Tongues Series

ENDNOTES:

i All Scripture quotes are from the New King James Version unless indicated otherwise.

ii In John 14:17 Jesus made it clear that unbelievers could not receive this baptism in the Holy Spirit when He said to His disciples, “the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you” (emphasis mine).

iii “Now there are those who would argue that the last twelve verses of Mark's Gospel are not found in some of the earliest manuscripts. It is true that these last twelve verses of Mark's Gospel are not found in the Codex Sinaiticus or the Codex Vaticanus, which are both a part of the Alexandrian family of manuscripts. However, it is interesting to note that the early church fathers, Iranius, who lived from AD 140 to 202, and Hippolatus, who lived from AD

170 to 235, both quote from these last twelve verses of Mark's Gospel. Now the argument that some of the scholars give is that because this portion of Mark's Gospel does not appear in the Codex Sinaiticus, which is one of the oldest complete manuscripts that we possess (though it really is not complete), they say that this passage then was inserted later on by a copier. However, Codex Sinaiticus actually dates back to sometime into the AD 400s. They do not know the exact date, however 420 to 460 are the dates that are usually established for the Codex Sinaiticus. Here is Iranius, one of the church fathers, 200 years before the Codex Sinaiticus was ever copied and he is quoting, no doubt, from an earlier manuscript. And so, the overwhelming evidence is that the last twelve verses of Mark's Gospel actually were in the original manuscripts and somehow got deleted from the Codex Sinaiticus and the Vaticanus which comes, as I say, from the same Alexandrian family of manuscripts.” Chuck Smith, “The Gift of Tongues, Part 1,” retrieved from http://www.sermonindex.net/modules/articles/index.php?view=article&aid=29517.

iv Acts 17:6

v Ex. 7:11. We are not saying that methods should not be updated and made relevant to the culture. We’re simply saying that will never be an adequate substitute for the power of the Holy Spirit.

vi Gen. 1:3, 11-12

vii There is a direct connection between the condition of a person’s heart, and what is coming out of his mouth. Jesus said, “…the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Lk 6:45).

viii Proverbs 15:4

ix Notice they did not prophesy instead of speaking in tongues, but in addition to speaking in tongues. The debate as to whether these twelve men were believers when Paul first met them does not matter, because they must have been before Paul would baptize them in water. It is after that as an additional experience, that Paul lays his hands on them, and they are baptized in the Holy Spirit and then speak in tongues.

x People are sometimes taught that they got it all when they were converted. The provision for it all was received by receiving Christ. But, just as God had given the Promise Land to Israel in the wilderness and they were to possess their possession by faith, we appropriate the things of Christ by faith. Martyn Loyd-Jones challenges Christians who assume they have got it all the moment they are born again. “Got it all? Well, if you have ‘got it all’ I simply ask in the name of God, why are you as you are? If you have got it all, why are you so unlike the New Testament Christians? Got it all! Got it at your conversion! Well, where is it I ask?” Quote taken from Treasures Old and New: Interpretations of Spirit Baptism in the Charismatic Renewal Movement by Henry Lederle (Peabody, MA: Henderson Publishers, 1988) p. 152.