Well, we're going to look at chapter 12. I actually want to share with you concerning two of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I may not get to those two gifts. I'm going to, I think I am. But I want to spend time laying a foundation by looking at something in Scripture referred to as the baptism of the Holy Spirit, because that's really important for me to lay a foundation. So for you to understand the gifts that God has provided for us, the gifts of the Spirit of God. So let's begin reading together here in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. I'll read verses 4 through 8, and we'll get into our study. 1 Corinthians chapter 12, beginning at verse 4, reading 2 verse 8. The apostle Paul writing writes, Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. There are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit. And we'll stop there because we're going to really, as I said, give an introduction. And hopefully I'll give you some basic things related to these two gifts that he mentions in verse 8, the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge. But as we begin, I want to refresh your memory concerning a man in the Bible by the name of John the Baptist. John the Baptist was a messenger who was sent by God to prepare the way of the Lord. And we know that.  In Matthew chapter 3 verse 11, John said, I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. So John is letting us know from the beginning that the one who sends the Holy Spirit is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is what is referred to as the Holy Ghost baptizer. Now Jesus told us that in John 15 verse 26, he said, when the counselor comes whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, he will testify about me. So I want you to notice this because I'm laying a foundation for you. One, John the Baptist says, I do baptize. But I baptize with water representing repentance. There's one who comes after me. He is the one who will baptize you with the Holy Spirit. So Jesus himself says that. I will send the Spirit upon you. So the Bible makes it very clear that Jesus Christ is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the baptizer. So in order to see this how it works out in scripture, we need to turn to the book of Acts chapter one. Let's turn on Bibles there. Acts chapter one, there are those who say that the ones who baptized with the Holy Spirit were the apostles. And this baptism of the Holy Spirit that we speak about was only something that occurred in the first generation and that when the last apostle died, this particular thing that we refer to as baptism of the Holy Spirit as well as the gifts of the Holy Spirit, well, it ceased. And that doesn't occur anymore. So the reason I laid it out that John said, Jesus is the baptizer is I wanted you to see that Jesus is the one who does it. It wasn't the apostles. It is Jesus himself. And the writer of Hebrews tells us that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. Jesus is still operating, still ministering and he still is the Holy Ghost baptizer. So it wasn't the lane on of the hands of the apostles that was producing this power. It was God himself. So in Acts chapter one, verse four, Luke writes, being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise of the father which he said, you have heard from me for John truly baptized with water but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. Therefore, when they had come together they asked him saying, Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? And he said to them, it is not for you to know times or seasons which the father has put in his own authority but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in Al-Jadiyah and Samaria and to the end of the earth. So as we begin here, Jesus is speaking concerning and I want you to notice that the promise, the promise of the father is what he calls it. So he uses the word promise in describing the gift of the Holy Spirit. The word promise simply means an announcement of divine assurance for good. God has promised to give you something good. I'm assuring you that something good will happen. So the promise is God's divine assurance for good in our lives. And this promise is in reference to that which was spoken of in the Old Testament. There are a lot of scriptures I could turn you to or read or cite but I'll cite these. If you take notes, you might want to note this. 800 years before Christ, God made a promise to the nation of Israel through the prophet Joel in Joel chapter two verses 28 and 29. And afterward I will pour out my spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams which I've been doing quite a bit of lately. Your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my spirit in those days. This is a promise that Jesus is speaking about. 735 BC, Isaiah 44.3 says, I will pour water upon him who is thirsty. Floods upon the dry ground.  The promise of the Father. 586 BC, Ezekiel 36, 25 through 27. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you. You shall be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you. Cause you to walk in my statutes. You will keep my judgments and do them. 487 BC, Zechariah 1210. I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication. These are promises that relate to the Holy Spirit. Joel especially is one that is cited because on the day of Pentecost, that is a passage that the apostle Peter cites in order to show the people that the promise that has been given by God all the way back in the Old Testament, 800 years before Christ has been fulfilled even in your day. So these references that I'm speaking about here are all referring to this Holy Spirit. Jesus was speaking concerning the promise of his Holy Spirit in Luke chapter 24 verse 49 when he said, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you, but tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you're endued with power from on high. So we have something in scripture that Jesus refers to as the promise of the Holy Spirit. So here in Acts chapter one, Jesus is instructing his disciples to keep on waiting for the promise. Well, that fulfillment of the promise occurs 10 days later in what is called Pentecost. Now, when you read your Old Testament, you note that the Holy Spirit very often would descend, but the Holy Spirit would also would depart in 1st Samuel 1614. It says, the Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul. And the Psalmist in Psalm 51 verse 11 said this, he said, do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit would descend anoint, remain, and then leave. But that's not the way it is in the New Testament. You see in the New Testament, Jesus made a promise that his Spirit would remain with believers. In John 14, 16, and 17, he said, I'll ask the Father, he will give you another comforter to be with you forever, the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him because it neither sees him nor knows him, but you know him for he lives with you and will be in you. Now, here in Acts, the disciples, when Jesus is speaking, concerning this promise, that he says that you have heard of me and then goes on in verse five to say, John baptized with water, but you'll be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. It's interesting how the disciples remain kind of the way that they are, as you see them in the Gospel, asking questions that don't pertain to the context. Because Jesus is speaking here about a promise that's coming and what they ask doesn't seem to pertain to that because in verse six they said, are you going to at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? And so they're thinking that that all fits within the context of the promise, but one of the things that they didn't know at that time that is revealed because it was a mystery that is now revealed to us is they didn't see the space of time that would occur from Pentecost to the present time that is called the church age. And so all of their eschatology, the things that they knew related to last days led them to believe that things would be wrapped up quickly and that's why they're asking, are you now going to restore the kingdom to Israel? Are you going to do the work now that is promised in the Old Testament, but the Lord Jesus Christ is making it clear, listen, there's going to be a gap of time, you're going to be doing the work and that's why he says, one in verse seven he says, it's not for you to know times or seasons what the Father has put in his own authority, in other words, the secret things belong to the Lord, the things that are revealed belong to us. Don't try and find the chronology of these things, but do what you're commanded to do. What are you to do? Verse eight, you'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. You'll be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, to the end of the earth. So you've got a work to do, you've got a task to perform, it's not going to happen immediately.  So I gave them marching orders, go forth preaching the gospel, but in order to do that, you will require power. You will require the power of the Spirit of God. So God wants to, God desires to communicate in perceivable ways, but he intends to do that through us. If the Lord wanted and we know this, this would be even remarkable if he did it, but he could align the stars in heaven where we walk outside and it says Jesus saves. And that'd be it. And that'd be a pretty good sign, Jesus saves. But he didn't do that, did he? He hasn't done that, has he? He gave a remarkable sign, which is the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's what we preach. That's why we are his witnesses. What are we witnessing? His resurrection, his being our savior, the fact that he's returning for us. We are his witness. But in order to be able to be his witness, and I want you to note that he said you shall be. To be his witness requires something we don't have on our own. To be his witness requires transformation, and transformation comes through the power of the Spirit of God. So it's not enough for me, and you all know this ministry is built on teaching the Word of God. It's not enough for me to know the Word of God. I need to apply the Word of God and the promises of God. And one of the promises is the promise of the Father. And that promise of the Father is that he would baptize me in his Holy Spirit, empowering me to make me and to make us into his witnesses so that we could go out and be witnesses as we do the work of witnessing. We ought to be witnessing at all times. And when necessary, we actually explain it with words.  You're so different. What is it that made you different? What is it? And you can say the Holy Spirit of God who has rested upon me, the Holy Spirit of God who empowers me. And that's the promise that we're looking at. So he said we'd be witnesses. