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Next time you are at a healing service, be attentive because you will see who
gets the most attention.  Have you ever seen a healing preacher approach a
person dying with cancer?  Have you seen them approach mongoloid  infants?
How about those who are paralyzed from the neck down, or those with clubbed-
feet?  Do they approach any who have been blind from birth?  Doesn't the Holy
Spirit know that such people exist in the audience?  Why is it easier to run
to the person with the "headache," or backache" than it is to the one with
the clubbed feet?  It doesn't take much to figure this out.
If you really want to read up on the deceptions of these faith healers, get
a hold of "The Modern Tongues and Healing Movement," by Carroll Stegall, Jr.
(Bible Believers Press, P.O. Box 7135 Pensacola, Fl. 32534) who followed
these faith healers and did plenty of research on the subjects who were
supposed to be healed by people like Oral Roberts, etc.    Until you can do
what this man did, you would be slow to speak and would observe the healing
services carefully rather than participating in the deception next time.
(1 Thess. 5:21).
Now stop and please read Mark 16:14-18.
It is clear Jesus is talking to eleven disciples.  These signs were imparted
upon the Apostles who are to go out and preach the gospel. The New Testament,
which was instituted by the Saviour Jesus Christ, will be preached.  However,
there's a problem.  They don't have one page of the New Testament as "proof
text." What are they going to need to prove they were speaking the "oracles
of God?" Those "signs" that are about to follow the Apostles are going to
"confirm" the word of God.  Pleas read verse 19-20 which relates this truth.
Note: "CONFIRMING THE WORD WITH SIGNS following."
Now, do ALL those signs follow every Christian today as stated in Mark
16:14-18?  The list contains ALL five signs.  They will:
 Cast out devils.
 Speak with new tongues.
 Take up serpents.
 Drink any deadly thing without getting harmed.
 Lay hands on the sick and heal them.
Jesus didn't say, "Listen guys, some of you might only get one of the signs;
some of you may get two or three; maybe all five, best of luck."  No.  He
didn't say they would only have maybe one, maybe four, or maybe three of
them, but they were going to have all five of them. It came in one package.
Jesus said, "And THESE SIGNS (plural) shall follow...."  He didn't say
"some" of these signs shall follow.  So if anyone wants to claim they have
the signs of the Apostles, they must have ALL FIVE SIGNS.
Here's an interesting verse found in Mark 16,
"If they drink any deadly thing it won't hurt them."
I once knew a preacher who would ask Catholics (concerning the wine which is
suppose to change into the literal blood of Christ at the hands of priest),
"If you knew there was some poison deposited in that cup that could make you
drop dead in an instant, would you still drink from it?" The question causes
hesitation.  It could be possible to do such a thing, you know?  What else
than to have the blood of Jesus (?) counteract the poison! Will you still
drink from it?
But the problem doesn't end for blood drinkers.  The eating of blood is
*forbidden* to ALL JEWS in the Holy Scriptures!  It is forbidden BEFORE the
law (Gen. 9:4), UNDER the law (Lev. 17:14), and in NEW TESTAMENT TIMES to
Christian Gentiles (see Acts 15:29, Acts 21:25).
Now, since the topic is going to be mainly about tongues, let's turn to Acts
chapter 2.  In there we read:
"And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind."
We will be told that the initial evidence is "tongues." Wrong. The initial
evidence is "wind."  Furthermore, notice there were a hundred and twenty
people, men and women  (Acts 1:13-15) gathered together, and only twelve
of them spoke in tongues. Thus, if the gift of tongues has to do with the
Baptism of the Holy Ghost,  then what say ye concerning the other 108 who
did not receive the gift?   Didn't they get the baptism of the Holy Ghost?
Look at Acts 2:4 for a moment.  It says:
"And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to
speak with other tongues..."
Two different things happened here. FIRST came the filling (which is also
understood to be a "baptism," Mk. 1:8; Acts 1:5; acts 11:16) of the Holy
Ghost, and THEN came the tongues.  The "filling" took place, but tongues
didn't have to follow, and with the other 108, it didn't. The only people
who spoke in tongues were the apostles.
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