Hello everybody, it's me, MrToll23, back with another video, and before I get
into this video I'd like to say that I completely forgot to do the Book of
Roman Study this last Saturday. I had the time to do it, but for some reason it
escaped my mind, so I'm just gonna be doing that tomorrow because I'm gonna be
busy on a Friday and Saturday. So anyway, in this video I want to talk about the
modern tongues movement, those who claim to speak in tongues or speak with other
tongues, primarily against the the Pentecostal churches and charismatic
groups, whether it be the Assemblies of God or the Church of God in Christ or a
whole bunch of other denominations that belong to these categories. There are
over 500 million people today that claim to be Pentecostals or Charismatics and
part of this group that says that they speak in other tongues. So these
religions believe that the spiritual gifts spoken about in the New Testament
have continued into this modern day and that we are presently able to, through
the fullness of the Holy Ghost, through the baptism of the Holy Ghost, to speak
with other tongues as the Apostles did in the book of Acts. I ran into somebody
out soul-winning a couple months ago who told me this, and this is part of the
reason where I got this idea to make this video from, and I was trying to give
him the gospel and he was telling me about how he listens to Kenneth Copeland
and people like that online, and he asserted to me that spiritual gifts have
not ceased at all and that he knew this to be true because he's witnessed and
heard other people speaking in tongues in the past. Now the main problem that I
have with this is that the modern concept that the Pentecostals have of
speaking in tongues, which is a phrase that you'll never find in the Bible by
the way, is not anything like what we see in the scriptures. When they say speaking
in tongues, which again is not what the Bible says, you'll never find that
phrase in the scriptures, but they mean to speak in gibberish to people who
can't understand you or just to nobody, just to stand in the middle of the
congregation and to speak gibberish, words that nobody understands and claim
that it's a real language or some hidden heavenly language, despite having no
proof of it being so. Often they'll claim that it's a very obscure language, you
know, only a few people speak this, so that's why nobody knows what I'm saying
or something like that, or they'll say it's an angelic heavenly language.
However, as I'm about to show you from the scriptures today, the definition and
the purpose of tongues in the book of Acts and elsewhere in the New Testament
is nothing like what the Pentecostals practice today. First of all, I would like
to say that a tongue is simply a word for a language, it's a synonym for that.
It says in Genesis chapter 10 verse 5, this is the first time the word tongue
is used in the Bible, it says, By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided
in their lands, every one after his tongue, after their families, in their
nations. So this time in human history, when the world was being divided up
after the flood, it was divided not just according to the nations and to the
families, but also according to his tongue, meaning what language they spoke.
Because if you know the context there in Genesis chapter 11, at the power of
battle, before they spread out all across the earth, they only spoke one language,
but God confused their languages and they started to speak other tongues.
