Excelent point in regards that people who speak in "tongues" speak similary like others in the same church. As a former charismatic I can validate that. Very true
Thanks brother Paul for your devotion to Scripture. Your love for Jesus is beautiful. I pray for your continued strength and healing. Blessings to you and your family.
Always ALWAYS appreciative and thankful and give praises to God Almighty for these Q&A’s with Pastor Paul Washer🙏. I also learn so much from his talks and explanations and answers to questions and most of all his sermons PRAISE GOOD GOD🙌🏻.
Oh how I always appreciate and love hearing the story true story the testimony told by Pastor Paul Washer about the huge hug guy that walked into the church Pastor was preaching at. I’m crying.. “he’s saved!!!”
Go ahead and argue about tongues.... I'm running with" respect and respond!" Praise God. My husband will give glory to the Lord when his wife can apply these truths by Gods abounding grace and mercy! These are the gifts I'm praying for and I KNOW my Father won't deny me!
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 1 cor 14:2 ?
At the 24:53 mark. That's it. That's exactly what I need. To KNOW that I am saved. I keep thinking it hasn't clicked yet. I know what scrupture says. I want someone to work with me exactly like this. Please. There has to be someone who will.
Hi William, are you part of a local church? Are you in touch with godly older people that can help you? If not, have you read any of Charles Spurgeon’s writings? I would recommend you to read these books: - All of Grace - Around the wicket gate - advice to seekers - saving faith by A.W. Pink.
@JasonJosephOfficial oh I absolutely am. It's a big church, one that you can't really tall to your pastor at. You have to go to those under him. Which isn't bad in itself or anything but would be nice to hear from the head of my local church you know? But I get it. Super busy and all. I'll add those books to my reading list. Thank you so much. I'm just a big fan of Paul Washers teachings of Christ.
Go to God for assurance. Only He can give it. Seek Him with all your heart and be persistent. Be diligent and search the scriptures with prayer and supplications. Blessings in Christ!
i have on my channel read along audio kjv bible with background piano worship music making it more easy to listen to God's word for hours really good stuff (God bless your mind)
I respect Brother Paul. You are one of God’s gifts for today's church. I don't speak in tongue. But I know friends who speaks and I am always blessed praying with them. I see them with spiritual life richness.
Tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecy, the spirit of healing, miracles, discerning of spirits, and various kinds of tongues haven't gone away. In the same argument, he must not believe in prophets (1 Corinthians 12:28) Please Please, everyone on the thread, read 1 Corinthians 12
I forgive Mr. Washer for his ignorance about tongues. I pray he is touched by the Holy Spirit and speaks in tongues himself so that he knows the truth.
I know withnesses where they were praying in tongues and people with a complete diffrent background where able to understand every word. Its a weak argument what paul washer is using by saying it has ceased because noone is doing it. No one he k ows is doing it. But it still happens. People dont want yo belive it because they dont have it and they cant explain it.
I respect brother Paul Washer but I disagree on Tongues ceasing, the Bible tell us Joel 2:28 And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: God didn't say he will do it for certain people or only the 12 Apostles.
My hope for all reformed folks is that they go to a small country Abostolic Penticostal Church at least once in their lives so they can understand what the first centuriy church. I learned alot in reformed circles. They have really big heads. They study their Bibles...... but they don't understand what it is like to have a living reletionship with Christ through the Holy Spirit.
I’m sorry, but a born again believer cannot be addicted to pornography. Christ sets us FREE from the penalty and bondage to sin! “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36 How can you join Christ to a harlot? You CANNOT love the world nor the things in the world and be of Christ.
Are you implying that a born again Christian does not Sin? you need to understand that is a process and God will be the one the heals you from any sin you have in your heart. Yes you're right we are free from anything, however it doesn't change the fact that we are still human and sin every day.
@@joshuaclavel9666I didn’t say that we won’t ever sin. But you cannot partake in pornography and be a born again believer. Or any sexual immorality for that matter. Can we fall? Yes. But we don’t keep repeating the same sexual behavior. Porn in particular is taken far too lightly today and far too many will be condemned on the Day of Judgement for not truly repenting from that gross immorality. Sexual immorality of any kind isn’t even supposed to be named among Christ’s church! “But sexual immorality and all [moral] impurity [indecent, offensive behavior] or greed must not even be hinted at among you, as is proper among saints [for as believers our way of life, whether in public or in private, reflects the validity of our faith].” Ephesians 5:3 AMP We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and should not be joining Him to filth. “Run away from sexual immorality [in any form, whether thought or behavior, whether visual or written]. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who is sexually immoral sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have [received as a gift] from God, and that you are not your own [property]? You were bought with a price [you were actually purchased with the precious blood of Jesus and made His own]. So then, honor and glorify God with your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 AMP Our bodies are not our own but belong to Christ. Imagine if the Jews would have polluted the old Temple in such a way.. such a lack of the fear of the Lord these days! Such a lack of holiness and biblical Christianity! Oh how I can’t wait for the Lord to come set the record straight! We’ve become the frog boiled in the proverbial pot.