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who's in heaven. Matthew 5.16 tells us. Let your light shine so that you can be a witness. Now to be as witness, as mentioned, early requires power. Our lives will evidence his presence. And so that comes to the baptism of the Holy Spirit. That's a promise that was fulfilled on the day of Pentecost that is recorded in Acts chapter two. Now the Feast of Pentecost is celebrated 50 days from the first Sunday after Passover. And so that's when the baptism of the Holy Spirit occurred. Now, I mentioned a moment ago out of John 14, 16 and 17, something concerning the Holy Spirit, how he would be with you and he would be in you. There are three prepositions that are used in relation to the work of the Holy Spirit.  So the Holy Spirit will be with you because you develop communion and fellowship with the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit will be in you because at conversion you become the temple of the Spirit of God according to 1 Corinthians 316, but he also says the Holy Spirit will be upon you. That's what it's called the epi in Greek the word is epi and it speaks of him resting upon you and empowering you for the work of service. I was sharing yesterday, perhaps a few of you men may have been there yesterday at the men's conference, I don't know, but were you there?  What we did is we celebrated who Jesus Christ is. That's what we did. So when we went to church, we expected to get Bible studies, not entertainment. When we sang songs, it wasn't to make us feel good. It was because we worshiped him. When we gathered together with people, it wasn't so that we could eat pizza and say I hang around with Christians. It was so that we would encourage one another and exhort one another and pray for one another and minister to one another and teach one another. And that's what we did. That was my early days in the Lord. When I first got saved, you know, church for me wasn't the place that I went to because I had nothing else to do. It wasn't a place that I went to simply because my friends went there and were going to do something important afterwards.  And that's good because I don't feel like doing that anymore. There was a reason for all of this and it was all because I wanted to grow closer to Jesus Christ and know him and the power of his resurrection and to live for him and be transformed. It's because, like many of you, it's because my life was one filled with alcohol and drugs and a variety of things that go along with that. And I didn't want that life anymore. I didn't get to the point of sophistication where I was saying, well, you know, God's grace, he allows me to still do these things. If I'm a little depressed, God's grace allows me to drink. If I'm a little lonely, he allows me to sleep around. I didn't have that mentality. We didn't have it because we were saved out of the sewage. And yet, what is gonna keep us going strong? What's gonna keep us going strong? Just going to Bible studies and taking notes. I needed something that would amplify what I was learning from the word of God. And that was the experience of the power of God in my life. And if you were to ask me, you're not, but I'm gonna tell you anyway, if you were to ask me what is missing in a lot of believers' lives and I guess I'm at that point where I can say this with some authority. I've been walking with the Lord almost 42 years. I've been ministering for 39. So maybe I know what I'm talking about in this. I will tell you what it is. People are walking in the flesh when they think they're walking in the spirit. They're not walking in the spirit. They're yielding to temptations of the carnality of their flesh and blaming God for it.  And he wants to do that with the Holy Spirit. What has kept me solid with Jesus all these years?  But I need the power of the spirit of God because like he said, I will pour water on him who is thirsty and I'm thirsty and I want the spirit in my life. I hope you do too. I hope you do too. I think that we can get caught up saying, well, you know, it's just my flesh and I'm so weak and we can make excuses but I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. I can forsake those old ways. I can be victorious. I was sharing with the guys yesterday. You know, I got saved, a lot of us. If you knew the personal testimonies and the unspoken testimonies of a lot of the people you're aware of, we were crazy. We were. We were crazy, you know? It's the truth. And my mom told me that quite often. You're crazy. I say, yeah, takes one to no one, mama. But we were. We were crazy, crazy. My mom got mad at me. I had a friend of mine who was driving down the street. I climbed on top of the car like a living hood ornament.  And my mom was in the kitchen. I didn't realize she was looking out the window and she hit the window so hard and I came in and she, you are crazy. What is wrong with you? And I said, I don't know what you're so upset about. We're just having a good time.  But I didn't. Here I am. What do you, that's the way I thought. I didn't, you know, I didn't think, I didn't think about anything like that. I didn't think anything about taking five breads and drinking almost a half gallon of wine. I didn't think of those things. I didn't worry about those things. Who cares? Life is short. Enjoy yourself. Do what you want. Doesn't matter. So God grabs hold of your life and then you realize I was crazy. I was crazy. And now I'm in my right mind like that man in the, from the gatherings. When Jesus ministered to him and delivered him, there he was seated in his right mind. And what is it that Jesus said to do? Cause he said, I want to go with you. And Jesus said, no, you go back and you tell your friends or family, tell everybody great things that God has done for you.  Let them know. How are you going to be a witness? The power of the Holy spirit. The power of the Holy spirit. Jesus said, you will be witnesses to be. After that, you have received this Holy spirit, this promise of the father. We really need the work of the Holy spirit. When he speaks concerning power and said, you shall receive power. The word power in the original language, as you all know, is the word dunamis. It's the root word in the Greek for the word dynamic. It's also the word that is used for dynamite.  So we want to be dynamic. The Holy spirit produces a dynamism in us, a power in us, a strength in us as he comes upon us. Somebody says, I want this Holy spirit, baptism. How does that work? Well, when I first got saved, I went to a little Pentecostal church in Long Beach. And there was a revival going on. The church didn't seat more than 150 people, very small little building there. And they had an evangelist. He had, I've said this, many of you have heard this before, but he had a set of drums at the platform, at the base of the platform. And he was kind of a husky guy. It looks like he came from a kind of a rowdy background. He had a big old pompadour. I still remember this guy. And he would be shouting in the microphone. And then he would start playing the drums. Then he'd get back on the stage and shout some more. I'm a brand new Christian. I'm thinking this is normal. Remember, I was crazy. This is normal. Before you know it, we're marching around the church behind a church flag, singing songs. I mean, it was crazy. But that's what we were doing.  And so I wanted what God could do in my life. I wanted more of God. I was a new Christian. I was a couple of weeks old, three weeks old Lord. And I went and out there at the rail. I still remember doing that. And he was shouting, and people were yelling, and they were crying and grabbing hold of the door posts and shaking. It was just an amazingly out of order meeting. And I'm kneeling there, and I knelt there for 45 minutes, begging and crying and pleading. And I've got these other guys kind of like sitting on their heels. But see, I was raised a Catholic. So I could kneel out, kneel any Protestant any day of the week. So I was just kneeling there. And I stayed all kneeling like that. I still remember that. Jesus, come upon me. Jesus, come upon me. Please, Jesus, come upon me. I need you, oh God, I need you. I was begging. I was pleading. I was shouting with everybody else.  And I'm standing in line, and I'm thinking, nothing happened. Nothing happened. How can I disappoint these people? I'd like to lie, but I'm a Christian. I can't lie. I'm in church. Nothing. God, give me wisdom. I don't know what to say. Nothing happened. And people would come behind that mic and say things. And you'd look out at the people, and they'd all kind of smile. And then it was my turn. I'll never forget this. I'm standing here. And I look out at them, and they're looking back at me. And I say, I really can't put into words what I just went through. That was true. And the people looked back at me and nodded their head like, yeah, nothing happened to me either.  But I thought that's how it works. I thought, you're supposed to plead. You're supposed to cry. You're supposed to beg. You're supposed to make promises. You're supposed to tarry your. Jesus said this in Luke chapter 11, verses 11 through 13. If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? If he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him? I don't have to beg. I don't have to plead. I don't have to cry. I don't have to tarry. But I do have to ask. Lord, for your glory, not so I can be known and not so I can have some spiritual experience to boast about.  Would you fill me? You have promised that you would. Would you be good to your word to me? You see, in Acts 532, we read, we are his witnesses to these things. And so also is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.  What is missing in many lives today, and I say this again, is the power of the Spirit. I think that many people have substituted Bible knowledge, being able to quote scriptures and speak about certain things with certainty, but they're still dry in their lives. They're still dry. There's still something that's missing within them. What is it? It's the power of the Holy Spirit. God wants to work in you. I say that on the authority of God's word.  And if you've never had that experience, he wants you to have it.  