What is hyper cessationism?

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And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown. Thanks for joining us on the line of fire. And now, here's your host, Dr. Michael Brown.

Thanks for joining us on the line of fire. Michael Brown, delighted to be with you. Here's the number

to call 86634-Truth. 86634-884. As the Holy Spirit's moving powerfully around the world, as there are well over a half billion

believers who identify as Pentecostal, charismatic. The number continues to grow the fastest growth of believers in church history taking place around the world.

Powerful missions movement as the Holy Spirit continues to speak and act in beautiful and wonderful ways in full harmony with Scripture to the exaltation of Jesus.

It strikes me as increasingly bizarre that there be those who would deny what the Spirit is doing,

especially when the

Word of God explicitly says we should expect these things.

But I want to focus on an aberrant, unusual form of cessationism that is becoming more prominent

today.

I've thought of it as hyper-sessationism.

I don't know how much I've used the term publicly,

but a Presbyterian pastor named Ryan Denton has written some articles that have gotten attention.

Folks referred them to me and just saw a follow-up on hyper cessationism. So if you type in Ryan Denton, D-E-N-T-O-N and hyper- cessationism, you'll find his articles.

I'll quote from some of them, and he links in his second article to critical responses to him.

I want to interact with a video clip from Scott Aniol, another pastor. I don't know either of these gentlemen at all, but just encountering some of what they

have to say online.

And I want to interact in the most constructive way that I can for the glory of God.

I don't want to be insulting and mocking of positions I differ with.

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