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It's the SERIOUS FAULT of many to read their Bibles through their EXPERIENCES...instead of EVALUATING THEIR EXPERIENCES THROUGH THEIR BIBLES! "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world" (I Jn. 4:1). In every religious body - no matter what they believe and teach - there's a spirit that animates that body and keeps it going. Many people think, if you get a 'thrill,' if something 'warms your heart' and makes tears run down your cheek or goose pimples up your spine, it's God. No, we can't tell whether or not it's God by goose bumps. I say it with kindness, but please remember how we are to try the spirits. "Search the scriptures" (Jn. 5:39).
"For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect" (Matt. 24:24). Now, I'm going to begin to make some very strong statements. I pray that God will help me...and you, because I have no desire to hurt anyone. What I need to say may be very upsetting, but PLEASE 'bear with me'............ I don't know of anything that's more DECEIVING than 'false tonguesism.' It gets people to thinking they have the Holy Ghost because they 'rattle off some kind of jibber-jabber,' many of which, admitting to living 'in sin'...bound by the 'habits of sin'...admitting to such things as smoking, 'drinking' and committing adultery. Now, please note that I said many; I didn't say all. AND it was not painless for me to say many. Now, "...because they received not the love of the truth...God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie" (II Thess. 2:11). How do we get a strong delusion? By, just going along with a great profession of the power of God, when not living right. "Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doc- trines of devils" (I Tim. 4:1). Now, PLEASE! I'm not 'branding' everybody the same. THERE ARE MANY GOOD PEOPLE THERE!, but let's be careful,...just the fact there are good people there, is no PROOF that the TEACHING IS RIGHT. Again, I want to speak with the Love of God and His Kindness.
You can take a scripture out of the setting and state just about, if not anything you want. But if it's left in the context, it will say only one thing. Now, God help us to get some under-standing of Acts 2:38. "Then Peter said unto them, repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." First of all, we need to understand the DIFFERENCE between the GIFT OF the Spirit and the Spirit's GIFTS. The GIFT that God promised is the INDWELLING of the Holy Ghost - not some manifestation of Him, but He Himself. Jesus didn't talk about the Holy Ghost in terms of IT; but as HE. "If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may ABIDE with you forever; Even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know Him, for He DWELLETH WITH YOU, and shall be IN you" (Jn. 14:15-17). "And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high" (Lk. 24:49). Please, listen closely; I want to say that the only tarrying they had to do was in Jerusalem until the day of Pentecost came. Then, nowhere in the Bible can anything be found where anyone else had to tarry and wait for the Holy Ghost, if or when they met the conditions. Since then, people receive the Holy Ghost instantaneously when they're saved. Now, I know that many do not teach 'that,' but please don't throw me 'over the dump' yet. God, help us to see that this thing of having to tarry night after night around an alter and 'foaming,' is NOT OF GOD. It throws people into a terrible shape, 'losing their minds,' going 'insane' trying to 'get religion,' and all the time causing a blasphemous work to be done against the REAL CAUSE OF GOD. We CERTAINLY BELIEVE exactly like the Bible says about speaking in tongues and being baptized with the Holy Ghost, but not (and I say it with LOVE) this 'false stuff.' I know that 'sounds' harsh, but not IF IT'S TRUE. Please let me say again, the GIFT that God promised IS THE HOLY GHOST. Then, HE'S the giver of many gifts.
I Cor. 12:4 "Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit." Vs. 7, "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to PROFIT WITHAL." What is the manifestation? It's the different ways the Spirit moves or speaks through you as an individual. Again, please listen closely, the Holy Ghost NEVER has you do one thing in a public service because it makes YOU feel good. You know what I mean!, when people go into a 'frenzy' and no one really knows what's wrong with them! But they say, "I'm feeling good." Well, may God help us to see...that's NOT the Holy Ghost. Whenever the Holy Ghost has you, or anyone, move in a public service, it's for everyone's benefit in the service. "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man TO PROFIT WITHAL [EVERYONE]." "For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gift of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another DIVERS KINDS of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues; but all these worketh that [by] one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will" (vs 8-11). "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. Are all apostles? If they were, who would there be to preach to? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles? Have all the gift of healing? Do ALL SPEAK WITH TONGUES? Do all interpret?" (vs. 28-30). The answer to every one of these is NO, No, no,...When you have the Holy Ghost, you have the GIFT of God, and then He passes out the gifts as it pleases Him. So when you receive the Holy Ghost, you don't know what you're going to get in the way of gifts. You shouldn't get down and say, "Now Lord, make me jibber-jabber so I'll know when I get it, I'll be here till I jibber." I must repeat, I'm saying all this with love and kindness...I have no desire to hurt anyone, so please bear with me...God, help me to make it CLEAR, but as 'painless' as possible.
