Embracing the Holy Spirit’s Power Today | Larry Sparks
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we do not want to condone or celebrate disorder or weirdness for the sake of being weird but at the same time I do not want to stifle or quench the Holy Spirit I believe God is and is ready to pour out his Spirit without measure my question is are we trying to give God terms to work with often cessationism is birthed out of experiential theology mixed with [Music] offense lord gave me a word if you want to step into Revival if the church wants to experience the full move of the spirit then you actually need to be
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willing to pay the price for what you know in the 1900s with the Advent of Pentecostalism 1906 year the isua Street Revival um we have seen unfortunately in the last 20 years even charismatic Pentecostal churches um get a little bit light about the Holy Spirit or even apologetic about the Holy Spirit and the Lord said I want to reintroduce my church to Pentecostal fire and that was the Genesis behind that book so is it a lot of teaching stories combination of both it’s it’s a bit of an interesting hybrid it is teaching it is stories it’s
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Revival history I even have a whole chapter called who unplugged the power about the LIE of sism um because the bottom line is nobody unplug like God did not unplug his power it’s what we ended up believing about the holy spirit that disconnected us from a flow of his presence and Power that’s been with us since the day of Pentecost so so like when you write something like that obviously to me I look at a book okay here’s the book all right here’s the outline of the book you’re touching on what three or four different topics in
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one book how are you able to kind of like hone in on each piece and give it enough attention yeah to fit in the book and to make it actually make sense and keep it organized well the the great grand theme of it was Pentecostal fire restoring the church really to the model that we see in the book of Acts so everything falls under that so all the stories all of the history even the chapter on cessationism and this belief that the Holy Spirit doesn’t move or demonstrate himself with that power anymore it all falls under that headline
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that hey when did God ever change the blueprint for the church when when did God ever say you know what you need to actually improve upon what we saw the day of Pentecost and in the book of Acts so everything kind of flowed under that headline of going back to that Pentecostal fire that Mark the early church yeah so you were saying that cessationism how did you how did you word that again cuz I wanted to I wanted to just touch on that a tad you were talking about oh goodness you saying good no yeah yeah yeah well I was that
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the working definition you used in the book is what I’m asking for most likely most likely because again there there is this even concept and people maybe your everyday believer would not use the word cessationism but there’s this erroneous idea as if God unplugged his is power from the church to where it’s like you know what there’s power to save and to redeem people praise God for that and there’s a measure of power that people will see in prayer and we were talking about this earlier David to where there
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is even a concept where if I pray a desperate maybe frantic prayer for healing God maybe if he’s feeling good that day will heal somebody yeah but um the doctrine well I wouldn’t even call it a Doctrine the erroneous teaching of cessationism basic says uh God does not continue to move through unusual signs wonders Miracles that which was standard in the book of Acts should no longer be expected or anticipated as standard today and my theologically robust response to that is where does Scripture tell us that we should change our
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