Sermon Tone Analysis

What are the sign gifts?

speaking in tongues

speaking in tongues

speaking in tongues

healing

healing

healing

working miracles

working miracles

working miracles

prophesying.

prophesying.

prophesying.

Difine tounges: an individual speeking in a previously unlearned language.

Define lounges: an individual speaking in a previously unlearned language.

Define tounges: an individual speaking in a previously unlearned language.

Arguments for the fact that these gifts are still in use today

Arguments for the fact that these gifts are still in use today

Arguments for the fact that these gifts are still in use today

Question: What about the reports of these things happening in the middle East and people being saved as a result.

In Iran there are reports if Jesus appearing to people in dreams and beckoning them to follow Him.

Question: What about the reports of these things happening in the middle East and people being saved as a result.

In Iran there are reports if Jesus appearing to people in dreams and beckoning them to follow Him.

Question: What about the reports of these things happening in the middle East and people being saved as a result.

In Iran there are reports if Jesus appearing to people in dreams and beckoning them to follow Him.

· Answer: Dreams are not the same as miraculous gifts, and whether dreams fit neatly in the miraculous category is also difficult to determine.

For instance, Nabeel Quereshi's dreams described in Seeking Alah, Finding Jesus.

Some cessationists would not have a problem believing that God is doing extraordinary things, especially in places of persecution or little access to Scripture, although God is God and can do as He pleases anywhere.

· Answer: Dreams are not the same as miraculous gifts, and whether dreams fit neatly in the miraculous category is also difficult to determine.

For instance, Nabeel Quereshi's dreams described in Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus.

Some creationists would not have a problem believing that God is doing extraordinary things, especially in places of persecution or little access to Scripture, although God is God and can do as He pleases anywhere.

· Answer: Dreams are not the same as miraculous gifts, and whether dreams fit neatly in the miraculous category is also difficult to determine.

For instance, Nabeel Quereshi's dreams described in Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus.

Some creationists would not have a problem believing that God is doing extraordinary things, especially in places of persecution or little access to Scripture, although God is God and can do as He pleases anywhere.

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SO, if they have ceased prove it

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The reason we so much said about lounges in scripture, particularly form Paul is that the sign gifts were still going on because the cannon had not been completed.

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The reason we so so much said about tounges in scripture, particularly form paul is that the sign gifts were still going on because the cannon had not been completed.

2. Let’s look at the order of Paul’s books

2. Lets look at the order of Paul’s books

· The book of Acts (all during the book of Acts)

· The book of Acts (all during the book of Acts)

· Galatians,

· Galations,

· The Thessalonian letters,

· The thessolonian letters,

· Corinthian letter,

· Corinthian letter,

· Romans

· Romans

· the end of Acts,

· The prison Epistles,

· the end of Acts,

· Ephesians,

· The prison Epistles,

· Colossians,

· ephesians,

· Philemon,

· colossians,

· Philippians,

· Philemon,

· three pastoral epistles

· Philippians,

· Titus,

· three pastoral eppisles

· 1 & 2 Timothy

3. The sign gifts tounges prophesy, the gift of healing etc. Were all operating throughout the book of Acts.

And Paul talked about them highly and extensively.

However, after Acts they mysteriously vanished.

· Titius,

· Therefore, either they are just not talked about which would be quite odd because Paul talked so extensively about it

· 1 & 2 Timothy

· Or they were no longer gifts

3. The sign gifts tounges prophesy, the gift of healing ect.

Were all operating throughout the book of Acts.

And paul talked about them highly and extencivly.

However after Acts they mesteiously vanished.

4. Paul could heal the Sick in

· Therefore either they are just not talked about which would be quite odd considering the fact that paul talked so extencivly about it

· Or they were no longer gifts

but could no longer heal after the close of the book

4. Paul could heal the Sick in but could no longer heal after the close of the book

5. 1.

The sign gifts were in operation in Acts, Galatians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, 1 & 2 Corinthians and Romans.

During this time Period Paul wrote 1 Cor 18:8-12 which tells us that the Lord had revealed to Him that the gifts would cease someday.

During this time Period Paul wrote 1 Cor 18:8-12 which tells us that the Lord had revealed to Him that the gifts would cease someday.

Question?

When did the sign gifts cease?

Answer, at the end of the book of Acts.

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The pattern could not be clearear, and the contrast sharper between the earlier letters and the later letters, between the time when all the sign gfts were operating, and the time when all sign gifts had ceased .

There is no record in scripture of any sign gifts opperating in any of the letters that paul wrote after the end of the acts period.

, and it is clear that the gift of healing had ceased since paul could no longer even heal his closest co-workers.

after the close of Acts.

Question?

When did the sign gifts cease?

Answer, at the end of the book of Acts.

1.

The pattern could not be clearer, and the contrast sharper between the earlier letters and the later letters, between the time when all the sign gifts were operating, and the time when all sign gifts had ceased.

There is no record in scripture of any sign gifts operating in any of the letters that Paul wrote after the end of the acts period., and the gift of healing had ceased since Paul could no longer even heal his closest co-workers.

after the close of Acts.

Question: Why did they cease

Question: Why did they cease

This verse refers to the completion of the cannon, let’s look at why...