At a recent conference, during his opening prayer a ‘mid-Acts’ preacher prayed, "We pray for that Berean spirit to search the scriptures daily to see if these things are so."
Could anyone show me the VERSE that teaches that?
If so, please e-mail magnifiedword@aol.com.
If not, don’t believe the ‘mid-Acts-ers’.
Instead, trust the word of GOD.
(There is yet another point with this passage, that WHY would the Bereans even have been LOOKING in the scriptures .... IF .... as the ‘mid-Acts-ers’ claim .... Paul was preaching "uniquely DIFFERENT, NEW information"? If Paul’s revelation was not IN the scriptures .... then they would have been foolish to search for it there! But, it was there, as Paul himself testified in Acts 26:22; 28:23,31.)
Acts 17:10-11 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
I realize what the verses SAY .... but they do not suggest for us to pray for ‘that Berean spirit’. Would that be like ‘another spirit’ (2 Cor 11:4)? .... because we have the Spirit which is of God, the Spirit of Christ:
1 Cor 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
I believe I would rather just stay with HIS Spirit.
BTW, this was another preacher that refuses to acknowledge the KJV title of the office he holds as a 'bishop' .... preferring The Living Bible's term 'pastor' instead. (But this 'shepherd' tells his congregation that they are not 'sheep' -- that Israel is only the sheep.)
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
