"A Urgent Message to All of Our Readers"

It has been a while since I have written a post on Blogger. Even though it has been several months since I have written an article on the Blog post I needed at that time to spend time with my family during the summer months. I appreciate many of you who have supported me over the years, but, I sense a need to continue writing on a Blog post. Also for the last several months, I have been preaching a series of the message, "The Work of the Holy Spirit: What Really Happened on the Day of Pentecost?" 

  There are many professing Christians especially professing believers who have not yet grasp the historical narrative and meaning of what happened on the day of Pentecost. Many Charismatic evangelicals have sought to make the historical narrative of Pentecost as to make it apart of their own culture without knowing the true history of Pentecost (Acts 2:1a).  It is impossible to make what happened on the day of Pentecost the experience of the Church today. It was a past historical event that will never take place again. It is also important history, biblical context, and the genre of reading the text of scripture within its proper context. Whenever there is such biblical distortion of the text of scripture in and of itself as well as its historical setting and meaning are duty bound for all kinds of false doctrine and heresies. 

   So throughout this year, the Lord's willing that I will be writing a series of article on, "The Work of the Holy Spirit: What Really Happened on the Day of Pentecost?" in Acts chapters 1-2:11. It is so important that the church begins to have such an understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit in regards to many of Christ's disciples at the Upper Room (Acts 2:1-4).  

   Also, many Charismatic evangelicals placed so much emphasis on the power of the Holy Spirit by which the message of Christ is not front and center of many of their messages today. Whenever there is an "overemphasis" of the power of the Holy Spirit without exalting the Christ of scripture than it inadvertently impacts the way they interpret the Bible and as an end result disastrously to the lives of God's people. My wife who was a "former" member of a Bible-based sect that believes in speaking in tongues as the initial evidence of receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit did not have any proper understanding of scripture nor properly reading the Bible. It was based upon God's Sovereignty that brought my wife out of a destructive Bible-based sect organization known as, "The Church of God in Christ" based out of Memphis, Tennessee. Many of my messages are centered around many of the concepts, beliefs, and practice that were contrary to God's Word (Rom. 16:17-18). 

 The foundational teaching of many strict Holiness and Pentecostal sects is that of holiness/sanctification, that of justification by faith through works, and that of experientialism as proof positive for spirituality (Gal. 1:8-9; 3:1, 2-4). Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ without any human works nor merits (Eph. 2:8-9). For any particular group, organization, sect, or cult that teaches salvation as a means of works explicitly deny justification by faith only in Christ's redemptive work (Rom. 3:22-24).  

   The main message of Acts chapter 1-2:11 it that many of Christ's disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost by which they were enabled by the Holy Spirit to speak in the "native" language of the people so as to preach the gospel throughout many regions of the world (Acts 1:5-7; 8; 2:1-4).  The authentic "native" language by which many of Christ's disciples spoke was intelligible and understandable by which those who heard them speak in their own language understood what they were saying (Acts 2:5-11).  The "twisted" tongues of modern-day Charismatics were not real tongues, but, was unintelligible, non-sensical, and non-thought. It had no meaning nor soundness of speech. As a result, there was so much confusion within the Corinthian church regarding tongues by which many of the believers thought that those who spoke in such "gibberish" of tongues or "twisted" tongues was that the Spirit was working in them. Many of those who were within the Corinthian church were under such demonic control and influence based upon such personal prophecies, the revelation of the spirit, word of knowledge, and "twisted" tongues (1 Tim. 4:1).

   Whenever many Charismatic evangelicals "substitute" God's Word for such personal prophecy, the revelation of the spirit outside the boundaries of  God's written revelation of His Word are charting the dangerous waters of theological mysticism (Col. 2:18, 19).  The apostle Paul fought bitterly against mysticism in the church: that of individuals who claim to have seen something when they have seen nothing. They claim to entertain such divine personage based upon such humility of worship by which it is self-made worship that does not have anything to do with the worship of the God of the Bible. They also claim to possess such a "unique" knowledge that is hidden from those who are "unspiritual" or "unenlightened" by which such "special" knowledge is revealed to the "initiate," spiritually mature individuals within that of the professing church today. The Church possesses such "true" spiritual knowledge; Christian "Gnostics" possess such "earthly" knowledge (Col. 1:9-10 in contrast to Col. 2:18, 19).

   As Christians, we must model the Bereans in that "they searched the scripture daily to see if what Paul was saying were true." (Acts 17:11)  Subjectivism, personality cults, and irrationality hold sway within that of modern-day evangelicalism. (1 Tim. 4:1)

Rev. Darryl L. Miller is the president &Chairman of "Darryl Miller International Ministries" in Atlanta, Georgia and travels extensively throughout the United States and continents. Darryl is the bestselling author of his book, "The Prosperity Gospel: Where Did It Come From? Gnostic Source? Or Spiritual Revelation?" He is also the Podcast Host of, "Ask Darryl" which airs regularly 24/7 @ www.spreaker.com/user/bishopoflyons.com. As an apologist, conference speaker, and lecturer he is in great demand both in the United States and around the world. Darryl lives with his wife Vivian outside metro Atlanta with their puppy "Little Baby."