Doctrinal Studies 1

Doctrinal Studies 1

DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY

Looking for information on the doctrine of the Trinity? We have Biblical evidence for the Trinity doctrine being true and answers for those who say the Trinity is false. The Trinity Doctrine is the One God revealed through three distinct Persons as the Father, the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. Below will be some Biblical information on explaining the Trinity in simple terms and following that will be various articles dealing with the doctrine of the Trinity.

Explaining the Trinity

1. The Bible teaches that there is only one God. (Isaiah 43:10, Isaiah 44:6-8, Isaiah 45:22)

2. The Bibles teaches that there is one who is called the Father and is identified as being God. (1 Peter 1:2)

3. The Bible teaches that there is one who is called Jesus and is identified as being God. (John 1:1-3&14-18, John 20:28-29, 1 John 1:1-4&5:20, Philippians 2:5-8, Revelation 1:17-18, Revelation 22:12-20)

4. The Bible teaches that there is one who is called the Holy Spirit and is identified as being God. (John 14:16-17, John 15:26, John 16:7-15, Acts 5:3-4, Acts 13:2, 1 Corinthians 12:4-18, Hebrews 9:14, Hebrews 10:15-18)

There are things in life that are triune in nature but one. For example: An egg is one but with three distinctions. You have the yoke, the white, and the shell, but all three composite the one egg. Another example: A piece of fruit such as the peach has three components. A peach has the outer layer (the skin), the inner layer (the juicy stuff known as the meat), and the core. All three components composite the one peach.

Other things that we have in our everyday lives that are triune is water. Water is one substance that can be liquid, gas, and solid distinctly or all at the same. The following quote is from the late Dr. Walter Martin: "It is a well-known fact of chemistry that plain water, when placed in a vacuum under 230 millimeters of gas pressure and at a temperature of 0 degrees Centigrade, solidifies into ice at the bottom of the container, remains liquid in the center and vaporizes at the top! At a given instant the same water is both solid, liquid and gas, yet all three are manifestations of the same basic substance or nature: H2O - hydrogen: two parts; oxygen: one. If one of the simplest of all created substances can be three in manifested form and yet remain one in nature, then the Creator of that substance can surely be Father, Son and Holy Spirit - three Persons and one Nature - without any violation of logic or reason whatever if He so wills."

If an egg, a peach, and water can have three distinct things and all be one at the same time, than the Almighty should have no problem. The word Trinity is way of explaining the belief in one God revealed through three distinct persons. Some people get all hung up on the issue of the Bible teaching there is only one God. No where does the Bible state God is only one person, but it does say God is one in Deuteronomy 6:4. The word for one there is the Hebrew word Echad, which means a composite unity. For examples of this consider Genesis 1:5, Genesis 2:24, Ezra 2:64, Ezekiel 37:17 where the same Hebrew word Echad is used and means one in unity, not in number!

The Bible teaches there is one Church but many members and there is no problems with understanding this, yet when it comes to God some seem to have problems.

Saved?
How Do We Know?
What Does It Mean?

HOW DO WE KNOW IF WE ARE SAVED?

God has not left us in the dark when it comes to knowing if we are saved. 1 John 5:13 states, "I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life."
The question is, "What is written so that we can know we are saved?"

From Acts 2:38 and Ephesians 1:13, we see that when we repent and believe we receive the Holy Spirit and the following verses tell us that it is through the Spirit that we know we belong to Jesus.
1 John 3:24 says, "... this is how we know that he lives in us; We know it by the Spirit he gave us."
1 John 4:13 says "We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit."
From these verses we can see that our assurance of salvation comes from the presence of the Spirit in our life.

HOW DOES THE SPIRIT MAKE HIS PRESENCE KNOWN TO US?

It's one thing to read in the Bible that we receive the Spirit when we believe, but how do we really know that the Spirit is in our life? In Romans 8:16 & 14 it says, "The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children" and "those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." The Holy Spirit witnesses to us that we are a child of God and, as we allow Him to lead, He will change us so that what is said in 2 Cor 5:17 becomes a reality in our life ... "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" That is, the Spirit leads us to leave our old, sinful way of life behind and begin afresh ... we are born again and start a new life that pleases God.

HOW DOES THE SPIRIT LEAD US TO BRING THIS NEW LIFE?

When we repent and receive the Spirit into our life, we don't get turned into sinless saints, although immediate and obvious changes can occur in new believers. What does happen though, to all who accept Jesus as Lord, is that the sins of their past are forgiven and the Spirit begins to work in their life to keep them from future sin and to conform them to the likeness of Jesus.

