Why do people fake speaking in tongues

Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God. And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this? Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine Acts Bible verse.

Peter was still speaking when the Holy Spirit came upon all who listened to the Word. God gives and pours the Holy Spirit on foreigners also! Native Jews from every nation on the earth expatriates were at Jerusalem for the feast of the Pentecost. They heard the disciples speak in their respective overseas languages. A mystery is something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain.

The nonemigrant native Jews who could not understand, considered the disciples drunk. In the house Cornelius, the believers were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages offering words of praise to God. They were loud in their praises, such that it pulled a crowd including the native speakers of the various languages native Jewish expatriates.

The gift of tongues is the divine ability for a man to speak a foreign earthly language which he has never learned. The man speaks unto God, and not unto men, in a foreign language, in words of prayer, praise and thanksgiving.

Believers do not need the sign, but they can receive edification if they understand. If the audience are native speakers of the foreign language, they will understand, but if the audience are non-natives of the foreign language, then there must be an interpreter. Praying in tongues are words spoken to God in a foreign earthly language that has never been learned, by the power of the Holy Spirit. When we pray in tongues, our minds remain idle for we do not understand what we speak.

Praying in a native language are words spoken to God in a native earthly language learned from birth. I understand every word because it is my native tongue. When I pray in my own language, my mind is fruitful. The Holy Spirit can pray to God on our behalf. When He prays, the prayer is without words. Only a groaning sound may be heard when the Holy Spirit intercedes for us.

He makes perfect prayer for us because He prays according to the will of God. How to ask? And what shall we ask for? We do not know, but the spirit intercedes for us without words, as if with groans. In the early church, not all those who were baptized in the Holy Spirit could speak in tongues 1 Corinthians All spirit-filled believers must not speak in tongues. But no known language consists of the same syllable repeated over and over.

And there is no question, if we take the Bible for what it says, that the Biblical gift was a language.

The second aspect of the true gift was that even if it were a known language, it must consist of praise and thanksgiving to God. It is addressed to God and not to man, for Paul specifically says, "He that speaks in a tongue speaks not to man but to God," 1 Corinthians There are never any tongues in Scripture except this. Tongues are never used for preaching, or exhortation, or prediction in the Scriptures.

It is invariably praise and thanksgiving to God. Here again the present manifestation is seen to be largely false, for wherever an interpretation is given it is usually some exhortation addressed to those present.

Those of you who heard the recent television broadcast on the subject of glossolalia saw the program introduced by what was evidently a film of a meeting where they were allegedly speaking in tongues. I listened very carefully to that manifestation and to the supposed interpretation which followed, and the interpretation was an exhortation to the people present to receive the gift of speaking in tongues and a description of the blessing that would be theirs if they did.

I knew when I heard the interpretation that this was not the true gift of tongues for the true gift is never addressed to man; it is addressed to God, and God does not exhort himself to speak in tongues. The true gift of tongues is praise and thanksgiving for the marvelous works of God, addressed to God. Every manifestation of tongues in the Bible in which the characteristic of it is given to us is always of this type. The third mark of the true gift is that it must be publicly exercised as a sign to unbelievers, for again Paul specifically says that tongues are not a sign for believers but for unbelievers.

On the day of Pentecost this is exactly the purpose they fulfilled. Though they were addressed to God, they arrested the attention of the unbelievers who were present in the public place, and became a sign to them.

I believe it took place in the temple courts. The crowd regarded it as highly unusual, and a proof that God was at work. It is most remarkable that there is not a single instance or hint in the New Testament of any private use of tongues.

Every occurrence is in a public place or open meeting. We are hearing today that the primary use of tongues is for private prayer. On the TV program previously mentioned, such a statement was made, and if that is true, then it immediately stamps as counterfeit the manifestation of tongues in our day.

All the gifts of the Spirit, we are told including tongues , were given for the common good. You will find that statement in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians in the 12th chapter. None is to be exercised privately. In fact, if you go through the gifts of the Spirit that are listed there, you can see that their very nature requires they be exercised in some public fashion and are not to be used privately.

Therefore, when I hear someone say that he prays privately in tongues, though he may be perfectly sincere and believe he is receiving a wonderful blessing from the Holy Spirit, I know from the Scriptures that he is not receiving the true gift of tongues, for the true gift of tongues was never intended to be privately exercised. Let him who wishes to argue that point produce a single instance from Scripture of such private use of the gift of tongues.

