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‘I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’ Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’ “‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ “He said to him, ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.’”            –Luke 16:27-31 (NIV)

The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine (e.g., eternal punishment); but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears.   –2 Timothy 4:3 (KJV)

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SermonIndex: David Wilkerson Sermons

Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience, ch. VII: “Considerations on Dreams, Visions, Etc.”

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I’m agreed with Justin that Kathryn is definitely a charlatan. My point of view about spirits of infirmity, however, is that they do in fact exist. It is one of the few demon names in the Bible that has adequate support (Job 2:7; 2 Cor. 12:7). Luke 13:11 (KJV) suggests that they can in fact be related to paralysis: “Behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.” However, this doesn’t mean that it would be right to just blindly assume that all cases of disability imply a spirit of infirmity is afflicting the person in question. But what it does imply is that it is possible, just as in the case of parasites, viruses, and the like. However, exorcists in the Catholic Church, and authentic healing evangelists in Assemblies of God, have determined that the gift of discerning of spirits (1 Cor. 12:10, KJV), is a visionary gift that sometimes allows prayer ministers to “see” those spirits while praying for the sick and disabled: then and only then, the power of God (dunamis, Luke 5:17) can be released by the laying on of hands, after the infirming spirit’s presence is revealed, and the organic sickness is miraculously removed immediately (blindness–Acts 13:11, deafness–Mark 9:25, disability–Luke 13:11, tumors–Job 2:7, etc). But the gift of discerning of spirits (a vision of a demon) has got to be part of the prayer experience. Jesus said, “I saw Satan” (Luke 10:18, NKJV). Not just the wild guess and universal assumption as in the case of Kathryn Krick. Many people find the whole idea of demon inhabitation understandably repulsive. While it may be true that affliction by sickness demons is going on sometimes, it is definitely REALLY BAD MANNERS to be displaying such an idea from a microphone, and making a public spectacle of it on a stage. Although such spectacles did happen in the gospels by accident: that can’t be denied either. The Vineyard churches will generally teach their prayer ministers to KEEP DEMON VISIONS TO THEMSELVES and just use them to bolster their faith while they pray for the sick. –J.B.

P.S. I disagree with Justin slamming down Alexander Pagani. I believe he has an apostolic ministry function within his circle, and while I think its wrong to use honorific titles like Apostle and Prophet on flyers, etc, I do believe that Pagani is a sincere Wesleyan-Pentecostal and is trying to be as transparent about doctrine as he can.

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John Wimber, Power Healing.

Francis MacNutt, Deliverance from Evil Spirits, p. 44.

Dr. Richard Casdorph, The Miracles.

Dr. Rex Gardner, Healing Miracles.

Dr. Candy Gunther Brown, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Harvard, 2012).

Global Awakening, “Mass Healing Breaks Out In Worship.”

—. “School of Healing and Impartation” event ($150).

—. “Healing Testimonies.”

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

When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the Word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, “How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?” Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the full number of their fellow servants, their brothers and sisters, were killed just as they had been.   –Revelation 6:9-11

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: At the same time I have felt an uncommon affection for them. But I never had anything of this kind with regard to any but 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

CORRECTION (4:14): I said, “Samuel had backslidden from the Lord.” NO! Saul did, that’s who I meant.

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Alisa Childers, “Is Necromancy Creeping Into the Church?”

John Weldon and Clifford Wilson, Occult Shock and Psychic Forces: A Biblical View (Master Books, 1980). 482 pages.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, “The Communion of Saints.” Not to be confused with praying to saints, or the “invocation of saints,” as Wesley condemned that in the Articles of Religion against Purgatory: “The Romish doctrine concerning purgatory, pardon, worshiping, and adoration, as well of images as of relics, and also invocation of saints, is a fond thing, vainly invented, and grounded upon no warrant of Scripture, but repugnant to the Word of God.” And why is the invoking of saints against the Bible? Because Deuteronomy 18:11 says to let no one be found among you who is “a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead.” There is no contradiction between Deuteronomy 18:11 and Matthew 17:3, because the first one is referring to trance mediumship like the witch of Endor did, actively seeking to contact familiar spirits by vision (1 Samuel 28); and the second is about Jesus receiving revelation and encouragement from departed saints, in a vision about his future trial and crucifixion. “They spoke about his departure, which he was about to bring to fulfillment at Jerusalem” (Luke 9:31). The first is counterfeit because it comes from a false New Age theology that blends religions and actively seeks out to contact the dead by means of spells; the second is authentic because it comes as an occasional and accidental side effect of communion with God, within the context of a Biblical and orthodox charismatic theology, which allows for the continuation of prophetic dreams and visions (see Archibald Alexander, Thoughts on Religious Experience, Banner of Truth, ch. VII: “Considerations on dreams, visions, etc”).

Augustin Poulain, The Graces of Interior Prayer (Kegan Paul, 1921), p. 310. “When the angels or the saints assume an apparent body in order to manifest themselves, this body never exhibits deformed limbs or an animal aspect. It would be unworthy of them.”

Andrew Pradel, St. Vincent Ferrer: The Angel of the Judgment (TAN Books, 2001).

He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and REFUTE THOSE WHO OPPOSE IT. –Titus 1:9

SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ. –Ephesians 4:15

Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you ALLOW that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to TEACH AND SEDUCE My servants to commit SEXUAL IMMORALITY. –Jesus in Revelation 2:20 (NKJV)

Do not GRIEVE the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. –Ephesians 4:30

The Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was GRIEVED in His heart. –Genesis 6:6 (NKJV)

LOVE does not delight in EVIL but rejoices with the TRUTH. –1 Corinthians 13:6

You have LOVED righteousness and HATED wickedness. –Hebrews 1:9

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AGAINST UNIVERSALISM AND ANNIHILATIONISM
(FALSE DOCTRINES ABOUT HELL).

    Christopher Morgan and Robert Peterson, Hell Under Fire (Zondervan, 2004).

AGAINST DOCTRINAL ERRORS EXISTING IN CATHOLICISM, BAPTISMAL REGENERATION, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM, HYPER-CALVINISM, JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, DISPENSATIONALISM, SPIRITUALISM, ANGLO-ISRAELISM, MORMONISM, COMMUNISM, LIBERAL CHRISTIANITY. (I DON’T AGREE WITH HIS ANTI-PENTECOSTAL SECTION).

    John R. Rice, False Doctrines (Sword of the Lord Publishers, 1970).

AGAINST DOCTRINAL ERRORS EXISTING IN JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE, MORMONISM, SPIRITISM, THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, BUDDHISM, BAHAI FAITH, UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM, SCIENTOLOGY, UNIFICATION CHURCH, EASTERN RELIGIONS, THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT, ISLAM, WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD, SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISM, SWEDENBORGIANISM, ROSICRUCIANISM.

    Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Bethany House Publishers, 2003).

AGAINST POSITIVE CONFESSION THEOLOGY.

    Hank Hanegraaff, Christianity In Crisis: 21st Century (Thomas Nelson, 2012).

The power of the Lord was present to heal them.
–Luke 5:17 (NKJV)–

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Dr. Richard Casdorph, The Miracles.

Dr. Rex Gardner, Healing Miracles.

Dr. Candy Gunther Brown, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing (Harvard, 2012).

Global Awakening, “Mass Healing Breaks Out In Worship.”

—. “School of Healing and Impartation” event ($150).

—. “Healing Testimonies.”