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GOD SPEAKS in one way,
    and in two, though man does not perceive it.
IN A DREAM, in a VISION OF THE NIGHT,
    when deep sleep falls on men,
    while they slumber on their beds,
then he opens the ears of men
    and TERRIFIES THEM WITH WARNINGS,
that he may TURN man aside from his deed
    and conceal PRIDE from a man;
he keeps back his soul from THE PIT,
    his life from perishing by THE SWORD.
–Job 33:14-18 (ESV)–

If there is a prophet among you, I the Lord make myself KNOWN to him IN A VISION; I SPEAK WITH HIM IN A DREAM. Not so with my servant Moses. He is faithful in all my house. With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in RIDDLES, and he beholds the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
–Numbers 12:6-8 (ESV)–

IN THE LAST DAYS it shall be, God declares,
that I will POUR OUT MY SPIRIT on all flesh,
and your sons and your daughters shall PROPHESY,
    and your young men shall see VISIONS,
    and your old men shall dream DREAMS;
even on my male servants and female servants
    in those days I will POUR OUT MY SPIRIT,
and they shall PROPHESY.
–Acts 2:17-18 (ESV)–

Do not quench the Spirit. 
DO NOT DESPISE PROPHECIES,
but TEST EVERYTHING;
HOLD FAST WHAT IS GOOD.
–1 Thessalonians 5:19-21 (ESV)–

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Adam Clarke, Christian Theology (Schmul, 1967), pp. 403-404.

Charles Finney, Sermons on the Way of Salvation (Edward J. Goodrich, 1891), p. 32.

Dr. Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience (Banner of Truth, 1996).

Thomas Doolittle, Rebukes for Sin by the Flames of Hell (Intl. Outreach, 2011).

Bill Wiese, 23 Minutes in Hell (Charisma House, 2006).

—. Hell: Separate Truth from Fiction (Charisma House, 2008).

Ira Milligan, Understanding the Dreams You Dream (Treasure House, 1997).

Daniel Jennings, The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley (SEAN, 2012).

What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?…Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.
–Romans 6:1-2, 19 (NIV)–

Without holiness no one will see the Lord.
–Hebrews 12:14 (NIV)–

Some people have slipped in among you unnoticed. Not long ago they were condemned in writing for the following reason: They are people to whom God means nothing. They use God’s kindness as an excuse for sexual freedom and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
–Jude 1:4 (GW)–

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Drs. Purkiser and Arrington represent Church of the Nazarene and Church of God (Cleveland). These denominations, especially if they’re small rural churches in the country, are the most likely to hold to conditional security with any degree of conviction. The same goes for the Southern Methodist Church, the Pentecostal Holiness Church, Assemblies of God, the Christian & Missionary Alliance, the Wesleyan Church, and the Free Methodist Church. Seminaries that would agree with this perspective would be God’s Bible School & College, Kentucky Mountain Bible College, Southern Methodist College, the Pentecostal Theological Seminary, and Wesley Biblical Seminary. The Free Will Baptist Church should also be considered, but they tend to be totally anti-charismatic like the IFB churches, and would be against Foster’s teaching on the spiritual disciplines.

Dr. W. T. Purkiser, Security: The False and the True (Beacon Hill Press, 1956).

Dr. French Arrington, Unconditional Eternal Security: Myth or Truth? (Pathway, 2005).

Dr. John R. Rice, Adultery and Sex Perversion (Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1978).

Dr. Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline (HarperCollins, 2018).

—. Prayer (HarperOne, 1992), ch. 14: “Contemplative Prayer.”

Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God (Whitaker House, 1982).