Preached on 01/19/2020
Spiritual gifts equip people to serve one another. In this sense, prophesying is more beneficial than speaking in tongues. In the situation of the Pentecost, the disciple preached the gospel in languages that they never learned but were the hometown dialects of someone in the audience. The gift does not leave even the situation changed. When no one in the audience knows the language, tongue speaking should become a private act of praying in tongues. Public speaking of God’s word in an unknown foreign language was originally a sign of judgment to the Jews. So it has a limited time of availability.
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Pastor Daiqing Yuan, Ph.D.