But then there are the churches and ministers on the other extreme, that sanction practices in their meetings which are completely contrary to scripture, i.e. they allow congregation members to mimic drunken behaviour and laugh uncontrollably, while the word of God is being taught. Some churches and some ministers, even abandon the preaching of the word of God when these types of manifestations occur, and give the meeting over completely to them, all because they do not want to hinder the “spirit” from having his way in their meetings. And so, amazingly the leaders of these meetings attribute the disruption to the meeting, to the very person Who has instructed us not to allow such practices, i.e. the Holy Spirit, for it is He Who inspired the apostle Paul to write the instructions to the church that we read previously. Clearly in these instances, it is not the Holy Spirit, but rather demonic spirits that are given free reign in their meetings, for it doesn’t matter how powerful the manifestations are, if they are contrary to the word of God, then it is not God. And so, ministers and churches that encourage such behaviour which are contrary to scripture have become deceived, and are being used by our adversary to bring that deception into the church.
Michael E.B. Maher
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