You should strive to speak in tongues.

[Deadworm]

Posters who object to Mad Hermits's well-documented case can only pontificate contrary assertions that fail to address the specifics of Mad Hermit's case.  For that reason, it must be conceded that he has decisively refuted critics of the claim that we must all strive to speak in tongues.

 

[Paul James]

On 11/20/2020 at 6:04 AM, Brother Notlad said:

None of us should "strive to speak in tongues". I'm afraid that might get us caught up in the new wave charismatic mindset that speaking in tongues is a "prayer language" that can be taught and is made up of whatever nonsense gibberish you wish to speak out. 

That's not with God or the Bible instructs. 

We should all, however, strive to be filled with the Holy Ghost. Our experience will be the same as those in scripture: we will speak with other tongues. That's how we'll know we have been filled. The anointing straight out of Heaven brings the Holy Ghost, and tongues following that anointing. 

It's like having an athletic tennis shoe without laces. If you buy that shoe, the "tongue" of that shoe comes with it. When you're filled with the Holy Ghost, you're going to speak in tongues. They go together. 

But speaking in tongues can be faked. There is a counterfeit spirit and motivation. Everything God-sent has a counterfeit sent forth by Satan. This modern-day "prayer language" phenomenon is not Biblical. Megachurches are cluttered with uncoverted people babbling on in a tongue that isn't ordained of God and living ungodly lifestyles. 

Of course everything about the church and Christian worship and practice can be faked.  Look at the Church that claims to be Christ-established 2000 years ago, and yet is filled with paganised ceremonies and worship of the pagan entity "Queen of Heaven" tarted up to look like the Virgin Mary.  That's a greater fraud than the counterfeit tongues spoken by people who have never read Paul's teaching in 1 Corinthians 14.   We have the counterfeit story called "evolution" that contradicts God's account of the origin of the universe.  We have counterfeit "prophets for the nation" trying to convince folk that God has sent them and is speaking to them.  We have counterfeit "marriage" between same-sex couples.  We even have counterfeit conversions in even the soundest churches, making it impossible to know whether the person you are sitting beside in church is a genuine believer or not.

But the foundation of God stands sure:  God knows who are His;  because He looks deeper than the outward appearance, and into the heart of people.