Regarding the Spirit, John 16:8 says, "When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment." It is the Spirit's conviction of sin that brings guilt and repentance into a believer's life and leads them to confess that sin, receive forgiveness and be cleansed of it. This is stated in 1 John 1:9 ... "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." It is through this process that a person is not just forgiven, but cleansed of sin and can walk in newness of life. Matt 1:21 and 2 Thess 2:13 tell us that a person is saved from their sins through the sanctifying work of the Spirit.

WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DON'T RESPOND TO THE SPIRIT'S CONVICTION?

Romans 8:12-13 say, "... brothers, we have an obligation ... if you live according to the sinful nature, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live." These verses make it clear that we have a responsibility to follow the Spirit's leading otherwise we will die (which is a polite way of saying we will end up in hell).

The little book of 1 John makes it very clear that a person who is 'born of God' will not continue in sin. 1 John 3:6-10 say, "No one who lives in him keeps on sinning ... He who does what is sinful is of the devil ... No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him ... This is how we know who the children of God are and who the children of the devil are: Anyone who does not do what is right is not a child of God; nor is anyone who does not love his brother."

No one will be saved by simply asking Jesus for forgiveness and then going on to do whatever he likes. It would make a joke of Jesus' death to say, "Thanks for dying for my sins Jesus. Now I'm going to carry on as usual because you have died for all my sins, past and future." We are not saved by a simple 'thank you Jesus'. We must, through the power of the Holy Spirit, keep from deliberate sin and lead a life that is pleasing to God. Deliberate sins include lying, stealing, hating, lusting, coveting, bitterness and fits of anger. We can never live a perfectly sinless life, but through the Spirit, we must be kept from ongoing, deliberate and repetitive sin … otherwise we will die. See Galatians 5:16.

SO, HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU ARE SAVED?

In Luke 13:3 Jesus said, "unless you repent, you too will all perish." and in John 3.3 He said, "... no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." So, if you have repented of your sins and asked Jesus to be your Lord, then you will know the Holy Spirit's presence in your life as He brings conviction of sin, guides you in all truth and brings glory to Jesus as stated in John 16:8-14. Hebrews 12:14 says, "without holiness no one will see the Lord." The Holy Spirit's presence enables us to walk in holiness and that walk is our absolute assurance of salvation.

1 John 5:3 says, "This is love for God: to obey his commands" and 1 John 3:23 says, "And this is his command: to believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and to love one another as he commanded us." As the Spirit cleanses us from sin, God's command to love Him and our neighbour becomes a reality in our life. Romans 13:10 says that, "love is the fulfillment of the law."

What We Believe As Baptists:

We have been asked many times concerning the doctrine and beliefs of our Church. Of course the simplest statement of faith that we could make is this: "We believe the whole Bible from Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21." However, we believe that it would be good to set forth some of the things which are most surely believed among us. The following statements are not made in an effort to establish a new set of articles of faith, but rather to make plain some of the things that we believe..

There are five words that fairly set forth what we believe. Those five words are: Baptist, Fundamental, Premillennial, Missionary, and Independent.

We Are Baptist

By this we mean that we hold to the historic beliefs and practices which have prevailed among Baptists from the time of Jesus. In every period of time, since Christ established His church during His earthly ministry, there have been churches who were Baptist in faith and practice.. They did not always wear the name Baptist, but they believed and practiced Baptist doctrine, which is none other than Bible doctrine.

Baptists did not come out of the Reformation under Martin Luther, for they were never a part of the Catholic Church. In fact Baptists were on the scene long before the Catholic Church ever came into existence. For those who are interested in studying more on this subject we highly recommend The Trail of Blood, by J.M. Carroll.

We do not believe in a so-called "Universal Invisible Church." We believe that Jesus established a local, visible church, and we are sure that this is the only kind of true church that is in existence today.

We Are Fundamental

By this we mean, that we accept the so-called fundamentals of the faith as opposed to modernism which denies the fundamentals of the faith. We believe in the verbal inspiration of the Scriptures, the Genesis account of the creation, the Virgin Birth of Christ, His sinless life, His blood atonement, His glorious bodily resurrection, His ascension, and His second coming.

When we say that we are fundamental, we do not mean that this is all that we believe; because we do believe every doctrine and truth in the Word of God without any reservation. No Church or Christian has any right to single out any doctrine of the Word of God and say that it is non-essential. If any of it was non-essential, then God would not have wasted the space by putting it in the Bible.

