Among the First of Gifts

One of the very first gifts God the Father has placed right in our lap is a wireless megaphone, which is connected to friend and foe's heart, complete with volume control. Ages Birth and up.

Oseas said:

Isaiah 2:22- Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

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Of the Holy Spirit of Christ. Now you raise an important question and one sure to stir the masses (if they took the time) who are not especially living a proactive life in His Spirit. Or, some identifying marks of those things spoken from year-to-year to weigh Religious VS Pentecostal enviornments. The 100-year old bristle of what line of reason these may serve to instruct in their chosen tradition:

A. 'What seems good to us and the Holy Spirit Pentecostal tradition.'
B. 'What seems good to us and the tradition of religious conformity.'

Those men of God who ''visit'' congregations without tarrying are not especially equipped to correct from their learned ''corner'', it takes years to confirm. Neither are the Pentecostals who are bound by conformity. ''Provoking one another to good works'' is largly our lot, but Pentecostal expressions that may scold you if you dare step away from some of today's contentions as I was publicly for not raising my arms or, maintaining other Apostolic traditions that are missing (1 Cor 11:16, 1 Tim 5:23).

So yes, there are times NOT to withdrawl, and times to entreat the Lord's corrective measures we need to grow with. With Paul's advice on wine to Timothy steps away from today's conformity to 'faith'. The only conformity He directs us towards is the giving of thanks, praying in the Spirit and fellowship. Be it Pentecostal or purely religious, we could go right down the line in a one by one checklist whether we have the Apostle's approval (1Cor 11:2) in the ''tradition'' they have committed to us.