It appears that we are slowly starting to come out of what some called a Covid “pandemic”. And many of the charismatics who were exposed for their missed prophecies about COVID and about Trump, as well as their complete and utter impotence to perform any mass healings of COVID victims are unfortunately back at it again…
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On May 23rd this year (aka Pentecost Sunday 2021), many charismatic churches all across America were singing for, praying for, and yes, even preaching about want of a new Pentecost. And of course, not one of those churches’ got a new Pentecost, and they never will get one.
.
Friends, if you need a NEW Pentecost, then you never really KNEW Pentecost.
.
Early this morning, I watched a video of a particular Church service of this sort. Their entire worship segment and prayers were based on the theme of a new Pentecost. Then the preacher got up and preached from Acts 2:1-4, and of course his title was “We Need A New Pentecost”.
.
He never exposited Acts 2:1-4. In fact he immediately went to a different passage in Acts, but spent most of his message shouting “we need a new pentecost”. Please note that he never even touched Acts 2:5-11. Verses 5 through 11 literally explain verses 1 through 4, yet, because of what it says about tongues, many pentecostalists avoid those seven verses like the twelve plagues of Moses.
.
I’ll say it again. If you need a NEW Pentecost, then you never really KNEW Pentecost. I can say on the authority of Scripture that there will never a be new Pentecost. Why? Because the original Pentecost confirmed the gospel and the birth of the Church—the Body of Christ to the Jews first, and then to the Gentiles. And the Church and the gospel were all forever confirmed by the apostles and their doctrine, which completes the canon of the inspired, infallible, inerrant, word of God—the holy Scriptures. Saints, we are in the “once-for-all” faith of Jude 1:3.
.
Reformer, John Calvin said, “Miracles were promised only for a time, in order to give luster to the gospel, while it was new and in a state of obscurity.”
.
A Ligonier Ministries article entitled “Apostolic Signs & Wonders” says that, “miracles confirm that those who claim to be giving divine revelation are actually from God, and once this revelation has been given, miracles are no longer needed. But God continues to intervene supernaturally in His creation, so we pray for the sick and believe the Lord is able to heal them.”
.
The gospel and the Church are no longer obscure or in their infancy stages. The soul-saving word of God is all-sufficient for salvation and godly living. And the now established Church is its pillar and ground. And true faith is not by seeing signs and wonders, but by hearing, believing and obeying the word of God.
.
It is terribly sad today that it rarely even occurs to most in the charismatic movement that God was using a condemning sign of tongues (languages/dialects) of other nations to judge Israel (e.g. Deut. 28:49; Isa. 28:11; Jer. 5:15), while simultaneously blessing the Gentiles with the same salvation that started way back with Jews like faithful Abraham.
.
By the way, Pentecost’s clear revelation of tongues (Acts 2:1-11) also clearly points to a fulfillment of God’s very reason for changing Abram’s name (exalted father) to Abraham (father of many nations). A mature understanding of Pentecost helps us see its purpose in the power and beauty of Abrahamic passages like Romans 4:11-12 which says…

11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, so that righteousness may be credited to them also. 12 And he became the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised”.

and Galatians 3:7-9 which says…

7 You know, then, that those who have faith, these are Abraham’s sons. 8 Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel ahead of time to Abraham, saying, All the nations will be blessed through you. 9 Consequently those who have faith are blessed with Abraham, who had faith”.

and Galatians 3:14 which says…

The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith”.

Pentecost was the birth of the body of Christ, the Church that would be used of God to make the Abrahamic Covenant a reality. Indeed, when people miss all of those glorious reasons for the apostolic age of miracles, signs, and wonders, it becomes understandable that they would desperately be seeking a new Pentecost, even though seeking such is unbiblical and therefore irrational.
.
One last time, it is worth repeating that if you need a NEW Pentecost, then you never really KNEW Pentecost…
.
Father in heaven, I pray, in the name of Jesus and in the Holy Spirit, that you would open the eyes of many who are being duped by the unbiblical teachings of Pentecostalism and its modern charismatic misrepresentation of tongues and other miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit.
.
Forgive them for muddying the crystal clear waters of the purpose for the apostolic age’s sign gifts. And turn their attention to the complete Revelation of your Holy word, and bless them with a Holy Spirit guided understanding of rightly divided biblical truth, and the spiritual maturity that continuing in such faith produces. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
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God bless, beloved.

