Posted on 04/17/2018 8:56:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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I needed a good laugh, thanks.
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Your sycophancy for the false teacher, Michael Rood is far from a laughing matter. He will carry you to Hell with him if you remain in his thrall.
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Your fear of the clean, clear truth of the word is a laughing matter for the adversary constantly.
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Absolutely, M. IIRC, there are 3 kinds of life, and 3 kinds of death. Physical, spiritual, eternal. Why wait on the last two?
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The deal on what happened at Pentecost was NOT so much as being that a group mostly composed of Galileans were speaking in the languages which they were presumed not to know from personal experience in them.
The real emphasis that ought to be of the first water is that they were praising the Creator and speaking of His marvelous works (that is, prophesying so that people of these other dialects could understand what was being said.
As you have pointed out, and I have long been partial to, what the NT Scripture says, that (whatever the Galileans thought they were saying) the people gathered for the Pentecostal feast heard God being exalted in their own native dialects.
That's the issue. Wherever we experience, either in OT accounts or in the New, when the Holy Ghost has fallen ON people, they uniformly engage in prophetic utterances, whether the result of what they are saying is inscripturated (David, Solomon, Jeremiah) or only that the nature of their utterings was recorded (Saul ben Kish, Cornelius).
The language aspect is what the "Pentecostal-charismatics" are wrongly placing as the most important, rather than that the intent of the Holy Spirit's operation is to magnify the Lord Jesus.
Thank you, Brother, for giving a better exposition of what I was trying to communicate. See you in the clouds.
As a Christian and a physician I totally agree with you. I have seen precious saints die of horrible diseases. Their disease is in no way a lack of faith. But I have seen beautiful witness to their Risen Lord in the way the faithful respond to their illness. Faith is illustrated by the response to any trial. The trial is not due to a lack of faith. We must trust in the One who died to save us no matter our circumstances. A strong witness sometimes shines the brightest when circumstances are the darkest. I think the most cruel thing those who claim to be Christian can do to one suffering a terrible or fatal illness is to accuse them of a lack of faith s the cause of their trouble.
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