What examples of word of knowledge can you find in scripture?

[Major1]

You and I have argued about this elsewhere @Major1 and this is not the place to start again. Suffice it to say, contrary to your views, I reject the notion that the word of knowledge has ceased.

Trying to claim that all we need is found in the bible is plain silly.
Can I find where my next car is coming from in the bible?
Can I find where to move house in the bible, the exact county, the exact village, the exact house?
Can I find accurate road directions to an unknown location in the bible?
These are serious questions that God answered through words of knowledge, including being my precision Satnav for 60 miles when he took me to find somewhere completely unknown.

No. The word of God was about anything that God revealed for any purpose, (including finding Saul's father's asses).

There are millions of Christians out there who regularly receive words of knowledge from the Lord. That includes myself and my wife and all the people I regularly fellowship with.

Words of knowledge, hidden things revealed by the Holy Spirit are normal Christian life for many of us. The same is true for all the other gifts of the Spirit like prophecy, dreams, visions, tongues etc which we regularly move in.

These are just a few of those words which God has revealed.-
Being told directly by the Lord to sell up and move house 320 miles to the north of England.
And when my wife and I accepted that word before the Lord, I then walked out the front door of the house and sold it five minutes later at full price to a complete stranger passing by! And he approached me!

Being told by the Lord to urgently phone a brother (who I barely knew) who lived hundreds of miles away, to offer him a job. He then breaks down on the phone because he has just that day lost his job.

Being told by the Lord to send a financial gift to a distant brother, and then being told that it was the exact figure he was praying for in order buy another car.

Being told what had broken inside one of my production machines, and how to fix it.

Being given a dream about what was causing a massive two boiler heating system to constantly fail, when even the specialists couldn't resolve the problem.

Being warned in advance of an impending crash ahead, a warning that saved my life.

The day after I knew I was going to get married again, I called a Christian brother into my office and told him my good news. His reply was, "I know that and I've known it five or six weeks. Remember when I called in your church that time? I sat down and the Lord said to me, 'that's FDs knew wife.' I couldn't tell you until you realised it yourself!"

My friend knew nobody in that church and his visit had been brief. But not only that, but that visit was long before my courtship even started.
My fiance and I for various reasons needed to keep quiet about our engagement, but when my friend turned up the following week, he immediately pointed her out across the room.
It was truly excellent having our relationship confirmed by the Lord!

The list is endless. Some of us live by words of knowledge of totally hidden stuff revealed by the Holy Spirit.

I urge you @Major1, don't let your theology rob you of the wonderful blessings of the gifts of the Spirit. Such things are not a challenge to understanding scriptures, but they run hand in hand for the body of Christ to grow by.

YOU have urged me to respond to your life experiences as you have listed some of them here as proof of what YOU call a "Word of Knowledge" which is one of the prominent teachings of the Word of Faith philosophy found in Pentecostalism.

To me and this is only MY opinion, but YOU seem to be arguing about this just fore the sake of arguing with ME. I am fully aware that you do not agree with my understanding of the Scriptures but I see no reason to go out of the way to create something that is not there.

I would never question the testimony of another believer as that would make me calling him a liar and that is just not my nature.

The fact is really very simple and if YOU had asked originally in a polite, Christian attitude a few days ago I would have been happy to tell you what I am going to tell you now.

YES, IMO God speaks to people today in various ways. The Holy Spirit of God directs us, motivates us, warns us and guides us in all that we do.

Can the Holy Spirit speak to you about an impending move? .....YES!
Can the Holy Spirit warn you about a car crash and save you from it? YES.
Can the Holy Spirit move you to fix something that is about to break? YES!

The list as you said can go on and on and on and it is NOT exclusive to you to anyone else my friend. The same Holy Spirit that lives in YOU lives in ALL believers and He is not a "Respecter of persons".

What I am saying to you is that what you are calling "A WORD OF WISDOM"-----
I and others call the same thing the "LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT".

 

[Francis Drake]

YOU have urged me to respond to your life experiences as you have listed some of them here as proof of what YOU call a "Word of Knowledge" which is one of the prominent teachings of the Word of Faith philosophy found in Pentecostalism.

To me and this is only MY opinion, but YOU seem to be arguing about this just fore the sake of arguing with ME. I am fully aware that you do not agree with my understanding of the Scriptures but I see no reason to go out of the way to create something that is not there.

I would never question the testimony of another believer as that would make me calling him a liar and that is just not my nature.

The fact is really very simple and if YOU had asked originally in a polite, Christian attitude a few days ago I would have been happy to tell you what I am going to tell you now.

