Joh 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

this verse is very important, we see that the Spirit will come and testify of Jesus. Now i have read and heard many interpretations of this verse. To me it simply means the Holy Spirit will not come and do anything Jesus dident say or do. So when i see someone [b]for example[/b]: barking as a dog and claiming he is filled with the spirit...I look in the word and if i can find Jesus or the apostles doing this or teaching this i can say , "maybe this is from God"

if i cant find it i dismiss it.

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Guys..
In all this discussion I don't sense much love but just confidence that "I am right."
If one is truly right in what he says, he should seriously do it in love.
If other's don't think as he does, a mature man will not fret over it as many of us here seem to be doing.
Jesus came to us in "grace and in truth"
Someone must be right and there must be truth in either that holy laughter is from God or is not from God, but lest remember grace as well..

Jesus could get angry at the Pharisees because he was totally holy. We, however, cannot throw stones at the prostitute, cause when we go deep inside, we were the prostitutes, the idolatars, the blasphemers. Given the right situations, I am sure that I would have been able to kill people and be a "Hitler" if it wasn't for the grace of God. But we are saved by his great grace..
If someone is really in the wrong, we do not correct them by critism, but in love and weeping..
If someone is preaching the wrong thing and is not of God, we don't just say "Thats not from God.."
Where is the anguish?
Where is the pain on the fact that it isn't from God?

I like discerning truth and find myself always pointing fingers without love...
Let Jesus see if there is any offensive way in us and correct us to lead us into the way of the everlasting..

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I see not an ounce of a lack of love or grace from those who posted here against this phenomena.

You may consider how Paul 'took care of things' that attempted to enter the Church. We're mild in comparison - if you read about, or of Paul enough.

True Love is telling folks the Truth. "Love rejoices in the Truth"

Truth in Love comes only from a Love of Truth.

To with-hold Truth is not His Love.

We have Paul as our example - he was the authority on reproving, correcting, rebuking, with all sound doctrine.

I may as well add, that this phenomena, is what is called a mocking spirit that's been allowed into the church by those who don't want to judge.
It has brought shame upon the church and Christ and His Spirit and as our brother has said above - does not resemble the mission of The Holy Spirit Who is to "do what Jesus would do" through us.

Brother, I just read your thread "Who are the real preachers" - You mentioned quite a few names - so you are seeking who are true also.

Than why seek who is true, if you say we are to just "not fret over it" ?

Yes, you must love someone to tell them the truth because normally -- speaking the Truth will get you rejected. So we have to decide - either we fear being rejected and worry for ourselves or we tell the Truth and get whatever comes from that. That's our decision until we see Him Face to face.

If we know something is error and do not warn people - then we don't love them or the truth or Him --- we only love ourselves.

Hope you understand - considering your own thread.

HE is The Truth.



Edit: Just noticed - Thank you hmmhmm for quoting the whole of the original post.

In retrospect, it may have been wise for me to have omitted mentioning the type of ministry this preacher is a part of. This would have allowed the intended topic to be discussed without the introduction of the laughing revival controversy. My apologies to all for my lack of discretion.

And to David – Brother, when I saw your comment about the priesthood in another thread, I remembered how I was blessed by that book by Art Katz and thought you would be as well, which is why I sent you the link. If I had known how strongly you were opposed to his teachings I would not have done such a thing. I had no intention of offending, but based on the force of your comments here, it seems that I have. My apologies to you as well.

Danielle

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