What Is Speaking in Tongues? Should You Do It? Bible Answers
What is speaking in tongues? And should we practice it today? Dr. Ryan Lytton gives a thoughtful answer from the Bible.
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  2. I like David Digas interpretation on this

  3. In 1 Corinthians 12 Paul address gifting by the Spirit of God. It is interesting to note that in 1 Corinthians 12:10 it is the not the "gift of tongues" but the gift of "diverse tongues". In Acts 2:38, Peter told the crowd if they repented and were baptized in the name of Jesus, they would receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, not the gift of tongues. The gift of the Holy Spirit, evidenced by speaking in tongues is not the same as the gift of "diverse tongues". In Acts 10:45-48, the Gentiles received the baptism of the Holy Spirit not the "gift of tongues" though they spoke in tongues. The same for Acts 19:6. The disciples of John received the gift of the Holy Spirit and not the gift of tongues. While both involve speaking in an unknown language(s), tongues, one is the gift of "diverse tongues" the other is the "gift of the Holy Spirit" with tongues apparently as evidence. Jesus alludes to this in John 3:8 when He refers to a sound that those that are born of the Spirit will make. In John 3 the subject is being born again which comes from believing in Jesus.  The word "sound", in verse 8, is Greek phone which according to BDAG includes "Of the sound caused by spoken words".  According to Vine’s it is a voice that is heard.   On Pentecost, the sound of wind was indeed heard in the upper room, but not by the crowd. They heard the sound of voices (tongues)made by those filled with Holy Spirit. Because of traditions of men, Matt. 15:3-9, many people do not expect to speak in tongues and therefore since there is no expectation there is no faith to do so [Hebrews 11:6].  Because they do not believe, have no expectation, to be baptized with the Holy Spirit with speaking in tongues they don’t.  This is what happened in Topeka KS, in 1901.  As I have read, the students that stayed during Christmas break were praying to receive the Holy Ghost and speaking in tongues and did.  They were seeking this Pentecostal experience and in seeking they received.   Jesus said to ask, seek, and knock in Matthew 7:7-11 in referring to gifts.  I teach people to seek the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the expectation they will speak in tongues and over the past 39 years of doing this, I have personally witness them speaking in tongues as they receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit like in Acts.

  4. I think Ryan Litton did a very good job addressing this topic. His idea that the gift of interpretation of tongues involves a miracle of hearing, however, strikes me as odd. It may be that the gift operates in that manner for some people, but I've never heard of it working that way. Rather, I think that people with the gift of interpretation normally hear a message spoken in tongues the same way everyone else does. They don't hear the message with understanding. Instead, the Holy Spirit imparts the meaning of the spoken message inwardly, in the same fashion that He imparts a prophetic utterance, a word of knowledge, or a word of wisdom. And that impartation may accompany the message in tongues or it may be given after the fact. A person who does not have the gift of interpretation of tongues may nevertheless pray after a message in tongues has been given that God will give him/her the interpretation and God may do so. If the interpretation is not received until after the message in tongues has been spoken, the interpretation obviously does not involve a miracle of hearing.