Did Charles Spurgeon Have the Gift of Prophecy?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Are the miraculous gifts of the New Testament normative for Christians today? As a cessationist, Pastor Adriel Sanchez explains how he understands the place of miraculous gifts in the church today.
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| 0:43.3 | One of the ongoing debates in Christian circles is a conversation about miraculous gifts in the life of the church. Is God giving believers today the sign gifts associated with the apostles in the New Testament, |
| 0:48.3 | gifts like tongues and prophecy, divine healing, or did those gifts cease sometime after the days of the apostles? |
| 0:55.6 | Some years ago, New Testament scholar Wayne Grudham published the book, The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and today, |
| 1:01.6 | which helped to popularize the work he did for his PhD dissertation, The Gift of Prophecy in First Corinthians. |
| 1:07.9 | If you're interested in a more scholarly discussion around these topics, it might be |
| 1:11.5 | worth getting those books. But essentially, Grutum argues that in the New Testament, prophecy is |
| 1:16.1 | different from how it functioned in the Old Testament, in part because there's a call to way |
| 1:20.7 | prophetic utterances in places like 1st Corinthians chapter 14. This means, among other things, |
| 1:26.0 | that the gift of prophecy in the New Testament wasn't supposed |
| 1:28.5 | to displace a high view of the inscripturated word, which, of course, is not subject to our judgment. |
| 1:34.9 | In the wake of Grudem's thesis, there were tons of responses, both positive and critical. |
| 1:39.8 | My goal isn't to get into all of the exegesis surrounding 1st Corinthians 12 through 14 here. |
| 1:45.1 | But I do want to talk about something Grudin brings out in his more popular book on prophecy, |
| 1:50.0 | and that's whether Charles Spurgeon was a prophet. |
| 2:00.5 | Now, first things first, what is prophecy? |
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