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Interpretaion of Tongues

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Br. Bear

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Greetings,

over the years we have had numerous threads about 'Speaking in Tongues' as some of you well know.

I thought it was about time to 'turn the table', so to speak, and begin a thread about the interpretation of tongues.

It appears that so little is said about this and yet, surely, it is as important as speaking in tongues. Or am i incorrect about this?

So, what is the interpreting of tongues?

What is it for?

What does the Bible have to tell us?

For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God. Indeed, no one understands him; he utters mysteries in the Spirit.
1Corinthians 14:2


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According to Paul, interpretation of Tongues is a gift and ,apparently, as important.

According to him, Spiritual Gifts are given to each Believer and are for the edification of the church.

Paul states that he would rather a person to Prophesy than Speaking in Tongues; if Tongues , there must be a person available who is gifted in interpretation of Tongues as to edify the Church.

Speaking in Tongues to God is a definite gift and must be richly rewarding but if you don't do it or have it translated, who knows what is gibberish and what is not?
 
1Cor 12:7; But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

1Cor 12:10; and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.
1Cor 12:30; All do not have gifts of healings, do they? All do not speak with tongues, do they? All do not interpret, do they?

1Cor 14:4; One who speaks in a tongue edifies himself; but one who prophesies edifies the church.
1Cor 14:5; Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.
1Cor 14:6; But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking in tongues, what will I profit you unless I speak to you either by way of revelation or of knowledge or of prophecy or of teaching?
1Cor 14:7; Yet even lifeless things, either flute or harp, in producing a sound, if they do not produce a distinction in the tones, how will it be known what is played on the flute or on the harp?
1Cor 14:8; For if the bugle produces an indistinct sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
1Cor 14:9; So also you, unless you utter by the tongue speech that is clear, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.
1Cor 14:10; There are, perhaps, a great many kinds of languages in the world, and no kind is without meaning.
1Cor 14:11; If then I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian, and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me.
1Cor 14:12; So also you, since you are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek to abound for the edification of the church.
1Cor 14:13; Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.

1Cor 14:22; So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign, not to unbelievers but to those who believe.

1Cor 14:27; If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two or at the most three, and each in turn, and one must interpret;
1Cor 14:28; but if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself and to God.

I don't believe everyone has all of the gifts. But some do speak in tongues, and some do interpret. It says in verse 12 above, this is for the edification of the church.
If what is said doesn't edify the church in some way, it's not from God. 1Cor 12:7; says it's for "the common good" of the church.

I've seen this done many times in a number of different ways.
Many Christians have a "private" prayer language that they speak at home, or maybe quietly when praying at church. The verses above are not for those situations.
But there are times during a service or assembly of many Christians, when someone will speak out loudly to the congregation in tongues.

Sometimes it is a heavenly language (Paul says the tongues of angels).
But often it is an Earthly language. It is never a language you yourself understand. I heard a person I knew speak Filipino not long ago, I knew she didn't speak Filipino.
But there was another person in the church who did, and without even knowing it, they prophesied by interpreting what my friend said.

Now people will say, how do you know tongues are from God? Well like I said earlier, it must edify the church in some way.
But another way is, they speak a language they don't know, and someone else in the church interprets it. How can you speak a language you don't know unless it's from God?
There is no denying it is from God in these circumstances.

So that leaves the tongues of angels. No one on Earth really speaks that language natively, so how do you know if it's really from God?
Usually when it's interpreted, it will contain a "prophecy of verification". What do I mean by that?
Not long ago, someone interpreted a message about an unborn baby that had a serious birth defect. The prophecy said this baby would be healed before it was born.

Well very few in the church knew this one lady was pregnant, and no one except the lady herself knew about the birth defect (she had just found out the day before)
she hadn't even told her husband yet. Of course she started crying when she heard the interpretation and no one knew why, not even her husband.
But when she told everyone what the doctors said... that was the "verification" of the prophecy, because there was no way the person interpreting could have known this.


It says in 14:27 above that this can only happen up to 3 times in a church service. Anything beyond that is not from God. It also says every time someone speaks out in tongues, someone MUST interpret.
If that doesn't happen, it's not from God.
 
Interpreting tongues is a spiritual gift which is given to an individual for edifying the body of believers. Same goes for all spiritual gifts.
 
Br. Bear said:
So, what is the interpreting of tongues?
What is it for?
What does the Bible have to tell us?
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The three voice gifts of the Holy Spirit are to be used when the church comes together for a worship meeting
1Cor 14:26 What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be unto edifying.
14:27 If any speaketh in a tongue, let it be by two, or at the most three, and in turn; and let one interpret:
14:29 And let prophets speak by two or three, and let the others discern.

And this is what we do at our worship meetings in our Pentecostal church, The Revival Fellowship.
One person speaks out in an unknown tongue and this is followed by the gift of interpretation - this is done up to three times.
After this up to three gifts of prophecy (inspired speaking) are spoken by the Spirit.
God speaking to the saints, to the body of Christ.
 
So is speaking plainly in plain common language that the people can understand is not good enough but utterance of something that is "Barbaric" to the listener is more preferred through a translator of a unknown character. Strange I say, something that cause such confusion among believers in Christ and separates. especially a doctrine that have no normality.
 
PloughBoy said:
So is speaking plainly in plain common language that the people can understand is not good enough but utterance of something that is "Barbaric" to the listener is more preferred through a translator of a unknown character. Strange I say, something that cause such confusion among believers in Christ and separates. especially a doctrine that have no normality.
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NO it does not cause confusion among believers in Christ for it is scriptural and the method is also scriptural.
"no normality" is only for those who fail to conduct their church service in accordance with scripture ...

