Dear Mr. Lindner:                   02/06/13

I’m glad to have had the opportunity to speak with you by phone today.

During the conversation, you said something about “Seems like the Lord would have started you preaching at a younger age,” or something like that.  

But at the time the Lord told me I’m a priest, I was already into a career in technology, and I didn’t see that he wanted me to quit that and go into full time ministry.  Also, I don’t have a degree from a university nor from a Bible College, as I think is generally expected for pastors and preachers.

But no doubt the Lord had reasons for doing things the way he has done them, and I believe his timing is perfect.

Perhaps he wanted me to complete the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version before doing much preaching or pastoring.  

I expect this afternoon to put the New Testament, Hoehn Version on Amazon.com as an ebook for the Kindle Reader devices.  But it may not appear as a product until tomorrow because of the delay that they have in processing the submitted ebooks.  

We spoke just a little about the Baptism with the Holy Ghost with the speaking in unknown tongues.  I didn’t see that you have it or that you don’t have it, but I’m sure that the Lord wants all of his people to have the Baptism with the Holy Ghost with the speaking in unknown tongues.

The way that a Christian will know that he has received the Baptism with the Holy Ghost is that he will pray in a language that he has never learned.  (an unknown tongue)  

If you don’t yet have it, please ask the Lord for it.  When you pray, believe that you receive the things you ask for, and you shall have them (Mark 11:24).

I’ve been blessed to find some good Bible teachers, and I recommend the books of Kenneth E. Hagin, Norvel Hayes, and Charles Capps.

But it was from Pastor Win Worley that I learned that even Christians can have evil spirits in them.  I think that Kenneth E. Hagin was aware of that, but I don’t remember ever hearing him say that, nor reading it in his books.  

You asked about interpreting unknown tongues.  As far as I know, I have not received the gift of Interpretation of Tongues, which is one of the nine gifts listed in 1 Cor. chapt. 12.

But I have prayed that all of those nine gifts would operate in my ministry, and I expect that will happen in whatever time remains to me on earth.  

As I said in our phone conversation, I don’t think I’m a very ambitious man.  I believe the Lord has told me some things that he will do with me.  I say, “O.K., Lord, here am I.”

But really, I wouldn’t mind too much if the Lord took me home to heaven soon.  I’ve already won souls, I’ve already published books.  I’m retired from a career in technology.  I’ve fathered two children.  There is not really much more that I need to achieve, except that I believe the Lord has a lot more planned for me.

A promise I don’t think I mentioned in our phone conversation.  I believe the Lord told me probably more than forty years ago is, “Thy seed shall be as the sand of the sea.”  I think he means spiritual children—souls won for Jesus.  

I generally don’t tell people all that the Lord has said to me, but I’ll tell you one more.  I believe the Lord said to me recently, “I will make of you a great nation.”  O.K. let the Lord do as seemeth him good.  And Lord, please help me to do a good job at whatever you have for me to do so that I won’t be ashamed on judgment day, and so that I’ll hear from you, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.”

You said something about the desirability of a knowledge of Greek and Hebrew for a person doing Bible translation.

I wouldn’t mind knowing more Greek and Hebrew, but don’t see that I have much time to study them these days.

But in Luke 17:10, when Jesus said, “Say we are unprofitable servants…”  It seemed to me that that was probably not translated correctly, in light of the teaching of K.E.Hagin, N.Hayes, and C.Capps.  So I looked at the Greek, and here’s what the Hoehn Version says:

Luke 17:10 “So likewise you, when you've done all the things that you've been commanded, say, We are not exceptional achievers, we've done what was our duty to do.”

The Lord bless you.

Frederick E. Hoehn