YES, IMO God speaks to people today in various ways. The Holy Spirit of God directs us, motivates us, warns us and guides us in all that we do.

Can the Holy Spirit speak to you about an impending move? .....YES!
Can the Holy Spirit warn you about a car crash and save you from it? YES.
Can the Holy Spirit move you to fix something that is about to break? YES!

The list as you said can go on and on and on and it is NOT exclusive to you to anyone else my friend. The same Holy Spirit that lives in YOU lives in ALL believers and He is not a "Respecter of persons".

What I am saying to you is that what you are calling "A WORD OF WISDOM"-----
I and others call the same thing the "LEADING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT".

Thank you Major.
Pardon my ignorance, not trying to be facetious, but correct me if I am wrong, I thought you were a cessationist.

Surely words of wisdom are listed as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, or is it only words of knowledge that have ceased.
And if so, how do you define the difference.

 

[Major1]

Thank you Major.
Pardon my ignorance, not trying to be facetious, but correct me if I am wrong, I thought you were a cessationist.

Surely words of wisdom are listed as one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, or is it only words of knowledge that have ceased.
And if so, how do you define the difference.

You are correct, I am one who believes in the Cessation of the "Sign Gifts" given to the Apostles according to the Scriptures.

Matthew 28:16-18
"Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Hebrews 2:3-4.......
"how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the LORD, was confirmed to us by those who heard him. God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will."

Those "Sign Gifts" were give to the Apostles and they are not for us today.

However that does not mean in any way that we as believers today who are filled with the Holy Spirit do not hear Him when He speaks to us.

John 16:13..........
"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come."

I do believe God, through the Holy Spirit, communicates directly with believers. No, I don't write these revelations in the back of my Bible and call them inspired. Neither do I run around telling everybody what "God told me."

My experience is that the Holy Spirit, at the prompting of the heavenly Father, still communicates with believers today. How does He do that? The Holy Spirit indwells me. He doesn't need my ears. What He needs is a listening heart and a renewed mind with a consciousness that is in tune with the Word of God.

Now my friend, my problem and it is a misunderstanding I think between you and me is that when someone, usually a TV personality says...............
"GOD JUST SPOKE TO ME AND SAID".

THAT right there is the "Word of Knowledge" which I think is Not Scriptural and has in fact CEASED.

I appreciate the way John Piper described his experience in hearing God speak through the Scriptures in his message “How Important is the Bible?” given at Lausanne 2010:

God talks to me no other way, but don't get this wrong, he talks to me very personally. I open my Bible in the morning to meet my friend, my Savior, my Creator, my Sustainer. I meet him and he talks to me. . . . I'm not denying providence, not denying circumstances, not denying people, I'm just saying that the only authoritative communion I have with God with any certainty comes through the words of this book.

And if we want to go back a little further, Jonathan Edwards warned:

I . . . know by experience that impressions being made with great power, and upon the minds of true saints, yea, eminent saints; and presently after, yea, in the midst of, extraordinary exercises of grace and sweet communion with God, and attended with texts of Scripture strongly impressed on the mind, are no sure signs of their being revelations from heaven: for I have known such impressions [to] fail, and prove vain.

 

[Daniel Marsh]

Please give examples from scripture that says it was in fact a word of knowledge and thank you. I am a learner.

 

[Major1]

Please give examples from scripture that says it was in fact a word of knowledge and thank you. I am a learner.

Who are you asking your question to?

 

[Daniel Marsh]

Who are you asking your question to?

whoever it was that made claims that relate to it referring to anything other than exposing people's sin.

 

[Ron Gurley]

1 Cor. 12 (NASB)...the miraculous authenticating SIGN GIFTS
7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
8 For to one is given
>the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another
>the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; 9 to another
>faith by the same Spirit, and to another
>gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 and to another
>the effecting of miracles, and to another
>prophecy, and to another
>the distinguishing of spirits, to another
>various kinds of tongues, and to another
>the interpretation of tongues.
11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

the word...Greek 3056...logos...
F.reason, cause, ground
III.In John, denotes the essential "Word of God", Jesus Christ, the personal wisdom and power in union with God, his minister in creation and government of the universe, the cause of all the world's life both physical and ethical, which for the procurement of man's salvation put on human nature in the person of
Jesus the Messiah, the second person in the Godhead, and shone forth conspicuously from His words and deeds.

of knowledge...Greek 1108...gnōsis...
I.knowledge signifies in general intelligence, understanding
A.the general knowledge of Christian religion
B.the deeper more perfect and enlarged knowledge of this religion, such as belongs to the more advanced
C.esp. of things lawful and unlawful for Christians
D.moral wisdom, such as is seen in right living