Testimony To The Truth

[RonMurray]

Originally Posted by shazeep

the truth of the Word is that diverse tongues is a gift, not a standard. Why create a division, where none was needed?

Declaring the truth is not division, but correction.

Isaiah 28;11 & 12 tells us that this stammering of lips and speaking with another tongue is the rest and the refreshing. So it is a biblical fact that every one who receives the Holy Spirit will speak with tongues.

The gift of tongues that's mentioned in 1 Corinthians is a message, and it's only given to some beloevers, not every believer. Different spiritual gifts are given to different believers. But there are tongues that every believer experiences who receives the gift of the Holy Spirit. This is not the gift of tongues, and it is not a message.

In 1 Corinthians 14;15, Paul says, "What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding."

Paul says he will "pray" and "sing". He's not talking about a message here, but worshiping God. And he says that he will pray and sing with the spirit and with the understanding. He was comparing the diffetence between worshiping God with the spirit, with tongues, with a laguage he doesn't understand in contrast to worshiping God with the understanding, with a laguage he knows and understands.

The sign of tongues that every believer experiences who receieves the Holy Spirit is the Spirit making intercession in us in our prayer and worship unto God.