{"id":6041,"date":"2015-07-10T18:57:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=6041"},"modified":"2015-07-10T18:57:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T18:57:01","slug":"the-necessity-of-speaking-in-tongues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/6041\/the-necessity-of-speaking-in-tongues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Necessity of Speaking in Tongues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking in Tongues at Spirit Baptism<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bro John,<\/span><\/p>\n

Several years ago, in the morning, while getting ready for work, I heard the Spirit of God start preaching in my inner man. \u00a0It wasn’t audible in the room, but was very loud and clear to me. This\u00a0is what I heard:<\/span><\/p>\n

What was it that convinced the Jews that the Gentiles had been grafted in to Christ?<\/span><\/p>\n

It would have been an impossibility, in the minds of even faithful Jews.\u00a0 Jesus called us Gentiles dogs (Mt. 15) and continually sent His disciples only to the house of Israel. \u00a0Those Israelites – all Israelites! – KNEW that we Gentiles did not belong to God, and we didn’t.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With that understanding, if Gentiles had suddenly started claiming to belong to Jehovah (the God of only the Jews), they would have been laughed at, at the very least, and possibly worse might have befallen them. \u00a0The Jews knew that the notion of a Gentile belonging to God was altogether absurd.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

No Gentile, or “dog”, as Jesus clearly stated, would have ever persuaded a devout Jew that he was\u00a0in covenant with\u00a0God by simply claiming that he\u00a0“got saved”\u00a0or that he\u00a0“accepted Jesus as his personal Lord and\u00a0Savior”. \u00a0Who would have believed such heresy? \u00a0 When God grafted Gentiles into His\u00a0New Testament family, into His Son,\u00a0He had to send a convincing witness from heaven to the Jews that such a thing\u00a0had taken place. \u00a0Otherwise, what Jew on Earth would believe such a thing? \u00a0He had to send a sure “testimony”, a\u00a0“sign” from Himself that no one could refuse, an irrefutable sign\u00a0that His children, the Jews, could not refuse.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter was sent to Cornelius’ house to preach the Gospel of Christ. \u00a0We read in Acts\u00a010:44, “While Peter yet spake these words, the holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. And they of the circumcision (Jews) who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Something happened that astonished those Jews; something happened that caused Peter to confess in verse 47 that THE GENTILE, TOO, HAD AS WELL RECIEVED THE HOLY GHOST. Something occurred there which proved that the impossible was possible! \u00a0Because what happened WAS impossible and would have been altogether unbelievable. \u00a0Something made those Jews believe what was impossible for them to believe!<\/span><\/p>\n

The scriptures tell us that “tongues are a sign for unbelievers”. \u00a0Who could have been in a state of unbelief more than those faithful Jews with Peter on that day, at that moment?\u00a0 But God sent them a sign, an irrefutable sign that their God had been there,\u00a0so that they would not stumble\u00a0in their faith at the mercy poured out on us poor Gentiles.<\/span><\/p>\n

God\u00a0poured the sign out on them (the Jews) first, at the day of Pentecost, when they staggered under the power of God, in Acts 2. And then, after\u00a0the Jews\u00a0had a good measure and were quite full,\u00a0He then did the impossible in the sight of the Jews. \u00a0He touched us Gentiles and sent us that same sign, in love, to help us all to believe and understand. \u00a0Oh God, how we need the type of conversion today that would convince and astonish even an unbelieving Jew. \u00a0 God taught me that in my kitchen, bro. John.\u00a0\u00a0I can tell that truth; it is my testimony.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Speaking in Tongues at Spirit Baptism Bro John, Several years ago, in the morning, while getting ready for work, I heard the Spirit of God start preaching in my inner man. \u00a0It wasn’t audible in the room, but was very loud and clear to me. This\u00a0is what I heard: What was it that convinced the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-netmail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}