Featured The Other Gospel Of Tongues

The debate between cessation and the continual of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is lacking a proper recognition that those who usually defend the continual gifts of the Holy Spirit are defending the other phenomenon known as the "second blessing" which has occurred later on in life of a believer as happening apart from salvation.

This "second blessing" is usually marked by the experience of feeling what they believe is the Holy Spirit coming over the believer apart from salvation, bringing tongues without interpretation, and thus assumed by many, is for private use. This in turn, seduces other believers in seeking after this "second blessing", believing that they are missing something out of their life with Christ. Some have received this "second blessing" by "opening" themselves up to receiving the Holy Spirit by that sign of tongues which comes with no interpretation.

It is an evil tree that produces an evil fruit, believers, because it doesn't stop there. They can experience other phenomenon of receiving the Holy Spirit after other signs of confusion like "slain in the spirit" and "holy laughter". Some of those who claim to preach only the baptism of the Holy Spirit with evidence of tongues will stand out and say that "slain in the spirit" and "holy laughter" is not of the Lord, but I believe a non-Baptist member here spoke of an event when such a person tried to stop it from happening and got slain in the spirit only because he was of that same evil tree that believes one can receive the Holy Spirit apart from salvation.

That other calling to receive the Holy Spirit "again" is called another gospel, believers. To receive the Holy Spirit apart from salvation is to deny Him in us as promised at our salvation by faith in Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:1Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

The test of the spirits is by knowing the Holy Spirit is in you since you had first believed at the calling of the gospel so that if you should experience a spirit coming over you later on in life as a believer by a spectacular outward sensation thus bringing a sign, you will know that is NOT the Holy Spirit.

John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 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.

1 John 4:1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world...… 4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: 14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

Do note that those who promote this second blessing or that other baptism with the Holy Spirit with the sign of tongues are forgetting that tongues were never to serve as a sign towards the believers in seeking after.

1 Corinthians 14:20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men. 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. 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.

What are we to do with those that refuse to repent of that vain tongue and that other gospel of tongues?

2 Thessalonians 3:1Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you: 2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. 3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. 5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. 7 For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;.....14 And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. 15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

To be continued....

 

Continued from OP.....

I believe the gifts of the Holy Spirit are continual today as we do prophesy, as in edify, one another as led by the Holy Spirit in us to do which is the gift Paul exhorted believers to seek after if they ever do seek a spiritual gift in 1 Corinthians 14:1, but those that have gone astray would argue by wresting Paul's words to make tongues the far more favorable gift to seek after which can only be gained by that apostate calling.

Yet no gift is promoted as such to seek after in that way as Paul pointed out a reminder for no one to deviate from this testimony we all suppose to share.

1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; 5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

So if and when I speak against any believer on the subject of tongues, if that tongue is linked by that apostate calling, it is only because that believer is actually preaching another gospel; a gospel of tongues.

It does not matter if they claim interpretation comes with that tongue. A church had believed they had the real God's gift of tongues and had hired a linguist to record and translate the many tongues in that church, but only found out that it was just gibberish nonsense. That means they were wither "faking interpretation" to fit in as some fake tongues to fit in ( not discounting those who actually speak the devil's tongue which is the same gibberish nonsense ) or they were "guessing" at what that tongue was saying as Joyce Meyers reported on how she interpret tongues by getting the "feel" of what the tongue is saying. Joyce Meyers even used tongues as a sign for when she had first received it as God calling her into the ministry, and yet tongues are not to serve as a sign towards believers for anything. 1 Corinthians 14:22 again.

So that is how modern tongue speakers today are believing they have that God's gift of tongues, but if it is linked with that apostasy of receiving the Holy Spirit apart from salvation; it is NOT God's gift of tongues.

Isaiah 8:19 And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?

1 Timothy 4:1Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

One thing some modern tongue speakers will fail to mention is how some will fall backwards in getting that tongue too when they receive that "other baptism of the Holy Spirit with evidence of tongues".

