Have you ever wondered if the gift of tongues
is for today? Have you ever heard anyone speak in tongues and wonder to yourself What on earth
is that craziness? With 3000 people getting saved in a single day and asked to because of
this gift, and Paul telling us that he wishes everyone had it. I think it's high time we
actually truly understand exactly what it is, what it's not, and if and how
it's supposed to be used today. So strap in and grab your Bibles, my
friends, because we're about to tackle one of the most controversial topics
that the human tongue can talk about. Hello, everyone, Jim Staley, here, passion for
truth ministries, and welcome to today's teaching this teaching is going to be a controversial
teaching, no question. It's on the gift of tongues. Probably one of the most controversial
subjects in Christendom over the last 2000 years as people have been debating what's going on
with Acts chapter two. Is it a gift of tones? Is there a prayer language? How do I speak it? Is
it false? Is it of the devil? We're going to find out in this teaching, we're going to go through
the top 10 myths as we Discover the Truth About tongues. Before we do, I would encourage you that
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begin before we begin, let's give a definition of the gift of tongues. The gift of tongues is
simply the supernatural ability to speak another language that you did not currently know before.
Let me read it again. It says it's the power of speaking in unknown languages and is one of the
gifts of the Holy Spirit according to Acts 12, verse 10, this gift by definition, because it's a
gift presupposes that you didn't have it before. So it can't be a learned gift. Because if it's a
learned gift, then when you get to Acts chapter 12, verse one, and you get to Acts 14, when
it talks about being a spiritual gift. That word in Greek is pneumatic goes. And it literally
means not of this world or of the air. And so it's where we get the word pneumatic from air-driven,
powered tools. pneumatic drill, for instance, it's driven by air. And so when we're dealing
with the spirituals, as the Scriptures say, we're dealing with the things that are driven by
the Holy Spirit, they're not driven by your mind. They're not driven by your natural giftings. And
so I think it's really important right off the bat that we know that this is a spiritual gift. It
is not a carnal gift. It's not a learned gift. It is only from God, and He gives it to whoever
He desires, as we'll find out a little bit later. A couple of other facts surrounding this topic
it was used in Acts chapter two in the feast of Chavo, better known in Greek as Pentecost
today, where people in Jerusalem heard the disciples speaking in various languages, their
native tongues. Also, were instructed to desire all of the spiritual gifts. That's why this is
such an important topic. Because Paul says that we're supposed to desire all of the spiritual
gifts. So we need to know what they are, what they aren't, and how we can use them today.
Are they available to us today? Are they relevant today? And if they are, how do we get them?
Because I don't know about you, but I don't want to have I don't want anything to be left out of
what the Holy Spirit has offered. For me. Whatever is available to Jim Staley, I want to grow closer
to my king, I want to know him deeper. I don't want to just walk through life in a natural carnal
operating by my mind way, I want the whole truth and nothing but the truth. So help me God. And
I can tell you and assure you, this, my friends, the truth is not just found in the Scriptures
alone. God cannot fit in a book or a box, he came before the word, He will come after the
word, He fills in every gap in the Word. And so at the end of the day, I want both the DEVAR of God,
the Word of God, the written word, and I want the rhema word. I want that part of the Word of God
that the prophets had that direct connection of understanding and sensing and feeling the spirit
teaching me what to do in every situation and in all things. A couple of other things Paul said
in First Corinthians 14, five eight, he said, I wish you all spoke in tongues, but even more
that you prophesy. And so he literally saying I wish every one of you spoke in tongues. And
then he says this, he says tongues in 14 Five b is equal to prophecy. If it has an interpretation,
that is how important this gift is, my friends. I know that I've seen it misused. I've seen it
abused. I have been embarrassed around people that radically abuse this gift. As matter of
fact, they don't even have the gift, they think they have the gift. And so I'm hoping to bring
some balanced teaching here with this topic, let the scriptures talk outside of the charismatic
movement outside of Roman Catholicism, theology outside of traditional Protestant theology, and
bring this all the way back to the first century, these believers, these Jewish and Gentile
believers, who kept the Torah, who loved Yeshua, and who were given these gifts, what did it look
like then before it got radically out of place, and it didn't take very long to do that.
And that's what we're going to do. Now, before we go any further, I think it's
important that we talk about the risk of getting this wrong. You know, I tried to
explain to a friend of mine, a teacher that does not agree with the gift of tongues, that the risk
that he's taking, if he is wrong, is he would be standing against not only a gift that the Holy
Spirit gave us, because of the death of Yeshua, by the way, to edify both ourselves and the body
of Christ, and to be a witness to unbelievers. But we would be against the language of Heaven. My
friends, that's how big of a risk this is. That's how important this topic is to get it right. We
can't just look at people who abuse it and right off and throw the baby out with the bathwater,
we got to see what the Word says. We got to see what the cultural context behind the word is. What
did Paul really mean, when he said that he wishes that we all had the gift of tongues, and what
is the gift of tongues, tongues, and what's the Greek and the Hebrew and all of that, we're going
to dive into all that, but the risk is so big, because if you believe in the gift of tongues,
there's no risk, because if it's just gibberish, and means nothing, then you're simply wasting your
time. But I will tell you that the majority of the people, if not almost 100%, of the people that
I have talked to, that have this gift, they will tell you that it brings them peace, it draws them
closer to the Lord. It fires them up about God and makes them desire the word more. They are able to
see signs and wonders and healings and miracles far more than it seems like the average believer
does. So they would never not speak in tongues, even if it wasn't real, because of the impact that
it makes on their life. I'll say that possibility could be because faith is so much greater when
you believe than when you don't. But at the end of the day, there's no risk in speaking in
tongues. But there is a great risk if you don't believe in it. And it's real. So you might
be thinking right now to yourself. Well, Jim, what if it's not real, and it's of the devil?
