DO ALL SPEAK IN TONGUES? - ALBERT ELISHA OBERDORFER - SAMPLE
From a strictly biblical perspective, the answer is clear. 'Yes and No.' Everybody who has received the Holy Spirit speaks in tongues as a sign. But not everybody also operates in the gift of tongues. In other words, in the bible, we find two types of speaking in tongues. - The accompanying sign of speaking in tongues, according to Jesus in Mark 16:17: "And these signs shall follow those who believe ... in my name ... they will speak with new tongues ..." - And the gift of tongues, according to Paul in 1 Corinthians 12:10-11: "To one is given ... to another different kinds of tongues .. one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills." Get a crystal-clear insight into this subject that has baffled many believers for centuries.
From a strictly biblical perspective, the answer is clear.
'Yes and No.'
Everybody who has received the Holy Spirit speaks in tongues as a sign.
But not everybody also operates in the gift of tongues.
In other words, in the bible, we find two types of speaking in tongues.
- The accompanying sign of speaking in tongues, according to Jesus in Mark 16:17:
"And these signs shall follow those who believe ... in my name ... they will speak with new tongues ..."
- And the gift of tongues, according to Paul in 1 Corinthians 12:10-11:
"To one is given ... to another different kinds of tongues .. one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills."
Get a crystal-clear insight into this subject that has baffled many believers for centuries.
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9 YOU ARE MAD!<br />
PAUL WAS sensitive and wise.<br />
He had the interests of others at heart.<br />
He put himself into the shoes of others<br />
and then reached them from where they<br />
were.<br />
He was a Jew to the Jews and a Gentile to<br />
the Gentiles.<br />
So that he could reach them.<br />
We see Paul’s heart also in the instructions<br />
he gives to the church when he tells us<br />
how to go about speaking in tongues.<br />
I have seen prayer meetings where people<br />
flat out spoke in tongues, and bystanders<br />
(unbelievers or uninformed) just gasped<br />
with an open mouth at what they were<br />
seeing.<br />
Because it was so far out for them.<br />
They had never seen anything like it<br />
before.<br />
And, for sure, they thought that these<br />
people must be mad.<br />
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