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1 | Am I ignorant | 1 Cor 12:1 | DocTrinsograce | 210972 | ||
Dear Tim, If I understand your advice rightly, if criteria 1 through 4 are met... and if God has already told them... then a person may have confidence that this supernatural revelation is of divine origin? Are you really ready to encourage people to "take a leap of faith" into such things? George Whitfield admonished John Wesley -- regarding the "Lakeland Outpouring Manifestitaions" -- that any such encouragement might "...take people from the written word, and make them depend on visions, convulsions, etc. more than on the promises and precepts of the gospel." Ouch. Might we, instead, encourage the sheep to take the safer, surer, saner path: encouraging folks to deeply love the Word of God and depend on it... to regard other things with a high degree of suspicion. That way, they will not neglect what God has certainly said (Deuteronomy 8:3), nor presume to put words in His mouth (Jeremiah 28:15). In Him, Doc http://www.puritansermons.com/watson/watson2.htm |
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2 | Am I ignorant | 1 Cor 12:1 | Hank | 210976 | ||
Well said, Doc. The Scriptures once and for all delivered to the saints, being God-breathed and complete, need no supplementation and require no 'leap in faith.' Quite to the contrary they instill in the heart of the believer a hope that is both sure and steadfast. There is therefore no need whatever to 'leap' anywhere but all the need in the world to obey 2 Timothy 2:15 --Hank | ||||||