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WHEN TONGUES WAS GIVEN TO THE APOSTLE IN ACTS 2, THEY WERE LANGUAGES, NOT THE JIBBERISH
THAT I SPOKE IN WHEN I WENT TO ASSEMBLY OF GOD AND PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES. AND THERE WAS INITIAL EVIDENCE OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES
BEFORE THEY STARTED SPEAKING THE LANGUAGES, AND I WILL PROVE IT HERE IN JUST A BIT. ALSO IT WAS THE JEWS THAT BELIEVED NOT.
THE JEWS REQUIRED A SIGN WHERE WE DID NOT, NOR WE DO NOT NOW, I WILL PROVE THAT. PLUS FROM THE BEGINNING OF CREATION, THE
JEWS ALWAYS CAME SEEKING AFTER A SIGN, AND GOD GAVE THEM THE SIGNS TO PROVE HE WAS WHAT THEY NEEDED AND KEEP THEM BELIEVING
HIM AND IN HIM, I WILL BE PROVING THAT AS I GO IN THIS LESSON. I WILL BE WALKING YOU THROUGH SOME OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT
AS I GO !
NOW, LET'S GET STARTED WITH THE LESSON ITSELF. 1st COR. 14:22a WHEREFORE TONGUES
ARE FOR A SIGN, NOT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE, BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE, BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT. LET ME ASK YOU, DO
YOU BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR YOUR SINS ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, THAT HE WAS BURIED AND ROSE AGAIN THE THIRD
DAY ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, 1st. COR 15;3-4 ? WELL IF YOU DO, YOU DO NOT REQUIRE A SIGN WHICH SPEAKING IN TONGUES IS
NOW DO YOU? UNLESS OFCOURSE YOU ARE CALLED TO BE A MISSIONARY GOING TO A DIFFERENT COUNTRY WHERE YOU NEED TO LEARN THEIR LANGUAGE
TO TEACH THEM., AND THAT WOULD NOT BE A SIGN, THAT WOULD SIMPLY LEARNING ANOTHER LANGUAGE, WHICH THE APOSTLES NEVER SPAKE
THESE LANGUAGES BEFORE THAT INSTANT, GOD GAVE THEM THE LANGUAGES IN A FEW SECONDS. YOU CAN'T LEARN LANGUAGES SUPERNATURALLY
LIKE THAT WAS DONE, AND YOU KNOW IT AS WELL AS I DO.
NOW, WHO DID I SAY REQUIRED A SIGN? LET'S GO TO 1st COR. 1:22a THE JEWS REQUIRE A SIGN.
AGAIN LET'S SEE THAT, ( THE JEWS REQUIRE A SIGN ) NOW, DID YOU GET THAT, OR CAN'T YOU READ? ACTS 17:5a BUT
THE JEWS WHICH BELIEVED NOT, SO HERE WE DO HAVE THE JEWS REQUIRE A SIGN, WE KNOW NOW THAT TONGUES WAS GIVEN FOR A SIGN, THEN
WE HAVE THE JEWS WHICH BELIEVED NOT, WE KNOW TONGUES WERE GIVEN FOR THOSE WHO BELIEVE NOT WHICH ARE JEWS, CAN YOU REFUTE THAT
EVIDENCE? I THINK NOT ! SO WE HAVE FOUR THINGS HERE PROVING THE TONGUES ARE FOR JEWS ONLY, NOT THE GENTILES OR GREEKS
WHICH WE ARE. I DO BELIEVE THAT PART WILL BE ANOTHER LESSON.
ACTS 2: 1, AND WHEN THE DAY OF PENTECOST WAS FULLY COME, ( THERE WAS ONLY ONE DAY OF
PENTECOST ) THEY WERE ALL IN ONE ACCORD IN ONE PLACE . (2) NOW HERE COMES THE INITIAL EVEDINCE THAT HAS TO TAKE PLACE
BEFORE SPEAKING IN TONGUES; AND SUDDENLY THERE CAME A SOUND AS OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND, AND IT FILLED THE WHOLE HOUSE WHERE
THEY WERE SITTING, NOW DO YOU HEAR THE SOUND AS OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND FILLING THE HOUSE WHERE YOU ARE SITTING JUST
BEFORE YOU START SPEAKING IN WHAT YOU CALL SPEAKING IN TONGUES? I KNOW NOT. (3) AND THERE APPEARED UNTO THEM CLOVEN TONGUES
LIKE AS OF FIRE, AND IT SAT UPON EACH OF THEM, NOW, DID YOU EVER SEE A FIRE SETTING ON ANYONE JUST BEFORE THEY SPOKE IN WHAT
YOU CALL SPEAKING IN TONGUES? I KNOW NOT, AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS VISIABLE TO THE EYES.
4) AND THEY WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK IN TONGUES,
AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE. (5) THERE WERE DWELLING AT JERUASLEM JEWS, DEVOUT MEN, OUT OF EVERY NATION UNDER HEAVEN.
6) NOW WHEN THIS WAS NOISED ABROAD, THE MULTITUDE CAME TOGETHER, AND WERE CONFOUNDED, ( CONFUSED
) BECAUSE THAT EVERY MAN HEARD THEM SPEAK IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. SO HERE IS THE FIRST PROOF TEXT THAT IT WAS THE LANGUAGES
OF THE PEOPLE THAT THE APOSTLES SPOKE IN AND NOT SOMETHING NO ONE COULD UNDERSTAND.
7) AND THEY WERE ALL AMAZED AND MARVELLED, SAYING TO ONE ANOTHER, BEHOLD, ARE NOT ALL THESE WHICH
SPEAK GALLILAEANS? (8) AND HOW HEAR WE EVERY MAN IN OUR OWN TONGUE WHEREIN WE WERE BORN? THAT IS THE SECOND EVIDENCE
IT IS LANGUAGES AND NOT JIBBEREISH THAT NO ONE CAN UNDERSTAND. NOW HERE IS THE THIRD PART OF THE EVIDENCE IN VERSES 9-11.
( 9 ) PARTHIANS, AND MEDES, AND ELAMITES, AND THE DWELLERS IN MESOPOTAMIA, AND IN JUDEA, AND CAPADOCIA, IN PONTUS, AND
ASIA, ( 10) PHYRGIA, AND PAMPHYLIA, IN EGYPT, AND IN PARTS OF LIBYA, ABOUT CYRENE, AND STRANGERS OF ROME, JEWS, PROSELYTES,
(11) CRETES AND ARABIANS, WE DO HEAR THEM SPEAK IN OUR TONGUES THE WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD.
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TO BE CONTINUED LATER
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