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Bob DeWaay: The Works of the Holy Spirit

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shepherd Bob DeWaay has, on many occasions, taught, written on, and presented on the Works of the Holy Spirit. Beginning in the 1990's when a woman at his church wondered if the manifestations that happened at a Charismatic gathering were truly from the Holy Spirit as claimed by those conducting the gatherings. Bob works us through verse after verse in the Scriptures to show us exactly how we can know when we encounter true works of the Holy Spirit, as opposed to fraudulent works posing as if from the Holy Spirit.

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An Outline of the Discussion
  • Many people wrongly see the “gift of discernment” as a subjective sense about whether something is good, bad, right, wrong, etc. They confuse it with human intuition. Others attend gatherings that involve various “manifestations” and don't know if it is the Holy Spirit or not.
  • The way you know that the Holy Spirit is at work is that Christ is preached and confessed.
  • John 15:26 – “When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me” Gatherings with false manifestations and healings will be apparent in their false status in that Christ is not preached.
  • 1 John 4:1-2 – Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; There is a connection here between testing spirits and false prophets, the spirits work through prophets. Many “Christian” groups will claim to follow the true Christ, and will tell you what you want to hear, but will not preach Him from the pulpit.
  • 1 John 4:3, 5 – and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world… They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. False teachers claim an anointing, but their anointing is not from God, as is apparent in that they will not preach Christ.
  • 1 Corinthians 12:3 – Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit. A false teacher (such as Kenneth Copeland) can utter the words “Jesus is Lord,” but they do not preach the Christ of the Bible. Copeland's Jesus lost his divinity on the cross and battled Satan in his humanity.
  • Revelation 19:10 – Then I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “Do not do that; I am a fellow servant of yours and your brethren who hold the testimony of Jesus; worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” True prophecy professes [the true] Christ.
  • 2 Peter 1:20-21 – But know this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture is a (matter) of one’s own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by an act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God. All of Scripture is about Jesus Christ.
  • Luke 12:10 – And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him. Christ is the only ‘anointed one,' and the Holy Spirit testifies of Him. To reject that testimony is to reject the only means available for the forgiveness of sins.
  • Acts 1:8 – but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth. The sign of the Holy Spirit is that we preach Christ.

Scriptures Referenced
  • John 15:26
  • 1 John 4:1-2
  • 1 John 4:3, 5
  • 1 Corinthians 12:3
  • Revelation 19:10
  • 2 Peter 1:20-21
  • 2 John 1:9
  • 2 Peter 2:1
  • 2 John 1:9
  • John 15:26
  • Luke 12:10
  • Acts 1:8
  • Acts 9:17
  • Acts 9:20
  • Psalm 110:1
  • John 1:1-17
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