Verse 19 "And if they were all one member, where were the body?" It takes many members to make up a body. He took a natural body to show the different gifts and the working of the Spirit. "If the foot shall say, because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?" (vs. 15). Even so, if we're going to have a thriving congregation of the church, we must have different gifts of the Spirit, and no member can say, "Because your gift isn't like mine, you're not of the body." That's why it's 'false' to say, "If you don't have the gift of tongues, you're not of the body."
"And these signs (plural) shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall recover" (Mk. 16-17,18). Whenever you say, "Unless you speak in an unknown tongue, I'm not going to believe that you're a believer." I have every right, according to the scripture, to say, "Unless you handle a 'snake,' I'm not going to believe that you're a believer."
Furthermore, believers are AHEAD of the signs. In Mark 16:17, Christ said that these signs would FOLLOW them that believe. Also in I Cor. 14:22, Paul said, "tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not." Why? Believers don't need any signs on what the Bible says. We're getting in bad shape whenever we must have 'tokens' to know that we're saved. Does the scripture say; that the just shall live by signs? No! the just shall live by faith! I'm trusting that, if not yet, you'll begin to see 'this work' as nothing more than a work of the 'enemy of Truth'...that has turned many people from FAITH to the FLESH. Signs are for unbelievers, but even after unbelievers see signs, they're not going to be saved just because they saw signs. They must come to the place that they believe the Word of God if they are ever to be saved.
There are three instances in the Bible when people were baptized with the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues, or the Greek says languages. Acts 2, on the day of Pentecost, Acts 10, at Cornelius' house and Acts 10, the Samaritans down at Ephesus. In every instance where the gift of tongues was given, they spoke in an understandable language of the day. They needed no interpreter. That's what the gift's for! When God couldn't find any man to talk to Balaam and He wanted to 'straighten him out,' He talked through a mule and the mule spoke in the Hebrew tongue. "And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?" (Numbers 22:28). He didn't have to get another mule to interpret it. Now, a little humor? If that dumb mule (another word?) can do it right, surely we ought to. Forgive me [smile].
There are many instances in the Bible where individuals were filled with the Holy Ghost and didn't speak in tongues. The reason is that there was no need for it. I won't go back into the Old Testament, but we know that the prophets possessed the Holy Ghost, and did not speak in tongues. Now, let's look at some of the instances in the New Testament: Zacharias, who was John the Baptist's father, was filled with the Holy Ghost - Lk. 1:67. John the Baptist was filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb -Lk. 1:15. Also, Elizabeth, John the Baptist's mother, was filled with the Holy Ghost - Lk. 4:1. Did you ever notice that Jesus never spoke in tongues? Why did He never speak in tongues? He came to His own. He spoke the language of His own people. My! How can anyone say that no one is filled with the Holy Ghost unless he speaks in tongues?
In Acts 6:3-8, we read of people filled with the Holy Ghost, and they didn't speak in tongues. Acts 8:14-17, gives another instance. In Acts 9:17-18, Paul was filled with the Holy Ghost, and scales fell from his eyes. In Acts 4:31, a multitude was filled with the Holy Ghost and they didn't speak in tongues.
My friend, the Holy Ghost manifests Himself in speaking in tongues only where there's a need. Now, listen, PLEASE!, You can be filled with the Holy Ghost, but as long as you work with English - speaking people, you will never have the manifestation of the Spirit in speaking in another language.
Let's go to Acts 2:1-4, "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. [Now it wasn't a wind that blew and almost blew the windows out as preachers tell you. No, it was AS of a mighty rushing wind - a noise, a power]. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them." Those tongues like as of fire simply show the purifying work. Remember John the Baptist said in Matt. 3:11, "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier that I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear. He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire." We MUST read the Bible just as it is.
