March 27, 2020
Listener: You said, "Tongues in the bible are ALWAYS without exception worldly languages. No one has received the gift of speaking in tongues since the first century."
Then explain to me why it is that the others thought they were drunk at 10 in the morning...??? If someone I knew never had spoken a lick of French and all the sudden they're fluent, I wouldn't think this is a result of being drunk. But when they were all speaking utterances of their own kind, a language UNKNOWN to this world... "no one understands them; they utter mysteries of the spirit" now tell me... if you understood what God was speaking through you, how would that be a mystery?
TTR: First, what you or I "think" about it has no bearing on the truth of Gods word.
Second, you inserted "a language UNKNOWN to this world" all by yourself, because that is nowhere in the passage.
Watch closely...
Acts 2:6 Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
"every man heard them speak in his own language."
That is not "a language UNKNOWN to this world" as you say.
Acts 2:8 And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?
"wherein we were born?" means from their native country.
Again, this is not "a language UNKNOWN to this world".
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. (1 Corinthians 14:2)
The "unknown" here is not "UNKNOWN to this world", but rather unknown to those in the Corinthian assembly. The reason for Paul's letter was there were some coming in to the Corinthian assembly that spoke a language "unknown" to those in attendance.
Think of it this way, if someone walked in to your church that spoke a language no one there knows, when they speak, they will be speaking "not unto men, but unto God:" Because God understands them but no one in your church does.
Paul is discouraging this because it only genders confusion, and "God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints." (1 Corinthians 14:33)
If someone from another country comes in to a church and speaks in their native tongue that no one there understands, that does nothing for anyone. They would only edify themself and that's not the purpose for a GATHERING.
We the body of Christ are in a spiritual battle, and is what Paul was addressing when he wrote:
For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. (1 Corinthians 14:8-9)
Please notice "words easy to be understood,"
The religious traditional system has taught us to overlook the evidence that is right here under our nose. (Hidden in plain sight)
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