What’s Wrong with Charismatic Tongues & Healing?

What’s Wrong with Charismatic Tongues & Healing? “put away childish things” A476-543 Some people may ask you to speak in tongues (unlearned languages) or be healed by laying hands on you. Q: Does the Bible say that we should seek the gifts of tongues and healing, or are they not for today? Tongues: 1. “whether there be tongues, they shall cease;” I Cor 13:8. When do tongues cease? 2. When their purpose is fulfilled. What was their purpose? To warn unbelieving Jews to repent. “In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; & yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.” I Cor 14:21. Paul quotes Isaiah 28:11 to show that tongues are a warning sign for Jews to repent or God would soon judge them. Why did tongues warn the Jews? 3. Assyrian tongues warned disobedient Israel in 721BC of soon coming captivity (Isaiah 28). a) God has a message for the people: “Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim.” Is28:1,12 b) The people refuse to listen to God: “yet they would not hear.” Isaiah 28:12. c) God uses tongues as a sign of judgment: “with another tongue will he speak to this people.” Isa. 28:11 d) Dispersion follows: “they might go, fall backward, be broken, snared & taken (captive).” Isaiah 28:13. 4. Babylonian tongues warned disobedient Judah in 606BC of soon coming captivity (Jeremiah 3-5). a) God has a message for the people: “Return ye backsliding children& I will heal your baclslidings” 3:22 b) The people refuse to listen to God: “they have refused to receive correction..” Jeremiah 5:3. c) God uses tongues as a sign of judgment: “I will bring a nation whose language thou knowest not” 5:15 d) Dispersion follows: “As ye have forsaken me, ye shall serve strangers in a land that is not yours.” 5:19. 5. New Testament tongues warned disobedient Israel from 33-70 AD of soon coming captivity. a) God has a message for Israel: “Come unto me” Mat 11:28; “We hear them speak in our tongues”Act2:11 b) The people refuse to listen to God: “when divers were hardened, and believed not” Acts 19:9; 13:46 c) God uses tongues as a sign of judgment: “What meaneth this?” Acts 2:11,12; “destroyed” 3:23 d) Dispersion follows: “They shall be led away captive into all nations.” Luke 21:20-24. 70AD captivity. 6. “Wherefore, tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not” ICor14:22, not for Christians, but for Jewish unbelievers to warn them to repent. Once judgment came in 70AD, tongues ceased, because their purpose ended. This is also taught in I Cor 13:8-13 discussing 6 things. v.13 7. “Now (59AD) abides (continues) faith, hope, charity, these three (not prophecy, tongues, knowledge)” 8. Why did prophecy and knowledge gifts cease? The apostles knew the mind of God (knowledge), they spoke it as prophecy, then wrote it as NT scripture. When the New Testament was completed in 96AD, there was no need for prophecy (new revelations) or knowledge gifts, because they gave way to the NT. 13:9,10 “We know in part, & we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect (complete NT) is come, then that which is in part (prophecy & knowledge) shall be done away (in 96AD with a completed NT)”. James 1:22-25: Perfect (25) = Mirror (23,24) = Bible (22,23,25). I Cor 13: Perfect (10) = Mirror (12) =? 9. Scientific test disproving tongues: Since both tongues & interpretation of tongues existed in 33-70AD, if we prove that nobody has the interpretation of tongues gift, then nobody has the tongues gift today. Assemble anyone who claims to have the gift of tongues with 3 who claim to have the interpretation gift. Ask the tongues speaker to speak in tongues & the 3 interpreters to write their interpretation of his tongue. Each interpretation will be different. This proves that both tongues & interpretation don’t exist today.2C13 10. There is no mention of tongues anywhere in the New Testament after I Cor 14, showing it had ceased. 11. The context of I Cor 14 is Paul rebuking them for their wrong use of gibberish tongues as a carry-over from their pagan gibberish in their idol temples “Ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these idols”ICo12:2 12. The Corinthians were the worst NT church with 13 errors. You don’t copy the worst NT church. 13. Healing gift was temporary for the purpose of “confirming the word with signs” Mark 16:17-20. 14. Paul lost his gift of healing by 66AD, “Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.” 2 Timothy 4:20. 15. Mark 16:18 “They shall lay hands on the sick and they SHALL recover.” Nobody heals 100% now. “Them that believe” (16:17) refers to the apostles who disbelieved Jesus’ resurrection (11,12,14) not all. “Believe” (17) is a Greek aorist participle referring to those who believed in the past, not future believers. 16. Chrysostom (347), Augustine (410), Tertullian (155) all said that tongues ceased with the apostles 17. Hebrews 2:3,4 “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and WAS confirmed unto US (2nd generation) by THEM (apostles) that heard him. God also bearing THEM (apostles) witness, both with signs, wonders & diverse miracles & gifts of HS”. 18. Praying in tongues is wrong because understanding is absent. I Cor 14:14,15; Acts 2:11; Rom 8:26. 19. Tongues in Acts 2,10,18,19 is for Jews. Tongues is a departure from Bible doctrine to experience. 99