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Well, of course. I agree with all of this, but it doesn't address what I said. What's your point here? Are you expecting me to disagree with some of this? Maybe you suspect that I don't consider the Holy Spirit to be God Himself? I'm puzzled here. Again, I'm not sure what you are saying here or...

Absolutely correct.

The Holy Spirit glorifies the Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. The Son does not glorify the Holy Spirit, but at Pentecost sent Him as the Paraclete (Helper) to indwell us and to help us as we serve God and spread the Gospel of Christ around the world. I recently sat on the ordination council of a...

Well friends, I'm leaving and probably won't be back online until Monday, since we don't have WIFI at home. It's spring break so the students are gone, I'm done with my grading for now, my wife is sick at home, we have a friend visiting, and I'm thirsty for a latte. Have a good weekend...

So "approaching legalism" is the semantic equivalent to "Trump is literally Hitler"?? Really? I'm a fundamental, independent Baptist. People call us "legalists" all the time, and it's insulting. Most evangelicals don't even know the true meaning of the word. Here's a theological definition...

Crazy stuff.

Exactly.

Glad you agree. So you have no problem at all with Charismatics over-emphasizing the Holy Spirit as long as they are not blasphemous with it? Completely blasphemous. You don't even know me outside of a few posts on the Internet, and now you are calling me "bordering legalistic?? And I have...

Are you familiar with the so-called "Toronto Blessing"? The goings on there would certainly be "a lot more" to any reasonable Bible believer. There was even a participant who said he was "drunk in the Spirit," and then acts like a drunken man as he shares his "prophecy." Edited in: The "Drunk...

Here are some notes about the Holy Spirit from a different lecture: I. The Deity of the Holy Spirit He is called God (Acts 5:3-4). He is called Lord (2 Cor. 3:18). He has the attributes of God. He is eternal (Heb. 9:14). He is omnipresent (Ps. 139:7-10). He is omniscient (1 Cor. 2:10-11)...

Thank you for your comments. Reading my post again, I see nothing wrong with it. The Holy Spirit truly lifts up and honors Jesus, not Himself. And any so-called "revival" that talks more about the Holy Spirit than Jesus is false fire. This does not mean, and I did not say, that we must ignore...

Truly, all revival must glorify Jesus. Any so-called "revival" that glorifies the Holy Spirit (one concept of Charismatic "revivals") proves that the "revivalist" does not truly know the Holy Spirit, because He does not life Himself up, but only Jesus. "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth...

"Here is Love Vast As the Ocean" is called the "Love Song of the Welsh Revival." Here is love vast as the ocean Loving kindness as the flood When the Prince of life, our ransom Shed for us His precious blood Who His love will not remember? Who can cease to sing His praise? He can never be...

In the way I mean it, referring to Rom. 12:1-2, "complete surrender" (often called "full surrender") is, as much as one knows, to give everything in one's life to Christ: talents, future, relationships, etc. It is certainly possible to do this consciously, but later learn of something through...

No, of course not. The subject is revival, not salvation. Romans 12:1-2 was written to "brethren," who are already believers: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2...

“As an American phenomenon, revivalism refers to the various movements in the history of Protestantism that arose to revitalize the spiritual ardor of church members and to help the churches win new adherents.” Richard Quebedeaux, By What Authority (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1982), 21.

"To have a revival in this Age of the Spirit and of the Church is to have God bring us back from carnality to spirituality, from disobedience to surrender, from love of the world to love of the Father, from malaise to health, from subnormal to normal" (Flanders, 11). "It seems that when a young...

There were no tongues in revivals led by Goforth.

Jonathan Goforth's advice to a prayer meeting in China: "Please let's not have any of your ordinary kind of praying. If there are any prayers which you've got off by heart and which you've used for years, just lay them aside. We haven't any time for them. But if the Spirit of God so moves you...

My explanation is that you are just describing the peculiarities of ancient Hebrew and koine Greek. Every language has its peculiarities, as missionary Bible translators know perhaps better than most. Deacon's giving you some great stuff about the Hebrew. The Greek has its own peculiarities...