Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
This is a testimony of Adolph Rosa's salvation story, as recorded by William J. Seymour in his book called, "The Azusa Street Papers," published in 1906 in Los Angeles, CA.
When Reverend Evans and his wife and Sister Florence Crawford went to the city of Oakland preaching the full Gospel, I went the first night, not to criticize but to investigate. Many preachers went there to criticize, but when I stepped in, I felt the power of God and could not say that it was the work of the devil, as most of the preachers declared, For I was practically convinced that it was the work of the Holy Ghost. I went home and began to study my Bible, I went to God in prayer to reveal to me if these people were really the people of God. He revealed to me in the attitude of my supplication that they were preaching exactly what the disciples of old preached. I was convinced that every minister of the Gospel should receive the same baptism with the Holy Ghost and fire that the disciples received in the day of Pentecost, before they are prepared to preach the Gospel. I was teaching that when we received sanctification, we received the Holy Ghost, as most of the preachers are teaching. But as I went to my Bible with the spirit of prayer, God revealed to me that the disciples were justified before Christ ascended; but they never were baptized with the Holy Ghost until the day of Pentecost.
The second day that I went to the meeting, The Lord put a real hunger in my soul and go forward, but I was too proud as a minister of the Gospel to humble myself in a lowly mission and let ladies pray over me for the gift of the Holy Ghost, And I had in my mind but people would think of me. But the third day, as I arose to testify in the audience, The only words I could say were: "What does God think of me?" Then I could only weep for some minutes and the power of God came upon me until I dropped the floor. I was under the power of God for about an hour and a half, And it was there that all pride, and self, and conceit disappeared, And I was really dead to the world, For I had Christ within in His fullness. I was baptized with the Holy Ghost and spake in a new tongue.
I praise God for the light, And now I am walking in it. The desire of my heart is to see every man and woman that preaches the Gospel of Christ, baptized with the Holy Ghost, or without the Holy Ghost it is almost impossible for us to convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and the judgment.
William James Roop, M.A.B.S.
Roop-Crappell Ministries
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