@@joshuaclavel9666 There is willful sin and unwillful sin. (Heb 10:26) just like there is a ignorant sin and a presumption sin ( Num 15:27, 30) just like there is “sin which is not unto death, and sin that is unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.” ( 1 Juan 5:16-17) A person who is not born again will sin willingly and willfully, there will be no remorse or sorrow in doing it, he will feel bound to sin not knowing how to free himself, drinking sin like water (Job 15:16), still delighting in it, but once he has come to see the sinfulness of his sins in the light of God's holiness and is saved by faith! He is truly freed from all known sin, conscious sin!! of course there is much more that he will have to grow in understanding and the Lord will be showing him in the process of his sanctification, but that does not mean that he will sin again as before but this time he will be running with all his heart after the Lord and if he will sin in some way that he did not know he will repent with all his heart and learn more and more growing in the truth and hating more and more the sin that God is showing him! So the difference is that now HE HAS THE POWER OVER SIN AND NO MORE SIN OVER HIM!
@@joshuaclavel9666 why yes, the scriptures not only imply, but directly teach that believers do not sin. Read all of 1 John. Jesus healed and always said: go and sin no more. Thats the overcoming life!
This preachers teaches that GOD DOES NOT LOVE EVERYONE! Calvinism is heresy. Just imagine having this pastor over to dinner some can meet your family and when someone asks him, "does God really love me?". He could say yes, but he would be dishonest with himself, because in his theological framework, he teaches that the Lord Jesus DID NOT DIE FOR THE WHOLE WORLD!! BUT only for the elect. Stay away from men who teach false doctrines. John 3:16 is the Gospel and gives mankind a way to be saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. How awesome it is that God knew the Gospel message HAD TO BE simple so ANYONE COULD UNDERSTAND IT, especially little children. Did you ever meet an child that came to faith in Christ through learning the confused theological chaos of Calvinism? NEVER, I bet. God is love.
While he inspires me he is doing Lord's work, when he talks about those evangelistic techniques it sounds that he uses some sort of inducing methods, putting pressure on the listener to be convinced by himself that is saved and then he says that's Spirit's work, you don't see this behaviour in the New Testament. And how can he prove that those people who in the end ended having doubts about their salvation at that moment in time would not go through the same thing later. It seems to me a psychological technique. So what's the point: he says he will not try to convince someone but will stay with him/her untill they will get by themselves at the conclusion they are saved. It sounds doubtful to me, I wouldn't trust this.
Very logic "I think tongues are real human language that seized to exist because no one is doing that... " Amen hmm... sounds a bit like Kamala's types of answers. ..
I was a homeless alcoholic when God filled me with the Holy Spirit. And I spoke in tongues. Thus is a phony church. Run from it. Go to a one God Jesus named Holy Spirit filled church
I have heard and learned a lot from your teaching, but I'm sorry that you are mocking the speaking of tongue. When Peter pray for Cornelius and the were filled and started speaking in tongue it never specified that was an actual language. You can't denied it because so many misused it and take out wrong. I'm sure you will missout in the power of prayer and closer encounter with Holy Spirit because of your definition. The Bible never said it did stop, you're are defining your meaning based on what you think, and this is the first time I heard you explaining things based on what you think. 😢
@ridwanmichaelwelong7 there is a difference in the speaking in toungues in front of a church that requires an interpreter, and praying in toungues which you do between you and God. That is where your confusion is. We don't allow preachers to come on stage and speak to the congregation in toungues, because it requires and interpreter but praying in toungues is between you and God and it edifies the spirit not the mind. Please pay close attention to all the places in the bible about it. That is where your mistake is. Be blessed.
This guy gets PAID to lie you people?!? Wow!!!! - I would wage all my belongings that if you would take his pay from him, he wouldn’t show up for FREE anywhere. -How many people in the Bible got paid to serve???? - Not even Jesus and he gave the MOST!! “He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)” John 7:38-39 KJV
No Mr washer ,tongues still for today. Paulwasher is not the final authority of God word ,his answer is his opinion of God word.but that is not God word. Man's opinion of God' word compare to God's opinion of his word .
