Born To Win Podcast - With Ronald L. Dart

When people start speaking in unrecognizable languages, how do you know this is the spirit of God and not some other spirit? I don’t mean to put down anyone religious experience, but I think I am asking a fair question: How do you know? I know that the gift of tongues was given to the apostles when they were empowered. We talked about the example found in Acts 2, but found that they spoke recognizable languages and had a clear and understandable message to share. Members of the crowd, who hailed from across the Empire, were astonished that their dialects were being spoken by these simple Galileans.Now, here is my problem. If the language people are speaking when they speak in tongues is a heavenly language, a prayer language, the language of angels: Why? What is the purpose? What is the point? Why would God do that? It surely is not because God does not understand English or French, is it? God does not need to give me his language in order for us to communicate. And it would be very strange, indeed, if

One of the most exciting discoveries in my life was when I learned that the festivals of the Bible actually contained an outline of God’s plan—an outline much more complex than I had at first imagined. They are loaded with illustrations, with analogies, with symbols and types of the plan of salvation, the life and work of Jesus Christ, of end-time events culminating in the Kingdom of God...and even events beyond the end of this world.But there is a curious anomaly in this festival that we observe here today, and at least a couple of different angles on trying to understand it. There are theories that have been advanced through the years that we have observed it, and we need to talk about it.