I believe that the modern-day tongue-speaking movement is the exact thing that's being described
in Isaiah 29.
When it talks about those that mutter, that peep, that speak in a different voice out
of the ground.
I mean, tell me something.
All throughout the Bible, when does anyone speak with a voice that is not their own voice?
The only time is when a demon possesses.
I mean, think about it.
Look at Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
These other voices are coming upon people, and a man said, what have we to do with thee?
That's one guy talking.
He's using the plural.
And Jesus says, what is thy name?
And he says, Legion, for we are many.
So we're talking about demons that actually possessed this guy, and were talking through
his mouth.
I mean, they were controlling his body.
And you remember, there was the demons that possessed the man and threw him into the fire
and threw him into the water and tried to drown him.
And then, remember Jesus, when he cast out the legion of demons into the pigs, they ran
off a cliff and everything.
Look, people being demon possessed is a real thing that happens in the Bible.
I believe that I've been faced with people that have been demon possessed in my lifetime.
I mean, I could tell you stories after stories about people that I believe were demon possessed.
And you see, the only time anybody in the Bible ever talks with a voice that is not
their own is when they're demon possessed.
The only time they mutter and peep and say strange things and speak out of the ground
is when they're possessed by devils.
Now, let me tell you something.
I've been to one tongue-speaking service in my lifetime.
It was totally by mistake.
One time, I was invited to a church, and I didn't know that this was that kind of a church.
I had no clue.
I went to this church, I sat down, and the service was going on, and there was a lot
of music and rock and roll, and I was waiting for the preaching to start, and the preaching
never came.
It was just a lot of music, and people would talk a little bit between the songs.
Well, all of a sudden, a girl that was sitting four seats down from me started rocking back
and forth like this, and she started muttering.
I couldn't tell what she was saying.
She started peeping, started making noises, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know.
And this other girl, it started becoming violent, and this other girl put her arm around her
and was consoling her and comforting her.
I thought that the girl was having a seizure, literally, because I had just a few days before
seen a girl playing a video game.
She's been smoking marijuana.
She had a seizure.
I called 911.
So I'm thinking, this girl's having a seizure right now, and I felt bad, you know.
And she just said, oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
you know.
Well, I just felt bad for her.
So a couple more songs went by, and one of the guys that was running the service gets
up out of the microphone, and he said, if there's anybody who wants to come forward,
you know, it was like an invitation, if anybody wants to come forward and pray and get things
right with God, and he said, or maybe you just haven't spoken tongues in a while, come
on up here and speak in tongues.
And I was like, whoa, because then I put it together, because I'd never, I'd heard about
speaking in tongues, but I didn't know what it was, really.
I'd never seen it.
And then when he said that, that opened the floodgates.
Now everybody starts speaking in tongues, and people are acting weird.
I got up and walked out, and I was scared to death.
Now I can promise you one thing, listen to me now, hear me carefully this one thing.
I can promise you that those people were not in the driver's seat.
I'm not kidding, I mean, I promise you that.
I mean, you say, oh, they're faking it.
It didn't look like they were faking it.
I mean, this girl was not in the driver's seat.
And that's why I was scared to death, because I said, this is demonic, this is weird, this
is scary.
And flip over if you went to Acts chapter 2, we'll see the first time that speaking
with another tongue, of course the term speaking in tongues is never found in the King James
Bible one time.
Now it's found in the NIV, it's found in these other modern versions, it'll say speaking
in tongues, or speaking in tongues, but in the King James Bible, it's never found.
The Bible talks about people speaking with another tongue, or speaking in another tongue,
and the word tongue means language, and I'll prove that to you right now in Acts chapter
2.
Look if you went on, I don't want to be on this all night, but let me just quickly show
you this.
It says in verse number 4, it says, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began
to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
So they're speaking with another tongue.
Now that's not talking about the tongue that's in your mouth, okay?
Tongue means language, and I'll prove that to you also in the Bible, it says here, and
there were dwelling at Jerusalem, verse 5, Jews devout men out of every nation under
heaven.
Now when this was noise abroad, the multitude came together and were confounded, which means
confused, because that every man heard them speak in his own, what?
Language.
And then it says, and they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, behold,
are not all these which speak Galileans, and how hear we every man in our own tongue?
Do you see how it's being used interchangeably?
Oh, we hear in our own language.
Oh, wow.
We hear in our own tongue, wherein we were born, and then they begin to list languages.
Parthians and Medes and Elamites, blows in Mesopotamia, and in Judea and Cappadocia and
Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pithylia, in Egypt and in the parts of Libya, about Cyrene,
and strangers of Rome, Jews and Pausites, Crete and Arrhenians, we do hear them speak
in our tongues the wonderful works of God, and they were all amazed and were in doubt
saying, what, one to another, what meaneth this?