They all had different languages that they spoke in these different families
and they were divided up according to those different languages. That's all the
word tongue means, it means another language. So when the Bible talks about
speaking with other tongues, it simply refers to Christians who speak in other
languages than their own native language. You'll see oftentimes in the Gospels
and in the book of Acts, it talks about, it says, well, in the Hebrew tongue or in
the Jews tongue or something like that, like in Acts chapter 1, where it says in
the proper tongue, it says that it's called Akhilvama, which is the field of
blood. That's a Hebrew or an Aramaic word. It says in the Hebrew language,
in the Aramaic language, I'm not sure which one of those it is, but either
Hebrew or Aramaic, and it says that it's that tongue, okay, and that's the word in
that language. That's all tongue means. It's not that radical of a concept, it's
just people speaking in other languages as a miracle by the Holy Ghost, languages
that they don't speak. What makes it a miracle and gift of the Holy Ghost in
the book of Acts, we'll see as we read the story, okay, and here we'll see that
on the day of Pentecost, what the church was given and what they spake and why
they were given this ability to speak with other languages or other tongues. So
it says in Acts chapter 2 verses 1 to 11, when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
they were all with one accord in one place, and suddenly there came a sound
from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where there
is sitting, and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as a fire, and it
sat upon each of them, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to
speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance, and they were
dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven. Now
when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together and were
confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language, and they
were all amazed and marveled, saying one to another, behold are not all these
which speak Galileans? And how hairy every man in our own tongue wherein we
were born, Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia,
and in Judea and in Cappadocia, and in Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Phamphelia,
in Egypt and the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and
proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the
wonderful works of God." Our tongues, meaning our languages. So in Acts chapter
2, as the Church of Jerusalem is gathered together, the Holy Ghost comes upon them,
they're filled with the Holy Ghost, and the miracle then that is manifest
because of the fullness of the Spirit at this time, according to verse 4, is that
they began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance,
meaning that the Spirit of God allowed them to be able to speak in these other
tongues or other languages, not speaking gibberish or things that nobody could
understand, but other known languages. As it says in verse 6, every man heard them
speak in his own language. So there were Jews and proselytes from every nation
under heaven who had come to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, and
these people who had converted to Judaism who were there in this city,
because they came from other nations all across the world, they all didn't speak
the local languages of Aramaic or Greek, and therefore through this miracle done
by the Spirit, those within the Church were able to speak in the languages of
those people who were gathered there on the day of Pentecost. From verses 8 to 11
it lists the languages and the peoples that were there, the Parthians, Medes,
Elamites, Mesopotamians, Jews, Cappadocians, Pontus, Asians, Phrygians,
Pamphilians, Egyptians, Libyans, Romans, Cretans, Arabians. So that's at least 15
languages. In these languages spake these disciples in the early church, and all
these nations who were gathered there heard what they said in their own
language, okay? So according to verse 11 it says they heard the wonderful works
of God in their own tongue. So what's going on here? Well, as a beginning of the
ministry of the preaching of Jesus Christ, you have these 120
disciples, 120 people within the church, and you'll find that number in the
previous chapter, Acts chapter 1. All of them probably speak Greek or Aramaic, and
a few might know Hebrew, maybe a couple know Latin, and that's it. Now there are
thousands in the city of Jerusalem at the time who needed to hear the gospel
of Jesus Christ, but because they were foreigners they did not speak those
languages, okay? They might have spoken Persian or Egyptian or Latin or Arabic
or some other language as it lists all these languages here, Elamite, okay?
Things that don't even exist anymore, languages that don't even exist anymore,
okay? When the Spirit came upon the disciples in this early church they
began to speak of the wonderful works of God in the languages of these other
people, okay? So none of them spoke Arabic, but because there were Arabian
Jews in the city at that time who spoke Arabic, the Spirit allowed them to be
able to speak Arabic to them about the wonderful works of God, to preach the
gospel to them in Arabic by a miracle. That's what's going on here, okay? So for
example, just hypothetically, you probably, this is an example, James speaking Latin
unto the Roman Jews that had gathered there, and Matthew speaking Parthian to
the Parthian Jews who would gather there, and then we know later in the
chapter Peter speaks to the men of Judea, so possibly either in Aramaic or Hebrew.
In this instance there is a miracle going on in which they're able to speak
in these other languages to witness to the loss, the gospel of Jesus Christ in
their own language. That's what's going on here. They're speaking in other
tongues, meaning in other languages. It's not that difficult to understand,
specifically the languages of the lost people who are there in Jerusalem.
