Tongues – Tongues - Tongues

The charismatics are literally invading every denomination in our day. Theirs is a religion without theology. It is all emotion. To them, it doesn't matter what a man believes, so long as he speaks in tongues. All walls are broken down; Papists, Baptist, Methodists, and Pentecostals, a1l have become one in this unified apostasy. It is Satan's latest great deception. Do not be duped by this stupefying mixture of emotion and disorder. Can this modern charismatic revival be of God? "The gifts of the Holy Spirit are exalted, and the grace of Christ is diminished. Men glory in the flesh and boast of their latest experience, but speak little of Christ and his finished work.

I warn you to guard against this modern deception. It is a perversion of the apostolic gift, by which the gospel was established, and a mockery of the Holy Spirit, whose work it is to magnify Christ. With the Apostle Paul, "I show unto you a more excellent way." Here are three gifts, three graces of the Holy Spirit which you must have. Without these, all else is vain.

1. You must have Faith In Christ. You must believe in him who is the only-begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth You must believe that he is the God-man, able and willing to save your wretched soul, by virtue of his substitutionary death, victorious resurrection, triumphant ascension, and glorious dominion. You must trust yourself to him for all things.

2. You must have the Hope Of Christ. This is the hope of God's elect. It is good hope through grace". It is the confident expectation of all necessary good for time and eternity. It is a hope given by Christ, built upon Christ, and looking for Christ. It is an anchor of the soul, resting upon God's covenant and Christ's finished work.

3. You must have the Love Of Christ. This is a love for Christ. It is a love implanted in the hearts of God's people by the Holy Spirit. It makes Christ the supreme delight of the heart. And it is the love of Christ, causing us to be like him in relation to our fellowman, longsuffering, patient, kind, meek, and true. In a word - YOU MUST HAVE CHRIST!

Don Fortner