God was mocking, said these men are full of new wine.
Now, is there anything hard to understand about what we just read?
Nothing at all.
I mean, here we read about people who are preaching the Gospel.
How many were preaching?
A hundred and twenty.
Read chapter one, get the context, a hundred and twenty.
People read, not just Peter preaching, a hundred and twenty, men and women, are out preaching
the Gospel, and God somehow miraculously caused them to speak languages that they did not
know.
These Galileans walked up to a Parthian and began to speak Parthian.
They walked up to the Elamite and began to speak his native language to him and preached
the Gospel to him in his own language.
Now, he was shocked not at what he didn't understand, they were shocked that they did
understand.
You see that?
The modern day tongues movement is the exact opposite.
It's people not understanding, right?
It's somebody, and nobody knows what they said, or somebody claims that they understood
what they said.
But look, is there any gibberish mentioned here?
No.
Is there any heavenly language being spoken here?
No.
He lists earthly languages.
There is a reason for it.
God wanted these people to hear the Gospel.
People who were from all over, he wanted them to hear the Gospel in their language so that
they could take the Gospel back to their native country.
This is the day of Pentecost, of course, in chapter three.
So when we get to 1 Corinthians 14, has tongue, speaking with another tongue, totally changed
meanings now?
Now it's gibberish.
Now it's falling on the ground.
Now it's slapping people on the forehead.
Now it's rocking back and forth and muttering and peeping.
No my friend, and listen to me now, they are demon possessed.
That's right.
Let me just come right out and say it to you right now.
And I've talked to him.
I've talked to a guy, I was trying to win the guy that cries, and he used to be a Pentecostal
youth leader, and he said, well I've spoken in tongues.
I know it's real.
And I began to show him doctrinally.
I got off the tongue stuff, but I was just showing him salvation, you know, doctrinally
from the Bible.
And as I showed him doctrinally, he realized that he was wrong and that the Bible was teaching
salvation by grace through faith, without works.
And then he began to open up to me and he said, well that's part of the reason why I'm
not a youth leader anymore, is because I started seeing some things wrong with what they were
teaching.
And I said, well what really happened when you spoke in tongues though?
What really happened?
This is what he said.
He said, I completely lost consciousness, and this is what one guy said, okay, I'm not
saying this authoritative.
This guy said, basically it was emotional, the music was pounding, next thing I knew,
time had passed, and somebody told me that I had spoken in tongues.
And I had no recollection of what happened.
Now that's just one person's experience, but that's what he said.
And I told him, I said, you were demon-possessed.
I've talked to others who have described the same thing and they've even admitted that
they believed that they were demon-possessed when they spoke in tongues.
Because look, speaking in tongues is nothing more than something else taking over.
That's what they're even saying, they're claiming it's the Spirit of God.
But number one, God is not the author of confusion.
Number two, the Bible says the spirit of the prophets is subject unto the prophets.
When you're filled with the Holy Spirit, you're still in control of yourself.
The Holy Spirit will never take over your body and control your body.
The spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets.
And that's what it says in 1 Corinthians 14.
And so these people who have some other voice speaking through them and take over.
And let me just prove to you why tongue speaking is wrong right now.
Ask yourself this question, why does no one who's saved believe in it?
Think about it.
Everybody who believes in speaking in tongues believes you can lose your salvation.
Across the board.
Show me one tongue talker that believes in the internal security of believing.
You can't fight it.
And so if it's so real, then why do only unbelievers believe in it?
Only people who preach work salvation or lose your salvation or
turn away from all your sins to be saved and all this garbage.
They're the ones who are the same people who are falling on the ground,
like people who are demon-possessed in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Fell on the ground, rolled around, slobbered.
They said he fometh, F-O-A-M-E-T-H.
These Pentecostals, some of them fometh.
Seriously.
I mean, they fometh the mouth.
You know it's true.
Now, I fometh the mouth when I preach, but I'm in control here, right?
But what I'm trying to say is that the modern day tongues movement is nothing
more than the muttering and peeping of the demon-possessed people that we
read about in Isaiah 29, Isaiah 8, and that woman that had a familiar spirit
speaking out of the ground, voices coming out of the ground, you know?
And these people say, well, God just took over my body.
Well, something took over your body, but it wasn't the Lord's spirit.
It was a familiar spirit.
And that's the truth.
And I'm not going to sit here and tell you that it's not being demon-possessed
and they're just faking it and they're all, look, you can believe whatever
you want, but those people, I saw them with my own eyes and those people
were not in the driver's seat, I promise you that.