Acts 2:4, "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with OTHER tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance." The first thing we learn from that fourth verse is this - They were ALL FILLED with the Holy Ghost, but they didn't ALL speak in tongues. They only spoke AS the Spirit gave them utterance. It doesn't say that they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they all spoke in tongues. Also, the very fact that they spoke in OTHER tongues shows that they had been speaking in tongues before. They had been speaking in the Galilean language before that. When the Holy Ghost uttered through them, they spoke in ANOTHER understandable language according to the need of the hearers. "Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language" (Acts 2:6).
Back in this period of time (AD-33) there was a different dialect every 20, 30 or 40 miles. There were eighteen different nationalities there that day, including the Galileans, that were in walking distance from Jerusalem.
Please notice, as we study the second chapter of Acts that they didn't ask or expect tongues on Pentecost. The Spirit merely allowed them to express their gratitude for God in another language so the other people could understand and hear them magnify the Lord. The same is true in the other two instances in the Scriptures where they spoke in tongues.
We need to realize that the Bible teaches basically three languages. First, there's the language of the soul. "Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intersession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered" (Rom. 8:26-27). Someone said, "That's it; that's the unknown tongue." NO, No, no, Acts 2:4 said that they spoke as the Spirit gave them utterance. They spoke in languages. Here's a picture of an individual praying, and he doesn't know what the will of God is. Since he doesn't know the will of God, the Spirit will help him. Have you ever been under a burden like that; where all you could do was groan?
The next language is our native language. This is the one we were born with or learned through education. Paul said in I Cor. 14:18, "I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:" Did you ever study the life of Paul? He spoke many different languages which he learned through education.
The third language that the Bible talks about is a language that is given by the supernatural working of God's Holy Spirit. Now this gift, or this speaking in what you might call an unknown tongue, is what caused the trouble at Corinth. Corinth was a commerce city with a great populous. Men and women flocked in there from everywhere with every kind of language imaginable. Then in church, these people, were wanting to pray and testify, but they spoke in a language that none of the congregation could understand. This is why Paul, in I Cor. 14, talks about an unknown tongue - not unknown to the one speaking, but unknown to the audience.
I Cor. 14:1, "Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy." Every gift that the Spirit gives is for one purpose - the forwarding of the Gospel. Too many people understand prophesying to mean only the foretelling of some future event. Webster says that prophesying is preaching the Gospel in an understandable language.
I Cor. 14:2-4, "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. But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself" [No one gets help but him]. Remember we learned in I Cor. 12:7, that every manifestation of the Spirit is to profit withal (everyone). Every manifestation of the Spirit profits the whole church and edifies the whole body. So what is Paul talking about when he speaks of an 'unknown' tongue here? For EXAMPLE, suppose I enter your congregation and begin to testify in the Italian language which you do not understand. Now, God understands me. He understands all languages. So I'm just speaking to God and not to men, and Paul said that he didn't want any just speaking to God in the congregation. The things I'm saying are mysteries as far as you're concerned because you can't understand my language. It's 'unknown' to you.
Verse 5 Paul says, "I would that ye all spake with tongues [other languages] but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying." For example, I speak Russian and come into your English congregation. I can neither speak nor understand your language. But there's another person there who can speak both English and Russian. Paul is saying he shouldn't speak anything to me in the public service unless he interprets to the congregation what he is saying.
Now let's consider why they spoke in 'other' tongues down at Cornelius' house when they were filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts 10 says that Cornelius' house was full of Italians. Acts 10:1, "There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurian of the band called the Italian band." They spoke the Italian language. Peter was a Galilean, and he didn't believe that the Gentiles could receive the Holy Ghost. So God baptized them with the Holy Ghost right in front of his eyes, and then let them magnify the Lord in a language that Peter could understand. "For they [Peter and the men with him] heard them speak with tongues and magnify God" (Acts 10:46).
I Cor. 14:6-13, "Now, brethern, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 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. There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me. Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifing of the church. Wherefore, let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue [not unknown to himself, but unknown to the congregation], pray that he may interpret [speak in their language]."
Verse 14, "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful." My!, how many 'twist' this scripture! Away they go in tongues; and they say, "My spirit's praying, but my understanding's unfruitful; I don't know what I'm saying." Now, that's not what Paul said at all. Paul is saying that, if I pray in the congregation in an unknown tongue, which you people cannot understand; my understanding (I understand) is unfruitful. PLEASE! LISTEN! VERY CAREFULLY! HOW DOES MY UNDERSTANDING BECOME FRUITFUL? WHEN, YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I UNDERSTAND!!! Forgive me, but I feel that it's so important that you UNDERSTAND 'that' (smile).
