The Gift of the Holy Spirit with a Sign of Glossolalia (Tongues)

2-4-09 AD
Jesus said in Mark 16:17 that those who believe SHALL speak with new tongues. In Acts 8:12-17 the people were believers but had NOT YET received the Holy Ghost until Peter and John laid hands on some of them. It was NOT the "moment" they believed when they were filled. In Acts 10:44-46 the Holy Ghost fell on the Gentiles and they spake with tongues as the Holy Ghost fell on (filled) the Jews in the beginning, Acts 11:15-17.



Ephesians 1:12-13 NEVER refers to any parameters of time from when a believer trusts in Christ until when the same believer is sealed with the Holy Spirit, therefore neither can you or anyone else say how much time will or will not lapse between a believer trusting in Christ and being sealed (filled) with the Holy Ghost. For those who attempt to use Ephesians 1:12-13 to state that it is axiomatic at the very “moment” any person believes in Christ is when they are sealed or filled with the Holy Ghost; those people, are liars. Acts 8:12-17 and Acts 19:1-6 completely disproves that FALSE doctrine.

That being said, Acts 5:32 declares that GOD gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey him. So, if you say that you believe in Christ but you have NOT YET been filled with the Holy Spirit with the sign of speaking with new tongues (glossolalia), there is some area in your life where you are not obeying GOD. Further, if you say that you have been a believer for any great length of time in your life and you still have not been filled with the Holy Ghost with the sign of glossolalia, then you need to examine yourself to see whether you are reprobate, II Corinthians 13:5.

Those who teach such false doctrines are either completely Bible illiterate or just reprobates. I find it without coincidence that those who teach against receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost with the sign of speaking with "new", "other" or "unknown " tongues (glossolalia) are the very ones who have never had this manifested experience. Think about it, don't you find it strange that those who claim to be "Baptist" for example, usually all have the same common philosophy against receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost with the sign of speaking with "new", "other" or "unknown " tongues.

Additionally, no where in Ephesians 1:12-13; Ephesians 4:30; Galatians 4:6 or Titus 3:5 does it ever imply or even suggest that the receiving of the Holy Ghost does not come with the manifestation of a "new", "other" or "unknown " tongue. Just reading those passages prima facie (on the face) a person would not deduce from a logical, common sense understanding that these passages negate the biblical fact that when a believer is filled with the Holy Ghost that believer will speak with new tongues just as Jesus said believers would in Mark 16:17.

Remember, the book of Acts details several events surrounding those who were believers or who became believers and how they recieved the gift of the Holy Ghost. i.e. the more than one hundred and twenty believers in the upper room on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2); The people of Samaria (Acts 8); the apostle, Paul (Acts 9); Cornelius and his household (Acts 10) and; The disciples at Ephesus (Acts 19). If you would really study Acts 15 you will see that the main issue in this chapter was about how the Gentiles could be saved and Peter referencing back to the events in Acts 10:44-46, declared how that GOD gave the Gentiles the Holy Ghost "even as he did unto us", inwhich in both case the Holy Spirit was given with the sign of speaking with tongues.


When a person reads a passage of scripture from one of the epistles to the Church it is designed primarily as instructions to those who are already filled with the Holy Ghost but the Book of Acts references many who were NOT YET filled with the Holy Ghost and thus, it gives good foundational examples of how people were filled with the Holy Ghost. I personally know people who were believers in Christ but were NOT YET filled with the Holy Ghost and then after they would earnestly seek the Lord in prayer and fasting and OBEY GOD in their daily lives, they received the gift of the Holy Ghost with the sign of speaking with new tongues just as Jesus said believers would.


CONCLUSION: Those who DO NOT BELIEVE in receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost with the sign of speaking with new tongues are called UNBELIEVERS because Jesus said that speaking in tongues is a sign that "SHALL follow them that BELIEVE", Mark 16:17.


The 21st century apostle,
Orlando Bethel
Acts 3:26