The "How To" Show: How to Speak in Tongues (Ep. 9)

I met someone who was a missionary in Haiti after the earthquake. Shortly after arriving, she met a girl out there and asked her what she was doing. The girl replied that she was a slave (a restavek) to a family that lived nearby, and she was out doing errands for them, and they had a conversation. The woman found the girl later, and it turned out that she didn’t speak any English at all. The woman had spoken creole to her without realizing it, a language she had never known. She ended up rescuing and adopting her from that family.

My wife and I attended a Full Gospel Business Men's Association meeting where we were instructed how to obtain the "gift" of tongues. We were instructed to just babble and make strange noises until we received the gift. It's good no one was standing between us and the door as we beat it out of there.

I once attended an Pentecostal service where someone in front of me spoke in tongues. After laughing I asked a friend about it and she said it was an unknown language which promoted me to ask, then how can anyone be sure it isn't just made up?

You forgot the part where about a dozen people "filled with the spirit" stand around you, laying hands on you, praying in various tongues until you start to babble with them.

He's a schismatic weirdo with no theological education..... So he obviously knows what he is talking about. PRICELESS!!

What’s sad is that there’s actually “tutorials” on how to speak in tongues made by Charismatics.

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And it is not your own doing; it is a gift of God, not a result of works, so that none may boast." Ep 2:8,9 ESV Nothing is required for salvation other than faith in the finished work of Christ on the cross. Tongues are your own doing, tongues are something that are boasted of, tongues are nowhere required for salvation in scripture, indeed they are ruled out as a necessity, if not by this single passage, than by countless others that echo it. Paul said that one who speaks in tongues is less than one who prophesies, unless there is someone there to interpret it. (1Cor14:5) Since prophesy is not required for salvation, this reinforces the fact that tongues is not required for salvation. It also reinforces that fact that REAL TONGUES MUST BE INTERPRETABLE. If no one can interpret the "tongues," than it is just gibberish brought on  by psychological peer pressure applied to be part of the group, to be "saved." Unfortunately, this will not lead to salvation, since this whole movement is based on the lie that tongues are required. And we know who the father of lies is.

"Baptism now saves you" Doesn't get much clearer than that

There have been some preachers that go to relatively unknown parts of the world and the people there can miraculously understand them.

As a Catholic, I love this

Two questions: 1. When did knowledge pass away? 2. When did the perfect arrive? Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. (1 Corinthians 13:8-10)

I partially agree with you about the first half of the video. Our assurance of faith should come from God's promise of salvation in His word, not through spiritual gifts. But I have a bone to pick with you on the second half. I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure you're taking 1 Cor. 13:8 way out of context. Should we also say that knowledge will cease or has ceased? No! The passage is talking about how in comparison with love, the other spiritual gifts are inadequate. Youtube comments are not really the best place to argue something like this, but I think it's important enough that I speak up.

1 Cor13:8  Love never fails; but if there are gifts of [a]prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. So knowledge has been done away with too or are we picking and choosing what scripture tells us?  I get that most charismatics have abused the gifts like the Corinthians (ironic no?) but is our irritation towards them really not going to allow us to see what God is really saying about the gifts just so that we can shut them up? 

I agree with the 2nd half of this video denouncing tongues, but the 1st half is twisting scripture claiming baptism & the Lord's Supper are necessary for salvation. That is works-based salvation (see Eph. 2:8-9). The 2nd half of I Peter 3:21 states it isn't the work of baptism that saves, but the appeal to God for a good conscience through the resurrection of Jesus Christ (putting your faith in Christ). In Titus 3:5, they latch onto the word "washing", assuming it meant water baptism rather than "regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit" as specified in the verse & ignoring the beginning of the verse, which says that it is according to God's mercy, not anything we have done. Romans 6 is clearly using baptism as a symbol illustrating our dying to our old life of slavery to sin & rebirth to our new life of freedom from sin. I Cor. 11:24-26 says the Lord's Supper is memorial of what Christ has done.

I love that description of Charles Parham.

Paul also said "where there is knowledge, it will pass away..."

The Swedish chef thing was just too funny

If one reads tyndale, he has a note in the beginning of the next chapter (1 Corinthians 14) that says that "prophesying is here taken for expounding". And another in the same chapter : "to speak with tongues or with the spirit, is to speak that others understand not, as priests say their service. To speak with the mind is to speak that others understand, as when the preacher preacheth."

Interesting... I thought we were saved by grace... (Ephesians 2:8)

That was funny. As a former pentecostal/charismatic I can nod my head with approval at this.