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Just as expected. Those that have never done these things do not have the Holy Ghost, thus they will not answer the questions, for to answer
NO shows them for who they are, indoctrinated theologians!
Mark 16:17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; in My name shall they cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues;............
And as I only asked you if you did, there was no boasting on my part. I only wanted to know with whom I was conversing. Now I know.
It looked a lot like boasting to me. Are you not using the things you mentioned as somehow evidence of your own rightness while trying to present me as false? Are you not, right here, telling me that I don't have the Holy Spirit? Even though, St. Paul says that all who have believed the Gospel through faith have been sealed with the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 1:13), and St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles says that whoever is baptized is forgiven and receives the gift of the Spirit (Acts 2:38); and thus the evidence of the Spirit is not in these things, but in the word and promises of God received in faith.
You are pointing to yourself, not to the word and promise of God. And so you are trusting in false works and your own hubris. In order that you might quench the Spirit, deny the word, and seek out false teachers who tell you only what you want to hear.
You will not find here a spitting match where I try and prove my own spiritual superiority--for I do not have it. I am powerless and weak, a fool full of folly, a naked sinner, a mere beggar. I have nothing to boast of. So I will boast only in Christ and His cross. But, because of the confidence which I have in God's word, I will speak that word, and pray that you stop grieving and quenching the Holy Spirit, but that you come and know Him as He makes His home in you through God's Word and Sacraments. For the Spirit Himself, according to the promise of Christ, shall draw you and point you to Christ--not to yourself.
So I repeat what I have been saying, for I am nothing but Christ is everything, come to Christ, abide in Christ, hear His word and abide there. Repent. For Christ has assuredly declared to be with us even unto the end of the age. The promise is to His Church, come and be reconciled, come to where the word is preached, come and hear, listen, for "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ" (Romans 10:17). The Good Shepherd speaks, and His sheep know His voice, come and hear the Good Shepherd, return to the sheepfold of Jesus.
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