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The following is an excerpt from a sermon by Jerry Spencer.
Are those who have this experience more spiritually successful and closer to God?
How does this help in daily Christian living?
If it is God's power, why do people have to catch you? If it's His power, couldn't He suspend you in air and let you down easy?
When God says so much about our being alert, to wake up, to stand in power with God's armor, why would He want us to pass out?
If it's of God, why doesn't every Christian have this experience as a normal occurrence, especially if it helps those who experience it so dramatically and instantaneously? How have the majority of truly Spirit-filled Christian leaders throughout history managed to function without this experience?
Given the omnipotence of Almighty God, the freedom, intelligence, and limitless power of the Holy Spirit, and given the fact that He lives in the Christian, why would He choose to come from the outside through the touching, hitting, throwing, shouting, commanding, or blowing of a third party for the purpose of slaying one of His own in whom He is already at home?
The basic, fundamental, bottom-line question is this: Is it biblical? Was it practiced and taught by the Lord Jesus Christ? What does the Bible say about being "slain in the Spirit?"
The answer is ... Being "slain in the spirit" in never mentioned in the Bible.
[SIZE=-1]Jerry Spencer is pastor of Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Dothan, Ala.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+2]Slain in the Spirit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=+2]Slain in the Spirit[/SIZE]
The following is an excerpt from a sermon by Jerry Spencer.
Are those who have this experience more spiritually successful and closer to God?
How does this help in daily Christian living?
If it is God's power, why do people have to catch you? If it's His power, couldn't He suspend you in air and let you down easy?
When God says so much about our being alert, to wake up, to stand in power with God's armor, why would He want us to pass out?
If it's of God, why doesn't every Christian have this experience as a normal occurrence, especially if it helps those who experience it so dramatically and instantaneously? How have the majority of truly Spirit-filled Christian leaders throughout history managed to function without this experience?
Given the omnipotence of Almighty God, the freedom, intelligence, and limitless power of the Holy Spirit, and given the fact that He lives in the Christian, why would He choose to come from the outside through the touching, hitting, throwing, shouting, commanding, or blowing of a third party for the purpose of slaying one of His own in whom He is already at home?
The basic, fundamental, bottom-line question is this: Is it biblical? Was it practiced and taught by the Lord Jesus Christ? What does the Bible say about being "slain in the Spirit?"
The answer is ... Being "slain in the spirit" in never mentioned in the Bible.
[SIZE=-1]Jerry Spencer is pastor of Ridgecrest Baptist Church in Dothan, Ala.[/SIZE]