A Sanctuary for Saints and Sinners in Need of a Saviour. Luke 18:9-14
Overview of church prayer meeting november 8th
In our church prayer meeting today, we continued reading Reasons #16-21 of, “21 Reasons Why Christians Should Speak in Tongues”. We’ll provide a link for it for you to read the overviews on all 21 reasons with more teaching on it.
Today, we’ll look at the last six reasons that are given in this booklet by Gordon Lindsay and we’ll quote verbatim what he wrote, (it’s in italics). To read the first 15 Reasons, click here on our Prayer Meeting page and to read September 20th, October 11th and November 1stwhich are the first fifteen reasons. We encourage you to take the time to read through each of these, go to your own Bible and read the verses mentioned and put it to memory so that you have an answer to give those who ask you, or for you yourself to ask for this wonderful gift that Jesus has given to the church.
Today, we’ll read the last reasons, #16-21 and give commentary on them also.
Reason #16 – Speaking in Tongues is a Sign to Unbelievers.
“In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord. Wherefore, tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not; but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them who believe.” (1 Cor.14:21-22)
Although some resent the speaking in tongues, there are many who can testify that they were first spiritually awakened by the manifestation of this sign. They did not understand all about it, yet they sensed God was in it. Others, perhaps, heard a message in tongues with the interpretation which followed, and they knew it was God’s voice speaking to them.
Paul, quoting from Isaiah, declares that speaking in tongues is a sign to unbelievers. The prophecy adds, however, that many will not believe nor accept the sign as a divine phenomenon. But as they reject it, God rejects them. So declares the prophecy. Nevertheless, there are many who have heard the speaking in tongues and through this sign have turned to God.
How many today still have not accepted or believed that tongues is a gift from God to the church? Many believe the lie that it ceased after the Day of Pentecost, or with the apostles and early church and is no longer needed. It’s called cessationism.
The prophet Isaiah spoke about how speaking in tongues would be rejected by many Jews and Christians and how they would view it as, (merely monotonous repetitions), and as a result would backslide, (stumble backward, and be broken, ensnared, and taken captive).
We read this in Isaiah 28:11-13 in the Amplified Bible; “11 Indeed, the Lord will teach this people [in a more humiliating way] By [men with] stammering lips and a foreign tongue, 12 He who said to them, “This is the place of quiet, give rest to the weary,” And, “This is the resting place,” yet they would not listen. 13 Therefore the word of the Lord to them will be [merely monotonous repetitions]: “Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Rule upon rule, rule upon rule, Here a little, there a little.” That they may go and stumble backward, and be broken, ensnared, and taken captive.”
How many Christians have backslidden because either they’ve rejected tongues as a supernatural gift from God, or they’ve spoken in tongues but no longer do?
A wicked and adulterous generation seek for signs, according to what Jesus said in Matthew 12:38-42 to the religious leaders of the day, who were skeptical and mostly unbelieving that He was the Son of God. Jesus said that He’d be in the belly of the earth – dead – for three days and nights and would then rise again! That’s the powerful sign that Jesus would give them that He was the Son of God! Now, the sign of a Christian is that they speak in tongues. It’s a fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. Many rejected the sign of Jesus’ death and resurrection, just like many Christians today reject the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence speaking in tongues as a sign that they are Christians.
If Jesus says that speaking in tongues is a sign that follows a believer, then the unbeliever is entitled to an answer as to why a Christian does not speak in tongues. The reason why most Christians don’t speak in tongues is that they never obeyed Jesus’ last command found in Acts 1:4-5; “4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me; 5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
Reason # 17 – The Speaking in Tongues Has Sometimes Been in the Native Language of One Present, Thereby Convincing Him of the Reality of the Gift.
The effect on unbelievers of speaking in tongues is multiplied many times when as sometimes happens, the language used is known to one or more of the listeners. Such occurrences have not been infrequent. In almost every such instance the listener was amazed and astonished to hear a message in his own tongue from the lips of one who he knew had never learned the language.