You see, in church life, sometimes pastors substitute things for the presence of God. As something I pray, and I seek the Lord about all the time, whenever we have events here, it's not so we can fill the place. By the way, you need to hear that from me. It's not to fill the place. We say, oh, the place is filled. I'm real careful with that. The Lord a long time ago, and you don't hear that from me, by the way. Think about it. I don't play that, because that's, to me, not a proof of anything. You can fill buildings with entertainment, and so that doesn't prove anything to me. What I want is for our people to be filled with God. That's what I want, not buildings filled with people, but people filled with God. That's really what I want. So when we have heavenies here, it's to give people an opportunity to hear about the glorious work of Jesus Christ. When we had our last week event, it wasn't all about us. Unfortunately, one of the people who were serving that night, ministering that night, said, this is all about you, and we're here for you. No, it's not. I am the host, and that's the guest, and I'm not going to get up and embarrass the guest. But let me say it openly to you. It isn't about us. It's about him. And when I was looking at that banner, and it says the event on it, I was looking above that banner, which says, we would see Jesus. Because that's really what this ministry is all about. I hope you understand and know that, because sometimes people will think, oh, pastor just wants to fill the place. No, I don't. I don't just want to fill the place. I want to fill the people. I want them to have the Spirit of God so they can leave walking in his steps so they can have an influence in their families, in schools, in neighborhoods, in job sites. So it's all about him. It always has been all about him. It's not about filling pews. What I want is to walk in the power of the Spirit of God. What has kept me solid with Christ for these years? The power of the Holy Spirit. Has he always had freedom to work in my life? No, I have quenched him, grieved him many, many times. And I think that it's a natural habit of the natural man to do so. But there's a longing for all of him to have all of me. And Jesus said it, you shall receive power. After that, the Holy Spirit has come upon you. If your Christian life is boring, it's not God who is boring. There's something wrong with you. There's something wrong with you. And I'm not saying that as one who's like so perfect. I'm only half perfect, mostly perfect. I'm just speaking with experience. I'm just speaking from experience. When have I become dry? Is it because he made me dry? No, he said I will pour my Spirit upon you. So was it his fault that I'm dry? It's my fault because I'm quenching the Spirit. I'm clogging the line that God wants to be pouring his works into my life. And so that's why to me this is a very important subject because I want you all to walk out tonight saying, I want more of Jesus Christ. I want more of him because that is what's going to give you the strength to live for the Lord and to serve him. So we are intended by the Lord to represent him on the earth. So when he pours his Holy Spirit upon us and we receive by faith this Holy Spirit experience. And by the way, I should say this too. There are some people who think that when the Holy Spirit comes upon them that they're going to have Holy Ghost goose bumps. There's going to be some kind of electrical thing that goes on.  I've been around that. So have you perhaps. I've been around that. There's a group of people called Holy Rollers. You've heard the term Holy Rollers. How many have you heard the term? Am I speaking to anybody who knows? How many of you have seen Holy Rollers? Raise your hand. OK, Trippy, huh? Yeah, yeah. They really do.  And I've seen that, you know? And mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. Nope. Jesus doesn't make me do that. If I need the floor dusted, I don't need to bring some guy in to dust it, you know? I can just get a duster. And I've seen that.  The Holy Spirit comes upon you to make you more like Jesus Christ, who is not freaky and weird. I mean, do you think that when Jesus preached that suddenly he would just stop, his eyes would kind of roll in the back of his head, and he'd just go, and speaking King James? I don't think so. But a lot of times, you get the impression when you see someone who's saying, no, the Spirit is a pot bae.  I don't get it. Because Jesus is normal. He's normal. We're not. And so when the Holy Spirit works upon us, sometimes we may attribute to him weirdness, when in reality he's trying to take that out of us.  I should be serious, but sometimes I make myself laugh, and then I get carried away. And that's it. Let's get serious again. I really do want you to be filled with the Holy Spirit. And if you haven't been, tonight's tonight. But I will tell you this, as we go back to 1 Corinthians, I'll show you a couple of things here, chapter 12. In order for me to be exercising these gifts, the Holy Spirit's working in my life, and the gifts of the Spirit are going to be connected. And so with the power, we'll come to bestowing of spiritual gifts. And he begins to speak about that. In verse 4 of 1 Corinthians chapter 12, he says, there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. There are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all. So he begins to speak concerning the diversities of gifts. Notice how he said it. There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. Diversity speaks of a distinction arising from a different distribution to different people. In other words, there are various gifts that God gives, because the body of Christ is made up of many members, and therefore God gifts each member in an individual way. And you'll see this a little clearer in just a moment. But there are various kinds of gifts that are necessary for the body to function. And in this particular passage, he actually lists nine spiritual gifts. Now, this isn't the only place in Scripture that you see gifts of the Spirit mentioned, but this is a portion of Scripture that he takes time to give to them an explanation concerning nine of those gifts. And so one, he says there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. Verse five, there are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. There's a variety of applications of the gift of the Spirit, differences of ministries. So when God is moving through the spiritual gifts, the body of Christ is enabled to function in a healthy fashion. Right now, there are gifts of the Spirit being in operation as I'm doing what I'm doing, but there are Sunday school ministers who are teaching also and there's worship that takes place. There's a variety of gifts that are at play in any time the church is together. And so there are differences of ministries. But he goes on to say in verse six, there are diversities of activities. Now the diversities of activities speaks of the effect of the operation of the gifts of the Spirit. Now all of the effects are produced by the power of God, but they can be exercised through different people in a different way. God is sovereignly controlling what is occurring through his gifts and he works differently in each one of us. For example, we saw this yesterday and you see this all the time when the church gets together, you can have people who are exercising the same basic gifts. And so we have a men's conference, there are 12 speakers, each one of them is there to teach. But all of us are different in the way that we teach. You have Pastor Chuck Smith who comes up and when Chuck teaches, he teaches in a certain way. He's teaching the word of God, but he teaches in a certain way. You get Poncho who comes up, he's teaching, but his personality is different than Chuck, his illustrations will be different. Things that he sees in the passage that are biblically solid and are there will be presented differently because that's how Poncho teaches. You see that with every teacher. And so somebody may say, I have the gift of teaching, but that doesn't mean that it will be identical. You know, John MacArthur is a teacher, Chuck Swindall is a teacher, David Jeremiah is a teacher, Chuck Smith is a teacher, Raul Reese is a teacher, we're all teachers, but we have different ways that we teach. That's all part of the gifts of the Holy Spirit because the body of Christ is made up of various components and so one of the worst things that I could fall prey to and you could fall prey to is thinking that if I'm gonna be a teacher of the word, then I have to teach like that person up there is teaching right now and that's not true at all. Nobody can teach like John Corson except John Corson. You know, he's got a unique ministry. So for me to try to become a John Corson would just not be true to the gifting that God gave to me. When I do pastors classes, I'll tell the young men who want to be pastors never use me as your example. You shouldn't use me as your example. You by the grace of God have a gift that is unique to yourself. So use your gifts the way that your gifts operate and don't try to become somebody else because have you ever wanted to be somebody else? If you have, have you ever stopped to think that if you were identical to somebody else, then one of you isn't necessary? So we need both of you. We need what God is doing in you and you teach this way and you see this in the passage is biblically solid. You've rightly divided the word, the application comes from your heart. But that's how it works in the gifts of the spirit. What you do is you seek the Lord. You see when our church first began, I'd already been teaching, I've been teaching the word for eight years when this church began. I already had developed my own style. But when we began and called ourselves Calvary Chapel, I started thinking, oh, what am I supposed to teach like? Should I try to teach like Pastor Chuck? And I thought, no, there's only one Pastor Chuck. Should I try to teach like Greg Lori? No, there's only one Greg Lori. Should I try to teach like Raul?  It's neat.  