Is Speaking in Tongues the evidence that you have the Baptism of the Holy Ghost?

 

When do you receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost?

       You receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost when you are truly saved, but when is that?

             You are truly saved when you have truly repented of all your unbelief and God has accepted your faith.

Now we will break that down a little.  The minute you went to the altar and repented and ask God to come to you and lead you and keep you, in that minute God came.  God will be with you from then on as long as you want Him to, as long as you are continuing to commune with Him.  He will also give you gifts at this time, gifts that he will never take away no matter what you do.

Jesus spoke of this Matthew 13,  He says that the seed is the word going out and the people receiving it.  He speaks of 4 types of people in this parable, with only one being truly saved, but three believed for a time and then two of them fell away.  This one parable should be enough to put to rest that teaching that we are saved the minute we go to the altar.

Example, Jesus walked with His disciples for 3 1/2 years and the disciples were picked by Jesus and all but one of them was good ground to grow in. And after 3 1/2 years of growing, at Pentecost they received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.  Yet before they were born again with the Holy Ghost they were casting out devils and healing the sick, including Judas the evil one.  Jesus was there in the natural then, and now it is exactly the same, except in the spiritual.  We each and every one of us, walk with Jesus for a period of time, before we receive the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.  That time can be a very short time or a very long time, but the important thing is, there will be a space of time.

 

So you can have God with you for years and be anointed with power to heal the sick, speak in tongues, cast out devils and still not be born again of the Holy Ghost, which is the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

You are justified when you have repented, God is with you. But you are like the dirty coke bottle you picked up from the ground.  Before you will refill it, you have to get it really clean.

After we repent we are as the dirty bottle and before a Holy God will live in us, He has to clean us out.  And He will do that as we let him, which can take years.  He wants us to come to Him with all your heart.  Jesus said, he that hungers and thirsts after righteousness shall be filled.

 

Example: We are like corn that we planted, the corn comes out of the ground as a little leaf.  Do we have corn?  The answer is potentially, but not yet.  If the corn gets enough water and food, it will continue to grow and will produce corn. 

Once God has us clean, sanctified, then He will give us the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

 

So as you should be able to see, speaking in tongues isn’t any proof of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and neither is healing the sick or casting out devils.  These are gifts of the spirit, but remember gifts and callings are without repentance, once God gives a gift to a person, He never takes it back, no matter what the person does.  Jesus said in Matthew 7:21-23, many will come trying to enter into the kingdom that had done mighty works for the Lord and He will say that He never knew them. Depart from me, you workers of evil.  These so called Christians, the foolish virgins, with gifts of God, yet they are going to be rejected and put into the Great Tribulation for one final attempt by God to purify them..

 

The true test to see if you are a real Child of God is if you can receive the True Word for the hour you are living.  And only those children will ever receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost.