Should Christians Expect Miracles Today?
From “That Glorious Day When Tongues are Not Needed: Until Then . . .” Part 1 of 2, From the Praying in the Spirit series by Robert Graves . . . The second passage used by cessationists to prove that the office of apostleship ceased is Acts 1:21-22, which describes the replacing of Judas with Matthias: “Therefore it is necessary to choose one of the men who have been with us the whole time the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning from John’s baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. For one of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection.” These verses indicate that only a man who had walked with Jesus “the whole time” and had witnessed His resurrection could qualify for that apostolic ministry (Criswell, Baptism, p. 61). There is no disagreement here between Pentecostals and charismatics and cessationists. Judas’ replacement had to fulfill certain requirements that locked the office into the first century. He had to (1) be baptized by John, (2) be with
