Is Speaking in Tongues Necessary for Salvation (Part 2) | Episode 12 

Speaking in Tongues is the outward sign of the infilling of the Holy Ghost, but most Christian denominations reject this because they stand upon John 3:16 as the Salvation plan when it's really Acts 2:38. I am far from perfect, but I thank God for the truth.

Glory to God. Thank you, Bro. Bernard.

Blessings Pastor Bernard these videos were so awesome and of great benifit to the body of Christ. I would love to see a video where you dive into the various gernes tongues (angelic vs. human languages) and their roles as initial sign of the Holy Spirit and ongoing spiritual life and perhaps touching a bit on the gift of interpretation and why such gift of interpretation seems to be much more rare than the gift of speaking angelic tongues. God bless you and may use these videos to stregthen our apostolic faith and mission in this world.

WOW! Bro. Bernard is an anointed voice for this day! Excellent teaching Bishop.

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" ... DO ALL SPEAK IN TONGUES ? ... " 1 Corinthians 12:30 NIV

This "pet doctrine" is absurdly unbiblical. One must ignore all the texts saying that the gift of tongues is only given to certain people at certain times, and only to spread the word in a KNOWN tongue. Anything else is speaking mysteries into the air. Better 5 words thatvare understood than 10000 without understanding.

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I remember a few years back hearing Dr white and Dr bernard debating on a radio station about this topic. What's interesting, is it always comes back to this simple question, is the evidence of speaking in tongues required to be saved? Then I hear the last thoughts in the video and feel the same at the end of that debate....cheated out of a real answer. Dr bernard should just simplify it by admitting he does not believe someone to have the holy spirit unless they spoke in tongues. You cannot be saved unless you have received the holy spirit. Therefore you do not believe someone is saved unless they speak in tongues. Pretty simple.

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When we receive the holy spirit we want to live a pure life. We don't want to sin. And if temptation comes we want to be run from it. Also if sin against God if you are a true believer your counsion won't let you be until you repent and ask the Lord to forgive you.

John 3:7-8 Jesus told Nicademus the same thing, the wind blows and you here it, "sound"! Amen!

The short answer, Absolutely YES.

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There is more evidence that speaking in tongues is the initial sign of receiving the Holy Spirit than it is not required. My personal experience supports that speaking in tongues is the intial sign of the receipt of the Holy Spirit. It is however, the least of the gifts of The Holy Spirit. Jeremiah 29:11-13... "And when you seek Me with all of your heart, I will be found by you declares The Lord " The most important thing is to seek God with all of your heart.

That is "not" what Joel 2:28 says. It doesn't say tongues is the result. It says prophecy, dreams, and visions. And the NT teaches that tongues are 'one' possibility.

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Yes I believe this is God confirmed your saving faith it's just a start in a Christian life then you grow in your faith

we are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ, I never heard him mention the cross, which made it possible for us to receive the holy spirit, speaking in tongues is scriptural but it doesn't save you , Jesus Saves to thee up most Jesus saves! Jesus last words, it is finished, man was reconciled back to God, for those who would believe !

Ce que je comprends dans cette vidéo c'est que même si je suis baptiser selon actes 2/38 (au nom de Jesus) et que je méne une vie de sanctification et de priére toute ma vie , ( mes que je ne parle pas en langue) alors je ne suis pas sauver et je ne suis pas née de nouveau c'est bien ça ?. ( Si quelqu'un pourrait me répondre Merci ?).

Just a point on water baptism. Peter commanded them to be baptised. The Angel had said to Cornelius back in early part of ch 10, that ' he (Peter) will tell you what you MUST do. Water baptism was a command. And they did NOT need to do a prebaptism study of what it all meant. Simple childlike faith and obedience to God's command secured their salvation.

This is stumbling block to most evangelicals and those who believe one is saved by faith only. But brother Bernard spoke the truth, not of his own words, but through scripture..... sadly, many will lose out at the end.

I wish Bro Bernard would just answer the question. The answer to the question at the start of the video is NO, according to UPCI doctrine. If that’s what we believe why can’t we answer straight?

Let's go back further than Joel, Isaiah 28:9-13 is when God chose his sign of receiving the Holy Spirit. He came and implemented it in his teachings, death, burial, and resurrection. The day the Holy Ghost was poured out was the feast of harvest...befitting..don't you think?

