Subject: Gift of speaking in tongues for all? |
Bible Note: If there is no interpreter Paul says that you should keep silent, its necessary to understand that Paul speaks of two different types of Speaking in other Tongues, he talks about the Gift of the Spirit ( 1 Cor 12:10 ) This is a gift, that the Spirit hands out to whom he will during a church service. HOwever in verse 30 Paul shows us that in a church service, not all speak with tongues. However, in 1 Cor 14 Paul says that He thanks God he speaks in tongues more than them all. He goes on to say that 'Yet in the church..... ' So here Paul is showing that there is a differnce between the Gift of Tongues, and speaking in tongues in your own personal prayer time. In Jude it says we are to build ourselves up on our most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Paul writes in 1 Cor 14:4 that if he prays in an unknown tongue his Spirit prays. Also in Rom 8:26 Paul says that through praying in the Holy Ghost, or praying in other tongues, however you chose to phrase it, the Spirit helps our infirmites because we know not what we should pray for as we ought. So tongues, in your prayer time, is beneficial to every believer. As I pointed out in Jude, its commanded that we do it. So if there is none to interpret in the Church service, then we are to keep it silent, however as Paul says, in our own prayer time, it is very beneficial. God Bless, Mitch |