Well, that's one of the myths that we're going to talk about. And we're going to talk about it
significantly. So let's get started. On the myths before we do First Corinthians I'm sorry, First
Thessalonians 5:19 says this, it says our 521 says test all things hold fast to what is good, abstain
from every form of evil. And so we're here, because we want to test all things we want to
find out what's the truth, what's the whole truth. And this is a scripture that many people that do
not believe in the gift of tongues will bring up is the bring up that says, Look, we need to
test all things we need to test the spirits, but they don't quote the two verses right before
which says this 519 says Do not quench the spirit. Do not despise prophecies. And so that's the risk.
If we get this wrong, we potentially could be quenching the spirit. So ladies and gentlemen, use
your mind's eye and picture what quenching looks like, if it's tongues of fire, if the Holy Spirit
is a pillar of fire going over the tabernacle of the Holy of Holies in the wilderness to
quench it is to put water on the fire, right? Water is what's going to put out a fire.
So it's that visual that we're doing, if in fact, tongues are from Yahweh, if it's from God, the
Creator through the Holy Spirit, and we quench this, we are putting water on a revival from God,
we're putting water on the will of God. We are clenching and slowing down the power of the Holy
Spirit. Now I want to just mention this as well, that I believe that this is not only if you don't
already know and can't tell. I believe in this gift. I speak in this gift. It has been the most
one of the most powerful parts of my prayer life. I'm going to share some personal testimonies,
incredible testimonies near the end of this video, so wait till the end because some of these
testimonies are going to impact you regardless of which side of the aisle you're on. But I
believe that this gift is so impactful for today. But unfortunately, people have just misused it.
They don't understand it. And their denominations are encouraging and promulgating things that
simply are out of order and not true. And I believe it's high time that we get back to
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Here's the litmus test of whether something is
from God, or whether it's not. And you can use this for virtually anything dealing with theology,
and whether or not is from the Lord is, number one, is there a life that's been changed and
changed and full of repentance from dead works, if you find somebody that is grasping onto something,
and it's causing them to have a changed life back towards the Creator, and they're the repenting
from dead works, that's a good sign. Because Satan is never going to promulgate or imitate anything
that is going to cause people to repent. I truly believe not only is this gift from the Lord, but I
believe one of the hallmarks of proof that it's a gift is the enemy tries to imitate it. Whenever
Satan tries to imitate something, it's because he's trying to hide the real thing. He comes as
an angel of light. We'll talk more about that later. Number two on the litmus test. So first
one is if it causes someone to have change life, and they repent from dead works, that's a good
sign. Number two, is there a burden from the last being developed, if a burden for the last
is being developed, and they care and have more empathy towards their fellow man and want them
to come into a deeper relationship with God, then that is definitely another hallmark, that's
something is from the Lord. And number three, is people coming underneath the Word of God and
submitting to its authority. When you find people that are submitting to God's authority through
His Word, that repenting from their dead works, their lives are being changed, and they are
and they have a burden for the last, you're dead center on the target the bullseye of the Holy
Spirit working in that particular theology or that particular creed. And so that is a great way to
find out if something is really from the Lord. Here's the litmus test. If you don't know any
Bible, just look at their life, if their life is turned towards the Father, and they have a deep
walk with Him, then probably need to err on the side of you might be wrong, they might have
something that you want, because every one of us wants to have a deeper walk with the Lord. And
if a particular gift in the scriptures that you don't believe in, but they have a stronger walk
with the Lord than you, maybe we need to look at it again. And that's exactly what we're doing.
