Heresy Hunters vs the Holy Spirit
HERESY HUNTERS vs THE HOLY SPIRIT (# 3)
I previously wrote (# 1): “I hereby take ‘the sword of the Spirit’ and declare war, not against heresy hunters (my siblings-in-Christ), but against their malignant heresies.” My precious FB friends, I want you to know you ain’t seen nothing yet! I am not going away. I will not allow fear of man to muzzle me.
There’s important and then there’s crucial. Exposing heresy hunters’ heresies is beyond important….. it is crucial. I make three (relational) statements for your consideration: 1) Heresy hunters are cessationists. 2) Cessationists are not (cannot be!) New Testament christians. 3) Only NT christians can live a successful christianity.
For those who may not know, a cessationist is someone who believes that the gifts of the Holy Spirit (healing, prophecy, visions, etc.) are no longer functional. And for those who may not know, a NT christian is someone who embraces NT standards and teachings. (The reverse of a NT christian is a Bible-plus or Bible-minus christian.) So again…. a cessationist (e.g., heresy hunter) cannot be a NT christian and therefore cannot be helpful.
Question to heresy hunters: How can you consider yourselves to be NT christians while shunning NT teachings and precedents? Question to my FB friends: How can you consider heresy hunters (cessationists who reject the Holy Spirit) to be NT christians?
This matter is beyond important; it is urgent! Your eternity (and the welfare of those you influence) is relative to your sensitivity to the Holy Spirit. Get it!?
Jesus: “He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears [from Me] He will speak.” Rejecting the lordship of the Holy Spirit is rejecting – to the same degree! – the lordship of Christ, the very One who sent Him to you.