Can you please provide one recent documented example of someone speaking in tongues as described biblically? That is, speaking in a known language that the speaker did not previously know and with someone translating for them as commanded by the Apostle Paul.
That is NOT correct. As much as I disagree with Washer on most everything, he is correct in saying the speaking in tongues, foreign languages, was done away with. It was given to first century Christians so they could witness to people of all different nations without having to learn different languages. Once the Christian congregations were established, those gifts were done away with. The senseless babbling people utter today are not gifts of the Spirit, they are demonic!
I totally agree, Rodney! Acts 2, verse 4, describes exactly how I was baptized in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost has demonstrated His gift of tongues through my spirit, fact. This opinion of Paul Washer saddens me. He’s wrong. I respect brother Washer, his teaching is anointed. I pray his spiritual eyes are opened. Praying in tongues is not gibberish. Be careful when you say it is.
Honestly not trying to start an argument, I’m trying to sift through this subject myself and want to hear both sides, but what would be the benefit of speaking in tongues if you and no one else knew what you were saying? How would that edify? Blessings to you my friend.
@@HumbleRustic The edification to the speaker consists in the fact that his/her spirit is speaking, by-passing the mind. The edification is in the spirit, not the intellect. With regard to those listening, yes you are correct, for as the apostle says, it is no use blessing in the spirit with others in close attendance, for then you are edified in the spirit but the listener doesn't know what you are saying and is not benefitted by your blessing. But tongues in general are mostly for private use - private prayer life. And this is one of the reasons they do not have to be in existing earthly languages, otherwise God were a fool, speaking in Japanese or Nepalese when there are none of that nationality within earshot. But you need to understand that the gift of tongues, which is primarily for the edification of the speaker and secondarily for the building up of the body if there is an interpreter present, only comes via the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Most believers today have not received this Baptism. They have the Holy Spirit within them (it is the very reason they believe and are saved) but the Holy Spirit has not come UPON them for power and supernatural gifts. Feel free to ask me further.
@@HumbleRustic, that's an easy answer. People forgot to realize that the Apostle Paul had to confront the church at Corinth not once but twice. ...a third time? Bible commentary: The church at Corinth was a seriously troubled church. The body of believers infected with sexual immorality, split by factions that dragged each other into court and crippled by abuse of spirituals, and this church needed radical spiritual surgery. ...We have jumped forward to chapter 14 missing chapters 1-13. The church at Corinth was not a church to follow in any direction - carnal. Sectarianism Is Sin! Now I plead with you, brother, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ -that you speak the same thing and that there be NO divisions among you ...perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. ...Sectarianism Is Carnal! Chapter Five - Immorality Defiles the Church - It is actually reported that there IS sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality is not named among the Gentiles - that a man has his father's wife! And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. Read and study deeply, even if it takes a full year to read the Word of God, period. The church at Corinth is not to follow! Carnality! Immorality Must Be Judged!
Yes we do!!, we read and speak directly from the bible, and believe it front to back. Not taking anything out or adding anything to it. You must not know any baptist if you say such an ignorant thing.
Thank you Brother Paul for these wise words. May the Lord keep you healthy, strong and on fire for the Lord Jesus. Much love from Arkansas!
Excelent point in regards that people who speak in "tongues" speak similary like others in the same church.
As a former charismatic I can validate that. Very true
God keep blessing Paul and his family. With much more health!!
Amen
Why?? He's a false teacher
@@Titus2_13why?
@@Angela3. why I don't know. But he teaches works salvation
@@Titus2_13you haven’t listened all his teachings
Thanks brother Paul for your devotion to Scripture. Your love for Jesus is beautiful. I pray for your continued strength and healing. Blessings to you and your family.
Always ALWAYS appreciative and thankful and give praises to God Almighty for these Q&A’s with Pastor Paul Washer🙏. I also learn so much from his talks and explanations and answers to questions and most of all his sermons PRAISE GOOD GOD🙌🏻.
Bless you both! My wife and I respect bro Paul a lot …❤
Oh how I always appreciate and love hearing the story true story the testimony told by Pastor Paul Washer about the huge hug guy that walked into the church Pastor was preaching at. I’m crying.. “he’s saved!!!”
❤ loved it !
God bless you brother Paul.
Paul is the man!!!!
God bless you brother Paul❤...