If it's deepening the individual's walk with Christ and causing them to increase their
image of him, it cannot be from the devil, period. So all of those out there that are telling
you that this gift of tongues is from the devil, but the people that are using it, have a deeper
walk with the Lord. And they're repenting, then they're just flat wrong, because the devil
can never and will never influence someone to walk deeper with Yeshua with Jesus. All right, let's
get to Myth number one, it must be of the devil. This is the first myth. How can the devil possess
a believer enough to take over the tongue if they are the temple of the Holy Spirit? You see, it
cannot be from Satan. If you are a true believer, Satan cannot take over your tongue, where you have
no control over it. And you're just doing whatever Satan is wanting you to say, the Holy Spirit
and the devil cannot live in the same place. Right? That's what Scripture says. Ironically,
the same people who believe that the devil can cause someone to speak in tongues believe that
God can't. Let me say that again. I've met people that are teaching that the devil is causing these
people to speak in tongues, but they don't believe that God can do the same thing. I'm going to
submit to you that the devil knows exactly what's going on with this gift. And he's trying to
hijack it. And he's trying to create a counterfeit to keep people away from it because it is
that powerful, if it is an angelic language or a language of angels or heaven, then I don't
know about you. But if I was Satan, I don't want to keep people away from him. Luke 1111 through
13 says that if you ask the Father for bread, he will not give you a snake. If you ask him for
an egg, he will not give you a scorpion. Now, in case you don't know what those metaphors are,
all we got to do is back up one chapter in Luke. And Luke tells us exactly what these metaphors are
going to be. In chapter 10 And verse 19. It says, I have even given you authority to trample
on a snake and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy, nothing will harm you
What Yeshua is saying, Jesus is telling us that look, snakes and scorpions are devils, they're of
the enemy. So he says, look, when you come to me, and you ask for a piece of bread, I'm not going
to give you a snake I'm not going to give you You scorpion. In other words, if you truly
desire the spiritual gifts, and you want the gift of tongues and your sincerity is not
for yourself, but just so that you could glorify God and have a deeper relationship with him, and
because the scriptures command you to desire it for the edification of others, as well, if you
truly you, your heart is in the right place, and you just want a deeper walk with the Lord, do you
think that the Lord is going to allow the devil to intercept that and take you over? That would
be him giving you a scorpion, or a snake with your heart's desire to serve him? What kind of God
would do that? Certainly not the God of the Bible. And that's not my opinion. That's Luke's right
there. Jesus spoke it in Luke chapter 11. Myth number two, tongues are the evidence of
salvation. There are entire denominations that believe that unless you are speaking in tongues,
you're not saved. They don't even believe they believe that you're a second-class citizen, if
you don't speak in tongues, forgetting that not everybody speaks in tongues. And on top of that,
tongues are a gift. So let's just read here First Corinthians 1213 says, For by one Spirit, we
were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves are free, and have all been
made to drink into one Spirit right there, the very Paul that talks about the gift of tongues,
and in the same chapter is telling us that by one Spirit we were all baptized into the spirit,
if not those that are just a baptized by a fire of speaking in tongues, or have the gift of the Holy
Spirit know, the Holy Spirit is the gift that God gave to everyone that believes on the name of his
son, period. The gift of tongues is another gift that is coming from the Holy Spirit that's very
connected to the Holy Spirit, as a matter of fact, that allows you to in some ways to peek into the
prophetic realm of the Holy Spirit, but it is not the Holy Spirit, nor is it the evidence
that you are saved. It might be the evidence that you've received the gift of tongues is
the actual speaking and tone. But certainly, my friends, salvation comes through one thing,
believing that Jesus Yeshua I like to call them in his Hebrew name. Yeshua had died. It was the
Son of God who died for our sins and rose from the grave three days later to him who believes in
his name, he is saved with his mouth, he confesses that Yeshua is Lord, and he is saved period. It's
that simple. It's by grace. It's not by works. If it was by works, I don't have to work to get
the gift so that I could prove that I'm saved. No, it doesn't work like that. Okay. And
also, First Corinthians 1230 says, Do you all have the gift of healing? No. Do all
speak with tongues? No, Do all interpret? No. It's a rhetorical question that Paul is saying.
So if everyone's spoke in tongues, then we can say that everyone that's saved speaks in tongues.
When Paul says, No, look, it's a gift. Okay. Myth number three. It's the Kundalini spirit.
Have you heard that one out there? Recently, I watched a couple of teachings, one particular
teacher, that one had to believe that this was the Kundalini spirit that was coming upon believers
that were speaking in tongues, and he showed people that were in the Kundalini spirit that
had the Kundalini spirit, and then people that were speaking in tongues and showed some of the
similarities. Well, the problem is, is that the similarities are hardly similar. If you really
understand the Kundalini spirit, if you've never heard of the Kundalini spirit, that Kundalini
spirit is, is a spirit that comes from Hinduism. And it is a spirit that they believe that comes
through typically through Hindu yoga, and it is a serpent that coils itself up around your your
spine, and it goes through all seven chakras in your body. And when it gets to the top, then you
enter in what they call enlightenment. All right, in that process, some of the description of some
of the characteristics of the Kundalini spirit is that it's, first of all, it's mostly transferred
through the laying on of hands to the forehead. Do you find that interesting? The scriptures
actually tell elders to to lay hands on people and to put their hands on their forehead. Even the
ancient priest when they were inaugurated would inaugurate the next priest by putting the hand on
the forehead, the prophets will put the hand on the forehead. Why do you think Satan is having his
minions? Put the hand and transferring a spirit from the forehead from the hand to a forehead?
