After being turned down for debates by cessationists, Brown reveals he is writing a book declaring Cessationism dead.

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My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. - John 10:27 (ESV)

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Dr. Michael Brown revealed the true motivations behind a recent challenge he issued to cessationists for a debate. Remember as you read on that this challenge was cordial and overly genial. He tried to make it sound like this was all for the good of the body of Christ. That they would just have a friendly chat for several hours. Of course, he said there would be no discussions of contemporary abuses because his goal is never to call out the myriad of false teachers he supports and who prop up his brand. Well, all of that mushy "we are all on the same side" subterfuge is now gone with this new attack article. Spoiler alert - this was all to provide meat for his next book grift. Imagine my surprise. So let us reason once more together beloved through the above linked article.

"Pastor P. Yesupadamis one of my closest friends in the world and the truest Christian I know. But he was not always a follower of Jesus. To the contrary, although his father gave him the name Yesupadam, meaning "the foot of Jesus," he grew up hating that name and hating the caste system of India. That's because he was born into an untouchable family, suffering terrible deprivation and almost dying of starvation as a boy. Then, at the age of 11, he was recruited by a radical Maoist communist (called a Naxalite). This gave him a sense of purpose for the first time. Now, he would fight against the caste system, taking from the rich"violently, if need be"and giving to the poor. By the time he was in his early 20s, he was considered a lost cause by most who knew him. In short, he was an atheist, an alcoholic and a terrorist. But his Christian wife and some other believers were praying for him (his marriage was arranged, of course, as per Indian custom), and it was then that God intervened in his life. As he sat on his chair one afternoon, he saw something in the sky that got his attention, but it was somewhat distant. Then as the vision drew close to him. He realized he was seeing Jesus. Yesupadam saw the pierced and bloody hands, which were now stretched out. And he heard the Lord say, "Son, I have done all this for you. Now, what will You do for me?" At that moment, Yesupadam was radically and dramatically born again, going out on the street and clapping his hands and shouting, "Have you heard? Jesus died and rose from the dead!" Since then, he has done more good in more tangible ways than any man I know on the planet, planting 10,000 churches in previously unreached tribal regions in India, raising and educating thousands of orphans and needy children, caring for the elderly and the handicapped, building hospitals and more. And he has replicated his work in other continents as well. I should also mention that he has been stoned for preaching the gospel; that many, if not most of his workers have been physically attacked for the gospel at least once; and that at least five of his pastors have been killed for their faith. In fact, in virtually every case, these martyrs were men whom I sent out as well in one of my annual trips to India, commissioning them with Yesupadam to preach the gospel by life or by death." - Dr. Michael Brown

The truest Christian you know? I thought that was Mike Bickle? Oh wait, he was a
"fine man" and his critics just didn't "know his fruit, his walk and his life." Wait wasn't it, Ravi Zacharias? Oh no, Brown said he was a "great holiness teacher", that's right. Was it Robert Morris? No, he was just a "good friend," who actually endorsed one of Dr. Brown's books. I am in no ways suggesting that Mr. Yesupadam is Morris, Zacharias or Bickle. I do not know the man and had never heard of him, probably because his ministry is in other countries. The point is Dr. Brown never learns. He uses this exalting technique all the time to disparage people he has viewed as his enemies. Can we also discuss how Dr. Brown, who loves to whine about congenial discourse, has titled this article "How Pathetic is Today's Cessationism?" I personally do not believe cessationism is biblical but I understand why people flock to it and Dr. Brown supporting the absolute worst in Charismania is a driving reason. Now, Pastor P. Yesupadam sounds like a nice fellow. Brown is only using his testimony to attack cessationists because they do not believe in extra-biblical revelation. Regardless of this, the majority of things that occurred to Yesupadam are not in dispute. If everything Brown says is true, I do not know anyone, cessationist or not, that would say it is bad thing to help the poor. If there is any disagreement, it would be because he claims in the 1970s that Jesus appeared to him and that he was radically born again as a result. If someone other than Pastor P. Yesupadam disagrees, or even agrees as Dr. Brown is doing, the correct answer would be that you were not there. There is no value in debating this. Maybe he was sleeping and had a dream. Maybe it is exactly as he remembers. Who cares? The important thing is that he got saved and according to Brown is doing a lot of good for the kingdom. People do not balk at this type of extra-biblical revelation. It is because the people that Dr. Brown likes to support use this to then launch their own lies about revelation they are receiving. So, the problem is not one guy in India saying God spoke to him but rather 1000 false prophets in America claiming God spoke to them and said Donald Trump was going to be reelected. It is people like Joseph Prince, claiming God speaks to him every week to give him his heretical sermons. It is replacing "God said in His word", with "God said to me," and me only. There is nothing God forgot to say in His word, that thousands of years later He is revealing to the church through Benny Hinn, Jennifer LeClaire or Dr. Michael Brown.

