Paul Washer on Tongues | Is it for today?
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- See for yourself by watching the full clip and hear his thoughts ;-) What he says indeed demonstrates to me that brother Paul is an open-minded man who doesn't just automatically follow tradition. He truly desires to be biblical and to stay true to his own conscience. And I would likely have a similar view to the one he articulated in the video. We are to live a miraculous life, empowered by the Holy Spirit daily. And there are so many mysteries in the world today therefore be careful not to limit God. Can there be exceptions regarding miracles and wonders? Perhaps.
The Cessationism/Continuationism debate is a tough one. Great arguments on both sides. Let us pray for wisdom and discernment and diligently search the Scriptures while bringing everything back to the glory and gospel of Christ.
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2:00 It is impossible to live the Christian life without the Holy Spirit.
It is impossible to be a Christian without HIM.
I don't think you understand the triune Godhead. When Jesus left the disciples he said he will send the Holy Spirit and he will show them all things. With the Holy Spirit, they could never share the gospel with people who spoke a different language in other countries or do miracles. In fact, the bible says we can never understand the gospel without him first revealing you of your sin. For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God 1 Cor 1:18, “And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him.” Acts 5:32. “In Him, you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.” Ephesians 1:13-14. “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father.’ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs-heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.” Romans 8:14-17. “But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me.” John 15:26.
.....and on and on the scripture talks about us needing the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit is sealed in the believer as soon as they are saved and he stays with you day and night forever...Thats has noting to do with tonguew
@@wendymitchell8245 you are correct! Do not depart from the scriptures always say what is in the scripture, the holy spirit is our Guide.
@@truthspreader3109 The Holy Spirit is sealed within the believer as the result of the Holy Spirit baptism which occurs after believing, repentance, and water baptism.
This is actually a video, not merely a picture. Paul Washer has trained himself to give a sermon while stonefaced staring daggers into one particular audience member's soul. Incredible.
That's his tongue
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I hope Mr. Washer himself sees this comment.
Hahahaha!!!! 😂😂😂😂
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It honestly took me way too long to figure out this was a still frame picture. Got a good laugh outta that.
Lol right
Same here.. lol
Haha for real took me like :30
Same
Ok, glad I'm not the only one😂
I am so glad that I grew up in a home and church where all the gifts of the Holy Spirit operated. Since my early childhood I heard and saw it manifested, and I saw the positive results. I read in Paul's letters to the Corinthian church, and I see that there are times when somebody speaks in a tongue, and someone else gives the interpretation. In my Dad's church in Windhoek in my teens (late 1950's to 1961) , there was a humble, simple lady who was a very dedicated prayer warrior. The gift of tongues frequently operated through her. One Sunday morning there was an Italian gentleman visiting us, but few people knew that his mother tongue was Italian. After the sermon the lady referred to above spoke in tongues, and when she finished one of the gentlemen stood up and gave the interpretation. After church the visitor said to the person whose guest he was: "That lady spoke Italian fluently, and the gentlemen gave a perfect translation". Bur neither of them could understand or speak Italian.
There is an excellent book called "They speak with Other Tongues" (by John Sherrill, a sceptical journalist who was contracted by a consortium of news media to investigate and proof to be false, the speaking in tongues by the Charismatic people). In the book he describes his investigations and how he ultimately accepted Jesus as Lord and Saviour, was baptized in the Holy Spirit and experienced the speaking in/with other tongues himself which enabled him to conclude the book from an "inside" perspective. The book was first published in 1964 and updated a number of times. The latest E-copy is available at Amazon Books.
One of the testimonies in Sherrill's book that I remember was that of a Jewish rabbi who was visiting the US, where he attended a church service of a charismatic group. At the conclusion of the sermon an invitation was given for people who needed prayer to come forward. This was totally strange to this rabbi but he felt a very strong desire to go forward, and as he stood there in front of the pulpit, a stranger came and stood behind him, laying his hands on the rabbi's shoulders and started talking to him in fluent Hebrew. Not only that, but he addressed him with "You, Rabbi so&so (using his full name and surname), son of Rabbi that&that (quoting his father's names) ... and went on to give him a very detailed message that he needed to hear then. After the message was delivered, he turned around and thanked the man in Hebrew, wanting to know how he knew his and his father's names, only to find out that the man did not know his and his father's names, and could not speak one word in Hebrew, he said he was just "praying in tongues".
During 1974, long before cellphones were known in our country(South Africa) I was suddenly, late one afternoon, compelled by the Holy Spirit, to pray urgently; I immediately went down on my knees but found that I could not pray in my mother tongue, since a strong anointing of the Holy Spirit came over me, and for about 15 minutes I was glued to my knees while the unknown language just rolled over my lips. I was sufficiently educated in these matters (having been baptised in the Holy Spirit 15 years prior to this experience) to know that the Bible teaches that sometimes the Holy Spirit intercedes for us (through our prayers) and that He prays according to the perfect will of the Father, so I did not hold back, I just let it flow. About 15 minutes later it stopped abruptly and I could rise and joined my wife at the supper table. The next day we visited a very dear spiritual brother of mine, and we barely sat down, when he related to me the near-death experience he had the previous afternoon, a struggle for life when a small piece of bone he swallowed inadvertently during his meal, got stuck in his throat, causing his air pipe to choke. His wife could not get it out, and as it was after hours, she rushed him to the medical doctor's residence in the small mining town where they lived. There was no one home so she rushed him to the hospital about 3 km (about 1.85 miles) away. He said at that time he had to steady himself against the walls of the hospital passage, in order to stay on his feet,since he was beginning to lose consciousness. His wife shouted down the passage: "The doctor!!! Please, we need the doctor urgently!!!" and a nurse replied: "Madame, doctor is off duty, he's not here". Realising that God is now their only hope, she put her one hand on his shoulder (NB, she did not slap him behind his back) and called with a mixture of desperation and authority: "In Jesus' Name!!!" and the needle-sharp points of the piece of bone lost their grip, and the bone popped out of his throat like a marble that was spat out. When we compared "notes" we found that the time when his ordeal started and ended, checked 100% with the times that I was instructed to pray, and when I suddenly felt relief and stopped praying.
Often I spend long periods of time praying in tongues, feeling spiritually uplifted and I am convinced that is what Paul referred to in his letter to the Corinthians: after teaching them how they should apply the gifts of tongues and interpretation in an orderly manner during their services, he said "I thank God that I pray more in tongues than any of you". I am confident that he did no boast about being used by the Spirit in the services more than anyone else, he was referring to long periods of praying in tongues during his private prayer time. I am not the only one in modern times who experience spiritual upliftment when praying in tongues, I've heard many testimonies in that regard. It is a powerful "tool" (with all due respect) available to us, and we will be depriving ourselves from many blessings if we say to God "No thank you Sir, I don't understand it and I don't think it is necessary for today" (as if we know better than the Holy Spirit Who wants to help us overcome).
Thank you so much, Assie for this testimony!!! PRAISE THE LORD!!! This is how it should be. I see it operating in this way in Ukraine when I spend extended periods there. It can happen this way anywhere that we put aside doctrines of men and surrender ourselves to the Spirit of God for the glory of His Son, Jesus Christ.
I want to invite you to check out the more than 50 original worship songs on my site: The Rooted Word (therootedword.com) and the LORD bless you with edification in the Holy Spirit through them.
Dear Assie, may I make reference to your testimony's content written here when I preach? I would be so excited to use this for the glory of God when I preach on the Holy Spirit. Thank you so much.
@@TheRootedWord You are most welcome Craig. By the way, if you haven't read the book by John Sherrill "They speak with other Tongues" yet, do yourself the favour. I see it is available at Amazon. He was a sceptic journalist who was contracted by a consortium of news papers way back in the 1970's to investigate and expose this "phenomenon". His research was excellent and contains some lovely case histories.
@@TheRootedWord Only with pleasure, knowing that it is for the glory of God alone!
Assie Van der Westhuizen (Phd-Geology)
Republic of South Africa.
assievanderwesthuizen@gmail.com
@@assievanderwesthuizen6314 Thank you Assie. It is always good to have this kind of a resource on hand. You should go to my website on a new translation of the Scriptures and 50+ new Worship Songs (audio+lyrics+chords). therootedword.com and you are welcome to write me direct at ron.craig@therootedword.com It would be nice to connect.
I met an old Christian lady during a mission trip, who was raised and lived in a farm in Mexico all her life. Her and her family had very little education and only knew how to speak Spanish. She also didn't know how to read in English or Spanish. I heard her one night praying in her room in perfect English with no accent. He prayer moved me because it was all directed to God in praises and thanksgiving. I asked her later how she learned to speak English so well. She said she never learned..her prayer in English was her prayer language to God.
BeginningAndLast 7 I knew a man who was a church leader in Pakistan and at one time strongly argued for the cessationist view. He spoke several languages fluently, and was surprised one day at a church meeting to hear two uneducated women praising God in fluent Arabic. He understood them perfectly, but when he asked them how they knew Arabic, they replied that they were speaking in tongues. This changed his view on tongues and he became an advocate for the gifts of the Holy Spirit. He was a godly man and a humble servant of the Lord.
How could you possibly pray in a language you don't understand? Makes zero sense, how do you know what your saying is good or bad? You just "assume" it is holy? Doesn't sound very wise to me.
Nina Stone this are called tongues for a sign for unbelievers. But the tongue to be used in public that needs interpretation is not for the unsaved but for the believers coz u know..
Nina Stone there are different kinds of tongue my tongue is a prayer language i don't understand what i am praying and no one does too only God does..
YuGiOhDuelChannel it is in the bible my friend that those who speak in tongues or pray tongues don't really understand what they are saying because if they do then they are not speaking in tongues at all but just praying in the language they have known no supernatural happening at all. And by faith also that's why we don't doubt because doubt is not from God and so is fear. God said in His word if we ask for a fish will He give us a serpent? If we ask something from God He can be trusted to give us Good because He is faithful for who He is. Godbless you in Jesus name amen.
The problem is people put limitations on God
NO GOD SETS HIS OWN.
No, the problem is that people don't understand scripture. Verse grabbing, and not reading in CONTEXT = 2chapters before, 3 chapters after.. the whole book. They verse grab and attribute their own 'open-ended' definition to a single verse.. this is a very dangerous game, specially when it comes to attributing things that are NOT from the Holy Ghost to the Holy Ghost.
@Jesus Loves You There is only one God
Isaiah 48:3-5. ' I have even from the beginning declared it to thee, before it came to pass I shewed it to thee.lest thou should say mine idol hath done them '.In other words God shows he is the true God by the thousands of detailed prophecies which have come true.
Eric Brock No, the problem is some Christians ADD to whatever then want and then stand behind the statement: “Don’t limit God.” God follows His own word.
They have the wrong view of God. We need a BIG God view and little man view. Man always forgets that God is God and we are not. He is not human but we try to make Him human in our fallen thinking.
You’ve come too late to tell me speaking in tongues is not around today. I grew up around it from six years old, always went to church but never did it myself. After I was married, at 38 years old, I was praying alone in my house while my wife was out with family. I wasn’t seeking the infilling of the Holy Spirit. Rather, I was praising God after hearing the denial of the existence of God on Public Radio. I felt such remorse for hearing people trying to explain away his creation of all things with the lie of evolution. As I worshipped him with everything I had I began speaking in a language I didn’t know. It went on for some time and even as I was speaking, my mind was amazed as I could think detached from the words I was saying. I thought, “How amazing. Is this really happening? This is the infilling of the Holy Spirit!” After that night, I have done it many times. It makes me feel so clean and relieves my worries and fears. Please don’t discount it or fear it. Speaking in tongues is one of God’s greatest gifts and should be sought and experienced by every Christian.
