This is the testimony of most Christians:
Before life in Christ Jesus many sins and much wrongdoing;
Then believing the gospel and becoming repentant;
Water baptism by full immersion to bury the old person and to be forgiven past sins;
Life afterwards - walking in the light desiring to be right with God and forsaking the lusts of the flesh.
Hopefully you are aware of Pentecostal churches where you can also be baptized in the Holy Spirit and pray in tongues
praying in the Spirit is of great power and the Spirit of God will help you to overcome sinful desires that conflict with the right way of living for God.
I would offer. We must be careful how we hear or say we hear what the Spirit says to the churches (us). Yoked with Christ we have the power of God's love working with us but is never of us "powerless ones" . No one has received the incorruptible bodies . Hebrews 11:39
Tongues is prophecy (understandable words) It as a teaching tool has its foundation in Isaiah 28. A warning against un belief (no faith) as it is written. The Bible alone) The same law revisited in 1 Corinthians 14 . In which the Spirit says. . . yet they still will not believe the tongues of God's prophecy but will fall backwards mocking the spirit of judgement.
God's Tongue or living word defines the parables within, teaching us
how to walk by faith .A life time work that he begins in us and as our new born again confidence it promises he will finish it till the last day.(Philippians 1:6)
Living water like blood throughout the Bible speaks of the work of the unseen Holy Spirit coming down from heaven like rain or dew .(Deuteronomy 4:2) You could say the water of the word by which we are cleansed, our daily bread . As husbands the same water of the word we are to cleanse or baptize our wives with . If both are yoked with Christ their burden will be lighter if not we can suffer the pangs of great tribulation the loss of the peace of God. .
It is used in ceremonial laws as shadows of the good thing to come .Many worship shadows as those who fall back slain in the spirit .Mocking the spirit of judgment . Using the tribe of Dan to show the judgment of those who do fall backward because of false doctrine coming from false apostles the brood of vipers
Genesis 49:15-17King James Version .
Dan shall
judge his people, as
one of the tribes of Israel.
Dan shall be a
serpent by the way, an
adder in the path, that biteth the
horse heels, so that his rider
shall fall backward.
Falling backward or going back is an indication of death or breaking the neck would includes hanging. .The Bible has many examples of that use that speaks of the un-converted mankind
Both the tribe of Dan (the Spirit of Judgment ) among the 12 tribes used to represent the old testament saints along with the false apostle Judas who was numbered with the 12 .Apostles the remnant 12 are used to represent the new testament saints. Both the tribe of Dan and the false apostle Judas are shown as not entering the new heavens and earth by the description of the bride .
Judas it appears was moved to demonstrate to us even today the "spirit of judgment" . . .those who add oral traditions of men with the tradition of God, His book of the law. The parable below revealing the power of the gospel,
( I am he) the power to cause men to go backward slain in the spirit of judgement as well as the power to raise those dead in their trespass and sin . The power of the Tongue of God life or death . We today can rejoice.
John 18: 4-9
Jesus therefore,
knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye? They answered him, Jesus of
Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am he. And Judas also, which betrayed him, stood with them.As soon then as he had said unto them, I am he, they went backward, and
fell to the ground. Then asked he them again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus answered, I have told you that
I am he: if therefore ye seek me, l
et these go their way: That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which
thou gavest
me have
I lost
none.
In the above. . of them which the father gave Jesus said have I lost none. I believe it is saying ; Judas was of the Mathew 7 . the many that Christ knew not they were not called , they looked for self edification to spend on the flesh Jesus called them workers of iniquity .
It is the un believers that have no new faith as it is written in the law and prophets (sola scriptura ) or the word of God in its entirety.. they add to the word and not rightly divide and in doing so create self edifying wonderments .I did it it proves it . They are the ones that look to sign, seeking so that they can have wonderments before they will believe . Jesu said to Nicodenmus in John 3 a Pharisee one who did seek after lying wonders .Jesus said; Marvel not even at the greatest possible miracle born again . Wondering is wondering . Believing is hearing and moving .
John 4:48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye
see signs and
wonders, ye will not
believe.
Above Christ declares the truth and below the witness of God .
John 6:30 They said therefore unto
him, What
sign shewest
thou then, that
we may
see, and
believe thee? what dost
thou work?
Making God into a circus seal. . . . cause us to wonder then we will believe.
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