And that's how it works. And so the ministry, the activities of the spirit work differently in each individual. But I want you to notice verse seven where it says the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one notice for the profit of all. To bear or bring together to help for the benefit of others, not ourselves alone is what the word profit means. Which is another way of Paul saying, there are absolutely no superstars in the body of Christ. Because the gift of the Holy Spirit and the gifting of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the spirit are intended to build up the body and not to elevate people to superstardom. They are not intended to draw attention to the one exercising the gifts at all. But when the Holy Spirit is in operation, he is drawing people to Jesus Christ. John 15, 26 says, when the comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he shall testify of me. Whenever you see the gifts of the Holy Spirit in operation and you might be in a place where the gifts are really manifest and they're very welcome and you may see somebody who seems to have a certain spiritual gift and you can actually become enamored by that person and begin to wanna be like that person, to speak like that person, to act like that person. And you might even go to that person for all kinds of advice and direction because you think that God is moving especially in that person and God's word would say the opposite. He says, the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. It is never just to lift one person up and then he begins to give this partial list of spiritual gifts. I'll give you two basically and it's really time for me to stop. Let me ask the pastor what he thinks. Do you think you should stop? No, it's okay. All right. Word of wisdom, word of knowledge. I'll just touch on these things. Word of wisdom. What is a word of wisdom? Word of wisdom is an insight that comes directly from God. It's an insight that comes directly from God. Jesus exercised words of wisdom quite often. I mean, there are so many examples. You can see one time when they approached the Lord Jesus Christ and they said to him, the baptism of John, was it from men or was it of God? And you remember what the Lord did at that point? He exercised this wisdom. He said, bring a coin to me and whose superscription and image is this on the coin? Well, that's Caesar's. Well, then render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar and unto God the things that belong to God. That was wisdom that he used because as he did that, they didn't have a word to say about it. And so he'll give you that supernatural wisdom in different experiences. John's baptism, was it from heaven or was it from men? Well, Jesus has a word of wisdom. Well, he says, well, you tell me something and as he's speaking concerning John's baptism, they begin to debate amongst themselves. Listen, if we say that John's baptism was from God, he's gonna ask us, why didn't you believe him? If we say it's from men, well, we fear the people because they all perceive John to be a prophet and so they turn to Jesus and they say, well, we won't answer you. And Jesus says at that time, neither will I answer you or Paul is there before the council and he had been preaching, people were upset and he's preaching and as he's standing there, he's about to be tried and they wanna do him great harm and so the scripture says that he perceiving that there was a large portion of people there who were Pharisees and there was a large portion who were Sadducees and knowing that the Sadducees don't believe in spirits and they don't believe in heaven and things of that nature and the resurrection, he says, men and brethren, I'm a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee and it's the question of the resurrection that has brought me before you today and what happens? They begin to argue amongst themselves to the point of distraction. The Lord gave him the wisdom at that time in order that he might be removed from that situation. So the word of wisdom is when you have a wise answer that you don't necessarily come up with but it's one of those things that is given to you at that moment. It's not something that is simply originating from outside circumstances, it's something that originates from within and there are times that you will have that wise answer to give at that moment. The word of knowledge is not a natural ability to study, gain degrees, it's not ordinary knowledge and the ordinary acquisition of that. It's not even the ability to study the Bible and understand it, that is something that is given to all believers by the Holy Spirit. The word of knowledge refers to a knowledge that is beyond our normal way of finding things out. So you have a Samaritan woman approach the Lord Jesus Christ and Jesus initiates a conversation with her and as he begins to speak to her he speaks concerning water and if he wanted some water that means that you'd never have to come and draw water up again. You would have asked me and I would have given it to you and she says, well then give me this water so I don't have to draw anymore. And what is it that Jesus says to her?   How did he know that this woman was an immoral woman? Well, there are some obvious cultural things that could have been hints of it. She's there at noon, women didn't go at noon there because it was the heat of the day. But the Lord was speaking to her heart. He had a knowledge that this was a woman who was living immorally because she says, I have no husband. He says, well, in this you've spoken truly you've had five and the one you're living with right now is not your husband. It's the word of knowledge. Who ratted me out? There's nobody there, just this Jewish man and this woman. It's a word of knowledge. And that happens. Jesus is with his disciples. They're in Caesarea Philippi. And as they're seated there, Jesus asks the question, who do men say that I, the son of man, am? Well, some say that you're Jeremiah, Elijah, John the Baptist, one of the prophets. Who do you say that I am? And the apostle Peter responds, thou art the Christ, the son of the living God.  It's knowledge. That was a moment of knowledge, something he didn't know that was handed to him at that moment. Even he was able to do that. Ananias and Sapphira in Acts chapter five, make an agreement to sell a parcel of land but not deliver up the full price and pretend that they had given it all. And so when this takes place, the Holy Spirit reveals that they're lying.  You haven't lied to men, but you've lied to God. How did he know that? How did he know that they had made an agreement to do that? And that's a knowledge, a supernatural knowledge. There are times from a practical experiential level that the Lord has given me knowledge that is supernatural. It's from him. It's happened in counseling where I'll say something. It can happen in teaching situation where I use an illustration. And I've had people come up more than once and say, you really shouldn't have said that because that's what my son's doing right now and he thinks that I told you. So next time don't say that. I didn't know. But it was the Lord giving me that at that moment to say this. I was in my house many years ago, over 30, about 31 years ago, over 31 years because I was an assistant and not even pastor in this church yet. And I had a young woman who was seated across the table from me. And while we were talking and she had come to visit us at our house and as she was talking to me, the Holy Spirit spoke to my heart and said, this young woman's involved in lesbianism. I'll never forget that. And I'm looking at her and I'm thinking, no, I've known her for a while. There's no way. Boy, what's wrong with you? I'm telling myself, what's wrong with you? How could you think that? This woman's a lesbian. The next day, I'm in my office. I make a phone call to this young lady. I'd like to see you if I may. Could you come in? Why? I said, I just need to talk to you. Can you come in? Yes, I'll be there. I'll never forget this.  Last night when I was speaking to you at our house, yeah.  Are you? She goes, I'll never forget this. She goes, well, if he told you I am, what can I say? And I said, that's not answering my question. I asked you if you're a lesbian and she said, yes, she'd been hiding it. Nobody knew. There was no way I was gonna know that. How would I know that? Why would I even want to know that? But the Holy Spirit wanted to set her free from the bondage of her sin and he does that. He doesn't give you knowledge so you can get on the prayer chain and share it with everybody. Here's the secret you need to know. God just gave it to me. Look out for it so that people can be set free. And so a word of wisdom, when God gives you that, is the ability to have a wise answer and direction in a moment when the Lord is speaking to you this answer. A word of knowledge is when God reveals to you something that supernaturally is given to you that you under ordinary circumstances wouldn't have known. This is not unusual, by the way. This is something that comes from the Spirit because God wants to set people free. How do you respond when a word of knowledge or a word of wisdom is given to you? If it's something that God really is revealing, the wisest thing to do is to act upon it so that you can be set free because that's how it works. We'll stop here, we'll pick up next time, looking at other gifts of the Spirit.


A fiery horse with a speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty high old silver, the Lone Ranger. The western United States where only strong men could face the hardships of the frontier and only the brave could meet the dangers of hostile Indians and outlaws. There was no one who could match the strength and courage of the masked rat of the plains. Daring and resourceful, tireless in the fight for law and order, the stories of his adventures have been handed down through the generations and he remains the greatest champion of justice the West ever knew. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoof beats of the great horse Silver, the Lone Ranger rides again. Hello! Dr. Seitz studied his patient for a moment, then pushing back his chair walked to the window and he drummed, pale and anxious, watched him. Twice he licked his dry lips before he was able to speak. Doc, can you tell anything? Yes, Andy, I'm afraid I can. Your condition is clear enough to any qualified man of medicine. I won't go into a technical discussion of what's wrong because you wouldn't understand me. You're not interested in long words, you're interested in learning the truth about yourself. That's it, Doc. How long have you been suffering from these cramps? Almost a month. In spite of the medicine I gave you? Yeah. That simply makes my diagnosis more certain. Is it going to cost me much to get well again, Doc? Is it? You know, ain't got much. There's a family to feed and the bad breaks I've been having these past couple of years. I couldn't afford too much. It will cost you almost nothing. Thank heaven for that. Continue with the medicine I've given you. It won't cure your illness, but it will alleviate the pain. Then what will cure it, Doc? Nothing. What? Are you strong enough to hear the truth? Tell me, Doc. Tell me. You've got to tell me the truth. Andy. Huh? If there's anything you should do before you go, do it now. I don't like this. For inside a month, you'll be dead. Huh? Oh. Oh, hello, honey. Get the young ones to sleep? Yes. Where's Bill? Still out. Honey, the kid can't stay home for an evening once in a while. Andy, wait. Huh? Andy, if I asked you a question, will you be frank with me? Why? I ain't, I always... I just asked. Sit down a minute. Andy, what's wrong? Wrong? Wrong? Now, what's done to put that notion in your head? What made you think anything was? The way you've been acting. Huh? Me? I've noticed it all evening. I've noticed it's ever since you come back from town. Oh, sure. You called on Dr. Seitz, didn't you? Sure, but then... Is there anything he told you, Andy? Was it? Oh, honey, where'd you get notions like that? Well, maybe I'm a bit tired. I've been working pretty hard. And you know yourself, I'm always worried about where I'm going to get my hands on some cash, but then... What did the doctor say? About my feeling bad? Yes.  