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In your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.
–1 Peter 3:15 (ESV)–

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the Word of God with boldness.
–Acts 4:31 (KJV)–

He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul:
but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
–Proverbs 15:32 (KJV)–

He giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
–James 4:6-7 (KJV)–

The interpretation of tongues.
–1 Corinthians 12:10 (ESV)–

Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church. Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
–1 Corinthians 14:12-14 (ESV)–

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Do what you want to do
Say what you want to say to me
I know what you’d like to think of me
This is not real
This can’t be real
This thing I feel

How can I not hate you, hate you
How can I not be free, be free

I know (deep down inside)
How God (reveals Himself)
I know (deep down inside)
To know Him (I must kill pride)

Why do you care so much for me?
What’s in this for you?
Why doesn’t selfishness rule you
Like everybody else?

Let go pride
Let go pride
Cannot deny
Cannot deny
This thing I feel
I feel inside

I know (how God)
I know (how God)
I know to know Him
I must kill pride

–Living Sacrifice, “Threatened”–

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Dr. Arrington, although he is a theologian from Church of God (Cleveland), the section I used on this podcast by him, is a synthesis of AG and COG teaching on the interpretation of tongues. Gee and Horton represent the Assemblies of God teaching on miraculous gifts; and they have chapters on tongues. Dr. Deere, Mallone, Wimber, and Jackson represent the developments about teaching on the miraculous gifts that justified the creation of the Vineyard churches, because of the lack of clear Pentecostal teaching on the subjective and psychological aspect of experiencing the Holy Spirit’s miraculous gifts: that is, dreams, visions, inner voices, impressions, and God sent coincidences or signs from God and how to properly interpret and apply these Biblically, symbolically, and under the theological supervision of a seminary educated charismatic pastor and plurality of elders. This eventually came to be called “ministry time” at the end of Vineyard services; and gave birth to a very clear and direct way to apply prophetic ministry, words of knowledge, and healing prayer in a charismatic church setting. Unfortunately, strong evangelistic preaching eventually gave way to a gifts and power emphasis in the Vineyard churches; and this unbalanced emphasis led to independent charismatic churches and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). For this reason, David Wilkerson decided to distance himself from the Vineyard churches. But Leonard Ravenhill did accept a few Vineyard invitations only to preach so hard against sin that he was never invited back, as usual.

Dr. French Arrington, Christian Doctrine, vol. 3 (Pathway Press, 1993), pp. 157-161.

Dr. Jack Deere, Surprised by the Power of the Spirit (Zondervan, 1993).

—. Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 1996).

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Power of the Spirit (Zondervan, 2020).

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022).

—. The Beginner’s Guide to the Gift of Prophecy (Gospel Light, 2008).

George Mallone, Those Controversial Gifts (InterVarsity Press, 1983).

John Wimber, Power Evangelism (Harper & Row, 1986).

—. Power Healing (HarperSanFrancisco, 1987).

—. Power Encounters (Harper & Row, 1988).

—. Power Points (HarperSanFrancisco, 1991).

John Paul Jackson, The Biblical Model of Dream Interpretation (SMI, 2007),

Donald Gee, Concerning Spiritual Gifts (Gospel Publishing House, 1980).

Harold Horton, The Gifts of the Spirit (Gospel Publishing House, 1975).

Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries (Bethany House, 1959).

—. Revival God’s Way (Bethany House, 1983).

The Fall of the Roman Empire (Paramount Pictures, 1964).

Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. David Womersley (Penguin, 2001).

—. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. D. M. Low (Bonanza Books, 1985).

¹⁵ Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. ¹⁶ But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life. ¹⁷ Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen. ¹⁸ Timothy, my son, I am giving you this command in keeping with the prophecies once made about you, so that by recalling them you may fight the battle well, ¹⁹ holding on to faith and a good conscience, which some have rejected and so have suffered shipwreck with regard to the faith. ²⁰ Among them are Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom I have handed over to Satan to be taught not to blaspheme.
–1 Timothy 1:15-20 (NIV)–

The Spirit himself testifies with
our spirit that we are God’s children.
–Romans 8:16 (NIV)–

Today, if you hear His voice,
    do not harden your hearts.
–Hebrews 3:15 (NIV)–

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If you are brought to the Lord Jesus, and no word of mine shall be used, but only that still small voice which speaks in solemn silence to the heart, I shall be equally pleased,
so long as you are saved.
–Charles Spurgeon, “The Lord’s Own Salvation”–

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WesleyGospel, “Is Bethel Church a Cult?”

Dr. French Arrington, Christian Doctrine, vol. 2 (Pathway Press, 1993).

Dr. Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Francis Asbury Press, 2000).

J.B., The Gospel of Jesus Christ (Kingsley Press, 2015).

A medium…who consults the dead…
is detestable to the Lord.
–Deuteronomy 18:11-12–

Just then there appeared before them
Moses and Elijah, talking with Jesus.
–Matthew 17:3–

I saw the dead, great and small,
standing before the throne.
–Revelation 20:12–

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I have myself many times found on a sudden so lively an apprehension of a deceased friend, that I have sometimes turned about to look…those that died in faith. In dreams, I have had exceeding lively conversations with them; and I doubt not but they were then very near.
–John Wesley–

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Clifford Wilson and John Weldon, Occult Shock and Psychic Forces (Master Books, 1980).

Andre Pradel, St. Vincent Ferrer: His Life… (R. Washbourne, 1875), pp. 32-33.