They're not just speaking a language that nobody understands, that they're not
just saying words that nobody can hear and nobody can listen to and
actually get something from. They're speaking to languages that people there
can understand, okay, in order to preach unto them. There are only two other
examples of this happening in the book of Acts. In Acts chapter 10 verses 44 to
47 it says, While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all of them
which heard the word, and they of the circumcision which believed were
astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was
poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues
and magnify God, and answered Peter, Can any man forbid water that these should
not be baptized which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And then Acts
chapter 19 verse 6, And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost
came on them, and they spake with tongues and prophesied. How especially in Acts
chapter 10 we again see the purpose behind this miracle, that the Gentiles
received this gift and it astonished those of the circumcision, that would be
the Jewish Christians, because they also received the same spiritual gifts. So
again it is a sign of the power of God just as it was in Acts chapter 2. But
again the point I want to make is that the languages which they spoke are real
languages that other people speak in the Bible in Acts chapter 2 and in this
chapter. Okay, so it's given to the church to preach in other languages to witness
of God to the loss of other nations. So that was the purpose of tongues. Now in
Pentecostal and Charismatic churches today, typically it'll be in a closed
church building in a congregation of people who claim to already be Christians
who claim to have this same spiritual gift. Yet the so-called tongues that
they speak in are not understood by anybody. There's no identifiable language
that's being spoken among them, they're just speaking gibberish and claiming
it's some obscure or hidden or extinct language that nobody speaks. And they're
not using it to preach to the lost either like in the book of Acts, but
rather they're again just sitting in a church building just speaking gibberish
into the air for no reason and claiming it's the same thing as what's in the
Bible. I want to move on onto a important passage about the subject of speaking
with other tongues specifically within the church and this passage will show
that what the Pentecostals are doing is wrong. Okay, and this would be 1st
Corinthians chapter 14. The entire chapter deals with this subject and
helps us learn more about what this gift is and what we are supposed to do
if this tongues thing wasn't actually around today, which we'll see later that
it's not. But it says in 1st Corinthians chapter 14, starting at verse 1, I'll go
down to verse 12, it says follow after charity and desire spiritual gifts but
rather that ye may prophesy. For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh
not unto men but unto God, for no man understandeth him, howbeit in the Spirit
he speaketh mysteries. But he that prophesyeth speaketh unto men to edification
and exhortation and comfort. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth
himself, but he that prophesyeth edifieth the church. I would that y'all spake with
tongues but rather that ye prophesy, for greater is he that prophesyeth than he
that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret that the church may receive
edifying. Now brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I
profit you except I shall speak to you either by revelation or by knowledge or
by prophesying or by doctrine? And even things without life-giving sound, whether
pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds,
how shall it be known what is piped or harp? For if the trumpet give an
uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise ye,
except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be
known what is spoken? For ye shall speak into the air. There are, it may be, so many
kinds of voices in the world and none of them is without signification. Therefore,
if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a
barbarian and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. Even so ye, for as
much as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying
of the church. Now jumping down a little bit to verse 19 and going down to verse
24 it says, Yet in the church I had rather speak five words of my
understanding, and by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand
words in an unknown tongue. Brethren, be not children in understanding, howbeit
in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. In the law it is
written, with men of other tongues and other lips, will I speak unto this people,
and yet for all that they will not hear me, saith the Lord. Wherefore tongues are
for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not. The prophesying
serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. If therefore
the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and
there come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say that
ye are mad? But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one
unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all. Okay, so there's a few
important things to note about this passage which shows the foolishness of
these modern charlottetian churches that misuse the biblical term of speaking
with tongues. First of all, Paul starts out at the beginning of the chapter
saying that it is indeed good to desire spiritual gifts, but he says rather that
ye may prophesy, meaning what is more important than spiritual gifts would be
to prophesy or to preach God's Word. He then explains why this is. In verse 2 he
says, for that is, okay, for means because, okay, so because he that speaketh in an
unknown tongue speaketh not unto men but unto God for no man understandeth them.
Now the Pentecostal might twist this verse to justify their use of speaking
in tongues. However, there is a point being made here for why it is better to
prophesy than to speak spiritual gifts, like speaking with other tongues. That's
why it begins with the word for, because it's a continuing thought from verse 1.
It is explaining why it is better to prophesy than to speak with other tongues.
