Who can speak in tongues?
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Let’s take a look a falsehood that has even many believers scratching their heads.
Questions I hear nowadays is ” Why are so many tele-evangelist and pastors in general speaking in tongues today?” “If I can’t do it does that mean I haven’t received the baptism of the Holy Spirit?”
Today, it’s very common to visit a Pentecostal or Charismatic church and many members, pastor included, are speaking in and uncertain utterance and proclaiming it as a gift from God.
The very definition of tongue is Language. For instance have you every heard someone say “He’s not from around here.” “He doesn’t speak our native tongue.”
Well friends that’s all it is. Also God doesn’t give gifts for fruitless reasons. When God gives gifts it’s always for edification of the church.
In Matthew 28:19 Jesus commanded the disciples to go into all the world teaching and baptizing. This is a reason God would give the gift of tongues; because everyone in the world didn’t speak the same language.
You can bear witness to this yourself in the book of Acts. The book of acts records the only examples of tongues in the bible and they’re not uttering gibberish that no one there could discern.
I purposely left the verses of acts out in the hope that you will open and read them for yourselves.
Do you know that the bible mentions tongues as the least spiritual gift, yet today many churches have made it as if it was the greatest gift of the spirit.
1 Corinthians 14: 3-9 makes it strikingly clear that tongues were given to help everyone in the room regardless of their nationality and home language to understand the sermon. Otherwise you will be speaking into the air.
So if you’re not speaking gibberish, no that doesn’t mean you haven’t received the Holy spirit.
Galatians 5 tells us the fruits of the spirit are: love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, & self-control.
Therefore if you’ve given your life a living sacrifice to Jesus Christ and been experiencing the above fruits; it’s very likely that you have indeed the Holy Spirit in your life.
I truly hope this gives you some very valuable food for thought and that you will turn to the bible for the ultimate and final authority