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NASB | Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Acts 2:4 And they were all filled [that is, diffused throughout their being] with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues (different languages), as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out [clearly and appropriately]. |
Subject: No speaking in tongues, no Holy Spirit? |
Bible Note: Again we have confusion. The term baptism in the Holy Spirit and Filled with the Holy Spirit are synonymous terms in that you get all of the Holy Spirit at salvation that there is to get. There is nothing more to get, God does not give pieces of the Holy Spirit nor does God withhold gifts, He gives them freely to all that believe. When the Pentecostals (of which I are one) talk about the infilling of the Holy Spirit they are using bad terminology. What they call infilling is nothing more than yielding our will to the will of the Holy Spirit. Allowing the Holy Spirit to minister through us, to yielding your will. In Acts the Apsotles used this yieldedness as a sign of true conversion since they occurred together. I believe the reason they occurred together was the mindset of the people in that they were far more spiritually minded than we today. Why God choose tongues to me is logical, what is the hardest thing for man to control? His tongue. So if we can yield our tongue to the Holy sprit how much more the rest of our body for God’s service? Notice Acts 1:8 says the Holy Spirit will be given so we have power to witness. This is the problem I have with Pentecostals many if not most are never witnessing. They claim the power but never use it. |