TRUE SPIRITUALITY

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• TONGUES
• TRIVIA

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What really happened at Jerusalem on the Day of
Pentecost?

• Jesus baptized (placed) the Jewish people in (the
  sphere of) the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 14-7
• Matthew 311
• 1 Corinthians 1212-13

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What really happened at Jerusalem on the Day of
Pentecost?

• Unsaved Jews and Jewish proselytes hear the
  message of Christ spoken in their own dialect
  (tongue).
• Acts 21-11

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What really happened at Jerusalem on the Day of
Pentecost?

• 3000 Jews from all over the Mediterranean world
  and Jewish proselytes gladly receive the message
  of Christ and are saved.
• Acts 239-41

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What really happened at Jerusalem on the Day of
Pentecost?

• The mighty rushing wind that is heard and the
  tongues of fire that is seen, only happened once
  in history and are not elsewhere or otherwise
  repeated.
• Acts 22-4

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What really happened at Jerusalem on the Day of
Pentecost?

• The many signs and wonders performed by the
  apostles is not unique to the Day of Pentecost.
• Acts 243
• Matthew 101, 5-10
• Luke 101-4, 9, 17-20
• Matthew 111-6

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What really happened at Jerusalem on the Day of
Pentecost?

• The dialects (tongues) wherein those present
  heard the message of Christ in their own language
  is the unique supernatural phenomena on the Day
  of Pentecost, not the signs and wonders.
• Acts 26-8

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What really happened at Samaria?

• Jesus baptized (placed) the Samaritan people in
  (the sphere of) the Holy Spirit.
• Acts 81, 4-8, 12-17, 25

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What really happened at Samaria?

• Unsaved Samaritans hear the message of Christ (no
  tongues indicated), many miracles are performed
  by Philip, and the Samaritans believe.
• Acts 85-7

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What really happened at Samaria?

• Apostles authorize Peter and John to give the
  Holy Spirit to the Samaritans.
• Acts 814-17

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What really happened at Samaria?

• No mighty rushing wind heard. No tongues of fire
  seen. No speaking and hearing in dialects
  (tongues). Why? Samaritans all spoke the same
  language.

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What really happened at Caesarea?

• Jesus baptized (placed) the Gentile people in
  (the sphere of) the Holy Spirit. The apostles
  are surprised and amazed by this event.
• Acts 1034-47

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What really happened at Caesarea?

• Peter is summoned by God through a vision to
  speak the gospel to Cornelius the gentile while
  Cornelius through a vision is told to summon
  Peter.
• Acts 101-23

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What really happened at Caesarea?

• While Peter was speaking to Cornelius the message
  of Christ, the Holy Spirit came upon Cornelius
  and the other Gentiles present, and they began to
  speak in dialects (tongues).
• Acts 1044-46

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What really happened at Caesarea?

• The Jews who accompanied Peter are amazed and did
  not anticipate that the Gentiles would also be
  baptized (placed into the sphere) of the Holy
  Spirit.
• Acts 1045

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What really happened at Caesarea?

• The Gentiles who receive the Holy Spirit speak in
  dialects (tongues). Gentiles speak the many
  languages of the world.
• Acts 1046
• Revelation 59
• Revelation 146-7

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What really happened at Caesarea?

• No mighty rushing wind heard. No tongues of fire
  seen. No signs and wonders performed. The
  message of Christ is heard and believed.
• Acts 1046
• Revelation 59
• Revelation 146-7

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THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

• The Holy Spirit is given to the Jews first, then
  to the Samaritans, and lastly to the Gentiles as
  recorded in the Book of Acts.

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THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

• The supernatural phenomena associated with the
  coming of the Holy Spirit is not normative and
  not meant to be repeated by Christians as part of
  their Holy Spirit experience.

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THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

• The coming of the Holy Spirit supernaturally
  equipped the apostles and others to be
  witnesses and as such speak the Gospel of the
  Resurrected Christ to the Jews, Samaritans, and
  Gentiles of the world.

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THE COMING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

• Tongues (dialects and languages) was the
  missionary strategy of the early church to get
  the message (be witnesses) of Christ to the Jews,
  the Samaritans, and the Gentiles of the first
  century.