It was an event of this nature which astonished the people on the day of Pentecost. Some of them had come from distant lands and spoken in languages they knew were totally unfamiliar to the Galileans. Yet here each man heard them speaking and glorifying god in his own tongue.
“5 And there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men, from every nation under heaven. 6 And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language.”. (Acts 2:5-6)
Though some of the mixed crowd who had gathered scoffed and accused Peter and the apostles of being drunk, a multitude believed as the result of what happened that day. Some three thousand accepted Christ, were baptized, and admitted into the newly formed church.
It is to be observed, however, that the gift of languages which amazed the multitude on the day of Pentecost did not take the place of preaching. Peter preached in the ordinary language of the country, after his audience had gathered. It is necessary for the missionary to learn the language of the people, else he could not preach with the understanding. However, God may on occasion do the unusual. A few instances. However, are rare.
Acts 2:2; “2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.”
First of all, what the people heard was the sound of a mighty rushing wind that was coming down on a certain location where 120 disciples of Christ were praying in the upper room. Unless you are a storm chaser, most people run the opposite direction of mighty rushing winds, which indicates that there was no wind involved, only the sound of it occurred. This was a supernatural sound from heaven that was the power of the Holy Spirit that had no need of any physical manifestation of a wind, it was the sound of wind only, which lead those dwelling in Jerusalem right to the Upper Room where they then heard the disciples praying the wonderful works of God in each persons language.
It’s always depicted in the movies about the Book of Acts that it was a windy move of the Holy Spirit, when in fact it was the sound of wind only, a supernatural sound of wind without the wind. Just imagine it for a minute, hearing the sound of a rushing mighty wind without seeing the physical manifestation or feeling the wind itself. This is what those foreigners heard at first from wherever they were in Jerusalem at the time that drew them to investigate this sound of a stormy wind without the wind itself. You can only imagine how this appeared in the natural, they had never in all their lives witnessed such an occurrence, but what occurred next when they arrived at the Upper Room far superseded the previous supernatural event.
Verse 6 “And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together, and were confused, because everyone heard them speak in his own language. 7 Then they were all amazed and marveled, saying to one another, “Look, are not all these who speak Galileans? 8 And how is it that we hear, each in our own [c]language in which we were born?”
You can imagine that the sound from heaven was the Holy Spirit speaking as He was descending with power and fire as He came upon and indwelt the 120 and they started speaking what the Holy Spirit was speaking. Just do a short word search on the word, ‘sound’, in the Bible and you’ll see scripture after scripture of when God was speaking or commanding something it was heard in different ways. So, the Holy Spirit was speaking loudly when He came out of heaven on the Day of Pentecost. According to 1 Corinthians 13:1, there can be the tongues of men and also of angels, so we can’t limit the Holy Spirit to our natural mind or knowledge of how many languages can actually be spoken of the apparent 7000 plus that are in the world today.
Reason #18 – God Said That With Stammering Lips And Another Tongue He Would Speak To The People.
“For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people” (Isaiah 28:11)
When the prophetic word in Isaiah 28 mentioned speaking in tongues, it also included the sign of the stammering lips. This sign has often been a stumbling block to certain people. But note the prophet admitted it would be! He declares, “That they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken” (verse 13). Verse 14 shows that religious rulers would be numbered among the scornful. They cannot understand any purpose in speaking in tongues and certainly they see no place for stammering lips. The stammering lips is a stumbling block and a snare to them.
“If it is of God,” say they, ”would it not come forth perfect and in full bloom at once?” They do not realize that even as a child learns to speak, so the first utterances of those who speak in tongues may be with stammering lips. And likewise as the child learns to speak fluently so the person who stammers will, as he yields to the Spirit, come forth speaking in a clear tongue.
In this very prophecy (verse 9), the Lord likens the development of spiritual experience in a believer to that of a child. For a time the child is on the breast. He can only take milk. His first words are halting and imperfect. Later he is weaned and develops in wisdom and utterance. The scornful person sees only the imperfection in the lives of those who speak with stammering lips. But God sees them not as they are, but as they will be. Though they are weak, imperfect, still on the breast, He sees them as they will be when they reach perfection.