Wow powerful
Amen!
Talk about this all the time. It’s a language; an actual language like in Acts as Pastor Washer mentioned. I’m 200% agreement on this!
Paul Washer's interpretation really seems to provide clarity for me. Now, I'm willing to be proven wrong. But I have a Pentecostal a background and yet, lately, I'm trying to think as Biblically about this issue as possible. Recently, I've been listening to the Strange Fire conference on the GTY UA-cam channel. It's been quite a paradigm shift, because it's compelled me to reassess many things that I've just accepted. For example, I'm at somewhat of a loss as to how I should approach people whom I know are truly God-fearing Christians, but purport to speak in tongues in a way that no longer seems Biblical. What response do you typically get from people who dearly treasure the modern Charismatic version of tongues?
@@ethanhocking8229 i will reason with you.
1. Paul Washer believes tongues are a language that already existed and spoken by humans. He implies that tongues are a means to reach out to a people speaking a strange language. But no where in the bible was tongue ever used to preach the gospel.
People like Paul Washer and Macarthur use Acts chapter 2 incident of the filling of the Holy Spirit to prove that tongues are a human language. They are clearly misinterpreting the scripture. But let us reason about this. The scripture in acts 2:6 says "Everyone heard them speak in his own language" and later in the following verses, the language they heard them speak were given.
First mistake is to assume tongues is a “gift of languages” or “foreign languages” since in Acts 2 those who heard “them (plural)” speaking in their language heard all of those speaking in tongues in their own language. Acts does not say the believers from the upper room came out speaking a variety of human languages that they did not know. It says they spoke in “other” (heteros - another not of the same nature or class) languages as the Spirit enabled them. The miracle was in the fact that each member of the crowd heard it in their own personal dialect. They did not hear one or two speaking their homeland dialect, they heard “them all” speaking their own dialect. The result was the crowd said, “What does this mean?” (2:12)
*2:6 “each one heard them speaking in his own language”*
*2:8, “Then how is it that each of us hears them (“ekastos”) in his own native language”*
*2:11**, “we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues.”*
There were around 120 people gathered in the place( Acts 1:15). Imagine if all of them spoke in different human language, it would be very confusing to follow them to understand what each one is saying. There is no way for anyone around them to understand what they were saying.
2. There are two types of tongues: one that serves as a sign and benifits the unbelievers and one that unbelievers think is stupid. Is this scripture based? We will find out.
1 Cor 14:22 says tongues are a *sign* for the unbelievers. But in verse, 23 it says, if unbelievers hear us speak in tongues, they will think we are out of our mind. How is this being a sign for the unblievers. If the unbelievers think we are some crazy people, how will that make them believe in God? Then, is Paul contradicting himself? No. If someone speaks in public tongues( it comes either with interpretation or a foreign language ), it serves the purpose of being a sign for the unbelievers. In the case of unbelievers, it would be a foreign language or their local dialect.
But if a person speaks in private tongues, the one mentioned in 1 Cor 14:2, then no one is going to understand him. The unbelievers will think he is out of his mind.
I can keep on going. But i am late. I have to go to church. I hope you read my comment and respond me in kind. We can reason our differences. God bless
Kal El Okay. I appreciate your respectful tone, since I don’t always get that from people. So thank you.
I don’t think you’re being altogether clear in what you’re saying about Acts 2. Were they speaking real languages, or not? Could the people understand them, or not? Are you trying suggest that all the foreigners there were given the gift of interpretation of tongues? If so, such a thing is not made clear in the text. The natural reading makes it clear that the foreign Jews there could each identify their own language being spoken. In fact, the text records them saying “we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.” (Acts 2:11 NASB) Also, the text says that the disciples were speaking other tongues (plural): “And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.” Acts 2:4 NASB) The Greek word for ‘tongues’ in this passage is ‘glossa’ which literally means ‘languages’. What could possibly be clearer than that?
So to me, that’s very clear. I mean no offence in saying this, but spinning a text differently does not change what it means. It’s not the natural reading that follows. Just because you can reexplain something, doesn’t mean you are correct.
As for 1 Corinthians 14, Pentecostals have misread it. I know this because I used to read it that way myself. The passage actually affirms the traditional understanding of Acts 2. “In the Law it is written, “BY MEN OF STRANGE TONGUES AND BY THE LIPS OF STRANGERS I WILL SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE, AND EVEN SO THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME,” says the Lord. So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.” (1 Corinthians 14:21 - 14:22 NASB)
So we see that the message was to the Jews to say that the Gospel was being made available to Gentiles who spoke foreign languages and therefore they, as the Jews, were going be missing out on what was originally intended for them. When they saw this sign taking place in Jerusalem, they should have gone to the Scriptures to find the meaning of the event. Finally, it would make no sense if the disciples were merely speaking gibberish and the Holy Spirit was somehow making it understandable to those outside. Why not just have them speaking ordinary Aramaic and then make it understandable to foreigners, if that’s what you’re trying to say?
@@ethanhocking8229 i am sorry for not articulating out my earlier arguments for speaking in tongues in such a way you could understand. I was in a hurry to type before leaving for church. Besides that i am not a native english speaker.
Well, i will take my time to write them again in a better way and i will also respond to your argumemts. I will make it short as much as possible so that both of our time will be consumed less.
1. On the day of pentecost, after the disciples of Jesus were filled with the Holy Spirit, they spoke in tongues(or "glossa" in greek word). People around them coming from different nations heard them speak in their own dialects. The interesting part is, these people from different nations heard all of them and not two or three of them speaking in their own languages. That was the miracle. If each of the disciples were speaking different foreign languages, no one there would have been able to understand them. Because there were around 120 of them gathered( Acts 1:15). If all the 120 spoke different foreign language like you are assuming, it would be an indecipherable noise.
In a simple way, the disciples filled with the Holy Spirit spoke in tongues at one time. And all people around them from different nations heard them speak in their own languages at the same time. This means the Holy Spirit was actually involved in making the listeners receive the tongues in their own languages.
Also, the greek word for tongues ia glossa. But glossa is not just confined to human languages.
In 1 Cor 13:1 apostle Paul wrote " Though i speak with tongues of men and of angel". The word "tongues" in the scripture is the same greek word glossa. Paul used the word glossa to kind of define angelic language in this verse. This proves that glossa applies both to earthly langauge as well as heavenly language. So arguments like glossa is human language that already existed is wrong.
Next, you said "it would make no sense if the disciples were merely speaking gibberish and the Holy Spirit was somehow making it understandable to those outside". Of course, its a miracle and it will never make sense. I mean every miracles done by Jesus in the gospel didnt make sense. They are extraordinary and supernatural.
2. (Well, need to leave for dinner. I will be back to explain it. Btw pray for me to be able to articulate my ideas efficiently. God bless you.)
Kal El Let me just pose a few questions:
Why doesn’t the Bible say that they were speaking Greek? Why does it say that they spoke with other tongues?
Did you know that virtually everyone at that time spoke Greek anyway? Greek was the common language of the Roman Empire and a large part of Asia at that time. So it would not have been a miracle if they had only been speaking Greek.
Are you assuming that it is impossible to hear someone shouting something out in a crowd if you are standing close enough?
Do you realise that Paul was probably using a hyperbole in 1 Corinthians 13:1?
Who says miracles don’t make sense? Do you think they are arbitrary and have no specific purpose?
I really advise listening to the Strange Fire conference on UA-cam if you have not already done so. It cleared a lot of things up for me.
Jesus saved me outside of church and I knew not what had happened to me. It was a mystery. I found it in the Bible that I'd been born again. Then He baptized me in the Holy Spirit and gave me the gift of tongues and others. Again I had to find it in the Bible not understanding what it was. That was 40 years ago. One of the words I often said was"yeshua". I would pronounce it emphasized like "YESH-ua" with the yesh being emphasized. We'd been married 14 years and doctors said we could not have children. Jesus promised us a son however and I was praying in tongues one day and He gave the interpretation saying my wife was pregnant. She was. She put our sons name in a baby book and he was born eight and a half months later. He's 36 now, a man of God. Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever. Never never let religion tell you what God doesn't do anymore. He's unchangeable.
Frank Jennings praise God.awesome testimony.Its great to see our fellow brethren with heavenly gifts.Praise the Lord Jesus Christ.Amen
Frank Jennings. Wonderful testimony. Very encouraging.
Loved hearing this!
Thank you Frank. I am asking for the gift diligently, but I am having trouble receiving it.
You have created a logical fallacy. Scripture says "Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday - today - and forever". Jesus is always the same. You have changed the meaning into, "Jesus will always do the same things in the same way forever". Even a brief look at the Bible shows this to be false. For example, Hebrews 9-28 says, "so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him." The first time Jesus died for sin. When he comes again it will be to judge. Using your theology, we would conclude, "since Jesus never changes - when he comes he has to die again". This is obviously false. God is unchanging - but what he does often changes. Once God ruled his kingdom through the headship of one man, Adam - then he ruled through judges - then later he ruled through kings - then later through the Gentile powers of Babylon. Who God IS never changes. What God DOES often changes.
This is the problem with today's church to much separation. The Bible is truth you either believe all of the Bible or none!!! Can't choose to believe what you choose to pick. May Jesus speak to us all and bring unity in Jesus name amen!!
Amen
Amen
Do you have any clothing that is a blend of fabric - like a poly-cotton blend? Duet 22:11 prohibits this. Do you believe all of the Bible or none?
@@deancamp4914 the thing is that you have to look things in context. The covenant that God made with Israel is not the same that He made with the whole world. If you are interested i can share more, if not then have fun.
Ramis Zinal My point was meant to emphasize that very thing to Mr Simms. Every verse is not to be universally applied in the church era.
I was singing and praising The Lord alone at work in 2006 , suddenly my heart was so overflowed because Tha Holy Spirit was there , that I started saying things I can not understand. It happens when I praise and pray and God wants to.
Not to be yelling at churches and showing off but between you and God. Peace !!!
One more thing very important :
Your salvation doesnt depend on speaking tongues. It depends on your repentance and accept Lord Jesus as your saviour and Lord and forsake sins ( praying and fighting ) to be close to God.
You were saying gibberish
Hey @skylark1z, you should stay more in that presence! Be filled with His presence. God bless you!
Don’t speak out of ignorance. You will give an account for every careless word you say
It is jibberase ,satanic based wake up fool
That is not the gospel my friend. The Bible says to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved ! No where does it say that daily repentance saves. That is discipleship, not salvation. Daily repentance & confession comes after being saved (born again). Salvation doesn’t depend upon your performance/works but the finished work of Christ. There’s 2 types of repentance: the one when a sinner repents (turn away from) unbelief and then the daily repentance (turning away from sin)that comes after being saved . Once you’re saved it’s a done deal(literally). You were bought ! You’re a slave to Christ whether you like it or not. If you were to walk away He’ll pursue you . There’s no running away from the Lord lol.
I have always liked Paul Washer, this is one of those instances. I agree with him. However, a missionary friend of mine was given tongues as a missionary in a mountaintop unreached people group. He was conversing with the tribal leader and they were both speaking , but hearing each other in their own language. The community accepted Christ that day. Tongues/Languages do occur among those God is using for the spreading of the Gospel. Beyond that, I have serious doubt.
