Heresy Hunters vs the Holy Spirit

HERESY HUNTERS vs THE HOLY SPIRIT     (# 24)

# 24 could be titled “Heresy Hunters vs Jesus Christ”. Should we build our christianity (e.g., physical healing) on the words of cessationists, or the words of Lord Jesus? Jesus: “Whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man.” Throughout church history saints of Christ Jesus were made to choose between His “sayings” and the sayings of others. Today the majority of evangelicals have chosen, to various degrees, to build their christianity on “tradition of men”, perhaps the most harmful being those of cessationists. Christians die early (and thus many non-christians die eternally) because of their insistence Jesus no longer heals supernaturally.

Jesus: “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also.” “He who believes in Me” does not, unfortunately, include most born-again christians. Unbelief is a contagion spread throughout Christ’s church on earth. Even the twelve were so afflicted. Jesus told them why they were unable to heal an epileptic: “Because of your unbelief.”

Jesus to two blind men, “According to your faith let it be to you.” Reality: It is, in the here-and-now, being done to every christian according to his/her faith. (Peter: “God shows no partiality.”) Faith or lack of faith – not the sovereignty of God – determines who does and who does not get healed.

Jesus: “These signs will follow those who believe: In My name…. they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.” “Those who believe” includes all “those who believe”, then and now, and excludes all those who don’t. Doesn’t this negate the cessationist’s heresy that only the apostles had power to “lay hands on the sick, and they will recover”?

Jesus: “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.” H-hunters teach that Christ’s words have indeed passed away, ceased being reliable. Next posting, # 25, will be “Heresy Hunters vs Paul”.