Ok, here goes. Personal prophesy, such as to individuals in scripture doesn't have the importance/weight/authority as other scripture. An example:
1 Samuel 9:18-20 (KJV)
[SUP]18 [/SUP]Then Saul drew near to Samuel in the gate, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, where the seer's house is. [SUP]19 [/SUP]And Samuel answered Saul, and said, I am the seer: go up before me unto the high place; for ye shall eat with me to day, and to morrow I will let thee go, and will tell thee all that is in thine heart. [SUP]20 [/SUP]And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?
Here Samuel gives a personal prophesy to Saul about lost donkeys. Not a lot of theology there, right? It's personal. Yet cessationists say all is equally important in scripture no matter what. Their reasoning is that any NEW personal prophesy ADDS to scripture, corrupting it. They say such personal prophesy EQUALS scripture because God said it. This is just not so.
Not sure that I am going to answer this very well, but here goes.
Samuel was a prophet of God,
God had many chosen Prophets, because why? The Holy Ghost never lived in anyone back before Christ as in after the resurrection of Christ where we are today under a new Covenant, where by belief one is saved by God and God implants himself in the form of the Holy Ghost, the very same Holy Ghost that led Christ.
Here is my point today we need no one else to teach us:
For God in the form of the Holy Ghost comes to live in us if God approves ones belief in other words God knows everyone's motive, and by one's motive is whether or not one will see truth as it is in its purity
Hebrews 1:1 [
God’s Supreme Revelation ] God, who at various
times and
in various ways
spoke in time
past to the fathers by the prophets,
Hebrews 1:2 has
in these last days spoken to us by
His Son, whom He
has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;
Hebrews 1:3 who
being the brightness of
His glory and
the express image of His person, and upholding all things by
the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at
the right hand of
the Majesty on high,
Hebrews 1:4 having
become so much better than the angels, as He has by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
So today God speaks to us directly in our redeemed Spirit's, not flesh Spirit's. God's Spirit, since God is a Spirit and can only be worshipped in Spirit.
So see what Christ did come to do as he said it
Matthew 5:17 [
Christ Fulfills the Law ] “Do not think that I came to
destroy the Law or
the Prophets. I did not come to
destroy but to fulfill.
When he filled the Law as what God had him here for, then he was to die for us to also die to the law that held us in captivity, being dead from day one being born of flesh and taught of flesh.
So when at the cross he yells out
John 19:30
So when Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “
It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
This death brought in a new Covenant from the Law of Moses, yet was the original Covenant God had promised Abraham through belief in God that God is only good, just as Jesus said it to the rich man in Matt 19.
The difference today is we are indwelt by God, not visited by, indwelt
Ephesians 1:13 In Him you also
trusted, after you heard
the word of truth,
the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were
sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
So today after the cross where Christ is resurrected and at the right hand of God, rested. Are we to be the same since God is for us, who truthfully can be against us. Other people, all the time, yet no one else is the creator are they, not me, not you, not anyone else
God said it I am forgiven, and God said this too, that he came to give me life, and give it to me more abundantly, this for you too, and that choose to believe God at God's word
We are no longer under the bondage of sinful behavior, we are now by God under love, even as God tried to get them to see it is Love that God desired for us all to see and just Love all as God does just love us all
But the first chosen over looked the love and tried to fulfill commandments instead, never seeing the greatest of all is Love
And when Christ came here he tried to tell them that Love of God and neighbor was and is the greatest of all commandments
But no we got others piece milling things together and to me when it does out in God's type of Love, then I know whatever is being promoted by whomever not showing the miraculous love of God are not God's as of yet, might be on their way and might not be. It is not for me to Judge, it is for me to ask God to do what needs to be done through me though me out of the way. Because I do know as Paul said in Romans 7 every time I wish to do good I do evil instead.
Therefore I not only need God living in me, but more importantly through me
Hope to have helped you and God to confirm what is said here for your growth in resting in God, by what God has done for you and will do through you, no more arguments and or fight no matter what another says. God is for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!