RW>         Indeed not!  For it is written, "and Scripture can not
 RW> be broken" [note Who said that!], "No good thing does He withold
 RW> from those whose walk is blameless" [PSALM 84:11].
 RW>         Not to mention that Peter, in the concluding
 RW> exhortation of his Pentecost sermon, said that the
 RW> baptism of the Holy Spirit, which of course includes
 RW> speaking in tongues, is "for you and your children
 RW> and for all who are far off-- for all whim the Lord
 RW> our God will call" [ACTS 2:39].
Where?  Where does it say that tongues are the evidences of receiving  the 
Holy Ghost?  You can not find such a thing in scripture.  Randy, I  was one a 
tongue talking Pentecostal.  I taught it!  And I was wrong!   I know all the 
scriptures used to fabricate that assumption, but the  facts of it do not 
exist.  On the day of Pentecost, they spoke 
Hebrew! One language, being spoken by 120 souls.  It was interpreted  into 
the hearing of 15 nations who witnessed this.  It was as much a  miracle of 
hearing as it was speaking.  I know what I am talking about  here.  I was 
there in the midst of this modern day movement!  I was  caught up in it.  
There is a gift of speaking in tongues, but they are  not unintelligible 
utterances, they are real and intelligible 
languages, which were used to interpret the Hebrew Scriptures to those  of 
other tongues.   If you speak in another tongue, you better speak  with the 
understanding also.  I am sorry, but you folks are wrong about  this, and I 
know the harm it causes.  It may seem "fun" and self  satisfying spiritually, 
but it is confusion.  YaHVaH is NOT the author  of confusion. 
Paul, who spoke in more tongues (languages) than you all, did not get  the 
attention of the crowd by babbling a quaire utterance, but when he  spoke in 
the "Hebrew" tongue, everyone listened.  Paul stated that he  would rather 
speak five words with understanding than 10,000 words of  some unknown 
language, however, churches continue to disrupt its  services by allowing its 
members to gabber with no understanding and no  edifying purpose within the 
church.
Jerry
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