Okay, and the reason why is because if within the church you speak an unknown
tongue, that would be a language that nobody there knows, it's unknown, nobody
knows it, nobody can understand you, so you can't speak unto them, like as
opposed to in Acts chapter 2 where they were speaking languages that people in
the city actually knew it was, they weren't unknown tongues. Okay, they were
tongues that people understood. Okay, so because no man can understand him, as it
says, so because no man can understand him, all you're doing is speaking to God.
God is the only one that can hear you, God is the only one that can understand
you, while the other people in the church, because they don't speak the
language, you're just speaking to the air, you're not talking to anybody,
nobody can understand you. So if you go to a Pentecostal church, they'll speak
gibberish that nobody can understand. They'll say it's a hidden or an
extinct or some weird language, some heavenly language or something, nobody
speaks that language, and yet they'll try to say, well, you know, the Bible says that
we should be doing this. Well, no, the Bible says not to, because nobody can
understand you. It says rather, you should prophesy, meaning preach the Word
of God in your own language. So all we're doing, when all they're doing, when they
do that, is speaking to God and not to men. That's exactly the reason why Paul
says not to do it, because no man understands you, and only God understands
if you're actually speaking a real language, which they aren't anyway. So by
contrast to those who speak in other tongues, in verse 3, Paul says, that he
that prophesies speaketh unto men to edification and exhortation and comfort.
And he again contrasts that with speaking in an unknown tongue. That is a
language that no man in the church knows, therefore it's unknown. So he says in
verse 4, he says that edifies himself, but he that prophesied edify the
church. Therefore he says in verse 5 that he would rather that we prophesied
than to speak in tongues, because prophesying is greater, he says. It's
better to preach the Word of God in a language that we, the people in the
church, can understand than to speak in a language that nobody knows, because it
doesn't edify anybody. When you get into a church and start speaking your
language, whether it's a real language or not, if nobody understands it, what's the
point of speaking it? Nobody's going to be edified, so there's no point to it.
That's what he's getting across here. As stated in verse 6 to 9, it
says, if we don't speak in words easy to be understood, how shall it be known that
which is spoken? That's a rhetorical question, a question attempting to make a
point. And the point is, as it says in verse 9, for ye shall speak into the air.
Basically what he's saying is, you're just speaking to nobody, because nobody
can understand you if it's an unknown tongue. Nobody in the congregation can
hear you. Nobody in the congregation can understand you if you speak a language
that nobody else speaks. So there's no point in speaking with other tongues in
the church amongst believers that don't speak the language. In Acts chapter 2, the
reason why they speak tongues is so that they could testify the wonderful works
of God to people that actually spoke those languages, not just so they
can show off and show, hey look at me, I have the Holy Ghost on me and I can
preach other languages. Okay, that's not the purpose of speaking in tongues at
all. Again, you can go up and look up videos of Pentecostal meetings and
services online. There's just multiple people in the congregation. I mean,
look it up on YouTube. There's people that just stand up with their eyes
closed and their arms outstretched. They just speak gibberish. They go habala shabala,
all that kind of stuff, right? It's just a cacophony of uncertain sounds as it
says here in 1st Corinthians 14. They're not speaking to anybody. Nobody speaks
those languages. They're speaking in an unknown tongue. Nobody's being edified.
