Am I correct in assuming that a non-Pentecostal believer is attempting to judge the Pentecostal
experience and gospel?
Mark 16:15-20 is valid and true. Ivan Panin and other Bible scholars have settled this
dispute over a century ago.
Unbelief in these scriptures is the work of the spirit of anti-Christ which attacks the authority
of the Word of God and promotes a multitude of other gospels.
Your assertion that these gifts ended with the completion of the NT scriptures is simply
not true. All nine gifts of the Holy Spirit are distributed individually and severally within
a true disciplined Pentecostal Church.
The sign (as opposed to gift) of being baptized (filled) with the Holy Spirit stills occurs today.
This has been going on since the 1880s arising out of the divine healing and holiness movements.
We are experiencing the outpouring of the latter rain in these very last of last days.
Paul in 1Corinthians 13 is writing about when Jesus returns in power and glory to claim
his church and the saints both dead and alive will rise up to meet him in the air.
Then our mortal limitations will end and we will fully know and be one with our Lord.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be:
but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
1John 3:2-3
experience and gospel?
Mark 16:15-20 is valid and true. Ivan Panin and other Bible scholars have settled this
dispute over a century ago.
Unbelief in these scriptures is the work of the spirit of anti-Christ which attacks the authority
of the Word of God and promotes a multitude of other gospels.
Your assertion that these gifts ended with the completion of the NT scriptures is simply
not true. All nine gifts of the Holy Spirit are distributed individually and severally within
a true disciplined Pentecostal Church.
The sign (as opposed to gift) of being baptized (filled) with the Holy Spirit stills occurs today.
This has been going on since the 1880s arising out of the divine healing and holiness movements.
We are experiencing the outpouring of the latter rain in these very last of last days.
Paul in 1Corinthians 13 is writing about when Jesus returns in power and glory to claim
his church and the saints both dead and alive will rise up to meet him in the air.
Then our mortal limitations will end and we will fully know and be one with our Lord.
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be:
but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
1John 3:2-3
Jesus return in power is a return for Israel not the church. The church goes in the middle of the night in the blink of an eye.
Your 1 John reference has no context in this discussion.
There are many qualified biblical scholars that would contend that your understanding of the long ending of Mark is in error. I would caution you against drinking poison and handling venomous vipers. If you ever really faced a devil you would be like the sons of Sceva.
Acts 19:14 And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so.
15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?
16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
For the cause of Christ
Roger