We Are Premillennial

We believe that Jesus Christ is coming back before the Millennial Kingdom is established. Under the government of man, the world is growing worse and worse morally. This is a fulfillment of the Scriptures which says, "But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived." (II Timothy 3:13).

When Christ shall come in the air, "the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain (the living Christians) shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." (I Thessalonians 4:16-17). Then the Anti-Christ will be manifested here upon the earth and the seven years of tribulation shall begin. At the end of the seven years of tribulation, the Lord will return with His saints and utterly defeat the armies of the Anti-Christ. Satan will be bound and cast into the bottomless pit, and then the Lord will establish his kingdom here on earth and reign for a thousand years. (See Revelation 19-21).

We Are Missionary

Every true new Testament Baptist Church should be missionary. Jesus gave the command to His Church in Matt. 28:18-29, that they were to "teach all nations." He also said, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature" (Mark 16:15). He also said, "Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and n all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth" (Acts 1:8). If people are to be saved, they must hear the Word of God. "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!... So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Romans 10:13-15,17). To be obedient to Christ, we must send missionaries to the foreign field, while we are missionaries on the home field.

It is not enough to be missionary in name, but we must be missionary in practice. This means that we should pray for missions, and support missions with the finances that God has placed in our hand. We receive a mission offering every week. We practice Faith Promise Mission giving.

We support sound Bible believing missionaries. Instead of sending the money to some denominational headquarters where 80% or 90% of it is used up in administration costs, we send it direct to the missionary, through their home church. This way he gets 100% of the money and not just 10 % or 20%. We have recently raised the monthly support for our missionaries, and by God’s grace we intend to continue to raise it.

We Are Independent

We are not independent to do as we please, but we are independent and unaffiliated, in order that we might do as God pleases. God forbid that we should ever want to be independent from God. We are not "affiliated with" nor do we "belong to" any association or convention. Jesus established the local New Testament Church, and we do not believe that He established any convention or association to lord it over the churches. It is our contention that a true church cannot scripturally join anything nor become affiliated with any outside religious organization.

Churches may work together in the work of Christ, but should beware of entangling alliances which bring them under the domination of boards and denominational secretaries. Conventions, associations, and other like denominational organizations are usually started by men of good faith, but they enter into such organizations without one verse of Scriptural authority. Eventually these extra-Scriptural organizations become the citadels of compromise and doctrinal laxness, with an insatiable desire to dominate and lord it over the churches.

During the period of time covered in the book of Acts the greatest evangelistic missionary effort in the history of Christianity may be seen. In those days travel was slow, radio, television, and even the printing press was unheard of, yet the gospel spread like a flame. In no other period of Church history was so much done by so few. In 30 short years greater progress was made than in any other period of history, in establishing churches and carrying out the Great Commission. Yet, there was no convention, association, or outside the church denominational organization. The plan used in the book of Acts worked, and it is working today among churches who are trying to use it.

It is our desire to contend for the faith without being contentious. We can disagree without being disagreeable. We can stand for the faith without kicking. We do rejoice when the gospel is preached and when souls are saved, even though we might not agree completely with the method that is used. Criticism of another man’s method does not constitute obedience to Christ’s command to carry the gospel to the ends of the earth. We must not only believe in the right way, but we must demonstrate the right way.

The church of the living God does not have time for petty arguments, foolish and unlearned questions and the like. This is not the time for factions, frictions, and foolish divisions. This is the time for action. We are approaching the zero hour when we shall soon face Christ. Let us gird up the loins of our mind, put on the whole armor of God and press forward in the battle for Christ.

Fifty Things That You Should Know About Tongues and Healing.....

1. The Jews , as a nation , began with signs ( Rom 4:11; Exo. 4:8, 9,17,28,30;7:3; 8:23,10:1-2; 13:9; 31:13,17;

Deu 4:34; 6:22).

2. The Old Testament Jews lived by sings ( Deu 11:18; Jos 4:6; 1 Sam 10:7; 2 Kgs19:29; Isa 7:14; 38:7,22; Ezk 4:3; 20:12,20 ).

3. The Jews Demanded signs from the Lord Jesus Christ (Mat 12:38; 16:1-4; 24:3; Jhn2:18; 6:30).

4. The Jews require a sigh, not the Gentiles (1 Cor.1: 22; Jhn.4:48).

5. According to the Lord Jesus Christ, the gifts of tongues and healing are signs (Mar. 16: 16-20).

6.These signs were for the purpose of confirming the word of God (Acts 14:3; Heb.2:3-4)

7.These signs are spoken of in the past tense in 2 Corinthians 12:12 and in Hebrews

2:3-4, not in the present or future tense.

