Speaking in Tongues 1 Corinthians 14:1 to 40 What the Bible says About Speaking in Tongues

What often happens is that far too many teachers who do not have experience in the worship manifestations of the Holy Spirit, and have not seen it done properly, go out to teach error on the subject, and then go out to find all the things done wrong, and there is plenty of that to be found. But in the end, are they building up your faith to receive the gifts of the Spirit or not? That is the question we should be asking. Godly teachers will build you up in your most holy faith, and bring you to where you are able to receive the gifts of God, and walk with them as we ought to.

I'm at 13:05 here. Prophecy as used in the church meetings for the edification of the body of people present, is bring forth a message from, or for God, in the language of the people present, for the purpose of edification, by way of exhortation or comfort. A word of prophecy will usually have both exhortation and comfort and it will build people up in their faith and knowledge of God, for God does not want us ignorant of his love and care for us. He wants us to know that he is with us, always watching over us and always caring about the things that are a concern to us, because he loves us. He will lead us out of trouble and brighten our path that we may walk worthy of our calling, as we look to him in everything. There is nothing that he can not lead us out of, or lead us into that is of him. Our God is amazing and he will continue to enlighten us, through the reading and study of scripture, and by other around us. Even through events of our day, he will speak to us. Therefore let's listen and take comfort in him, and find the way of salvation to be brighter in the days ahead, and nearer to us than when we first believed. What we used to do in our church, the one I was with so many years ago, was have speaking in tongues with interpretation and prophecy, every time we met, either by two, or by three. The leader of the meeting would usually either call upon someone to speak in tongues and interpret, or give a word of prophecy. The one who spoke in a tongue would do the interpreting. That is how it was done in our church. We would have prayer, worship by songs, teaching, testimony, and the worship, or inspirational manifestations when we met, as well as announcements and whatever else needed to be done. We walked in those manifestations as Paul wrote of in I Cor 12-14, and we did so as they are the commandments of the Lord. As far as I could tell, we did it right. We did it decently. We did it in order, and God was with us in the doing of it all.

I'm at 5:26. Let's remember that by the Bible's definition of what a tongue is, that tongues also includes languages of angels. Where does it say that languages have to be written? Maybe the languages of angels are written. Maybe they do write their languages. I really don't know. But we know that when men speak in tongues, it will either be a language of men or of angels. A man may speak in an UNKNOWN tongue, (which is what the manifestation of speaking in tongues produces. It produces a tongue or language which is unknown to the person speaking in tongues. This however, does not mean that there can not be someone present who knows that language. If it happens to be a language of angels, most likely no man will understand it. I know of no man who understands any languages of angels, do you? But if his tongue happens to be a language of men, it is possible that someone present would understand it. However this is usually rare. There are many people who have told of this happening. I have heard of this happening from several sources. I have heard perhaps a hundred different tongues and never knew of two that were the same, or even of one which I understood the meaning of. God has his reasons for giving us languages that he understands, but we do not. Remember that the scripture says that his ways are much higher than our ways. Everything God does and says makes sense, even if we do not understand it. It makes sense to the Holy Spirit, and it makes sense to Jesus, at least. That much we can be sure of. Just because a person doesn't understand what is being spoken in tongues, that doesn't mean it's not speaking in tongues by the manifestation of the Holy Spirit. It would be sick, to think that just because we don't understand what's being said, that it can't be speaking in tongues. Listen to minute 7:33. That wasn't speaking in tongues. It was gibberish. It was nonsense. However, tongues will flow. It will flow because the utterance is given by the Spirit of God, and it will have sounds that are characteristic of that language. Every language has it's own peculiarities, it's own style. It's own kind of sounds. Certain sounds will repeat, just as is normal with the speaking of any language. How many times do you see the word "tongue" here in what I have written? That word repeats itself here, and the same kind of thing will happen when a person speaks in tongues, if he speaks long enough. Notice that at 7:33, that which was not tongues, did not continue. Robert Breaker, here isn't able to produce a smooth flow of sounds that go for a fluent minute, by natural human ability, and that's the same for every one of us. To speak in a language fluently for a solid minute, in a flow, given by the Holy Spirit, a man must be operating a gift of the Holy Spirit. A man might memorize something and speak that for a solid minute, but that is only speaking by memorization. It's not speaking by thinking up, or imagining what to say. A man can not speak fluently for a solid minute just be imagining what to say. That's just how God made us. Realizing this helps us discern the real from any kind of counterfeit. It's not that difficult. It's just basic discernment. When we speak in tongues we ourselves are edified, not in our minds by what we understand because of the unknown words we have been saying, for we do not understand, but we are built up spiritually. We receive both the peace of God while we speak in tongues, as well as the "energy" the "quickening" of the Holy Spirit. It has to be experienced in order to have an experiential knowledge of it. Once we have an experiential knowledge of speaking in tongues, there is a "fire". We have that too. That comes with the gift. Any man that would try to talk you out of what you have received, doesn't have a chance. He would be wasting his time. I'm only about 8 minutes into this, but if I kept listening, I might have more to write, but this is enough for now. I just heard some more blabbering,  at just a few seconds into the 9th minute, and it's easy to tell that it was not speaking in tongues. Neither did it go for very long, and I suppose we have God to thank for that.

