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1. Thank God. I believe more people should write and encourage people to flee from the notion of special Revelation, “God speaking”, apart from scripture. This article is good. And perhaps it’s more explicated in his book. But there is a foundational problem with a person’s theology if they do not understand the peculiar nature of God speaking to us through his Word which is the scripture. The Holy Spirit speaks through the Word. The Holy Spirit guides us and conforms our conscience to be obedient to his Word. It is important to understand the essence of prophecy as well. I find people get frustrated when you make distinctions with words we use in theology, but the truth is we do so to be more accurate and and more obedient to what the Word actually says. Another neglected area of theology in my opinion is teaching people the distinction between prophesying in the biblical sense meaning speaking revelatory prophecy – speaking directly for God – and prophesying in the sense today meaning a gifted pastor/teacher preaching and teaching the Word of God, specifically reading and teaching scripture under the authority of his office. It gets confusing to many when we start to clarify private interpretation, giving each and every believer the right to read and to understand the scriptures with their own Bible, and the ability for every believer to read and share the scriptures with others. And this is different than God giving a peculiar gift to an ordained minister to have authority over other believers in the role of ministry. We can talk a lot more about this subject, which I believe is a worthy subject to discuss, but the truth is due to modern liberalism and the progressive Church and the misunderstanding and submission to ecclesiastical calling and authority, and the American (progressive) repugnance to these offices, many people flat out refuse the conversation or have an antipathy towards it making it difficult to communicate. Submission to ecclesiastical authorities is difficult these days with the amount of factions and false teachers within the church. Do the fact that we have the right and freedom in this country to simply leave one church and go to another church over any disagreement also makes this important biblical submission to church leadership difficult. It is challenging to tell people to submit to church authority because there is so much filth and false religion within the progressive Christian Church. I believe that is why it is so important to help people understand doctrines like these to preserve true unity and to prevent people being led astray. Always remembering that the gates of hell will not prevail against the true church. God will always purpose to save his elect and he will never fail. We need to trust in that knowing that it is not our ability and our craftiness or are eloquence but it is the power of the unadultered word of God which saves it is the power of the Holy Spirit who moves and it is by the ultimate and sovereign decree in election of the Father that people come to saving faith and are brought into the family of Christ.

   Praise the Lord praise the Lord praise the Lord. He is holy He is holy He is holy. May we forever worship the Lord and spirit and truth by the grace of God. What a gift it is to have access directly to the scriptures. May we diligently seek to preserve them and to communicate them according to the interpretation which is not manifold but one. May God’s grace enable us to come into one spirit and one mind. Thank you Lord Jesus. We wait for you to come Amen.

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