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Since that ability was done away with, it can not come from Holy Spirit, but some other spirit.

"...Scriptural evidence that the gift of tongues has passed away?" There is none. Really. Some use 1 Cor. 13:10 to say that now that we have the Bible the perfect has come so tongues has passed away. The perfect will come when Christ restores all things to a perfected state. Until then we need ALL the gifts, including tongues.

In 1 Cor. 14 Paul encourages the Corinthians to speak in tongues in church with interpretation that all may be edified. In verse 17 he says that those speaking in tongues are giving thanks and he insinuates that their praying in tongues is edifying the tongue talker who's praying. He wants them to have an interpretation that all may be edified. And then he says that he's thankful that he speaks in tongues more than all of them.

"You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified. I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you."

Now surely, not every time Paul spoke in tongues, which he obviously did a lot, did he speak in tongues to others who didn't share his mother tongue. He was praying directly to God and building himself up just like Jude wrote in Jude 1:20.

See also Jude 1:20, Eph. 6:18, 1 Cor. 13-15.

In his dvd, "Intimacy with The Holy Spirit" John Bevere talks about how his assistant prayed in tongues during a service he was preaching. She felt compelled by the Holy Spirit to pray in tongues so she did. After the service a man in front of her turned and asked her where she learned that Old German language. He was a professor and said that only a few people he knew knew the language. He said every time she'd say something in that tongue, John would repeat it in English. She testified that she never knew any kind of German but was praying in tongues.

Also Alex Malarky the 6 year old boy about whom the book, "The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" was praying in tongues one day. His dad asked him what he was doing and he said he was speaking to God directly. He had died in a bad car accident and gone to heaven and returned. He spoke in tongues often and he wasn't raised in a church that believed or practiced such things.

I have studied about speaking in tongues. In Acts, it is evident that this allowed all men to understand in his own language. Later Paul speaks about the subject. For tongues to edify a body, then interpretation is needed. But it edifies the person speaking to God this way.

I have done it. When I didn't know how to pray speaking words, then I prayed in tongues. It is a faith issue.

If you believe in it, then do it.

I have seen interpretation. I know it wasn't of man because of how it happened, and by what was said.

Interesting that many feel that that scripture means that speaking in tongues has passed away. But it does not. I have some links that might help those who have heard wrong teaching and those who are confused and those who still believe this passed away.

The Holy Spirit has not passed away. He IS Still and what He does through those who have allowed the baptism of His fullness to come inside of them will reap the benefits of His words coming out their mouths as we yield our tongues to His words. It is not possession it is a fullness of anointing that when spoken out of your mouths people get set free and are released from the devils lies. People get healed and People are encouraged and exhorted and it is all what God wants according to Acts 2:38-39.

Here are videos from James Goll on Speaking in Tongues.

JAMES GOLL SPEAKING IN TONGUES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=019Z3lfLxWM&feature...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz8js58fzZE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk8OPcg696U&feature...

Be very careful never to attribute what the Holy Spirit brought to those who speak in tongues as being from the devil because that is the Unpardonable Sin. It is serious business.

to receive the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

which is from God our creator Jehovah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ekfKOIVkSA&feature...

Most people who believe in "speaking in tongues" don't understand that when this gift was here on earth, it was used so that everyone heard the preaching in their own native tongue, not gibberish. There is no reason for it now, we have the Bible. May peace be with you.

god hates wordy loud prayers. And 'speaking in tongues' is only impressing the people speaking it.

Theres a medical term for it....glossolalia and it happens to the bushmen in africa too. Its neither exclusive to nor original to christians....its NOT an actual language. Its jibberish.

the only speaking in tongues that matters was done by the Talking Heads

99.9% of the folks who speak in tongues today are just babblers, speaking "tongues" that even God doesn't know. They are just folks fooled by the Devil.

The position of many denominations is thar tongues have ceased. 1 Corinthians 13:8-12 The argument from this passage for the cessation of tongues posits first that it is "obvious" that the "perfect" thing, the completion of all knowledge referred to in verse 10 is the completed canon of the Bible. However, "that which is perfect" in verse 10 cannot be the Bible. When the perfect comes, we will see God face to face and know as perfectly as He knows us (v. 12). Manifestly, this has not yet occurred. Rather, it appears that the "perfect" thing spoken of here is Jesus himself, and that it comes when he returns.

When Jesus said, "I will not leave you comfortless. I will come to you," he was promising NOT to leave us empty, void, or alone, but to fill you and me with His spirit in the same way the Spirit filled the Holy Place in ancient times. And WHEN HE DOES, you and I will encounter and experience the glory of God like nothing else we have ever seen, heard or felt. Jesus had just told his disciples that He was going away to prepare a place for them in heaven. That meant that He would no longer be with them physically on a day-to-day basis. No longer would he be there in person to answer their questions, to calm their fears, to do their miracles, or to meet their needs.

PHYSICALLY, He WAS leaving. But He was promising to return in SPIRIT form. The GHOST of Jesus would come back to them as the Holy Spirit. A few weeks later, following His death, burial, resurrection and ascension into heaven, 120 of Jesus’ disciples waited in prayer in the Upper Room, because He had promised that they would be “endued with power after that the Holy Ghost had come upon them.” They did not know what to expect. But on the fiftieth day following his crucifixion, on the day of Pentecost, something unprecedented happened.

“When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:1-4.

The Spirit of Jesus Christ had just arrived. The COMFORTER had come. Their holy place was no longer empty, void, or alone. Their empty souls were filled with the Spirit of Christ – the Holy Ghost!

Now, and more important for you and me today, Jesus’ promise was not only for those original 120 disciples in the early church. His promise is to every believer for all time. "For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call" Acts 2:39.

Can you and I have His Spirit in us just as they did on the day of Pentecost? Will Jesus baptize us now in His spirit just like He did them? Do we NEED His Spirit as they did in ancient days? The Holy Ghost in our lives is a special allotment of the Spirit of the Father; all of God that will fit into a human body! The precedent is set. You will speak with unknown tongues when you receive the Holy Ghost. Jesus Himself ordained it: "They shall speak with new tongues," Mark 16:17. "What good are stammering lips, and other tongues?" Paul answers. "For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful," I Corinthians 14:14.

The Holy Spirit lives inside the Christian and guides the actions of those who desire His presence. The Spirit empowers the believer to step outside his comfort zone to do extraordinary acts of faith for God. Being filled with the Spirit involves transforming our minds to the mind of Christ19 as we engage in spiritual activities. Walking in the Spirit leads to a sense of peace and joy, as we partner with God in His glorious plans. Violating our conscience through acts of disobedience lead to a loss of filling by the Holy Spirit, which takes away our joy and peace. Although God will not take the Holy Spirit away from a disciple of Jesus Christ, the continual practice of sin and a lack of spiritual activities will lead to a life that is no different than the life of a non-believer.

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