You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean…I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right. –Apostle Peter in Acts 10:28, 34-35 (NIV)–
You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and with your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe and language and people and nation. –Revelation 5:9 (NIV)–
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. 11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; 12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. 13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. 14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. 15 And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. –Genesis 2:10-15 (KJV)–
A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters…The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. –Moses in Genesis 2:10, 14 (NIV)–
Tocandole a la puerta de oportunidad Buscando ese momento con paciencia Hoy yo te pido la sabiduría Para reconocer la señal mia
Ahora es que es ni antes ni después
Como dobla el árbol cuando pasa el huracán Como busca el cause el agua de un manantial Como canta el gallo en madrugada su canción Como vuela un ave en época de migración
Ahora es que es ni antes ni después
Ni antes ni después Justo aquí donde es Ni antes ni después Justo aquí donde es Otra vez, ahora es que es
Ni antes Ni después Ni antes Ni después Ni antes Ni después Ni antes Ni después
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Knocking on the door of opportunity Patiently searching for that moment Today I ask you for wisdom To recognize my sign
Now is that it is neither before nor after
As a tree bends when a hurricane passes As the water of a spring seeks its source As a rooster crows its song at dawn As a bird flies during migration
Now is that it is neither before nor after
Neither before nor after Right here where it is Neither before nor after Right here where it is Again, now is that it is
Neither before Neither after Neither before Neither after Neither before Neither after
–Puya, “Ni Antes Ni Después”–
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There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. –Galatians 3:28 (ESV)–
He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place. –Acts 17:26 (ESV)–
Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment. –John 7:24 (ESV)–
God shows no partiality. –Romans 2:11 (ESV)–
Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. –Peter in Acts 10:34-35 (ESV)–
Love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. –Jesus in John 13:34 (ESV)–
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands. –Revelation 7:9 (ESV)–
Correction: David Wilkerson’s The Vision (1973) doesn’t mention race riots. His vision about racial violence apparently came to him in the 80s or 90s when he was pastoring at Times Square Church. –J.B.
Quakers and French Prophets were the universalist, antinomian, false doctrine charismatics in the time of Edwards. They would have been the equivalent of the Latter Rain NAR charismatics that we have today. Edwards exhorts Bible believers to contend for the authentic charismatic experience that is grounded in Biblical and Puritanical theology. At the end of the book, and the beginning, he refers to The Fulfilling of the Scripture by Robert Fleming, in which he finds a point of reference with John Knox and the Scottish Reformers as a great example for what to aim at as Reformed charismatics. Enthusiasm was what many today call “mysticism” in the false, human, and demonic sense. But even though NAR charismatics are the enthusiasts of modern times, Edwards assures us that if we keep our eyes on a spiritual type of Biblical Puritanism, then we can arrive at genuine experiences of the presence of God today. Edwards’ openness to visions of Heaven and Hell might have got him in trouble with his Congregationalist Church board, which held to the cessationist statement on Scripture in the Savoy Declaration of Faith (1658), which was borrowed from the Westminster Confession. As can be seen, Edwards opened the way to the charismatic world through Fleming, it seems, which aligned his faith for a time, with the spirituality of the Scots Confession (1560), which was not cessationist in the way it understood Scripture.
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Dr. Thomas C. Oden, John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994).
The Works of Jonathan Edwards, 2 vols. (Banner of Truth, 1981).
Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries (Bethany House, 1979).
Charles Finney, Lectures on Revivals of Religion (Alethea In Heart, 2005).
Dr. Jack Deere, Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 1996).
Dr. Sam Storms, Understanding Spiritual Gifts (Zondervan, 2020).
Jeff Doles, Miracles and Manifestations of the Holy Spirit in the History of the Church (Walking Barefoot Ministries, 2008).
We walk the walls in this freak of flesh Along the twists of our visceral mesh Against the powerflow of motionless flood It’s an experience of the flesh and blood
I face the weight of this gravity I face the beauty in the things I can’t see I face the weakness that has rendered me strong I face the fate of my existence head on
Ready to bleed Ready to feel Ready to love Without fear
I, I’m alive, am alive, I’m alive and awake!
I pray for wisdom in the days of my youth I pray for courage in the presence of truth I pray for grace at each approach of the sun I pray for peace and for the Kingdom to come
I walk the world in this vessel of flesh Inside the twists of this visceral mesh Caught in the powerflow of motionless flood It’s an experience of the flesh and the blood
For all that lives and dies Entails a sacrifice of love Though the earth, the surf, the skies Are gilded with good-byes Be sure—God is in control
And when the dead leaves fall For time will fail us all Never fail to remember The One in whom we move and breathe And have our being Is the God who’s in control!
How do we die? How do we sleep? When we’re ready to be human Without fear