What was it?  Said there wasn't anything wrong with me at all. Except maybe I eat a bit more and it's good for me every once in a while. That's what he said, honey. Just laughed at me. That's what he did. You are telling me the truth, Andy. Well, of course I am. If I was Alan, wouldn't I be having you running around making a fuss over me? Oh. You can just bet I would. I ain't the fellow to overlook a chance like that. And it's just money you're worrying about? That's it. Oh, Andy, I'm so glad. Huh? Oh, it'd be nice to have money again, of course. It'd be fine to know that when the children grew up, we could give them a proper start. And if we wanted to, we could always get the things we need, but... But what, sir? Well, it's so much better for us all to have our good health and to be rich that... Well, money just doesn't seem to matter much. Andy, who could that be? It's a funny time of night for anyone to call. I don't know. We'll soon find out. Who's there? Hey, Andy. Hope's at work. Oh, hello, Hope. Howdy. What you doing out this way this time of night? Come on in. Thanks, Andy. Evening, Miss Drummond. Good evening. Won't you have a chair, Hope? What can I do for you? Well, I... Miss Drummond wouldn't mind. Hope, you want to speak to Andy at home, don't you, Mr. Jafflin? Of course, I don't mind. That's mighty kind, ma'am. I'll be in the kitchen, Andy. All right. What is it, Hope? Got something on your mind? Andy, I have. Of course. I first want to make something clear. I don't want you to think that Doc was telling anything out of school. See, this afternoon I was to his office and waiting for you to get through. And, uh... Well, Andy, I just couldn't help over here in what Doc told you. Oh, golly. And I want you to know that I'm mighty sorry. Mighty sorry. You ain't told nobody, have you? Andy, what you think I am? Well, if Sarah or the kids was ever to find it out, I don't know if he... Oh, you needn't worry about me. You can take my word for it. What I happen to find out by accident is just between you and me. I ain't breathing it to nobody.  Thanks, Shucks. That's all right. But you started to say... Oh, yeah, yeah. Andy, you're in pretty tough shape, ain't ya? Money? Yeah. Hope, outside of what this here house would bring. But sure wouldn't be much. I couldn't raise a dollar. You know about me having to sell the last of my beef, I suppose. And? Well, you don't hold open range unless you run steers on it. I can't. I recommend neighbors will be moving in on it most any day. That's too bad. Can't be helped. It'd be pretty nice to know that when you was gone, your family was provided for her. Wouldn't it, Andy? It sure would, but... Hey, you mean something to that Hope? What you getting at? I did mean something by it. What? And if you were to see things my way, Andy, you could... You could go knowing your family was took care of. Make this month easier, fella.  You mean... That if you do something for me, I'll do something for you. What? I'll put $10,000 cash in the bank and credit it to you. It'll be your family's when you're gone. $10,000? That's a sight of cash, Andy. I know it. But for that $10,000, you'll sell me something. Huh? What if I got left to sell? That'd be worth $10,000 to anybody. I can tell you, Andy. Yeah?  We'll start with that ranch house ahead of us there, Santa. How do you feel now? Me? Me feel pretty bad. I'm sorry, Kimosami. It's the infection that's set in. I know that we can. But time and nature will have to do the rest. At least... What do you think? At least, Tata, you have the satisfaction of knowing that you've sent the man who gave you that wound to the rope. That's right. Rain up. Who? Who, Silver? Who's got it? Can I help you down, Tata? Me all right. Me not need help. Well, we're going to make camp just as soon as possible. Then you're going to get some rest. Come. I hope my mask won't alarm the people who live here. Surely they won't refuse the supplies when we offer them money. I hear someone moving about inside. The place isn't empty. Perhaps they... Oh. No, Mary. You can't go outside. The youngsters seem to think that they... Oh... Oh, your mask. Wait. Don't close the door. We're not out of clothes. We need supplies. We'll pay for them. Here. We should show you that. We'll pay. If you're not an outlaw, why are you a mask? Well, that doesn't matter. I want to get... Oh. What is it? Your friend. He's hurt. Yes. My land sakes the way he looks. He must be in terrible pain. Me. Me all right. He wouldn't get tired to admit it if he were being tortured. Why aren't you doing anything for him? He'll have an opportunity to rest soon. That's all that can be done. Nonsense. That's all he... You just wait right there and I'll be right back. Sally, where'd you put your father's medicine? You go get it for him. I heard just like woman there. This way to their sympathies is through suffering, Tanner. The way she spoke at first, I doubt that she would have listened to us for a moment. If she hadn't caught sight of your wound... I don't know what this medicine is. She spoke of it, but if it doesn't help, it most likely won't do you any harm. Every ranch house has its cupboards full of patent medicines of one kind or another. I hear y'all. I poured some in a cup and mixed it with water just like the doctor told my husband to do. Now, you think it's right down there? Me. No drinking. Thank you. That's all right. What's the medicine supposed to do?  My husband swears by. He gets it from Dr. Seitz. I see. Here. Here cup. Finished already? It didn't take you long. Wasn't so bad after all, was it? Now, what supplies did you say you needed? Bacon, flour, and whatever you can spare. If you'll excuse me again, I'll see what I can find. Oh. Tanner. Me. Be all right. All right. Tanner, you're sick. What is it? What's wrong? Come inside. My friend seriously ill. Andy, have a seat. Thanks. Where have you been? I was looking for you yesterday. I couldn't make it, Hope. Oh, no. In the morning, the fella stopped by with a red skin. The red skin was took sick and we let him in the house. Didn't want to come to town, leave Sarah alone there. It was strange. Oh. Still there? No, cleared out last night.  Decided yet what you're going to do?  You're the same as suicide.  You scared a cash in a little earlier than you would anyhow. Well, I ain't urging to take on this job, Andy. Only remember this. You know what the doc told you? In the end, it's going to be all the same. But if you do this for me, your family's going to be left with nothing to worry about. And if you don't, then they're going to be in a right bad spot. I know. I've thought all that out. And I reckon I'll take you up. But I want to get this straight. Get what straight? About the mine. You're going to lower me down the shaft. Then I'll have to crawl about a hundred yards into the tunnel, huh? That's right. I take blast and powder and fuse with me. I set the powder where you say. And then you'll have about one chance and a thousand to get out again. Maybe you can do it. I don't know. But anyhow, what difference does it make? None, I reckon. But how come you want to blast? Well, when we had that cave in a year ago, we lost the vein. The only way it can be uncovered again is by blasting at just that particular point. Can I get as far into the tunnel as you want? I think you can. Only it won't be easy. It's pretty well filled in. Now you'll have to make it by crawling. There'll be timbers to get around and you'll likely be laying in water most of the time. But I've investigated some and it can be done.  Can't blame them for dodging it, can you? No, but I reckon not. Well, ten thousand, you said? Ten thousand. Then I'll tell you what? Huh? Put that cash in the bank for me. Yeah. And I'm your man. The curtain falls on the first act of our Lone Ranger story. Before the next exciting scenes, please permit us to pause for just a few moments. Now to continue our story. Unknown to Andy Drummond and Hope Chapman, the Lone Ranger had been outside Hope's office listening to their conversation. Afterwards, he raced out of town. He did not draw rain until he had reached a well-hidden camp where Taunta was waiting. Oh, hold this a little bit. Oh, boy. Taunta, how are you feeling? Well, me. Me feel good. All over that attack you had yesterday? Uh-huh. And there's no doubt it was caused by that so-called medicine you were given at the ranch house. It poisoned. If not poisoned, certainly something designed to make a man feel ill. Uh-huh. And my suspicions were correct. What do you find out? Someone's playing a game on Andy. I thought as much when I learned his symptoms were identical with yours. Uh-huh.  Not bad. He's been given that medicine, presumably, to make him feel better. And all the time, it's actually making him feel worse. And that's what Taunta think. That means that the doctor in town and Hope Chapman are working together. The one has persuaded Andy that he has no hope of living. And the other has taken advantage of the situation to persuade Andy to sacrifice his life. What we do? There's money involved in this kimosabe. Money that Andy and his family badly need. Uh-huh. We're going to make sure he gets that money. That's good. And then we're going to see that Hope and Dr. Seitz get the punishment they deserve. But come in here. Sure, boss. I need you. This is Doc Seitz. I reckon you two are acquainted. Yeah. Wait a minute. Well, I think you know something or what we've been planning. Figuring on a way to open up the mine again, aren't you? Yeah. And if it works, I reckon you're savvy what it means to you. You'll be in charge. You'll have a regular job again. I can use one. Yeah, I thought so. And if the mine is opened, uh, you ain't going to worry too much about what happens to anybody else on the count of it, are you?  Well, then you'd better know how this is going to be done. Go ahead. I'm listening. There's no use going into how or when, but Doc here's convinced Andy Drummond he ain't got long to live. Hmm. Well, Doc... And that being the case, he said he'll be willing to plant the powder. I'm to pay him $10,000. Say, for that much cash, I'd do it myself. So at home? Huh? Then what he... Oh, Andy isn't going to keep that cash. He just thinks he is. I've got it here and folding money. Now, Andy's to call for it most any minute now, so I've got to talk fast. When he gets here, Buck, I'm going to give it to him. But when he leaves, you'll follow without his knowing. Watch what he does. Find where this cash is hid. Then later you can tell me where. I get it.  Just so. But what's Andy going to say to that? Won't he be suspicious? Nope. Andy's going to crawl into that tunnel and plant the powder.  