"For the cessationist, though, Yesupadam's conversion story is bogus, even if, somehow, he is truly saved today. That's because these cessationists do not believe that the Lord has appeared to anyone since New Testament times. (You may be shocked to hear this, but yes, that is their position.) Sadly, it is not only Yesupadam's conversion story that is bogus to the cessationist. Millions of other dramatic testimonies must also be questioned, including the countless Muslims to whom Jesus has appeared in dreams and visions, pointing them to the Scriptures. To give one case in point, one of the grads from our previous ministry school, who has been serving in Iraq for more than a decade, shared this with me firsthand. He met a Muslim woman to whom Jesus had appeared years earlier, telling her to get a Bible. But she had no access to a Bible and didn't know where to get one. Years went by, and then she met our missionary. She described to him what Jesus looked like, and he showed her an Arabic Bible, pointing to the description of the risen Christ in Revelation 1. To her absolute shock, that is exactly how she had described the Lord to our grad. Now, when she saw who He was in the Bible, her whole life was rocked.

Once again, the cessationist must protest. "God only speaks through the Bible! The days of dreams and visions have ceased."' - Dr. Michael Brown

Let us realize where this attack is coming from. Dr. Brown recently challenged anyone at the Cessationist Conference to publicly debate him and apparently, they told him to pound sand. I even wrote this week that they absolutely should say no, because the offer to debate is never genuine with Dr. Brown. He is issuing the challenge to promote himself and his brand and sharing the stage with him only allows him to leech the credibility off of others. Perhaps this could be allowed if Dr. Brown would denounce Steven Strang, Benny Hinn, Mike Bickle, Joel Osteen, Joseph Prince, the entire gaggle of Charisma false prophets, Jennifer LeClaire, Todd White, Bill Johnson, Sid Roth and the other 10,000 false teachers he supports. Until then, he should be treated as every other false teacher since he is a willing gatekeeper of so many heresies sending so many people to hell. So, after he heard crickets to his challenge, now we get this article. The challenge was uber-cordial but geniality has apparently left the room. Now, he is trying to bait people into debating him by calling the people he was so nice to last week, pathetic. No Dr. Brown, your transparency is pathetic. The days of dreams and visions is not the issue. The issue is these days are filled with absurdly false dreams and wildly heretical visions. Jenny Weaver just called herself an apostle and told her followers to not evacuate Florida based on a fake word she said she HEARD from the Lord. Dr. Brown famously defended the ridiculously fake vision from Kevin Zadai about Jesus playing the saxophone standing at the end of his bed. So, spare me your pearl clutching Doc. The issue is not about a vision a random Muslim might have felt they received that led to conversion. It is the line of blather trafficked on the Sid Roth show that Dr. Brown openly supports. It is Bill Johnson, who Brown adores, swearing that angel feathers started falling around him in a diner. It is Jennfier LeClaire, who Brown defended on his radio, show claiming she can release the angels of abundant harvest but only if you buy her book of the same name! I could go on for weeks and all of this garbage, which shipwrecks people's faith, is openly embraced by Dr. Michael Brown.

"Of course, the Bible itself speaks against that viewpoint categorically, telling us that the Spirit will speak through prophecy, dreams and visions during the entire period of the last days, meaning from the death and resurrection of Jesus until His return (Acts 2:14-21, 39). And Jesus Himself told us that His sheep hear His voice and follow Him (John 10:27; these verbs are present tense and active in the Greek), while Paul wrote of the fellowship we enjoy with the Holy Spirit (2 Cor. 13:14). The truth be told, in the time it has taken me to write this article, the Lord has been speaking to His people, leading His people, healing His people, delivering His people and making Himself known to the lost in innumerable ways. It is a real cause for rejoicing.

For the cessationist, though, this is not a reason to rejoice. Instead, it is a sign of deception, a proof that Satan, not the Spirit, is at work"unless they simply write everything off as make-believe or the product of emotionalism." - Dr. Michael Brown

Brown is right that the Prophet Joel did say that these things will happen in the last days. This does not mean however that we are to blindly accept anything some idiot says about what he claims God told him or showed him. There is no discernment with Dr. Brown. If someone says they got something from God? That is good enough for him. He says, who am I to say differently. That is exactly what he said to Chris Rosebrough regarding Jennifer LeClaire claiming a "sneaky squid spirit was stalking her." Anyone with a sliver of discernment knows that there are no sneaky squid spirits and Jesus does not appear in a vision to play the saxophone. These things are akin to Kat Kerr without the goofy pink hair. The verse from John however, which is the key verse above, has NOTHING to do with the literal hearing of God's voice. It has to do with the gospel. The true sheep of the Lord know His word, His voice. David said he would hide it in his heart that he might not sin against him. It also works the other way. Discernment is also knowing what does not line up with the word of the Lord, or His voice. So, when Dr. Brown has events with Todd White, we can discern that White, who is an egregiously false teacher, does not receive any revelation from God. By default, Dr. Brown shows less discernment than even that. It is certainly true that God is always working, healing, delivering and making Himself known. No one I know is disputing that. Healing however, is not waving a magic suit coat at people and watching fall down in droves, like Benny Hinn does. Brown has called Hinn a good brother in the Lord by the way. Deliverance is not Isaiah Saldivar and the fake demon slayers teaching that born again people can be demon possessed. God is not making Himself known to Jenny Weaver so she can scam her flock out of three million plus per year through her "core" grift. These are all deception, not merely signs of it. Brown is making a disingenuous argument by conflating things like the converted Indian and Muslim with utter buffoons and charlatans that he supports and pretending they are the same thing. Makes me think about the unequal weights and measures Brown always complains about. The spirit is definitely at work beloved but not through liars, cheaters, and grifters, oh my.