I think that this is the true use of tongues! I think that the whole babbling tongues is what he was replying to. Because in the Charismatic Movement most people refer to babbling and whatnot. I think that that kind of tongues isn’t true or prevalent. But I think for sure that God can use actual language tongues especially in missionary work!
That’s what Paul washer was saying
+ Romans 10:9-10 "That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The man in Luke 16:24 cries: ". . .I am tormented in this FLAME."
In Matthew 13:42, Jesus says: "And shall cast them into a FURNACE OF FIRE: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."
In Matthew 25:41, Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting FIRE,. . ."
Revelation 20:15 says, " And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the LAKE OF FIRE." And please repent of all of your sins and be baptized by the Holy Spirit before it is too late, you will never know when the time will come 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amen 🙏!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow!!!!!
@BereanJenn The Bible tells there are tongues for personal benefits and community benefits when translated in the assembly. Sometimes its just few words or word repeating, sometimes proper language. We are told its a sign for unbelievers as well. Its not demonic, I asked God for a gift, not demons.
As a matter of full disclosure, I speak in tongues. First, let me say that I appreciated the non-hostile tone of the presentation. Too many Christians lack the decorum to allow for a loving dialogue. Second, let me point out one issue I had with the comment regarding tongues being a human language. 1Corinthians 14:2 refutes that often used argument against present-day tongues. It is clearly not a "missionary language tool." The Apostle Paul is quite clear "For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit." Another verse within the same chapter, verse 14 tells us that tongues is not just for use in the congregation, but is also useful in a believer's prayer life. Going back to verse 4, Paul reminds us that speaking in tongues can build up the beiever.
Thank you for that...I start to doubt sometimes and I've had my prayer language for 40 yrs!
@Bourne Root There IS only One Spirit! 🤔
Stephen Ruckel
Amen!
Has no place In a congregation without an interpreter that is very clear fr om the word of God. Yet alot do it and I have never once seen someone interpret.
I can pray in tongues. l build myself up praying in tongues. While l did evangelism work in Spain l met a Finnish guy whom l spoke Finnish with for an hour. l read to him out of a Finnish Gospel of John. He grabbed the Finnish Gospel, opened to a page, asked me questions, l answered, in Finnish, he listened, nodded his head slowly, asked another question and l gave him another answer. Twice he burst out laughing as the Holy Spirit must have said something very funny to him. Twice he looked away from me, shocked, as he sank down in his chair, looking as if l had addressed the deepest secrets of his heart. At the end of an hour he stood up, shook my hand, said to me in ENGLISH!!!, ''Best sermon l ever heard.'' Witnessed by half a dozen other believers.
Yes, Mr Washer. Tongues for prayer and tongues for preaching are still here today. lt was after praying IN tongues that l entered into the flow of SPEAKING to someone in HIS TONGUE.
The Holy Spirit is wonderful. Today.
By the way, for the whole hour we spoke, l did not understand a single word he said to me. l did not understand what l read to him. l did not understand his questions or responses. And l had no idea what l said to him. We had a real dialogue! lnside l was screaming, saying, ''lf only you KNEW who is talking to you!!!''
l had asked God to give me Finnish to speak to him. He did. But nothing happened until l opened my mouth and started speaking. Faith simply has to take action. I can assure you, it takes faith to speak in other tongues!
Yeah right, bro.
way Farer same thing has happened to what I have witnessed! It really is a missionary tool and God is not boxed based on what we know but based on how He will let the Holy Spirit move and glow, He is not contained by our limitations! And He can do the best He can to save the lost! He is just so amazingggggggg!
way Farer biblical references for nonsense babbling tounges???? I would LOOOVE to know
way Farer you cannot pray in tounges that would mean you can preach the gospel in your ACTUAL language and that someone who does not speak that language would hear thier own language and understand you READ ACTS MY FRIEND. UTTERING NONSENSE AND CLAIMING IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TRUE BLASPHEMY OF THE PRECIOUS HOLY SPIRIT. THE UNPARDONABLE SIN!! THE CREATOR IS NOT The AUTHOR OF CONFUSION AND NONSENSE!!!!
Paul washer is a passionate man of God. However, this is where we deviate and because of his training and I know that tongues is for today! there’s definitely a difference between Christians who are baptized in the Holy Spirit and speaks in tongues and those who do not! Speaking in tongues has revolutionized my prayer life and opened my eyes to the supernatural way of the Holy Spirit to the glory of Jesus Christ my blessed Saviour!
Amen!
Whenever you hear this question, you know for sure that whoever is asking it does not speak in tongues.
Mmm..can it be also that the person asking is interested of speaking in tongues?
If only more people that "spoke" it tested it
Such a terrible argument. If I said, "you can't comment on Mormonism - unless you are a Mormon" - would you agree? I hope not. I can examine any issue from the Word of God - whether or not I have experienced it. Experience is not the authority - the Scriptures are. I have never died - but I can tell you what the Scriptures say about death. I have never been a mother - but I can tell you what the Bible says about being a mother.
"You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men". Mark 7,8
I asked this same question after “speaking in tongues / glossolalia“ for more than 20 years. Then I read my Bible, studied everything in it about tongues and their manifestations and came to the exact same conclusion Paul Washer has done in this clip.
@@Foodie.Mommie Did you study the prophecy of Isaiah 28 .the prophecy about tongues . It says it will be a sign for those leaders in Jerusalem .He is talking about Jews AND SAYS IT IS A SIGN TO THEM . .This is what Paul is quoting in 1Cor. 14 :19 to 21.
As a born again Christian I grew up in a Church that taught that the gift of speaking in tongues had ceased...At that time, I believed that to be true. But, almost 20 years ago I desired to surrender my life more completely to Jesus Christ, and much to my amazement I received the gift of tongues. The tongues I speak are phonetically distinct, individual languages with different intonations, and accents etc....They sound like languages from all over the world!...Definitely not gibberish!! Sometimes tongues can be faked, but no one can convince me that this gift is not very real today! It can sometimes feel very lonely to have a spiritual gift that is so misunderstood, and causes so much fear and confusion within the Body of Christ. My prayer is that God would reveal His Truth to all Believers. God Bless!
Amen and amen. If spoken in truth and with an open heart, this gift can be a powerful spiritual channel between the speaker and the Lord. I have, however, been witness to almost 'rap battles' when people are audibly trying to out do each other and witness to people seeking the limelight in faking this gift. Sad really. I pray in the name of Jesus Christ that your gift continues to bless and to grow, that you expose those who fake it and turn them and attune them to a truer manifestation of God's gifting, equipping and power. Amen.
Thank you, Michael Robert Jackson! Your words and prayer have blessed and encouraged me more than you can know! May the Lord greatly bless and encourage you, as well!
So very true!! Thank you, omnicopy!
SUPERJ they sounds like real language? Or they are real languages and if so what is proving you that? A gift without reasons to be there???
Michel Yes, they sound like real languages...I don't have any other proof other than they sound like different languages from around the world...Such as, French, Chinese, Spanish, German, etc. including dialects that I've never heard before...Some of them even sound tribal? I don't believe God would give a gift without a reason...The best reason I can give, is that given the opportunity God may use this gift to share the Gospel with a person, or people who speak another language. Also, privately praying in tongues spiritually edifies a person while drawing them closer to God.
As a young girl seeking God earnestly with tears and hunger I began to speak in tongues. To say that it is not for today is not true. There was a distinct time in my life of profound stress. I had prayed for weeks and the weight was still there. Then one night I started praying in tongues, I don't know what I said but immediately the weight lifted. How tragic that this gift from God is not encouraged in all Christian churches.
ApostolicMom praise the lord.Tongues are the precious gift from God.If we need and ask God that gift will be granted.Tongues are true.I speak and i understand it.Praise Jesus Amen
KY Chan
You did not ask me but i will answer you. Have you ever seen the documentaries about the tribe in Africa whose whole language is just clicking sounds they make with their mouth? There are ancient civilizations that are gone with out a trace. Who is to say that what they spoke did not sound like jiberish? Paul said in 1 Cor 13:1 though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels.... It is not always an earthly language and once you have it God would not deliver you from it. Satan comes to steal kill and destroy. Just do this. Ask God to forgive you if you have been wrong. Then ask God this. "If the baptism of the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues is from God then let you have it".
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How can we have videos of Satanists cutting themselves on our channel and claim to be in the body of Christ?
“For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.”
I Corinthians 14:2 NKJV
In pentecostal churches where the tongues are every believer's tea cup, they divide believers in 2 categories: those fulfilled by the spirit of which the tongues is the only sign of and then the rest. So there are 2 classes of believers there. As no one wants to be a be a b-class believer unbaptized by the spirit, they start to mimick speaking tongues. Then any kind of mumbling gibberish goes for a tongue for you are speaking mysteries in the spirit.
Timo Saksala I agree I think there are 2 extremes on this subject. They should both read 1 Corinthians 14 and pray for understanding. What Paul Washer taught here is false Paul the apostle teaches so. He also teaches how true tongues are. He gives an order to it talks about translation and who is being edified by it. Also tongues are a specific gift not a requirement. Everyone has their own gift. All we
Need to know about tongues is in chapter 14 and it’s not confusing people should stop adding and subtracting from Gods word!
I don't Think so Amen
True, however, what most congregations now practice is not correct. Tongues having to be interpreted if it's in church; which most don't do... If you're praying at home alone in tongues then fine...
Consider what someone who's not from the church will think when they witness the madness of today's church... Some even have false doctrines on tongues being a sign of your having the holy spirit - it's a gift.
EL-Nino Spanish Raging Bull Amen!
All of the gifts if the spirit are for today , but you MUST be born again !
Indeed
I speak in tongues. Often, I am overcome with the need to speak in tongues, as if I'm praying for some urgent need.
tongues is a wonderful gift of God.The bible says no one understands it ,in the Spirit we speak mysteries.Not because some people speak gibberish that means the real gift does not exist.I have a hard time when people who have not yet experienced it,judge others or have a strong opinion about it.Be humble and keep trudting God that one day you may enjoy the real thing.
Amen Tsunami Dream, I am the same
Kenneth Thijm And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? And how is it that we hear, each in our own language in which we were born? Parthians and Medes and Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya adjoining Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs-we hear them speaking in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.” So they were all amazed and perplexed, saying to one another, “Whatever could this mean?” Others mocking said, “They are full of new wine.”
Acts 2:5-13 NKJV
bible.com/bible/114/act.2.5-13.NKJV
Other ppl understood what they were saying cause they were speaking in known launguages that exsist
I agree
I received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost when I was 13 yrs old, I'm now 64... I still have it today. The unknown tongue is our prayer language that satan can't interpret. The world didn't give this to me and the world can't take it away.
Von D Are you saying that satan can interpret our prayers? what if we pray silently in English or Italian or whatever? Can satan interpret that? And if he can who cares. I think you give him more power than he deserves. we should just keep our hearts and eyes on Jesus and then we need not worry about the enemy
+LandApple. thank you. i needed to understand that. God bless you.
LandApple Have you ever read the book of Daniel?
Von D wow God bless. so true
Satan has no power except that which God Himself allows! When you say you make up this hocus pocus language of gibberish that apparently only God can understand is non biblical and you are living in fear of Satan and not in reverence fear of the one who has all power which is God.
Satan needs permission from God because he has no power
I do believe the Gifts of the Holy Spirit have not ceased the church is the same from the book of Acts people don’t fast don’t pray don’t stay away from sin how are we going to see the supernatural power when we don’t do what it takes to see his glory
So when did you last take a Nazarite vow like Paul?
@@deancamp4914 Paul shaved his head, I don't remember him taking that vow, wasn't that Samson? The point I'm making is that one of the tenets says you're not supposed to cut your hair.
