Does not the Word baptism itself mean whelmed EG?
Does your church teach what you are saying? Or is this your own reasoning?
Water is the washing EG. Then continually by the scripture...washing of the water of the Word. The sprinkling of blood on our conscience deals with sin. The Word deals with our character.
To be whelmed by Spirit is to stop the work of man, and move in the work of God.
For prophecy is Gods message speaking through your voice. So is tongues, speaking mysteries, praying, moving in the Holy Spirit. Healing through laying on of hands- Gods power through the gift of faith. So many ways He moves but it's Him. And we know it's not of us.
It's an exciting life to be used of God, and I've only had tastes. Makes you thirst for more of His life!
The cessationist is a product of his teachers.
They can not make a case that what we recieved is not scriptural,so where do they place their rejection of the baptism in the Holy Spirit as is recorded by the laying on of hands?
They simply made up a notion that it ceased.
Their leaders made it up. Cessation is not in the bible,and the cessationist is not hungry for more of God. No desire to raise the dead,cast satin off people bound by the devil,or lay hands on the sick. They,like their leaders,have poo pooed the power of God. They have Just laid down.
They actually like it.
Without hunger,no seeking more.
That is why they stay put,or should we say thumb their nose at pentecost.
They see Jesus words as just words,no purpose to them.
(...but tarry in Jerusalem until ye have received power.)...just words on in a book, has no value to them.
If i jad not been exposed to the river of God during the charismatic movement,i may have ended up like them.
But probably not,because my conversion was like Paul's,He came to me in power. Then about 3 months later I received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit through the laying on of hands.
Just like in the bible.
It occurs to me that Holy Ghost baptised people need to be the ones to impart the Holy Ghost to others.
Interestingly,ww see it in mat 25,in that the protocol was invoked "give us some of yours".....and they COULD HAVE, but didn't.
So where does mat 25 leave them? More desert.
They HAVE TO change the parable around to say something else.
Ironically,the Baptism in the Holy Ghost is a ingredient in the rapture.
Anyone care to step out of that cessationists hand book???