Modern Day Miracles

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Modern Day Miracles

• The Charismatic Movement

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Charisma

• Charisma (meaning "gift," "of/from/favored by
  God/the divine") is a trait found in individuals
  whose personalities are characterized by a
  powerful charm and magnetism (attractiveness) and
  markedly superior capabilities of interpersonal
  communication and persuasion.

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Charisma

• One who is charismatic is said to be capable of
  using their personal being, rather than just
  speech or logic alone, to influence others in a
  personal and direct manner, and effectively
  communicate an argument or concept to them. It is
  thus a subjective rather than an objective
  judgment about such persons and falls into the
  domain of the irrational rather than rational
  responses.

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Charismatic Movement

• The term charismatic movement is used in both
  broad and narrow senses.

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Charismatic Movement

• Charismatic movement describes an ongoing
  international, cross-denominational/non-denominati
  onal Christian movement in which individual,
  historically mainstream congregations adopt
  beliefs and practices similar to Pentecostals.
  Foundational to the movement is the belief that
  Christians may be filled with or baptized in
  the Holy Spirit as a second experience subsequent
  to salvation and that it will be evidenced by
  manifestations of the Holy Spirit.

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Charismatic Movement

• Among Protestants, the movement began circa 1960,
  although its roots may be traced to the so-called
  Latter Rain (post-World War II movement). Among
  Roman Catholics, it originated circa 1967.
• More loosely, charismatic movement is often used
  to encompass not only the movement in mainline
  denominations, but also the earlier Pentecostal
  movement, the later so-called Third-Wave of the
  Holy Spirit, and even Continuationism in general.

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Charismatic Movement

• The term "charismatic" was coined by American
  Lutheran minister Harald Bredesen in 1962 to
  describe what was happening in Mainline
  Protestant Denominations. Confronted with the
  term "neo-Pentecostal", he preferred to call it
  "the charismatic renewal in the historic
  churches."

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Charismatic Movement

• Charismatic is an umbrella term used to describe
  the belief that the gifts (Greek charismata
  ????sµa, from charis ?????, grace) of the Holy
  Spirit as described in the Christian New
  Testament are available to contemporary
  Christians through the filling with or baptism in
  the Holy Spirit, with-or-without the laying on of
  hands.

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Charismatic Movement

• These spiritual gifts are believed to be manifest
  in the form of signs, miracles, and wonders,
  including, but not limited to, glossolalia
  (speaking in tongues/languages), interpretation
  of tongues, prophecy, healing, and discernment of
  spirits (see, among others, 1 Corinthians 12-14).

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Charismatic Movement

• Adherents of these beliefs are often called
  "charismatics."
• They may be found in any denomination ... though
  some have formed their own independent
  congregations and ministries, and para-church
  organizations.

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John 1526

• "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to
  you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who
  proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me."

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John 1612-14

• "I still have many things to say to you, but you
  cannot bear them now. However, when He, the
  Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into
  all truth for He will not speak on His own
  authority, but whatever He hears He will speak
  and He will tell you things to come. He will
  glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and
  declare it to you."

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Matthew 2818

• And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, "All
  authority has been given to Me in heaven and on
  earth."

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Defining Holy Spirit Baptism

• "Jesus used figurative language in speaking of
  the Holy Spirit and the baptism of the Holy
  Spirit." "The baptism of John in water involved
  as its chief idea an overwhelming, a sudden and
  complete overpowering of the person submerged by
  water...so the baptism of the Holy Spirit was to
  imply an equally entire subjugation and
  overmastery of the soul by the Spirit." (H. Leo
  Boles, The Holy Spirit His Personality, Nature,
  Works, pp. 149-150)

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Its Purpose and Results

• "The baptism of the Spirit is totally different
  from filling in its results. Baptism unites one
  to Christ and makes one a member of the body of
  Christ."
• "When a person believes in Christ for salvation,
  at that moment he is baptized in the Holy
  Spirit." (Robert Gromacki, The Modern Tongues
  Movement, p. 101)

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Its Purpose and Results

• "So, baptized with the Holy Ghost must mean
  endued with power from on High."
• "To be baptized with the Holy Ghost means that
  they should receive power and be witnesses."
• "Jesus...meant the enduement of power for soul
  winning." (John R. Rice)

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Its Purpose and Results

• The baptism with the Holy Ghost is not a
  cleansing or an act of regeneration. It is the
  indwelling of the third person in the Trinity,
  but the indwelling of the Holy Ghost comes after
  the individual has met certain conditions."
• "The experience of sanctification must precede or
  come before the baptism with the Holy Ghost."
• "These experiences of being born again and wholly
  sanctified make it possible for one to live holy
  and free from sin and they also make one eligible
  to receive the baptism with the Holy Ghost. (M.
  A. Tomlinson)

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Matthew 311-12

• "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance,
  but He who is coming after me is mightier than I,
  whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will
  baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. His
  winnowing fan is in His hand, and He will
  thoroughly clean out His threshing floor, and
  gather His wheat into the barn but He will burn
  up the chaff with unquenchable fire."

