Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Category: THE HOLY SPIRIT
The most recent video publication of "The American Gospel" does, for the most part, a service to the Church and the Word of God. However, I take exception to the episode used to preach Reformed theology, as though it were the gospel truth. To my mind this is an error almost as large as the one the video series attempts to address.
Mark calls the Messiah "the Son of God". He quotes God as saying through Isaiah that He would send his messenger ahead of this Son of God and would tell His messenger to "make straight paths for him" (Mark 1:1-3). So then, the "Lord" whose way John was to prepare was Jesus Christ - not just an earthly master as some try to define the word "lord" here, but the Son of God.
Certain Charismatic ministers and their followers are teaching that God literally “cannot” heal unless we believe fully that He's going to do it, or even that He already has healed us. They say that to consider whether or not God wants to heal us is to ensure that the healing will not happen. I here lay out a selection of Scriptural evidence that this is a false teaching, and therefore that the proponents of this idea are either false teachers or should not be trusted to teach.
Feelings are not faith, and as Paul declared, "Everything that does not come from faith is sin" (Romans 14:23). That's not to say that all feelings are sinful, but depending on them is. Feelings can be sensual, physical, temporal and fallible. They can be useful and wonderful tools and a great blessing, but they can also regularly get us into trouble. The antidote to this uncertainty is the Word of God.
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