8. Those who still look for signs and wonders today are on dangerous ground for the Antichrist will deceive the world with signs and wonders (Rev.13:13-14; 2 Ths.2:8-12).

9.The Lord Jesus Christ said that an evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign (Mat.12:39).

10.The Bible speaks of various spiritual gifts to believers, but tongues and healing are never emphasized more than the other gifts (1Cor.12:4-11).

11. The gifts of tongues and healing were not considered the best gifts (1Cor.12:28- 31).

12.The gift of healing was a sign ( Mar. 16:17-18; Exo 4:6-8; 2 Kgs 20:8-9)

13. It is not God’s will for all Christians to be healed ( 2 Cor. 12:5-10).

14. The apostle Paul could not heal himself (2 Cor. 12:5-10).

15. Near the end of his ministry, Paul could not heal Trophimus (2 Tim. 4: 20).

16. Instead of helaing Timothy, Paul gave him medical advice (1 Tim. 5: 23)..

17. Contrary to the modern faith healers, "Love Gifts" and “ faith Offerings" were not a part of the healing ministries of the disciples (Mat. 10:8-9).

18. A Christian who hasn’t confessed his sins and repented of them has no business expecting God to heal him of anything (Psa. 6:1-4; 41:4; 2 Chr. 7:14; Hos 5:10-13;1 Cor 11:29-32; Jas 5:14-16; 1 Jhn 1:7-10).

19. If modern faith healers really have the gift of healing , then they should prove their ministry by visiting hospitals and nursing homes and healing the sick, rather than writing books, holding healing meetings, and begging for money on television (2 Tim. 4:5; Mat 10:8-16; 1 Tim 6.5-10).

20. Satan has the power to heal and this will cause millions to be led astray in the coming Tribulation Period (Rev 13: 1-4, 12).

21. The gift of tongues was given as a sign ( Mar. 16:17; 1 Cor 14:22 ).

22. The gift of tongues was the supernatural ability of some Christians to speak in foreign languages in the presence of unbelieving Jews (Acts 2:7-11).

23. God has never caused or commanded Christians to speak in unknown tongues (Mar.16:17; Acts 2: 4; 1 Cor. 12:10; 1 Cor. 14 ).

24. The Bible never says once that tongues is the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

25. There is no baptism of the Holy Ghost in 1 Corinthians. 14.

26. Paul said that all true Christians were baptized into the body of Christ by the Holy Ghost (1 Cor. 12:13 ), and all true Christians were sealed with the Holy Ghost until the day of redemption (Eph. 4:30 ), but all Christians did not speak in tongues (1 Cor 12: 29-31).

27. The Bible never says that the baptism of the Holy Ghost is a second Christian experience or blessing.

28. The Baptism of fire is the condemnation of the wicked in Hell (Mat. 3:11-12), no being "on fire for the Lord".

29. Acts 2:3 speaks of "cloven Tonues LIKE AS of fire, " but the Book of Acts says nothing at all about tongues of fire or a baptism of fire.

30. If a person does not have the spirit of Christ, he has no business waiting for the baptism of the Holy Ghost, because he doesn’t even belong to Christ (Rom. 8:9).

31. Pentecost was never a religious movement, or a religious experience. It was a Jewish feast day which always occurred fifty days after the Passover (Lev.23:15-22).

32. Jesus said that when the Holy Ghost came He (the Holy Ghost) would not speak of Himself, because He would glorify Christ (Jhn. 16: 13-14).

33. No Christian in the Bible is ever told to pray, preach, sing, or praise God in tongues.

34. The disciples received the Holy Ghost in John 20:22, but they did not speak in tongues when this happened.

35. The filling of the Spirit in Acts 4:31 and Eph 5:18-20 does not include speaking in tongues.

36. When speaking of spiritual gifts in Ephesians 4: 8-12, Paul does not mention tongues.

37. There were only three cases in the Book of Acts where people spoke in tongues (not unknown tongues), and these tongues were a sign to the Jews each time, because the Jews require a sign (Acts 2:1-11; 10: 44-46; 19: 6-8; 1 Cor. 1:22 ; 14: 22).