Scripture must be the test. The fourth mark of the true gift of tongues is that it is not to be used in a church meeting unless it is translated, either by natural means, or the exercise of the gift of interpretation.

Even then, it must be a language spoken somewhere on earth and an expression of thanksgiving to God. Tongues is never a medium by which the Spirit of God delivers a message to the church. It is always an expression of praise to God through a human voice box in a language spoken somewhere on earth as a foregleam of the day when the effects of evil in the human race will be done away and all men will understand one another again.

That was the clear purpose of the gift of tongues. Now when it is used in church, no more than two or three are to speak in tongues, and each speaking is to be translated. Otherwise no one is to speak in tongues.

If there is no translator present, or no one with the gift of interpretation, there must be no tongues. This implies that anyone speaking in tongues should find out first if there is someone present who can translate, before the gift is exercised. If this control were put into practice in present day manifestations of tongues it would quickly eliminate the false from the true.

A fifth qualification of the true gift is that women are not permitted to exercise the gift of tongues in the church. Paul says so specifically. As in all the churches of the saints, the women should keep silence in the churches, [it is in the context of the discussion on tongues] for they are not permitted to speak, but they should be subordinate, as even the law says.

That is, this isn't just old crotchety Paul talking, that old bachelor who never understood women anyway! No, this is an inspired apostle speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and writing the mind of the Lord. This is a prohibition that greatly needs to be observed. It is significant that a majority of tongues speakers today are women.

Someone asked me if it was not possible for women to be among the group that spoke on the day of Pentecost. Yes, it is possible. That was not in the church, that was not a meeting of the church gathering together in the Lord, worshipping God. That was a public manifestation and, in that, it would be permissible for women to exercise the gift, but in the church Paul says "No.

This is the only limitation I know that prohibits women from speaking or exercising any gift in the church. They are allowed to prophesy, i. Women are not limited in this respect, but, in the matter of the exercise of tongues, they are definitely restrained in the church. The sixth and last distinction of the true gift is that the gift of tongues is distributed by the sovereign choice of the Spirit and is definitely not intended for everyone.

And the implied answer is "No," for the manifestation of the Spirit is given by the Spirit, as he wills. It is the choice of the Spirit as to who speaks in tongues and who does not. This immediately gives the lie to all claims of tongues as the unique sign of the presence of the Holy Spirit, or that those who have not spoken in tongues have not been baptized or filled by the Spirit.

Like the dancing, it was almost a contest to see who could worship the hardest while appearing the most natural. Maybe anything that involves performance naturally becomes a competition. It was definitely hilarious when two dancers would run up at the same time, and have to awkwardly share the stage. But there were moments, especially as I got older, where I too raised my hands and closed my eyes and felt my heart surge and heard a loud roaring in my ears.

I felt part of something bigger, some great mystery, and I was filled with an overwhelming desire to worship. Religious ecstasy was a real, easily identifiable state. Years later, when I first tried the drug ecstasy, I felt it come back like muscle memory. When I was, 13 I went to a regular youth group meeting on Sunday nights. It was led by a couple in their mid-thirties. One spring evening, something was definitely different from usual.

I knew that it had its roots in these verses from Acts of the New Testament, which I had memorized as part of the scripture memorization we did at school:. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.

All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Tim and Alice led the eight or so 12 and 13 year olds into the church sanctuary and up to the front of the stage. They pulled up a chair, and asked who wanted to go first.

I never heard of someone watching a YouTube video to learn how to do something so spiritual. She shared the video during our study and everyone muted themselves. I tried to follow the speaker but got tongue-tied. My feet began to tingle but honestly, I thought I was cold! Everyone was convinced it was the Holy Spirit and got excited that something was happening. So I watched videos and I discovered more about what the Holy Spirit enables us to do.

I learned about how we can get in our own way. I thought what I was doing was counterfeit until The Holy Spirit hit me so hard and I fell to my knees. I was speaking in tongues! God loves you! You have received the gift of the Holy Spirit once you accepted Christ; the manifestation of the gift will come. If you would like to hear my full testimony, check out the video below! Truth 1: Speaking in tongues is a personal gift that has the power to encourage and edify others and yourself!

Truth 3: The enemy will try to dissuade you from any progress you make in the Lord. Truth 5: If you spoke in tongues once, believe it will happen again. Truth 7: Speaking in tongues is a weapon against the kingdom of darkness.

Truth Speaking in tongues will change the way you express yourself.