Bible Reading: I Corinthians 12:10 and Acts 2:1-4
Key Verse: Verse 12:10 - “To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:”
Key Words: divers kinds of tongues
We are told in I Corinthians 13:8 that tongues will cease when that which is perfect is come.
There are those who believe that the “that” in the verse is the second coming of Jesus. I certainly do not want to make this devotional a commentary on the Scriptures, but I would be amiss if I did not say that the context of Scripture is not the second coming, but the context is love and the Scriptures. Prophecy was the Scripture, knowledge was and is a gift involving the Scripture… “that which is perfect” is the complete Word of God. When the Word was completed, tongues ceased.
In Acts 2 the Jews spoke in tongues as a sign that the Holy Spirit had come upon the Jews. It was a one-time event.
In Acts 19 it was a sign that the Holy Spirit had been given to the Gentiles. Again, a one-time event.
Tongues for today has ceased. Instead of wasting time trying to invent an unknown language, let’s spend our time and money getting the Bible translated into those known languages that do not have the Scriptures.
In his sermon, “A Dangerous Pentecost,” Halford Luccock tells of Lorenzo de’Medici, the great Florentine patron of the arts who was very proud of the spectacles he staged for the citizenry. Among his productions were several amazingly realistic religious pageants performed in church. But one Pentecost, Lorenzo went too far: he used actual fire to depict the descent of the tongues of flames on the apostles. The fragile stage set caught fire and, before horrified onlookers, the entire church burned to the ground. The moral is clear: pray for Pentecostal power, but don’t try to manufacture it.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞ Use your tongue to share the Gospel everywhere you go in the language you know.
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