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1 | Do I have it? | Is 27:11 | Reformer Joe | 11697 | ||
Of course, the situation you are describing here is not the same situation that the original questioner brought up. As someone whom God has blessed with the gift of discernment, I would not say that I am always getting impressions/feelings from the Holy Spirit as to every move that I need to make. Rather, God utilizes me in the context of His church as a sound doctrine detector (I prefer that term to "heresy hunter" since what the Christian seeks to do is keep the body of Christ focused on what is pure). I would even go so far as to argue that trusting feelings and impressions solely and attributing all of them to the Holy Spirit's leading can often get us into some serious trouble, especially when he has clearly revealed all the will we need to know in the Bible. --Joe! |
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2 | Do I have it? | Is 27:11 | Hank | 11709 | ||
Joe, while it's been said that when everyone thinks alike, some of them are not thinking very much. Well, you and I seem to be thinking alike on this issue, and I trust we both think at least a little :-) Really, when I hear people say, "Well, God revealed Himself supernaturally to the Israelies, why can't He do the same for us?" The truth is, of course, that He could reveal Himself as a flame of fire in my wife's cluster of rosebushes in our yard. But so far, He hasn't, and we've just about stopped checking the rosebushes -- just in case He does. God did use various ways to communicate with His people in former times, and this is made abundantly clear in the Old Testament accounts. But then the book of Hebrews begins by saying that "God, after He spoke long ago to the fathers in the prophets in many portions and in many ways, in these last days has spoken to us in His Son. And it is of this Son, Jesus Christ, whom we learn through the revealed word of the new covenant, what we know familiarly as the New Testament. Thus to claim that we need special, individualized revelation from God to learn His will in our lives is essentially to say that the New Testament is superfluous. The Scriptures are not a collection of books speaking about God. They are the very breath of God speaking to man. When I hear someone wanting a "sign" from God, I'm reminded of the Pharisees wanting a sign from Jesus. God has spoken to us in His Son, and His Son has spoken to us in the His Word. What more do we need? --Hank | ||||||