I believe that the modern-day tongue-speaking movement is the exact thing that's being described
in Isaiah chapter 29 here.
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 it even 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?"
It'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 happened in the Bible.
I believe that I've been faced with people that have been demon possessed in my lifetime.
I can 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.
There 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 this other
girl, and 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 was smoking marijuana, she had a seizure, I called
911.
So I'm thinking this girl's having a seizure right now and I felt that, you know?
And she just says "ohhh" you know this other girl, "ohhh" 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 on 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.
Boo!
And people are acting weird.
I got up and walked out and I was scared to death.
And I can promise you one thing, listen to me now, hear me carefully on this one thing,
I can promise you that those people were not in the driver's seat.
I'm not kidding, 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 and got out, because I said, "this is demonic, this is weird, this
is scary."
You see, 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 verses, 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 wouldn't, I don't want to be honest all night, 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 noised 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 marvelled, 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, and the Loaves of Mesopotamia, and in Judea and Cappadocia and Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia and Hattifilia, in Egypt and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and Posseis, priests and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues, the wonderful works of God.
And they were all amazed and were in doubt, saying, "What? What do you mean by this?"
Others mocking said these men are full of new wine.
Now, is there anything hard to understand about what we just read?
Nothing at all. Nothing at all.
I mean, here we read about people who are preaching the Gospel.
How many were preaching? 120. Read chapter 1, get the context.
120 people were reading, not just Peter preaching, 120 men and women are out preaching the Gospel,
and God somehow miraculously caused them to speak languages that they did not know.
I mean, 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 preach 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 was 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.
It's the Day of Pentecost, of course.
So when we get to 1 Corinthians 14, 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.
Let me just come right out and say it to you right now.
I talked to a guy, I was trying to win a guy to Christ, 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 throwing 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,
because I started seeing some things wrong with what they were teaching."
And he said this, 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 it's 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 have 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 would be even possessed."
And I've talked to others who've said the same thing, they've described the same thing,
and they've even admitted that they believe that they would be even 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, is 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 under 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 taking 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 the believer.
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
and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John fell on the ground, rolled around, slobbered...
You know, they said, "He fomenth." You know, F-O-A-M-E-T-H.
These Pentecostals, some of them fomenth. Seriously. I mean, they foment the mouth.
You know it's true. Now I foment 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, someone took over your body, but it wasn't the Lord's spirit, it was a familiar spirit.
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.
You guys are really, really good actors. I don't know what the point of that would be.
Anyway...
Oh man, that was scary. I sat and waited outside,
because I had a ride coming, I just sat and waited outside, and I could hear them inside.
Weirdest thing in the world. You couldn't even believe it.
It's day 29, let's hurry up and move forward here.