Series: “Boost” Sermon: “Holy Spirit Grace Of Utterance”

Series: “Boost” Sermon: “Holy Spirit Grace Of Utterance”

1 Corinthians 14:37-39 (ESV) “If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord. If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized. So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.”

The Westminster Confession Of The Faith — Section 1 (Of The Holy Scriptures)
“… those former ways of God’s revealing His will unto His people being now ceased.”

Cessationism:— is the view that the “miracle gifts” of tongues and healing have ceased—that the end of the apostolic age brought about a cessation of the miracles associated with that age.

Continuationism:— is the belief that all the spiritual gifts, including healings, tongues, and miracles, are still in operation today, just as they were in the days of the early church. A continuationist believes that the spiritual gifts have “continued” unabated since the Day of Pentecost and that the demonstration of “signs, wonders, and miracles”, as witnessed in the apostolic era, should be a hallmark of
today’s church as well.

In 1350, St Vincent Ferrer is reported to have spoken in tongues. While in Genoa, he spoke to a group of men and women of mixed language backgrounds, all of whom were said to have heard him in their own language. The story is as follows: (Angel of the Judgment: A Life of St. Vincent Ferrer, 1953, p. 137-138).
“In addition to tongues, Vincent healed the blind, deaf, lame, and those who were possessed. He raised some from the dead. His public miracles were in the thousands.”

Three Major Feasts
1. Passover — Delivered From Egypt (1st Month)
2. Pentecost — The Giving Of The Law (3rd Month)
3. Tabernacles — Harvest (7th month —Trumpets and Atonement)

Contrast First Pentecost with Acts 2 Pentecost:
Exodus 19-32
1. 50 Days.
2. Flames and mountain shaking.
3. Law on tablets of stone. How to live.
4. Drunken party takes place.
5. 3000 people died.

Acts 2 Pentecost:
1. 50 Days. After 1st Easter
2. Flames and a violent wind.
3. Spirit comes – Law of Spirit – Power to live.
4. Drunken party takes place.
5. 3000 people made alive.

“When your baptized in the Holy Ghost, He takes over! All the preaching, counselling and Bible reading you can absorb will be dead to you unless you have the Holy Ghost living in you! He makes you to understand and know it is God speaking!” David Wilkerson

A Believers 3-Fold Ministry In Tongues
1. Ministry To God “…speaks to God.” 1 Cor 14:2
2. Ministry To Your Self “…edifieth himself…” 1 Cor 14:4
3. Ministry To Others “…let one interpret.” 1 Cor 14:27

Charles Carrin
“Tongues is the only spiritual gift deliberately designed to attack man’s ego and pride; it exposes insincerity, self-centeredness, falsity, and other negative traits in believers.”
“Because of its unique attack on the human intellect, tongues remains the eternal “watch guard” at the gate. In a very calculated way this gift protects the other gifts from exploitation. The Holy Spirit will not allow us to choose one charisma and reject another.”

Advantages Of Tongue Talking
1. Call Forth Wisdom Of Holy Spirit
1 Corinthians 14:2 “For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.” When Speaking In Tongued you’re in the Spirit.

Mysteries:– (mystērion) hidden thing, secret, mystery
a) generally mysteries, religious secrets, confided only to the initiated and not to ordinary mortals
b) a hidden or secret thing, not obvious to the understanding
c) a hidden purpose or counsel

Vine Expository Dictionary
Mysteries:– that which, being outside the range of unassisted natural apprehension, can be made known only by divine revelation, and is made known … to those only who are illumined by the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 14:18 “I thank God that I speak in tongues more than any of you.”
Is there a purpose to speak in tongues more? How did this affect Paul’s ministry?

1 Corinthians 4:1 “Let a man so consider us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God. Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.”

1 Corinthians 2:6-16  “But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory,… But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.”

2 Peter 3:15-16 “…as also our beloved brother Paul, according to the wisdom given to him, has written to you, as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things, in which are some things hard to understand,…”

2. Charge Up Your Faith
Jude 20 “…build yourselves up in your most holy faith praying in the Holy Spirit.”
1 Corinthians 14:4 “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself;…”

New York Times — Benedict Carey (11/07/2006)
“people who speak in tongues rarely suffer from mental problems … study found that those who engaged in the practice were more emotionally stable than those who did not.”

3. Engage The Spirit Realm
Ephesians 5:18-19 “…but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,…”

4. Fulfill The Great Commission
Mark 16:15-17 “Go ye into all the world …they shall speak with new tongues;”
1 Corinthians 14:22 “Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers;…”

Praying in tongues is not an optional practice for believers.
Praying in tongues cause us to engage the rhythms of heaven.
Praying in tongues causes us to develop spiritual acuteness.