“There is no biblical evidence at all for the cessation of prophecy. A fact that has not gone unnoticed by modern biblical scholars. Instead of a biblical basis, many today base their beliefs about modern prophesy on the problematic history of prophesy — its abuse — and arrive at a sort of practical cessationism. Let me remind you, and remind myself this morning, that we are to believe what the Bible says, and not what we think it says. When we look at the NT scriptures and say ‘that is not for today’, we play a very dangerous game…We should recognize that prophesy has always been problematic from the very beginning. Later it was a massive issue in the church or Corinth, but even here in the earliest of Paul’s letters, there is evidence that false prophecy was already taking place in the church. And the apostolic instruction is not some practical application of human wisdom, but a consistent divine command of not to forbid or despise prophesy…”