We don't understand it, but clearly there is a scientific on us. Spiritual and a scientific
level, there is a transfer of from one entity to another through that mode. So just because the in
Hinduism they're transferring this demonic spirit, from the hand to the forehead does not invalidate
the scriptures, or the ln on the hands of elders, to people that are in the congregation for
healing, and for salvation and for whatever does not invalidate that Satan's Counterfeit does
not invalidate the reality. Okay? One of the other characteristics, strong characterization of the
Kundalini spirit is of jerky, and you can look this up all over YouTube, they will have out
of nowhere, when this spirit enters into this into a body, they have no control over the members
of their body, they will fall on the ground, they will start flopping around like fish, their
heads will start jerking around, their hands will jerk. They're there, every part of them jerks
around as this demon is moving around inside of their body. You might have seen this in
some of these so called revivals decades ago, where people were falling down on the ground drunk
in the spirit. And they were they were flopping around and jerking. There were people there that
I believe were not true believers in Messiah, that were receiving this spirit, and it was
manifesting itself in the church. And because the leaders of the churches of those time periods, and
those congregations were not grounded in the front of the book, were not grounded in the scriptures
of exactly how this gift of tongues that is real, is supposed to operate it that the enemy
took advantage of that lack of knowledge, and he spread a unholy fire through Christendom
for quite some time. A lot of great things came out of some of those revivals, because God is
bigger than the enemy and is always there to meet people that are sincere, that want to be healed,
and so on and so forth. But for the most part, there was a lot of demonic stuff that happened at
the same time. And so again, we cannot discount reality because of a fake just because someone
hands a teller at the bank, a fake $10 bill does not invalidate the one that's real, just because
they look like feel like all right. Lastly, the Kundalini spirit, one of its main functions, or
one of the things that it can't stand is prophecy. It tries to block and pollute the gifts of the
Holy Spirit, this is a known thing. So how can the gift of tongues be equated to the to the
to, to the Kundalini spirit, if the person that is speaking tongues is a strong believer, they
love the Lord, their life has changed. They have a burden for the last. They are evangelizing
they're using the image of Christ is flowing through them. The gifts of the Spirit are strong,
and we are to believe that they are operating in a demon simultaneously in operation in the
gifts of the Spirit. I don't think so, my friends. Alright, myth number four, vain repetition. This
was brought up by by many people that that don't believe in the gift of tongues because they'll
say, hey, look, the gift of tongues and the prayer language. I've heard it. It's gibberish. People
have like 10 syllables, and they just repeat it over and over and over again. I've even heard
people that believe in the gift of tongues, say that those that speak with repetitive syllables
and phrases. That's not the gift of tongues. On the contrary, I'm going to prove to you by
the end of this teaching, that that is simply not true. That's putting God in a box to say that it
has to be one for one, that God can't say that if I speak one word, he cannot miraculously translate
that into the ears of a foreigner into 100. If he can beat 10,000 people in an army with 300 Okay,
ladies and gentlemen, if one can put 1000 astray and 10 put 10,000 I can assure you that God can
take five words that are intelligible, and what we consider gibberish and cause an entire book to be
opened up in the ears of the beholder. That is the God that I serve. My God is not confined to a one
for one translation. And so we'll talk about that a little bit more. So vain repetition. And they
get that from Matthew chapter six, verse seven, it says this will read it together. When you pray,
do not use vain repetitions as the heathens do, for they think that they will be heard for their
many words. The intention of the heathen is that his God will hear him because of his repetitive
chants and pleadings. This is what the prophets of bale did with Elijah. So when you show a gave
these instructions, they don't pray like vain, you know, like the like the heathens do with
vain repetition. What's happened is is that the Jewish rabbis and Pharisees of that day, in
the siddur books were praying over and over again Over the same prayers as if God would just
hear them because they prayed them 1000 times. This is where the Catholic church got
the Hail Marys and the our fathers from in the same chapter Yeshua says, Look, pray
this. He was not saying, pray this exact prayer 8 million times every time you said no, he was st
look it this way you need to pray. In other words, you need to give honor to the Father, you need to
ask for forgiveness, you need to forgive those who trespass against. He's setting the parameters of
the categories of what's most important to pray for. It's also important that you understand that
in this vein repetition, not only is is it taken out of context to connect that to, to tongues, but
you're killing other scriptures that say that we have no ability to know what we're supposed to
be praying, we cannot understand exactly what we're supposed to pray for. So the Holy Spirit
intercedes for us with groanings that we can't understand. Now, I'm not going to sit here and
tell you that the word groanings, in the Greek literally means tongues. It doesn't. But the point
of that scripture is that we don't know what we're supposed to pray. We don't know fully the depth
of everyone's situation, the Holy Spirit does. So when this gift of tongues comes upon those
who have the gift, and we pray, the Holy Spirit is interceding through us. It's praying for the
things that we don't have a clue what to pray for. Okay, so vain repetition, it is a very sad
exegetical attempt to, to manipulate and twist the scriptures to say that just because people
that are speaking in tongues in a repetitive way, oh, that is, is is is the scripture of Matthew
six, verse seven, when the whole original intent of Matthew six, seven, is to point out that if
you have the intention, of trying to get God's attention, through repeating a certain prayer
over and over and over again, you are in vain before God. If someone is speaking in tongues,
and the repeating, particularly their tongues is a repetitive phrase, let's say or a couple
of sentences. Their intention is not to try to get God to notice them. Because they're speaking
in this in this repetitive language. Their intent is to enter into the the atmosphere of the Ruach
HaKodesh, the Holy Spirit, they just want to please God, there's no ulterior motive. Remember,
this verse, Matthew six, seven is about ulterior motive of the individual praying, okay, that's why
it can't be used for tongues. Myth number five. If the Messiah wanted us to speak
in tongues, he would have told us, I heard one recent teacher make this point. And
he said, he said, Why didn't Messiah teaches this? Why not Peter, or James, or John, or
Jude or anyone else for that matter? Out of the 260 chapters in the New Testament, only
six mentioned tongues, and three of them. First Corinthians 12 through 14, was Paul regulating it.
That's what that online Bible teacher said was, look, if Messiah if we're supposed to have this
gift, why would the Messiah told us to do this? Why wouldn't Peter, James, or John, teach us this?
Or even Jude? And the answer is, is self evident? Jesus, or Yeshua also did not teach on polygamy,
what leadership and the congregation should look like how ministers should make their living, never
talked about the fivefold offices and ministry, how to deal with Gentiles that would come
to faith, what the spiritual gifts were, etc. All those topics were expounded on by
other authors in the New Testament. You see, we have to be very careful in how we interpret
the scriptures and how we use exegesis, to to and how we exegetically pull from the scriptures,
what's supposed to be there versus ISIS, Jesus reading into the scriptures, something
that's not or our current theology, in this case, what this this Bible teacher
did, which is a really good Bible teacher, but in this particular incident, he stretched the
scriptures and created a dangerous precedent. That dangerous precedent is this. If Jesus
didn't say it, it's not of God. If your shoe doesn't mention it, then it's not from the Lord.