@@trivellekoolaidrian6921 Paul shaved his head because the Nazarite vow he took had concluded. It's in the book of Acts. Your post seems to imply that we should imitate everything that believers did in the book of Acts. If that's true, why don't you take Nazarite vows like Paul did?
some have and some continue ,you need to read carefully.
Missing out on so much my friend. Love Paul Washer, but he’s missing out. The apostle Paul said “I speak in tongues more than you all!”
continue with that verse
@@NoahBuie at gets better if he continues
Yes he did. And then they ceased. What was your point?
@@chicagogal where in the verse did they ceased 🤣
@@fj3571 maybe read the Bible just once
Love the honest sounding comments, but still this speaker misses key texts such as 1 Cor 14:2. Tongues is a language spoken to God, not men. Or 1 Cor 14:14, my spirit prays but my mind does not understand.
Its only spoken to man when it is interpreted
@Labu Ex. Yes the cessationist mindset is a carnal minded stance.
It calculates logically from gathered knowledge of the mind
And therefore misses the spirit of things.
I pray they will all become born of the spirit and then enter in to the promises
Labu Ex
Your not understanding the 1st Cor. 14:13-17 i'm reading. Paul is clear that uninterpreted tongues is unfruitful. He preys with understanding aka his native tongue not an unknown language. Verse 16 clearly says if some guy spews a bunch of gibber and others amen nothing understood, no one is edified. This isn't the HOLY SPIRT speaking that I know and love. Nothing HE does goes out and not return profitable. Only the liars on TV stuff their pockets after spewing their satanic rubbish.
Mike f
What a popous unbibical statement to make. You think the only gift of the spirit is spewing out loud for all to see. You're full if something and it is not the HOLY SPIRIT nor the WORD of GOD. There is also gifts given to some and not others outside of the gibber you confess to. You pray to yourself but the one who prophesy edifies the church. You base your faith on feelings and seeing, how blessed are the ones who don't see but still believe, Jn. 20:29. You count them out.
@@rickhuntling7338 your quite incorrect.. He only says his understanding is unfruitful.
..nice try though.
But its just twisting the words to try and make it seem like the cessationist teaching is right.
Cessationists need to be honest, we get it.
You Don't believe.
Its called Unbelief.
It needs to be repented of.
Wow, you are a wise man Paul. I believe the Lord will reveal many great things to you. God Bless.
Paul is not looking for new revelation - he's studying what God has revealed.
Speaking in tongues is a precious gift from God!
Amen!
Amen! Unfortunately you do not possess it.
Amen!
Sais the prophet...@@Brother_Timothy_Harvey
@@Brother_Timothy_Harvey you may know what you do and do not possess but you can’t know what someone else possesses. You can have an opinion though.
I am a Cessationist. No problem. I have a Savior, a Mediator & LORD, the Holy Spirit, a Heavenly Father, the Holy Scriptures. I lack nothing!!!
there is more my brother, you are just satisfied stopping short.
@@cmmrris1 What is he missing? Biblical references, please.
It is rare to find any clarity on the topic of Biblical "tongues" found in the N.T.
There seems to be huge resistance for most leadership to read the Bible and just teach what is found there.
Let's start with a quote from Paul the Apostle; " I speak in tongues more than you all." evidently the implication is 1)Paul spoke in "tongues", 2) he could have spoken in"tongues" in public and private, 3) Paul gave specific teaching on how to handle each instance. For more detail just read the Bible.
When I went forward to receive the gift of tongues, I felt because of my own church's teaching that tongues ceased, or worse, were "the devil's babbling that will have you unknowingly curse God", I was very apprehensive. As I went forward, I specifically prayed "God, if this isn't of You, I don't wish to receive it. If it's your will, I gladly will." The lady who prayed for me first prayed against any interference by the devil. Then told me as she prayed for me, to just thank & praise God aloud for all He's done for me. It was a calm, quiet time of prayer...I thought how embarrassed the lady and my son who accompanied me would be when nothing happened: but all of a sudden a torrent of words came from my mouth, and no one more surprised than me. From that time I wanted more of the Word, to praise God more...it certainly wasn't of the devil. And as I said, I asked God to protect me from false teaching.
Very nice comment.
The Holy Ghost and tongues are real. There is alot of false practices from the devil are out there also.
I hate to say!! Most people who speak negatively towards other tongues do not operate in the gift.
@@list3723. You are right.
@@list3723 That's true. The Holy Spirit limits them to the gift.
He who speaks in a tongue doesn't speak to man but to God for in the spirit he speaks mysteries
Which Paul says is useless.
I wished he would give a plain and simple answer instead of over 7 minutes ambiguity.
He doesn't know so he can't explain it.
Apostle Paul said in 1Cor.14
- He who speaks in tongues (prayer in tongues) speaks not to men but to GOD for no-one understands him. "However in the spirit he speaks mysteries". (1Cor.14:2)
- Paul said that he who speaks (prays) in tongues edifies (builds up) himself and he who prophecies builds up the church! (1 cor.14:4). AMEN!
- He also said he wishes that "you all" would speak in tongues, but even more that all of them would prophecy.(1Cor.14:5)
- He also said that in praying in tongues the spirit of a man prayes indeed (he thanks well!) but his understanding is fruitless. (1Cor.14:14)
- He said he prayes & sings with the spirit but also prays and sings with the understanding. Here is two types of prayer and singing. (1Cor. 14:15)
- And Paul said he thanks God he speaks with tongues "more than all of you."! How much is that! And in the context this seems to mean his PRIVATE PRAYER LIFE, not the church meetings. (1Cor.14:18-19)
absolutely correct. Remember that Paul washer is southern baptist, they dont teach a lot on the Holy Spirit or 1st century apostolic ministries which are still here. Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever. Look at Smith Wigglesworth big time pentacostal preacher, nothing fake about that guy. I like Paul Washer but disagree with this
kingjesuscomes Amen.Selah
Kim Westwood Paul has yet to be baptized with the FIRE prophecies by John Baptist,,Luke 3:16,,,
Many baptist don't even believe their own prophet JOHN BAPTIST,,,
That fire happens to be the baptism of the Holy Ghost ,,the very thing they say is heresy,,,
Kim Westwood that is why Peter said Acts 2:38 salvation is for ALL in Acts 2:39,,,,,
The devil fights this point tooth and nail because THIS is what PUTS YOU INTO the eternal kingdom INITIALLY,,,its What Jesus taught in John 3....
GOD PLEASE WAKE UP THE LOST HERE,,, THEY ARE LOST AND THEY DONT EVEN KNOW IT,,,,,,,,
You can not get much clear than what Apostle Paul said below.
1 Corinthians 14:2 (NKJV)
For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
WRONG ,FIRST HE POINTS OUT WHAT THEY WERE DOING V2. THEN HE CORRECTS THEM .SAYING UNDERSTAND .,UNDERSTAND, IN UNDERSTANDING BE MEN.FOR HALF THE CHAPTER.
@@wendymitchell8245 No, he's right. You're need to scream shows he has offended you with truth.
Wendy Mitchell Thats a lie. Paul goes on to say “I wish you all spoke with tongues”
“I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all”
“Do not forbid to speak with tongues”
You’re confused because you don’t understand what Paul is teaching about self edification vs edification for the church. If the unknown tongue is translated it can edify the church if there is no gift of translation the person speaking in tongues should speak only to himself and to God. I recommend asking God for understanding on this and rereading 1 Corinthians 14.
@@wendymitchell8245 If all tongues were the same as in the books of acts at Pentecost then why would there be a need for an interpreter in 1 Corinthians 14: 3For this reason the one who speaks in a tongue should pray that they may interpret what they say. Why would they have to pray to be able to understand what they had just spoken themselves. Some people need to stop insisting they are the brilliant teachers of the word when they can't get to grasp with the basics.
@@enochone8990 CAPITAL ARE NOT SCREAMING ,JUST FASTER. SCREAMING IS SOUND.
Speaking in tongues, prophecying, healing, etc all do still exist today! Be filled with the Holy Spirit people!
The answer is very short, Tongues are for today whether we understand it or not.
That is a short answer. However, it is an assertion and not an argument or explaination.
So, your "answer" may be correct or incorrect.
anini2004 AMEN yes it is for today, as it was when it 1st happened, same as laying on of hands, healing and the list goes on 👍🏻🙏🏻
@@Evan-lx9lw it does not matter how short or if your answer was two pages long. It could still be wrong length dont make an answer correct or incorrect. Fact is the answer is true. We need it read the bible read 1corinthians chapter 14 that's the answer. The short answer is correct.
I agree. God is the same yesterday, today and forevermore. So why wouldn't His gifts remain the same with all His children. Nothing is new under the sun.
I concur...
Paul, the first time I listened to one of your videos I thought about Apollos. You are a good persuader of Christian values. Yes, I speak in tongues. I never tried to speak in tongues. I never speak in tongues to confuse the devil or say the same thing whenever I speak in tongues. If someone asked me to prove it, I would be afraid to attempt to try and do something that I normally do by the utterance of the Holy Spirit. I agree with you. I have seen and heard some strange ideas about speaking in tongues. I'm confused about them also. But, I believe that one day, you, when you least expect it, will begin to speak in tongues!
I grew up to hear my mama and grandma speaking in tongues. They both had the "gift of tongues." I don't understand the videos title. I didn't know there was a "need" for tongues; like an expiration date. I mean, "tongues" aren't fashionable, or mainstream like, "hey, check this out," type thing. Nor is it something to go to college to learn. It's called a "gift" for a reason. You know. You're GIVEN this GIFT by GOD. It's not a talent. Its very REAL and I'd be careful if I were Paul Wash-up, mocking what "he's heard" of talking in tongues.
Brandon strickland Speaking in tongues is a direct communication to God that Satan cannot understand. I grew up in the church hearing people speaking in tongues. I received the baptism of the holy Spirit back in 95 and was giving the gift of tongue. What Paul washer is saying is purely against God. He needs to pray and ask for the baptism of the holy Spirit. He not believing in tongues is not good.
Sir StarScream yes! You're right! My mom lost her gift too when she back slid. When I said "I didn't know tongues had an exasperation date, I was saying (sarcastically) that "I didn't know there was an ERA/ time when talking in tongues were IN, as if to say the "gift" is now outdated like clothes or hairstyles. I'm sorry you lost this very rare blessing. It's good to meet someone who is so honest "and correct" when it comes to something so misunderstood by many, yet so very precious. I sincerely hope you find your gift again.
I can't really say that speaking in tongues or any gifts of the Holy spirit has ceased today. (John 14:12) however as a pentecostal Christian, I don't speak in tongues. I believe if God has given a person the gift of the spirit to speak in tongues, then I won't be in the position to forbid. As for me, I will be careful not to try to fake the gift of the spirit with the ability to speak in tongues if I don't have it.
I feel the same ... I don’t doubt but will not fake tongues ( I’ve prayed to receive them and so far nothing ) I just trust in the lord that either it just hasn’t been my time or not a gift that is for me but I won’t feel any less of a daughter to him.
95% of my Church pray in tounges.
We have had many healings in our church, we had many brothers come to my church and heal people have healed many all because of the Holy Spirit.
