Cessation of Tongues

A study designed to break it down for your charismatic friends. They really aren't speaking in tongues, though they've been led to believe that's what they're doing. Speaking in tongues was always the ability to speak a foreign language like a native without one day of language training. It served God's purposes to jumpstart the gospel going into all the world.

(Video - 50 mins, plus PPT slides, Oct 2015)
Scriptures: Matthew 12:38-40, Matthew 16:4, Acts 2:4-11, 1 Corinthians 13:1-2, Galatians 5:22-23, 2 Thessalonians 2:8-10, Revelation 19:19-20

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