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1 | Do holy people have to speak in tongues? | 1 Cor 12:30 | EdB | 28989 | ||
Joe You raised some good points and obviously in many cases tongues are counterfeited. Some of the meanest nastiest people I have ever met have been tongue talking Pentecostals. However I do not believe the proves the all tongues are counterfeit. It just proves that in many cases it is. I think any one that says you must talk in tongues to have the Holy Spirit working in your life is mislead. I do not believe that people that talk in tongues have more the Holy Spirit or have more “anointing”, I feel they have learned to yield their will to the Holy Spirit. I think that this is essential to be used in the sign gifts. The others gifts like discernment and wisdom I believe every believer moves in or at least should. Actually tongues have surfaced and submerged many times in church history. I think the thing that many miss about Asuza revival is the renewed focus on holiness and tarrying at the altar. I believe more people were seeking God than seeking manifestations and God meet them. I think later the manifestations became the focus and I believe that is where the problems began. Joe you have no argument from me there are many abuses of the sign gifts and when people let them become more important than God or carry more authority than the scripture there is a problem. That said I can see no reason to condemn the sign gifts if done properly and in order, not to magnify the user but to magnify God and Christ. EdB |
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2 | Do holy people have to speak in tongues? | 1 Cor 12:30 | Searcher56 | 28995 | ||
EdB. At the Asuza revival when they spoke im tongues ... was it one person at a time? was it in a known language to some and not others? was it interpeted? ... I base this on 1 Cor 14. I even know a case when a man spoke and then another interpeted. After the interpetation, the man got up and said the interpeter was wrong. Another member of the church got up and supported the man and said he had quoted John 3:16 in Greek. I say this because Satan has even entered the church. S |
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3 | Do holy people have to speak in tongues? | 1 Cor 12:30 | EdB | 29008 | ||
Steve I will not try to defend Asuza street, while many authentic cases of tongues and manifestations happened there was also much abuse. In fact toward the end many declared it a hoax by many who should be trusted to know. However I do believe in the early days of the revival there are many men and women were seeking more of God and many wondrous manifestations did happen. In one case a secular newspaper reporter who was covering the revival heard the testimony of Jesus Christ in his obscure native tongue given by a person that never spoke that language. As far as native languages go since there are over thousands in the world. Some nothing more than a series of clicks and tongue snaps to complicated dialects in Chinese, how do we know if the language a person is giving a message in is a native tongue or not? Jack Hayford relates a story when the Holy Spirit told him to speak to a man sitting in the chair next to him in a plane. Of course Jack was reluctant but after further prodding by the Holy Spirit he told the man I don’t know if you will understand this but the Holy Spirit told me to say this. At which point he began much to his amazement he had been speak a Native American dialect and the man understood it also. You will now say see you have proved my point in both cases it was a known tongue. I agree many times people stand up give a message and it is interpreted as “The grass is green and the sky is blue and God loves you”. To me that was not authentic tongues nor interpretations. Someone got excited and started speaking in their pray language and then someone else gave a generic interpretation. However I do believe we pray privately in tongues in languages no one knows. EdB |
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