{"id":3286,"date":"2013-08-27T21:49:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2013-08-27T21:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T21:49:17","slug":"speaking-in-tongues-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/3286\/speaking-in-tongues-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking in tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"

http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/tongues-at-spirit-baptism.html<\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John,<\/p>\n

I have experienced in several Pentecostal churches where members were speaking “tongues” another language to me, but there was no interpreter as Paul tells us must happen. \u00a0Just trying to get your advice and counsel and mean no harm. \u00a0God Bless you for serving Our LORD.<\/p>\n

May God Bless you with his grace<\/p>\n

Evangelist Stephen<\/p>\n

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Hi Stephen,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

I believe you have misunderstood Paul’s instruction, which is not unusual. \u00a0If you will, check out the following. \u00a0It may help clear things up.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

May God bless you and those with you.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

www.PastorJohnsHouse.com<\/span><\/a><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/tongues-at-spirit-baptism.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/speaking-in-tongues.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thank you for your quick reply. But my confusion is still why people in great numbers just stand up during the sermon and speak in tongue. What was it they were saying I have to ask myself. Now I am guilty of speaking during a sermon by an occasional amen. At least everyone knows what was said. I understand the gift of tongues and having that great one on one with God. What about new visitors to the Church? Will they run out the door in fear that evil dwells there?<\/p>\n

Thank you again for kindly having this in Christ discussion. In my 60’s I have turned into a human sponge for God’s word.<\/p>\n

May God Bless you with his grace
\nGod’s Preservation Ministry<\/p>\n

Evangelist Stephen<\/p>\n

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Hi Stephen,<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The portion of scripture you are thinking of is from<\/i> <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

1Corinthians\u00a014:26-31:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0[26<\/b>] How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, everyone of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.[27] 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.[28] But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.<\/b>\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because Christian translators mistranslate the Greek word,\u00a0ekklesia, as “church”, most people have the same misunderstanding as you do concerning what Paul was saying. \u00a0The phrase, “in the church” should be “in the assembly”. \u00a0In other words, Paul is referring to someone standing up and addressing the assembly of saints; he is not forbidding people to speak in tongues\u00a0in the building\u00a0where the saints are meeting unless there is an interpreter. \u00a0Here is what Paul actually wrote:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/em>26. What is it then, brothers?\u00a0 When you come together, each of you has a song of praise, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation.\u00a0 Let everything be done for edification.<\/span><\/p>\n

27. If anyone in an assembly speaks in an unknown tongue, it should be by two, or at the most, three, each in turn, and let one interpret,<\/span><\/p>\n

28. but if there be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, but, let him speak to himself and to God.<\/b><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In verse 34, it becomes even clearer that Paul is referring to someone addressing the assembly when he says that women are to be silent “in the assembly” (that is, “to the assembly”). \u00a0He made this point even clearer when he wrote to Timothy that women are not to “usurp authority over a man” to teach in an assembly of saints (1Tim.\u00a02:12). \u00a0We know that here in 1Corinthians, Paul was not issuing a blanket commandment forbidding women ever to speak when an assembly of saints met because he commended both Aquila and his wife Priscilla for the work\u00a0they both did<\/span>\u00a0for the assembly of God, including the assembly that met in their home in Corinth (1Cor.\u00a016:19), and even into his old age (2Tim.\u00a04:19). \u00a0Paul also called\u00a0both Aquila and Priscilla<\/span>\u00a0“my fellow helpers in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 16:3), and they both helped Apollos understand the truth of the gospel more perfectly” (Acts\u00a018:26). \u00a0We also know that the apostle Philip had four daughters who prophesied (Acts 21:8-9), and it is impossible to think that those daughters prophesied without speaking “in an assembly” when the Spirit moved upon them.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

So, we have to take all the scriptures together in order to get the whole picture. \u00a0When Paul forbids anyone, male or female, to speak “in the assembly”, he is forbidding any person to speak\u00a0to the assembly<\/span>\u00a0as one who is addressing and teaching the assembly. \u00a0He never forbids anyone to speak in tongues while an assembly is together. \u00a0And as to whether or not some visitors will think God’s people are crazy for doing so, the answer is, yes; they will. \u00a0And some will run out, thinking something evil is taking place there. \u00a0John Sherrill did, for example (but he later received the Spirit, and wrote a famous book about the experience). \u00a0But so what? \u00a0Paul himself never says God’s people are crazy for speaking in tongues during a meeting. \u00a0In fact, he forbids anyone to tell God’s people\u00a0not\u00a0speak in tongues and says in 1Corinthians 14 that he speaks in tongues more than anyone in Corinth does. \u00a0But his point is that when addressing the assembly, he speaks in a language the people can understand:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/i>18. I thank my God, I speak in tongues more than all of you;<\/span><\/p>\n

19. however,\u00a0in an assembly<\/b>, I prefer to speak five words with my understanding so that I may benefit others also than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Finally, let me point out that there is no such thing as “the gift of speaking in tongues”. \u00a0All of God’s people speak in tongues because the evidence of receiving the Spirit is “stammering lips and another tongue” (Isa. 28:11 and 1Cor.\u00a014:21), but only a few have the gift of “diverse kinds of tongues” (1Cor.\u00a012:10); that is, the gift of ministering to an assembly (“in an assembly”) in a language other than their own.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

I have seen people be out of order by speaking in tongues when the preacher was preaching, but it was not the speaking in tongues that was out of order; it was the people themselves, and their speaking in tongues at that time was only the evidence of it. \u00a0As a rule, there is nothing wrong with it, and you will damage a congregation by commanding them never to do so. \u00a0You will quench the Spirit, which Paul absolutely forbid us to do.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

I suspect that the basic reason you are confused about this issue is that you believe that all speaking in tongues is the gift of “diverse kinds of tongues” and that you do not understand what the new birth really is. \u00a0Please read my gospel tract, “The New Birth” at: <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.goingtojesus.com\/site\/php\/the-new-birth.html<\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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