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Allan Svensson, Sweden

Why does the revival tarry? It is because God’s
people tarry to obey the powerful command of
the Lord in Rev. 18:4. This is the most powerful
revival message of the Lord to his people in our time.
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/INDEX.HTM

As in the days of Lot, it is now. Lot was not interested
to leave Sodom. God sent two angels to rescue him,
and they must persuade him to leave Sodom. When
he yet lingered, one of the angels said to him:
“Flee for your life sake …”
Just like as Lot, God’s people are not interested to
leave the great Babylon, but finally they must flee
for their life from there.
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/PAGE88.HTM

God’s people are destroyed for lack of knowledge
because their preachers have rejected knowledge.
Hosea 4:6-11. Instead to preaching the truth of the
Assembly of God, they have preached lies about the
Assembly of God. The Pentecostalists have abused
the expression “Assembly of God” and used it as a
name of their church.

Evil spirits in the churches
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/SPIRITS.HTM

What does hinder the Antichrist to appear?
What is the Restrainer?
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/MESSAGE.HTM#Antichrist

Why did the Pentecostal Revival take an end?
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/CRISIS.HTM

The coming revival, a nameless revival
http://www.algonet.se/~allan-sv/POWERFUL.HTM

Thank you for commenting and adding to the conversation.

I’d add that I think extreme Calvinism is no different than fatalism and Islamic beliefs about God. Extreme open theism is no different than making ourselves god.

Jim B.’s last blog post..Lakeland Revival & Roman Catholic Pilgrimages

I responded to your similar comment at my blog here:

http://blatzkrieg.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/why-wham-ywam/#comment-1098

“As to what kind of faith you and I would have… one would say that as faith comes from God we would have the same faith, especially if one were a Calvinist. But that is not what you mean by your sentence there.”

No, it wasn’t. While God certainly accomplishes all that He purposes to accomplish, He doesn’t do so in a vacuum. He uses means to reach His ends, and for 2000 years, He has used various “self-righteous dividers” to safeguard and persevere the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

I would reposit the question: What if Athanasius had taken your tack regarding doctrine and unity? After all, haven’t professing believers been arguing about and stumbling over the doctrine of the trinity for the last 2000 years?

God Bless

Jim B.’s last blog post..A Self-Inflicted Crisis?

Thank you for your comment. I apologize for the brevity of my post, which may be why you write as you do. Although, even the aspect you question with your quotation follows the opening and primary paragraph where I say:

“I just have to wonder if all the time we spend trying to understand the whys of God,His work in this world, the free will of man, and the “problem” of evil, is much ado about nothing and more akin to us being the philosophizing friends of Job. At the end of the day I think we can – and must – rest in the cross of Christ rather than trying to proclaim to the world that we have a perfect understanding of the work of God.”

Please note the “I just have to wonder” and the “perfect understanding of the work of God.” And consider Psalm 103, Isaiah 55, Job 42, Psalm 131.

Please know that I said “how God works in this world” rather than the “sovereignty of God” because people have different definitions for the sovereignty of God – a loaded phrase and one that I didn’t think would be helpful to understanding unless I unpacked it. I would agree with you that we know that God works in the world, that God created the world, that God is ever present and holding all things together, and so much more. However, exactly how his mind works and how it impacts our wills isn’t spelled out in scripture – not in a way that our finite minds can understand in my opinion. In fact, that is why we’ve been arguing that point, biblically, for a couple thousand years. Don’t you think?

As to what kind of faith you and I would have… one would say that as faith comes from God we would have the same faith, especially if one were a Calvinist. But that is not what you mean by your sentence there.

You implicitly accuse me of being laissez faire toward doctrine. I am not nor did I intend to be read in that way. I would simply ask what you mean by doctrine.

So, what do you mean by doctrine?

You say this as if God’s Word tells us nothing about how He works in the world and interacts with us. These are huge factors in understanding Christ’s Gospel.

It is easy to take this tack whilst standing on 2000 years of Church history – 2000 years of martyrs’ blood. I wonder what kind of faith you and I would have if Athanasius or Augustine or Luther, or Paul for that matter, would have taken a laissez faire attitude toward Christian doctrine.

Unity and sound doctrine do not stand at odds with one another. Unity on the foundation of sound doctrine should be our aim.

God Bless

Jim B.’s last blog post..A Self-Inflicted Crisis?