Bible Question: When you have the gift of speaking in tongues and filled with the Holy Spirit. what does all that mean? |
Bible Answer: when you are born again you receive the Holy Spirit inside of you John 20:22 And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. (Whole Chapter: John 20 In context: John 20:21-23) When you are baptized in the Holy Spirit, He comes upon you (like the day Jesus was baptized, in His case in the form of a dove). Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit but was also baptized with it and it annointed him to preach the gospel to the poor, etc. You can find that in the New Testament, I don't remember the Scripture right now, sorry, but it is the same passage where he is handled the book and He read from Isaiah. One of the evidences of being baptized in the HS is speaking in tongues, speaking in tongues edifies YOU (the one speaking in tongues, so I agree with you, unless there is an interpreter we should pray in tongues quietly), also He gives you power as we read in Acts 1:8. Jesus had already told them "Receive the HS" when he told them "wait for the HS to come UPON you". Just remember, most important of all is being filled with the Spirit and show forth its fruit which manifests as love, joy, peace, etc (Galatians 5:22). |