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To: Sontagged; boatbums
The Lord requires us to be fully equipped by the purposing and unction of His Holy Spirit to face this evil day.

Being fully equipped,. though, is not Scripturally held that a person operates in all the gifts of the Spirit. According to Scripture, it's Scripture itself that reuslts in the person being fully equipped for every good work (2 Timothy 3:16-17)

As bb pointed out, the SPIRIT apportions then as HE will.

The purpose isn't that every believer receive every gift. Different believers receive different gifts that they are to operate within the church body so that IT is complete in function as the different members operate in their respective gifts together as a body.

And as far as two groups of people speaking in tongues, that in no way sets precedent that all believers speak in tongues when filled with the Holy Spirit.

Because of my association with acquaintances who are Pentecostal/prosperity gospel types, I did a search on every verse I could find in Scripture that deals with the Holy Spirit, the filling, the baptism, praying in the Spirit etc.

What I found was that there were only four different distinct times that tongues was spoken when someone was filled with the Spirit.

The other times people were filled with the Spirit, other things happened instead.

So filling did not always result in tongues speaking.

102 posted on 04/18/2018 2:25:50 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: metmom

Right. This was a big point of contention in my then charismatic church, and I could not understand the insistence on tongues when people underwent the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

And again, we can’t deny its inclusion or proper practice for the New Testament church, we can only be vigilant to make sure its not a sideshow or somehow used when “people seek after a sign”.

Signs and wonders are to follow believers; we are never to seek them. (And I know you know that!)


103 posted on 04/18/2018 2:34:13 PM PDT by Sontagged (Lord Jesus, please frogmarch Your enemies behind You as You've promised in Your Word)
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To: metmom; aMorePerfectUnion; ealgeone; boatbums; MHGinTN; Elsie
It’s 9:35 pm on the east cost. 9:35 am Thursday here. Freeper Knarf and his wife are here visiting with us right now, as I type on my iPhone X. We are having a good time getting acquainted. 👍🇵🇭😁
119 posted on 04/18/2018 6:36:01 PM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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