE. Now just like that. All right, likewise, read.
Reader: the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:
Dr. Kinley: The Spirit. The Spirit. That’s not something someone wrote down, but the SPIRIT helpeth our infirmities. All right, read.
Reader: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:
Dr. Kinley: Now look, you’re standing up here reading something out of the Book. Then you turn around and you say you don’t know what we ought to pray for. If someone wrote down here what you ought to pray for, then you know it’s in the Book what you ought to pray for (then you need not have the Holy Spirit offer prayers for you). You see now? All right, read.
Reader: but the Spirit itself
Dr. Kinley: But the SPIRIT, not someone’s carnal mind, writing out something, but the SPIRIT ITSELF.
Reader: maketh intercession
Dr. Kinley: (repeats)
Reader: for us
Dr. Kinley: (repeats)
Reader: with groanings
Dr. Kinley: with groanings that cannot be uttered, to say nothing about writing them down. You get it? Let me show you what the Spirit DOES, we are not finished with that. Read on.
Reader: And he that searcheth the hearts
Dr. Kinley: (repeats)
Reader: knows what is in the mind of the Spirit,
Dr. Kinley: (repeats)
Reader: because he maketh intercession
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