{"id":401,"date":"2014-04-26T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T03:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bornofspirit.net\/?p=401"},"modified":"2014-12-02T08:55:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:55:04","slug":"the-power-to-speak-in-tongues-is-part-of-the-baptism-with-the-holy-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bornofspirit.net\/here\/the-power-to-speak-in-tongues-is-part-of-the-baptism-with-the-holy-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power to Speak in Tongues is Part of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am writing this post to show from the Bible that the power to speak in tongues is part of the\u00a0Baptism with the Holy Spirit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Everyone that receives the Baptism with the Holy Spirit is given the ability (power) to speak in tongues.\u00a0 The ability to speak in tongues (aka pray in the spirit) is a very powerful tool that Jesus made available to His church, and it is very important that Christians understand, receive, and use this gift.<\/p>\n

Consider these facts from the Bible:<\/p>\n

1 – Every time that we see people speak in tongues for their first time in the Bible, it happens when they are receiving the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Acts 2:4, Acts 10:44-48, Acts 19:6<\/p>\n

2 – Conversely, every time that we see people receive the Baptism with the Holy Spirit, we see that something happens that is noticeable to any observers that are present.\u00a0 There is a definite tangible evidence that makes it obvious that something has taken place, even if we aren’t told what this evidence is.\u00a0 Acts 2:4, Acts 8:17-19, Acts 10:44-46, Acts 19:6<\/p>\n

3 – In every instance that we are provided additional details about the “tangible evidence,” we find that it is speaking in tongues.\u00a0 Acts 2:4, Acts 10:44-48, Acts 19:6<\/p>\n

4 – There are no examples where we are told that some of the recipients of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit spoke in tongues but others did not.\u00a0 It is always 100% of those receiving the Baptism with the Holy Spirit that are doing it.<\/p>\n

5 – In the letters from the apostles to the churches (aka the Epistles), we see several places where the believers are being encouraged to “pray in the spirit” (aka speak in tongues…see 1 Cor. 14:14).\u00a0 We see this in 1 Corinthians, Ephesians, and Jude.\u00a0 It was assumed that the recipients of these Epistles were able to speak in tongues.\u00a0 The believers were being encouraged to make it a regular practice.\u00a0 This shows that it was common, normal, and expected that nearly all of the believers in any given church would have this ability.\u00a0 Otherwise, it would be useless to encourage them to do it if they were not able to.\u00a0 1 Cor 14:14-15, Eph 6:18, Jude 1:20<\/p>\n

So, according to the Bible, the Baptism with the Holy Spirit includes the power\/ability to speak in tongues.<\/strong>\u00a0 (Note:\u00a0 I know that there are a lot of people who disagree with this statement.\u00a0 There are many great men and women of God that disagree with this.\u00a0 There are entire denominations and religious organizations that disagree with this.\u00a0 But, it is better to believe the Bible rather than human tradition.)<\/em><\/p>\n

It may be helpful at this point for the reader to take a closer look at all four places in the Bible where the experience is described with some level of detail.\u00a0 Not all four accounts have the same amount of information, but they do present a consistent picture.\u00a0 The rest of this post is devoted to pointing out those consistencies.<\/p>\n

I will approach this in the following manner.\u00a0 I will begin by showing the first and last examples we have in Acts.\u00a0 They occurred approximately 20 years apart, and they will serve at “bookends” that show that nothing changed even after all those years had passed.\u00a0 Next I will point out some things from the other two examples that occurred in the years in between.<\/p>\n

The Day of Pentecost<\/h2>\n

Read Acts 2:1-4.\u00a0 This is the day first time that God made the Baptism with the Holy Spirit available to the church.\u00a0 In this account, the writer makes the following statement:<\/p>\n

Acts 2:4 – And they were all<\/span> filled with the Holy Spirit and <\/span>began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the day that the Holy Spirit is poured out on the church, the says that they “all” spoke in tongues.\u00a0 So, 100 percent of the people that were baptized with the Holy Spirit spoke in tongues.\u00a0 Another way of saying it is “there was not a single person that was baptized with the Holy Spirit without speaking in tongues.”\u00a0 And yet another way of saying this is “every single person that spoke in tongues was a recipient of the baptism with the Holy Spirit.”<\/p>\n

These are very powerful statistics.\u00a0 100 percent.\u00a0\u00a0 The entire Christian church was baptized with the Holy Spirit, and the entire Christian church spoke in tongues.\u00a0 120 of out 120 people present\u00a0spoke in tongues when they received the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

I have heard people who try to downplay the power of this passage by saying something like this: \u00a0 “It only happened like this because they needed to speak in other languages to preach to the foreigners that were present.”\u00a0\u00a0 Acts 2:5-12 is used in support of this argument.<\/p>\n

There are two big problems with that line of thinking.<\/p>\n

1 – The passage doesn’t mention anything about preaching the gospel in tongues.\u00a0 Instead, it says that they were “speaking the wonderful works of God.”\u00a0 They were worshiping, not preaching.<\/strong>\u00a0 Their exuberant means of worship caused a crowd to gather around.\u00a0 Then Peter started preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ in a common language they all understood.<\/strong>\u00a0 He begins his “sermon” by commenting on the event that just took place, indicating that the “tongue talking” was over now and it was time to preach.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2 – We will see in the other examples in Acts where people spoke in tongues and there were no unbelieving foreigners present that needed to hear the gospel message in a different language.<\/p>\n