It appears that we are slowly starting to come out of what some called a Covid “pandemic”. And many of the charismatics who were exposed for their missed prophecies about COVID and about Trump, as well as their complete and utter impotence to perform any mass healings of COVID victims are unfortunately back at it again…
.
On May 23rd this year (aka Pentecost Sunday 2021), many charismatic churches all across America were singing for, praying for, and yes, even preaching about want of a new Pentecost. And of course, not one of those churches’ got a new Pentecost, and they never will get one.
.
Friends, if you need a NEW Pentecost, then you never really KNEW Pentecost.
.
Early this morning, I watched a video of a particular Church service of this sort. Their entire worship segment and prayers were based on the theme of a new Pentecost. Then the preacher got up and preached from Acts 2:1-4, and of course his title was “We Need A New Pentecost”.
.
He never exposited Acts 2:1-4. In fact he immediately went to a different passage in Acts, but spent most of his message shouting “we need a new pentecost”. Please note that he never even touched Acts 2:5-11. Verses 5 through 11 literally explain verses 1 through 4, yet, because of what it says about tongues, many pentecostalists avoid those seven verses like the twelve plagues of Moses.
.
I’ll say it again. If you need a NEW Pentecost, then you never really KNEW Pentecost. I can say on the authority of Scripture that there will never a be new Pentecost. Why? Because the original Pentecost confirmed the gospel and the birth of the Church—the Body of Christ to the Jews first, and then to the Gentiles. And the Church and the gospel were all forever confirmed by the apostles and their doctrine, which completes the canon of the inspired, infallible, inerrant, word of God—the holy Scriptures. Saints, we are in the “once-for-all” faith of Jude 1:3.
.
Reformer, John Calvin said, “Miracles were promised only for a time, in order to give luster to the gospel, while it was new and in a state of obscurity.”
.
A Ligonier Ministries article entitled “Apostolic Signs & Wonders” says that, “miracles confirm that those who claim to be giving divine revelation are actually from God, and once this revelation has been given, miracles are no longer needed. But God continues to intervene supernaturally in His creation, so we pray for the sick and believe the Lord is able to heal them.”
.
The gospel and the Church are no longer obscure or in their infancy stages. The soul-saving word of God is all-sufficient for salvation and godly living. And the now established Church is its pillar and ground. And true faith is not by seeing signs and wonders, but by hearing, believing and obeying the word of God.
.
It is terribly sad today that it rarely even occurs to most in the charismatic movement that God was using a condemning sign of tongues (languages/dialects) of other nations to judge Israel (e.g. Deut. 28:49; Isa. 28:11; Jer. 5:15), while simultaneously blessing the Gentiles with the same salvation that started way back with Jews like faithful Abraham.
.
By the way, Pentecost’s clear revelation of tongues (Acts 2:1-11) also clearly points to a fulfillment of God’s very reason for changing Abram’s name (exalted father) to Abraham (father of many nations). A mature understanding of Pentecost helps us see its purpose in the power and beauty of Abrahamic passages like Romans 4:11-12 which says…

11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, so that righteousness may be credited to them also. 12 And he became the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised”.

and Galatians 3:7-9 which says…

7 You know, then, that those who have faith, these are Abraham’s sons. 8 Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel ahead of time to Abraham, saying, All the nations will be blessed through you. 9 Consequently those who have faith are blessed with Abraham, who had faith”.

and Galatians 3:14 which says…

The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith”.

Pentecost was the birth of the body of Christ, the Church that would be used of God to make the Abrahamic Covenant a reality. Indeed, when people miss all of those glorious reasons for the apostolic age of miracles, signs, and wonders, it becomes understandable that they would desperately be seeking a new Pentecost, even though seeking such is unbiblical and therefore irrational.
.
One last time, it is worth repeating that if you need a NEW Pentecost, then you never really KNEW Pentecost…
.
Father in heaven, I pray, in the name of Jesus and in the Holy Spirit, that you would open the eyes of many who are being duped by the unbiblical teachings of Pentecostalism and its modern charismatic misrepresentation of tongues and other miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit.
.
Forgive them for muddying the crystal clear waters of the purpose for the apostolic age’s sign gifts. And turn their attention to the complete Revelation of your Holy word, and bless them with a Holy Spirit guided understanding of rightly divided biblical truth, and the spiritual maturity that continuing in such faith produces. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
.
God bless, beloved.

