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1 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | dwayneoukid | 160751 | ||
How do people feel about the gift of Speaking in Tongue? | ||||||
2 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | mark d seyler | 160769 | ||
Hi Dwayne, Now that you've heard some other responses, let me throw in one more. I feel good about the gift of Speaking in Tongues. I feel good about every gift He gives us. I don't have the gift, although my wife does. I have never heard her use it. It is very private for her. I have prayed to receive it. I believe that the Lord does not intend that gift for me, I think that He wants instead that I focus on praying with understanding. He knows that I can be lazy, and if I prayed in tongues, that might be the majority of praying I would do! :-) I'd like to add in a few more comments with some other people's posts in view. 1 Cor 14:13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret. 14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15 What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. The implication to this passage is that, as Paul prays in an unknown tongue with his spirit, he also desires that his mind may be fruitful. So to this end, he desires the interpretation of his pray in tongues, that his mind may indeed be fruitful. He does not say "don't pray in tongues, because when you do, your mind is not fruitful." The bottom line for Paul is that he will pray both in tongues, and the regular way. He will pray with the spirit, also with the mind. I appreciate that ItsMe brought out the distinction between the Acts 2 manifestation of tongues, evangelizing in an unknown earthly language, and the 1 Cor. 14 manifestation of tongues, praying in an unknown heavenly language. I think that this is what Paul was refering to in 1Cor 13, "if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels..." 1 Cor. chapter 14 gives a solid foundation for the speaking in tongues. In vs. 5, Paul says that he wishes "you all would speak in tongues." Kind of a silly thing to wish if it's not for the church to do. There is much disagreement over whether these spiritual gifts are for today or not, (none are, some are, this one and not that one) and you may wish to peruse the archives to read some of the arguments. What do you think of the gift of tongues? Love in Christ, Mark |
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3 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | Hank | 160771 | ||
Hello, Mark. "I feel good about the gift of speaking in tongues." ...... That's OK, I suppose, if it makes you "feel" good. :-) ..... As for me, Mark, I feel neither good nor bad about it, but struggle to know what the Bible actually teaches about it. In my economy, as I've tried many times in these pages to show, how I "feel" about Bible truth isn't worth "a bucket of warm spit," to use the graphic description of John Nance Garner's assessment of the vice-presidency. ...... As a staunch cessationist, I do not hold to speaking in tongues in our time, believing that the practice along with other "miracle gifts" such as healing ceased with the end of the apostolic age. I believe that God can and still does perform miracles today, but that the Holy Spirit no longer uses individuals to perform miraculous signs. I believe that cessationism is scriptural; otherwise, I would not subscribe to it. I further believe that the glossolalia as practiced today never did have its exact counterpart in the apostolic church. ....... The Forum archives are already well stocked with posts on tongue speaking, and I recall no resolution of the divisive issue having ever been found, so I see no point in stringing the subject along interminably. I see no scriptural reason to assume that the person who speaks in tongues is brought any closer to heaven thereby, or that the person who does not speak in tongues is cast any farther away from heaven. Mark, while we may disagree here and there on certain points of doctrine, I do not think that the divide is so wide or so deep that we cannot reach across the chasm and extend to one another the hand of fellowship. --Hank | ||||||
4 | Speaking in Tongue | Acts 2:4 | ItsMe | 160947 | ||
I was healed in this day and age. I had Lupus and I was becoming more and more crippled. I could give lots of details but that is not what this note is about. A woman I did not know asked me if she could pray for me. I thought of my mental list of people and situations that I was going to ask her to pray for and felt prompted to ask her to pray about my arthritic like pains. I was not about to tell a total stranger that I had the uncurable Lupus. She started praying and I found myself praying with her. Then I stood up, straight, and walked around. and praised God. Now, I too was not sure so I thought it was a temporary reprieve. Every morning for weeks I would wake expecting it to be another day when my legs did not want to work well or one of those days when they did not work at all, and each day I would get out of bed and say, thank You. Still thinking it was temporary. My doctor continued to run tests every 3 months for a couple of years, now she does them annually. She just chuckles with the results and tells me, no sign of Lupus and I say, I did not expect there would be. I am almost 60 and I have a little arthritis now. But I carry my 1 and 2 year old Grandchildren, often 2 at a time and I race with my older Grandsons, they beat me, and I climb trees. And praise God when I am up there. I think I am more active than most my age. I still work full time so I am not taking it easy. God healed me. I have no doubt. You do not know me so you do not have to believe it or understand it, but I believe in it now. Why me.. I do not know. I agree with you that many people will never speak in tongues and God can be just as close to them. It is a gift I did not want or expect and I received it. And many of my friends do not want it and that is OK. I may have received it because I doubted it so much. As you said, we are still members of a fellowship that goes beyond those things though. |
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