Thank you brother Paul for the biblical explanation in its contex and for standing for the biblical truth
Go ahead and argue about tongues.... I'm running with" respect and respond!" Praise God. My husband will give glory to the Lord when his wife can apply these truths by Gods abounding grace and mercy! These are the gifts I'm praying for and I KNOW my Father won't deny me!
Such wisdom.
He is so awesome.
Thank you paul washer❤
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 1 cor 14:2 ?
Amen.
At the 24:53 mark. That's it. That's exactly what I need. To KNOW that I am saved. I keep thinking it hasn't clicked yet. I know what scrupture says. I want someone to work with me exactly like this. Please. There has to be someone who will.
Hi William, are you part of a local church? Are you in touch with godly older people that can help you? If not, have you read any of Charles Spurgeon’s writings? I would recommend you to read these books:
- All of Grace
- Around the wicket gate
- advice to seekers
- saving faith by A.W. Pink.
@JasonJosephOfficial oh I absolutely am. It's a big church, one that you can't really tall to your pastor at. You have to go to those under him. Which isn't bad in itself or anything but would be nice to hear from the head of my local church you know? But I get it. Super busy and all. I'll add those books to my reading list. Thank you so much. I'm just a big fan of Paul Washers teachings of Christ.
Go to God for assurance. Only He can give it. Seek Him with all your heart and be persistent. Be diligent and search the scriptures with prayer and supplications. Blessings in Christ!
"I think she rode a Honda" 😆 The joke is actually "I shouda bought a Honda." Thanks for posting this conversation. Good stuff!
i have on my channel read along audio kjv bible with background piano worship music making it more easy to listen to God's word for hours really good stuff (God bless your mind)
I respect Brother Paul. You are one of God’s gifts for today's church. I don't speak in tongue. But I know friends who speaks and I am always blessed praying with them. I see them with spiritual life richness.
Tongues, interpretation of tongues, prophecy, the spirit of healing, miracles, discerning of spirits, and various kinds of tongues haven't gone away. In the same argument, he must not believe in prophets (1 Corinthians 12:28)
Please Please, everyone on the thread, read 1 Corinthians 12
Read acts 19.
When you’re born again you have the Holy Spirit period.
What about Acts 19? Please read it.
I forgive Mr. Washer for his ignorance about tongues. I pray he is touched by the Holy Spirit and speaks in tongues himself so that he knows the truth.
If I understand you rightly, "Paul washer doesn't have the Holy Spirit" because he doesn't speak in tongues. Right?
Bro Paul, what's your view on the Rapture?
❤
I know withnesses where they were praying in tongues and people with a complete diffrent background where able to understand every word. Its a weak argument what paul washer is using by saying it has ceased because noone is doing it. No one he k ows is doing it. But it still happens. People dont want yo belive it because they dont have it and they cant explain it.
I respect brother Paul Washer but I disagree on Tongues ceasing, the Bible tell us Joel 2:28
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
God didn't say he will do it for certain people or only the 12 Apostles.
My hope for all reformed folks is that they go to a small country Abostolic Penticostal Church at least once in their lives so they can understand what the first centuriy church. I learned alot in reformed circles. They have really big heads. They study their Bibles...... but they don't understand what it is like to have a living reletionship with Christ through the Holy Spirit.
I’m sorry, but a born again believer cannot be addicted to pornography. Christ sets us FREE from the penalty and bondage to sin!
“So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36
How can you join Christ to a harlot? You CANNOT love the world nor the things in the world and be of Christ.
Are you implying that a born again Christian does not Sin?
you need to understand that is a process and God will be the one the heals you from any sin you have in your heart. Yes you're right we are free from anything, however it doesn't change the fact that we are still human and sin every day.
@@joshuaclavel9666I didn’t say that we won’t ever sin. But you cannot partake in pornography and be a born again believer. Or any sexual immorality for that matter. Can we fall? Yes. But we don’t keep repeating the same sexual behavior. Porn in particular is taken far too lightly today and far too many will be condemned on the Day of Judgement for not truly repenting from that gross immorality. Sexual immorality of any kind isn’t even supposed to be named among Christ’s church!
“But sexual immorality and all [moral] impurity [indecent, offensive behavior] or greed must not even be hinted at among you, as is proper among saints [for as believers our way of life, whether in public or in private, reflects the validity of our faith].”
Ephesians 5:3 AMP
We are the temple of the Holy Spirit and should not be joining Him to filth.
