I was surprised when the speaker brought a water bottle and set it right up front on the podium. I don’t have a problem with that, but his ‘teaching elder’ made an issue about it bothering him during the IL meeting this past April.
In his first verse, the speaker quoted "Satan hindered us" and said "not physically" .... but "the Jews were." So he made ‘Satan’ be ‘the Jews’. He said it’s the spirit of disobedience:
1 Thess 2:18 Wherefore we would have come unto you, even I Paul, once and again; but Satan hindered us.
By what standard does the speaker take the liberty to CHANGE who Satan is in a verse? Wonder why he didn’t equate Satan with the Jews in this next passage?
2 Cor 2:10-11 To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;
11 Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
The speaker indicated that Jesus Christ would not be accepted in most churches today. Even though many of their doctrines are not correct, they are worshipping the true God and Jesus Christ, His Son, Who died on the cross and rose again. ‘Mid-Acts-ers’ are negative toward and very judgmental of other saints in the body of Christ who-they-think do not what-they-call ‘rightly divide’:
Phil 1:18 What then? notwithstanding, every way, whether in pretence, or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
This is David Dowell, saying, "Think about it!"
The speaker spoke way too fast for me to write many notes. Then internet lost connection and I was unable to listen to the rest of his message.