I Cor. 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." The next verse also shows that the understanding and fruitfulness he's talking about is in regard to the others listening. "Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he UNDERSTANDETH NOT what thou sayest? For thou verily givest thanks well, but the other is not edified" (vs. 16,17).
Verse 18, "I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all." Remember that Paul learned many languages through education, and may have spoken others as a gift. There wasn't any man who needed to speak in tongues more than Paul. He traveled on one missionary journey right after another where there were different languages of every kind. Listen to him though. PLEASE GET THIS ALSO! "Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue" (vs. 19). Putting five words up against ten thousand is a pretty good percentage.
Verse 20, "Brethern, be not CHILDREN in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding BE MEN." Are you still with me? I have tried to say often enough, that I speak with LOVE, and that I have no desire to 'hurt' or 'put down.' My sincere desire though, is by the help of the Holy Spirit and God's Eternal Word, to EXPOSE THE 'ENEMY OF TRUTH,' HIS COUNTERFEITS AND DECEPTIONS. Personally, I'm NOTHING! The STRENGTH AND POWER is only in THE WORD and THE SPIRIT - The TWO WITNESSES that you can read about in the REVELATION! (smile).
"...be not CHILDREN in understanding...but in understanding BE MEN." Now, that's just exactly what a lot of 'this' is, just giving away to emotions and acting like a bunch of children. Again, I speak with kindness, but It's surprising how much of 'that' has to be 'worked up.' There isn't much of 'it' brought from home. There has to be some singing and clapping of the hands to get 'it' going.
Corinth's mistake was STRESSING GIFTS ABOVE love to all, holiness of heart, and Christian living. This led to ONE MASS OF CONFUSION. "Yet shew I unto you a more excellent way" - LOVE! (I Cor. 12:31). He described something better than tongues. He showed them a more excellent way to keep the church in harmony as a working force. He put LOVE AT THE TOP. TONGUES were THE LEAST of the gifts. The first fruit of the Spirit is love. Gifts are only secondary. Love, heart purity and holiness of life are held HIGH ABOVE ALL manifestations of the Spirit of God.
Recently, a 'sister' wanted to testify in one of our services. I asked her privately what she was going to testify about. She said, "Salvation." I asked, "Are you saved?" She answered, "I've got the Holy Ghost." I said, "How do you know that you have the Holy Ghost? She replied, "Because I can talk in tongues." "Well," I said, "Have you been saved from sin?" She answered, "All but the cigarettes; I still smoke cigarettes." I replied, "Smoking cigarettes and filled with the Holy Ghost? That's not the Holy Ghost in you; that's 'another ghost.' The Holy Ghost doesn't live in an unclean place." She had been 'duped.' Her heart was heavy. This is the thing that grieves me. While she was seeking help, the wrong people got hold of her and got her tarrying until she got 'this jibber-jabber,' but there was no power in it to live a clean life. I began to teach her about the thing that Jesus came to do: first of all, to set her free from sin, to break the chains and the habits, and to give her victory. That's just one case...I could go on and on.
It hasn't been very long ago, that a young man came to the alter. The minute he started praying, I saw what kind of a spirit he was 'under,' because he went into that 'jerking' that they go into. I went over and asked him what he needed. He replied that he wanted to get saved. Then I asked him on purpose if he was ever saved before. He 'reared back' and said, "Saved?! Man, I preached the Gospel, I spoke in tongues." I said, "But were you ever saved?" He said, "Well, I never did get victory over the cigarettes. I didn't smoke them publicly, but I still smoked them on the side." Still, he continued to speak in tongues. He told me how 'the spirit' would wake him up in the middle of the night, even while he was out in sin; he would lose control of himself and go through that terrible 'frenzy' that they go through. Friend, that's the work of Satan. That's not of God. MY! My! my!
I Cor. 14:21, "In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that, will they not hear me, saith the Lord." This refers to Isaiah 28:11, "For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people." This again, proves that when God speaks through other tongues, it's not some ecstacy - just speaking unto God. It was a language that was spoken to the people.