38. The former and latter rain of Joel 2 has nothing to do with Acts 2 or the modern day Charismatic Movement, because the rain of Joel 2 is literal wet rain from the sky in Israel (Joel 2: 1-31).

39. Tongues are not even mentioned in the list of spiritual gifts in Romans 12: 6-8.

40. Although tongues (not unknown tongues) were permitted in 1 Corinthians 14 (because there was a Jewish synagogue in Corinth – Acts 18: 1-4), they were not encouraged because tongues did not edify the church (I Cor. 14: 4-5, 26).

41. It is better to speak five words clearly than ten thousand with an unknown tongue (1 Cor. 14: 19).

42. No more than three people were allowed to speak in tongues in the church assembly, and then only one could speak at a time (1 Cor. 14:27).

43. No one was permitted to speak in tongues in the church without an interpreter (1Cor. 14:27-28).

44. Women were not allowed to speak in tongues in the church (1 Cor. 14:34-35).

45. Those who did speak in tongues (foreign languages) had power over their own spirit (1 Cor. 14:32).

46. A religious man doesn't bridle his tongue is deceived and he has a vain religion (Jas. 1:26).

47. Many "seducing spirits" are in the world and it is every Christian's duty to "try" these spirits (1 Tim. 4:1; 1 Jhn. 4:1; Rev. 2:2).

48. The word of God is the standard by which we are to judge all doctrines (Isa.8:20; 2 Tim. 3:16-17).

49. He that is spiritual judges all things (1 Cor. 2:15).

50. Teaching the Scriptural Truth about signs, healing, and tongues is not a matter of being mean, prejudiced, or intolerant. It is simply a matter of obeying the command to RIGHTLY DIVIDE God's word (2 Tim. 2:15).

SIXTY-SIX THINGS THE PENTECOSTAL CAN NOT FIND IN THE WORD OF GOD

FIND THE BOOK, CHAPTER AND VERSE IN THE BIBLE THAT TEACH:

1. God commands or desires that people speak in UNKNOWN tongues.

2. There are UNKNOWN tongues spoken in Acts, Chapter 2 (Acts 2:8).

3. Paul's desire was that all would speak in UNKNOWN tongues (I Cor. 14:5).

4. Paul thanked God that he spoke with UNKNOWN tongues more than all others IN THE

CHURCH (I Cor. 14:18-19).

5. Women should speak in tongues in the church assembly (I Cor. 14:34-35).

6. Angels spoke in unknown tongues.

7. Everyone should seek for the gift of tongues, rather than letting the Holy Spirit

give utterance at a Point of time "dividing to every man severally as HE will" (1Cor. 12:11).

8. Speaking in tongues is the "baptism in the Holy Ghost".

9. The expression "baptism IN the Holy Ghost" occurs in the Scriptures.

10. All Christians are commanded by God to speak in tongues (I Cor. 12:30).

11. Unknown tongues are needed in an assembly where everyone speaks the same language.

12. The purpose of speaking with tongues to edify ourselves (Acts 2:4-11).

13. God commanded or desired that a man pray with an unknown tongue, although his understanding is unfruitful.

14. The baptism of I Cor. 12:13 includes speaking in tongues.

15. The object of tongues is any person other than an unbelieving Jew who needs a sign, or one thaunderwent a previous Jewish baptism by John the Baptist (Isa. 28:11; Acts 2:5-11, 10:45-47,19:1-8; 1 Cor. 1:22).

16. A man cannot be deceived when he speaks with tongues (2 Thess. 2:3),

17. The human spirit cannot be defiled (2 Cor. 7:1).

18. A man who is saved and has received the gift of the Holy Spirit cannot let doctrines of devils and deceiving spirits gain access to his mind, thereby giving place to the devil (I Tim. 4:1; Eph. 4:27).

19. The body is redeemed already, and has no law of sin in its members (Rom..7:23-25; 8:23; Phil. 3:21).

20. A man cannot be devil possessed after he is saved.

21. We are not to forbid the speaking with UNKNOWN tongues in church (I Cor 14: 39).

22. We need to Practice our tongue gift daily in order to develop it, and to avoid losing it.

23. We are to seek the gift of tongues, rather than the gift of prophecy, in the church (I Cor. 14:5, 39).

24. God doesn't mind people adding to His finished revelation (the Bible) if it is in the form of tongues, interpretation of tongues, or prophesy (Prov. 30:5-6; I Cor.14:36; 2 Tim. 4:1-4; Rev. 22:18-19).

25. Speaking five words with an unknown tongue is more profitable than speaking ten thousand words with understanding (I Cor. 14:19).

