Matthew 12:38-39 “Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You." (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.”
Unfortunately, because some churches and ministers encourage the saints to seek after signs and wonders, they draw the saints into a practice that our Lord Jesus called evil. For in the above passage of scripture, our Lord Jesus clearly stated that it is an evil and adulterous generation that seeks after signs and wonders. Someone said, but I thought that the apostle Paul taught us to desire spiritual gifts (1 Corinthians 14:1). That is entirely correct, but if you continue to read the passage you will see that the reason Paul advises believers to desire spiritual gifts, is so that they can be used of God to edify the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 14:12). People that seek after signs however, seek only for their own experiences. The Holy Spirit is also selective who He imparts gifts to, and in most instances only imparts one gift to each saint. If some of these ministries and meetings are to be believed as being the work of the Holy Spirit, then He would be imparting multiple gifts on multiple occasions to the same people, because it is invariably the same people the go to these ministries and meetings to have supernatural encounters. Clearly this is not the work of the Holy Spirit.
Michael E.B. Maher
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