It appears that we are slowly starting to come out of what some called a Covid “pandemic”. And many of the charismatics who were exposed for their missed prophecies about COVID and about Trump, as well as their complete and utter impotence to perform any mass healings of COVID victims are unfortunately back at it again…
.
On May 23rd this year (aka Pentecost Sunday 2021), many charismatic churches all across America were singing for, praying for, and yes, even preaching about want of a new Pentecost. And of course, not one of those churches’ got a new Pentecost, and they never will get one.
.
Friends, if you need a NEW Pentecost, then you never really KNEW Pentecost.
.
Early this morning, I watched a video of a particular Church service of this sort. Their entire worship segment and prayers were based on the theme of a new Pentecost. Then the preacher got up and preached from Acts 2:1-4, and of course his title was “We Need A New Pentecost”.
.
He never exposited Acts 2:1-4. In fact he immediately went to a different passage in Acts, but spent most of his message shouting “we need a new pentecost”. Please note that he never even touched Acts 2:5-11. Verses 5 through 11 literally explain verses 1 through 4, yet, because of what it says about tongues, many pentecostalists avoid those seven verses like the twelve plagues of Moses.
.
I’ll say it again. If you need a NEW Pentecost, then you never really KNEW Pentecost. I can say on the authority of Scripture that there will never a be new Pentecost. Why? Because the original Pentecost confirmed the gospel and the birth of the Church—the Body of Christ to the Jews first, and then to the Gentiles. And the Church and the gospel were all forever confirmed by the apostles and their doctrine, which completes the canon of the inspired, infallible, inerrant, word of God—the holy Scriptures. Saints, we are in the “once-for-all” faith of Jude 1:3.
.
Reformer, John Calvin said, “Miracles were promised only for a time, in order to give luster to the gospel, while it was new and in a state of obscurity.”
.
A Ligonier Ministries article entitled “Apostolic Signs & Wonders” says that, “miracles confirm that those who claim to be giving divine revelation are actually from God, and once this revelation has been given, miracles are no longer needed. But God continues to intervene supernaturally in His creation, so we pray for the sick and believe the Lord is able to heal them.”
.
The gospel and the Church are no longer obscure or in their infancy stages. The soul-saving word of God is all-sufficient for salvation and godly living. And the now established Church is its pillar and ground. And true faith is not by seeing signs and wonders, but by hearing, believing and obeying the word of God.
.
It is terribly sad today that it rarely even occurs to most in the charismatic movement that God was using a condemning sign of tongues (languages/dialects) of other nations to judge Israel (e.g. Deut. 28:49; Isa. 28:11; Jer. 5:15), while simultaneously blessing the Gentiles with the same salvation that started way back with Jews like faithful Abraham.
.
By the way, Pentecost’s clear revelation of tongues (Acts 2:1-11) also clearly points to a fulfillment of God’s very reason for changing Abram’s name (exalted father) to Abraham (father of many nations). A mature understanding of Pentecost helps us see its purpose in the power and beauty of Abrahamic passages like Romans 4:11-12 which says…

11 And he received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while still uncircumcised. This was to make him the father of all who believe but are not circumcised, so that righteousness may be credited to them also. 12 And he became the father of the circumcised, who are not only circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith our father Abraham had while he was still uncircumcised”.

and Galatians 3:7-9 which says…

7 You know, then, that those who have faith, these are Abraham’s sons. 8 Now the Scripture saw in advance that God would justify the Gentiles by faith and proclaimed the gospel ahead of time to Abraham, saying, All the nations will be blessed through you. 9 Consequently those who have faith are blessed with Abraham, who had faith”.

and Galatians 3:14 which says…

The purpose was that the blessing of Abraham would come to the Gentiles by Christ Jesus, so that we could receive the promised Spirit through faith”.

Pentecost was the birth of the body of Christ, the Church that would be used of God to make the Abrahamic Covenant a reality. Indeed, when people miss all of those glorious reasons for the apostolic age of miracles, signs, and wonders, it becomes understandable that they would desperately be seeking a new Pentecost, even though seeking such is unbiblical and therefore irrational.
.
One last time, it is worth repeating that if you need a NEW Pentecost, then you never really KNEW Pentecost…
.
Father in heaven, I pray, in the name of Jesus and in the Holy Spirit, that you would open the eyes of many who are being duped by the unbiblical teachings of Pentecostalism and its modern charismatic misrepresentation of tongues and other miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit.
.
Forgive them for muddying the crystal clear waters of the purpose for the apostolic age’s sign gifts. And turn their attention to the complete Revelation of your Holy word, and bless them with a Holy Spirit guided understanding of rightly divided biblical truth, and the spiritual maturity that continuing in such faith produces. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.
.
God bless, beloved.