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  1. rockytopva

    There is no spiritual gift called "the gift of tongues".

    Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory: - 1 Peter 1:8 So many churches out there, including some of them I attend, don't have "the joy unspeakable and full of glory." What I have seen happen so many...
  2. rockytopva

    There is no spiritual gift called "the gift of tongues".

    I go to a multiple of churches... 1. Lutheran - I have caught some of their fellowship 2. Presbyterian - I have caught some of their fellowship 3. Baptist - Large church and a good atmosphere (independent and don't call themselves Baptist) 4. Pentecostal Holiness - Where I hold my membership...
  3. rockytopva

    Please Pray': Female Shooter Killed During Attack at Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church

    1. The shooting is a terrible thing 2. The mother and son together is a terrible thing 3. That this happened in church is a terrible thing 4. The Lakewood Church and shooters family deserve our prayers 5. Thankfully no one else was seriously injured. 6. Churches have the right to exercise...
  4. rockytopva

    Super Bowl

    Wow! What an exciting finish!
  5. rockytopva

    There is no spiritual gift called "the gift of tongues".

    As far as the belief in tongues I did not come to faith Pentecostal Holiness because of the tongues. But because of the wonderful lives they lived. Especially as the married couples had happy homes. "No such thing as a divorce was known among them" -George Clark Rankin... The Story of My Life...
  6. rockytopva

    Keeping the Sabbath tells people Who you Worship

    Agreed... Changed to rules! Thanks!
  7. rockytopva

    Keeping the Sabbath tells people Who you Worship

    If you are keeping the Old Testament sabbath you have got some rules to hold up to! 32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all...
  8. rockytopva

    There is no spiritual gift called "the gift of tongues".

    The Merrimac Pentecostal Holiness church… If any were to say my church was far inferior to yours, and all that speaking in tongues is of the flesh… I would have to hang my head in great sorrow and agree! But in our time we would have given you the run for the money!
  9. rockytopva

    There is no spiritual gift called "the gift of tongues".

    Here is a lady speaking in tongues at the Merrimac Pentecostal Holiness church...
  10. rockytopva

    There is no spiritual gift called "the gift of tongues".

    I was brought up GARBC Baptist and firmly believed all that Pentecostal stuff was of the devil. Until I came down to Virginia and stayed the summer with my grandmother. Pictured below is farmer I would work for in the hay field that year... Dallas would shout at work, shout in the hay field, and...
  11. rockytopva

    There is no spiritual gift called "the gift of tongues".

    I believe the spiritual pathway as this... 1. Salvation - As easy as believing on the Lord Jesus Christ 2. Sanctification - Seeing the Christ formed on the inside 3. Spiritual Gifts - Whatever gift the Holy Spirit enables you with Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all...
  12. rockytopva

    There is no spiritual gift called "the gift of tongues".

    I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: - 1 Corinthians 14:18 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. - 1 Corinthians 14:39
  13. rockytopva

    There is no spiritual gift called "the gift of tongues".

    When we had a plating department in our facility I worked myself up to Lab Technician and worked under a chemist. This chemist was very smart and very good at math. When he laid out equations he did so in very neat handwriting and there would be much activity as he turned the results of an...
  14. rockytopva

    There is no spiritual gift called "the gift of tongues".

    There is no spiritual gift from God without the Christ formed on the inside... I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you... - Galatians 4:19 Has the Godly Spirit been formed within yourself? Does the Spirit of God bare witness with your spirit that you are a son of God? If so...
  15. rockytopva

    The False vs True Gift Of Tongues

    I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you - Galatians 4:13 Without the sensation of Christ formed in the spiritual man any attempt at spiritual gifts is obviously false.
  16. rockytopva

    Pentecostalism: The Glorification of the Flesh

    And repeating the same Pentecostal Holiness experience here in old Virginie.... This time Methodist... I passed my examinations and that year I was sent to the Wytheville Station and Circuit. That was adjoining my former charge. We reached the old parsonage on the pike just out of Wytheville as...
  17. rockytopva

    Pentecostalism: The Glorification of the Flesh

    Charles Stanley... Brought up Danville Virginia Pentecostal Holiness... I had family members come to Christ listening to the guy and lived our their lives good Christian Virginians. In which makes me proud.
  18. rockytopva

    Pentecostalism: The Glorification of the Flesh

    And a good example of the upbringing of good hearted Virginian Pentecostal Holiness folk was the pastor Charles Stanley... In which it is also reminded by many here in Virginia of his quality Virginian background...
  19. rockytopva

    Pentecostalism: The Glorification of the Flesh

    But... Are Yankees good hearted folk?
  20. rockytopva

    Pentecostalism: The Glorification of the Flesh

    Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. - 1 Corinthians 14:38 Do you know what forbid not means? It means to not disallow it! However... Unfortunately... There are folk out there who need spoken to when they are out of order. Which does not happen with good...