Luke 7:22 So he replied to the messengers, ‘Go back and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy[a] are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor. 23 Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.’😇😇
Charismaniac’s claim this is still taking place today. But they won’t say WHERE‼️‼️‼️😳
22 So he replied to the messengers, ‘Go back and report to John what 👉👉👉👉you have seen and heard👈👈👈👈: the 👉👉👉👉blind receive sight👈👈👈👈, the 👉👉lame walk👈👈, those who have leprosy[a] are cleansed,👉👉 the deaf hear👈👈, the 👉👉dead are raised👈👈, and the good 👉👉👉👉👉news is proclaimed👈👈👈👈👈 to the poor. 23 Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.’
WHERE IS THIS HAPPENING ⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️
All we have from modern charismaniacs are false claims and false promises of miracles that never happen 😡😡😡
I'd like to make something clear. I believe miracles can happen today. I don't necessarily have to have a proof of it though. Just like you know, I believe that the earth is sphere as opposed to being flat. But I do not need proof like for example, a trip to outer space to believe. I went to school and learned. And that's enough. I don't have to see the sphere of the earth to believe in it. Just like that, I don't need to see miracles in order to believe that they CAN and DO happen. Just because I don't see everything that happens all over the world all at the same time, I'm not omniscient, doesn't mean that those things (miracles) that I am unaware of don't happen. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to witness it, I believe that it still makes a sound. Such a big deal. Some people believe in miracles, and some don't. That's all. Have a nice day.
Silver, I think you really want to believe what you claim. And I think, (hope I’m right), that you believe Jesus is your Lord and that you want to obey him?
But you’re confused theologically and logically because you probably attended public school where good thinking isn’t taught and you most likely attend a shallow church that doesn’t take scripture or good thinking seriously.
I’m not trying to insult you. All I’m saying here is this: inferior education at the pulpit and/or in the public square HAS extreme consequences.
But there’s hope.
You need to search scripture as if your eternality depends on it—-because it does‼️‼️
Here’s a good place to start:
Acts 17:11 Now the Berean Jews 👉were of more noble👈 character 👉👉than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with 👉👉great eagerness and 👉👉examined (searched) the Scriptures 👉👉every day👈👈 to see👈 if what Paul said👈 was 👉true👈.
Shallow ignorant preachers would be insulted and offended it you told them you were checking scripture to see if what they say is true
Like i said in another thread. You need to have the same threshold of evidence for both then and now. Otherwise you are not fairly judging.
Let me explain for those reading.
Your threshold for back then was(not just Jesus but all biblical accounts) is just the word of a bystander or in the case of the gospels of Mark and Luke, not even that but the word of someone who was told by a bystander, whether that be a disciole or someone else.
Your threshold for today went from asking for miracles, (and when that was given) then raising threshold to quadraped or raised from the dead(and when that was given with evidence from the man himself, the people who prayed for him, the medical fraternity with the documentation to prove it, and eye witnesses) then you raised the bar again to having to be dead for 4 days.
No biblical miracles except for Lazarus fit that criteria yet we all believe they were miracles.
If yiu want evidence, fair enough but have the same criteria for both then and now otherwise you will get scewed results that cannot be rightly of honestly compared.
Example...the man i was alluding to who was dead 3 days with all those witnesses including medical practitioners and documentation who God raised from the dead you dont believe was a miracle yet you believe Jairus daughter was raised from the dead simply on the word of the writers despite none of them even present at the time to see it happen.
You want true, comparable evidence, then have the same criteria.
John 14:26 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.
1 John 2:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes
But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.
Ephesians 1:13 ESV / 9 helpful votes
In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,
Ephesians 4:30 ESV / 7 helpful votes
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
John 16:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
2 Peter 1:21 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:15-16 ESV / 6 helpful votes
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
John 16:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.
2 Corinthians 1:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And who has also put his seal on us and given us his Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.
John 14:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever,
Luke 12:12 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
Matthew 28:19 ESV / 5 helpful votes
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
1 John 5:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes
This is he who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?
1 Corinthians 2:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes
These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
John 15:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes
“But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me.
1 John 5:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes
For there are three that testify:
1 John 2:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
Hebrews 2:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes
While God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will.
2 Timothy 1:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes
By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
Galatians 5:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
Romans 8:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
Acts 10:44-48 ESV / 3 helpful votes
While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the word. And the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles. For they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared, “Can anyone withhold water for baptizing these people, who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.
Acts 1:1-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes
In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day when he was taken up, after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen. He presented himself alive to them after his suffering by many proofs, appearing to them during forty days and speaking about the kingdom of God. And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” ...
John 14:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 3:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
Matthew 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Isaiah 63:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes
But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit; therefore he turned to be their enemy, and himself fought against them.
Revelation 2:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name's sake, and you have not grown weary. But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent. ...
1 Thessalonians 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, for you received the word in much affliction, with the joy of the Holy Spirit,
Ephesians 1:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Galatians 5:22 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 4:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”
2 Corinthians 13:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
1 Corinthians 6:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
1 Corinthians 2:10-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
These things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...
Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.
Romans 8:9-11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 5:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Acts 13:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Acts 7:51 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“You stiff-necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do you.
Acts 5:32 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And we are witnesses to these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.”
Acts 2:1-47 ESV / 2 helpful votes
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. ...
Acts 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
Acts 1:4 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me;
John 16:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And when he comes, he will convict the world concerning sin and righteousness and judgment:
John 14:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you.
John 14:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
John 14:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
John 7:39 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
John 3:3-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...
Luke 12:49 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“I came to cast fire on the earth, and would that it were already kindled!
Luke 1:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.
Mark 13:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
Jeremiah 32:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for me?
Psalm 51:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