Verse 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." If you didn't realize it before, I trust that you are able to see that tongues, were never designed to benefit those that believe. Someone said, "You can talk all you want; I'm not going to give up my tongues; There's too much of a blessing in it." We just read that tongues were never designed to be a benefit or blessing to the individual. Tongues were designed for you to speak in the language of some unlearned person and tell him about God.
Verse 26, "How is it then, brethern? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. (Not edifying yourself, but edifying the Church.) And if any man speak in an unknown tongue [a tongue unknown to the audience], let it be by two, or at the most three [sentences - according to the Greek] and that by course; and let one interpret" (verse 27). That's exactly the way you work with an interpreter. You speak, and he interprets two or three sentences at a time. Verse 28, "But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God." Now, if God would give him the gift of tongues, he would speak in the language of the people. No interpreter would be needed.
I Cor. 14:29-32, "Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other judge. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace. For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the SPIRITS of the PROPHETS are SUBJECT TO THE PROPHETS." This shows that whenever a spirit gets hold of you that you can't control, it's not the Holy Spirit, but 'another spirit.' Someone asks, "Don't you think that the Spirit of God would take hold of you in such a way that you would lose all control of yourself?" NO SIR! God never takes away your free moral agency until we come to final judgement. Nowhere in the Bible, where anyone received the Holy Ghost, did they fall on the floor or ground, powerless. Read the 9th Chapter of Mark. It will tell you about someone that did fall on the ground, foamed at the mouth, and made noises like a 'hog.' He was possessed with devils, and Jesus cast them out. Then he stood upright, and walked like a man. I'm not saying that everyone that gets in that 'frenzy' are all devil possessed. Some people just get into a 'nervous hysteria' that's worked up by those that have supposedly spoken in tongues. They work them up at an altar, getting them into a 'nervous hysteria' till they don't know what they're saying. As long as they can 'jibber' a little and even if they never do it again, they're accepted.
Brother Brown, an educated man, wanted to know first-hand what was going on. So, he attended many services. To convince himself and to be able to write in a convincing manner, he took a man that could speak seven languages with him, and sat in several services. This man said, "There isn't anything being said in any language that I know." Mr. Brown took two others that knew a good number of languages. One of them said, "One women said two or three words in Russian." The preacher supposedly interpreted it. So, one of these gentlemen with Brother Brown stood up and gave the preacher a scripture in a certain language, and said, "Now tell me what language I spoke in, and what scripture did I speak?" The preacher thought he had spoken a scripture in Romans: but he had quoted from I John. Also, he thought he had spoken in French, but that was not the case. Brother Brown's companion said, "You missed it a hundred percent." About this time a women went into a 'frenzy' and 'carried on' and one of the men with Brother Brown said, "She's speaking in Chinese and I wouldn't repeat the vulgar words that are coming out of her mouth." So, they took her aside and looked into her case. Brother Brown realized the fact that you can pick up things in your subconscious mind. And when you get worked up in a hysteria, they'll come out. When they began to question the woman, they found out that she lived in an apartment in Chinatown, in Los Angeles. Day after day, year after year, she would hear the Chinese on the streets below in the markets. They were 'cussing' and 'ripping' at each other. She didn't know what they were saying, but it made an imprint in her subconscious mind. When they got her to the altar and got her worked up, she began to 'rattle out' these Chinese words.
Now, I'm about to 'quit,' but please listen...Another false teaching is: If you ever say that 'speaking in tongues' is of the devil, you blaspheme the Holy Ghost. Well, I've said it in LOVE and tried to say it as KINDLY as I know how, several times, and I haven't blasphemed the Holy Ghost; BECAUSE I HAVE GIVEN YOU GOD'S ETERNAL WORD.
FRIEND! Friend! friend! (smile), the DEVIL has worked a terrible work. This tongues movement is spreading even into Roman Catholicism, and many false cults, and they're being accepted as saved; all the while, continuing in their idolatry and doctrines of devils. I know 'those words' are 'strong and bold,' and I FEEL SORRY for the people that are DECEIVED by 'this' FALSE MOVEMENT. Those who UNDERSTAND and KNOW the TRUTH are held responsible by God to WARN those who are 'in error,' and to give then the truth of God's eternal Word. "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book [BIBLE]. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life," Revelation 22:18,19.
