so every time you find in the book of
acts
when someone is baptized in the holy
spirit they always
speak in tongues one time the apostle
paul passed by a group of people
and he asked them have you received the
holy ghost and the bible says they were
disciples they were believers in christ
have you received the holy spirit he
asked them now today
that is not the question we ask people
after we see that they are saved we
don't ask them have you received the
holy spirit
because it is insulting to many
denominations to suggest
that to ask the question have you
received the holy spirit's insulting
yet i think it's in acts 16
19 i knew it's either 16 or 19. so look
at pastor henry our walking encyclopedia
in acts 19 if you look at it the bible
says paul
passed by a certain region and then he
found
disciples the word there's disciples
these are believers in christ christians
and he asked them the question have you
received the holy spirit since you
believed
so they said we never heard of anything
called the holy spirit
so unto what baptism were you baptized
oh john's baptism
well jesus said what you'll be baptized
with the holy spirit
and then the bible says he prayed for
them laid hands on them and they
received the holy spirit and what was
the evidence those of you on the page
they spoke with tongues and prophesied
right
so we can we don't want to compromise
just because
some denominations uh of the persuasion
that tongues have ceased
all right we don't want to compromise
because our standard is the bible
can never go to a man you know they will
say that we are also baptized in the
holy spirit it's one thing to have
drunk some water it's another thing that
when you
jump into the swimming pool
one is the water is in you determine
that you are in the water
let me understand once you receive jesus
christ the holy spirit is resident in
you
but once you're baptized in the holy
spirit the holy spirit is precedent
over you and you want him to control
your life
pastor lian
she shared last night
that to some of some of us
pastors that uh you know one of the
things that she finds when she prays in
tongues she prays in the holy spirit
for seasons you know you don't have to
pray out loud all the time you can pray
under undertones you know the whole day
as you are doing your work even at work
and all that pray
in tongues undertones and she says that
she one time she was doing that a lot
and she came to church
and she felt like giving up her seat for
one particular lady
she just felt prompted so she got up she
asked the lady to take her seat
so the lady took her seat and
she didn't know why she did that all
right
this happened only a few weeks ago the
lady wrote to her and said that she
it was her first time to church at that
point in time she was not a christian
wasn't a believer and she was suffering
from some sort of physical condition
that makes it very painful for her to be
sitting on the floor and when pastor
leanne did that she didn't know who
pastillian was
she felt the love of god for her of all
the people
of course a few ushers came to her and
said this is pastor leon's
you're not supposed to sit down here
okay ushers don't do that anymore okay
don't just do your job be led by the
spirit as well amen
and uh by the way she got saved that
lady got saved not on the same
sunday last sunday she was one of those
who came forward
and got saved now amazing
when somebody does things by the spirit
not knowing why
smith wigglesworth who raised more than
10 people from the dead he's just an
english plumber
so here's a good example of someone who
is not educated and yet
he says he prays in tongues a lot the
moment he gets in the morning his feet
touch the floor he's
speaking in tongues and he says
for all those of you who are wondering
what's the benefit of this language
well let me just reason let come let's
reason together would god
on the most important day the day of
pentecost of all the gifts
all right of all the things that god
could have done god gave them the
baptism holy spirit speaking in tongues
would would you for one moment think
that god would give them something
they will not benefit them glorify
christ magnify god
so whatever the reasoning that people
have for not speaking in tongues
all right it is not coming to the level
of god's
word and god's personal opinion about it
you know if god tells me every day if
you climb
that tree over there you have power to
overcome the devil and all his
temptations power to heal the sick
power to be a blessing to mankind and a
blessing to yourself and your family
you know what i'll climb that tree i
don't care what denomination tell me
what i'm going to climb the tree every
day
amen if god tells me look into the
mirror every day and slap yourself three
times
on the face all right and you'll be very
you'll be super healthy
hey man i don't care i'm going to slap
my face three times but how many
god doesn't ask you to do this kind of
thing
god doesn't even say you must go to
jerusalem to receive the baptism holy
spirit
i'm glad that god gives us a gift and
and and for reasons
that i've shared before plus reasons
only known to him it is a gift
of a language you don't even know of to
save you
from knowing everything you pray because
you
don't want to know everything you pray
like i said before
if you're praying for somebody you love
your child or whatever the whole of next
week she's not going to school
if you're praying for a dangerous
situation with a child right so it's
best we do not know
the future it's best we do not know the
things we are praying
amen and there are people
even believers from other places who are
against me
and for what i believe in preaching the
greatest gospel
amen i hope they pray for me in tongues
and not pray psychic prayers where they
are coming against you know we we
render power we bind pastor prince
whatever you know
those are psychic prayers god never give
gave prayers
for you to come against people right
prayer is directed to god
amen binding is the devil and his works
so sometimes you feel an oppression when
actually it's because of people praying
for you charismatic people praying you
rather they pray in tongues
because when you cannot pray in tongues
selfishly
that's why you do not know your prayer
if you pray in english you can pray
selfishly
and all the while none of us have come
to the place where we know how to pray
perfectly
therefore our prayers smack off
selfishness
and the lying hidden agendas
but you cannot pray in the holy spirit
except according to the will of god and
whatever we know that if we ask anything
according to his will
he hears us amen
so the the biggest problem the body of
christ today is that
uh charismatics who are baptized in the
spirit see it as a
as a sign all right that they are
baptized
and that's it but they don't exercise
that gift now many
times they exercise the gift when they
come to church and that was the problem
in the church of korean where paul wrote
trying to control the gift of tongues
now gift of tongues
not everybody have the gift of tongues
mentioned in first corinthians
14 12 and all that where he talks about
if you don't have an interpreter
keep quiet now that's the gift of
tongues all of us
have the sign that jesus said in mark
and these signs will follow those that
believe
all right one of the signs is that they
shall speak with new tongues our lord
jesus said that
these signs will follow the believers
didn't say pastors believers didn't say
apostles or prophets
believers one of the biggest signs is
what they shall speak with new tongues
straight after that they shall take up
serpents they become
immune they drink any deadly thing it
should not hurt them
speaking in tongues makes you super
natural
so that is the prayer language that
every believer should have