What concerns me with the defense used to defend the evidence of the Holy Spirit is speaking in tongues, is that it uses the same defense that those who believe in the trinity and the rapture use. It is the defense that the concept is in scripture, but scripture nowhere plainly teaches, commands, or includes it in the path of salvation. The accounts of tongues being spoken after receiving the Holy Ghost were largely for a sign to an unbeliever of some sort. Day of Pentecost/unbelieving Jews Cornelieus/believing Jews at the time did not believe salvation was open to the Gentiles Rebaptism/ sign to those then and to us today, that the belief and baptism is to be in Jesus Christ Peter had the chance to include tongues in the process in Acts 2:38. He instead, says you will receive the Holy Ghost after repentance and baptism in the name of Jesus Christ. There were no further instructions or stipulations included. I am a full believer in exactly what Acts 2:38 says. As others, I myself am just in search of God's truth and not man's. How can we create doctrine out of something that is not plainly stated in the bible. These are just some of the questions that come to mind in discussion of this topic.

I guess pentecostals throw out 1 Corinthians 12 and ignore the verse that says that not all Christians will speak in tongues. Those in Acts 8 had received the Holy Spirit and there is no mentioning of them speaking in tongues. I am so sick of pentecostal theology, so sick of the unbiblical garbage that comes from it. Idc how long you have been in ministry sir, not all Christians will speak in tongues, the evidence of receiving the Holy Spirit is not speaking in tongues, the evidence is a transformed life. I am saved yet I have not spoken in tongues, but the Spirit is within me causing me to love God and hate sin and live a holy life, that is the evidence.

He totally misquoted acts 19. They spoke in tongues after the apostles laid hands on them and they also prophesied. I don’t know of any Apostolics that have received the Holy Ghost by having a Apostle lay hands upon them.

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Sir, we understand unknown tounge?

What about Matthew 28:19 and baptism? It doesn't say in Jesus name. Thanks

So Peter and the other apostles were only saved on the day of the Pentecost since it was at this event that they started speaking in Tongues ? Was Nicodemus really saved, for there is no evidence that he was baptized n spoke in tongues ? What about the robber on the cross to whom Jesus promised paradise ....?

It was at the 6:24 min mark that he jumped the gun and made a claim that was not substantiated in my opinion. I was tracking with him all the way to that point, but I just don't see how those examples given (just fyi not the only scriptures that teach on tongues, there are still many more to examine right alog side with those) necessarily teach that the gift of tongues (only ONE of the MANY gifts of The Holy Spirit) is THE only initial and necessary gift of the holy spirit. I think he is prematurely jumping to a conclusion that is not necessarily correct.

Great teaching pastor! Just as a side point, I have heard many say that because the Word doesn't say that Cornelius and his guests were water baptized then it isn't necessary first in order to recieve the Holy Spirit. I believe that the Word confirms that the gentiles were water baptized before Peter's arrival and that by John the Baptist. In Peters' rooftop vision of the sheet with the unclean animals God tells Peter, " What God hath cleansed call not thou uncommon"( Acts 10:15) 1) " hath" is in the past tense. 2) Peter upon entering Cornelius' house didn't have to explain who John the baptist was, they knew. 3) Is was only a days journey from Cornelius' house to where John was baptizing 4) God's words to Peter during the rooftop vision were not only speaking of Gods' decision to bring the gentiles into the body of Christ but was also speaking of Cornelius and guests whose messengers were approaching Peters' house.

If tongues is the evidence of the Holy Spirit to oneself. Why does Paul say to pray for interpretation, or for that individual to pray to himself?? in all three events in acts, someone understood the message whatever the language was! in 1 corinthians 14: ,,, Paul puts order in the church because you don’t want newcomers to think they’re all mad. Either all had the gift or some were fakers! Someone show me a verse where private prayer language is in the Bible? (Matt6:7 ,,, when you pray on you’re own do not repeat, like pagans) Or where someone prayed in an unknown tongue for someone? Benard said that Acts is still playing out which I believe! For in the book of Acts is the only one that doesn’t have amen at the end! Kenneth Copeland, modern tongue speakers rolling on the ground are pagan actors! And if ecstatic, utterance, incoherent, glossolalia is the true evidence. …what do you compare it with? When again in Acts it was understood they heard them prophesy in other languages and express the greatness of God!

Why post on RU-vid if you're not going to respond to anyone..???