All they're doing is just saying shabala shabala and just speaking gibberish to
nobody, okay? They're not preaching the gospel. They're not actually speaking a
real language. Nobody's listening, okay? And yet they claim that what they're
doing is right and biblical. Now Paul says in the church, I'd rather speak five
words with my own understanding than that by my voice I might teach others
also than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. So when they get up and
they speak in tongues as they say, it's better to just say a sentence or even
just a word in English that people actually understand than to speak in
tongues. It's then stated in verse 22, wherefore tongues are for a sign not to
them that believe but to them that believe not. But prophesying serveth not
for them that believe not but for them which believe. So the purpose as stated
here for tongues is to be a sign for those that believe not. Now the church is
supposed to be those that believe, okay? So he's telling you don't do this in the
local church because the local church should be those that believe, okay? Those
that are Christians. And you're not edifying anybody. You're not building
anybody up because they don't understand the language that you claim to be
speaking. So in Acts chapter 2, the Holy Ghost gave the disciples utterance to
speak the Word of God to the languages of the people gathered in Jerusalem. They
did not just speak it behind closed doors because they didn't need to hear a
message in another language, okay? They didn't need that, okay? They didn't need
to be edified by speaking in tongues, which it doesn't edify according to 1st
Corinthians 14 amongst the church. They could have just preached in their own
language the Word of God. Everybody would have understood it. The reason why
they were given the utterance according to Acts chapter 2, we see that there, and
then comparing with 1st Corinthians 14 is so that they could testify to those
that believe not. Not just to preach to them in their own language but to show
them the power of the Holy Ghost as a sign to them that do not believe. So why
then in Pentecostal churches, which a church is supposed to be a called-out
assembly of believers, it's supposed to be the body of Christ, why then do they
speak in tongues as they say that they do? You know, what is the purpose? Even if
what they're doing is the actual biblical miracle, even if they actually
are speaking in other languages, which they're not, they're still not using it
correctly. They're still going against what the Bible says to do in 1st
Corinthians 14. A chapter explaining the purpose of such a sign and the fact that
prophesying is greater. It says that multiple times, that it's better to
prophesy. He commands to seek those things that edify, okay? When we go to
church, the purpose of going to church is to build each other up, to edify. Speaking
in tongues according to this passage does not edify others, it edifies
yourself, okay? Basically you're lifting yourself up and not lifting up others,
not teaching others. That's why he says to prophesy, to speak even just five
words in my understanding that it might teach others also, okay?
Because that is better than speaking in even 10,000 words in an unknown tongue
because nobody can learn from that, nobody can be edified by that. So they
speak in tongues as they say in the church even though the Bible says not to.
So what they're doing anyway is not speaking in tongues or speaking with
other tongues as the Bible calls it. They're speaking in gibberish as I've
said multiple times. I mean go take a listen to some of the speaking of tongue
stuff on YouTube and oftentimes it's not even like they're not even saying words
they're just making sounds. They're just making weird animal noises and just
weird noises, okay? Barking like a dog and things like that. It's not even like
they're just rambling. I mean, anybody who thinks that those are real
languages obviously doesn't know any real languages besides English. I mean do
they think that other languages in the world are so radically different from
English that they're just making noises? That's not what languages are. Languages
are actual words that you put together, okay? All the sounds that are in the
English language, you can find most of those in other languages as well. They're
not just going like and just that's not a language, okay? That's just
gibberish. But I'll get back to that in a second. Anyway, it says in 1st Corinthians
chapter 13 verses 8 to 10, charity never faileth but whether there be prophecies
they shall fail, whether there be tongues they shall cease, whether there be
knowledge it shall vanish away. For we know in part we prophesy in part but
when that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be done away.
So the scriptures clearly state that prophecies and tongues shall cease,
meaning they will stop, okay? When that which is perfect is come then that which
is in part shall be done away. So these spiritual gifts according to the Bible
would one day pass away, they would one day cease. When? When that which is
perfect is come, according to this passage here in 1st Corinthians 13.
And the typical Pentecostal response to this, like the guy that I met out soul
winning I mentioned earlier, they say, well that's talking about the return of
Jesus Christ. And since Christ hasn't come back yet the gift of tongues is
still available. Well no it's not talking about the return of Jesus Christ because
it says in verse 10, that which is perfect. It does not say he which is
perfect, okay? Yes Jesus Christ is perfect but it's talking about an object here.