If that's the case, that we need to throw out three quarters of the New Testament, because three
quarters of the New Testament is written about topics from authors of all different walks of
life about things that Jesus never talked about. So we cannot create that precedence. As a matter
of fact, when we're dealing with this particular topic of Jesus has to has to tell us, well,
look, not only the Jesus not talking about any of those things, that he never necessarily talked
about homosexuality either. And homosexuality makes up only three verses in the entire New
Testament. Yet, according to him, this this week You know, tongues is six chapters by Paul. So
somehow we're to believe that because there's only six chapters in the Bible that talk about the gift
of tongues, that somehow that invalidates it. I don't know about you, my friends. But if there's a
single verse that talks about something and gives us instruction, we should pay attention to that.
making light of six full chapters on this subject, and saying that look, if we if we're supposed to
talk about it, Jesus would have mentioned it is really bad. It's really bad exegesis. We can't do
that. We can't do that at all. Myth number six. The Greek word for tongues. glossa only means
human language. I saw this all over the internet, where teachers that were against the gift
of tongues would point out that look, everybody the Greek word glossa literally
means human language. So here's the argument. The author uses the Greek word glossa, to describe
tongues, and that the word is the word for human languages, which it is, therefore tongues must
only be a human language. This is the straw man argument that they bring up. It says right here
in the Greek that Glossop means human language. Therefore, the word tongues that Paul is using
must be talking about human languages only. My friends, they forget, there is no other word
for a spiritual heavenly language in the Greek language, it doesn't exist at that time. This
is a gift from heaven. In the Greek language, there is no other word. So Paul is using the only
word that he has at his disposal to describe this, which is glossa. It is a language, it absolutely
is a language. And the only reason why Strong's has it as a human language is because that's what
the Greek word meant, before the heavenly language came along. And so it's important for you to
understand that in the secular society of Greek, of course, there is no spiritual word. This is
a spiritual concept. And so, ironically, Paul actually uses the same great greek word glossa. In
first Corinthians 13. One when he says, Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, my
friends, if glossa only means human languages, why does he use it in the context of angelic
languages? Isn't that a direct contradiction in itself? Absolutely. We don't want to let a
principle of interpretation contradict itself. Incredibly, it contradicts itself not only
with this subject in the same chapter, that the very word that they're saying is
only human language, in the very first verse, it's used in a different context and a
different way to prove that this word can mean other languages as well. All right, number
seven, myth number seven, the gift of tongues as a prayer language is not mentioned in church
history, until just a couple 100 years ago. This is an interesting argument, I looked deep
into this, there are literally dozens of examples of tongues being used throughout church history.
Even in Roman Catholic Roman, a Roman Catholic Church history, the Church Fathers talk about the
gift of tongues. And yes, they do talk about it as a foreign language that someone heard them in
a foreign language. And we're going to talk a little bit more about that. But what the multi
most teachers that are against this will point out that there's nothing that references this
prayer language that's being talked about today. Now, let's think about the logic about this, that
we're creating a hermeneutical principle that says that if a group of people over enough time, do
not mention something that's found in the Bible, therefore it doesn't exist. So let's let's just
dive into this. If our understanding of biblical doctrine, and especially our understanding
of prophecy, and spirit filled matters, rests solely on the anti semitic Roman Church
Fathers, that we are in big trouble. The fact that there are no recorded documents of miracles
and healings with the entire 175 year history of the Southern Baptist Church does not invalidate
the fact that miracles and healings exist. But see, using the philosophy that some people
do that just because they can't find any writings over the last 1500 year span that talks about
the gift of tongues in a prayer language. There deduction is it must not be true. Well, what
if what if it was the entire church history was Southern Baptists, and there was never a writing
about or or a testimony of someone being healed? Would we then use the same principle and say,
well, there can't be if To feelings, because there's nothing in church history
that says anybody was healed. If you know anything about church history and
all of the hellacious damage to the Scriptures that happened during that time period, and how the
Roman Mother Church had drastically bottlenecked, and choked out the people from wanting to even
learn the scriptures, so that they can have full control over the meaning, then it would make
perfect sense, while the things of the Spirit would not be prevalent. So no one in church
history is going to write about the gift of tongues as a prayer language and hardly write
about the gift period, if the Holy Spirit is not prevalently moving among them to begin with. Does
that make sense? If they're stuck in religion, if they're stuck in, in church dogma, and they're
doing things that are unholy, and unbiblical, they discount the front of the book, and Satan
has his claws deep inside the leadership for well over 1500 years. What do you expect? Do we
expect tons of writings of the Holy Spirit? No, that's why we don't see very much writing of it at
all, because the testimonies are not until you get to some of the Great Awakenings that happen in the
ninth 18th and 19th. And the 20th century, when God's people begin to see the depth of his word,
they begin to repent of their sins, they begin to look at the scriptures differently, and faith
starts to come into them. They believe in God, they want to see miracles and healings. And so
that faith is inaugurated and joined in the host of heaven, in miracles beginning to happen. That's
why we beginning to see these testimonies show up now in the last few 100 years is because it's
only been in the last few 100 years, that there's massive freedom of God's people to read the
scriptures in their own language and to exercise that faith there in myth number eight, Paul was
using hyperbole in First Corinthians 13, one, First Corinthians 13. One Let's read it together.