I'm at 3:17 into this, and this teaching that tongues was different "to the Jews" at Pentecost of Acts 2, is somehow different than tongues today, is false. It's the same gift today as it was back then. The manifestation of the Spirit, known as speaking in tongues is the same today, functioning the same as it did back then. Men speak in tongues today as the Spirit gives them utterance today, and they do speak a language (of men or of angels) which they do not know. I don't know how many languages the men who spoke in tongues on that day of Pentecost of Acts 2 actually spoke while manifesting the gift of speaking in tongues, but we do know that some of the languages, at least, were known to the many people present from many different areas, who understood what was being spoken, of different languages, or tongues. This is the sign God gave on that day, so there would not have to be confusion about what he just gave. Remember that confusion pertaining to language, that belongs over in Genesis 11, while clarity about languages, that belongs over in Acts 2, as well as in I Cor 14. Disassembly, that belongs over in Genesis 11, while assembly belongs over in Acts 2. (as well as in I Cor 14) Stopping the present work, that belongs over in Genesis 11, while building the work of God belongs over in Acts 2. (as well as in I Cor 14) Although the usual speaking, or praying in tongues today, as in the days of the Church at Corinth will usually, and normally, be in a language that no one present will understand, the manifestation of the gift of tongues is operated exactly the same way. Although the fire that appeared on the day of Pentecost of Acts 2, will not likely be seen today, the manifestation of speaking in tongues of Acts 2, is the same manifestation of today, as operated in the church or in our private prayer life.

One thing we fail to establish when we mention those verses in Corinthians is the fact that Corinthians was on of the first books. It was written before the book of Romans and the book of Acts. Tongues are listed last in 1 Co. 12:10 1Co 12:10  To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:  Again, in verse 28. 1Co 12:28  And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues. These two lists are the early lists of gifts. God changed these two lists of gifts after the tongues' prophecy had been fulfilled. The second two lists are in Ephesians 4: 8-12 and Romans 12:4-8 which were written later. Tongues are not mentioned in these later lists for a reason. God considered the gift of tongues fulfilled and had stopped them completely by the time the Bible was completed. Apostle Paul tells us that Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 
Gal 5:23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Nowhere is 'speaking in tongues mentioned'! Paul laid one test out that no one even attempts to pass.
1Co 14:22  Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. 
It is impossible to convert an infidel with gibberish, and babbling!
My Research indicates the Books of The New Testament are those of importance to understand the Timeline is as: James - 50 A.D. First Thessalonians - 52-53 Second Thessalonians - 52-53 Galations - 55 First Corinthians - 57 Romans - 57-58 Philippians -62-63 Colossians - 62-63 Philemon - 62-63 Ephesians - 62-63.
As one can clearly see the Timeline of Christianity is extremely important to understand how the gift of tongues was only for a 'very short period of time'! As Apostle Paul stated, 1Co 13:8  Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. 
Following the Timeline, one can see clearly 'tongues, they 'shall cease'; as evidenced from all that ensued they clearly 'ceased'!
1Co 14:27  If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. 

Noted authorities from long ago, knew quite well that the literal, and scholarly plausible interpretation here is very simple. One person (singularly) speaks one, or two sentences. That's right one man, and he spoke two, or three sentences. Period. If any man speaketh in a tongue. He must speak two, or at the most three sentences (by two, or at the most three) in succession (by course), and another, who has the gift of interpretation (1Co_12:10), must interpret. Most commentators refer two or three to persons speaking. I follow Macknight.
Simply, any person who interprets is one who is capable of assisting as being bilingual. In Corinth, Greece, there was a commerce more so perhaps, than anywhere else in the world at that time. Two seas came up around that area! Many, many different languages were being spoken there!
1Co 14:2  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. 1Co 14:4  He that
speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth
the church. Now, these two  verses
corroborates what my next statement is: This is the 'Preacher'! That's right!
This is the Preacher This next verse also supports that the subject is the Preacher that Apostle Paul is referring to: 1Co 14:13  Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.  14-2, 4, and 13 relates to the subject! The Preacher! He is reading from the Old Testament! After all, the New
Testament had not been written! That is what Apostle Paul is doing at this
time. He is writing the epistle to the Church in Corinth, Greece. At this time
the Corinthians were undoubtedly the highest in commerce because of where the
Church was.