You see, Buck, we'll have one end of the fuse above the ground. When the powder's set, we light it. Andy won't have a chance. Well, I'll be... Boss, that's slick. Andy will never be able to clean nothing. And, naturally, he hasn't told his family about this affair. You'll steal the cash back. And nothing can be proved. The mine's open and we'll all be sitting pretty. I'm taking care of Doc here, and you'll have your job and a bonus besides. And I'll be taking out ore by the carload again. Now, how's that sound? Swell. Very fine, but... But what?  Here comes Andy now. There he is, all right. Want me to leave, boy? Oh, stay here. It doesn't matter. Come in. Come in, Andy. Come in. Oh, my niece, fellas, Andy, they all understand the circumstances. And here's your money. Take it. Take it home and put it somewhere else. It'll be safe. This is my defining, you hope. Oh, not at all, Andy. Not at all. And the rest? The sooner the better. Go home and do what you want with that cash and then get back here just as fast as you can. We'll be waiting. We've got the powder, the fuse, and everything we need. We'll start for the mine at once. All right. I will take longer than an hour. Goodbye. Goodbye, Andy. Buck. Yeah? Follow that ombre. Steady, Silver. There goes Andy Tunder. Who's that fellow behind him? I don't know him. It seems to me I've seen him hanging around Hobes' office. He's certainly taken pains to see to it that Andy doesn't catch sight of him. Come, Tutter. Hobes sent that fellow to spy on Andy. He'll find that two can play at that game. Come on, Silver. Easy, old fellow. Get him up to town.  Andy, don't be so foolish. The way you're acting, the body thinks you're expecting to be away from home a year. Come on and write back again, aren't you? Yeah. Then don't make so much fuss about it. I'm with you now. I've got my cooking to look after. Well, goodbye then, honey. Goodbye, and don't forget to stop in the store on your way back. Yeah, I'll stop. Then go on, Andy. Go on. At this rate, you won't be home till dark. Go on with you now. But I...Dog on, I couldn't tell her. I just couldn't. Get up, fella. Get up there. She wouldn't understand. She wouldn't stand for it for a minute. But the kids...got to leave them something to live on. Maybe someday they'll know. Maybe someday... Andy, pull up. Whoa, whoa there. Whoa, whoa. Follow me. The mask man. You and I are going to have a talk. Hey, hold on. I can't. I've got to get to town. It's important to tell you. Now this won't take long. You can join them later. Let's go. Come on, Silver. Look on my right. Hurry up. That edge has changed his mind. Hold it, Hope. Hold it. He'll be along. Don't get so impatient. Yeah, but it's getting dark. That's all the better. He's an hour late already. I would have been late less than he'd got to thinking things over.   The man has to say goodbye to his family. They don't know it, but he'll never be back. Can't you realize what that must mean to him? Yeah, I suppose. Naturally, he's late. He isn't finding it easy. He'll be here. I know the fella. There you see. Now you're hollering over nothing. That Andy? That's the horse he rides, isn't it? All right. Sure, sure it's him. Hi there. Get a move on. I'm sorry about holding you out. Never mind your excuses. You still holding to your bargain? Oh, sure. Then lay leather that horse you're riding. We've got to make time. Get up, boy. Get up there.  Well, here's a shout-out. Ain't much light left, but you can still see down it. You've got the fuse and powder, Doc. Bring them along. Sure. You see this rope, Andy? Now you'll tie it around your middle. We'll lower you on it and pull you up again the same way so you can get out again. All right. Now we'll keep one end of the rope and one end of the fuse up here.  That'll mean the powder's planted and you're ready to try getting back. I'll remember. We won't light the fuse until you're either up here again and we know for sure you can't make it. You got everything, Doc? Here you are. That's the rope tied, Andy? Yeah. There. Yeah, it's tied. Then take this stuff and climb on over. Oh, I haven't felt any pressure on this rope for the last five minutes. You think he even got there? He must have.  Oh. It's plenty to get him there. More than plenty. He's likely planting a powder right now. Uh-huh. He'll be giving us a signal in a second. I suppose.  This will, this spot will be blown to glory. Now, there's a little cave down the side of the hill and we'll get in there. We can... You wait. What? The rope is jerking. Isn't that the signal? Like that match. Just a second. Hold the fuse steady. I am. Catch. Wait. There it is. Come on. Get moving. Hurry. In here. Quick. Why doesn't it go off? It will. But why? Just wait. There she goes. Back to the mine. Come on. It should have blown the whole thing clear. It did. You wait and see. It's pretty dark, but just as soon as we top this rise, we... What in thunder ace? All of your dirtiest cane didn't work. It's handy. Alive. But how? Where? It's gone. Hope, shoot him, drill him. We can't take him back to town alive.  That's just what we wanted to hear. That puts the noose right round your neck. The sheriff. And the mask man. They're covered, Cheryl. Handcuff them. Right. You thought that blast was caused by the powder I took down into the mine. But it wasn't. The sheriff and I set another charge, which tricked you into betraying yourself. Good boy. You... I never put the fuse to that powder, Hope. I gave you the signal on the rope just to make you think I had. The mask man had told me what to do. And the mask man's part brought in another one of you pole cats. I reckon you know him, Hope. He's the general's buck, the engine cotton sneaking around Andy's place.  You got me into this hole. Quiet. You're equally guilty. Hope may have schemed it, but you made Andy think that he was dying. When there ain't nothing wrong with me at all. Now listen, Sheriff, I'll give you the straight of it. Don't believe these fellas. They don't know what... Hope? What? What happened here, I've seen with my own eyes and heard with my own ears. But you can't... They told me about the cash. He's keeping it. I'll see to that. He made a bargain with you. It ain't his fault you tried to double-cross him. So as far as the law is concerned, that money's rightfully here. Hey, you can't give him that money. I never thought I'd have cause to thank a fella that tried to kill me, Hope. But thanks for that 10,000, just the same. And thanks to the mask man. Are you silver? Hope, you have just heard as a copyrighted feature of the Lone Ranger Incorporated.


Welcome my friends to Monet Cafe. I'm artist Susan Jenkins and today I'm bringing you a tutorial of a favorite subject of mine. This is a painting of a cow that I love that lives in a field next to my house named Oreo. She's precious. I think she'd come to live with me. So join me now as I give a little intro here and then we'll get started with the lesson. Hello art family. I am here again if you've been following my latest videos in my parent basement while I help my mom through her cancer treatments and I have set up my little temporary studio which is working out great and I thought I'd make a video of this latest painting that I did. As you can see right here behind me it's a cow painting and it's of a cow that I've grown to love that I've named Oreo. She lives next door to my property and not my cow. I wish she was my cow. I think she would actually come live with me. She's so sweet. But anyway so I have this great little photo of her and it's at a time of day that I call the golden hour. It's just that beautiful time when the sun sets right before it sets and it casts a golden light over everything and back behind my house in the field where the cows are and on the other side it's just magical and so I had this this neat photo where I kind of capture that light and I loved the contrast of the warm and the cool where the light was hitting her on this side and then the coolness of the light on the other side.  So anyway I'm gonna be doing this little video where I create a very loose and impressionistic painting and I'm going to go through the steps of how to do that. I know you guys are asking a whole lot about keeping it loose and exaggerating color and keeping a painterly style so that's gonna be my motivation for this video. These are the pastels toward the after effects of the painting. I started out with a lot less than this but gradually added. I realized some things weren't as dark in value as I needed or some things weren't as light in value as I needed so so that's the aftermath but anyway join me in this video and I'm gonna probably do a lot of real time and instruction but speed it up in parts too. I can't remember how long it took me to paint this probably probably less than two hours but anyway so I hope you enjoy and I hope you learn something and here we go. For this particular painting I used a full sheet a 9 by 12 sheet of UART sanded paper. This pad comes in a pack of 10 sheets and it's a 400 grit that I used. As you can see here one of these they come in different sizes but they also come in different grades or grits as well and if you're not familiar with sanded paper they truly are the best way to get vibrant color and a lot of layers with pastels. I also used you're gonna see in the beginning of this video ink tents blocks they're made by Derwent and they're awesome for getting an underpainting. I used a set of 72 I didn't use all 72 but they also come in smaller sets that are more affordable if you'd just like to try them. And I found this graphic and I really liked it because it'll give you a close-up view of how ink tents blocks behave. On the left side you'll see that's the dry application and then on the right is when you add water. Now this first one is showing ink tents blocks and the second one is showing another product I use for under paintings. It's the Neo Color 2 wax pastels and they have a similar ending result but they behave a little differently. And as you can see here when you add water they're just bold and beautiful. And by the way you can use these just to create an underpainting of a solid tone like this beautiful golden color. You don't have to use them the way that you'll see me use them in this video. Now it's time to get started and initially of course we need a good sketch especially when you're drawing animals or people. Animals actually have a lot of the same challenges that people's faces do in that they have unique things about them.  