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding
brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries
and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so I could remove mountains, but I have not love
I am nothing. So the argument goes that Paul is not speaking in the tongues of angels. He's not
saying that he speaks in the tongues of angels. He's being metaphorical. He's using hyperbole or
intentional exaggeration to make a point. Now, here's where I'm going to throw a bone. I will
absolutely agree. He is making a hyperbole here he is giving a bit of an exaggeration. How do we
know that? Because he says, If I have all faith, well, we know he doesn't have all faith. We know
he doesn't know all the mysteries of heaven, and can move mountains with a single thought.
Nobody has that kind of faith. So Paul, we know is using hyperbole. But let me just throw this
out. To those of you that are detractors to this topic. why would Paul use that language at all? In
the middle of his discourse about tongues? Do you notice that? Do you find that interesting? This
isn't out of Book of Romans, this isn't Ephesians. Right? This is right out of First Corinthians
chapter 13, right in the middle of of chapter 12, and 14 that talks about the gift of tongues, by
the mere fact that he is literally saying, whether I speak with the tongues of men, or the tongues of
angels, in the context of using the word tongues, I half a dozen times in the previous chapter and
a half a dozen times more in the chapter after in chapter 14 is suspicious. And so I'll leave
it there that you can't prove it either way, but I think it's very suspicious that he's talking
about a language that nobody can understand. We'll get to that in part two. In chapter 14, and First
Corinthians, he says, Look, nobody knows. No man knows the the interpretation of this tongues.
And another Scripture he says that they do and there needs an interpreter. So there seems to be
a contradiction. You have to wait to part two for us to unravel that apparent contradiction. But
for now, I think it's important to say that Paul, I believe, knows exactly what he's
doing. And he's bringing up the gift of tongues and he's calling it the tongues
of angels can't prove it. But contextually it's it's weighted heavier on the side that it is,
then it's not simply because it's surrounding that context. Myth number nine, it's the same as
the New Age light language. I saw this again, on a video of someone that strongly disagreed with
the gift of tongues and they tried to make the connection that the New Age Movement has the same
gift of tongues. They call it the Light language, it's almost identical showed people
speaking in tongues and Christianity showed people speaking in tongues in the New Age
Movement showed the similarities, no question. There are similarities. If you have the Spirit
of God and you have any kind of discernment, you can pick it out 100 times out of 100, you
can say that person's got the gift of tongues, that person is speaking the light language,
you can see the difference right off the bat, I did immediately. And I think most people
would even with a light gift of discernment, you can tell. But let's talk about this
difference, because I think this is the legitimate point that the gentleman was making.
Second Corinthians 1114 says, And no wonder, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel
of light. My friends, Satan can only imitate the things of God, he creates counterfeits, we
cannot create a hermeneutical principle. hermeneutical is just a hermeneutics is a fancy
word that is the laws of interpreting the Bible. We can't cannot create a law of interpreting
the Bible that says This can't be real, because the New Age Movement uses it. We can't do this,
because Satan does that. When Satan used to live with God in heaven, and he has an angelic
language. All of the angels have an angelic language, but some of them are fallen angels. So
should it surprise you that the light language of the New Age cultic movement that literally say
that they're tapping into the languages of angels? I believe it, I believe they are tapping into
the angels language, because Satan is a fallen angel. And I believe that the angelic language,
the tongues of angels, that God's people are gifted by the Holy Spirit to speak is that of the
good side. So you it's like Star Wars, right? You have the dark side, and you have the Republic,
you have the good side. And in God's kingdom, you have his language and you have the enemy that
perverts his language. So we cannot just say okay, look at the comparison, because this is evil,
this must be good. A wise man who understands the tactics of the enemy that Satan comes as as
a as an imitator and an angel of light. Okay, we cannot say okay, there is no angels of light
because Satan comes as an angel of light and he's bad. So therefore, you Angel Gabriel, get away
from me because you have light coming from you. We can't do that. That's a bad hermeneutical
principle. What we rather do is look at the fruit of what is coming out of these people. Do they
declare Yeshua, Jesus as the Messiah, Son of God, manifested on Earth died, rose again for our
sins, to give us a Holy Spirit to be guided into all truth, what truth, the truth of the
Word of God? If they don't declare those things, then that tells us what spirit is in operation
there. Because the Bible says that no man can declare that Jesus is Lord except by the
Holy Spirit. Okay. The language of Yahweh, shall it be invalidated because the fallen
angels speak the same language? May it never be? May it never be my friends. Myth number 10.
Last but not least, Acts chapter two proves they were speaking foreign languages. There are
some people that believe in the gift of tongues, but they believe that it is they were speaking
foreign languages. They believe that the gift itself is the fact that I don't know
any other foreign language, but English. And if all of a sudden I start speaking
Spanish, that's the gift of tongues. I'm going to challenge that. And I believe I'm
going to present to you more evidence than not, that will say that it's not a foreign language
that the person is speaking, it's a foreign language that the person is hearing. So let's go
to Acts chapter two, verse four, and it says this, and they were all filled with the Holy
Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were
dwelling in Jerusalem, Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred,
the multitude came together and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own
language, the text does not say that the disciples or this group of 120 were praying, or speaking
in other languages, it said that the people heard them in other languages. So right now,
before we go any further, it's tied. 5050. You cannot prove that it was a miracle of speaking.