Here we make an observation of value to those who desire to receive the Holy Spirit. Some people come close to a scriptural experience but fail to fully enter in. They hear themselves begin to speak in stammering lips and become fearful. They think, “maybe this is just me.” They are partly right. It is their own lips and voice speaking. But it is the Spirit who is giving the utterance. That is the way it was on the day of Pentecost. They began to speak in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Therefore, when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, do not fear. Do not quench the Spirit nor stifle the stammering lips. Let God have His own way. It is God’s way. As you learn to speak as He gives utterance, and as you yield to His Spirit, you will find the stammering lips change to a beautiful fluent flow of language.
What is emphasized here, is the issue of having child-like faith, not being childish, but becoming child-like. To be baptized with the Holy Spirit, one has to lay aside a religious, pious, self-centred mindset and become as a child. Jesus even told Nicodemus that he must be born again to enter the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus was a teacher of the Jews, with all the Pharisaical knowledge, saturated in tradition, yet, he had to become child-like to be born again. He had to lay aside all pretense and religious pride. Christians need to take baby steps, so to speak, to speak in tongues, a humble, unpretentious heart. Just like when one is born again, it’s done in humility, so it is with receiving the Baptism in the Holy Spirit with child-like faith.
Reason #19 – Speaking in Tongues is the Rest and Refreshing Promised From the Lord.
“For with stammering lips and another tongues will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest by which ye may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing; yet they would not hear” (Isaiah 28:11-12)
The Spirit of the Lord must have been speaking of something of great importance when He said, “This is the rest by which ye may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing.” It is evident this is a reference to the preceding verse. Is therefore that rest and refreshing speaking in tongues?
Speaking in tongues in itself could not be that rest and refreshing. The Holy Spirit is a person. When He comes, He speaks. This manifestation and presence of the Holy Spirit thus becomes the great blessing, the great rest, the great refreshing. And this is another proof that the infilling of the Spirit is accompanied with speaking in tongues. For the latter could not be the refreshing unless it were accompanied by the presence of the Spirit.
Thus it was that Peter, immediately after the day of Pentecost when the Early church was in the flush of its great Pentecostal experience, called the people of God to repent and receive the blessing in “the times of refreshing...from the presence of the Lord.”
“Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord...” (Acts 3:19)
Let no one minimize the experience of speaking in tongues, for it indicates the presence of the Holy Spirit, who has come to make His abode in the believer’s life.
Like it says, When the Holy Spirit comes, He speaks. That’s what we talked about in Reason #17, the Holy Spirit came speaking from heaven like a mighty rushing wind,(that is conjecture on our part.)
For the Christian, true refreshing, daily refreshing and rest, comes through the person of the Holy Spirit. Knowingly and wilfully rejecting the baptism in the Holy Spirit doesn’t end well for the Christian, there are consequences. In other words the probability of even falling away from the faith in one way or another, is higher for those who reject the baptism in the Holy Spirit. A Christian will start looking for other things in the world to bring fulfillment, rest and refreshing. This is something that God clearly speaks through the prophet Isaiah.
Reason #20 – Paul Commanded the Church That They Should “Forbid Not to Speak With Tongues” (1 Cor.14:39)
The Apostle Paul, in summing up his instructions on speaking in tongues, charged the church to “forbid not to speak with tongues.” Paul knew there were problems connected with the exercise of the gift in the assembly. He knew undisciplined persons would sometimes misuse the gift, even as they had done in the Corinthian Church. Indeed, in his letter Paul gave several admonitions against abuses that could have an adverse effect. Yet he did not consider these possible dangers sufficient cause to rule out speaking in tongues. In doing so, the Church would suffer great loss. Rather he admonished those who had charge of the services to guide them with discretion. To those who spoke in tongues he showed they must also have the love of God, else their speaking would be as “sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal” (1 Cor 13:1)
Yet after giving this warning, instead of, in any way, depreciating speaking in tongues, he rather goes on to give detailed instructions on how the gift can be the blessing God intended it to be in the Church. He then closes his remarks with the final word, “Forbid not to speak with tongues.” He who there will not allow this manifestation in the Church violates the direct commandment of the Scripture, and labels himself as an ignorant man.
