cessationism

Proof: John MacArthur is wrong

As I was beginning to write the penultimate chapter in my new book this week, I felt rather out of my depth. I know that cessationism is not the ‘slight’ that it is often treated as being by those who don’t find solid biblical teaching in charismatic circles, (hence their arriving at the doors of the cessationists out of a sense of necessity), and I desperately wanted to get it right.

Having been reading the first half of Romans 8 in the same moment, I prayed silently in my heart and asked the Spirit of Christ (8:9) to help me, not just merely ‘to be right’ but rather to get this important communication to the beloved bride of Christ right.

Please watch this video, below, and take note of what happened by way of 1 Corinthians 12:8.

Examining Cessationist Theology

According to “The Charismatic Illusion”, written by Peter Masters (2016), I am a proponent of cultic belief and practice because I do not believe that the Bible teaches that the gifts of the Holy Spirit ceased at the end of the first century. Masters has been the Minister of the Metropolitan Tabernacle church in London since 1970 and yet, as I will explain, is pedalling profound deception himself.

Please grab your Bible, a notebook and pen and follow prayerfully with my reading of Master’s book and ask yourself whether or not you’re the kind of person who would quietly get on with eating a cold bowl of soup for fear of creating a fuss. A great fuss needs to be made because this cold slop is covering the entire table!

How Do I Know That I Am Right?

Part of my answer is that, on Saturday January 4th 2020, during the filming of, The Draft – A Conscription of Conscience, God had given me a prophetic burden to call every church in the UK to close their doors, to repent and to pray. On Friday March 20th, 2020, the exact weekend that Boris Johnson “enlisted” the nation into historic lockdown (and every single church therein), the film was released. As bewildering as it was/still is for me, how can anyone conclude that this was anything other than vindicating, prophetic accuracy? The Lord was gracious enough to give me a prophetic word (cf. Jeremiah 28: 8), I spoke and the unthinkable call to action then happened.