Sunday 21 January 2024

More on Cessationism

 In reply to a video on the subject:


God speaks to me directly.


this is the promise of having the Holy Spirit 


how do i know it is the Spirit who speaks? no other spirit convicts me  of sin in patience kindness and love.


any other would either tell me sin is not an issue, that i am ok


or have me writing in in agony  of condemnation on the floor



if the Spirit does not speak to us directly how does he Give life? Life is not a reified essence, life is relationship with Him, without this  is a law w cannot keep and we have forsaken him for the law


all the bible is is a book of law for it has things which  i as carnal find absurd.  so the commandments to believe certain things stand to me in the same relations as law does. so gazing at the book will only have me  more condemned than ever. for the letter kills the SPIRIT GIVES LIFE


and how does the Spirit work in me to do and will his good pleasure if he does not speak to me directly in one on one??

and where is the intimacy or abundant life or sabbath rest  if the Spirit does not speak to me one on one?


if i cannot choose, being sunk in sin and carnality, if he does not persuade me as a loving father  in one on one dialogue then nothing gets done and i am lost


i am sorry but if they refuse this they are in perilous danger.


i cannot regard them a brethren for they have forsaken christ for the law, as I did.


but it was the one on one dialogue with the Holy Spirit  OF CHRIST where by his grace ( for he is my wonderful coudsellor0 is persuading me to make choices I simply cannot do of my own 


and if they continue to reject this a time will com when the Spirit  will give up for they are too hardened to hear him. the warning of Hebrews 6:4 ff applies to us christians, and the warning is  to NOT reject the  Spirit for the law