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TONGUES TRIVIA

• Not mentioned on any of the three missionary
  journeys of Paul as reported in the Book of Acts.
• Not mentioned in 21 of the 22 NT Church
  epistles. Only the NT epistle of 1 Corinthians,
  chapters 12-14 make any reference to tongues.

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TONGUES TRIVIA

• Acts 2 is the only place in the NT where
  tongues is described or defined.
• In Acts 2 it constitutes known languages and
  dialects spoken in the world but not previously
  known or learned by the person supernaturally
  gifted by God to speak it.

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TONGUES TRIVIA

• Pseudo-tongues or ecstatic utterance is
  spoken by numerous cults and religions throughout
  the world, past and present.
• People in almost every religion practice some
  form of ecstatic utterance and it is a common
  human experience.

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TONGUES TRIVIA

• Ecstatic utterance is the experience of
  uttering sounds, words, etc. while in an
  heightened emotional state.
• Isaiah 819-20
• 1 Kings 1826-29
• 1 Corinthians 121-3

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• Social scientists and linguists have studied the
  phenomena of speaking in tongues. The modern
  tongues movement is not actually the speaking of
  a foreign language, as seen in Acts chapter 2,
  but an ecstatic utterance.

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TONGUES TRIVIA

• Pseudo-tongues has three possible causes.
• A contrived or fabricated or staged and in a
  cultural context.
• A psychological event brought on by suggestion,
  emotional manipulation through rhythmic music,
  word and phrase repetitions, and/or drugs, etc.
• Demonic influence.

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• Ecstatic phenomenon traditionally associated with
  religious experiences. It has been practiced
  through the ages in various religious settings,
  both Christian and non-Christian, by individuals
  in private as well as by whole communities.
• Baker encyclopedia of the Bible

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• How do we explain tongues today? As has been
  noted, tongues-speaking is also practiced in many
  heathen religions throughout the world today.
  Certainly this is not the work of the holy
  Spirit. Perhaps Behaviour Scientists are correct
  in saying that much of tongues-speaking has a
  natural explanation.

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• However, this much is observable - when a person
  has experienced tongues he is absolutely
  convinced as to the scripturalness of his
  experience and the correctness of his doctrinal
  beliefs.

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• Hence the traditional Pentecostal insists on the
  correctness of the "second blessing." The
  theologically liberal Protestant who speaks in
  tongues feels that his doubt in the inspiration
  of the Bible is vindicated.

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• Catholic Pentecostals testify that the
  charismatic experience has deepened their
  devotion to Mary. A glossolalic experience
  convinces Mormons that their brand of
  Christianity is right, etc.

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• Thus, while tongues may not be directly caused by
  Satan yet it can be used by him as an effective
  means of sidetracking sincere Christians. Satan's
  involvement in the charismatic wonders cannot be
  ruled out as part of the deceptive wonders at the
  end of the age.

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• The following scriptures reveal that one of the
  signs of the end of the world or age would be the
  phenomenal working deceptions of Satan in the
  Church.

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• Matthew 242, 24
• And Jesus said to them, "Do you not see all these
  things? Assuredly, I say to you, not one stone
  shall be left here upon another, that shall not
  be thrown down. For false christs and false
  prophets will rise and show great signs and
  wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

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• 2 Thessalonians 29-11
• The coming of the lawless one is according to the
  working of Satan, with all power, signs, and
  lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception
  among those who perish, because they did not
  receive the love of the truth, that they might be
  saved. And for this reason God will send them
  strong delusion, that they should believe the
  lie,

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• My Personal Belief About The Practice Of Tongues
  In The Church Today
• Tongues today is not the same as tongues
  (dialects) on the Day of Pentecost but ecstatic
  utterances and pseudo-tongues. It is a
  religious experience not rooted in Biblical
  Christianity, but common among many religions.

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• My Personal Belief About The Practice Of Tongues
  In The Church Today
• Tongues today cannot be used to speak the gospel
  in the language of the unsaved therefore tongues
  serves no spiritual or practical purpose in the
  plan of God for the church.
• 1 Corinthians 145-12
• 1 Corinthians 138

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