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There are two common misconceptions people have about speaking in tongues:
1) Speaking in tongues in the Bible is speaking in the language of angels or some other language that no people on earth normally know, and .....
2) The same gift of speaking in tongues we read of in the Bible continues today.
The Bible reveals that both of these ideas are in false.
The Bible actually says that "speaking in tongues" has ceased.
In 1 Corinthians 13:8-10, Paul, in emphasizing the eternality of love points out that the gift of receiving prophecy from God, the gift of speaking in tongues, and the gift of receiving knowledge from God will end.
He says this will happen when that which is perfect is come. The Greek word translated "perfect" here is teleios. It means "complete." Something has reached its perfection when it is complete.
IMO the only thing that meets that explination is the Word of God and what Paul is referring to is the canonization of Scripture. Once God put all of the knowledge He wanted the church to have into the church through the gifts of knowledge, tongues, and prophecy—and all of this was recorded in Scripture—then He stopped giving those gifts. Tongues were only for the period of transition from the Old to the New Covenant, they were a witness against unbelievers, and were the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies foretelling the divine judgment against the Jews as He turned from them to the Gentiles.
Tongues, as well as the gifts of knowledge and prophecy, and physical healing have ceased.
I've heard that before and got into a debate about it on another forum and it was debated quite a bit. I became very curious about it so did some studying on it and continued to talk to people abut speaking in tongues. Some said they could teach me how, and I didn't understand that because if this is the Holy Spirit praying through us for us, then how could we be presumptuous enough to put words in the Holy Spirit's mouth?!
I prayed and studied and prayed more and more for the Lord to confirm this for me one way or the other. Then one day when I was I praying and not even thinking about speaking in tongues, suddenly I began speaking in tongues. I immediately knew what was going on so I knew enough to stand down and wait for the Holy Spirit to finish. He did, and then I finished praying myself. But I had my answer, and the answer is yes, tongues is alive and well and something we should be doing even in this day and age.
I have to respectfully disagree with you Brother about tongues ceasing. I don't really see how the canonization of scripture is completion though.
I thought, after having spoke in tongues that one time that it would increase. I was wrong. It has not happened again since that one time. In my re-reading of the scriptures though, I did find where it says that when we speak in tongues, it is our spirit praying to the Lord...and that when the Holy Spirit speaks in tongues through us, it is Him praying for us, because we know not what we should pray for for ourselves anyway. So sometimes I do try to pray in tongues myself through my spirit, but I'm not totally comfortable in doping that because...I'm not sure if it's just gibberish or if the Lord is assigning meaning to the sounds? Idk.
But the Lord did show me that tongues is real.
Healing is also real and has not ceased. There is a plethora of video testimonies on You tube about healing. A LOT of them. Of course we can assume that some are fake, but I feel that due to the sheer number of them, that some of them have to be real. The Lord even healed me once Brother. I (am epileptic) had a grand mal seizure on top of a 10 ft ladder and fell off at work and dislocated my hip. No insurance, little money so no hospital. I layed in bed for about 5 or 6 days I think and hobbled back and forth to the bathroom. I could see the bone protruding, I know it was dislocated.
One night before going to sleep, I prayed to our Lord Jesus and asked to be healed while I slept. In the middle of the night I was woke up by a burning sensation in my hip. HOT! It felt as if it was on fire and hurt so much that I cried out in pain. The fire sensation subsided and I went back to sleep. In the morning I woke up and was laying there thinking about it, and recalled hearing (multiple times) in peoples testimonies that a heat sensation is felt when they were being healed. Then I realized that I may have been healed, so I got up and dropped my jammies to look. Sure enough, the bone was not protruding anymore it was flat again. It was still sore though. But I know that when a bone is reset that it will be sore. So I figured that the confirmation would be in a couple days if the soreness went away. Well the soreness did go away and I was healed. Praise and Glory to our Lord for healing me!
True story.
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