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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Speaking in Tongues
Hello Brother Bill,
I know that I am filled with the Holy Spirit. I focus myself on our Father, Christ
and His teachings and I am absolutley a Christian, but I have never spoken in tongues. Why do some Christians speak
in tongues while others don't or never have?
God's plan for His saved children is that we all be
not only baptized into the Body of Christ but to be baptized in the Holy Ghost also.
All Born Again people are
baptized into the Body of Christ at the new birth: Jesus said in John 3:3 "You must be Born Again in order to go
to heaven and be able to perceive the kingdom of God."
The Born Again baptism by the Spirit of God shows forth
in the individual submitting himself to water baptism. This is in accordance with Christ's teaching on water baptism.
(See Matt 3:13-15, Matt 28:19) This water baptism is an outward witness of a spiritual act. Our witness then is shown
to the devil, mankind and God that we believe in the death, burial and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Further,
we see Jesus speaking in Acts 1:4-5 that the 120 believers should wait for the promise of the Father. About 120 born
again men and women gathered themselves in an upper room and waited for the promise to be fulfilled. After 10 days wait,
we see in the Word, (Acts 2:1-4) they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and begin to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit
gives them utterance.
As we proceed further into the book of Acts, we see the normal operation of believers being
baptized in the Holy Ghost. Acts 10:44-46 tells us they spake with tongues when baptized. Acts 19:2-6 tells
us they spake with tongues and prophesied. In chapter 8 of the book of Acts we see Simon trying to buy the gift of laying
on of hands to receive the baptism, when he saw them speaking in tongues.
These preceding verses of scripture show
the facts that when baptized in the Holy Ghost one speaks with other tongues.
In my 50 years plus, of being a Spirit
filled baptized in the Holy Ghost man, I have never known any one who received the baptism in the Holy Ghost where they
did not speak in other tongues.
Yours in Christ,
Brother Bill
4:45 pm akdt
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