Philip Harrelson > Philip's Quotes

“some teach that any Christians who oppose this movement are under the control of a powerful demon known as the spirit of religion.8 Though these teachings will sound radical to Christians, they’re sweeping through churches in the United States and throughout the world.”
― R. Douglas Geivett, A New Apostolic Reformation?: A Biblical Response to a Worldwide Movement

“These churches were transfixed by the stories of men like Bob Jones, who claimed that when he was seven years old and walking on a dirt road in Arkansas, the archangel Gabriel appeared to him on a white horse and blew a double silver trumpet in his face. The angel also threw down an old bull skin mantle at Jones’s feet, which Jones returned and picked up many years later—accepting the mantle of a “seer prophet.”13 Jones was part of a group that became known as the Kansas City Prophets, along with Paul Cain and John Paul Jackson. These men all became influential in a church called the Kansas City Fellowship in Kansas City, Missouri, pastored by Mike Bickle. The Kansas City Prophets were also given prominent platforms within the early Vineyard movement, under its founder John Wimber.”
― R. Douglas Geivett, A New Apostolic Reformation?: A Biblical Response to a Worldwide Movement

“NAR apostles establish the foundational government of the church, first, by “hearing what the Holy Spirit is saying to the churches.” In other words, they receive new revelation from God. This new revelation is often referred to by NAR leaders as “present truth” or “new truths.” Wagner says the new revelation can only be received by apostles and prophets.”
― R. Douglas Geivett, A New Apostolic Reformation?: A Biblical Response to a Worldwide Movement

“It is necessary to move with God and progress in the vision God gives. Otherwise, staleness, indifference and carelessness sets in the leaders and people. God ever moves in progressive vision towards the ultimate that He has in mind. Israel died in the Wilderness for their failure to move on progressively with God's vision for them (Hebrews Chapters 3-4 with Numbers 13-14).”
― Kevin J. Conner, The Vision of an Antioch Church

“It is important to see that, in each case, the vision originated with God, not with man. The vision was God's part: Divine sovereignty. Obedience to the vision was man's part: human responsibility. God's vision is always God's provision. There was that which was conceptual. There was that which was practical. The conceptual was brought to fulfilment by the practical walk of obedience to the vision.”
― Kevin J. Conner, The Vision of an Antioch Church

“In the Book of Acts, they "preached Christ" (Acts 2:14-36; 8:4-12; 9:20-22; 1 Corinthians 3:9b-11). The message was indeed Christ centered. Peter, who is the one the Lord chooses to give the dedicatory message of Pentecost, preached Christ.”
― Kevin J. Conner, The Vision of an Antioch Church

“A study of the Scriptures references in Acts and the Epistles concerning water baptism show that all baptisms took place in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Peter was not 'out of order' here,”
― Kevin J. Conner, The Vision of an Antioch Church

“The reader is encouraged to read all references to baptism in the Acts and the Epistles and it will be seen that water baptism involves being baptized into Christ's death, burial and resurrection (Romans 6:1-4),”
― Kevin J. Conner, The Vision of an Antioch Church

“It is worthy of note that most movements of God eventually decline and set themselves up with the same prideful attitude of the 'Jerusalem-only spirit'. So serious was this thing that the Lord gave the heaviest denunciations about the city of Jerusalem, and then scattered the true Church to the nations of the earth.”
― Kevin J. Conner, The Vision of an Antioch Church

“Prophets are more inspirational, dealing often with subjective things, while teachers are more didactical (instructional), dealing more with objective truth. Both inspirational and instructional ministries are needed to maintain balance in the Church. Plurality, diversity, variety yet unity of the Word and Spirit are needed in any local Church. What a blessed Church Antioch was!”
― Kevin J. Conner, The Vision of an Antioch Church