Apostle Paul provides a lengthy explanation
about the nonsense of one wishing to pray in tongues!  Just how silly can you get?  So, he responds:  1Co 14:15  What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray
with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with
the understanding also. Joh 14:6 
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. Now, this is exactly how you pray in tongues:  Rom 8:26  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know
not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh
intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Who ‘maketh intercession’  ‘with groanings’ which cannot be uttered? ?
 
Rom 8:27  And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh
intercession for the saints according to the
will of God. 

Rom 8:34  Who is he that
condemneth? It is Christ that died,
yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also
maketh intercession for us. 

This scripture explains exactly what Paul is
saying about praying in tongues!  Jesus
makes intercession!  Jesus with groanings
which cannot be uttered!


Ones who have the fruits of the spirit, are not
limited to a few minutes of fame!  Gal 5:22 
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, 

Gal 5:23  Meekness, temperance:
against such there is no law. 

Gal 5:24  And they that are
Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 

Gal 5:25  If we live in the
Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 

Gal 5:26  Let us not be
desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another. 

Now, isn’t that
beautiful!  Let us not be desirous of
vain glory!
To my knowledge the Charismatics have no idea who the subject in 1 Co. 14:2, 4, and verse 13 is! Who is that subject? It has to be a subject that is referenced! It is simply the Preacher reading from the Torah, and very few understood the Hebrew language. Charismatics need to wake up!
If a woman ever spoke in church Apostle Paul had one word for her! Silence!
1Co 14:39  Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.
Very simple: Corinth, Greece was an area with two seas surrounding the area, and was the highest commerce in the world at that time; therefore, many came into the Church who spoke numerous tongues. Just keep it real Charismatics!

Loved this thank you Brother so happy to have found you and that you only use the KJV !! Thanks be to God for the spirit of TRUTH God is not the Author of confusion or babbling

some truth to every lie. this video is not truth.

Actually you are wrong again about women pastors. See 2 John 1. The very first verse is addressed to 'the elect lady' She was the pastor of a church or elder. Paul is talking about women who try to state their so called authority forcefully. Agreed, the general consensus is men, but does not exclude women. Please use proper exegesis for this topic on women also. Off subject a bit, but no Christian can be possessed by a demon, oppressed perhaps, but not possessed!

When my wife got filled with the Holy Spirit, she spoke in tounges for 3 days and could not shut up. Blew her mind and everybodys mind in the church, That was 20 yrs ago and those that were there then still remember that day. Alot of people got save from that encounter. Your false teaching will not draw anyone to christ,,,

your taking scripture out of context brother. The gospel of Paul that you say we are under says you have to speak in tounges to build up your most Holy Faith. And the only way to please God is by faith. Your wrong dead blind wrong...................

If it is not true what you are saying about 'Pentecostal women' then you should not have repeated this slur against them, this is called 'gossip'. I'm surprised to hear a teacher of the word come off with this whither it is true or not! Paul is clearly teaching about women taking authority they do not have and trying to browbeat men, this happens unfortunately, but this should not stop them from prophesying as Philip's four daughters prophesied. How could they do so without speaking?

How did this missionary discern that the man was cursing God? If the gifts of the Spirit have indeed passed away then it would be impossible to discern in modern times whither one is cursing God or not. If this indeed were the case, then satan would give gifts of interpretation, and that would make a mockery of the entire issue. Paul made it perfectly clear at the beginning of 1 Cor 12 'Now concerning Spiritual gifts I don't want you to be ignorant....' Truth is we have been ignorant ever since. Sorry: tounges are one of the charismata, Paul makes this very clear. He is not talking about a learned language. At the beginning of Ch 13 he mentions: '...and of angles...'. Paul is not talking of his scholarly abilities here, albeit that did exist, this is clear. Again you are so wrong, the New Testament had not even been written then, this is a letter of instruction to this particular church. When are you going to get round to expounding on this particular portion of scripture properly? Wait a minute it says '...pray that he can interpret...', not go the night school etc to learn a foreign language. Sorry, Robert you are applying physical laws to spiritual gifts, this is an abuse of scripture! How many people do you know who have learned to speak fluently in a foreign language by praying. Paul is talking about SPIRITUAL GIFTS here, not the ability to learn languages!! Also Robert you contradict your exegesis. If spiritual gifts have passed away as you claim, then praying won't help. Can you see the flaws in your argument. Tongues are for the Jews or unbelievers which is it. Should unbelievers have the ability to operate in 'spiritual gifts'? This is what you are attempting to say.

You are 100% correct! Furthermore, Tongues is a sign for UNBELIEVERS not for believers! Jesus Christ is LORD & CREATOR, Hebrews 1:2.

