Your Assignment for Session 14 - Candlesticks

Answer the following questions based on what you have learned about the Holy Spirit.

Dr. Cho: After the sanctification process, I march into the Holy Place. As soon as I enter the Holy Place, on the left side is a seven-branched golden candlestick. As I stand before the golden candlestick, it is shining in the Holy Place. In the Holy Place, there is no other light shining except this one.

As we step into God's Holy Place, we should never let any light come in except the light of the Holy Spirit. In knowing the Bible, you can't have any light of archaeology, philosophy or history, etc. In the Holy Place, never let any sunlight come in. Only the golden candlestick shines in this Holy Place.

As far as God's work is concerned, we must only depend upon the Holy Spirit. You should not depend upon your education, theology, philosophy or history. That kind of thing destroys the revelation of God.

So I stand before the candlestick and pray this way: "Dear Holy Spirit, I recognize You. I welcome You. I adore You. Thank You for being in my life. You are my Senior Partner. You are the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of Jesus Christ. You are the Spirit of wisdom. You are the Spirit of understanding. You are the Spirit of counseling. You are the Spirit of power. You are the Spirit of the revelation of the Word of God. You are the Spirit of reverence which gives me the power to reveal God. So help me now. I cannot do anything without Your anointing. I depend upon You. I worship You. I thank You."

One Baptist minister strongly protested to me saying, "When 1 listen to your lecture I feel a red light appear in my heart." 1 responded, "I have a full green light in my heart." "No," he said, "1 have a red light." I asked "How come?" He said, "Throughout my theological training, 1 have never been taught to pray to the Holy Spirit. 1 was only taught to pray to God and to His Son, Jesus Christ. But 1 was never taught to pray to the Holy Spirit." I said, "You are foolish because in your case, God is not the Triune God: God is the Father, God is the Son, and God is the Holy Spirit. They are all God."

Moreover, Jesus asked us to pray to the Holy Spirit. In the Bible, you will read that Jesus Christ asked His disciples to pray to the Lord of the Harvest to send more laborers. Clearly, Jesus was not the Lord of the Harvest. He would have chosen the laborers Himself, but Jesus prayed to the Lord of the Harvest so that He would send more laborers. Jesus was not the Lord of the Harvest, and the heavenly Father was clearly not the Lord of the Harvest.

Then in Acts 13, you read that the Antioch Church with Paul and Barnabas was gathered together fasting and praying. The Spirit spoke, "Choose Paul and Barnabas for My work." Ministry is the work of the Holy Spirit.

So, the laborers to work in the harvest were chosen by the Holy Spirit: "Choose Paul and Barnabas for My work." The work of the harvest belongs to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Lord of the Harvest. So Jesus prayed to the Lord of the Harvest, the Holy Spirit, so that He may thrust in more laborers.

Moreover, when you read 1 Cor 12:13, you see where you can have fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Without talking to one another, it is impossible to have fellowship. Fellowship is very important.

I am trying to learn French because I want to have fellowship with the French people. I don't think that I would ever fluently preach in French. However, when I go to France and preach, afterwards all the old gentlemen, ladies and sick people come up and want to personally talk with me. If I don't talk back to them, we have no fellowship. The same thing was true of Japan. When I first went to Japan, I could not speak any Japanese. When I preached in English, all the Japanese grandmothers, grandfathers and sick people would come up and talk in Japanese to me. I just stood there. There was no fellowship. I was treated as a foreigner. I was not one of them.

I started studying the Japanese language very hard. Then I was given the ability to speak Japanese fluently. What a time of fellowship I have now. I could talk with the Japanese. I could cry with them. I could touch them. I could pray with them in the Japanese language. We could have deep fellowship together. I was loved very much. The Japanese treated me as one of their own.

My point is that learning the language of those you wish to communicate with is very important. If you don't talk to the Holy Spirit, then you will be a stranger to Him, and the Holy Spirit will be a stranger to you. The Bible very clearly commands us to have fellowship with the Holy Spirit.

When I stand before the golden candlestick, I pray to the Holy Spirit, "I love You. I admire You. I depend upon You. I can't handle this situation. You are the One who has all the power. Let's go together. Let's go dear Holy Spirit."