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Originally Posted by RonMurray
It's not a perversion of the gospel. I went to God and asked Him if it eas true that everyone who receives the Holy Ghost will speak in tongues. And He answered by leading me to Isaiah 28:11 & 12 and opened my understanding of it, and showed me the connection between that and what Jesus said in Matthew 11:28, and made me to know that it's true, that everyone who receives the Holy Spirit will speak in tongues. So this is what God Himself teaches. |
Ron,
John 3:8 "The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit."
A lot of people don't know this, but the Greek word for "sound" in this verse is
hōnē. It literally translates a sound that can come from inanimate things like the wind, but when it comes from animate things, like a person, the sound comes from the voice and tongue of that person. Therefore, Jesus told Nicodemus, EVERYONE born of the Spirit will hear the sound of their voice that comes from speech. The books of Acts confirmns this sound is speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance.
Definition of phōnē:
1) a sound, a tone
A) of inanimate things, as musical instruments
2) a voice
A)of the sound of uttered words
3) speech
A) of a language, tongue
Aee above. We can rule out #1, However, #2 and #3 clearly explain where the sound comes from and how it is spoken when we are born of the Spirit.