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 1/11/07 2:40 AM |
| Rev. Joel Garrett | | Ashland, VA | |  |  | |  |
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I'm not a "Charismatic". I'm a KJV-only, pre-millenial, sola scriptura Pentecostal. I believe in holiness. I am building up my "most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost." Jude 20The Apostle Paul wrote not about a "personal prayer language", but of the gift of tongues (for congregational purposes), tongues in which someone of another language understands AND about praying & singing in tongues for personal edification. These are three different things. The Gift is to give a message from God to the congregation or individual - to be followed by the Gift of Interpretation. Praying/singing in Tongues is for the edification of the one praying/singing - his "spirit speaking mysteries unto God." Why do certain people, who say they take the Bible literally, not do so on this one issue. They are basing their doctrine on their own lack of personal experience and faulty Bible exegesis.
All of the gifts of the Holy Ghost, as mentioned in I Corinthians 12, 13 & 14 are for the Church today. There's not one Scripture in which God or the Apostles say that God took away ANY of the gifts from the Church. This is why there are so many defeated,sick and tired Christians who are IGNORANT of the giftings that the Holy Ghost wishes them to use powerfully for the sake of the gospel. |
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| 11/22/06 10:05 AM |
| Rev. Joel Garrett | | Ashland, VA | | | | | |
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-1300s - The Moravians are referred to by detractors as having spoken in tongues. John Roche, a contemporary critic, claimed that the Moravians "commonly broke into some disconnected Jargon, which they often passed upon the vulgar, 'as the exuberant and resistless Evacuations of the Spirit'" [4].
-1600s - The French Prophets: The Camisards also spoke sometimes in languages that were unknown: "Several persons of both Sexes," James Du Bois of Montpellier recalled, "I have heard in their Extasies pronounce certain words, which seem'd to the Standers-by, to be some Foreign Language." These utterances were sometimes accompanied by the gift of interpretation exercised, in Du Bois' experience, by the same person who had spoken in tongues. [5]
-1600s - Early Quakers, such as Edward Burrough, make mention of tongues speaking in their meetings: "We spoke with new tongues, as the Lord gave us utterance, and His Spirit led us" [6].
-1800s - Edward Irving and the Catholic Apostolic Church. Edward Irving, a minister in the Church of Scotland, writes of a woman who would "speak at great length, and with superhuman strength, in an unknown tongue, to the great astonishment of all who heard, and to her own great edification and enjoyment in God" [7]. |
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| 11/22/06 9:51 AM |
| Rev. Joel Garrett | | Ashland, VA | | | | | |
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Tongues in church history
Twentieth century Pentecostalism was not the earliest instance of "speaking in tongues" in church history. There were antecedents in several centuries of the Christian era, e.g.
-150 AD - Justin Martyr refers to tongues-speaking as practiced in his day in his Dialogue with Trypho, "If you want proof that the Spirit of God who was with your people and left you to come to us, come into our assemblies and there you will see Him cast out demons, heal the sick and hear Him speak in tongues and prophesy."
-before 200 AD - Iranaeus in his treatise "Against Heresies" speaks of those "who through the Spirit speak all kinds of languages."[1]
-circa 200 AD - Tertullian referred to the "interpretation of tongues" as a "sign", examples of which could be produced in his day "without any difficulty".[2]
-circa 390 AD - Augustine of Hippo, in an exposition on Psalm 32, discusses a phenomenon contemporary to his time of those who "sing in jubilation", singing the praises of God not in their own language, but in a manner that "may not be confined by the limits of syllables" [3].
-1100s - Hildegard of Bingen spoke and sang in tongues. Her spiritual songs were referred to by contemporaries as "concerts in the Spirit."
source Wikipedia.com) |
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| 11/22/06 2:54 AM |
| Rev. Joel Garrett | | Ashland, VA | | | | | |
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The Apostle Paul wrote not about a "personal prayer language", but of the gift of tongues AND about praying in tongues. These are two different things. The Gift is to give a message from God to the congregation or individual - to be followed by the Gift of Interpretation. Praying in Tongues is for the edification of the one praying - his spirit speaking mysteries unto God.Why do certain people, who say they take the Bible literally, not do so on this one issue. They are basing their doctrine on their own lack of personal experience and faulty Bible exegesis.
All of the gifts of the Holy Ghost, as mentioned in I Corinthians 12, 13 & 14 are for the Church today. There's not one Scripture in which God or the Apostles say that God took away ANY of the gifts from the Church. This is why there are so many defeated,sick and tired Christians who are IGNORANT of the giftings the Holy Ghost wishes them to use powerfully for the sake of the gospel. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God to the pulling down of strongholds. I'm a KJV-only, pre-millenial, sola scriptura Pentecostal. I am building up my "most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost." Jude 20 |
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| 11/8/06 10:13 AM |
| Rev. Joel Garrett | | Ashland, VA | | | | | |
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The Apostle Paul, whom we all love and trust, wrote not about a "personal prayer language", but of the gift of tongues AND about praying in tongues. Why do so many people,, who say they take the Bible literally don't want to do so on this one issue. They are basing their doctrine on their own lack of personal experience and some theologians scare tactics or faulty Bible exegesis. All of the gifts of the Holy Ghost, as mentioned in I Corinthians 12, 13 & 14 are for the Church today. There's not one Scripture in which God or the Apostles say that God took away ANY of the gifts from the Church. This is why there are so many defeated,sick and tired Christians who are IGNORANT of the giftings the Holy Ghost wishes them to use powerfully for the sake of the gospel. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God to the pulling down of strongholds. Miracles, signs and wonders, healings, prophecies, etc. are to be used for God's glory, for the individual's or church's edification and to bring souls to salvation. They are real today. Nobody's unbiblical doctrine can change that. I'm not a Charismatic. I'm a KJV-only, pre-millenial, sola scriptura Pentecostal. I believe in holiness. I am building up my "most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost." Jude 20 |
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