Hey guys.
my youth leader gave me this sermon on a CD, and i though i'd share it with you.
It explains that the tongues mentioned in the bible is actually four.
(kind of how like when the bible was written, there were four words to describe love, but our english version of the bible has translated it as the one word 'love')
(this is from a john bevere sermon)
As i understand it,
there are four kinds of tongues that the new testament talks about.
Of the four that the New Testament talks about, two are public, and two are private.
the two public ones:
- tongues as a sign to the unbeliever
Tongues as a sign to the unbeliever occurs when the holy spirit transcends our intellect empowering us to speak, preach, or teach in any language of this earth, of which we have not had any previous experience.
this only happens when the holy spirit wills.
- tongues for interpretation.
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the two private
-tongues for intercession.
he says that this type of tongue has been lost in the church. I quote him "i was out praying this morning and it hit me this morning, i was praying ; God had me interceding over a situation and i was praying over it, and it got to the point beyond tongues and i just had this urge.. and i had to begin to groand.. and listen, the power that is released when you begin to enter into that kind of intercession is just mind-boggling."
- Tongues for personal prayer, which result in personal edification.
the word edify means 'edifus', which means to build a structure.
the word edify is derived from edifus' which means to build a massive magnificant building, so when you pray in tongues, your actually errecting a superstructure, a devine operation inside of you to begin to house the presence and power of God.
my youth leader gave me this sermon on a CD, and i though i'd share it with you.
It explains that the tongues mentioned in the bible is actually four.
(kind of how like when the bible was written, there were four words to describe love, but our english version of the bible has translated it as the one word 'love')
(this is from a john bevere sermon)
As i understand it,
there are four kinds of tongues that the new testament talks about.
Of the four that the New Testament talks about, two are public, and two are private.
the two public ones:
- tongues as a sign to the unbeliever
this occurs in Acts 2.
Tongues as a sign to the unbeliever occurs when the holy spirit transcends our intellect empowering us to speak, preach, or teach in any language of this earth, of which we have not had any previous experience.
this only happens when the holy spirit wills.
- tongues for interpretation.
This is one of the nine gifts of the spirit. That is where we are in a public assembly, and the spirit of God comes upon a person and they begin to speak in a heavenly language, and paul says THAT must be interpreted. <--- that is the tongues to which paul refers to in the end of corinthians 12.
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the two private
-tongues for intercession.
John bevere goes on to explain that this type of tongues actually goes beyond tongues and into actual groaning.
he says that this type of tongue has been lost in the church. I quote him "i was out praying this morning and it hit me this morning, i was praying ; God had me interceding over a situation and i was praying over it, and it got to the point beyond tongues and i just had this urge.. and i had to begin to groand.. and listen, the power that is released when you begin to enter into that kind of intercession is just mind-boggling."
- Tongues for personal prayer, which result in personal edification.
for that reason, paul says (verse 14)
"when praying in tongue, we build ourselves up, we edify ourselves"
the word edify means 'edifus', which means to build a structure.
the word edify is derived from edifus' which means to build a massive magnificant building, so when you pray in tongues, your actually errecting a superstructure, a devine operation inside of you to begin to house the presence and power of God.
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