“Run away from sexual immorality [in any form, whether thought or behavior, whether visual or written]. Every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the one who is sexually immoral sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is within you, whom you have [received as a gift] from God, and that you are not your own [property]? You were bought with a price [you were actually purchased with the precious blood of Jesus and made His own]. So then, honor and glorify God with your body.”
1 Corinthians 6:18-20 AMP
Our bodies are not our own but belong to Christ. Imagine if the Jews would have polluted the old Temple in such a way.. such a lack of the fear of the Lord these days! Such a lack of holiness and biblical Christianity! Oh how I can’t wait for the Lord to come set the record straight! We’ve become the frog boiled in the proverbial pot.
@@joshuaclavel9666 There is willful sin and unwillful sin. (Heb 10:26) just like there is a ignorant sin and a presumption sin ( Num 15:27, 30) just like there is “sin which is not unto death, and sin that is unto death: I do not say that he shall pray for it. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is a sin not unto death.” ( 1 Juan 5:16-17)
A person who is not born again will sin willingly and willfully, there will be no remorse or sorrow in doing it, he will feel bound to sin not knowing how to free himself, drinking sin like water (Job 15:16), still delighting in it, but once he has come to see the sinfulness of his sins in the light of God's holiness and is saved by faith! He is truly freed from all known sin, conscious sin!! of course there is much more that he will have to grow in understanding and the Lord will be showing him in the process of his sanctification, but that does not mean that he will sin again as before but this time he will be running with all his heart after the Lord and if he will sin in some way that he did not know he will repent with all his heart and learn more and more growing in the truth and hating more and more the sin that God is showing him! So the difference is that now HE HAS THE POWER OVER SIN AND NO MORE SIN OVER HIM!
@@joshuaclavel9666 why yes, the scriptures not only imply, but directly teach that believers do not sin.
Read all of 1 John. Jesus healed and always said: go and sin no more. Thats the overcoming life!
This preachers teaches that GOD DOES NOT LOVE EVERYONE! Calvinism is heresy. Just imagine having this pastor over to dinner some can meet your family and when someone asks him, "does God really love me?". He could say yes, but he would be dishonest with himself, because in his theological framework, he teaches that the Lord Jesus DID NOT DIE FOR THE WHOLE WORLD!! BUT only for the elect. Stay away from men who teach false doctrines. John 3:16 is the Gospel and gives mankind a way to be saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved. How awesome it is that God knew the Gospel message HAD TO BE simple so ANYONE COULD UNDERSTAND IT, especially little children. Did you ever meet an child that came to faith in Christ through learning the confused theological chaos of Calvinism? NEVER, I bet. God is love.
While he inspires me he is doing Lord's work, when he talks about those evangelistic techniques it sounds that he uses some sort of inducing methods, putting pressure on the listener to be convinced by himself that is saved and then he says that's Spirit's work, you don't see this behaviour in the New Testament. And how can he prove that those people who in the end ended having doubts about their salvation at that moment in time would not go through the same thing later. It seems to me a psychological technique.
So what's the point: he says he will not try to convince someone but will stay with him/her untill they will get by themselves at the conclusion they are saved. It sounds doubtful to me, I wouldn't trust this.
Salvation is a gift from God
Very logic "I think tongues are real human language that seized to exist because no one is doing that... " Amen hmm...
sounds a bit like Kamala's types of answers. ..
I was a homeless alcoholic when God filled me with the Holy Spirit. And I spoke in tongues. Thus is a phony church. Run from it. Go to a one God Jesus named Holy Spirit filled church
I have heard and learned a lot from your teaching, but I'm sorry that you are mocking the speaking of tongue. When Peter pray for Cornelius and the were filled and started speaking in tongue it never specified that was an actual language. You can't denied it because so many misused it and take out wrong. I'm sure you will missout in the power of prayer and closer encounter with Holy Spirit because of your definition. The Bible never said it did stop, you're are defining your meaning based on what you think, and this is the first time I heard you explaining things based on what you think. 😢
If you gonna speak in tongue, there’s must be an interpreter and If not don’t do it. In the books Acts explain it well…
@@cindyrehder1164 where did Jesus say to pray in tongues?
@ridwanmichaelwelong7 there is a difference in the speaking in toungues in front of a church that requires an interpreter, and praying in toungues which you do between you and God. That is where your confusion is. We don't allow preachers to come on stage and speak to the congregation in toungues, because it requires and interpreter but praying in toungues is between you and God and it edifies the spirit not the mind. Please pay close attention to all the places in the bible about it. That is where your mistake is. Be blessed.
