Thanks guys for your views on this topic.
I have reached a conclusion that the backdrop of Pauls teachings to the churches regarding this issus is UNITY. "For the Spirit intercedes for US".
The understanding that the Spirit doesnt intercede for us (if we do not have the gift of trongues) This is a dividing doctrine and goes against Pauls general theme of promoting unity.
Dont get me wrong I am not saying that which should ditch the truth to get unity. I am saying Paul is inclusive of those that have the gift and those that dont have the gift
The backdrop of 1 Corinthians is that the Corinthian church was having a lot of problems, most severe is their factionalism. They aligned themselves with different apostles for example, "Of Paul" or "Of Cephas" or "Of Apollos"; some even said "Of Christ"--a lesson for us that claiming of being "just a Christian" against other Christians is still divisiveness and factionalism. Paul, in fact, regards it fortunate that he did not baptize many in Corinth, because that would have only compounded the Corinthians in their divisive attitudes. Some would try and take Paul as saying baptism is unimportant, but that is of course not the point. Paul instead points out how he, Apollos, and Peter (Cephas) were each used for their own tasks by God.
One of the divisive issues is over certain spiritual gifts, most specifically that those who had certain gifts (most prominently, glossolalia) were better than others. Paul wants to nip that in the bud immediately in 1 Corinthians 12, by stating in no uncertain terms that all spiritual gifts are equal, that all have their gifts and callings from the same Holy Spirit. And, ultimately, Paul wants to direct their focus to "a more excellent way". What is that more excellent way? Paul tells us in ch. 13, that without love words are just noise, "If I can speak with the tongues of men or even of angels, but have not love, I am but a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal." What is instead more excellent is love; that all other things may fail and won't last, but "these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love."
It is love that is the highest calling of the Christian.
Then Paul proceeds to talk about orderliness, practical instruction for how the Corinthians can work together and act orderly.
At no point here is the Apostle suggesting tongues-speech is some super amazing everyone must have gift (indeed, doesn't the Apostle say, "Earnestly desire spiritual gifts, but desire all the more that prophecy"? That preaching, expounding on the truth of God, is a far more valuable gift than tongues-speech. Because it is better to say one word of understanding than a thousand words without understanding. As the Apostle also says, "Tongues are a sign not for believers, but unbelievers." Indeed the Apostle quotes the Prophet Isaiah who says, "For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the LORD will speak to this people". As such tongues are a sign not for those in the Church, but those outside, a sign, even, of judgment against their unbelief. Therefore the Apostle says it is only profitable in the Church if there is someone who can interpret the language that is spoken. And, indeed, these are actual, real, spoken languages, not fits of gibberish.
These are real languages, not fake languages. There is no "heavenly language" or "prayer language" that is modern balderdash. These are real, human languages. Such is very clearly presented in Acts 2 where the pilgrims here the people in the upper room speak in their own tongue.
-CryptoLutheran