It will not happen in my congregation. People in my church understand that they were born of the Holy Spirit when they were saved, and understand what the manifestations of the gift of Holy Spirit are, and how to use them.
It's quite rude and presumptuous of you to suggest that people in my church are not Christian (believers in Jesus Christ). Do you know who else is a big false accuser in the Bible?
You are dead wrong to continue to condemn speaking in tongues without interpretation. One day you will know this. I only hope it happens in this life.
Reread that again.... I had offered a scenario that may happen in your church that the Lord would reveal; not that it did happen.
"One of these days... the Lord
may reveal to you people in your congregation that were speaking in tongues that testify of feeling the "Holy Spirit" coming over them and filling them when they spoke in tongues and they would be telling the truth of that experience.. and yet also admit they are not believers in Jesus Christ.
It has happened. Is that a red flag or what?"
The phrase "It has happened" is a start of a separate paragraph referring to a real situation and NOT the scenario that
might happen involving your church. Sorry if that was not clear.
And there is no point telling about the situation in my local area when it is hard to believe because you had to be in that church to see the aftermath when a pastor went up and down the pews to make sure there were no newcomers and that every one was a believer in Jesus Christ BEFORE they began the service to focus on the Holy Spirit.
You think about that, brother. You know churches can be so pro Holy Spirit in the way they talk.... Holy Spirit this.. Holy Spirit that in every service so that when new comers come in, and the supernatural happened to them with them speaking in tongues, is it any wonder how they are not believers in Jesus Christ when all the focus has been on the Holy Spirit? It is no wonder to me how it had happened, but I reckon you are not going to believe it until you see for yourself.
What did Paul say?
1 Corinthians 1:[SUP]9 [/SUP]God is faithful, by whom ye were called unto the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.[SUP] 10 [/SUP]Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
1 Corinthians 2:[SUP]2 [/SUP]For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
Who do you think the Holy Spirit will keep the spotlight on in worship? Scripture says the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ.
John 16:[SUP]14[/SUP]
He shall glorify me: ....
How can the Holy Spirit do that in worship? Through us....
John 15:[SUP]26 [/SUP]But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father,
even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:[SUP]27 [/SUP]And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
Those led by the Spirit of God in being His disciples would testify of the Son in seeking the glory of the Son and by Him, the glory of God the Father.
Only seducing spirits would take the spotlight away from the Son, and putting the spotlight on the Holy Spirit, makes it easier for them to lure believers away in chasing after them for a sign.
One brother in India was telling me how his church was honoring the Holy Spirit that day of Pentecost
when he felt something like liquid nitrogen seeping through his skull and he began confessing against his will an apology to the Holy Spirit for not believing that He did any more dramatic manifestations as He had done in the early church days.
You discern that with Jesus at that throne of grace, brother. Was that the Holy Spirit or not?
Anyway.... I leave it to the Lord to expose this as happening contrary to the scripture and why it is happening because we can only honor the Father by honoring the Son. There is no other way to honor the Father by.
John 5:[SUP]22 [/SUP]For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son:[SUP]23 [/SUP]That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father.
He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
Jesus said it and I believe He really meant it in how any one comes to God the Father in worship, fellowship, or prayer.
John 14:[SUP]6 [/SUP]
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life:
no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
John 10:1Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber...........[SUP]7 [/SUP]Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.