What you're seeing me do there is I don't typically use like a grid system where some people will mark things like a grid on their paper and then a grid on their reference image. I just mark basically where the center is of it of the surface and the reference image horizontally and vertically. And then I can kind of use that as a general guide just to get more accurate placement as to where things go. And I highly recommend enhancing your drawing skills. I know that it's often said you don't have to know how to draw to paint and I disagree with that. I think good drawing skills is only going to make your painting better and your proportions, your perspective and also accuracy when it comes to things like this. You've got to get these things right. It makes for a strong foundation when you when you have good drawing skills. Okay so as you can see I'm just kind of I'm getting the placement of the eye. I know that once I get that in there accurately when I draw I use everything kind of proportionally. Once I get that eye in I kind of judge distances based on that and I've sped this up just a little bit. Oh and by the way I'm just using a little little pastel pencil. It's kind of like a sepia color. The great thing about using pastel pencils is it just kind of blends in with all of the other pastels and you can even brush it off if you need to or use a kneaded eraser to erase if you need to correct some things. And it is fine to do corrections. As a matter of fact I highly recommend correct before you commit. That's a good expression. I got to remember that. Don't just get lazy and say oh I've already got it in here let me just work with it.  And it actually expands or increases the error if you get something off. The more you try to fix it it just keeps getting worse and worse. So take that time. I know that might sound tedious but your painting experience is going to be so much better when you get an accurate drawing in. Okay I'm going to speed this up even more because it's not supposed to be a drawing lesson but why not throw it in there if I can. Alright here we go. Finish the drawing. Now that the general sketch is complete it's time to apply the ink tense blocks and I really love using these. Like I said before you don't have to get the set of 72. They have smaller sets if you just like to try them but they are really excellent for doing an under painting. As I mentioned before you can use these just to tone your paper. And under painting is really exactly what the word implies. It's a painting underneath your painting. That can be something as simple like I said as toning your surface just one golden color just to get rid of all that either creamy or white color or it can be a little bit more. Or you could do like a warm under painting where you just use the warmer side of the color wheel to create a landscape painting or paintings such as this with all warm tones of different values. And in my case I'm using a variety of colors and I would say I'm using local color which means the color that isn't naturally in the scene. I'm not going to the compliment or the opposite side of the color wheel. However I'm exaggerating color. I love to do an under painting that has exaggerated color because often it inspires you to get a little bit more creative with color or bold with color and also it kind of peeks through if you don't cover the whole surface. So again take note of the colors that I'm using in this. Also take note that I'm using directional strokes. In essence I'm still kind of drawing with these. Even though I'm turning them on their sides and I'm using it on the broad side making bigger strokes I'm still my directional strokes are helping to give it more of an accurate drawing underneath the painting. And I will you'll see when I add the water I do the same thing with the water even though it really drips straight down for the most part. Something about making these strokes in the direction that they should go really seems to help me out. And it's just a good habit to learn to draw and paint that way. And also another good thing about an under painting with watercolor. Watercolor is actually one that takes up the tooth of the paper the least because it's really more liquid. But most under painting techniques that you do help to not fill up the tooth so quickly. Even though this is a type of harder medium and it's taking up a little of the tooth of the paper it will not be as much when I add the water and it drips off. I'll still have plenty of tooth or grit left to apply pastels. And if you know much about pastel painting if you've been painting a while you know that that's one of the benefits of the sanded surfaces is that we want the ability to lay colors on top of each other. That's where the magic happens okay. That often you just don't have that layering ability with flat surfaces. Alright I'm going to speed this up a little bit and you'll get an idea of how I'm doing the under painting and then I'm going to slow down and talk a little bit as I apply the water. Now it's time for some fun. We've got our drawing we've got our ink tent supplied and I've just got a cup of water some various size brushes. I like to use the largest brush possible it keeps things loose and I also keep when I do this I keep paper towels. I usually kind of fold a few of them just to have a little almost like a little thicker section of paper towels. Now the paint I mean sorry the water will kind of drip down so that's why I keep the paper towels because I blotted a lot to keep my water application not so flowing that it just runs like a waterfall down the whole painting. So basically all I'm doing is dipping in water. I've sped this up just a little bit and blotting it a little bit on the paper towel. I typically work top to bottom and again you see I am applying kind of the directional strokes. Directional what I mean by that is in the direction of like how the fur is going. If you look at it and you're like oh that's kind of sweeping down into the right or and again that's gonna get it's gonna help you get a good roadmap for your painting instead of just just washing it all over the place and having it be rather flat. This gives a little texture and dimension to it when you keep your strokes a bit more directional in this way. So now I'm applying usually top to bottom but in this case sometimes I can work in different areas but I am definitely when I work from a dark area and go to a light area I rinse it off like but there are just changed colors. I went from that deep rich purpley color to more of those blues. So I rinsed my brush out in the water pretty good and wiped it off. I didn't want to blend those colors. It's okay for some blending to happen but I purposely put these colors down for a reason so I don't want to undo my pre-planning. Now that little section I did is kind of that little patch of Oreo's eye and now I'm kind of gently working around that. Again do you see how I'm making the strokes in the direction of how her fur is is growing down her nose. I know you can't see the reference photo in this case really close up but let me go ahead and add that. I forgot I have a photo I can add right next to it. Let me do that now. I'll complete the under painting process here and then stay tuned because I'll be back when it's time to start with the soft pastels.  I do have to kind of redefine that eye. Sometimes details are hard with this process but now it's time to start with the pastel painting and like I said at the beginning of the video I started out with an okay size selection of pastels and I added more as I went along but I basically just looked at the reference photo and I chose colors that were more exaggerated than what you see in the photo. There's a tendency if you look in the photo to just think of that as being kind of gray maybe a bluish gray and maybe a few little light pale oranges but I wanted to truly exaggerate that and and you guys if you've been on my channel long you know I love color and I just think why not you know we're artists. Let's we're not trying to necessarily create reality we're creating our interpretation as we see it and that's the beauty of being able to create and you know I always say we're emulating our creator who created all things and goodness knows he got very creative of some of the creatures that I'm my goodness when I watch some of these shows like on nature shows and like sea creatures down in the depths at these vents where volcanoes are that things shouldn't even be able to live and grow and and they're just amazing and I could get carried away with that kind of stuff but you know since God has gotten so creative with things I think as his children he loves it when we stretch our artistic license and and have fun have fun with color and you know there are artistic rules to be followed that is just general good artistic rules and guidelines but some things can be interpreted according to what you see and that's the beautiful thing about the uniqueness of art and individuals who create art I know sometimes when we're learning we look at other people's styles and we emulate it and that's awesome because that's how we learn and grow but in time the more that you paint and emulate other artists styles as time goes on you'll find you have a style all your own so don't hesitate to copy somebody as your first learning that's what exactly what I did and just just keep at it the main way to get better is just to practice have fun every day and and try to paint every day if you can I know that's not always easy with our lives I'm certainly not able to do that but the more you can paint the better you're going to get but the other thing is to not judge yourself so harshly try to have fun get loose and realize that every painting you create even if it's something you don't like is just one step closer to becoming a better artist so anyway I'm talking philosophically here more than talking about what I'm doing what I'm doing here is I'm I'm getting my darks in if you look at the reference photo and you squint your eyes the darkest dark is really in that ear you know in the center of that ear is really dark now I know that her coat on the like her body on the right side is is black I know she's a black cow but there is some sunlight being cast on that so what I'm doing is I'm with pastels you typically work dark to light you put your darks down that are going to be like your base and then you layer lights on top of it so I know that her fur is black so I'm putting my darks down first and I know I'm going to layer some warmer colors on top of that and so that's why I'm kind of playing around with some colors on the side there I know that the middle part there is more is lighter it's lighter in value it's not as dark in value so that's why I'm putting a lighter value there I end up darkening this later that's a little bit too light I know later I realize I need to get a darker value down to be able to layer that sunlight on top of it and also keep in mind that while I love to punch up and exaggerate color and I know a lot of us love that when we paint it is a good strategy to realize that we need some neutrals in some places use your bolder colors and your more punchy colors as I like to call them in your greatest areas of interest where you feel the focal point is and then you can gradually fade out to more