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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Calling on the name of the Lord to determine whether someone is in the spirit has sound biblical basis:
1 Cor 12:3 Therefore I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.
Paul tells us how to determine what is by the Spirit or not in that verse.
The word Lord is important. Only the genuine can say Lord Jesus. Demons do not confess Jesus is their Lord.
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It is actually an example of how the Bible is twisted to support man's theory.
- The verse is about saying/confessing "Jesus is Lord". Not about calling "O Lord Jesus" n times as if He is not answering you.
- It talks about what happens if someone is "speaking by the Spirit of God". The speaker is already "in the spirit" and not trying to turn to the spirit. When Lee said calling on the name of the Lord can help you to turn to the spirit, he was actually denying this very verse.
- "Can say" doesn't mean "have to say". A person not calling "O Lord Jesus" during worship does not necessarily mean he is not in the spirit.
And back to John 4. the problem of LC is that other man-made boundaries were set to confine what is "true" worship.