Another ? about speaking in tongues.

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Originally Posted by Austin

When the terminology," Born Again" started to become a popular doctrine at the turn of the century and everyone in the sophisticated reams of church organization attached themselves to it the teaching then reflected a great controversy on the true doctrine of the apostolic church.
I believe in faith and repentance. But from my own experiences I know that faith and repentance is an act toward God through acknowledging that jesus is lord and rose from the dead.
When I attended a Baptist Church organization and heard the bible preached I repented and God took away that burden of sin and I felt the change in me which was something I never felt before and I knew it was real.
Growing up as a Catholic boy I had never experienced this.
However, it was later when I learned about the infilling of the Holy Ghost and the evidence of speaking in another tongue, which ability was given by the Holy Ghost, that I actually received it.
This was not in a church and was not prompted by a group of people and at the time I was very unlearned in the scriptures.
It made a big difference in my life and it gave me a deeper understanding in the things of God, and it also increased my faith.
It wasn't until years later would I run into trouble with those who would try and discredit this experience.
As i studied their lives and how they reacted to the things of God and as I watched for the power of God in their lives I only saw a profession and no action or manifestation of the power of God that was able to deliver those others who were in great need in their lives.
Salvation and receiving the Holy Ghost are two separate gifts of God whether people want to believe in a second work of grace or not. I personally don't see the work of the grace of God ever stopping in my life and I'm thankful for it that it keeps going on and it keeps increasing as it goes, and I keep receiving more and more from Jesus by his spirit and through his spirit.

A GREAT POST!
If you were filled with the Holy Ghost and had no initial evidence of it - you could lose it and never really know you had it!
Being Filled with the Holy Ghost is a Supernatural Gift that has a natural evidence - to show that you received the Gift! If someone gives me a gift, I want the evidence of it!