Question: what does the Bible say about self defense? If I or my loved one was being attacked or being threatened, am I able to defend myself or them?

chapter 8 of Acts, its true it does not say in that passage that the person that received the Holy Ghost spoke in tongues, but if you read the chapter, we can see that they received the Holy Ghost in that instant, meaning your definition of a sign of receiving the Holy Ghost can also be wrong since you say the sign is a transformed life which is not wrong but not right. FIRST we have to make sure the difference of the POURING of the Holy Ghost and The Holy Ghost LIVING in You. If you understand the difference then you will understand why tongues is essential. Having the Holy Ghost in your life will show according to your transformation like you said, but when we talk about speaking in tongues we mean A pouring of the holy ghost in that exact moment in your life, which is shown by speaking in tongues, like you said yes you can be saved without speaking in tongues because lets say i speaking in tongues today and tmr i don’t but jesus comes, will i be considered saved if i didn’t speak in tongues today? No that’s not how it works Speaking in tongues is evidence the Holy Ghost is working in you and your getting MORE FILLED OR FILLED BY HIM, then we have to live in the spirit which is true salvation, God bless🙏

People will go to heaven only at the second coming of Christ Jesus Yeshua.He will bring.out the one who are buried and died in Christ and those who are still alive will meet Jesus Yeshua in the air and be with him Forever.But when is judgement day?All these occurances will made clear and transparent in those days Amen Halleluyah Ya Yahweh .Get ready and awake

Beware of the lies of the enemy, test the spirit, does this guy profess Christ as Lord? Why are his answers so long and full of rabbit trails? The enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy. He also distracts and deceives.

Yes I believe you must speak in tongues to be saved

The purpose of speaking in tongues is to pray the perfect will of God , with speaking in tongues comes a spiritual obligation..which is why God does not give that " Gift" to everyone, it's not necessary for salvation but enhances your walk with God to go to levels in the spirit the average Christian can't .. no disrespect to anyone but if church service has 300 people and prayer service has 7 ..then that tongue means nothing... that's why some have the gift and some don't...

This teaching can create a thousand of issues and problems for those who doesn't know the doctrines.... I don't agree with you... However, it's your responsibility to defend your faith.....

Furthermore 1 corinthians 12:3 no one in the spirit says Jesus is a curse but no one can say Jesus is Lord except in the spirit! So I pray with my mind, and I pray with my spirit. 1:Corinth 14:15. God wants you to have his understanding. Azusa street revival gave tongues a bad name!

Speaking in tongues is not necessary in order to spend eternity with God, in His Heavenly Kingdom. Fact is, not even water baptism is necessary. Religion (mankind's way of getting to God), makes us think it's necessary. And Jesus said to him, “Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise.” Christ said this to the thief to His right (whom neither spoke in tongues or was baptized) as both of them hung dying on the Cross. And in the case of Christ, dying once, for ALL (past current future) sins.

Speaking in tongues is speaking scripture. On the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2, the Lord’s disciples received the gift of speaking in tongues and the ability to rightly divide the word of truth. The meaning of (cloven) is divided. The meaning of (tongues of fire) is the word of God The meaning of the (spirit) is the word of God. This gift of speaking in tongues by the Holy Ghost is the ability to speak scripture lines which the Lord declared when he pronounced all of the book of the Lord with his lips from the beginning in the pure language made of pure words. This language is known as Jew’s language; and the Lord’s disciples on the day of Pentecost received the ability to not only speak the word of God, they also received the gift to rightly divide the word of God. They received understanding of all the mate lines of the Lord to give the interpretation of other lines which are in question. Whenever those with this gift spake a scripture line and their understanding of the scripture line is heard by another and this other person had no understanding, this line of scripture is known as an unknown tongue. Now these men who came to Jerusalem to worship heard these men with the gift of tongues and they marveled because the men who spake the Jews language were unlearned Galilaeans from the northern Israel. (note, when people are filled with the Holy Ghost, they speak the word of God with boldness.): Acts 4:31 And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

First let me say this the Holy Spirit was here in Genesis so it could not be the initial evidence of the Holy Spirit. John the Baptist was born with the Holy Spirit and that was before Christ baptism. I grew up apostolic and I found that the teaching was a little left. When they began to speak in other tongues as a spirit gave them a utterance it told us that they spoke in another language that could be translated. When they went out to make disciples the spirit fell and they began to speak in another language. They said how is it that you are of the Galilean we understand what you were saying because they were speaking their language and they said but you don’t understand what you were saying. Those who underStood Hebrew Russian Chinese Spanish could interpret it because the spirit spoke through them to be able to tell about God’s word. The scripture gives no account of anyone but the apostles speaking in tongues. Scripture says not all will have the gift of tongues but I rather that you prophesy so it is a fallacy to believe that everyone will speak in tongues when the Bible says differently. That is the problem with religion the Bible gives no validity for any of them apostolic Pentecostal Baptist Catholic none of them! And Man will have to answer to God for the things that he did not validate.

1 Corinthians 12 and 14 contradict everything said here

Study 1Corinthians 13:8 1Corinithians14:1-40 dont just listen to these videos. 2 Timothy 2:15

Amen