If you are talking about the inciate tongues Yes! When I Obeyed the Plan of Salvation Acts 2:38. I recieved the Holy Ghost and spoke in Tongues as the Spirit gave the utterance.
If you are talking abut the one in 1 Cor then No I don't have the gift of tongues to edify.
Here is the differents:I have been in an Apostolic Church all my life. I can honestly say I thought there was One Tongues (Acts 2)and then when I got on this Forum I started wondering why Tongues was close to the last on the list of gifts. When it should have been the first. So I asked my sister and she said there were 2 tonges the Inital one in Acts when a Sinner comes to God and the other is the gifts.
So I prayed about it and here is what the Lord told me. It is an AWESOME relevelation!
1)There is two different tongues, one is the initial evidence of a believer receiving the Gift of the Holy Ghost with it comes a prayer language to pray to God for unknown things and intercessory prayer for praying for something or someone that needs prayer. Have you ever been woken up in the middle of the night and just had to pray and don't know why?
Anyway the second is the gift of tongues, which is for the edifing of the church and that comes with an interpetation.
That is powerful when God works thru you to speak, and also the interpetation comes from someone other than the one speaking.
That's the reason Paul wrote to the church saying stop your doing it wrong and goes through the "list" of what it's for and how it works.
A)There is some people that have a problem with Acts 2:6-13. Here is your answer to this. Some people will say the Apostolic's avoided this verse. Read 1 Corithians 12:10 to another divers kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues
2)1 Corithians 14:22 Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying is for a sign, not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.
This shows both uses of divers tongues.
3) there are two kinds of tongues, both are meantioned in the Bible but only one has an example given in Acts 2. the other is meantioned several times like 1 Corithians 12. and this one
asv-Rom 8:26 And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity: for we know not how to pray as we ought; but the Spirit himself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered;
kjv-Rom 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:for we know not what we should pray for4336 as2526 we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
B)What about (1 Cor 12:30) "Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?"
4)As I said before there are divers kind of tongues.
You have to look at why Paul was writing to the Corithians first of all, they were an established church that went through the same salvation plan (Acts 2:3 that the Apostles went through on the day of Pentecost, then they were, as one said "abusing" the tongues. speaking in tongues wildly and out of order. (go look at some commentaries on it)
1 Cor 12:10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues:
1 Cor 12:11 but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.
On the day of Pentecost they had no need for interpretation because they were heard by men, who in turn heard them speaking in their language. The other kind of tongue is where the Holy Ghost works thru you to bring a message to the church, that needs an interpretation.
JESUS said......in Mark 16:16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that disbelieveth shall be condemned.
Mark 16:17 And these signs shall accompany them that believe: in my name shall they cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues.
5)Anyway I wanted to add this definition
UT'TERANCE, n.
1. The act of uttering words; pronunciation; manner of speaking; as a good or bad utterance.
They began to speak with other tongues, as the spirit gave them utterance. Acts 2.
2. Emission from the mouth; vocal expression; as the utterance of sounds.
Every time they received the Holy Ghost, in the book of Acts, they spoke in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. While in the upper room the ALL received it not just a few, a couple, no, all of them.
If you've ever had the Holy Ghost move on you, then you can imagine what they felt like being impowered with the Spirit of the almighty God who created the Heavens, Earth and all there in, Who came down from heaven, robed himself in flesh, became a spotless sacrifice for all that "whosoever will"
Rose on the third day Victorious over death, hell, and the grave, ascended into Heaven leaving a promise that he would not leave us comfortless, but that his Spirit would come unto us John 14:20 In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
Rom 8:8 and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Rom 8:9 But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you. But if any man hath not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
Rom 8:10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the spirit is life because of righteousness.
Rom 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwelleth in you, he that raised up Christ Jesus from the dead shall give life also to your mortal bodies through his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
I know it's biblical to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance, I am proof that it is true, God's word backs me up. I know the truth and it has set me free.
Having been filled with the Holy Ghost as the apostles were, and knowing what the scripture says then I am on the right track. I know the truth and it has set me free.
Understanding this, the letters or epistles that were written to the CHURCHES that were established by the same Apostles that were in the book of Acts, by the same salvation plan that was laid out by Jesus and preached by the Apostles, they heard it directly from the source, therefore who am I to believe, you or them. Or some church that has done away with it because it didn't fit them.
C)There are some people whom learn tongues in class that ain't God's Spirit working in them.
6)There are 2 Different kind of Tongues!!!
It was given by the Holy Ghost, not learned in some class.
Act 2:7 And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying, Behold, are not all these that speak Galilaeans?
Act 2:8 And how hear we, every man in our own language wherein we were born?
Yes they understood them on the day of pentecost, but they who spoke didn't understand what they were saying, but the hearers did.
1 Cor 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
7)Look at these scriptures and tell me what you see....if nothing then ok, but if you do see, then consider it.
John 3:8 The wind bloweth where it will, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit
Jesus is explaining the Baptism of the Holy Ghost
The wind blows and you hear the sound, but you don't know where it comes from, nor where it goes.
He is telling us that when we are born again of the Spirit we will know it because we will hear something..
Acts 10:44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all them that heard the word.
Acts 10:45 And they of the circumcision that believed were amazed, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Spirit
Acts 10:46 For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
Acts 10:47 Can any man forbid the water, that these should not be baptized, who have received the Holy Spirit as well as we?
1Co 14:39 Wherefore, my brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with
tongues
Jesus taught it, the Apostles taught it, I have it because God say I needed it, so it must be important?
D)Two different tongues , one was for edifying the church and the other was a prayer langauge.
Hope this makes sence to you, For it made sence to me. And I thank God for the Revelation he gave me.
Beth
