Tongues are described as a confirmatory sign. Tongues confirmed that the person who was just saved was indeed filled with the same Holy Spirit that filled the apostles at Pentecost. The same Holy Spirit working in Gentiles as was working in the Jews who were saved through Jesus Christ the God given Messiah.
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No such thing as a sign gift. The two words sign and gift do not come together to form, Charismaticism .
There is not outward gift as a sign to confirm a person believes prophecy (has the Holy Spirit) . That of course include the newer phenomena falling back, slain in the spirit, as a sign that means a person is under the eternal judgment of God, confirming unbelief ( no faith) .or holy laughter or crying a few of the things that come under the term "Charismaticism" as those who seek s after the things seen the temporal in a hope the kingdom of God does come by observation .It simply follows after the apostate Jews who made prophecy without effect through the oral traditions of men
John 4:48Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
The law is clear read it slowly and carefully. The sign of God's mocking lip is against thos who belive not prophecy (the word of God)
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 will they not hear me, saith the Lord. 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.1 Cor. 14:21-22
Who is the sign in resepct to, and what does it confirm?