It says that which is perfect. You don't say that which is perfect if you're
referring to a person, that's just improper grammar. So why do I believe
this is? Why do I believe that it's talking about something else or talking
about a different object? Well according to 1st Corinthians 14, what is the
purpose of the gift of tongues? It is a sign to them that believe not. And we saw
that in the book of Acts that the apostles preached the
Word of God in other languages to the lost and on the day of Pentecost 3,000
people got saved because of that. But the scriptures say, all scripture is given by
inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for
instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly
furnished unto all good works. In 2nd Timothy 3, 16 and 17 it says also in 1st
Peter 1 23, being born again not of corruptible seed but by incorruptible, by
the Word of God which liveth and abideth forever. And then it says in
Psalm 19 verse 7, the law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul. So what is
that which is perfect? The scriptures, the law of the Lord, the law of the Lord is
perfect is what the Bible says. Because it is the scriptures which convert the
soul, it is the scriptures which create faith, as it says in 1st Peter 1 23,
were born again by the incorruptible seed which is the Word of God. Then it
says also in Romans 10 17, so then faith cometh by herring and herring by the
Word of God. So now that we have the completed canon of scripture in the
Bible, okay, that which is perfect, the law of the Lord, the scriptures has come in
and therefore we believe at this present time that the gift of tongues and other
spiritual gifts and miracles which were four signs in the apostolic age have
ceased, because that which is perfect has already come. In fact it came about 1800
1900 years ago. And the Pentecostals still might try to argue with that and
but hey I mean isn't it interesting that nobody spake in tongues for hundreds of
years? This is a modern movement that began in the 19th century in the 1800s.
Nobody had a doubt in the second or the third or the fourth or the fifth
centuries that tongues had ceased. Nobody talked about that back then.
There's no record of believers doing these things after the time of the
Apostles because they had seized like the Bible said they would. Why have
they ceased? Because that which is perfect, that which is perfect, not he
which is perfect. And by the way it says come in. Jesus is going to come
back but the Bible never uses that language of him coming in.
The completed canon of scripture has come in, meaning God has given it to us.
It has entered in. And that's why it says that because it is an object. We're
talking about the Bible, the scriptures. Therefore tongues have ceased as it
said it would in 1st Corinthians 13. And the Pentecostals still might try to
argue with that but you know that's what the Bible says. They'd seized like the
Bible said they would. That's why the churches of today are not doing the same
thing as in the book of Acts. The book of Acts miracles of tongues were believers
speaking other languages, real languages to the lost that they might hear the
Word of God and to show them for a sign the the power of the Word of God. Now the
reason why it was a sign is because they understood the language. Okay now if you
go to a city just out in the middle nowhere and you find a church that like
let's say you go to some well I guess this would be a good example because
English is a widespread language but let's say somebody only speaks a very
rare language like they speak some Native American language like they speak
Navajo okay and then they just go out to some country in Africa right and there's
a church there and somebody in the church who has never met them who's
never been to America who never learned the language was able to speak Navajo
unto them okay not only were they actually speaking the language okay and
the Navajo person could understand it okay they understood it and they hear
the Word of God preached but it's also a sign showing wow your God is great if
he's able to do this okay but the thing about Pentecostal churches is that
that's not what they do okay in the book of Acts it was actually speaking other
languages to the loss that they might hear the Word of God the charismatic
churches today are false Christians in the first place since most of them deny
eternal life and believe you can lose your salvation but what they do is just
shake violently and drooling and rolling around on the floor and speaking
gibberish into the air that nobody can understand that's not the same thing as
what's in the Bible and you can go online and find videos of people who go
into Pentecostal churches and just fake it who admittedly like sneak in and
pretended to speak in tongues they just purposefully say gibberish and nonsense
and everybody thinks they're being serious everybody thinks it's legit
they're okay because they're used to that kind of stuff because a lot of them
are faking it there's some people that are demon-possessed or some people that
are hypnotized or some people that are doing it on purpose okay that are
