Supernatural Theology 35: Don’t Fight Against the Ecstasy of the Holy Spirit

You stiff-necked people!…You always resist the Holy Spirit! –Acts 7:51

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them…Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.” –Acts 2:4, 13

The peace of God, which transcends all understanding. –Philippians 4:7

The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost. –John 14:26

About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. –Acts 10:9-10

On the Lord’s Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet…when I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. –Revelation 1:10, 17

Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief!  –Mark 9:24 (KJV)   (Baptistic deism)

My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you. Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.   –Job 42:5-6  (Pentecostal Spirit baptism)

The inward witness, son, the inward witness, that is the proof, the strongest proof of Christianity.  –Samuel Wesley on his deathbed

Jonathan Edwards has got to be the top guy in the world of conservative Protestant theology who supported Spirit baptisms with the result of ecstasies, trances, and being slain in the Spirit.

Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Edwards on Revival (Banner of Truth Trust, 1984).

—. The Religious Affections (Banner of Truth Trust, 1961).

Sam Storms, Signs of the Spirit (Crossway, 2007). (explains Religious Affections).

Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience (cf. Lloyd-Jones, Revival, p. 140).


Ann Taves, Fits, Trances, and Visions. (Edwards and Wesley on ecstasy, etc).

Guy Chevreau, Catch the Fire (like Storms, an interpretation of Edwards on ecstasy).

William DeArteaga, Quenching the Spirit (resistance to Edwards; cessationists).


Michael L. Brown, Authentic Fire (on the use of J. Edwards’s writings for ecstasy).

Maria Woodworth-Etter, Signs and Wonders (Whitaker House, 1997).

Daniel Jennings, The Supernatural Occurrences of John Wesley, ch. 4.

—. The Supernatural Occurrences of Charles G. Finney, ch. 5.

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