PROBLEM OF THE INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES AND ITS UNDERSTANDING

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

TOPIC: PROBLEM OF THE INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES AND ITS UNDERSTANDING

One of the problems in the church of Corinth was that tongues-speakers were speaking out in the service, exercising their gift of tongues with no interpreter and with no one present who spoke that language.
The result was that the tongues-speaker was commanding attention, but his words were meaningless, since no one could understand him. Paul strongly advised that all use of tongues in the church must be interpreted:

“In the church I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than ten thousand words in a tongue” (1 Corinthians 14:19).

There was no benefit to other church members in hearing something they could not understand. Exercising the gift of tongues in church, simply for the sake of showing everyone that you had the gift, was conceited and unprofitable. Paul told the Corinthians that, if two or three tongues-speakers wanted to speak in a meeting, then a spiritually gifted tongues-interpreter must also be present. In fact, “if there is no interpreter, the speaker should keep quiet in the church and speak to himself and to God” (1 Corinthians 14:28).

The temporal nature of the gift of tongues implies that the gift of interpretation of tongues was also of a temporal nature.
If the gift of speaking in tongues were active in the church today,

1. It would be performed in agreement with Scripture.

2. It would be a real and intelligible language (1 Corinthians 14:10).

3. It would be for the purpose of communicating God’s Word to a person of another language (Acts 2:6–12), and

4. It would be done “in a fitting and orderly way” (1 Corinthians 14:40), “for God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people” (1 Corinthians 14:33).

LET US PRAY
Every Demonic Confusing spirit in your life and in your church is hereby silence forever in Jesus Name

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