And how do you display your righteous anger when people are speaking in supernatural babbling tongue but are unbelievers?
Isaiah 8:[SUP]19 [/SUP]And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
Satan has a supernatural tongue that has been in the world as vain & profane babbling BEFORE Pentecost's God's gift of tongues came which was of other men's lips to speak unto the people.
Isaiah 8:[SUP]19 [/SUP]And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
Satan has a supernatural tongue that has been in the world as vain & profane babbling BEFORE Pentecost's God's gift of tongues came which was of other men's lips to speak unto the people.
Unbelievers cannot speak in tongues because they are not born again of the Spirit and it is the spirit that gives utterance. Satan does NOT have a "supernatural tongue". Satan can only use what he knows and what is at least half truths. He knows other languages; He knows NOW the gift that God gives and one of the manifestations of that gift . . he can use that knowledge to attack or demean Christianity - which is what he does. The difference would be if a demon causes you to speak in another language it's not in your control . . . You couldn't start, you couldn't stop, you would be taken over. - That's not God . . . Genuine tongues cannot be counterfeited.
If you are to prove all things and abstain from all appearances of evil, how can you separate yourself from the world's tongues if you have a supernatural tongue that comes without interpretation the same as theirs?
This is why John said not to believe every spirit but test them. 1 John 4:1
Paul gave the bottom line on God's gift of tongues and that it was of other men's lips to speak unto the people. He never spoke of tongues plainly in any other way in clarifying the subject of tongues other than in 1 Corinthians 14:20-22.
This is why John said not to believe every spirit but test them. 1 John 4:1
Paul gave the bottom line on God's gift of tongues and that it was of other men's lips to speak unto the people. He never spoke of tongues plainly in any other way in clarifying the subject of tongues other than in 1 Corinthians 14:20-22.
other men's lips to speak unto the people. . . 1 Cor. 14:21,22 . . In the law it is written - Isaiah 28:7-11 (paraphrased) Assyrian army attacking Israel. God came to Israel again and again by Prophets, to turn them from their evil. The Prophets spoke to the Israelites in Hebrew, a language they could understand . . . Israel didn't want to turn from evil and completely ignored the Prophets . . . So the Assyrian army comes through to trash Israel . . . They rape, pillage, and burn . . . they steal and kill and they are going to speak Assyrian and you are not going to understand but you know that I came to you time and again speaking to you in a language you should have understood and you didn't get it. So seeing and hearing this, the Israelites might wake up and say "Why is this happening to us?" Maybe you will come back to your senses about your sin and your idolatry. - Bottom line - the language they didn't understand was to get them to wake up to what God was doing and what God had done. That is why tongues are a sign for unbelievers - unbelievers can listen to someone speaking in tongues and say, Wow - Where did that language come from? They won't understand the language but they understand that God is moving powerfully . . . Yet some will still ignore - . . . but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.
Yes, Paul spoke plainly concerning speaking in tongues . . . Any one who speaks in tongues does not speak to people but to God. . . Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, . . . I would like everyone of you to speak in tongues . . . The one who prophecies is greater than the one who speaks in tongues, UNLESS someone interprets, so that the church may be edified, i.e. in a church setting . . . do not forbid speaking in tongues
Believers are reading their kind of tongue into scripture and out of context as to what Paul was saying in that chapter as to why when any believer that are zealous for spiritual gifts, to seek the gift of prophesy, because tongues is not a stand alone gift for it needs to be interpreted when manifested in the assembly or otherwise understood by a foreigner.
When believers do not get any other gifts of the Spirit by feeling the Holy Spirit coming over them in bring that gift apart from salvation, why is it that they believe God's gift of tongues comes in that way of feeling the Holy Spirit coming over them separate from salvation and yet this tongue comes with no interpretation & is just vain & profane babbling?
This is John warning believers today not to believe every spirit but test them 1 John 4:1. Greater is He that is in you than he that is in the world 1 John 4:4 meaning since the Holy Spirit is in you since you were saved, then any spirit coming over a believer and filling that believer in bringing that tongue which is the way the world speaks is not the Holy Spirit nor God's gift of tongues. 1 John 4:5-6
1 John 4:1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.....[SUP]4 [/SUP]Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.[SUP] 5 [/SUP]They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.[SUP]6 [/SUP]We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
1 John 4:1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.....[SUP]4 [/SUP]Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.[SUP] 5 [/SUP]They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.[SUP]6 [/SUP]We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
If a church is utilizing the manifestation of the Spirit against what is written . . . it is either through ignorance of the scripture or they are over reacting to their emotions. That is how we test the spirit whether it be of God . . .
Yes, greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world . . . he that is in me is the one who poured out the promise of the Father . . . When I believed I was sealed with that holy spirit of promise, I received the gift of holy spirit and it is my responsibility to utilize the gift I have been given - that will enable me to walk in love, to walk in power, to be more like Christ. Post after post after post - this subject has been explained to you . . . makes you think about that verse in Isaiah 28 where God told them and told them what was going to happen if they did not turn from their evil ways . . so with other tongues and through the lips of foreigners (the Assyrians) I will speak to this people, BUT EVEN THEN THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME, says the Lord.