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OF WORLDLINESS

Dear G. T.                                                                                                     October 25, 1991

      ...I. P. has been useful in establishing a host of churches both in Great Britain, as well as in the United States. My eldest son is in Greenville, So. Carolina where he is enrolled in Bob Jones University where I. P. is a regular speaker at the annual Bible conference. Before he came, the University found it advantageous to expel many students who were Calvinists (however, it is a trait to be found in many youths to be belligerent). Although I. P. message seems to be less enunciated than in former years, the University appears less intolerant of Calvinists.

      The reason I have sent my son to Bob Jones University is because the school believes in separation from worldliness and modernism. Sad to say, most of the schools I know of here in the states are weak in either their theology or in their Christian standards. Many of the grace churches are themselves being duped into using charismatic ditties in their services. I become physically ill with such slop; and, if a choice must be made between doctrine and practice, I had rather my son be exposed to practical godliness than doctrine that knows nothing of those things that become sound doctrine.

ON THE CHARISMATIC HERESY

Dear H. R.                                                                                                    October 12, 1989

     Thank you for your recent letter, and for the time you took to copy the excerpts from J. I. Packer's book. I was saddened to see his Neo-Evangelicalism so blatant. He has been a blessing to so many Bible believers. It is so sad to see him make such a homogenization of Christianity.

     I am much afraid that you will not find my comments welcome, but allow me to make just two. First, I would say that the Charismatics "preach another Jesus whom we have not preached,

   ...(they) receive another spirit which (we) have not received, ...(and) another gospel which (we) have not accepted ..." (II Corinthians 11:4). The god of the Charismatics is not to be feared, so he can be neither reverenced, nor worshipped.

      Second, Israel had no right to radically alter her worship in those days of apostasy; and, by what authority have we altered our worship? There is nothing wrong with the message: that does not need changing. What needs changing is the hearts of men whereby they are made willing to walk humbly before the Lord with an obedient heart.

      I do not know your eschatological beliefs, but Scripture says that in the last days "evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived," and "because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold" (II Timothy 3:13; Matthew 24:12). I do not know how it is with your family, but one proof of the effeminacy of the charismatic movement is that in most families, it is the wife who leads the family into the movement.

ON CHARISMATIC DOCTRINE

Dear T. L.                                                                                                  September 25, 1985

      ...I am returning your magazine article. I hope you did not mind my commenting on the paper itself. Having never heard of Dr. Price, it was necessary for me to read the entire article. It is the typical charismatic garbage. Study your Bible, and avoid this stuff. Note the article: I will give his points, and then my comments.

      l.) Dr. Price says, "You cannot believe to receive the Holy Spirit if you do not know it is God's will to give you the Holy Spirit". The Apostle Paul says, "If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His" (Romans 8:9). Every Christian has the Spirit of God. He does not receive the Spirit at a later time.

      2.) "Neither can you believe for healing for your body, unless you (first of all) know it is God's will to heal you." God said to Moses, "Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD" (Exodus 4:11)? And, Peter said, "Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy" (I Peter 4:12,13). How can we be "partakers of Christ's sufferings" unless it is the Lord's will at times for His people to suffer?

      3.) Is it indeed God's will to heal His people always? then, how would they ever die? And, if they ever find themselves upon their deathbed, should they feel unspiritual, and guilty? Of course not, "It is appointed unto men once to die ..." (Hebrews 9:27).

      4.) The article reads, "He (Paul) did not say, `God gave me a thorn in the flesh'." But, if God did not give it to him, then where did it come from? And, why did the Almighty not take it away after the Apostle besought the Lord "thrice"—unless God intended to have Paul experience it?

     Read II Chronicles 18:1-22, and you will find that God lured king Ahab to Ramoth-Gilead to die in battle; and that God did it by using a lying spirit.

    Read I Samuel 16:23: "And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God came upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him." Thomas Watson wrote, "All God's creatures are at His check, and beck."

     5.) "Do you know what the `grace of God' is? It is authority to use the Name of Jesus." Hogwash! Like most charismatics, the writer uses the name of Jesus as if it were a magical incantation, and treats God like He is our servant, and not vice versa!

     6.) Note I Timothy 5:23: Paul wrote to Timothy, "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities." Was Timothy backslidden because he was subject to frequent infirmities? Was the Apostle Paul backslidden who did not tell Timothy to use the name of Jesus, but to use medicine?

     Paul wrote that Epaphroditus was sick unto death, and that it was on account of the work of the ministry. He was nigh unto death, not regarding his own life (Philippians 2:27,30).

    7.) The writer then states, "While He (Jesus) was on the earth He would not tolerate any sickness in His body;" but he offers no Scriptural proof of this.

    8.) In closing, note that Paul exhorted the saints that "we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God" (Acts 14:22). Put away the PTL Club, and the 700 Club, and such religious charlatans as Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth Copeland. Present-day believers are hardly prepared for the days of darkness that are about to descend upon our world. Love and Prayers.

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