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Supernatural Gifts in Post-Biblical Church If there is evidence of supernatural gifts in the post-biblical church we need to see them, and if one of the primary arguments of the cessationist position is found to be fraudulent; we should approach this topic in a Presbyterian Church Now concerning spiritual…

Introduction Summarize: This passage is about our INHERITANCE in Christ. We’re taking these out of order because a proper understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit is crucial to a proper understanding of our eternity in Christ. Today we focus in on the work of the Spirit, next week we take a closer…

So, I was getting to know a pastor once. We had lunch, talked about life and ministry. Then I invited him to jump in my car and drive around his town to pray for his ministry and for people’s hearts to change, for revival and repentance in the community. I started the car, started driving down the main…

Intro: We are now into the New Year and another holiday season has come and gone. Maybe in your preparation for that season, some of the fathers in here had to assemble a playset, doll house, or some gift that you received. It is the right of passage for many fathers to labor into the wee hours of the…

Intro: There is a foundational truth in many sports. You have to often go backward to move the ball forwards. In soccer, you will often see a team reverse field, which means the ball is played back from the midfield to the defense to even the goalie, only to have the goalie send the ball up the opposite…

Gift of Apostleship 11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 28 And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues. “Signs of An…

Introduction · Please turn with me to the Letter of Paul to the Ephesians. · You’ve heard of the Great Pyramids of Giza and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Those were two of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Another of those wonders was the Temple of Artemis . You can see an artist’s rendition…

(Originally before how gifts work) Cessationism But when you read the lists, we also need to clear up some major confusion in the church today. And that’s dealing with a relatively new stream of Christian theology, and that is Charismatic Christianity. This is the belief that the miraculous sign gifts…

Intro Begin with the story and song in Pigeon English from Quest when I was in grade 1. This is our story today; the lame beggar being healed in Acts 3:1 - 4:22 . A short story of immediate healing A long story of the fallout from this healing Why the fallout? Because everything was done in the name…

Introduction & Defense of Continuationism

This lesson provides an overview of a cessationist understanding of the miraculous spiritual gifts as held by the elders of PMBC to lay a foundation for the more in-depth study of 1 Corinthinans 12-14.

Introduction As a church, we’ve been studying about Spiritual Gifts, or the charisma, and why we are called to desire and practice these gifts. The Gifts of the Holy Spirit have not ceased, as some claim! There is absolutely no textual backing for it. Exegesis is the method of interpreting a text by…

Introduction As we continue our study on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, we now move into the more controversial aspects of this subject - namely the gifts of prophecy & tongues. This subject of prophecy & tongues, has been a topic of debate and confusion not just in our time, but throughout all of church…

HOOK Yesterday right here at “The Message” we completed Chapter 10 of the Gospel of John with the narrative of the escalated conflict between— from it we learned the following principles: I MUST NOT PICK AND CHOOSE ONLY THE WORDS I LIKE FROM THE SCRIPTURES I SHALL WITNESS ABOUT THE WORKS THAT JESUS DID…

Holy Spirit Cessationism is a doctrine that spiritual gifts such as speaking in tongues, prophecy and healing ceased with the Apostolic Age . Reformers such as John Calvin originated this view. In Scripture, the Spirit transforms God’s people. In later biblical passages, the Spirit appears as a distinct…

All You Need Is Love It’s the summer of 1967. It’s called the Summer of Love. The height of the hippie movement. The flower children are on the prowl. In July of 1967, the Beatles sang these poetic and diverse words: Love, love love Love, love love Love, love love All you need is love, all you need is…

The power of the Holy Spirit

Ministry to the masses (miracles) and multiplying yourself in the few people (discipleship). Then Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people. But when He saw the multitudes,…

Acts 5:12–16 (NASB95) 12 At the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were taking place among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s portico. 13 But none of the rest dared to associate with them; however, the people held them in high esteem. 14 And all the more believers in…

Another Parishioner’s Pick and this one is a doozy! We want to talk about spiritual gifts and especially the gift of prophecy. Today’s submission: The other topic I know you have touched on many times is prophecies. I believe in prophecies and I believe God still is using people, including you, to share…

Main Point: Love is the active and practical ordering of one’s life toward the edification of others, and love is the distinctive mark of Christian fellowship.

There are three essential facts we must understand about tongues. When we understand the Biblical Use Of Tongues we will be better equipped to defend the truth. The best defense of the truth is to serve where God has placed you.

Supernatural living through supernatural empowering is at the very heart of New Testament Christianity. J. I. Packer At the heart of Christianity is the supernatural. In fact, without the supernatural, you don’t have Christianity, you have a philosophy. And many people in the American church are pledging…