One of the major problems with charismatics, which I identify with also- by virtue of the fact that I am not a cessasionist; is that they confuse personal impulse with movement of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is a person, and will not infringe upon your will to choose. One can decline at his or her own peril, but the Spirit does nothing to place us under compulsion that is not mediated by the stable and enduring Word of God. And by the Word of God, I am not talking about proof texts outside of the context of the whole. I am talking about how the text communicates God's will in a way that radically controverts our own world view here in this culture and our own personal fallen states. It is an obviously dangerous thing, when religious people begin to appropriate their personal agendas as the will of God on their personal whim, apart from: 1) The Word of God, 2) The Community of God, and 3) the Holy Spirit, who is no less than the very same Spirit of Jesus, and the Spirit of the Heavenly Father.
And on a personal note that should serve as a corrective to my previous entry: Yes, anger does serve a purpose for the souls that are God's but, 19My beloved brothers, understand this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger, 20for man’s anger does not bring about the righteousness that God desires."
I am guilty of this, I am not accustomed to slow anger, in my most impoverished states, I am quick to burst into a fire, that resembles more a monster from hell than a saint bound for heaven.
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