HOLY SPIRIT COME AGAIN

July 6, 2007

HOLY SPIRIT COME AGAIN

The trinity of modern day Christianity best suited to their emphasis could be described as Father, Son, and Holy Bible. A personal relationship with the Holy Ghost as a person is almost never talked about and in most cases is subtly discouraged by church leaders. When on occasion, they do teach on the Holy Spirit, the vocabulary is radically redefined.

The revolutions that have occurred in culture which have taken place in the vocabularies of technology, psychology, medicine, politics and religion have little regard for biblical truth. The terminology used in teaching on the Holy Spirit has been retranslated into a language that is foreign to that of the Holy Scriptures.

It is therefore possible for evangelical theologians to use the terminology of the Bible and historic theology, but in an entirely different sense from that intended by the writers of Scripture.

A personal encounter with the Holy Ghost has been radically redefined to diminish the expectancy of new believers to a possible warm sensation or a slightly detectable energy field.

Biblical terms that refer to the work of the Holy Spirit in Historic Christianity are redesigned in a theological framework but in direct variance with the historically accepted meanings of the terms.

A church that rejects the Holy Spirit encounter may sound as if they are in perfect agreement with those who receive the power of the Holy Ghost, while in reality they are miles apart. This language barrier of terminology has a way of replacing the manifested presence of God by establishing a false sense of unity.

The fellowship becomes nominal and frustrating because the vocabulary is in agreement but the definitions are not. Non-charismatic religion that shuns the ministry of the Holy Ghost may give the appearance of agreeing with nearly every statement the Spirit filled Christian makes but at the same time young Christians in their church’s are not taught to seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit. They don’t even know that such an encounter with God exists.

Religion may talk of God as trinity, but their concept of God is divine principles – Life, Truth and Love. Many devout Christians have a form of godliness but deny the power of God. They may be very sincere in their mental ability to serve God, but yielding to the Holy Spirit is more than surrendering ones mental concepts of serving God for reevaluation. It is to receive a baptism from heaven.

Pastor Tilson Shumate
Shekinah Fellowship

Brant Baker and Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa CA

"I remember walking into that little church, of course that was before it grew. They didn't have that patio there. They just had a little side walk and it was dirty and they had old carpets out on the dirt lot.

They had not yet expanded, it was a small chapel, and it wasn't filled. But there was something that was filling it. Some one was filling it...I walked into that little church and I begin to feel this funny feeling. It was like molasses going through the air...I saw, I touched, and I realized the reality of Almighty God."
Brant Baker speaking at a service held at the Arlington Foursquare Church, 2085 California Ave, Riverside, California.

Brant Baker first encountered the fullness of the person called the Holy Spirit at Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa CA. He desired that every single service at Shekinah Fellowship be like what he had experienced at Calvary Chapel. Filled with a person, the person of the Holy Spirit. Many a person gives testimony that they encountered the powerful presence of the Holy Spirit at a Shekinah Fellowship service.

Brant refused to walk out on the platform until he was certain that the Holy Spirit's presence had manifested in the service. The worship would continue as Brant spoke out through his microphone saying, "Worship Him, Adore Him, O how we love Him. We give you praise dear Jesus, we give You praise! Worship Him."

Brant said, "It's only to know, to yield, and to be yielded to the Third Person of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit. He is the only One that can testify of Jesus. Did you know that? I can tell you about a person, but I can't preach Christ, preach Jesus, without yielding to the Holy Spirit, that He would make Him become alive. His life touches and penetrates our lives.

I want with everything that is within me to be able to love Him with everything that is within this being...to love Him with all our heart. To love one another. Let's get back to the basics of what the Bible is talking about.

'For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son' And Jesus said, 'As the Father has sent me, so I send you.' The same way, identical, Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Assembly of God, Foursquare, everybody! Miracles happen because of the Love of God. Salvation happens because of the Love of God, it's the greatest miracle."

Update

This is a picture of pastor Tilson and Joseph. Don't they look alike? Seriously, take a close look. LOL

We have finally made contact with Anne Hume after many years of seeking for her. She told me in an email that she still has some Shekinah tapes and such. That is so cool!

She has some "studio size cassettes." The technology has changed over the years, I hope I can find someone with one of the machines used to record these originally. We need to convert them to DVD format.

She corrected me on some bad intel, apparently Brant did not pass away in Glendale but in Florida. I still don't know where his grave site is.

Happy fourth of July!
David

"It is better to do something imperfectly, then to do nothing at all."

"It is better to do something imperfectly, then to do nothing expertly."

 
Brant Baker did the best that he could.

He started a small home fellowship and eventually in a short period of time had hundreds of people involved in a healing ministry that traveled places to minister to others.

He could have just stayed at that small home fellowship.

 I wouldn't be here doing what I am doing if he had.

James 2:20
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?

My point being that if we don't cast out our nets, then nothing happens.

There is that individual human responsibility for us to act.

Luke 5:4
Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down YOUR nets for a draught.

They did that and look what happens.

The nets are so full it takes two boats to haul in the catch.

After fishing all night with no results in minutes their nets are full to capacity.

The result of this is they get the revelation that Jesus is no ordinary man.

He then tells them to follow Him and He will make them fishers of men.

There are many who came to know Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior through the net that Brant Baker cast.

What if Brant had said to himself, "I can't do it, I have deep personal problems. I am not perfectly suited to the task."

He put himself aside and he looked to Jesus and cast out his net inspite of himself.

 He didn't let his own imperfect sinful personal life cancel out his call to the ministry.

I wonder, are we doing that?

"Let down your nets for a draught..."

David

Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa Tent Revival

Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa is having a 'Tent" revival. For all of you old timers who were there when it all first begun, come on over! Here are the details...
http://www.bigtentrevival.info/