“The importance of prayer and fasting in a Church is seen here. Prayer with fasting subdues the flesh, and intensifies spiritual hunger and thirst after the living God. Jesus said, the days would come when the bridegroom (Himself) would be taken away and these would be the days when the bride (the Church) would fast (Mark 2:18-20; 9:15; Luke 5:33-35). Prayer with fasting helps rid the Church of unbelief, makes the Church spiritually alert, sensitive to the mind of the Holy Spirit, and in closer contact with the risen head, Jesus Christ. Elders were ordained with prayer and fasting in different Churches in Acts also (Acts 14:23). Prayer touches the spiritual; fasting touches the physical. Note these Scripture references also (Acts 6:2; Matthew 6:16-19; 9:14-15; 2Corinthians 6:5; 11:27).”
― Kevin J. Conner, The Vision of an Antioch Church

“The whole revelation of the Tabernacle of David is a revelation of salvation through grace and faith, apart from animal sacrifices and ceremonies of the Law. It is a revelation of Davidic order of worship, songs and praises. It is a revelation of access within the veil, and that worship which is in spirit and in truth (John 4:20-24). The theology of David's Tabernacle is confirmed clearly in the Epistle to the Hebrews.”
― Kevin J. Conner, The Vision of an Antioch Church

“The reason that it is not translated simply as “drugs” is that the word has another rendering often used by scholars. Because of context, in most biblical instances, scholars translate the various conjugations of pharmakeia as one of the following: witch, wizard, witchcraft, sorcerer, sorcery, divination.”
― Lewis Ungit, The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies

“Let’s start with Exodus 22:18. The English translation is: “You shall not allow a sorceress to live.” The word sorceress is pharmakous — a conjugation of pharmakeia — in Koine Greek. The translation using the Friberg Lexicon would be rendered something like this: “Do not allow one who prepares drugs for ritual purposes to live.” And suddenly what the Bible says about drugs becomes much clearer. The Bible is saying that the mixing of drugs and religion is so bad that the Israelites should not even let someone live who does it!”
― Lewis Ungit, The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies

“Let’s consider the Greek Septuagint’s rendering of Deuteronomy 18:10: “Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in pharmakous.” Notice that statement about human sacrifice. The Bible has several links between human sacrifice (widely practiced by ancient religions that did use drugs as part of their worship, as we saw in the previous chapter) and pharmakeia.”
― Lewis Ungit, The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies

“These books are accepted as canonical by Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians but not by Protestants or Jews. But whether taken as canonical or not, the books were undeniably influential in the early church, and certainly helped shape Christian thinking about the practice of pharmakeia. Consider the book of Wisdom. Wisdom 12:4 says God hated the Canaanites because of two things: their “wicked sacrifices” (likely human), and their “pharmakeia.” Note yet again the close association that the ancient Hebrews had between human sacrifice and pharmakeia.”
― Lewis Ungit, The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies

“People buy into it because they do not know their Bible and accept anyone who claims to be anointed by God. If they get ‘goose bumps’ or it ‘tickles their ears’ then all the better. This church, and others like it, is built on the trilogy of prosperity, power and miracles. The core of the church’s trilogy is man-directed and not God-directed.”
― Derik R. Girdwood, The Church of Jezebel: Hijacking the Gospel

“The word-faith and seed-faith doctrines are taught as ‘spiritual keys’ but they really serve to exalt man and eliminate God’s sovereignty. These ‘keys’ are used to extract, and some may argue, attempt to extort, blessings from God. They teach that a person who claims a Scripture verse with seed-faith can hold God hostage to His Word and therefore God must give them prosperity, power and miracles. It’s a demonic doctrine when man attempts to coerce or compel God to do anything. It’s shameful and repugnant! Christians need to understand that God is God and they are not.”
― Derik R. Girdwood, The Church of Jezebel: Hijacking the Gospel

“Paul’s letters, in a standard modern translation, occupy fewer than eighty pages. Even taken as a whole, they are shorter than almost any single one of Plato’s dialogues or Aristotle’s treatises. It is a safe bet to say that these letters, page for page, have generated more comment, more sermons and seminars, more monographs and dissertations than any other writings from the ancient world. (The gospels, taken together, are half as long again.) It is as though eight or ten small paintings by an obscure artist were to become more sought after, more studied and copied, more highly valued than all the Rembrandts and Titians and all the Monets and Van Goghs in the world.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul: A Biography