actually just speaking gibberish so that they can you know fit in if this stuff
is legit you'd expect them to be able to speak to a polyglot or a native speaker
certain languages without having to learn that language if the interpreters
in this church in these churches were legit I should be able to walk into a
local Pentecostal Church and start speaking French or Greek both languages
which I know a little bit of and for them to be able to accurately translate
it okay but they can't do that and you know why they can't do that because
they're frauds so just to be clear I believe in the fullness of the Holy
Ghost okay that's something that they'll accuse you of they'll say well the Bible
talks about the baptism of the Holy Ghost you believe that that isn't a
thing you know you're removing an important part of the New Testament well
no because more oftentimes in the Bible is the Holy Ghost coming upon certain
people associated with the power and the boldness to preach the Word of God than
it is for a specific miracle like tongues okay you can read in the Old
Testament in 1st Samuel chapter 10 I believe it talks about how the Spirit
came upon Saul and others and they started to prophesy and talks about in
the book of Judges in chapter 14 or 15 about how the Spirit of the Lord came
upon Samson and that gave him actual physical strength and might okay it is
not always associated with speaking in tongues then we see in Acts chapter 4
verse 31 it says and when they had prayed the place was shaken where they
were assembled together they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they
spake the Word of God with boldness you know but they don't want to talk about
this verse because they just want to talk about the speaking in tongues
verses like in Acts chapter 2 they'll talk about Acts chapter 2 all day but
Acts chapter 4 verse 31 just you know you never hear them talk about that kind
of stuff and they say well if you don't go to a church that speaks in tongues
you don't have the full gospel okay I've heard people say that too which is just
a stupid statement because gospel means good news and the gospel is defined in
1st Corinthians 15 verses 1 to 4 as the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus
Christ now isn't it interesting that that's right after chapter 14 where Paul
was explaining how it's vain to speak in tongues in church because it doesn't
edify anybody it doesn't say spiritual gifts are part of the gospel to say that
is heresy because it says in verse 2 of 1st Corinthians 15 that it's the gospel
by which we are saved we're not saved by spiritual gifts we're saved by the
message of Jesus's death, burial, and resurrection but Acts chapter 4 verse 31
shows us that the fullness of the Holy Ghost is not just speaking in tongues in
this instance they were given the power to speak the Word of God with boldness
and guess what that still happens today hey I believe that if you know me
personally you know that I'm a very not really a very talkative person I'm very
I tend to be very timid and I tend to stumble over my words a lot but it's
only through praying for the fullness of the Holy Ghost that I was able to start
going out soul winning and preaching to my friends and family and preaching
online etc so in conclusion what the modern tongues movement is doing is
wrong and here is what they have wrong okay what tongues are in the first place
what the purpose of speaking in tongues is when and how they should use the gift
of speaking in tongues whether or not they still exist plus as I mentioned at
the end there some falsely say it's part of the gospel I've heard some
charismatics even say that if you don't speak in tongues that's evidence that
you're not saved which is something they can't prove from the Bible at all the
Bible says if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ you're saved and you know a
lot of these Pentecostals 99.5 percent of them don't even believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ okay they believe you can lose your salvation which is according
to 1st John 5 10 to 11 if you don't believe that God has already given to
you eternal life it says you deny the record that God gave of his son and you
were making him a liar okay so they don't believe in the Lord if they deny
eternal life which most Pentecostals do but then the people who actually believe
the actual gospel who trust that Jesus died for their sins and rose again and
believe he gives them everlasting life as the Bible teaches over and over again
the vast majority of them don't even claim to believe that tongues are legit
okay and they never do that why is that because the movement of these
charismatic and Pentecostal churches is false okay if it's such a big deal in
the Bible you'd expect more passages to be mentioned but there's just a couple
stories in the book of Acts in 1st Corinthians 13 and chapter 14 and
that's pretty much it okay make a big deal about something that that doesn't
even exist anymore which the Bible says would cease when that which is perfect
is come in and which doesn't isn't even mentioned in the vast majority of the
New Testament so thank you ready for watching that's it for today God bless
you and goodbye