HIGHER-FIRE digest 382 (WoF)

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Dave, Dave, Dave,

I read your post, and I see how you are mingling truth with a lie.  You hide
behind the guise of faith a destructive heresy.

I would like to address the following extrapolations from your ealier post:

'Many Christians do not know how to receive the Promises of God.'

Here, you suggest that there is a kinetic extension of God's blessings that must
only be 'tapped into' in order to receive.  I would refer, as Brother JD did in
an earlier post, to Paul's 'thorn in the flesh.'  Are we to believe that he
was not knowledgeable of how he could receive relief from the bothersome in-
firmity?  You take, it seems, a rather utopian view of Christian life.  This
statement suggests that if we could only realise God's promises active in our
lives, then all our financial, social, medical, etc. sufferings would be
alleviated.  So, more succintly put, you do indeed assign the 'lacks' of life
to a lack of faith.

You wrote:

' . . . start speaking the promises of God instead of talking about the problem.
Speak the answer, and it shall come to pass because God is not a man that he
should lie.'

I write:

Here, again, we see the HERESY of the creative power of the spoken word.  You
suggest (along with the WoF theologians) that we indeed control our status
through our ability to speak the promises of God.  I would agree that often we
become more focused on problems than the problem solver, and God is
all-powerful, able to do exceedingly, abundantly beyond all that we ask or
think.  However, that does not mean that WE possess the power, through the
spoken word of faith, to shape our circumstances.  God, in His providential
wisdom, is in control.

This statement becomes further corrupted into a flat lie when you write:

'if they [believers] can believe His Word and receive by faith and call those
things that be not as though they were.'

I write:
Oh my Lord, have mercy!  Romans 4.17 clearly assigns this to God not the
believer:
		' . . . even God, who quickeneth the dead,
		and calleth those things which be not as though
		they were'

Dave, you have placed this ability in the believer rather than God.  Only He
transcends time and space and can see afar off.  We are limited by our own
human vantage posts and are not creative in any way!  God is the orderer of our
steps, not ourselves.

I indict the Word of Faith movement for second guessing the Providential and
determinate will and counsel of God and attempting to simplify the sufferings
and difficulties of human life with frail excuses of our inability to stand on
God's promises.  There have been TOO MANY people of God who have suffered ad-
versities to fall for this hellacious corruption of Biblical principles of
faith!  As I have mentioned before, many of our old-time Pentecostals saw the
blind see, the deaf hear, the lame healed but had to depend on God everyday for
life's basic provisions.  They were glitzy, golden prima donnas of the
Christian stage; they were simple, God-fearing people.

God can do anything, and He will supply our needs, but to say that every
adverse condition is a product of our inability to stand on God's promises is
over-simplifying.  To say that we have the ability to speak things into
actuality is a lie.  God does all things.  We can do nothing but believe.

All Honour to Christ Jesus.
  



Matthew Shaw
00mcshaw@bsu.edu