Thank you for your joyous and edifying post.

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Dave said:
How foolish, then, this charismatic craving after more, more, more! With all due respect, my charismatic friends, we have no interest in any more of God than we already have. To be sure, we wish to better know Christ through the Scriptures, and we wish to gain greater victory over remaining sin, etc., but what are such blessings but the further revealing of what we already possess in Christ?

I suggest that this craving for more and more extra-scriptural revelation by the Charismatics is nothing more than unbelief in the Lord and the words of Scripture in the first place. Jesus met this same unbelief and demand for "signs" with these words.

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39 But He answered and said to them, “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. 40 For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. [Matthew 12:39-41]

Jesus does not give them the sign they demand but refers them to the Gospel and to the Scripture!

I also suggest that the Charismatics are one and the same as the rebellious Israelites wandering in the desert, for whom the pure manna from heaven was not good enough. [Numbers 11:4-6]

Denny

Romans 3:22-24

Denny

Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." [John 6:68]