<TITLE>09. Par -</TITLE>L-524-84 And I believe this now: I do not believe that speaking in tongues is any evidence of the Holy Ghost. It isn't. Because I have seen witches, wizards, snake handlers, devils, everything else speak in tongues, and it is not an infallible act of God when you speak in tongues, that you've got the Holy Ghost. But remember, the Holy Ghost does speak in tongues, and the devil can impersonate it.
The--the evidence that you've got the Holy Ghost is the life that you live. See? "By their fruits you shall know them." And the fruit of the Spirit is not, nowhere in the Scripture found, speaking in tongues. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, faith, long-suffering, goodness, meekness, gentleness, patience. See, now, that is the fruit. That's what you find on the tree to tell what kind of a tree it is. See? That's what...
Men are looking to you preachers, and to you deacons, and you trustees, and you evangelists. You could speak in tongues out here on this street all day long; they'd never believe you. But you live what you're talking about; you show sweetness, and all the roots of bitterness is out of you, then men will realize there's something.

L-524-87 Speaking in tongues... Now, I do believe this, that sometime another, that a Spirit-filled person that lays under the altar of God will speak with tongues. But I've seen many speak with tongues that never knowed nothing about God. See? They knowed nothing about Him at all, and they still speak with tongues. Any of those gifts can be impersonated. See?
But the fruit of the Spirit proves what the Spirit is on the inside; you bear the witness of the Life of Jesus Christ. Because if there's peach tree sap in the apple tree, it'll bear peaches as sure as the world. That's right. See, because it's the life that's inside of it.

L-524-89 Now, that's the same thing it is here. But now, so that I could get this to you all, so that we could all know the same thing, I believe that a Spirit-filled person that... Now, he comes into Christ by a baptism, and just... That is not... Speaking with tongues is not evidence of the baptism. See?
A baptism, you could be baptized into the devil's power and speak in tongues with the baptism of the devil's deceiving spirit. How many times have we seen it done? How many times have I seen it done?
I even known of them drinking blood out of a human skull and speaking in tongues.
I seen the snake dancers on the desert when they wrapped this big snake around them and go along speaking. The wizard come out like that, and they'd speak in tongues and interpret it.
I've been in their witch camps where they'd lay a pencil down like that, and put a book down like this, and a pencil run up and down the stovepipe, and play, "Shave and a haircut, two bits," and write in unknown tongues, and the wizard interpret it, and tell exactly what happened. I--I know that myself. See? So I... See, you can't...

L-525-94 Paul said, "Where there's tongues, they shall cease. Where there's prophecies, it'll fail. Where all these gifts, they'll soon be done away with." (We got the question a little later.) "But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part is done away." See? So we want the perfect thing, brethren. See? We seen too many things bogus and give the wrong interpretation to it.
And don't never face a person and--and believe that they got the Holy Ghost because they speak in tongues. See? But you believe they have the Holy Ghost because of the fruits that they bear, for Jesus said, "By their fruits you shall know them." See? That's right, "By their fruits..."


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