“But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. Let all things be done decently and in order” (1 Cor 14:38-40).
This is where the church is today after 2000 years of the Bible boldly declaring that tongues is for the church, yet after all of that, Christians still choose to be ignorant. It’s really a travesty and a stain to the false teachers and pastors in the pulpits. Such great spiritual loss has happened in the church and that’s probably why Paul told the Thessalonian church and also Timothy that a great apostasy would transpire in the last days (1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Thessalonians 2). In the last days, the church for the most part would be void of the Holy Spirit, void of power, void of fire to be able to stand in the day of trail, they wouldn't be able to overcome and would be led by false teachings.
Reason #21 – Contrast Between the Tower of Babel and Pentecost
At the Tower of Babel God sent judgment on the builders by confusing their tongues (Gen.11:5-9); and for their impiety they were scattered over the face of the earth.
On the day of Pentecost, God set in the Church the speaking in tongues so the peoples from the nations which had been scattered might hear and understand the wonderful works of God. Among these were “dwellers in Mesopotamia,” the very land where the Tower of Babel was built! (Acts 2:9).
At Babel the builders were confounded and forced to cease building their pagan temple.
At Pentecost, God began building a new structure, the Church of the living God, Jesus being the chief cornerstone.
The Tower of Babel was left unfinished. Stones prepared for it were never set in place, and today that once vaunted tower lies in total ruin on the deserts of Babylon, a monument to the folly and presumption of man.
The edifice which was built upon what happened at Pentecost is still being built today. And the stone (Christ) which would have been set aside “is become the head of the corner.”
“This is the stone which was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner: (Acts 4:11).
On the wall of the palace of Babylon, the hand-writing written in another tongue spelled Babylon’s doom: “Thou art weighted in the balances and found wanting.” The handwriting on the wall today is the speaking in tongues, again pronouncing the doom of religious Babylon.
Thank God for this gift. It has become one of the great channels by which man is united to his God. “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God.”
Speaking in tongues, as we have read today, is Jesus building His church the way the Heavenly Father planned it would. He confused the world at Babel, He’s given tongues now to build the Church, Jesus’ church, His body, His plan, His purpose. Will you be persecuted? Yes, because it’s a continuous reminder that Babylon has fallen, the demonic agenda of one-world global control will not be able to fully achieve it’s goal.
The Babylonian empire, the Roman empire and many more up to and including today with globalist one world agenda, all had and have the same goal; dominance, conquering the world, me, myself and I. We know what happened to King Nebuchadnezzar, King Belshazzar’s father, he landed up in the wilderness for seven years, becoming as a beast, eating grass like an ox, growing hair like feathers and fingernails like birds claws because of his overweening pride and lofty position until he repented and only then his kingdom was restored to him. King Belshazzar after seeing the writing on the wall was killed that night because he refused to repent, two different outcomes. Read Daniel 5:20-22.
I’m not ashamed to of the gospel because it’s the power of God unto salvation, I’m not ashamed of speaking in tongues because it’s what Jesus said I would do, I’m not ashamed of about prophesying a future because that’s what Jesus said I would do, I’m not ashamed to lay hands on the sick and see them recover because that’s what Jesus said I would do, in His name, I’m not ashamed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit that He said I would operate in because He said He would operate through me by the Holy Spirit. If you’re ashamed of speaking in tongues, you need to repent and receive what Jesus commanded you to receive.
After reading these last six reasons in church, we spent time praying in tongues and the understanding for our siblings and family members, the majority of them not being born again or filled with the Holy Spirit.
We ended church by taking Communion. Amen!
