For individuals who are caught up in the heady intoxication of profound spiritual experiences, it is easy t slip into error. Not that there is anything wrong with such experiences per se, but spiritual experience is only one leg of a three-legged stool. Unless it is balanced by the Word of God through Scripture and through other Christians, as well as the daily living of a life of self-denial, obedience and repentance, the stool will topple.
Satan is a master counterfeiter, who is able to imitate every spiritual experience which a Christian can have, including the "inner voice" of the Holy Spirit. Time after time we have seen cases of an especially "anointed" personality, who will lead a flock of gullible sheep into the strangest heresies, because the sheep have not yet learned to know their Shepherd's voice, and follow Him. Not nearly enough has been preached under the title: "Beware the Christless Pentecost.”
Peter Marshall and David Marshall, The Light and the Glory, pp.200-201
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