All with One Accord (Donald Gee) - Deal Pentecostal Church

ever. Actually our only real Holy Spirit propaganda at all times
is the truth, and all the truth, as God reveals it to us.
Suppressed facts, distorted expositions, and neglected
passages of Scripture do no service to the building up of real
faith, but rather the reverse. The flood of magazines
propagating faith for miracles makes some steadying word
almost a duty. Granted that we need plenty of literature to
counteract prevalent unbelief, it still needs to be scrupulously
free from exaggeration in both idea and report if it is to serve
the truth of the gospel. Let us keep steady.
To expect the supernatural obviously carries some dangers.
One that opponents of the Pentecostal revival have
constantly harped upon is deception by lying signs and
wonders produced by evil spirits. We believe that there are
such manifestations of the supernatural from beneath and
not from above. We may expect their increase in the "last
days." But the Bible supplies us with some plain tests for the
spirits, and it seems almost blasphemous to refuse a testimony
to the miraculous power of God when it is accompanied by a
witness to the Lord Jesus Christ, and holiness of life and
conduct that accords with the Holy Scriptures. Fear of
counterfeits has carried some good people to ridiculous
lengths of prejudice against manifestations of the Spirit of
God.
Over-desire for the supernatural does however, carry other
real dangers of a different sort. Among some sincere
adherents to the Pentecostal revival there is a tendency to run
after everything that appears supernatural whether it is so, or
not. Over-desire is only another term for lust, and there
can be an unhealthy lusting after signs and wonders that
desires them for their own sake rather than for the glory of
God and the work of the gospel. Paul was intensely practical
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