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Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.
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Not everyone had the gift of tongues in the early church. Paul says, do all speak in tongues? (See: 1 Corinthians 12:30). Most Charismatics and Pentecostals believe all can speak in tongues (Which is contrary to Scripture). Many of them also believe in a private prayer language in tongues. This is nowhere to be found in Scripture. Several verses are taken out of context in 1 Corinthians 14 to make this teaching work. It is not clearly spelled out in Scripture. Tongues was for the express purpose of outreach and edification. Again, this comes back to doing things to what God's Word says specifically.

Do you see the ordination process and believers speaking in a big building the normative way of how they reached the lost and had fellowship in the Bible? I don't see that. Ultimately we are all going to have to face our Lord and give an account or answer to Him. Did we do our own thing by looking to what religious church men do, or did we stick with what His Word alone says. I would rather stick to what God's Word says alone and play it safe. This life is too short to play games with my soul. I don't want there to be any level of disobedience between me and my Lord.
 
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Okay. Imagine you had a dream or vision from the Lord. In this dream, you see a colonial boat, and some birds, and the sun shining. You eventually see a cross in the water, and feel a great peace in your soul, and you wake up. Now, you can take this as a holy message to your congregation. You can say that this dream was from God. So then, somebody then writes down your words, and prints out a new Bible with a new 67th book in the Bible called "The Book of Robbio" based of your experience seeing that you said your dream was from God. Note: Today it is easy to print out new books. So would you approve? The point here is that we cannot say that our dreams or visions are on equal authority with Scripture. Sure, it could have been from God, but we really do not know. What we do know is the Bible is true. This is the only word we truly need from the Lord. It is His Word that revives us and not our own experiences.
 
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