And I can't prove that it was a miracle of hearing. But I believe that there's hints within
the scripture that tell us that wait, the scale, more towards it was a miracle of hearing.
And I'll show you exactly why. First of all, it says in verse six, and when the sound occurred,
that word sound in the Greek literally means a Tone and utterance, it doesn't say language.
It doesn't say words. It says when the sound they were making sounds. And I believe even though
it's a small evidence, I believe that it is, in fact doesn't go on the side of the language.
It goes on the side of the miracle that they were the hearing that they were speaking sounds, I'm
going to suppose to you that they had no clue what they were saying. As a matter of fact, the hints
number one is sound, like I said, which is phony in Greek, which means tone or sound. The writer
could have used any of the other words in Greek for language, but he didn't. He specifically used
the word sound, hit number two, much stronger. It says the tech says they heard them in their
own language. And hit number 3x two verse 13, says that others mocking said they are full of new
wine. Now look, this is, I believe, the strongest evidence and hint that this was a miracle of the
hearing. Because there were people from all walks of life that heard the disciples speaking in their
own language, okay, they heard them speaking their own language. But there were other people that
thought they were drunk. And remember, it's only nine o'clock in the morning, okay. And so,
when, when, when the rooster crows, if you will, and all these people are speaking these crazy
words, there are certain group of people that thought they were drunk. Now, let me ask you a
question. You live in the 21st century, right now, even if you don't speak any other language, if
I if you heard someone speaking French, when you recognize it, if you heard him speaking Spanish,
or Australian accent, right, or even Hindu, or Japanese or Chinese, you may not be able to
totally tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese or Mandarin. But you know, it's a
language that exists today, because you live in this culture, and you've heard so many different
languages, and dialects, even of languages. So we are to believe that there are people that
are listening to the disciples speak in supposably other languages, and they don't recognize
it as another language. But they live in that culture. They live in the context, and they
think that they're drunk, my friends, if you were listening to somebody on a street corner, all
of a sudden start speaking in another language, would you think they're drunk? Or would you simply
think they know another language? Oh, they know, Chinese, they know French. They're preaching
in, I think that this language or that language, you would never say that they're drunk. But if
they start speaking in, in some sort of weird language, that sounds like gibberish to you,
you would probably say this guy is crazy. He's out of his mind, or he's drunk. And I believe
that's exactly what happened. And I'm going to absolutely, I believe, nail this to the ground and
prove it through testimony here in just a moment. I believe this was not a miracle of speech. This
was a miracle of hearing. I don't necessarily believe that there's two different types of
tongues, if you will, what if it's all one, what if it's the gift of tongues is a repetitive
language that's different for every person, and it's the person on the other end, that might
be hearing it in a different language? Let's find out. Let's go through some modern day miracles
of hearing to show you that this is in operation. Today, I'm going to start with my own testimony.
My daughter, Sierra, we were in a prayer meeting last year, and I was so overcome by the Holy
Spirit, I prayed as hard as I could in English, and it just would not come out anymore. And
so I went right into my prayer language, I went right into the gift of tongues. I
started speaking in tongues, and it was intense, and it was in powerful. And my daughter when
I finished had the largest smile on her face. And she said, Dad, I heard the interpretation.
And she began to explain to me it was the most unbelievable experience that she's ever
experienced on this topic, that as I was speaking, she heard me speak in tongues low, like the
decibel level, the loudness was very low, but she heard me in English, over the top of it, God was
telling her word for word, what I was saying, in English, I had no idea what I was saying. But
God was doing and she said, The coolest part was, she said, Dad, every time you stopped for a
second, God would stop. I would stop hearing you in English, and it was synced up perfectly.
Even though you were being repetitive. The word just kept coming and kept coming. And she said,
the moment that you finished, there is no way that I could have known that you were going
to finish because you paused several times. So I wouldn't know if you were going to finish
that particular time. But the moment you finished, the entire word was finished. In other words, it
was complete in its entirety, as if the end of a story was a exclamation point, on the moment that
I stopped, it stopped. That's how powerful it was. Now I'm speaking in a repetitive tongue language,
but my daughter is hearing God is interpreting in English. So it was a miracle of hearing,
because I did not speak any other language. This gentleman, Brad online says this, I put
out a post on Facebook for anybody that speaks in tongues to tell me their testimony. So these
are people that are you in these are your peers that are out there that believe in the front of
the book, the back of the book, they're all in full Bible believers. And they speak in tongues.
This is their testimony. Let me just go through a few of these. Brad says this, I personally never
had a time when someone knew what I was saying in another language. But I was with a friend once at
a conference. And as my friend was praying aloud in tongues, regular gibberish tongues, and
Israeli man in front of us turned around and asked if we were Israeli. We said, No, he
said that my friends spoke Hebrew so perfectly. He told us that my friend was procraft,
proclaiming the greatness of God. In Hebrew, a perfect example right there. That to
tongues was a miracle of hearing. Didi says this, I have two occasions while on separate mission
trips where someone came up to me and told me they understood what I was saying. I asked
them what they heard. And both times they said, I was praising God, I personally have listened to
someone from another country speaking in tongues. I think it was Finland, who did not know English,
and I heard them speaking in English. And I heard them saying that God is great and holy
is his name. Do you see the pattern here? Is that what's being said as God is it
they're praising God in their tongues, they have no idea what they're doing. The spirit
is interceding for them. But the other person is hearing it in a completely different language.
