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These were Jesus' last words about the Holy Spirit: | These were Jesus' last words about the Holy Spirit: | ||
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William Branham took these words out of context and used them to point to himself. Branham inferred that the Holy Spirit was speaking through him to lead the church into the truth (and away from the plain teaching of scripture). | William Branham took these words out of context and used them to point to himself. Branham inferred that the Holy Spirit was speaking through him to lead the church into the truth (and away from the plain teaching of scripture). | ||
How do you tell which person is being led properly by the Holy Spirit? Or why would the Spirit lead people in completely opposite spiritual directions? The problem is that | How do you tell which person is being led properly by the Holy Spirit? Or why would the Spirit lead people in completely opposite spiritual directions? '''The problem is that this interpretation is takes this scripture out of context.''' | ||
=What the Bible teaches= | =What the Bible teaches= | ||
John 16:13 is an important passage because it '''helps us avoid two common mistakes'''. | John 16:13 must be read in context. Jesus is speaking here to the disciples. Is the passage directed at all believers for all time? Or is it directed to the apostles, to whom the Holy Spirit would reveal all truth and who would then write this truth down to form the canon of scripture? This verse is one of the most widely used passages by cults to justify aberrant and false teaching. | ||
As a result, John 16:13 is an important passage because it '''helps us avoid two common mistakes'''. | |||
==We cannot pit the Spirit against the Bible== | ==We cannot pit the Spirit against the Bible== | ||
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I want you to note very carefully that '''Jesus did not say that the evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost was speaking in tongues, interpreting, prophesying, or shouting and dancing. He said the evidence would be that you would be in the TRUTH; you would be in the Word of God for your age. Evidence has to do with receiving that Word.'''<ref>PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE, CHURCH.AGE.BOOK, 165-1, CPT.5</ref> | I want you to note very carefully that '''Jesus did not say that the evidence of being baptized with the Holy Ghost was speaking in tongues, interpreting, prophesying, or shouting and dancing. He said the evidence would be that you would be in the TRUTH; you would be in the Word of God for your age. Evidence has to do with receiving that Word.'''<ref>PERGAMEAN.CHURCH.AGE, CHURCH.AGE.BOOK, 165-1, CPT.5</ref> | ||
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