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Kentucky is where churches have people manhandle and play with real poisonous snakes.
Just sayin'
Go away...
Not trying to play devil's advocate here but seriously -
It is never possible to judge a person's heart. You can see the manifestation of acts, their tendency to follow The Lord, the fruits of the Spirit of God, but you can never read their mind or heart. It is so important in times like these not to be carried away with the tide of fanaticism. Faith has a very subtle counterfeit and that counterfeit is presumption.
Deliberately going out of your way to handle a venomous snake is most certainly not what happened to Paul in Acts 28. If you are doing God's work, where He would have you, and are in compliance with the Law of God that is an entirely different thing than going out of your way to put yourself in harms way where God didn't put you. In other words Faith is following the clear leading of God and expecting and counting wholly on Gods word to do what it says it will do - presumption is assuming God will comply with what YOU want. Faith steps out and humbly submits to the clear direction of God. Presumption assumes God will do what you want Him to do while not in compliance.
The enemy of righteousness, the adversary, can mimic the Spirit of God and it usually comes with supernatural manifestations in some degree (think about the pharaohs sorcerers in Exodus 7).
There are no doubt people in that audience that are seeking God with their entire heart. There are also no doubt people that just want to see some exciting manifestation of the divine. This is the way it always has been and always will. That being said, if this is of God I do NOT want to oppose it. If this is not of God I want to be far from it.
Remember when the sons of Aaron kindled and offered 'strange fire' before The Lord (Leviticus 10 / Numbers 3)? All of these Old Testament stories happened and they were many times a literal event that foreshadowed a spiritual truth necessary to understand major concepts the closer we get to the end. Do not be deceived. Stay in prayer and study the word.
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