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Discover the Secret Behind the New Age (Good Fight Ministries, n.d.).

Breaking the Spell (Good Fight Ministries, n.d.).

Halloween: Trick or Treat? (Good Fight Ministries, n.d.).

When they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the Word of God with boldness.
–Acts 4:31 (KJV)–

He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul:
but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding.
–Proverbs 15:32 (KJV)–

He giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
–James 4:6-7 (KJV)–

The interpretation of tongues.
–1 Corinthians 12:10 (ESV)–

Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, strive to excel in building up the church. Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
–1 Corinthians 14:12-14 (ESV)–

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Do what you want to do
Say what you want to say to me
I know what you’d like to think of me
This is not real
This can’t be real
This thing I feel

How can I not hate you, hate you
How can I not be free, be free

I know (deep down inside)
How God (reveals Himself)
I know (deep down inside)
To know Him (I must kill pride)

Why do you care so much for me?
What’s in this for you?
Why doesn’t selfishness rule you
Like everybody else?

Let go pride
Let go pride
Cannot deny
Cannot deny
This thing I feel
I feel inside

I know (how God)
I know (how God)
I know to know Him
I must kill pride

–Living Sacrifice, “Threatened”–

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Dr. Arrington, although he is a theologian from Church of God (Cleveland), the section I used on this podcast by him, is a synthesis of AG and COG teaching on the interpretation of tongues. Gee and Horton represent the Assemblies of God teaching on miraculous gifts; and they have chapters on tongues. Dr. Deere, Mallone, Wimber, and Jackson represent the developments about teaching on the miraculous gifts that justified the creation of the Vineyard churches, because of the lack of clear Pentecostal teaching on the subjective and psychological aspects of experiencing the Holy Spirit’s miraculous gifts: that is, dreams, visions, inner voices, impressions, and God sent coincidences or signs from God and how to properly interpret and apply these Biblically, symbolically, and under the theological supervision of a seminary educated charismatic pastor and plurality of elders. This eventually came to be called “ministry time” at the end of Vineyard services; and gave birth to a very clear and direct way to apply prophetic ministry, words of knowledge, and healing prayer in a charismatic church setting. Unfortunately, strong evangelistic preaching eventually gave way to a gifts and power emphasis in the Vineyard churches; and this unbalanced emphasis led to independent charismatic churches and the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). For this reason, David Wilkerson decided to distance himself from the Vineyard churches. But Leonard Ravenhill did accept a few Vineyard invitations only to preach so hard against sin that he was never invited back, as usual.

Dr. French Arrington, Christian Doctrine, vol. 3 (Pathway Press, 1993), pp. 157-161.

Dr. Jack Deere, Surprised by the Power of the Spirit (Zondervan, 1993).

—. Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 1996).

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Power of the Spirit (Zondervan, 2020).

—. Why I Am Still Surprised by the Voice of God (Zondervan, 2022).

—. The Beginner’s Guide to the Gift of Prophecy (Gospel Light, 2008).

George Mallone, Those Controversial Gifts (InterVarsity Press, 1983).

John Wimber, Power Evangelism (Harper & Row, 1986).

—. Power Healing (HarperSanFrancisco, 1987).

—. Power Encounters (Harper & Row, 1988).

—. Power Points (HarperSanFrancisco, 1991).

John Paul Jackson, The Biblical Model of Dream Interpretation (SMI, 2007),

Donald Gee, Concerning Spiritual Gifts (Gospel Publishing House, 1980).

Harold Horton, The Gifts of the Spirit (Gospel Publishing House, 1975).

Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries (Bethany House, 1959).

—. Revival God’s Way (Bethany House, 1983).

The Fall of the Roman Empire (Paramount Pictures, 1964).

Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. David Womersley (Penguin, 2001).

—. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. D. M. Low (Bonanza Books, 1985).