1Cor 14:26 What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
14:27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.
14:28 But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God.
14:29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said.
14:30 If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent.
14:31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged,
14:32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets.
14:33 For God is not a God of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

1Cor 14:37 If anyone thinks that he is a prophet, or spiritual, he should acknowledge that the things I am writing to you are a command of the Lord.
14:38 If anyone does not recognize this, he is not recognized.
14:39 So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.
14:40 But all things should be done decently and in order.
 
1Cor 12:4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
12:5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
12:6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
12:7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
12:8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
12:10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
12:11 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.

This is what the Spirit-filled church enjoys today as it was in the beginning.
 
"This is what the Spirit-filled church enjoys today as it was in the beginning."

So now The "Gospel According to Jesus Christ" is base upon "church services" and now become a place of enjoyment as it was in The Beginning . :eyes:

Really
 
PloughBoy said:
"This is what the Spirit-filled church enjoys today as it was in the beginning."
So now The "Gospel According to Jesus Christ" is base upon "church services" and now become a place of enjoyment as it was in The Beginning . :eyes:
Really
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You obviously have a problem with scripture
1Cor 14:26 What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
14:27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.

1Cor 12:4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
12:5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
12:6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
12:7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
 
Waggles said:
14:27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.
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Amen. Jesus said it would be this way.

Mark 16:17; "These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues;
Mark 16:18; they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

Paul said it was this way.

1Cor 12:10; and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues.

1Cor 14:5; Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues, but even more that you would prophesy; and greater is one who prophesies than one who speaks in tongues, unless he interprets, so that the church may receive edifying.
1Cor 14:14; For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
1Cor 14:15; What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the mind also; I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the mind also.

Luke said it was this way

Acts 2:4; And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit was giving them utterance.

Acts 10:45; All the circumcised believers who came with Peter were amazed, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also.
Acts 10:46; For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered,

Acts 19:6; And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking with tongues and prophesying.
Acts 19:7; There were in all about twelve men.

If the Bible says in several places this was the way the church operated, why would anyone think differently?

Rom 8:26; In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words;

1Cor 13:1; If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
 
Waggles said:
You obviously have a problem with scripture
1Cor 14:26 What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up.
14:27 If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret.

1Cor 12:4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
12:5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
12:6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
12:7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.
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You don't even know what the word scripture means, you just someone who went to a building called church and some people gave you a cup of Cool-AID. And you drunk it.
 
Anyway back to interpretation of tongues in the church
the operation of the voice gifts are only for when the church comes together for a meeting and a formal part of the meeting is set aside for this
on Sundays it is after the completion of communion
all members of our Pentecostal church can pray in tongues, but the gift of tongues in a church meeting is different
1Corinthians 12:10
(ESV) to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
(NENT) and to another workings of powers; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits: to another kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues;
(Weymouth) to another the exercise of miraculous powers; to another the gift of prophecy; to another the power of discriminating between prophetic utterances; to another varieties of the gift of 'tongues;' to another
the interpretation of tongues.

Thus those who operate the gift of tongues in the church will speak out quite differently from their everyday use of tongues in prayer.
And as Paul correctly indicates not all in the church shall operate this gift or the gift of interpretation or of prophecy.
Interpretation is given in the native tongue of the congregation - so for us it is English; in Germany it would be German, in Papua New Guinea it would be pidgin English, and so on.
 
Waggles said:
Anyway back to interpretation of tongues in the church
the operation of the voice gifts are only for when the church comes together for a meeting and a formal part of the meeting is set aside for this
on Sundays it is after the completion of communion
all members of our Pentecostal church can pray in tongues, but the gift of tongues in a church meeting is different
1Corinthians 12:10
(ESV) to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
(NENT) and to another workings of powers; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits: to another kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues;
(Weymouth) to another the exercise of miraculous powers; to another the gift of prophecy; to another the power of discriminating between prophetic utterances; to another varieties of the gift of 'tongues;' to another
the interpretation of tongues.

Thus those who operate the gift of tongues in the church will speak out quite differently from their everyday use of tongues in prayer.
And as Paul correctly indicates not all in the church shall operate this gift or the gift of interpretation or of prophecy.
Interpretation is given in the native tongue of the congregation - so for us it is English; in Germany it would be German, in Papua New Guinea it would be pidgin English, and so on.
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and those who do not practice glossolatia in their churches, what say you of them?
 
PloughBoy said:
and those who do not practice glossolatia in their churches, what say you of them?
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It is irrelevant what I have to say to those who do not practice glossophilia
the scriptures speak for themselves
as for me I believed the scriptures and prayed to Jesus for truth and confirmation and Jesus honoured my prayers
I was baptised in water for the remission of my sins and a month later praying to receive the Holy Spirit I spoke out in a new tongue - just as Jesus promised that believers would.
 
Waggles said:
It is irrelevant what I have to say to those who do not practice glossophilia
the scriptures speak for themselves
as for me I believed the scriptures and prayed to Jesus for truth and confirmation and Jesus honoured my prayers
I was baptised in water for the remission of my sins and a month later praying to receive the Holy Spirit I spoke out in a new tongue - just as Jesus promised that believers would.
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So, are you saying that if someone is baptized in water for the remission of their sins, prays to receive the Holy Spirit, confesses Jesus as Savior and Lord and believe in their heart that God raised Jesus from the grave, but they don't receive the gift of glossolalia or the gift of hermēneia glōssōn, they are not true believers?
 
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