Tongues in the Bible refers to actual languages, not random syllables from your own language.
@@cindyrehder1164 he absolutely does not deny the power of the Holy Spirit. You should watch more of his sermons.
This guy gets PAID to lie you people?!? Wow!!!!
- I would wage all my belongings that if you would take his pay from him, he wouldn’t show up for FREE anywhere.
-How many people in the Bible got paid to serve????
- Not even Jesus and he gave the MOST!!
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)”
John 7:38-39 KJV
No Mr washer ,tongues still for today.
Paulwasher is not the final authority of God word ,his answer is his opinion of God word.but that is not God word.
Man's opinion of God' word compare to God's opinion of his word .
Please base your claim on scripture then, like Paul did.
Can you please provide one recent documented example of someone speaking in tongues as described biblically?
That is, speaking in a known language that the speaker did not previously know and with someone translating for them as commanded by the Apostle Paul.
@@raymasters13 1Co. 14:27.
Is Saúl Paul a lier or Washer
That is NOT correct. As much as I disagree with Washer on most everything, he is correct in saying the speaking in tongues, foreign languages, was done away with. It was given to first century Christians so they could witness to people of all different nations without having to learn different languages.
Once the Christian congregations were established, those gifts were done away with. The senseless babbling people utter today are not gifts of the Spirit, they are demonic!
I totally agree, Rodney! Acts 2, verse 4, describes exactly how I was baptized in the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost has demonstrated His gift of tongues through my spirit, fact. This opinion of Paul Washer saddens me. He’s wrong. I respect brother Washer, his teaching is anointed. I pray his spiritual eyes are opened. Praying in tongues is not gibberish. Be careful when you say it is.
Washer is wrong. There was only one instance in the bible where tongues were in human languages. The rest were in languages not extant on earth.
Honestly not trying to start an argument, I’m trying to sift through this subject myself and want to hear both sides, but what would be the benefit of speaking in tongues if you and no one else knew what you were saying? How would that edify? Blessings to you my friend.
@@HumbleRustic The edification to the speaker consists in the fact that his/her spirit is speaking, by-passing the mind. The edification is in the spirit, not the intellect.
With regard to those listening, yes you are correct, for as the apostle says, it is no use blessing in the spirit with others in close attendance, for then you are edified in the spirit but the listener doesn't know what you are saying and is not benefitted by your blessing.
But tongues in general are mostly for private use - private prayer life. And this is one of the reasons they do not have to be in existing earthly languages, otherwise God were a fool, speaking in Japanese or Nepalese when there are none of that nationality within earshot.
But you need to understand that the gift of tongues, which is primarily for the edification of the speaker and secondarily for the building up of the body if there is an interpreter present, only comes via the Baptism in the Holy Spirit. Most believers today have not received this Baptism. They have the Holy Spirit within them (it is the very reason they believe and are saved) but the Holy Spirit has not come UPON them for power and supernatural gifts.
Feel free to ask me further.
@@HumbleRustic, that's an easy answer. People forgot to realize that the Apostle Paul had to confront the church at Corinth not once but twice. ...a third time? Bible commentary: The church at Corinth was a seriously troubled church. The body of believers infected with sexual immorality, split by factions that dragged each other into court and crippled by abuse of spirituals, and this church needed radical spiritual surgery. ...We have jumped forward to chapter 14 missing chapters 1-13. The church at Corinth was not a church to follow in any direction - carnal. Sectarianism Is Sin! Now I plead with you, brother, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ -that you speak the same thing and that there be NO divisions among you ...perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. ...Sectarianism Is Carnal! Chapter Five - Immorality Defiles the Church - It is actually reported that there IS sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality is not named among the Gentiles - that a man has his father's wife! And you are puffed up and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you. Read and study deeply, even if it takes a full year to read the Word of God, period. The church at Corinth is not to follow! Carnality! Immorality Must Be Judged!
@@HumbleRustic It edifies the speaker's spirit by communicating with God without the mind getting in the way.
He is baptiste. They do not believe about the Holy Spirit.
Forget about his denomination. Listen to what he is saying.
What a horrible understanding of baptists regarding their view of the Holy Spirit. You should be concerned with your bearing of false witness.
Yes we do!!, we read and speak directly from the bible, and believe it front to back. Not taking anything out or adding anything to it. You must not know any baptist if you say such an ignorant thing.
You have much to learn…. May god bless you with knowledge
@@Dam508BrJ you guys so Smart, But you need the Holy Spirit...