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Speaking in Tongues

• "All instances of speaking in tongues in Acts
  were in foreign languages, known to the
  observers." (Gromacki, p. 101)

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Speaking in Tongues

• "It will be simpler and more true to the
  Scriptures and the plain intent of the Bible if,
  when we speak of tongues, we mean simply foreign
  languages. That is what they meant in the Bible
  in all the Scriptures referring to a gift of
  tongues."
• "These were not unknown languages that could not
  be understood, but the Jews were able to
  understand as the Galileans spoke with other
  tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance."

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Speaking in Tongues

• "The position that speaking in tongues is the
  evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit must
  be regarded as being unscriptural in origin."
  (Gromacki, p. 102)
• "No, speaking in tongues or foreign languages is
  not the initial evidence of the baptism of the
  Holy Ghost."

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Speaking in Tongues

• "Speaking in tongues is one of the prominent
  teachings of the Church of God, and to those of
  us who are familiar with the baptism of the Holy
  Ghost and speaking in tongues as evidence of this
  baptism, it hardly seems necessary to say much
  about the subject."
• "That speaking in tongues was accepted as
  evidence of the baptism with the Holy Ghost is
  clearly indicated."

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Acts 24,6,11

• And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and
  began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit
  gave them utterance.
• And when this sound occurred, the multitude came
  together, and were confused, because everyone
  heard them speak in his own language.
• "Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our
  own tongues the wonderful works of God."

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Mark 1617-18

• And these signs will follow those who believe In
  My name they will cast out demons they will
  speak with new tongues they will take up
  serpents and if they drink anything deadly, it
  will by no means hurt them they will lay hands
  on the sick, and they will recover."

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Acts 14-5

• And being assembled together with them, He
  commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but
  to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which,"
  He said, "you have heard from Me for John truly
  baptized with water, but you shall be baptized
  with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."

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Acts 18

• "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit
  has come upon you and you shall be witnesses to
  Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria,
  and to the end of the earth."

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Acts 1046-48

• For they heard them speak with tongues and
  magnify God. Then Peter answered, "Can anyone
  forbid water, that these should not be baptized
  who have received the Holy Spirit just as we
  have?" And he commanded them to be baptized in
  the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay
  a few days.

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1 Corinthians 138-10

• Love never fails. But whether there are
  prophecies, they will fail whether there are
  tongues, they will cease whether there is
  knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in
  part and we prophesy in part. But when that which
  is perfect has come, then that which is in part
  will be done away.

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Basic Bible Beliefs - M.A. Tomlinson

• We have Scripture to tell us that these gifts of
  the Spirit were placed in the Church, and there
  is no indication that they were ever removed from
  the Church.

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Basic Bible Beliefs - M.A. Tomlinson

• Since Paul tells us that the gifts were set in
  the Church, and these same gifts were restored to
  the Church when it made its appearance in our
  day.

BUT IF THEY WERE NEVER REMOVED, WHY DID THEY NEED
TO BE RESTORED? ONE DOESN'T NEED TO RESTORE WHAT
HAS NOT BEEN REMOVED.
AND IF THEY WERE REMOVED, "THAT WHICH IS PERFECT"
HAS COME!
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1 Corinthians 1311-13

• When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I
  understood as a child, I thought as a child but
  when I became a man, I put away childish things.
  For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face
  to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall
  know just as I also am known. And now abide
  faith, hope, love, these three but the greatest
  of these is love.

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Matthew 212324

• Now when He came into the temple, the chief
  priests and the elders of the people confronted
  Him as He was teaching, and said, "By what
  authority are You doing these things? And who
  gave You this authority?" But Jesus answered and
  said to them, "I also will ask you one thing,
  which if you tell Me, I likewise will tell you by
  what authority I do these things

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Matthew 212527

• "The baptism of John--where was it from? From
  heaven or from men?" And they reasoned among
  themselves, saying, "If we say, 'From heaven,' He
  will say to us, 'Why then did you not believe
  him?' But if we say, 'From men,' we fear the
  multitude, for all count John as a prophet." So
  they answered Jesus and said, "We do not know."
  And He said to them, "Neither will I tell you by
  what authority I do these things."

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1 Corinthians 1432-33

• And the spirits of the prophets are subject to
  the prophets. For God is not the author of
  confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of
  the saints.

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Transcendentalism

• Transcendentalism is the doctrine held by Ralph
  Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, and
  others, that truth (especially "religious truth")
  can be determined subjectively, or apart from any
  objective standard such as the Bible.
• According to the doctrine one would not need to
  study to learn the truth, he would just know it
  by "intuition."

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Transcendentalism

• "Everywhere men were seeking perfection. 'The
  ethical ideals to which Emerson and Henry David
  Thoreau aspired on a highly sophisticated level,
  plain men of the time sought at a Methodist
  mourners' bench or class meeting.' It was a kind
  of 'evangelical transcendentalism' which thrived
  in the idealism of a young and growing America"
  Vinson Synan (The Holiness-Pentecostal Movement
  in the United States, p. 30).

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2 Thessalonians 29-12

• The coming of the lawless one is according to the
  working of Satan, with all power, signs, and
  lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception
  among those who perish, because they did not
  receive the love of the truth, that they might be
  saved. And for this reason God will send them
  strong delusion, that they should believe the
  lie, that they all may be condemned who did not
  believe the truth but had pleasure in
  unrighteousness.