Message in Tongues

[rockytopva]

The Apostle Paul said let all things be done decently and in order. There is a time in which it is appropriate to let the Spirit of God speak. Here is a Congregational Holiness Church service where a message is given out in tongues. But as not to interrupt the service or the message. These are the kind of services I like to attend.

 

[IanLC]

There is a time and place for tongues they need to be implemented in decency and order. We are similar to this church most of the time though our pastors and preachers try to refrain from speaking in tongues while they are preaching. Just to make sure that the word goes forth and that all are edified. Sometimes though the Holy Spirit will move upon the preacher and others in their Heavenly Language. I try not to determine and decide what the Holy Spirit will do.

 

[rockytopva]

Well spoken Mr Alan in which the scripture says...

Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? - Isaiah 40

 

[n2thelight]

We know of a man who was raised in Africa, the son of missionary parents, who decided—rather cynically perhaps—to test the interpretation of tongues. At the appropriate moment, he rose and spoke the Lord's prayer in the African dialect he had learned in his youth. When he sat down, an interpreter of tongues at once offered the meaning of what he said. He interpreted it as a message of the imminent second coming of Christ. (Kildahl, op. cit., pages 62,63)

 

[whirlwind]

We know of a man who was raised in Africa, the son of missionary parents, who decided—rather cynically perhaps—to test the interpretation of tongues. At the appropriate moment, he rose and spoke the Lord's prayer in the African dialect he had learned in his youth. When he sat down, an interpreter of tongues at once offered the meaning of what he said. He interpreted it as a message of the imminent second coming of Christ. (Kildahl, op. cit., pages 62,63)

So much truth stated in such a short paragraph and without any condemnation. Good job!


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[lawrance]

I think it's a load of rubbish that some one would speak gibberish or another language they don't know as i think that would only be the work of the Devil and total utter rubbish.
The only thing i would give as to speaking such a thing would be one talking ones own known language but it may not be understood by all or some then an other explains what you were talking about and all know.

Now some can teach something there way and others will not pick up on it, but another can come and put it another way and all pick up the conveyed message.

 

[Lively Stone]

We know of a man who was raised in Africa, the son of missionary parents, who decided—rather cynically perhaps—to test the interpretation of tongues. At the appropriate moment, he rose and spoke the Lord's prayer in the African dialect he had learned in his youth. When he sat down, an interpreter of tongues at once offered the meaning of what he said. He interpreted it as a message of the imminent second coming of Christ. (Kildahl, op. cit., pages 62,63)

I have a hard time thinking that the cynicism in his behaviour would ever bring forth a true interpretation by God. Perhaps God was turning the tables on him for his manipulation and misuse for the purposes of judging of a holy gift. That gift is for God's use and not ours.

 

[Foreigner]

I think it's a load of rubbish that some one would speak gibberish or another language they don't know as i think that would only be the work of the Devil and total utter rubbish.

-- That of course would be the position of a person willfully ignoring what the Bible says on the subject.

 

[Phillip]

I hold the Word of God dear to my heart above all things. By it, I know Love and truth and righteousness. I know how to go out and come in before the Gates of the City as the Word lights my path.

When I first began attending a 'pentecostal' church, I was amazed at this...

A man said that a woman was speaking an amazing Word of the Lord a couple days earlier.

I asked him, "wow, what did she say?"

He couldn't rememberwhat that "word of God" was. He just gave feel-good recollections.

I was aghast.

I hold the Word of God in such esteem, I couldn't believe that this man couldn't remember the Word of God he claimed came from this woman!

Of all the people who died to write down and convey the Word of God, this man couldn't remember what a woman said by direct inspiration, as he said.

I began to search out the topic diligently to find out more about this "speaking in tongues" thing I was seeing and heard the common advice we've all been given by pentecostals as to "how" to speak in tongues.

I tried those spirits. I found none of them to be of Christ.

The man in Africa, excellent point. I've been able to prove it out so often as he did in speaking in his own language. It is a major veil of carnal beguilement, the modern 'speaking in tongues' phenom. However, I'm sure my post means nothing to anyone else, It is simply a paying forward of sound advice and sound doctrine, to put off the foolishness of speaking in glossalalia. It is not of God.
Peace

 

[Lively Stone]

You cannot judge the gift by the ineptitude of those who have witnessed it.

 

[Shirley]

I have a hard time thinking that the cynicism in his behaviour would ever bring forth a true interpretation by God. Perhaps God was turning the tables on him for his manipulation and misuse for the purposes of judging of a holy gift. That gift is for God's use and not ours.

I would think that this person was testing the Spirit which was in the interpreter which if this story is true was clearly false. We are commanded to test the Spirits.

 

[Lively Stone]

What was done out of cynicism was not the testing of spirits.

 

[biggandyy]

Everytime Paul is giving instruction about Tongues, he is correcting their misuse, never complementing the Corinthian church nor even encouraging them to continue (1 Cor 14:19). It appears to me that, today, to try to emulate the Corinthians in this enterprise has already been dealth with 2,000 years ago yet we want to keep making the same mistakes over and over.

 

[rockytopva]

My goodness! I would rather sit in a lively Pentecostal service then be board out of my mind in a Protestant church any day of the week!

 

[biggandyy]

Seems like our two threads are reruns

 

[rockytopva]

My kind of service!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bwx_EtK9w4

 

[Lively Stone]

Everytime Paul is giving instruction about Tongues, he is correcting their misuse, never complementing the Corinthian church nor even encouraging them to continue (1 Cor 14:19). It appears to me that, today, to try to emulate the Corinthians in this enterprise has already been dealth with 2,000 years ago yet we want to keep making the same mistakes over and over.

We are encouraged to emulate Paul, not necessarily the Corinthians, but we can learn from their mistakes that Paul was correcting.

1 Corinthians 11:1
And you should imitate me, just as I imitate Christ.

 

[biggandyy]

Then imitate 1Cor 14:19.

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[Lively Stone]

Then imitate 1Cor 14:19.

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As a congregation, we do. Singly, we do as Paul, and worship God, pray and sing in tongues as the Spirit leads.

 

[biggandyy]

Is singing in tongues in scripture?