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that people preached the gospel in tongues to foreigners.\u00a0 Sometimes it is a sign that draws attention, but it is never mentioned as a way to preach the gospel.\u00a0 The gift of speaking in tongues is given as a blessing and a gift to the person that is receiving the Holy Spirit baptism.\u00a0 It is part of the “power” that Jesus promised us in Acts 1:8.<\/p>\n

To summarize quickly, here is what we have so far.\u00a0 The first time that the Baptism with the Holy Spirit is mentioned in Acts, 100 percent of the people that received it spoke in tongues.\u00a0 There were no exceptions.<\/p>\n

Paul at Ephesus<\/h2>\n

Read Acts 19:1-7.\u00a0 This is the last recording in Acts where we get some details about people getting baptized with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 This takes place 20-25 years after the day of Pentecost, but as you will see, the experience is exactly the same.<\/p>\n

In this story, we are told that there are about 12 men present (verse 7).\u00a0 It says that all 12 of them spoke in tongues when they were baptized with the Holy Spirit (verse 6).\u00a0 100 percent of the people that were baptized with the Holy Spirit spoke in tongues.<\/p>\n

There are no unbelieving foreigners present, and there is no mention of any interpretation or anything else like that.\u00a0 It just says that they “spoke in tongues and prophesied.”<\/p>\n

It is very simple.\u00a0 The ability to speak in tongues is included as a part of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit<\/p>\n

The Samaritans<\/h2>\n

Read Acts 8:4-24.\u00a0 This is the story with the least amount of detail, but here is a brief summary:<\/p>\n

Philip preaches the gospel of Jesus Christ to the Samaritans.\u00a0 They believe and get baptized.\u00a0 The church at Jerusalem finds out about it and immediately sends Peter and John to them to lead them to receive the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 They are successful on their mission, and we do not have much more information outside of that.<\/p>\n

We aren’t told anything else about the people that received the baptism.\u00a0 There is no information provided.\u00a0 So this story does not say anything about speaking in tongues directly.<\/p>\n

However, if you read verses 17-19 carefully, you will notice something.\u00a0 A bystander name Simon observed what happened and he was so amazed by it that he offered to bribe them in order to be able to do the same thing.\u00a0 This tells us that something happened that was definitely noticeable to anyone present.\u00a0 It also tells us that it was something powerful enough to prompt Simon to act in this way.<\/p>\n

So there was some kind of “evidence” that could be observed by a bystander, and this evidence was something very unusual.\u00a0 Since all three of the other examples in Acts say specifically that speaking in tongues was a result of getting baptized with the Holy Spirit, it is not a stretch by any means to assume that was the case here as well.<\/p>\n

The House of Cornelius<\/h2>\n

Read Acts 10:44-48 and Acts 11:15-18.<\/p>\n

Here we have an entire household getting baptized with the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues.\u00a0 In this story, I want to point out two passages.\u00a0 Both of these are quotes from Peter.<\/p>\n

Acts 10:45-48 – And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. \u00a0For they heard them speak with tongues<\/strong> and magnify God. Then Peter answered, “can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have<\/i> <\/strong>?”<\/p>\n

Acts 11:15-16 – And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning<\/strong>.\u00a0 Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, \u2018John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit<\/strong>.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When Peter hears these people speak in tongues, he immediately thinks of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 He associates the two together.\u00a0 According to his logic and to his thinking, a person speaking in tongues is a person that has been baptized with the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n

Peter was present on the day of Pentecost, and he was also present in Samaria.\u00a0 Of all the human beings that have ever walked the earth, Peter should know whether or not speaking in tongues is a part of the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 And he has made it clear in these two passages that this is what he believes.\u00a0 Peter associates speaking in tongues with the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 They go together.\u00a0 The are a part of the same experience.<\/p>\n

It is plain to see beyond any reasonable doubt.\u00a0 The Baptism with the Holy Spirit includes the power to speak in tongues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Do I Have To?<\/h2>\n

One of the questions that people often have when talking to me about the Baptism with the Holy Spirit goes something like this:\u00a0 “Do I have to speak in tongues when I get baptized with the Holy Spirit?”<\/p>\n

This question makes it sound like speaking in tongues is something you wouldn’t want to do unless you had to. \u00a0But the only reason that a Christian would not want this gift and ability (at least in my opinion) is because he\/she does not understand it.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I have found that a large percentage of the Christians I talk to have a very poor understanding of this subject.\u00a0 (If this is you, please read my posts about the PURPOSE<\/a> and BENEFITS<\/a> of the experience.)<\/p>\n

So, that being said….my answer to the question\u00a0 “do I have to” is simply this:\u00a0 “no, you don’t have to…you GET to.”\u00a0 You get to speak in tongues when you receive the Baptism with the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 It is included as part of the experience, and it will change your life forever.<\/p>\n

>>Back to SERIES HOME<\/a><\/p>\n

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