This totally debunks the idea that there's no such thing as a prayer language. Because if there
was no such thing as a prayer language, and the gibberish and repetitive phrases are of the devil,
it's a Kundalini spirit. And it's not of God, that what is the Kundalini spirit, interpreting
itself, praising God in the Hebrew tongue. Ladies and gentlemen, we need to to get right
about this because God is doing some amazing things on the earth. And He wants us to believe
in what he's doing. Let's keep going. Cecilia says this once in an English speaking church service.
Someone was speaking in tongues, and I understood the message in my native language. I believe
she's Hispanic. The message was from my pastor, and I passed it on to him. God gave this message
for this individual who's speaking English. Tongues, okay. In an English speaking church,
speaking tongues. This person heard it in Spanish, and told their pastor, how amazing is that?
Jennifer says this I don't know when things first started. But I remember when I first heard
tongues, I heard them in whatever language they were speaking and in English simultaneously.
This is exactly what my daughter Sierra said, a simultaneous interpretation. I attended a
worship service and someone spoke in tongues. I was brand new Christian. I completely
understood every word they spoke, I was astounded. I turned to the woman next
to me in shock. And I said, telling her that I understood what the speaker was saying. She
nodded and smiled, and carried on with worship. From her response, I assumed that everyone spoke
in tongues and understood what people were saying in tongues. She went for years if I remember her
post, right, thinking that everybody understood people that were speaking in tongues, she had been
given the gift of interpretation. These people were speaking in what we would consider gibberish
over some people would consider gibberish, but it wasn't gibberish to her. She heard it in English,
and was astounded at all the amazing things that God was saying through her. Gregory says
this, I was sharing the gospel with a man from Brazil, and was reading John Chapter Three when he
interrupted me and asked me if I knew Portuguese, he was speaking in this person heard
him speak in Portuguese. That's amazing. Eileen says this one evening before service,
there were a few people praying in tongues before the service started. And I remember
after we had finished, a woman came up to me and said she understood what I had said, because
it was in her language again, on and on it goes. I'm just going to give you a couple more because
these and there were hundreds, just picking out, you know, 678 of them. Hank says on a mission trip
to Panama, as we were returning from a restaurant in downtown Panama City. Oh, this one's really
good. Where the pastor's son told us that they were believing to receive an abandoned bank
building to minister to the drug addicts and the prostitute needs in the area. I decided I was
going to pray. But not silently as we were walking by it. He asked, What did you say? So he's praying
in tongues just silently, kind of a little bit, you know, out loud so he can hear him. But he's
just praying kind of to himself. And he says, and his friend says, What did you say? I said nothing.
I was just praying. He said, Do you speak Spanish? I replied, No. He asked, you don't speak
Spanish. I again said, No. But you said, Lo tendremos. Okay. The person said, okay,
you don't know what Lo tendremos means? No, I don't speak Spanish. He said, Lo tendremos
means we will have it. So this person, they're praying and believing that God is going to give
him this bank for ministry purposes. And he starts praying on their way there. And he's praying,
he starts praying in tongues. And his friend who speaks Spanish says, Wait a minute, do you
speak Spanish? No, I don't speak Spanish. He says, Man, you just said, we will have it in Spanish.
That's what you're saying over and over again, we will have it. So at the end of the day, my
friends, no one is going to tell these people that tongues isn't real, that interpretation isn't
real, that God himself is not real today from the same gift that he gave his church 2000 years
ago. And I believe this is the last one Sinai says this. He says in me it happened a little
differently than everyone else. I first began to understand what other people spoke in tongues. And
I began to longed to speak them. And it was really difficult moment for me because how much I wanted,
and I suffered wanting to pray to the Father, for tongues in my room, the Spirit came on me and
I began to finally speak in tongues. Since then, the father has used that gift to give messages
to me, for other people. So God would speak through him to give to tones and give him the
interpretation for other people. And that happens as well. My friends, I find it interesting that
in over two decades of ministry service, the same people that are very critical of the gift of
tongues, seem to also be the same ones who don't see many miracles, healings, and most rarely hear
the voice of God, if ever in their life, while those that believe in the gift tend to be the
ones giving testimonies of people getting healed, saved, delivered from demons and walking in the
power of God. This doesn't mean that you have to have the gift of tongues in order to be part of
those things. Or that people that have this gift are any better than anyone else. They're most
certainly not we're all the same that the cross is just an interesting statistic that those who do
believe in it, whether they have it or not tend to be the very ones that have prophetic visions,
dreams and experienced the supernatural more. I even had a friend of mine tell me recently that
he preached in a church once and asked everyone who spoke in tongues to raise their hands. Then
he asked those who had ever laid hands on someone and they were healed, or had cast a demon out of
someone to raise their hands. Shockingly, 99% of the congregation that raised their hands were the
same ones who believed in the gift of tongues. In the end, I believe a large part of why this
statistic is so true, is because those that don't believe tend to operate strongly in only what
they can see and understand what their own minds. They struggle with the unseen and therefore
struggle and having faith. This is why a Southern Baptist that doesn't believe in healings
will likely never see one, or be a part of one. His lack of belief and faith forces him to
never be a part of a healing or a miracle, which then perpetuates his own theology in that
area. And this is why it is so important to take time to go through this topic in this kind of
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