Don't Stick OUT YOUR TONGUE AT TONGUES

 

Someone asked in a challenge "WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE" they spoke in tongues!?  -as we read from Acts Chapter 2.

The question's purpose was meant to distract and cast doubt as we read from the Book of Acts.
Had we continued, ACTS 10 and 19 also bore witness to Acts 2 when those believers believed.
Nor did she think to ask about Mark 16:20 "in my name they shall speak with new tongues".

But I digress. Later I gave her her disruptive response to the subject of tongues consideration. WHY tongues in the Book of Acts as people received the gift of the Holy Spirit? What was the purpose? As I pondered, the Lord gave answers and I then knew she mis-understood.

As God gave His Spirit in a NEW WAY, it says in Acts 2:11 When the Jews from the various nations heard them speaking with tongues "the wonderful works of God" "in their own languages", they were not hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ. They heard of God's wonderful works, perhaps they spoke scriptures concerning tongues from the prophets, or God's prophetic promises, we do not know.

What we DO KNOW IS: ***PETER*** would preach the gospel and WHO JESUS IS immediately after this, And Peter explained what those Jews were hearing and seeing in the disciples of Jesus. -Acts 2:14-21 You can read the the short passage

So WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF TONGUES?

... Peter said it was a sign to the Jews of:
1. fulfillment of prophetic scripture for God's people that believe.
2. It was a supernatural sign to the unconverted Jews that they had ALL been filled with the Holy Ghost.
3. It was SO THEY WOULD BELIEVE GOD confirming His Word.
4. IT WAS WHAT GOD HIMSELF CHOSE TO DO IN THEM.
5. The SAME HOLY GHOST would fill non-Jews later in ACTS 10 and Acts 19 with the SAME sign.

6. SO YOU SHOULD BELIEVE ALSO. Just because there are false and fakes, we should not stumble in unbelief to the real. God is still filling people with the real Holy Ghost and the evidence of tongues.

Addendum: In Acts 2 and 10 there was no Corinthian church for people to read about. Corinth began in Acts 18, and Paul later wrote them in regard to the GIFTS (plural), the Corinthians spoke with tongues as also did the Ephesians in Acts 19. What is sad is how some people are compelled to disparage and reject what Jesus said they could have, what Peter explained, what the gentiles in Acts 10:47 received, what the Jews received in Acts 2, what the Ephesian experienced in Acts 19.