The Power to Speak in Tongues (Part A)

The Acts of the Apostles
The Growth and Expansion of the Church in Jerusalem

Parenthesis: Speaking in Tongues (1)


The Power to Speak in Tongues (1)

Tongues in the Book of Acts

1.Tongues in Acts 2 - Human Communication
A.A Simultaneous Experience to Being Baptized with the Holy Spirit
B.A Consequence of Being Filled
1)The Fact of the Connection
2)The Result of the Connection
●utterancespeech of prophets; speech of philosophers or oracles
C.An Expression of Human Languages
1)Revealed through Luke’s Vocabulary
●tonguesglossia - the organ of taste, a human language, a strange obscure utterance
●languagedialektos - a language of a nation or a region; a dialect
2)Revealed through the Multitude’s Confession
2.Tongues in the Rest of Acts - A Sign
A.The Illustration of Acts 10
B.The Need for a Sign

Tongues in 1 Corinthians 12-14

1.The Purpose of This Division
A.The Place of This Division in 1 Corinthians
B.The Concern of This Division
●spiritual (pneumatikos)spiritual thing or spiritual person