John 3:8
8The wind[SUP]e[/SUP] blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
We don't stand in line in a Charismatic church and receive the Holy Spirit, like shopping for a hat because it doesn't work that way. Never has and never will. We receive the Word and gospel of our salvation coupled with faith.
Romans 10:8-13
8But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim);
9because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
11For the Scripture says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, bestowing his riches on all who call on him.
13For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Hebrews 4:2
For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.
Romans 10:17
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
1 Thessalonians 2:13
And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
To those who think they got the "Spirit" by standing in line at a church of babbling Charismatics you have been beguiled just like the infants in Christ in Corinth were. They were beguiled almost 2000 years ago by the devil disguising himself as an angel of light. They were mislead by evil men and received a recompense for not having faith in God alone to save them.
What fruits of the "Spirit" do you display? love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,gentleness and self-control?
Rarely is this seen by those who claim to have the "Spirit" although they do not have the anointing of His Holy Spirit. They are filthy dreamers and those who babble like pagans, friends of the world and enemies of God.
To those who make their boast in men and received the "Spirit" tell us how you have been separated from the world and set apart by God our Father in Christ Jesus and in His Holy Spirit. Having heard the Word coupled with faith. Faith in God and not in men.
Matthew 6:5-8
5And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
7But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
The word "tongues" spoken by the Holy Spirit in Paul when addressing the Corinthians means languages.This has never been about babbling like pagans as seen by those who practice such things today. It is about speaking in another language while being moved by the Holy Spirit to those of a different language who when listening to the Word can understand the gospel of their salvation being brought to them in their own tongue.
Acts 2:6-11
6Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because
that every man heard them speak in his own language. 7And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans?
8And
how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? 9Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia,
10Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
11Cretes and Arabians,
we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God.