Proverbs 25:26 A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring. 27 It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory. 28 He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

1 Corinthians 14:32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. 23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 25 Brethren, pray for us.

2 Timothy 2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 16 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness...……… 24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.​

 

Indeed, temperance or self control is a fruit of the Spirit and the lack of it in falling backwards and thus the lack of that fruit should prove they are not being filled by the Holy spirit apart from salvation after all, as they are drinking from anther fountain.

There is no receiving the Holy Spirit apart from salvation, neither by another baptism nor by a filling because being Spirit-filled since our salvation is the testimony that we are saved.

Matthew 9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

To seek to receive the promise apart from salvation is to make the Father look evil as if He did not give the Holy Spirit the first time as promised at the calling of the gospel knocking at the door of Jesus Christ.

Luke 11:9 And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. 10 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 11 If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? 12 Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

 

If you are referring to Ephesians 5:18, that is not the commandment to be infilled with the Holy Spirit, but the command to not get drunk with wine wherein there is excess, but to remain filled with the Spirit as in remain sober and in self control. There are other verses about the call to be sober and it does not involved an instruction by seeking to be filled supernaturally by the Holy Spirit.

1 Thessalonians 5:5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

One is not seeking to be filled with the Spirit to remain sober and in self control, but to abstain from drunkenness which is a work of the flesh that can result in temporary loss of self control which is what temperance is as a fruit of the Spirit.

We are always filled with the Spirit because we are in this fallen sinful flesh still temporarily which is why we will be held accountable to what we sow towards; the works of the flesh or the fruits of the Spirit. Being always Spirit-filled is a testimony from the Holy Spirit that we are saved;

Matthew 9:17 Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

That is why in Jesus's promise to those that come to & believe in Him, they will never hunger nor thirst to be filled again, because we are complete in Christ to the glory of God at our salvation.

Colossians 2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ. 6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:.

 

Being always indwelt by the Holy Spirit IS always Infilled with the Holy Spirit.

It is by sowing to the works of the flesh is how one is not abiding in Christ Jesus, but a believer is always infilled so that when he repents, he has power to repent without needing another supernatural infilling to do it. All they need to do is go before that throne of grace for help from Jesus Christ to repent. No other infilling is required.

 

Here is what happens when a believer sins.

Ephesians 4:30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

That means the believer is Spirit filled forever; the consequence for not repenting from iniquity is found below.

1 Corinthians 3:16 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

That means physical death, but his spirit is still saved even though he will suffer loss for what he had built on that foundation of wood, stubble, and hay which are the unrepentant works of iniquity.

1 Corinthians 3:10 According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. 11 For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; 13 Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. 14 If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. 15 If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

So does one need to infill themselves with the Holy Spirit in order to repent? No. All they are called to do is depart from iniquity, that includes calling former believers to depart from iniquity too.

2 Timothy 2:18 Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some. 19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. 20 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.

That is how one purges themselves of iniquity by looking to Jesus Christ for help to depart from iniquity & sin.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. 15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. 16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

2 Timothy 4:18 And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

So no need for another infilling of the Holy Spirit. All any believer needs to depart from iniquity is go before that throne of grace and ask Jesus Christ for help.

 

Do you seek a supernatural infilling of the Holy Spirit after every time you sin? I don't think so. Asking Jesus for forgiveness is all you need to do to return to abiding in Him and asking Him for help not to do that sin again is living by faith in Him to do that.

 

There is no verse that testify to that effect, brother. What you are espousing is still after the rudiment of the mindset of Pentecostal/Charismatics/Catholics in believing the lie that they can receive the Holy Spirit supernaturally apart from salvation.

 

He is in you or He is not. There is no more "infilling of the Holy Spirit".

There is sowing to the fruits of the Spirit and avoiding sowing to the works of the flesh, leaning on Jesus Christ for help, but you are always Spirit-filled as a testimony that you are saved. Read Matthew 9:17