Repentance From Cessationism-Kevin Williams

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"I really feel cessationists have subconsciously bought into the secular idea of naturalism, which says we’re westerners, we’re far too sophisticated for all that supernatural stuff. I mean, you have to ask the question:
Why are there so many miracles by Christians today in places like India, and other parts of the world, but not really in the west?

The answer is, because our brothers and sisters in the East, when they're converted, they pick up their Bibles, they read it, and they believe it. There’s nothing in the Bible that says miracles are not for today, and so our brothers in the East, they don’t spend all their time, in fact they don’t spend any time, trying to view the Bible through the lens of 18th to 21st century scepticism, and trying to make the Bible fit nicely within boundaries of naturalism and human reason, trying to make it more palatable to the Western world. Our brothers in the East and in the jungles of South America and so forth, and places like China, they just read the Bible and they believe it.

And I got caught up in the cessationist snare for some time, I think it was when long after I got my MacArthur Study Bible and I started getting the study notes mixed up with the text. I'm sure a lot of people have done that with study Bibles. And I do see a lot of people treat study notes as if they’re inspired. But I mean Spurgeon didn’t write a study Bible. Just kidding.

But I got caught up in the cessationist snare for some time, but I have since repented of it. And I say snare because it really is dishonest, because, my question to any cessationist is, and I speak from experience here. My question is that:
Is it not true that when the cessationists sees, or hears about, the supernatural happening today, he’s already decided he can’t accept it at any cost, and so he or she looks for reasons to suppress the truth, and explain it away?
How many times have you done that?

Is it not true that a when a cessationist comes to the Bible texts about the gifts, and it seems to imply that these things should be happening now, it gets a little scary and he just refuses to just let the text say what it actually says and so suppresses the truth, and tries to explain it away, saying God doesn’t mean what He says?
How many times have you done that?"

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John 7:31(1) - Repentance From Cessationism-Kevin Williams - 47 min

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