Where are you from brother whats your church? God bless
Bull Shit
@@mikareinholm337many church like that here too
God bless you Pastor Washer for you have a genuine heart and all that you do for his Kingdom I get encouraged by your sermons.Thank you.
my story in short. Raised Pentecostal, parents wanted us kids to speak in tongues. We did but we wondered if it was real. We didn't want to fake it and it was a concern. Later in life I attended a evangelical church at night, where no one knew me, if felt freer there to raise my hands and do what ever I felt in worship. It was not my regular church. One night I was there and the worship was strong and I had my hands up and was very open. The minister said the Holy Spirit was there. I really wasn't listening too much. Then I felt a warm wind that almost pushed me back into my seat (I was standing) and speaking in tongues just came out of me, I had control but I didn't want to stop it. From then on I knew it was real I can't deny it. I don't know if it is a phonetic language as I don't understand it, or if it is just a way to get our mind out of the way so the Holy Spirit can pray for us, thru us spiritually, instead of mentally.
It’s been 5 years since this post but I pray you found the truth by now. Everything Paul Washer said makes sense. I also grew up Pentecostal but many of the things they preach/do are not biblical including speaking in tongues. It is another language (not gibberish) and Paul states in the bible that there must be an interpreter. No more than 2-3 at the same time. Follow God’s word not men or denomination.
The Hindus pray exactly the same way in tongues. It’s called the kundalini spirit. Research it. Stick to what is clearly written in the bible about tongues.
January 15, 1961 at 9:15pm. God knocked my socks off and it is as real to me in 2019 as it was then. The Experience puts all the debate to rest instantly.
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In MY NAME shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with NEW TONGUES;
(Mark 16:17).
This is what Jesus said and this is what has been fulfilled in my life for the Glory of Christ.
Domenico - that list was addressed to the APOSTLES called signs of an Apostle 2 Cor. 12:12. There is another list of gifts for the church,it did not include tongues or casting out demons.
@@wendymitchell8245 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which IS PERFECT IS COME, then that which is in PART SHALL BE DONE AWAY.(1 Corinthians 13:8-10). You must be careful not to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit.
@@domenicorettura9720 you do not know what you are talking about ,typical Pentecostal reply . The word translated perfect means complete . That is the complete revelation for the church as it say in Heb. 1. prophecies are in the past. The last messages were from the Apostles who brought Jesus message for the church.You do not understand what blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is .Do not throw around comments like that as a young Christian could find it very worrying.
@@wendymitchell8245 What Spirit are you guided by? : ) You are proof that the church is changing, church that does not believe in the Trinity, believes that woman can be a pastor, church that believes that tongues have ceased ecc... perfection has not yet arrived and your little humility is the proof. At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.
(Matthew 11:25). Stop trusting in man and seriously start believing in the truth. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; (2 Timothy 4:3).
@@domenicorettura9720 did you read what I said the word translated perfect means complete. You are the one following a modern 200 yr old movement that claimed the Apostolic gifts have been restored to to the church, calling it latter day rain . I believe in the Trinity ,it is Pentecostals who have women preachers ,which I do not agree with . Tongues did cease that is an historical fact .
As I have already put on another answer Pentecostals copy each other, and do not study the whole chapter ,just pull out a few verses. ch14 v's 19 to21 are the key. Paul is quoting the prophecy of Isaiah 28 . and says it is a sign. ISAIAH 28 TELLS US IT IS A SIGN TO THE LEADERS IN JERUSALEM THAT IS THE JEWS . The sign at Pentecost was they were speaking to the people in gentile languages and the sign to the Jews was God was speaking in gentile languages not HEBREW. The gospel would be going to the gentiles.
Your quote from Matt applies to Pentecostals they HAVE IN THEIR MOVEMENT ,THOSE OF THE WORD OF FAITH SAYING THEY CAN DO MIRACLES LIKE BRINGING THINGS INTO EXISTANCE . One was stupid enough to go on the T.V. and caste out Covid of course nothing happened .SOME ALSO CLAIM AS SONS OF GOD THEY ARE GODS.
I KNOW that tounges are still for today because my sister spoke tongues and she didn't even notice and I felt the Spirit's presence even stronger as she spoke. And before she did speak tongues, I also spoke in tounges and didn't notice until later that I was told.
Thank you, Paul. At least you are open-minded about the gifts of the Holy Spirit if used right. 1 Cor. 14:39-40. If you read all of chapter 14, you will see that tongues are for the edification of the church, the body, not a language that others must understand, verse 4,5,14,15 and 22. Verse 2 is an excellent one to meditate on. In verse 18, Paul thanks God that he prays in tongues more than any of them. I received the gift of tongues 47 years ago. I use it in my private time when I don't know what to pray. Of course, the word tells us to seek all the gifts, yet, the greatest gift of all is LOVE. 13:13. God bless.
If you don't know what you are saying, then how do you know it is something good?? Paul was saying the Holy Spirit prayed for him, not that Paul himself was praying some "tongue".
FRANK CH.14 V.21 IS THE KEY TO TONGUES IT IS A QUOTE FROM ISAIAH 28 WHICH SAYS IT WILL BE A SIGN FOR JEWS .THE SIGN IS ABOUT LANGUAGE .THE GENTILES HEARING THE WORD OF GOD IN THEIR LANGUAGES.IT MARKS THE START OF THE CHURCH AGE.IT IS A JUDGEMENT ON ISRAEL.
Joyce. Question. If you do know what you are saying how do you know it is something good? Only God determines what is good.
Lalolo patata embobo geemeemu samata?
Sue Kennedy where is your interpreter? To me you are babbling because it is not edifying me the reader and believer.
I used to judge those who speak in tongues but then I went to a church retreat and a church elder specifically prayed that i would speak in tongues. I felt the anointing so strong but I can control my tongue and i can totally understand what I would be saying though it comes out as a different language. Despite this, I remained skeptic so at one time, i prayed to the Holy Spirit to allow me to speak in French, Italian, Chinese and Japanese. He enabled me to speak and that made me realize that the gift is real. All you need to do is ask and pray from the Lord. I still have this gift (expressed in humility and I sometimes speak in tongues when I pray to God). I believe that the Lord gave me this gift for a reason, not just to prove His power, but to serve as a witness that God's same power demonstrated in the early believers is still at work in our generation and even much greater than what their generation had seen.
Shamira Shammy ...the Holy Spirit is the gift we ask from God. Then we naturally speak in an unknown Tongue. What you have is a simple answer to prayer of speaking in known foreign languages, not the Biblical Tongues that comes after receiving the Holy Spirit. This isn't taught crystal clear so a lot of folks pray for the Gift of Tongues, which doesn't exist... the Holy Spirit is the Gift.
Shamira Shammy, very powerful testimony. Those who have not been baptized with the baptism of the Holy Spirit would not understand. In fact, many of them (if not all) can pray in tongues but are skeptical and therefore do not even know they can. Once they open their hearts and trust what God says as He says and do not add human intellect to it, they receive the baptism.
*The scriptures come alive when we receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.*
Baptism of the holy ghost is straight from Jesus Christ.. speaking in tounges is very true!!!
It was true for those it was given to ,and for the reason given . Most Pentecostals copy others and do not know what it is or what it was for. The reason was given by Paul when he quoted Isaiah 28 . Have you studied 1 Cor .14 v.20 -22 .v21 .' In the law it is written .with men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people .'This is a quote from Isaiah 21 .which says the sign is for the unbelieving leaders in Jerusalem . i.e. JEWS. That is why they started at Pentecost and was seen as a sign where Jews were found .This was translated in the churches so others would understand.The sign was God is now speaking in gentile languages not Hebrew as the gospel was going to the other nations ,that is why true tongues ceased as the church became gentile. The Bible says all believers are baptised into the body of Christ by the Holy Spirit. This is the only Baptism mentioned. Anything else is fiction.
@Proverb 23v5 Sorry you lost your mother, it is a hard time to go through.
There are 3 kinds of tongues ,first as I explained the miraculous ability to speak in languages other than Hebrew which was first heard at Pentecost .It was a sign gift and about what it was languages ,it marked the start of the world wide church age . It cannot be understood without reading Isaiah's prophecy .which Paul is quoting. It was translated for the Jews who were listening in the early church .
The second kind is what it has always has been ,and still is practised by pagans. That is an emotional lack of self- control leading to speaking gibberish .This cannot be translated as it is not language . Any expert on forms of language can explain this.,as language has a pattern.If anyone claims to translate gibberish they are making up the message this is false prophecy ,as it is claiming to be a message from God when it is not .
The third kind is a Satanic counterfeit which is also real languages unknown to the speaker,and still can be found among pagans today.This could be translated on your phone , (not gibberish ) A doctor I knew came across Pagan tongues in real languages while working in Africa ,in a trance an uneducated Pagan woman spoke in French and Latin ,which he could understand.When the church prayed for her she stopped .Never go by feelings ,I remember an unconverted Pentecostal telling me, when he left the church and admitted he was not a Christian he continued to speak gibberish 'tongues' when alone .I said if you know it is not real WHY? He said because it felt good he got a' high' from it.
@Proverb 23v5 Sorry, but you don't feel the Holy Spirit.
No so!!
Speaking in tongues means speaking a different language, not speaking gibberish. Not my words, OUR CREATORS WORDS. Learn how to Rightly Dived The Word Of Truth and you will not be fooled by people like Paul Washer. God Bless.
If you ever heard someone speak in tongues and then interpret, when called upon to do so, in a church meeting, and you heard it done correctly, you should never wonder if this "is for today."
We have had Prophecy's in my Church where one person speaks in tounges and another Person translates it.
We have tested these people like the Bible says and they are 100% true.
Most of the people in my church speak in tounges how do i know because when we all pray we all pray at once and sometimes we have prays that are so powerful we get many prophecy's and people with visions.
@@dj-rocketman8545 you all speak gibberish and you know it. Amazing that you have convinced yourself otherwise
@@Timep3 Ask Jesus for forgiveness.
@@dj-rocketman8545 Calling out your nonsense isn’t sinful so I’m good but thanks.
@@Timep3 Making fun of the Holy Spirit is enteral life in hell.
You will never see Grace attacking the Law, but you will always see Law attacking Grace.
Pebbles Rubble I like that! And I might use it, occasionally. Thank you.
@@Carrie.7 You can only take that so far, my friend. Jesus didn't die on the cross because we were under God's grace, but because we were under God's condemnation because of His law. I would agree that Jesus spoke mostly grace to people while on earth, but He did bring a strong word out of love when truth was needed, laying down the law. Too much law will lead you to heresy, however too much grace will get you there much quicker.
Law without grace is cruelty; grace without law leads to every kind of dissension. That is how "Grace" attacks the Law. Those men spoken of by Jude who turn the Grace of God into lasciviousness. True Grace and True Law are one side of the same coin [And I say true Grace because there are 'Grace' that are not so but lasciviousness and true Law because there is 'Law' that is not so but legalism]. Grace and Truth came by Christ Jesus (-and if I may add - wrought their perfection in Him). :-)
Amen! A preacher that is speaking the truth.
When I was on an African crusade when I was 20 (44) two of the girls who lived there in the village got malaria. My friend who was your typical American race car driver had a dream the night after to pray for them. He did and they were immediately healed. He was in shock and has never forgot that. When we go God shows up. I have been in many supernatural situations in my life. God has always been faithful. You can’t dismiss it or you an act like the religious leaders who told Jesus that he cast out devils by the devil and Jesus aid that it was blasphemy.
Apostle Paul -
“If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. Let all things be done decently and in order.”
1 Corinthians 14:37-40 KJV
Again Paul washer is a lovely man of God and I can’t wait to meet him some day.
The holy spirit is real he conduct him self as he pleases
Tongues are for today. They are real languages. Tongues fall into two categories - (1) devotional which is for personal edification to operate in as you see fit or as prompted by the Holy Spirit and (2) public which is to edify those that hear it, tongues with interpretation AS THE SPIRIT WILLS.
