aggie03 said:
Why is this important? Well, the disciples in Samaria were saved without having any of these miraculous spiritual gifts. So anyone who is teaching that you must have a gift to be saved is teaching a false doctrine.
I agree with you 100%.
aggie03 said:
Each of these ocurred only one time for each group and that was to demonstrate that God had offered salvation to both groups. Apart from these two ocurrences, the only way to obtain a spiritual gift is to have an Apostle lay their hands on you.
I must be an Apostle then. I've laid hands on folks and they have received the infilling of the Spirit with speaking in tongues.
As for the rest of your discourse aggie03, you tire me.
I don't expect you to have revelation. Once you have it, you know it. And you would not question it in someone else's life either (that is, rvelation by the Holy Spirit).
It's like bungee jumping. You can't explain the experience and the truth about it unless you've jumped yourself.
Acts 2:39 - For the promise [of the Holy Spirit] is to and for you and your children, and to and for all that are far away, [even] to and for as many as the Lord our God invites and bids to come to Himself. (AMP)
Here, I use the same scripture that you used above to show that it is the
gift of the Holy Ghost that is the promise to as many as the Lord our God invites and bids to come to Himself. To say that it is speaking only of salvation is only your
interpretation. But, I guess if my interpretation is different then that makes me "bunk"?!?!?!
Which here, then, brings up the point again about revelation.
The scripture above does not say that the promise is for all those who choose of their own will and make it up in their own mind to come to God.... No, it says "for as many as the
LORD OUR GOD SHALL CALL" (KJV).
If He called you through scriptures, then it was by revelation. The point is, He called. RHEMA. His voice utters the call. His voice speaks His Word.
aggie03 said:
Again, I can't seem to find this anywhere. I am genuinely asking you to show me where this is found.
It's in the Kingdom. Peel your eyes off the bark and see the forest. There is so much more that you're not seeing because you are only looking at a certain depth - a certain level. And it is at that level that you are probably trying to do the best you can with the Word. When you look at a rock beneath the water, are you looking at the water or the rock? From the way you write, you can only see at water level.
The Kingdom of God is within you. The Living Christ Jesus dwells in your spirit. He appears to me in dreams and visions and He speak to me there. I have seen Him heal. I have seen Him dance. I have seen Him sitting upon His throne. He speaks to me concerning others lives. I hate for anyone to miss out on Who He is on the inside of each believer.
No, I can't find specific scriptures for the things I've seen. Let me example you: I was in a meeting and the Lord gave me a vision of a huge boulder as I was praying for a man I'd never met. I was communicating with the Holy Spirit and pondering this image. The Lord spoke in Spirit to me and said the word "chisel".
As I began to tell this man what I saw and what I heard the Lord broke open a flow of information for this man through me. The Lord spoke to me of how this man had been through sorrows and rejection and that the Lord was using those things to "chisel" him into the man of God that the Lord wanted him to be. As I was saying these things, this man began to smile and nodding his head.
I continued to minister to other people. Afterwards, I talked with this man again and I asked him if what the Lord had shown me was something that he needed. He told me that he was going through several things with his estranged spouse and with the church where he had been recently attending (feeling rejection on both accounts). But then he said, "and about two weeks ago I was praying about these things and when I went to be that night I dreamed of a chisel. I've been praying to the Lord for two weeks now to show me what that chisel meant."
This word proved to be an encouragement for a man who was hurting and in pain and did not understand what was happening to him through these circumstances.
I didn't have scripture for a chisel. I didn't have scripture for the boulder. What I do have is an authority and privilege as a son of God to enter into the realm of the Kingdom and to minister to others through the power of the Living Christ. How do I access the Kingdom of God. By faith. Hebrews 11:6 states that without faith it is impossible to please Him for those that come to Him must believe that He is and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him.
When we worship Him, do we bow down at the book???
And, on the point of miracles. Seeing you wouldn't believe because you have already decided what your theology is to be.
I have witnessed literally hundreds of miracles and healings through the power of God in me and through me through my years of missions and pastoring.