neutrals in other areas typically around the outer edges of a painting it's best to keep them more neutral and also perhaps a bit out of focus that allows the viewer's eyes to easily enter the painting without getting caught up on some sort of a detail right at the entryway of the painting alright so I am going to speed this up a little bit and I think you can kind of get an idea of what I'm doing here but stay tuned because sometimes when I see something that I feel I can need to explain I pop back in for more commentary alright enjoy this process now I'm going to begin to work on the eye which is an obvious important part to this painting I mean if even when you look at the photo I mean you just see that one eye and looking at you and you've definitely got to get it right and I fill around with this a bit I think I'm at one point I get it a little bit too large but I carve it down to get the right proportions by the end of the painting now for eyes there would be a tendency just to make that the main circular part of the eyeball all black and you can certainly lay down the darkest value I usually don't use black I'll use that's like a dark eggplant I believe it was Terry Ludwig eggplant color but there's a tendency to just keep it black just make it a black eye with like a white reflection but there's really a lot of colors reflecting in an eye and even if you don't see it you can kind of and I'm looking real closely at it now you can kind of exaggerate that and if you want to get a good idea of that take a look if you're interested in doing cow paintings or animal paintings in general take a look at the work of Rita Kirkman wow she's just amazing and check out her use of color in not only the eye but in the fur and she's just a master I've been looking at her work for years and and again that's like what I was saying before I have admired and emulated other artists in in my art endeavors and practice and notice here I'm adding green and you wouldn't think hmm green why would you add that it's a nice neutral and I felt like it was going to distinguish more between the ear and the fur I don't want them to kind of blend together there so often greens even though when I was first starting painting I thought how could you add a green to a face or a purple or you know or blues but when you do portrait work or even animal work often these these colors to create depth in a face or depth in the painting just create a lot more interest and make for a beautiful beautiful final result alright working on the eye a little bit more here so I'm gonna speed it up a bit again and enjoy the process and by the way I've been trying to keep these as real time as possible but where I'm at my parents house my my internet speed is okay but to upload a large video is a little difficult it's it almost was like the other day it didn't even want to process so I'm having to try to keep them under an hour and so forgive me for some of this speeding up but I think you're getting the idea as I slow down and describe things alright enjoy I'll be back this is the point where I finished up basically one session of sitting and working on pastel I think I worked probably just over an hour and I took a little break and I came back later and sometimes I just encourage you to walk away from your work and kind of get I'm showing my pastels again hello here I am I've added a few more now and like I showed at the beginning that's probably close to all that I used I might add it a couple more but again walk away from your work I'm holding up that little pretty teal color because another artist Vicky thank you recommended she says I think that would really make that painting pop also that's another crucial thing I have learned put my hair up there's too many times I've created a video and I have just not even been able to share it because I didn't put my hair up and you couldn't see the painting because of my crazy hair so it's time to get started here again I've had some time to think on it and process where I'm headed and I know I've got a good base I've got my basic values in basic shapes in and now it's time to indicate a little bit more detail with the the fur I guess you'd call it fur on a cow and some more directional strokes now I can lay down some lighter values on top of these darker values I've got a neat colorful underpainting of sorts with pastels on top of the underpainting of Derwent ink tents blocks and so now I'm checking my values I know I still want to keep those cooler temperatures because that shadowy side of her head where her eye actually is blocking the sunlight is still very cool in color temperature now there's a tendency here's one of my my big tips right here on how to get more painterly and also exaggerate color or steer away from the color that you see in the scene there is would be a tendency often I'm fixing my paper here so just listen while I fix it there's often a tendency to in those shadowy areas to paint gray like instead of the blue that I'm using to pick up a gray value and oh it's in the shadows it's going to be gray well yes you could definitely do that but if you want to exaggerate that color and create a more colorful dynamic artistic looking painting use colors that are the correct value but perhaps a bit more vibrant in color again in the areas that you want to draw interest to and you can dull or mute the colors when you get away from the focus but I definitely wanted the fur on the the ear to be a bit more recognizable notice how I'm using a purple not a gray even though it's kind of gray in real life and in the fur that I use on her head again instead of using grays instead of using whites I'm using colors that are the correct value but a bit more brilliant in color I hope that's understandable I knew I still needed a bit more purpley shadows in that area to to create that sense of depth because that's really where her head sinks in down like towards that middle part of her head I saw some in here where I needed some more cool purpley colors to make that area down in her furry seed and you know to see how I have that purple in my hand often I will try to use efficiency when I'm holding a particular pastel instead of picking up and putting down and picking up and putting down different colors often when I'm like that purple I've just used it in three different areas I just see where it might could be used and it keeps a consistency throughout the painting that way and also helps you to paint a little bit faster so alright so I hope that little tip helped and try to watch as I paint here even though I'm speeding it up and see how I layer the lighter values still not grays on top of the darker values that have already laid down to get that fur and those directional strokes and also of course I'm working on her muzzle as well alright so I'm going to speed this up and I hope you're learning for this last stretch of the painting process I'm slowing it back down to real time just so you can kind of more easily view how I'm making strokes and my color choices and here I noticed that there's actually a little bit of golden light casting across some of her pieces of hair that are sticking out more so and another thing constantly analyze your color temperature and and and try to get it in the correct places that's going to make a more a more believable painting and a more correct painting so value color temperature and it's okay to stay loose though I notice I have I have not gotten super detailed anywhere and by the end of this painting I still keep it rather chunky I mean especially around her muzzle I kind of purposely left her muzzle that's like the nose I'm assuming it's called that on a cow I know it is on a horse but I've purposely kept it even by the end not like super detail seeing all the little places where maybe little hairs were sticking out or where there was little freckles on her nose or because that would have created a blockade or a blockage to the eye entering the painting I wanted the eye to just kind of move up and around and see that eye and just have fun in that painting so it's okay not to have a lot of detail everywhere and that was that was kind of my goal and all these things just get better the more you do it the more you practice and I hope I've given you some tips to keep in mind again part of the goal of this video was to give you guys some suggestions on how to create more painterly impressionistic style a more loose style and also to be able to work on color temperature and more dynamic color though enjoy this real-time process and please be sure to make sure you listen at least to the end of this video because I have some announcements and information to give all right guys enjoy I'm wrapping up the painting at this point and this was a truly enjoyable painting for me probably because I just love this cow so much and I love animals and nature so much anyway and one last thing I have to do here is sign it and it's a little odd for me or strange I find I'm a lefty I often paint with my right hand if it's more convenient but I there started to sign my name I have a hard time signing my name sometimes because when I write I have that weird lefty habit of turning my hand upside down so I have to kind of get in awkward position sometimes to sign my that's why I just use my initials I really don't like signing my name and it's just it's just easier so anyway I hope you guys enjoyed this also to my announcement is I hope you guys know that I have a patreon page and I'm really enjoying the communication with my patrons I only have one tier it's $5 a month and it is really a benefit to me at this time you know if you've known my channel long I like to give it everything for free I never like to have anybody give to me I'd rather be the giver but I will say that this patreon page has has financially blessed me at a time in my life that it's it's a really come at a good time so I really appreciate that every little bit helps and I do have a special drawing here's my announcement I'm about to get to a hundred patrons and when I do I'm having a drawing and the winning patron will win an original painting of mine a copy of my book The Mountain Queen I have a children's book I wrote it's on Amazon if anyone's interested The Mountain Queen it's a beautiful story of hope and love I call it an eternal love story and also that winner will get a $50 Dick Blick gift card so if you haven't become a patron and you would like to for $5 a month and you can cancel at any time then that would be awesome here is the link to my patreon page if you'd like to join and also I'm just loving all of the communication with everyone in our Monet cafe art group on Facebook so you can join us there totally for free and learn from a lot of other artists so anyway guys happy painting you guys are blessing to me and I hope you learned a lot until next time happy painting