Tongues 3

Introduction To Spiritual

Gifts

DEFINITION: A spiritual gift is

a supernatural ability, given to a believer

at the time of salvation, enabling him to minister

to the Body of Christ in the area of that gift.

What about the “Temporary Gifts”…

especially ‘Speaking in Tongues’?

CESSATIONIST:

This is the view that the miraculous sign gifts of the

apostolic age “ceased” with the passing of the

first generation of Christians.

SPEAKING IN TONGUES: The God-given ability to speak in

an existing, foreign language, which the speaker has not

previously known or learned, as a sign of God’s confirmation

on the speaker, and God’s judgment

on the nation of Israel.

SPEAKING IN TONGUES:

• Existing, foreign languages

γλῶσσα = “glōssa,” vv. 3, 4, 11; later in Acts; and I Corinthians.διάλεκτος = “dialektos,” vv. 6, 8

SPEAKING IN TONGUES:

Confirmation on the speaker...

•The Eleven Apostles, Acts 2:1-14

•Samaritans, Acts 8:14-17 (implied)

•Gentiles, Acts 10:44-46; Cf. also 11:15-17 and 15:6-11.

•Disciples of John, Acts 19:1-7.

SPEAKING IN TONGUES:

Tongues are for a sign to unbelievers, I Cor. 14:20-22!

Compare Isaiah 28:9-13

SPEAKING IN TONGUES:

I Corinthians 13:8-12 says that tongues will cease:

• Prophecy will be done away

• Tongues will cease

• Knowledge will be done away

RECALL THE “DISTRIBUTION” OF THE GIFTS IN I CORINTHIANS

12:8-10.

COMPARE THAT WITH I CORINTHIANS 13:8

THE WORD OF WISDOM, THE WORD OF

KNOWLEDGE

FAITHGIFTS OF HEALINGSWORKING OF MIRACLESPROPHECYDISTINGUISHING OF

SPIRITS

KINDS OF TONGUESINTERPRETATION OF

TONGUES.

THE WORD OF WISDOM, THE WORD OF

KNOWLEDGE

FAITHGIFTS OF HEALINGSWORKING OF MIRACLESPROPHECYDISTINGUISHING OF

SPIRITS

KINDS OF TONGUESINTERPRETATION OF

TONGUES.

Knowledge will be done away

Prophecy will be done away

Tongues will cease

THE WORD OF WISDOM, THE WORD OF

KNOWLEDGE

FAITHGIFTS OF HEALINGSWORKING OF MIRACLESPROPHECYDISTINGUISHING OF

SPIRITS

KINDS OF TONGUESINTERPRETATION OF

TONGUES.

Knowledge will be done away

Prophecy will be done away

Tongues will cease

THE WORD OF WISDOM, THE WORD OF

KNOWLEDGE

FAITHGIFTS OF HEALINGSWORKING OF MIRACLESPROPHECYDISTINGUISHING OF

SPIRITS

KINDS OF TONGUESINTERPRETATION OF

TONGUES.

Knowledge will be done away

Prophecy will be done away

Tongues will cease

THE WORD OF WISDOM, THE WORD OF

KNOWLEDGE

FAITHGIFTS OF HEALINGSWORKING OF MIRACLESPROPHECYDISTINGUISHING OF

SPIRITS

KINDS OF TONGUESINTERPRETATION OF

TONGUES.

Knowledge will be done away

Prophecy will be done away

Tongues will cease

When will “Prophecy” and “Knowledge” be “done away”? What is “the perfect,” of v. 10?

1. When Christ comes.

2. At the Rapture (or 2nd Coming).

3. When the Church is mature in love.

4. When the Scriptures are complete.

“Prophecy” and

“the Word of Knowledge” have to do with

God giving revelation to man!

“We know “out of a part” and we prophesy “out of a part.”

But when that which is complete (“the perfect”) comes,

then that which is “out of a part”

will be done away.

“That which is complete” is Scripture...

the completed “canon” of Scripture… God’s completed revelation to man!

When the Scriptures were completed, “Prophecy” and

“the word of knowledge” were done away.

Tongues ceased…as a sign to unbelieving Israel,

when God finally stopped “dealing with Israel,”

in ~70 A. D., when the temple in Jerusalem

was destroyed, and the offer of the kingdom

was withdrawn.

Therefore, by the end of the 1st Century,

prophecy and the word of knowledge had been done away,

because the Scriptures were completed,

and “tongues” ceased, because God was working in the Church,

not with Israel.

Further teaching on Tongues in I Corinthians 14

• It is better to edify others than to speak in tongues, 1-19.

• One who speaks in tongues “edifies” himself, 4.

• If all are speaking in tongues, a visitor will think they are “mad,” 23

Note how Paul DE-values “tongues”:

• No one understands, 2• Edifies himself, 4• Greater is the one who

prophesies, 4.• What will it profit you?, 6• How will it be known what is

spoken?, 9• You will be speaking into the air,

9

Note how Paul DE-values “tongues”:

• I will be a barbarian to the one who speaks, 11.• My mind is unfruitful, 14.• He does not know what you are

saying, 16.• The other person is not edified,

17.

Note how Paul DE-values “tongues”:

• I desire to speak 5 words with my mind, so that I may instruct others, rather than 10,000 words in a tongue, 19.• Will they not say that you are

mad?

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