26. The gift of tongues is manifested by a babbling that no one present can understand, including the speaker (I Cor. 14:8-9).

27. A person who prays in an UNKNOWN tongue in the church assembly does not understand it himself.

28. The Holy Spirit's intercessory groanings can be uttered (Rom. 8:26)

29. More than one person at the same time may speak or pray in tongues in the church assembly (I Cor. 14:27).

30. Tongues are a sign to believers (I Cor. 14:22).

31. Unknown tongues are for the believer (I Cor. 14:22).

32. God commands or desires us to sing in unknown tongues.

33. Tongues were not to cease in and of themselves (I Cor. 13:8).

34. More than one in the church assembly is to interpret (I Cor. 14:27).

35. Tongues are not actual languages (Acts 2:6; Isa. 28:11).

36. The fullness of the Holy Spirit is manifested by the speaking with tongues.

37. Jesus spoke or prayed in tongues.

38. You shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you, not to be witnesses unto the Lord Jesus Christ, but to babble in an unknown language (Acts1:8).

39. The "new tongues" that Jesus foretold His disciples would speak with were unknown tongues (Mark 16:17; Acts 2:4-6).

40. Jesus was not serious when he said that His disciples, in addition to speaking in new tongues would be able to take up serpents or to drink any poison without it harming them (Mark 16:17;18) . And so, everyone who claims the ability to speak with tongues should also be required to "drink any deadly thing."

41. The word "shall" in Mark 16:17-18 means "sometimes" or "in the process of time, shall. . ."

42. Others, in addition to the twelve apostles, spoke with tongues in Acts chapter 2 (Acts 1:24 - 2:1).

43. Tongues are to be a sign to Gentiles and to the Church (Acts 2:5- 11; Isa. 28:11).

44. We are not to "try the spirits whether they are of God", opposing any that are false (including tongues) as presumptuous against God Almighty (I John 4:1-3).

45. The devil cannot do miracles (Ex. 7:11; Dan. 11:23; 2 Thess. 2:7- 10; Rev. 13:4;

46. The Holy Spirit can manifest Himself contrary to the written revelation of the Scriptures (I Cor. 14:33) as long as the manifestation is supernatural (like tongues).

47. Besides the Old Testament saints and the original disciples, any person can receive the Holy Spirit more than once (I Cor. 12:13; Rom. 8:9; Eph. 1:13-14; 5:18).

48. A man who has received the Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:9) is not receiving "another spirit" if he receives any additional spirit after his salvation (2 Cor. 11:4).

49. The prophecy about the Holy Spirit being poured out on ALL flesh has been fulfilled Joe12:27-32).

50. There are Gentiles in Acts chapter 2 who aren't proselytes (Acts 2:5-10).

51. Tongues in Acts chapter 2 were anything other than a clear declaration of "the wonderful works of God" (Acts 2:11).

52. Tongues protect us from the devil (Eph. 6:10-20)

53. Satan is not anointed, and all that is anointed is good (Ezek. 28:14).

54. Judas didn't have the signs of an apostle and wasn't "a devil" (Matt. 10:1-8; John 6:70).

55. Satan doesn't have false prophets, false apostles, and deceitful workers that transform themselves into "angels of light" and "apostles of Christ" (2 Cor. 12:13-35).

56. All that is spiritual is good, and we should open ourselves up to it (1 John

57. Experience is to be taken as a higher authority from God than the written revelation of Scripture (Isa. 8:20).

58. The Holy Spirit cannot be grieved, quenched, or lied to (1 Thess. 5:19; Eph. 4:30; Acts 5:3).

59. Forbidding to speak with tongues is blaspheming the Holy Spirit (Mark 3:29-30).

60. Paul, or anyone else in Scripture, preached a "full gospel" (I Cor. 15:1-4).

61. We, rather than the Holy Spirit, decide what spiritual gifts we get, or transferthem to others by the laying on of hands ( 1 Cor. 14:11).

62. Pentecost is an experience, rather than a Jewish Feast (Exod. 23:16; Acts 2:1;20:16).

63. Jesus and His disciples sent people to doctors or erected hospitals after unsuccessful healing attempts (Matt. 10:1; Acts 5:16).

64. The tower of Babel was a good experience (Gen. 11:1-9).

65. Unknown tongues edify the church (1Cor. 14;4, 18, 19, 23).

66. CHARITY DOES NOT REJOICE IN TRUTH (I Cor. 13:6).

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