To all a Happy Pentecost! About 3400 years ago, God gave His Law and made a covenant with the people of Israel at Mt. Sinai written on tables of stone. Then about 2000 years ago, God gave His called out ones--the church---His Holy Spirit and wrote the spiritual aspects of His Law on the hearts of all believers. Happy birthday to the Ekklesia. Celebrate the salvation we have through Jesus our Lord.
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I will say as well, that I have studied German, Korean, Russian, and French and not once was I able to know those languages without study in my 50 years. My stance has been because I cannot prove otherwise, that the miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit stopped with the apostles, for they were the only ones that could pass on the gifts through the laying on of hands Acts 8:17-18.
I truly believe miracles still happen today for I have a 5 month old daughter and I'm an old man. I see life bloom in the spring and yield back in the winter, I see men healed through prayer and made alive again after a bout of depression. Only these interventions could be accomplished by the one true God. So it my understanding that miracles through the hands of a man have stopped for they were only there to prove the veracity of God and we all know who God is now because of the writings of his word IITimothy 3:16.
The indwelling of the Holy Spirit continues for all Christians who are baptized as Jesus states in Matthew 28:18-19 and Peter in Acts 2:38 (and elsewhere) and The indwelling of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9-17) Does THIS for us which is no small thing also (Romans 8:26) helps us in our prayers and also gives us the ability to produce the fruits of the spirit (Galations 5:22)
Well buddy the experience of thousands is not what you say. Tongues is alive and well. It is mans lack of accurate biblical knowledge that keeps them from recieving the fulness of Gods grace regarding the gift of holy spirit. Id encourage you to look deeper of interested. It is mans greates lever of prayer.