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Lesson 28 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course 11

Corinthians 12:10, 28. Doesn’t this indicate it support their arms. All pray aloud at once,
is the LEAST gift of the holy spirit? begging YEHOVAH God to give them the
“blessing.” Hour after hour they continue to beg,
A Typical Tarry Meeting plead, and agonize.
Occasionally, perhaps after many of
1. Are those who receive YEHOVAH’s these “tarry meetings,” one or more at a meeting
spiritual gifts, such as tongues, capable of will begin to “speak in tongues,” which is
controlling these gifts in an intelligent and sane usually nothing but ridiculous babbling --
manner? I Corinthians 14:32-33. (The word unintelligible gibberish! The individual falls
“spirits” here is used in the sense of SPIRITUAL backward and rolls upon the floor, ranting and
GIFTS.) raving and foaming at the mouth like a maniac.
COMMENT: This certainly is NOT the Nothing but utter confusion presides!
case at a “tarry meeting” in the churches of this YEHOVAH says He is “not the author of
“tongues movement”! Each “tongues-seeker” in confusion" (I Corinthians 14:33). If not, who
such meetings repeats senseless phrases as is? Satan and his demons! And it is THEIR
“Glory! Glory!” OVER AND OVER AGAIN. tongues that many “tongues-seekers” speak in!
Constantly they are urged to “say it a little 2. Are “tongues” therefore the main
FASTER." Variations of this phrase are evidence of one’s having received the baptism of
“Hallelujah!” or “Praise you Jesus!” The seeker the holy spirit? I Corinthians 13:1.
is told to keep it up FASTER AND FASTER and “CHARITY” means love.
not to become discouraged. COMMENT: There is no
statement or example in the scriptures
that shows one must speak in tongues to
prove he has received the holy spirit of
YEHOVAH God.
3. What conclusively proves that
one has truly received the baptism of
YEHOVAH’s holy spirit? Matthew
7:20, Galatians 5:22-23 and I John
3:24.
COMMENT: The lives we live
are the evidence of whether or not we
have received the baptism of
YEHOVAH’s holy spirit. Only the
HOLY SPIRIT can produce the “fruits
of the Spirit.”
“Speaking with tongues” has been practiced by certain You need not plead and beg and
church groups for decades. Now other church agonize for YEHOVAH God to give
denominations are beginning to practice the utterance of you this greatest of all gifts.
unintelligible SOUNDS whose source practitioners say is YEHOVAH needs no begging! The
YEHOVAH God. holy spirit is free -- and YEHOVAH
tells us in His Word He is more willing
Sometimes they are told to lift their arms to give us this gift than we are to give bread to
above their heads and HOLD them there. When our hungry children! (Luke 11:13.)
they become so tired they are unable to hold
them up any longer, others will come and

Avoid a Counterfeit Baptism!