There is the INITIAL infilling in Acts 2:4 and the REFILLING in Eph. 5:18.
ChristianWarrior76 I received the gift of tongues when I was 8.No one told me ...I was filled with tongues and I rejoicing in the Lord for 3 hours .My life changed after that...Ask and the Lord will fill.He said ask and that was in the context of infilling .It a wonderful experience.Acts 1 :8
ChristianWarrior76 good answer
Speaking in "tongues" is always speaking in the language spoken in heaven and, at times, God allows people to hear what is being said in their language as a sign to them that this person has the authentic inwardly dwelling Holy Spirit.
@joashsmusic If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God. Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
1 Corinthians 14:27-30 KJV
JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY TODAY AND FOREVER. HEBREWS 13:8.
im skeptic also before. Pray and listen to GOD with your deepest desire if you want to know Him. Nothing is impossible to Him. The sad thing coz of our generation now adays as what the bible said signs of end times. For me I believe. and for you. I can only do is to pray for you that God will touch your heart. And. Mind. Jeremiah 29:13. God bless you
First “Biblical” comment I’ve read.
I agree with Paul Washer. I believe that tongues exist, even though they are often used wrongly today. My mother, a really biblical woman of the Lord, speaks out of her heart in tongues to the Lord when she is joyful at times. She also has beliefs aligning with true biblical theology (even reformed theology, in regard to repenting and believing and the fruits of our lives being evidence we have been saved). Scripture says that it's only good to speak in tongues in church with an interpreter for people to understand it, so I think that's where we fail sometimes in the Christian churches today. However, I cannot deny that this gift still exists. Many people seem to use it wrongly, but that does not mean that it doesn't still exist today. I hope you are blessed!
I was raised southern Baptist for 40+ years where tongues were in no way taught. Repented/trusted Jesus(saved) for 20 years now. Was baptized in the Spirit only 1 year ago. I’m 52 now.
I respect/honor this passionate man of God, but I know 100% for sure that he is mistaken if he is preaching cessationism. I too believed like him for all those years until I asked God what is real. He showed me in a mighty way one night and forever changed my life.
The prayer language (1Cor 14) is only a small part of the baptism of the Holy Spirit. It includes operating in the gifts as well (1Cor 12). Plus much more, I am a witness to all of it.
See Luke 3:16, Acts 11:16, etc.
Can you receive this baptism? See Luke 11:13 , Acts 10:47, Acts 10:44 etc.
Just remember no one person has it all correct, be humble, seek Him first. (Mat 6:33). The final authority is always Gods Word, never a mans.
Humbly ask Him for wisdom and you will receive it. (James 1:5)
I would love to share my testimony with anyone. Just let me know.
Tell me your story my kind brother
Please I want to hear your story too
@@juanjoseayala6576 I walked the isle and repeated a sinners prayer when I was 13. I was NOT saved. I knew the Bible and had went to a baptist church 9 months before I was born. 30 years I came to the end of myself. Tired of my life and tired of what I had made myself to be with drugs, alcohol, chasing women etc, on a snowy Wednesday night with the cross being preached on the radio and a beer in my hand I realized I needed to repent of my sin. See I knew who Jesus is but I wasn't taught how to repent in church. Repent means to turn from sin 180 degrees and stop best you can, but more importantly why. I pictured Christ pulling that cross up a hill with me standing aside. Who was he to tell me I'm wrong and going to hell when id been this way all my life knowing I'm right. I went forward and got my punches and kicks in like everybody else standing there, and He continued up the hill to die for me anyway. It's been 3 years since I made this comment here and have come a long way still. It amazes me to think where He will lead me next.
We must receive Christ by being born again. No one will enter heaven without being Born Again. Born again equals Repentance and Trust. Repent, well I told you why, and trust, we trust Christ because He is the Godly perfect sacrifice for the sin we have committed. Son of man=fully man, Son of God=fully God.
Never underestimate your enemy, we are to be cunning as a serpent and peaceful as doves. If you were satan wouldn't you try to snuff the words "born again" and cloudy the water when it comes to the baptism of the spirit? If you're born again satan is defeated in your life and can only come in where you let him.
Gods word is the ultimate guide. My words are nothing. Ask God to show you His power through the Bible. It is a living document and He WILL speak to you if you humble yourself to hear it.
"Come out from among them and be ye separate" God loves you and is waiting.
If y'all have, ...I can answer hard questions but they will be scriptural. I didn't write it, God did. Ill only refer to what Gad says anyway.
@@winniewhite8247 I walked the isle and repeated a sinners prayer when I was 13. I was NOT saved. I knew the Bible and had went to a baptist church 9 months before I was born. 30 years I came to the end of myself. Tired of my life and tired of what I had made myself to be with drugs, alcohol, chasing women etc, on a snowy Wednesday night with the cross being preached on the radio and a beer in my hand I realized I needed to repent of my sin. See I knew who Jesus is but I wasn't taught how to repent in church. Repent means to turn from sin 180 degrees and stop best you can, but more importantly why. I pictured Christ pulling that cross up a hill with me standing aside. Who was he to tell me I'm wrong and going to hell when id been this way all my life knowing I'm right. I went forward and got my punches and kicks in like everybody else standing there, and He continued up the hill to die for me anyway. It's been 3 years since I made this comment here and have come a long way still. It amazes me to think where He will lead me next.
We must receive Christ by being born again. No one will enter heaven without being Born Again. Born again equals Repentance and Trust. Repent, well I told you why, and trust, we trust Christ because He is the Godly perfect sacrifice for the sin we have committed. Son of man=fully man, Son of God=fully God.
Never underestimate your enemy, we are to be cunning as a serpent and peaceful as doves. If you were satan wouldn't you try to snuff the words "born again" and cloudy the water when it comes to the baptism of the spirit? If you're born again satan is defeated in your life and can only come in where you let him.
Gods word is the ultimate guide. My words are nothing. Ask God to show you His power through the Bible. It is a living document and He WILL speak to you if you humble yourself to hear it.
"Come out from among them and be ye separate" God loves you and is waiting.
If y'all have, ...I can answer hard questions but they will be scriptural. I didn't write it, God did. Ill only refer to what Gad says anyway.
PAUL SAID WHEN I SPEAK IN TONGUES MY SPIRIT PRAYETH BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS UNFRUITFULL. You can't have it both ways... the scripture says on the day of Pentecost that the apostles spoke in tongues and everyone heard them in their own language... the miracle was that they all heard in different languages at the same time. I have been baptised in the Holy Spirit for many years and pray in tongues often...many times I receive the interpretation of the message... the very fact that it is called an UNKNOWN Tongue should clue you in... these bible teachers today make things much more complicated then they are... Jesus said in Mark 16 that one of the evidences of the Christian life would be that the believers would speak in tongues... I choose to believe that Jesus is right instead of these men... if you are sincere and you ask God he will fill you with His Spirit and give you the gift of tongues... all else is merely fear!
My sister was serving at and orphanage in Mexico last year and knew only basic Spanish phrases, and had a child come up to her and ask who Jesus was. She was able to explain the gospel to her in Spanish, using phrases she knew she had never been taught before. I believe this was an outpouring of the Holy Spirit - whether or not it’s “tongues”, I don’t know.
It is…The Greek word means dialect. What happened to her was a great example of the gift.
I go to a Pentecostal church and I have heard tongues once. After worship, a man just stood up and started speaking in what sounded like another language. After he sat down another man then got up and started speaking in English interpreting what was said. This was about 10-15 years ago and I was amazed as a kid.
@Anteater23 There were unbelievers that spoke in the language the tongue speaker spoke?
That’s a biblical requirement for tongues.
maybe that was show
@@kathy6166 definitely not
@@Anteater23 pentecostal?
Don't believe it
@@thomasglass9491where is what you’re referencing found in scripture?
That happened in our church. Sarah brought her middle Eastern boyfriend and heard our Pastor speak in a tongue that was in his native language and sure enough wanted Jesus and got born again.what a testimony
Oh nice the ACTUAL speaking in tongues, not the pointless gibberish.
Speaking in toungues is very real today, if people desire it I believe God will give it to you. I fasted for a while to receive this evidence of the Holy Spirit because I desired it. While in my fast this preacher who visited our church prayed for me. When he prayed for me it felt like this blanket came over me and my mouth started shaking. When I started to pray different words started coming out of my mouth and it felt so natural it was amazing! Ask and you shall receive.
Paul Washer is so hard on himself, it has made him such a good person.
“Follow the way of love and eagerly desire gifts of the Spirit, especially prophecy. For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit. But the one who prophesies speaks to people for their strengthening, encouraging and comfort. Anyone who speaks in a tongue edifies themselves, but the one who prophesies edifies the church.”
1 Corinthians 14:1-4
What's your point?
Paul Washer: Biblical tongues is known language
Bible: No one understands them (aka not a human language)
Who should I believe?
@@user-ed4dh3je2l you are ignoring context... Who is Paul writing to?
@@tomtemple69explain the context and who is it written to please.
@@user-ed4dh3je2l read 1 Corinthians from the start...
A good example of a humble man who prays in the Spirit can be found at the channel "Last Days" - he has a video "Pray with me for 40 minutes" This man's faith has been a tremendous blessing to me.
"Is my Opinion " he said.
Pay attention people, I listen to his teaching and he's right on getting close to God . But about spiritual experiences he doesn't believe or know.
Hopefully one day God gives him this wonderful and uplifting gift. We should pray for him :) The only real argument he made was that he hasn't personally seen Biblical tongues, but I suspect that has to do with his circle of friends. I think if you are uncertain about whether someone is really speaking in tongues, a good test is the fruit it produces in their life and whether they are growing closer to God. Don't let the wacky groups put you off the real thing.
The test on whether the tongues you think is real or Spirit-led, as with anything we do, is Scripture. How would we know what the fruit is if we the Bible didn’t tell us (we would have impressions but wouldn’t know for sure); or if a gift is genuine if Scripture didn’t describe it or give guidelines. As we grow in the knowledge of the Word, we grow in our knowledge of God, His Spirit and His workings. I used to speak in unintelligible tongues confidently. After moving to a Pentecostal church in my late teens, I disdained the Baptist church I grew up in because of its stand on charismatic-type tongues and did so for decades, until I had to take a Sunday School class on the subject in the Charismatic church I worship in and the scriptures supporting the outline contradicted every thing that was said. I decided to spend time studying tongues in Scripture - not experiences or any teachings for and against it (I wanted to come to an objective scriptural conclusion) - and at the end of it, I found the Pentecostal church’s argument for tongues could not hold water. I stopped not because I lost my faith in the Holy Spirit’s gifts and manifestations - I very much believe He still gives the gift of human tongues which are unknown to the speaker the way he did in Acts 2 (note vv 6-11) but not unintelligible because the crowd in Acts 2 did understand them, and I am blessed and encouraged by all the testimonies in the comments section of people who have displayed the gift of tongues as the 120 did in Acts 2.
By the way, I noted your username - you do realize that A.W. Tozer lived in a time when the Charismatic Movement and their teaching on tongues after the Azusa St. Revival had gained traction and acceptance in many circles, yet did not speak in tongues nor did he believe in the charismatic teaching on, or their practice of the gift (even though he believed in the baptism of the Holy Spirit). Ask yourself why (See also adjustmythoughts.blogspot.com.ng/2010/03/tozer-on-tongues-movement-of-1904.html?m=1).