Pastor Richard and Marjorie ~ Bondslaves of Jesus Christ
Illustrated Message Overview of The Holy War
The Holy War – Message 27 - Mr Loath-To-Stoop, October 25th, 2026
The Holy War:
“Now, there was in the city of Mansoul an old man, a follower of Diabolus, whose name was Mr. Loath-To-Stoop, a stiff man in his way, and a great supporter of Diabolus. They agreed to send him, and put in his mouth what he should say. So he went and came to the camp to Emmanuel. On his arrival, a time was called for when he would be given audience.
So, at the appointed time, he came, and after a diabolic ceremony or two, he began and said, ‘Great Sir, that it may be known to all men how good-natured a prince is my master, he has sent me to tell your Lordship that, rather than go to war, he is very willing to deliver into your hand one half of the city of Mansoul. I, therefore, desire to know if your Mightiness will accept this proposition.”
The Bible says in Titus 1:16 Amplified Bible; “16 They profess to know God [to recognize and be acquainted with Him], but by their actions they deny and disown Him. They are detestable and disobedient and worthless for good work of any kind.”
How many people today profess to know God, but by their actions they deny and disown Him? It’s one thing to say, Jesus is Lord of their lives, and it another to actually live out His Lordship by their actions that walk it out in truth. It’s called half-stepping it. Jesus wants all of a persons life and does not accept half of His Lordship to be shared with the devil.
Pastor Richard ~ Bondslave of Jesus Christ
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Church Prayer Meeting
Ephesians 6:18-19 says;“18 With all prayer and petition pray [with specific requests] at all times [on every occasion and in every season] in the Spirit, and with this in view, stay alert with all perseverance and petition [interceding in prayer] for all [e]God’s people.”
Pastor Richard
"And I, if I be lifed up, will draw all men unto me" ~ Jesus
About
Richard and Marjorie McCue are the Founders and Pastors of Salvation Studio House. They give you insight in their ministry and work; past and present.
Vision
Our desire is to advance Christianity by teaching and preaching the religious tenants, doctrines, and observances associated with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, according to the Holy Bible in both the Old and New Testament.
We believe in the Baptism in the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues and the Gifts of the Holy Spirit to be in operation according to I Corinthians 12.
What We Believe
- We believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord.
- We believe Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary.
- We believe Jesus was crucified, died and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He arose again from the dead.
- We believe He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, whence He will come to judge the living and the dead.
- We believe in the communion of the saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and everlasting life.
- We believe that there is no other name or person but Jesus Christ, by which a person can be saved.
- We believe in all the gifts of the Holy Spirit and with the evidence of speaking with new tongues.
- We believe not one soul should perish into eternity without Jesus, but that all should be saved.
- We believe in the Great Commission. "And He said to them, 'Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues; they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover". Mark 16:15-18
- Acts 5:42; "And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they kept right on teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ."
- We believe that the doctrine of ‘eternal security’ or ‘once saved always saved’ is not true. Every Christian still has a free will to keep walking with Christ or to turn away. It’s what one does and how they live between being born again and dying that counts. It’s not how you start the race by becoming born again, but how you finish the race. We’re to run the race (the Christian life) with perseverance and not look back so that we cross the finish line victorious and win the prize (2 Timothy 4:7). Works of righteousness need to accompany our faith in Jesus Christ because faith without works is dead (James 2:20). God’s grace is made available to every Christian to resist temptations when they come as we know the devil is relentless in coming to rob, steal and destroy, ultimately to get them to back-slide (John 10:10).
Here are a number of Bible scriptures to back that up;
- Hebrews 6:4-6; “4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 [a]if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.”
- 2 Peter 2:20; “For if, after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the latter end is worse for them than the beginning.”
- 2 Corinthians 13:5; “ Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you [a]are disqualified.”
- Luke 9:62; “But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”
- Matthew 7:21-23; “21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”
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Funeral of Lyle Neufeld
Lyle Neufeld was Pastor Richard's brother-in-law and Marjorie's brother. These are excerpts only, (not the full service but a compilation of events and speakers), at both the gravesite and funeral home. We pray that Jesus is glorified in it and that His Name is lifted up. Lyle will be dearly missed by all of us.