“In the modern Western world, “religion” tends to mean God-related individual beliefs and practices that are supposedly separable from culture, politics, and community life. For Paul, “religion” was woven in with all of life; for the modern Western world, it is separated from it.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul: A Biography

“So when, in what is probably his earliest letter, Paul talks about “advancing in Judaism beyond any of his age,”1 the word “Judaism” refers, not to a “religion,” but to an activity: the zealous propagation and defense of the ancestral way of life. From the point of view of Saul of Tarsus, the first followers of Jesus of Nazareth were a prime example of the deviant behavior that had to be eradicated if Israel’s God was to be honored.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul: A Biography

“Paul believed that in Jesus the One God had acted “when the fullness of time arrived.”5 Paul saw himself living at the ultimate turning point of history. His announcement of Jesus in that culture at that moment was itself, he would have claimed, part of the long-term divine plan.”
― N.T. Wright, Paul: A Biography

“And if it can be said that ignorance of biblical eschatology is common, then consider how many people—particularly in the West—have any knowledge at all of what Islam teaches about the last days.”
― Joel Richardson, Islamic Antichrist

“THE ISLAMIC REVIVAL The clearest reason to study and understand Islam, and specifically Islamic eschatology, is quite simply because Islam is the future. Yes, you read that correctly: Islam is the future. If present trends do not change dramatically, Islam will bypass Christianity for the title of the world’s largest religion very shortly. In fact, according to most statistics, this may take place in less than twenty years. A majority who read this book will live to see this. Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world, growing at a rate four times faster than Christianity.1”
― Joel Richardson, Islamic Antichrist

“Islam is absolutely sweeping through the inner cities, a very sad commentary on the discontinuity and disunity of the American church. One Muslim authority estimates that by the year 2020 most American urban centers will be predominantly Muslim.11 But as the number of conversions increases, the face of the Muslim convert is changing as well.”
― Joel Richardson, Islamic Antichrist

“David Pawson, a prominent Bible teacher and author from England, recalls the experience of one of his friends: A Christian friend of mine is a counselor in a state school. He was delighted when a boy he was trying to help find a purpose in life told him he had become convinced that there was a personal God in whom he could believe. To his surprise and disappointment this English boy told him some weeks later that he had become a Muslim. He was one of many thousands who had made the same choice.15 As Islam grows in the West, this story is sure to be repeated many times.”
― Joel Richardson, Islamic Antichrist

“BALANCING THE FACTS Now the point here is not to paint an overly dismal picture. I also need to point out that Muslims are converting to Christianity all over the world. Many Muslims repeatedly make the claim that no Muslim ever leaves Islam. This claim is refuted without much effort. One Muslim sheikh recently claimed that in Africa alone there are over six million Muslim converts to Christianity annually. That would break down to about 667 an hour, or sixteen thousand a day. From January of 2003 to the middle of 2004, the ministry of German evangelist Reinhardt Bonnke saw over ten million Africans make decisions to follow Jesus. A large percentage of those who made these decisions were Muslims. In fact, Muslims from all over the world are making decisions to become followers of Jesus.17 Many of these decisions follow a spiritual dream or a vision.18”
― Joel Richardson, Islamic Antichrist

“We cannot underestimate the power of a worldwide trend. Indeed one of the primary aspects of the last days is what the Bible calls the “great apostasy,” a significant global falling away from the Christian faith.”
― Joel Richardson, Islamic Antichrist

“We desperately need a divine intervention of God, without which the epitaph will read that the plane went down on our watch.”
― Pat Schatzline, I Am Remnant: Discover the POWER to Stand for TRUTH in a Changing Culture

“The remnant chooses to leave a life of compromise for the spirit of consecration.”
― Pat Schatzline, I Am Remnant: Discover the POWER to Stand for TRUTH in a Changing Culture