Ive been posting a lot things written and preserved about the people who lived in 16th and 17th century Europe called Anabaptist. The reason is, that these people had the fire like no other people I know of since to book of Acts, to the present day. They were tortured and martyred in the most cruel fashion. They found no place to call home or lay their heads. They suffered it gladly, because they possessed something far greater than anything man can contrive. They had the SAVIOR. So what quenched the Anabaptist movement, and caused the persecution to stop? Was it an army of protection? Was it repentance of those who were so cruel to them? Did a wave of the SPIRIT sweep over Europe? No. It was none of those things. I finally found the answer, in one paragraph. Let me share it with you, to ponder. It is extremely important, that we understand this......... Known only by his title, one of their archbishops wrote: The Anabaptists discovered the key to defining and maintaining sound doctrine. They discovered the filter of the brotherhood. No doctrine can be known to be Biblical unless it passes through this filter of the Biblical brotherhood. Therefore, all personal convictions must be presented to the brotherhood, where sound doctrine is defined, the Scriptures are properly interpreted, and the truth is discovered. It is in submission to this Biblical brotherhood that we find doctrinal stability. . . . God has charged the Biblical brotherhood to bring the Bible to the people. . . . So may God help us to reconfirm our commitment to the brotherhood -- the basis of our faith, our source of stability, and the place from which we may go out to evangelize. Do you see it? Like the Protestants, and the Catholics before them, they placed MAN between the HOLY SPIRIT and TRUTH. Boom! EXIT HOLY SPIRIT. Joh_16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. Thats what the MESSIAH said! When one puts man in that position, the HOLY SPIRIT is withdrawn and truth is blurred into oblivion. 1Th_5:19 Quench not the Spirit.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 04:49:54 +0000
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