1stCenturyLady
Well-Known Member
I appreciate this, but I never thought they were cut off because of exercising the gifts. I don't even think that they are backslidden Christians. They were never saved in the first place. Or else He would have known them at some point.
What stands out to me is that even non-believers can exercise these gifts... "in Jesus name".
A new tangent now??
No, a non-believer can't cast out demons like these did. So you are wrong. Are you trying to protect OSAS?
13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” 14 Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.
15 And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”
16 Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.