Gary:
I looked again at our YouTube video of Haskell receiving the holy Ghost, the video that the hate-filled man commented on. Then I watched another video that was labeled, “Receiving the holy Ghost”, where a young girl was being blessed, along with many others. It looked like a legitimate holiness meeting, one we would love to be in, and yet the responses to that YouTube video were much more favorable than the responses to ours.
The only difference that I could see was the sound. That other YouTube video had put up the pictures of the meeting, and they were wonderful, but the actual sounds of a holiness meeting were omitted, the sounds of music, of crying and laughing, of shouting and speaking in tongues, of rejoicing, etc. Instead, lovely background music had been added, a sweet kind of folk ballad that nobody in the world would object to. It made me wonder. Is it that the world can approve of the pictures of God’s people “seeking God”, as long as the “joyful sound” is left off.
“Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound.”
jdc
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That is one reason I believe your work is so important John. You are not ashamed of the “gospel”, and we are not ashamed with you – it is the power of God unto salvation. It is our value to God’s children.
When we start hiding who we are so it will be “accepted”… When we resist being despised for what God does amongst us…. and when we stop holding on to the necessity of the holy Ghost (and its sounds, feelings, and truths), then I believe we will be replaced. It has happened many times before, even in our own lifetime.
I love to lift up what makes us “valuable” – the power of God and the holy Ghost! May He help us do it with wisdom.
Gary