"Today's hardline cessationist will not even allow for the Holy Spirit to bring a word of comfort to a mourner, unless it is a direct quotation from the Bible. Some even say that we don't experience God in worship or feel the Spirit, since God is omnipresent and anything we feel comes from our emotions. From a biblical viewpoint, cessationism is completely indefensible. I'm as sure of that as I am of the nose on my face"and it is a conspicuous nose. Experientially, as the Spirit continues to move powerfully all over the earth, the cessationist viewpoint is becoming harder and harder to defend. Simply pointing to charismatic extremes and errors will not stem the tide of the real, glorious moving of the Spirit. By God's grace, this tide will flood the lives of our cessationist friends too!" - Dr. Michael Brown

Cessationism is indefensible but so is Charismania. Therein lies the rub. I am unsure what Brown is referencing here but I would not want someone to fake a word from God even if the person is mourning. Especially considering the word of God should be MORE comforting. Why is the default always something extra-biblical? Is what God has already said for those who are suffering or mourning somehow insufficient? We certainly experience God and the Spirit in worship but not this droning repetitive nonsense that passes for worship today. The issue is not the music but the false doctrine being presented. Singing I am a friend of God does not actually make you a friend of God, to quote a pastor friend. Pointing out the extremes and errors of Charismania will hopefully stem the tide of the evil spirits being sold. It is quite telling that Dr. Brown embraces even these extremes and errors as he is saying, too bad - hopefully this tide will flood all of our lives. I pray not because drowning in a cesspool of lies is how we end up standing before Christ saying, "Lord Lord."

"That's why I was not surprised when a caller to my show expressed his shock at the doctrine of cessationism. He was an African Christian newly located to the States. He had no idea that any Christians denied the continuation of the miraculous gifts for today! That's also why I plan to write a book to be released in 2026 on the end of cessationism. The doctrine cannot be argued biblically, and soon enough, God willing, it will be a forgotten theological relic of the past.

Thank God for the outpouring of the Spirit!" - Dr. Michael Brown

The unbridled arrogance. He did not get his way with the debate so he lashed out and called his opponents pathetic. Now he is writing a book declaring their beliefs are dead. Unreal. It does not surprise me that someone raised in Charismania in Africa, which we exported there, might be just as deceived as Brown. We sent them the prosperity gospel, word faith and false signs and lying wonders and they ate it up, along with eating the grass as one famous African preacher made his sheep do. It is of little wonder that now so many of the richest pastors in the world come from the poorest continent. Beloved, Cessationism is not biblically supported. That does not make Charismania any more correct. It is equally unsupported. They are two extremes. One says there are no gifts and the other accepts the word of any two-bit hustler that their gifts are real. The reason why faith healers do not spend their days in cancer wards is the same reason psychics do not win the lottery. What is really despicable here is that Brown gives the game away. He issued the challenge for the debate with Cessationists when he clearly had already decided to write a book declaring Cessationism dead. Hmm, then why issue the challenge? Clearly it was not for the pure Kumbaya motives he pretended to have. Clearly it was so he could try and set his opponents up and use those debates as filler for his book scheme. When they declined, he then wrote this ridiculous article to call them pathetic, so he could eventually sell more books. He is picking a fight to drub up sales. He is doing so however by leveraging stories of people he claims are friends and butchering scripture. Dr. Michael Brown stands with the most insanely false teachers alive today. He works for Steven Strang, an obvious political operative and faux-Christian. He was buddy-buddy with the likes of Mike Bickle, Ravi Zacharias and Robert Morris. What are we really arguing about here? Guy says Jesus was playing the saxophone at the foot of his bed? Yeah, no problem! Sneaky squid spirits, marine demons and werewolves, all of which are promoted by Charisma News - hey - God used a donkey once! Fake schools of the supernatural where they literally teach people how to falsely manifest the gifts? You can't say anything because I know better because I have taught there! Bill Johnson, Benny Hinn and Jospeh Prince? Good brothers in the Lord. If you dare however to suggest relying on scripture instead of wild and unconfirmable personal experience he will write a book about you. There is a word I am searching to describe that"oh yeah, pathetic.

Reverend Anthony Wade - October 10, 2024

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Credentialed Minister of the Gospel for the Assemblies of God. Owner and founder of 828 ministries. Vice President for Goodwill Industries. Always remember that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.