| I profit you, [if
I do not] speak to you either [in the] revelation, or [in the] knowledge,
or [in the] prophesying, or [in the] doctrine [I receive by speaking in
tongues]?" --1 Cor. 14:6.
"Brethren, be not
children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding
be [mature] In malice be ye children, but in understanding be [mature]
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." --1 Cor. 14:20,21.
"Whom shall he teach
knowledge? and to whom shall he make to understand doctrine?
them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For
precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line
upon line; here a little, and there a little: For with stammering lips
and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said,
This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is
the refreshing: yet they would not hear. ... that they might go, and fall
backward, and be broken, snared, and taken." --Isaiah 28:9-13.
"Wherefore tongues
are a sign ... to them that believe not: . . " --1 Cor. 14:22.
"those that are
unlearned, or unbelievers, will ... say that ye are mad?" --1 Cor. 14:23.
In John 20:22,
Jesus breathed on His disciples and said to them, "Receive ye the Holy
Ghost: ...". This commandment is to all His disciples, yet there
is no one set way we all must receive the Holy Spirit. Some receive
when they are saved, some with water baptism. Some receive while
the Word is being preached, others with the laying on of hands. It
is Jesus who is the baptizer (Mat. 3:11), and to those who have yet to
be baptized with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues
(and a consummating life and walk thereafter), he says, "Ask, and it shall
be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto
you. If ye then .... know how to give good gifts to your children:
how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that
ask Him?" --Luke 11:9,13. |