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Originally Posted by Justin
Romans 8:9-11; (NIV) Emphasis are mine.
9 You (Spirit filled church in Rome, they had heard and obeyed Acts 2:38), however, are controlled not by the sinful nature but by the Spirit, if the Spirit of God (Holy Ghost) lives in you. What if a person speaks in tongues, but even after years shows themselves controlled by a sinful nature?And if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ (Holy Ghost), he does not belong to Christ. (Meaning if you do not have the Holy Ghost, you do not belong to Christ.) This means a lot more than speaking in tongues though.
10 But if Christ is in you (Holy Ghost), your body is dead because of sin, yet your spirit is alive because of righteousness.
11 And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you (God's Spirit, aka, the Holy Ghost), he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you. (In other words, if you have the Holy Ghost, you will have immortal life, aka, go to heaven)
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Sorry, I appreciate what you are saying, but there was a man in my church who for several years would follow me around talking in tongues while also yelling or muttering that I was backslid, rebellious, unsubmissive, and would go to hell for not marrying him because he told me I had to, and I didn't. He wasn't in any leadership, kind of on the fringes, but then leadership rebuked me for not wanting to call him "brother" and avoiding him. After all, he "had the Holy Ghost"!! Kind of turned me off to the idea that speaking in tongues gave much more than possibly an initial or momentary evidence of anything.
James 3:11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Matthew 7:20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
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