A.W.TOZER SERMONS HE HAS NOT SEEN BIBLICAL TONGUES BECAUSE TODAY THEY ARE ALL FAKE ,ISAIAH 28 SAYS THEY WERE A SIGN FOR ISRAEL .THAT IS IN APOSTOLIC TIMES see my comment to Anthony above.
Would not a better test be whether or not it met the Biblical criteria set down in Scripture? (i) Was it a real language? (ii) Was someone present who knew the actual language and could interpret it? If not - then it is not Biblical tongues.
There is an episode on Battlestar Galactica where they were speaking on tongues.
How would Paul Washer explain this: I received the gifts of tongues in 1987 in South Africa.
I learned by using the gift that Jesus is helping me to though hard times and when I had no words of my own to speak the spirit did intercession for me.
20 years go by and I immigrate to Australia. I feel very alone as a Christian and try to reconnect with a church. I stand next to an elderly lady and she speaks in tongues .
Suddenly she says one word that is exsactly the same that I use.
I was immediately encouraged .My heart rejoiced : we serve the same God. We have the same spirit.
Paul said "Forbid not to speak in tongues". Tongues are a language straight to Almighty GOD and the devil can't hinder our prayers, because he doesn't know the language. You are filled with the Holy Ghost, separate from being babtized by the Holy Ghost. Babtized means you're a born again child of Almighty GOD through Jesus Christ our LORD. Filled means you desire and want more of God, to be used by Him, bringing in souls, blessings, healing and deliverance. The evidence of being filled is speaking in unknown tongues, but we saints must pray for the infilling every single day. We never lose God's language, but we must learn to stir the gift inside us to enact God's mighty power in Jesus name only.
Amen brother 🙏🏻 when I got baptized with the holy ghost after praying for hours for the Lord to fill me up i felt something in my belly and I began to speak in another tongue. It was so beautiful ..
"Always learning, but never coming to the knowledge of the truth" 2Tim3:7
Thank you brother Washer. I just wonder those who argue that they have the gift of tongues, where was this gift from the days of the apostles until the 20th century when charismatics were born?
The gift was in operation. GOD does not change
Paul talks about speaking in tongues for strengtening your inner man.
Would you please cite the passage you are speaking of?
TruthHurts58 - I Corinthians 14:2.
If anyone speaks there must be an interpreter according to the Bible.
@@sangabawm3021 No interpreter needed when you are alone speaking to God. According to the Bible: 1Cor14:2
You PRAY alone in tongues to strengthen self (1Cor14:4). You PROPHESY in tongues in the Assembly, but only if an interpreter is present, unless you interpret it yourself immediately afterwards(1Cor14:13). According to the Bible, may I add.
Tongues is:
1) a private prayer language (1Cor14),
2) a tool of prophesy, (not private) (1Cor14)
3) a foreign language to proclaim the Gospel (Acts2), (not private)
Takka gakka femeboo lalakako?
I have experienced praying in toungues. And its the real speaking in toungues that Paul was talking about "enlighten the mind (He who speaks in a [strange] tongue edifies and improves himself
1 Corinthians 14:4 AMPC
But I do it according to the leading of the Holy Spirit, not when I want. Every time I follow Him like that my inner being will be edified. Especially when I'm in a severe battle I don't know what to do and don't see things clearly.. after praying like that the Holy Spirit will show me clearly what the devil is trying to do, what I can do and have pefect peace. There are countless times that praying in toungues led by the Spirit has taken me out of troubles when I don't know how to pray anymore. Other times He will give words and things to pray or explanation of Scriptures or answwr to what Im asking about, very clearly.. some other times He told me to quit pray in toungues and if I continue it will be just me .. not toungues anymore and its no use. There are false toungues too.. I think many people just babble to prove that they speak in toungues, when some of them even don't have the Holy Spirit.. but it doen't mean true toungues dont exist. For a long time I was troubled by those babbling people and doubt toungues.. but now no more. I experienced true toungues and also know that false toungues come from the devil. I hope that this benefit some one and you not be cheated by the devil.
Yes, Ruth ,I agree there is a counterfiet for every spiritual gift from God.
I think a lot of people get the personal gift of youngest mixed up with the prophecy gift of youngest for the body or for unbelievers .
The personal gift builds up the individuals prayer life with faith and power and speaks directly to edify God.
Not sure why it typed "youngest" should read" tounges"
The examples of tongue in Acts is not the only type of manifestation of tounges... The tongues Paul spoke of in First Corinthians, he said he would do it even if it was only between him and God and that his mind would be unfruitful. He would do it even if no one else was around to hear it! And his mind would not know what he was talking about! So if he doesn't know what he's saying, whether it's an actual phonetic language that he cannot speak or understand or some Divine Heavenly language is irrelevant. He will not know what he's talking about. Yet his spirit will be praying!
This is very simple scripture that it takes a determined stubbornness to ignore. I don't mean that to be condemning at all. At least not necessarily. The stubbornness could be out of a legitimate ignorance, but it doesn't negate what the Bible so simply says.
I love Paul: it is not a hard question, though. Tongues are a gift from God. Folks who pray in tongues do it almost exclusively in the privacy of their homes, between God and themselves.
I grew up Reformed Baptist. When I was 9, God spoke to me audibly in a heavenly language that I simultaneously knew what was said (I had the supernatural gift of "interpretation" of an unknown language) - I was still anti Tongues until 10 years later when through re-reading the Scriptures I realized what had actually happened to me.
This explanation of tongues - he defines his theology by EXPERIENCE (lack thereof) and NOT out of a heart to "earnestly desire" spiritual gifts... Our experience should be guided by the Word, not the other way around. I was so theologically brainwashed even experiencing the supernatural I couldn't realize what was happening was 100% in God's Word (blindness to God's Word can leave you powerfully blind to Spiritual experiences). Tongues is clearly - when reading Acts and Paul together, not exclusively a phonetic human language, and it is for today (unless you cross out large sections of Scripture as "not profitable..."). Therefore our response should be as commanded in Scripture... earnestly desire spiritual gifts (including tongues)... especially Prophecy (hearing God's voice, for yourself and others).
So is that what we’re supposed to be looking for like New Age ‘we’re looking for experiences? Does everyone have to speak in tongues to prove to everyone else that they even have the Holy Ghost in them ‘like the Pentecostal faith believes?like let’s forget about love, joy ,peace, meekness,kindness ,temperance ,self-control as evidence ‘let’s only say tongues is the evidence that you even have the Holy Spirit, really?????
@@jameswells9749 Your response (1) has nothing to do with what I said (2) your response is FALSELY fabricates and addressing things completely disconnected from what I said. Are you that deranged that you need to fabricate (LIE) in order to respond to someone you disagree with? That's not something someone connected to the Holy Spirit would do. You have serious issues.
@@jameswells9749that's not what he's trying to say. He never said that gifts are the evidence of salvation. All he said was that we should seek for them not for vain glory but to edify ourselves and the rest of the body. In scripture we see that whenever God wants to move He finds human vessels to work through. So many times healing comes from God but through men. Asking God for gifts is asking God to use you. God bless.
As a former Baptist, they have become apostate and do not even realize it. Paul was adamant that Baptism in Holy Spirit was important. Paul even said he was glad he spoke in tongues more than others. When I visit Baptist churches now, they like most other denominations are dead. They are dead because the Holy Spirit has been barred from their church. The Baptist also believe in the great deception of, "once saved, always saved". Pastor Paul, I respect your theology but you you need to pray and ask for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit be imparted to our churches. It is He alone that energizes the body of Christ. The great Azusa Street revival of the early 1900s came from seeking the Holy Spirit. This revival led to the arise of great ministries like that by Billy Graham. As a person Baptized in the Spirit of God, as evidenced by speaking in unknown tongues, it has led me to really understand Scriptures. No, I did not receive this baptism in some "holy roller" emotional pentecostal church. I did not even seek or pray for it. I received it during an ordinary Tuesday morning prayer gathering by a few church members praying for putting on the full armor of God. I believe this is symbolic that we need this as part of the full armor of God to stand against the spiritual warfare that assaults every true believer in Christ. Without the third person of the Trinity (GOD in His own divine right) our battles will be lost. How can I know this is true? I have sought the truth in every main stream denomination, including Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist, Assembly of God, Lutheran, Penecostal, Charismatic, Evangelical, and others. I have attended mega-churches like Benny Hinn, John Hagee, Church on the Rock started by Larry Lea [at the time the fastest growing church in America during the 80s, but it failed]. What I experienced in them all was the lack of uplifting the Holy Spirit, and allowing Him to do His work to build the body of Christ. Yes, there have been many incidences of abuse of the manifested gifts of the Holy Spirit by carnal men. Yet, the results I see today in America's churches is a dead form of lip service to God, lukewarm Christianity, and failure to go forth and spread the true Gospel of Jesus. Instead, I see churches filled with pew warmers who once they leave the churches every Sunday, live in the world no differently than the average non-believer. Those supposed followers of Christ are content to compromise with the Satan ruled world. They fear man more than God. Just attend almost any church in America, and you will find a lukewarm gospel preached to itching ears that only wish to hear that God is love. No word is said about picking up daily your cross of trials, tribulation, and persecution. God's judgment is dismissed as He is just and no hyper-grace can cover a nation's sins. Jesus said He was hated for no reason, but still bore our sins and accepted persecution, even unto death to do the will of His Father. Modern day Christians think they are better than our Lord, and do not accept the burdens of being a TRUE follower of Christ. They seek those false teachers who only tell them about the blessings of God, not the trials. These ravenous wolves standing in the pulpits of most churches, do not talk about sin, grieving the Holy Spirit, divorce, prophecy and judgment, lest they offend or make anyone uncomfortable. They worry about loosing members or tithing income. God has become no better than an ATM to pray to for prosperity and a comfortable carefree life. I have attended churches where the pastor lamented declining attendance. In God's name why would most people, especially the younger generations want to attend a church where they saw no difference between the church and the general population. The power of the gospel preached with Holy Spirit led fire and power to move mountains is abscent. Is it any doubt why Islam, Wiccan, and New Age or the fastest growing religions in America. These false beliefs promise personal improvement, earthly rewards, and worldly, power, as opposed to the unfulfilled promises taught in our churches. Promises that God only wishes to bless you with prosperity, perfect health, comfort, and all your desires met if only one has faith in God. Our Christian leaders refuse to teach the meat of the Gospel about personal sacrifice, denying ones self, accepting persecution from a Jesus rejecting world, and putting God first in all areas of our lives. When the promises do not materialize, many Christians feel they lack enough faith or their being punished by God . Soon they give up and just go through the motions of Christianity, remaining in the church out of tradition, family obligation, guilt, or the social benefits. Many others just quit going and join the ranks of the lost. If American Christianity is to survive, ther must be a return to the old time preaching of the penalties of unrepentant sins and compromise to the world. A call to stand for Christ in the politics, schools, entertainment, work place, and public arenas. When Christians can step out of the churches, boldly speak and use the name of Jesus without fear, and again become the light unto the nation, then a revival will occur. However, for this revival to succeed, it will require that the Holy Spirit be allowed back into the churches. Without God's Spirit manifesting on that first day of Pentecost and the Baptism evidenced by the tongues of fire and speaking in tongues, the Gospel of Jesus would have never reached the world. [Note: I find it no accident that God could have used any symbol on day of Pentecost, a dove, clouds, halo, but he chose TONGUES OF FIRE.] This unique sign was used to show the importance God placed on the gifts of the Holy Spirit. But more importantly fire is often used even today to represent passion and uncompromising commitment, and for this reason you hear it expressed in the adage, "He is on fire for......", just fill in the blank. My prayer is that the Holy Spirit will be rededicated in our churches. With the fire of the Spirit of God indwelling in us (the church) with all the gifts given to individuals representing Christ's body of believers as imparted by the Holy Spirit according to the need of each. These individual gifts in the churches will corporately fulfill Jesus's promise that greater miracles will you do they me!
