Elijah did not speak in tongues.  Moses did not speak in tongues. David did not speak in tongues. And Jesus did not either.  They could not speak in tongues, because it was not available under the Old Testament Covenant!  The Holy Ghost Comforter had not been given and couldn’t be given until Jesus paid the… Read More »

“And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.  and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.  And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and I… Read More »

Continuing on in the subject of “objections to speaking in tongues.”  JESUS DID NOT SPEAK IN TONGUES!  Since Jesus did not speak in other tongues, why should we?  One of the reasons that Jesus did not speak in other tongues is because He ministered under the Old Covenant.  Tongues and interpretation of tongues did not… Read More »

The Apostle Paul’s baptism of the Holy Ghost experience does not show him speaking in tongues when ministered to by Ananias in Acts 9.  But in 1 Corinthians 14:18, Paul gives testimony to the fact that, “…..I thank God I speak with tongues more than ye all.”  (vs. 18)  which also is a powerful teaching in… Read More »

Tongues literally manifested in all the previous scripture references, Acts: 2:4; 10:44-47; 19:6. In a fourth instance, when Peter and John prayed for Philip’s Samarian converts (Acts 8:14-24), there is no mention of tongues.  But there was an obvious sign to Simon the sorcerer when he “saw that through laying of of the apostles’ hands… Read More »

Acts 10:44-47,  “While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.  And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.  For they heard them speak with… Read More »

Let’s look at another objection to speaking with other tongues.  Some believers argue, “I am filled with the Holy Ghost and I do not speak in other tongues.  I don’t care what anybody says, I know I am filled with the Holy Ghost.”  If we consider 2 Timothy 3:16, “All scripture is given by inspiration of… Read More »

In John 7:37,38, Jesus referred to the infilling of the Holy Spirit: “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.  He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of… Read More »

If they had already received ALL that was available to them, Jesus would not have inst4ruct4d them to wait for the promise of the Holy Ghost.  Later on, in Paul’s travels to Ephesus, the book of Acts supports this point.  Paul asks some disciples in Acts 19:2, “Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye… Read More »

It is true that you receive the indwelling presence of the Holy Ghost when you ae saved.  But the “indwelling” presence of the Holy Ghost is not synonymous with the “infilling” of the Holy Ghost, which carries with it the evidence of speaking in other tongues.  This is exactly what happened to those who obeyed… Read More »