Pastor Tim finishes up his study on the spiritual gift of tongues. He gives a great example of how to test someone if they claim to have the gift of tongues or if they’re just faking it.
Series: Spiritual Gifts – Tongues Pt. 10
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Wednesday Bible Study
Pastor Tim continues his study on the spiritual gift of tongues.
Series: Spiritual Gifts – Tongues Pt. 9
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Wednesday Bible Study
Pastor Tim continues his study on the spiritual gift of tongues.
Series: Spiritual Gifts – Tongues Pt. 8
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Wednesday Bible Study
Pastor Tim continues his study on the spiritual gift of tongues.
Series: Spiritual Gifts – Tongues Pt. 7
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Wednesday Bible Study
Pastor Tim continues his study on the spiritual gift of tongues.
Series: Spiritual Gifts – Tongues Pt. 6
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Wednesday Bible Study
Pastor Tim continues his study on the spiritual gift of tongues.
Series: Spiritual Gifts – Tongues Pt. 5
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Wednesday Bible Study
Pastor Tim continues his study on the spiritual gift of tongues.
Series: Spiritual Gifts – Tongues Pt. 4
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Wednesday Bible Study
Pastor Tim continues his study on the spiritual gift of tongues.
Series: Spiritual Gifts – Tongues Pt. 3
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Wednesday Bible Study
Pastor Tim continues his study on the spiritual gift of tongues.
Series: Spiritual Gifts – Tongues Pt. 2
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Wednesday Bible Study
Spiritual Gift of Tongues – What is this?
Pastor Tim start’s a 10-Part series on the Spiritual Gift of Tongues. The spiritual gift of tongues is one of the temporary spiritual gifts; it is the ability to speak in a known human language that the speaker had not learned. The Greek word is lw`ssa, which means the tongue or a language (Acts 2:3, 4, 11; 10.46; 19.6; 1 Corinthians 12:10, 28, 30; 13.1, 8; 14.2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 13, 14, 18, 19, 22, 23, 26, 27, 39)
The purpose of tongues
The purpose of the gift of tongues was to dramatically notify Jews (tongues was a sign gift) that God was now judging them because they had rejected his word delivered through his prophets and his Messiah (Isaiah 28:11-13; 1 Corinthians 14.18-22).
The gift of tongues ceased
The gift of tongues ceased when the purpose had been accomplished. Israel was judged and dispersed between May 67 and May 73 AD; this was the administration of the fifth cycle of divine discipline promised by God through Moses (Leviticus 26:14-34; the fifth cycle is found in Leviticus 26:27-33).
The principle of temporary spiritual gifts
The principle of temporary spiritual gifts is found in Hebrews 2:3-4, 1 Corinthians 13:8-11, 2 Corinthians 12:12, and Romans 15:18-19. Hebrews chapter 2 identifies three succeeding generations or groups of people: “the Lord” was the first to speak; “those who heard” him speak were the second; the third generation had the message confirmed to them, “to us.” Notice that the generation that was the link between the Lord and the third generation confirmed the authenticity of their message (“God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to his own will”) by supernatural sign gifts which they possessed, but which the “to us” generation did not possess. First Corinthians 13:8 says that tongues shall cease, and prophecy and knowledge shall be done away with. This happens when the need for them is gone. It seems best to interpret that to mean at the point when God has done what he wanted to do with the supernatural sign gifts. He had announced judgment to Israel, he had confirmed the apostles’ doctrine, and so the church was able to grow and spread based upon the confirmed truth. “The perfect” in 1 Corinthians 13:10 (to; tevleion having attained the end or purpose, complete, and by extension, perfect) likely refers to the apostles’ doctrine confirmed and written or soon to be written in the New Testament Canon. 1 Corinthians 12-14 presents the body of Christ, spiritual gifts, and the church’s ministry. The argument that “the perfect” in 1 Corinthians 13 refers to the Millennium or to the eternal state does not fit the context.
2 Corinthians 12:12 and Romans 15:18-19 teach us that the apostles to the church had and used the sign gifts to authenticate their apostleship, ministry, and message. The church no longer has this special apostleship and so the sign gifts are not necessary today nor are they given today.
In part 10 of this series Pastor Tim gives a great example of how to test someone if they really claim to have the gift of tongues or if they’re just faking it.
Conclusion
As you will see after listening to this series, the evidence demands that the New Testament prophetic gift ceased its operation very early in the history of the church. Furthermore, although no one single argument alone demonstrates this, the aggregate weight of the total evidence decisively points to this conclusion. Listen to this series to help you better understand the meaning and purpose of the gift of tongues and why they were needed then, but not now.
Series: Spiritual Gifts – Tongues Pt. 1
Speaker: Tim Miles
Type: Wednesday Bible Study
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