
LARRY: God has more! We have this, this show is called Something More; why? There’s not more of God to come out of Heaven, but there’s more of God. More of the Holy Spirit Who lives inside of you. That I believe God wants you to experience! So Dr. Booker, can you tell, can you teach us a little bit, just about why is the baptism in the Holy Spirit so important? And just like you and I were talking kind of, off-screen, just tell our viewers why is it so important for them to have a present experience with God, and what that means?
RICHARD:
Well God is. Well, we’re living today, not yesterday [laughs], so.
LARRY:
Yeah; yeah.
RICHARD:
so many times people had an encounter with God, and. and they stop and camp
there; they’ve never moved on. But I love the title of this program. More; God
always has more.
LARRY:
Yeah; yeah.
RICHARD:
And well something you said about people reading the Word, and loving the Word.
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
I’m a Bible Teacher.
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
Nobody loves the Word of God more than I do. But it’s something else, as an
author myself, to get past reading somebody’s book, and meet the One who wrote
it.
LARRY:
Well let me.
RICHARD:
Well hallelujah! [slaps desk]
LARRY:
I want to inter-. I’m going to [slaps desk] interrupt you.
RICHARD:
Woo! I’m getting.
LARRY:
because.
RICHARD:
Ooh, I’m getting [slaps] excited!
LARRY: (laughing) because I remember.
RICHARD:
Woo! [slaps desk]
LARRY:
reading your books, and reading your testimony; and. and this really I think
this might really minister to some people, so I would like you to address the
camera; address our audience. Tell folks what happened when you were actually
reading the Word, because you had an encounter with God, through the Bible!
RICHARD:
Well absolutely! I mean it starts with the Bible; you know, that’s the written
Word of God; but here’s the thing. The. God wants to take His Words off the
pages of the Book, and explode them inside.
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
of us, so that they come alive inside of us. That’s the experience I had with
God in 1974, and it’s kept me going a long time. But I’ve had many with God
since then.
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
You don’t live in the past, but you do have a past with God. But you bring that
past.
LARRY:
Mm.
RICHARD:
with the. to the present, and you keep going with Him. But God downloaded the
whole Bible into my spirit, and it exploded inside me. And we have in our Bible
66 Books, so for me, it was like 66 spiritual bombs going off.
LARRY: (laughs)
RICHARD:
inside me. Now Larry, the thing–
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
about it was it wasn’t one bomb, and then you know, they were kind of going off
one right after another.
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
All went off at the same time.
LARRY:
That’s amazing.
RICHARD:
And. and those who are viewing, God wants to explode [laughing] His Spirit.
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
inside you!
LARRY:
Release that Word.
RICHARD:
I mean, you know, if you’re tired of [laughing] dragging around, you know; if
you need a new energy from God.
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
ask the Holy Spirit.
LARRY:
Yes.
RICHARD:
to come up on you, in His loving, godly, holy way.
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
and empower you and fill you with His Spirit, with His presence.
LARRY:
Mm.
RICHARD:
He always does it in a way that’s consistent with the Word of God, so you don’t
have to be afraid.
LARRY:
Yes.
RICHARD:
of the Holy Spirit. He wants to empower you, to thrust you forward.
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
for new and exciting adventures in your walk with God!
LARRY:
Yeah.
RICHARD:
Amen!
LARRY:
Amen.
RICHARD:
Just do it! Praise the Lord! [laughs]
LARRY:
Yeah. Well it’s interesting; we were just talking about it again. Paul said
this; Paul said, Be filled with the Holy Spirit. And what I’ve known about
Greek in studying that, it’s actually an ongoing, continuous filling. So for
the folks who might be watching and think. and think to themselves, Well I got
filled with the Holy Spirit, I got baptized in the Spirit, what would you say?
How is there always more of God to be experienced?
RICHARD:
Well are you filled with the Holy Spirit right this [laughing] second?
LARRY:
Yeah!
RICHARD:
That’s what I hope!
LARRY:
That’s good; yeah.