I think you sir need to listen to the Swaggarts programmes. I don't agree with them in everything, but they definitely preach doctrine! It is wrong to make a blanket statement that Pentecostals do not preach doctrine. Now we should test what they teach and see if what they say is really in the bible, that is a different issue. Again, you are talking about the Toronto Christian Fellowship. Have a berean approach to this issue rather than sweeping generalities. so is it only those in Pentecostal churches who sin? It sounds like this is what you are saying. What did Jesus say about judging Matt 7. Sir you know better than this as I've watched your other videos and found them quite good. Nowhere in the N.T. is it said that the Holy Spirit would withdraw his gifts with the completion of scripture, this is a false doctrine! Yet again you are wrong on Paul's teaching on women. The context in 1 Cor 14 is interrupting as the women were in a separate gallery. I could say more on this but space is a premium. At the risk of putting words in this man's mouth, he is really saying: 'We don't understand spiritual things, so lets try and put a rational spin on this teaching of Paul's. Darby, Schofield, and B B Warfield does a similar thing with these scriptures.

I feel that NO penacostal told u that u must speak into tings in order to get the holt spirit? Fulse I know that u are falsely accusing the church and making fun of the tongs, as if anyone speaks in tongs, not right at all,

You do not show any proof of this by making fun of the church people who believe in lord Jesus Christ, you don't make fun of a church to get your beliefs out known, yes in order to receive the gift of tongs it has to be by the holy spirit, that person who speaks of the gift tongs DOES NOT know the meaning, another member who is and has the holy spiritual OF of the gift will translate what the lord is saying that wants to be said, you are a false man, angry more then anything and use and say other meanings of the holy bible and twist the real meaning of the Bible, I advise u this, what u say to others you will be judged because you are taking away from them, the Bible clearly states
DO NOT ADD OR TAKE AWAY FOR THE SAME MEASURES SHALL BE ADDED ON OR BE TAKEN AWAY FROM YOU!

God bless you and I will pray for you I promise....
John
Penecostal Christian

I'm sorry you're wrong!! I'm a Pentacostal and I've NEVER heard that you HAD to speak in tongues to be saved or that to receive the holy ghost!! I really liked your teaching until this message! I feel you are spreading hatred about some church that acted wrong! There are MANY MANY churches that are wrong! I'LL have you know that I've never had any person at all act the way you are talking! You're not right to call all of them wrong! We learn from the Bible and exactly what the BIBLE says...what God says! I really think you should apologize for everything you've said! You should at least admit that you're judging everything by what you think and what you've saw sinners do! I'm sorry but I have seen someone speaking in tongues and THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WERE SAYING with God! You've made me sooo mad and hurt and offended the way you put down us Christians the way you just have in this video! I suppose you think we are wrong to raise our hands up to praise God!! I'm just beyond words after hearing you MAKE FUN OF OTHERS! IF there are people in Church that aren't doing the right way then that's them! We are to go to church and learn about God!! IF WE YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A PERFECT CHURCH I'M SORRY BUT WHEN YOU FIND ONE WHERE EVERYTHING IS PERFECT THEN YOU LET US KNOW! I have NO idea what kind of church you went to but they sound nothing like a Pentacostal! Your message should've been to look out for wrong teachings! NOT A VIDEO OF HOW MUCH YOU HATE PENTACOSTAL! There should not be labels put on Churches anyways! You seem so full of hate...why? I must unsubscribe because I know that there are people that have spoken in tongues and yes they knew what they said! They knew what they spoke meant!

Typical Baptist.
I speak in tongues.
My pastor, his wife and 3/4 of our congregation all speak in tongues.
We've seen physical manifestations of demons during our deliverance meetings, and miracles of healing.
This is wrong teaching.

You say that you were in pentecostal/Charismatic circles before you were saved, that is interesting in itself, because you would not be able to discern what was false and what was genuine in a spiritual sense because you would not have been alive toward God at that time, so any spiritual activity would have been foolish to you. Yes all that happens in Charismatic circles needs to have those in it's ranks to discern what is true I agree with this, but you would not have been in a position to do this at that time. Nowhere in Acts are tongues spoken of as being written down, in that you are mistaken.

The baptism with the Holy Spirit is not for regeneration, but for power. The disciples had their names written in the book of life before pentecost. What the disciples did not have was power to witness for Christ Acts 1. True the disciples were Jewish, but did they literally go to the ends of the earth? Also in Acts the power of the Spirit was for generations to come. You do not give the reference where it says that Paul was the last apostle, but in Ephesians 4 the office of apostle was until they all came to unity in the faith. Have we unity in the faith now? I would like to know precisely in the New Testament where it teaches that the gifts ceased with the completion of the cannon of scripture or the death of the last apostle? The usual scriptures cited, are usually taken out of context.