HI THERE
Good Morning ! (Especially bmeasure & free )
With response to a few of you that respnded to my post, I just wanted to say first of all my agrument did not and has not fallen short. To simplify without going into great detail let me put it to you this way. The "Other tongue", which was spoken in Acts chapter two was from THE HOLY SPIRIT; the EVIDENCE of THIS WAS THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON THEM AND THE SPEAKER(S) spoke in EVERY LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD ALL AT ONE TIME. EXAMPLE: Let's say I am in a room with five people, myself included in that group of five; I speak english, another speaks spanish, another speaks german, another speaks chinese, and the last speaks hebrew. Now, lets say the Holy Spirit comes upon the speaker, and prophecys to us; each of us will here it in OUR OWN LAGUAGE, right down to the very dialect in the town we were raised in; so therefore I'll HEAR IT in english, another will hear it in spanish, another will hear it in german, another will hear it in chinese, the other will hear it in hebrew ALL AT ONE TIME, THROUGH THAT ONE SPEAKER/INDIVIDUAL; AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT SPEAKS THROUGH SOMEONE; THIS IS THE EVIDENCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, WHEN ONE INDIVIDUAL SPEAKS EVERY LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD ALL AT ONE TIME anything other than that is babble ! And remember that Babel, as it is utilized in the Greek means CONFUSION !
First of all in I Corinthians 13:1, the subject of the chapter is LOVE, or as it is worded in chapter 13 as "charity", meaning Love with nothing expected in return; However, in the first verse of chapter 13 Paul is talking about......., though he speaks with tongues= though he speaks with languages (plural, he speaks more than one language) and of angels, angels meaning messangers of God; that is what angel means= A messanger of God. Therefore, Paul himself is a messanger of God. So Paul then speaks and teaches just as all those messangers of God spoke, they taught the Word of God, basically they taught "This saith the LORD your God"; like Ezekial, Isaiah, etc. It is also documented that Paul spoke many laguages in I Cor. 14:18, in which he states that he speaks in laguages, plural, more than one. What Paul is saying in this first verse is that it's out of harmony if it is not done in Love=Charity; if he as a teacher teaches God's Word, and leaves Love out of the equation, he's nothing. And as it is written God is Love.
The entire chapter of I Corinthians chapter 14 is Paul teaching those that will go forward preaching the Gospel, that although they do not have the gift of speaking in languages (plural, more than one= other languages) that its more important that they have the gift of teaching God' Word, and if they don't speak in another language that THEY should have an interpreter, if they were to teach peoples of other languages, other than what the teacher is speaking in; for if they teach people the Gospel in a language that the hearers DO NOT speak, how will they be able to bring, lift, bulid them up in the knowledge & understanding of God's Word ? Even though they may desire to speak in many languages, such as Paul, Paul is telling them it is a greater gift to teach God's Word, then to speak in other languages. Basically this chapter 14 is NOT talking about the Holy Spirit speaking through someone. In other words this chapter 14 does NOT tell us that when the HOLY SPIRIT comes upon you and speaks through you, after that have someone to interpret what the HOLY SPIRT said.
Lastly, ("My closing" here is also addressed to SPUTNIKBOY , regarding your final post) I feel as though everyone must believe as they are lead to believe. If our Heavenly Father has placed a conviction on someone, I feel that unless it be the Lord's will, that conviction WILL NOT be removed. Therefore, no matter what I say, it's not going to change their conviction. I could go on til I'm blue in the face, it won't change unless God opens their (spiritual) eyes to it. So for those that think that they have witnessed people speaking in these so-called tongues, all I can say is if the blind lead the blind than unforetunately they both fall in a ditch. Unless, they heard the Holy Spirit speaking in every language of the world all at one time, they have yet to witness the Holy Spirit speak through one of God's elect. Because when we do witness that true tongue which was spoken on in Acts chapter 2, we as believers will in no wise be debating it ! For I do believe we will witness it in THIS generation, that being the generation of the fig tree, and I look forward to seeing it !
Abiyah