My domestic helper came from a muslim background, doesn't speak a word of English, was deaf in one ear, sat in a pentecostal church service next to my wife who translated to her occasuonally what the preacher was saying in English. Midway through his sermon the preacher, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, walks down the aisle praying. As he passed by, with both his hands on the microphone, not touching anyone, people started falling off their chairs by row as he passed them. When he reached my domestic helper, she bursts out in tongues and her deaf ear is healed. She was flustered, not understanding what had happened to her, as she continued uttering words that she (and no one else) could understand.
Could this be the "strange occurrences" that the Baptist and Presbyterian missionaries reported finding (5:10)?
To end the story, when she came home from the service, she told us that she wanted to give ALL her money (a domestic's salary) to the church (remember the widow with her two copper coins) - her gratitude to Jesus for saving her. She also asked to be baptized.
Absolutely God equipped us to preach the gospel to all men in their own dialect.
The list of gifts are listed in the Bible. One is speaking in tongue.
Korger watch john bevere's view on different types of tongues....
Korger And the Word says Do not forbid the speaking in tongues, as well.
yes it say some speak in tongue not everyone.
The Bible also says not to wear clothes of mixed fabrics. Do you own any poly-cotton blends?
Makakka!
One day I believed Jesus as the scriptures said, and was humbled by realising I'm a sinner. I asked Jesus for a drink, just a drink of His Living Water. The next thing that happened was that Jesus baptized me in my room with the Holy Spirit and rivers of living waters flowed from my belly, just as it is written! I spoke in tongues fluently; the flow of the language matched the overflow of the rivers flowing out of me, in a sense. I was also delivered from something that caused me to sin at the time. That was the first time I experienced the Power of the Holy Spirit. I will never forget this.
I am yet to experience the kind of tongues that supernaturally allow me to speak another's language, but don't write of this heavenly language; I sure cannot, now that I've drunk from that Well.
WONDERFUL! I could jump and down over this short clip. EXCELLENT and I see the same things in the local churches. Tongues have not ceased Biblically but what I see most of the time in churches and from leaders, they are not speaking a language. "Baa baa baa baa baa baa" is not a language but even some pastors walk around 'praying' like this. We don't have the gift to preach to sheep even though we are called sheep. Myself, I know its a language/ different languages. It's not repetitive. One pastor in Florida at my church was intently watching me in a prayer service. I opened my eyes and caught him staring at me and listening intently. He said, "That's Cheyenne" He had the lineage and knew the language himself. I can tell of other times, personal accounts I can testify about that 'tongues' is real and for today. We have fakers in the Body of Christ that babble to cover for their positions of power in the local church who are expected to speak in tongues but if they aren't filled with His Spirit, then something else is filling them. In that environment I see other blasphemy going on they explain away by twisting scripture to their benefit, that is, to perform to an audience, many of whom are laying on the carpet in the front of the church. When confronted, you become an enemy to the spirit leading them and they begin false accusations and false prophecies toward you. They have no victory when they get up off the floor. No chains broken. No healing testimony, and you'll never find anyone who had hands laid on them in prayer fainting and falling forward or backward or any other way. In Scripture, there are two cases of falling as dead men or fainting or unable to stand. Enemies of Christ and those who experienced a miraculous encounter with the King in His actual presence with a lifechanging cannon worthy testimony. The only thing that has ceased in much of the Body of Christ is following Him and obedience and you will suffer persecution from the world and religious types for doing it.
I was a new Christian when I was invited to attended a Church service. When the preacher prayed people are slain and speaking strange language i am laughing saying they are crazy. But when he came near me and raise up his hands i feel like fire in my body and i begun to speak in tongues. So by that time i received the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
When I worship my holy Father, I speak in tongues. That is the biggest gift of our holy father. I can't express the experience which I have while worshiping in tongues. My friends,my cousin brother and even the church, where we serve and worship our Lord, worship our Lord Jesus Christ in tongues..
My beloved brothers and sisters in christ Jesus, I urge you to ask this wonderful gift from your father and this gift must be given to you by him.
But how to u know if u worship God or something else if u dont understand it?
@@noahbubeck4705 “Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says “Jesus is accursed!” and no one can say “Jesus is Lord” except in the Holy Spirit.”
1 Corinthians 12:3 ESV
By praying in the Holy Spirit there is no way to worship any other “god” but the one true God. Even if your mind is impure, you’re heart is that which worships and Christ has made that pure to Himself.
My Christian son grew up in a baptist church, got baptized in a diff denom, and now prays in tongues. He prays in his "closet". He had seen ungodly, non-Christians, worldly Christians pray in tongues without interpretation (baptist background). His take on this; ask God for Wisdom and understanding. My take on it: Why the gift of speaking in tongues and NOT the gift of Healing? It is a lot easier to "look holier than thou" than to HEAL people. Matt 13:24-30 let God do the sorting. God Bless
I completely agree with this and I have been saying the exact same thing for years. The occurrence of “tongue speaking” today is very different than how it occurred in the Bible. And because God is the same today, yesterday, and forever He is very consistent. He will do the same thing in the same way so that you know it is Him. I think people today are caught up in emotion and hyper-spiritualism and are forcing and manipulating and “move” of God, I worry for the church and it’s people today.
The Word is true, it is what the Bible says and I know that Tongues are for today, as it was, it is and it will be until the Lord returns. Praise God. I pray in tongues and I believe that Jesus is the same Yesterday, Today, and Forever.
Amen Phil!!! I 100% agree with you! I also speak in tongues for over 20 years now!!!
Never ask a baptist about speaking in tongues.
LOL...That is so true! I've spent most of my life in a Baptist Church, and have never felt comfortable enough to tell anyone that I have this gift...Very sad!
Johanon Zimmerman u mean Baptists dont believe in speaking in tongues?
Thats a very good point. Never ask a Baptist if your going to hell! he he
Sharania sharania
No they don't.
They believe it was only so members of the early church could go to a strange country and lead them to Christ in their native tongue as the Spirit gives the utterance. Even though there is no Bible basis for this.
They rejected the Pentacostal movement when started. Im sure the main reason is because they like to stand on this verse...
John 10:28
“And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”
When they are faced with scrutiny about their unholy life, they will always say "but no man can take me out of God's hand" despite many verses that say man can choose to walk away from God through the continued sin he chooses to partake of.
Just try to tell them getting drunk every Saturday night is wrong. They will say it imediatly through slurred words.
When the Holy Ghost shows up sin must flee!
Johanon Zimmerman funny because I started visiting a Baptist church for the first time in my life but I had to leave there and go to anothr one and the pastor literally told me that he didn't have to obey God at all after he accepted him because there's no way he could lose his salvation.......I also want to point out that the church was dead, like murdered dead....... the spiritual state of that church was sad
We are in the 21st century and people still claim they have never seen the gift of healing while there are many men of God with the gift worldwide.
Ever since Katherine Kuhlman, TB JOSHUA, Apostle Arome Osayi etc
Can someone please tell me the name of the artist and song at the end, please?
Amazing testimonies and stories about this gift from brethren around the world concerning this gift thanks and Godbless. Jesus is Lord alone no one else. He is the way the truth and life no one else. Trust Jesus alone not man because man faileth but Jesus don't. Seek the word of God for your answers rather than relying on your own emotions the flesh cannot understand or comprehend the things of the spirit and rather than listening to what people say concerning this. Research for yourself find and seek the truth yourself not from others for surely they will fail and u don't wanna be decieved by them and fall away. The word of God is the only truth and nothing else!.
Of course tongues is for today is for today, it is a gift of the Holy Spirit all the gifts are for today. They are in the Holy Spirit and He distributes them. Read 1 Corinthians 14. If the Word says it who are we to disagree?
Why would ANYONE say “believe” in tongues. It’s not a belief. It is a gift from God through the Holy Spirit. Period.
Many of you who commented seem to think that Paul Washer said that tongues aren't for today. He never said that. He even said it himself that he cannot say with certainty that tongues have ceased, but he also said that when he reads about tongues in the Bible that he doesn't see that today. But he never said that they have ceased.
The man said in his conscience (the Holy Spirit imbued spirit) he cannot deny tongues of the Holy Spirit. He’s right. Go home people, the Holy Spirit tongues are real and have not ceased.
They are real languages tho
Growing up I was, and still am, a witness of The Holy Spirit manifesting Himself in tongues through praise and worship. I’ve seen and experienced ministers laying hands while praying and intercession in tongues, and that is not themselves praying, but it is The Holy Spirit.
“Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”
Romans 8:26-27 NKJV
Might that verse just mean the spirit knows our hearts and makes intercession for us at the times when we don't know exactly what to pray for? Not necessarily speaking in tongues.
I spent decades in pentecostal churches, and never heard anyone speak in tongues. I heard lots of incoherent babbling and gibberish, but no tongues.
The Spirit and the Word agree. The gift of tongues aka languages is a real language. It is not gibberish that you do not understand. Paul said he would rather speak 5 words in a language he understood than 10,000 words in a language he didnt understand.
Biblically this is what I read :
Speaking in tongues in Acts = proclaiming the Gospel for salvation. Very powerful in mission fields.
Speaking in tounges in I Corinthians = edification of the church
(if there's no interpreter, better to it privately for self edification. . If there is an interpreter, the whole Church is edified.)
I received the gift of tounges before I understood what the gift was all about. First time I experienced it, I felt that my tongue was moving on its own, I tried to cover my mounth because sounds started to come out. Then it become louder, so many words (non repetitive), but the only word I could understand was every time I was mentioning the name Jesus. I was aware of what was happening, but certainly it was not by my own volition. It was coming from within. Then my hand and arms felt like there were a cloud of static electricity surrounding them.
All the while I was worshipping my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ from my heart.
The Holy Spirit would never speak against His gifts. Nor imitate them or make fun of them.
The Spirit of Antichrist is fighting against the Holy Spirit.
Sami Samira I totally agree with you . When we speak in tongues satan can't understand anything we are saying . So many are deceived about speaking in tongues , its sad they reject this important heavenly gift . Every Born Again believer needs to be baptized in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues ! It is the power for living and preaching the Gospel !
You claim gifts yet churches try and “teach” tongues. Odd thing for a gift. Every time tongues was ever used in the Bible it was used to edify the church.
The Holy Spirit isn’t a feeling or a language. He is the Christ.
@@isrberlinerin4063 SADLY YOU MADE THAT UP, AND IT IS NOT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.
@@wendymitchell8245 sadly you are incorrect , please read the book of Acts . It seems you do not know very well what is written in the Bible , but yet you readily claim that i made that up !
@@isrberlinerin4063 OF COURSE I HAVE READ EVERY REFERENCE TO TONGUES .IF NOT I WOULD NOT COMMENT .WHAT DO YOU THINK IS INCORRECT, AND WHAT DO YOU UNDERSTAND BY 1 cor 19 to 22 and verse 21 the quote from isaiah 28 v,s 11 to14.
1st Corinthians teaches us if there is no one to deify your words, Then your message is unfruitful. " I had rather speak five words that by my understanding I may teach someone , than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." Paul Washer is a true blessing from God.
Edify
“If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!””
Luke 11:13 ESV