Being warned of God in a dream. –Matthew 2:12 (KJV)–
It shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams. –Acts 2:17 (KJV)–
He fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? –Acts 9:4 (KJV)–
There came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. –Acts 10:13 (KJV)–
As the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness. –Hebrews 3:7-8 (KJV)–
I turned to see the voice that spake with me. –Revelation 1:12 (KJV)–
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Dr. Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience (Banner of Truth, 1996).
Ernest S. Williams, Systematic Theology (Gospel Publishing House, 1953).
Harold Horton, The Gifts of the Spirit (Gospel Publishing House, 1934).
Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit In the History of the Church (Walking Barefoot Ministries, 2007).
Ira Milligan, Understanding the Dreams You Dream (Treasure House, 1997).
Tim LaHaye, The Unhappy Gays (Tyndale House, 1978).
Dr. Paul Morris, Shadow of Sodom (Tyndale House, 1978).
Kenneth Gangel, The Gospel and the Gay (Thomas Nelson, 1978).
Joe Dallas, The Gay Gospel? (Harvest House, 2007).
John MacArthur, ed. Right Thinking In a World… (Harvest House, 2009), ch. 9.
If you’re wondering why all these writings have something in common with the year 1978 or shortly after, its because they were published around the time Harvey Milk was assassinated. He was the first gay politician; and it was in San Francisco. The rainbow flag was created that year as a memorial. Christianity based in the Bible aims at the conversion of homosexuals through preaching (1 Cor. 6:11), not through violent acts. –J.B.
If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. –Matthew 18:15 (NIV)–
Let Your house be filled with Your glory Lord (Let Your house be filled with Your glory Lord) Let Your house be filled with Your praises Lord (Let Your house be filled with Your praises Lord)
Let the redeemed of the Lord Give You glory And let the redeemed of the Lord Sing Your praises Let the redeemed of the Lord Fall and worship You Evermore (Evermore) Evermore (Evermore)
–Vineyard Music, “Let the Redeemed”–
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The earth is the Lord’s And everything that’s in it And all of His people All there be unto Him
He raised the land Above the waters of the sea And laid a strong foundation In the ocean deep The earth is the Lord’s
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? Who shall stand in His holy place? The righteous will worship in His holy presence And taste of His goodness and receive deliverance
These are the people that the Lord will bless These are the ones who love His righteousness The earth is the Lord’s
Open wide the gates Open wide the ancient doors And the King of Glory The King will enter in
Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty He is the Lord Triumphant Lord
–The Maranatha! Singers, “Psalm 24 (The Earth Is the Lord’s)”–
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I, the Lord of sea and sky I have heard my people cry All who dwell in dark and sin My hand will save I have made the stars of night I will make their darkness bright Who will bear my light to them? Whom shall I send?Here I am, Lord Is it I, Lord? I have heard You calling in the night I will go, Lord If You lead me I will hold Your people in my heart
I, the Lord of wind and flame I will tend the poor and lame I will set a feast for them My hand will save Finest bread I will provide ‘Til their hearts be satisfied I will give my life to them Whom shall I send?Here I am, Lord Is it I, Lord? I have heard You calling in the night I will go, Lord If You lead me I will hold Your people in my heart
–John Michael Talbot, “Here I Am, Lord”–
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The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. –Psalm 19:7 (KJV)–
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah…I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people. –Hebrews 8:8, 10 (KJV)–
The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world. –Titus 2:11-12 (KJV)–
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. –John 1:29 (KJV)–
We are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all…after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God. –Hebrews 10:10, 12 (KJV)–
The church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. –Acts 20:28 (KJV)–
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past…being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. –Romans 3:25; 5:9 (KJV)–
We have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace. –Ephesians 1:7 (KJV)–
In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins…And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. –Colossians 1:14, 20 (KJV)–
Almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. –Hebrews 9:22 (KJV)–
Through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ…Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you…ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. –1 Peter 1:2, 9, 10, 18, 19 (KJV)–
If we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin…If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. –1 John 1:7, 9 (KJV)–
Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood. –Revelation 1:5 (KJV)–
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Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest (BGEA, 1992).
The worship of creation Seeming endless But it will end And every knee shall bow
Thoughts of a coincidental existence And a futureless world corrodes into the Spinal chord of the narcissistic man A paradigm shift for worse My ego is my god Given authority by the enlightenment Of science The enlightenment of the age of freedom Freedom – the name in which we legalize all The name in which we tolerate all
Credibility for truth, image for substance Weakness and failure Unbearable elements in life Subtly opposed through an endless flow of Constantly replaced trends, neither allowed To mature nor to fade The surroundings A mirror reflecting the signals Of admiration that makes my identity A constant egocentricity providing a Purging of anything threatening popularity
The peak of this shallowness Displayed by the so-called stars In their quest for self-actualisation This beautiful people experiencing The illusion of narcissistic prosperity Uncritically and boundlessly admired Simply for their own sake
–Extol, “Paradigms”–
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Dr. Leland Ryken, Worldly Saints (Zondervan, 1986), ch. 5: “Family.”
Dr. Hugh Pyle, The Truth About Rock Music (Sword of the Lord, 1985).
David Wilkerson, Set the Trumpet to Thy Mouth (World Challenge, 1985), ch. 4.
The first testimony is from Ronald Reagan, an evangelist with Church of God (Cleveland, TN). The same as Mary K. Baxter, who published A Divine Revelation of Hell (Whitaker House, 1993). Howard Storm’s book is My Descent Into Death (Harmony, 2005). Storm was a pastor in United Church of Christ from 1992 until 2011, which is surprisingly enough, a mainline liberal denomination. Across the denomination, tolerance of the gay lifestyle seemed to have been a mixed bag, reaching it’s fully gay affirming position in 2011, the year that Storm retired. After his retirement, he continued to travel around and share his Hell experience in these increasingly liberal UCC churches. These testimonies were the precursors to Bill Wiese’s 23 Minutes In Hell (Charisma House, 2006). As far as I understand, Bill is a non-denominational evangelist. Along with the evangelistic ministries of Ray Comfort, Leonard Ravenhill, David Wilkerson, Paul Washer, and Andrew Strom–Wiese’s testimony has had a tremendous impact on my spiritual life. Rawlings’ book is unique in that it’s a collection of visions of Hell by a born again medical doctor. Visions and dreams of Hell have been written about for all of human history. We have a reference to them in Job 33:15-18: “In a dream, in a vision of the night…He may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn them from wrongdoing…to preserve them from the Pit.” These continued in medieval Europe after the Bible was written: Eileen Gardiner’s Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante (Italica Press, 1989). They were also journaled in the Great Awakenings. Such things come from the realm of the spirit, are timeless and eternal, are an interracial and international collective human experience, far exceeding the boundaries of the written word; and we have the most reliable references to them in the pages of the Bible: the divinely inspired, authoritative, inscripturated Word of God to mankind. –J.B.
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