john kangas,
Thanks for letting me know that “the tongue” in Psalm 39:3 has nothing to do with glossalalia. I couldn’t have known if you had not informed me. Do you speak in tongues? You should you know because it is the evidence that you have been filled with the fire of the Holy Ghost, is it not?

Thomas – walk away. Dust off your feet.

John

john kangas,

Thanks for letting me know that “the tongue” in Psalm 39:3 has nothing to do with glossalalia. I couldn’t have known if you had not informed me. Do you speak in tongues? You should you know because it is the evidence that you have been filled with the fire of the Holy Ghost, is it not?

john kangas,

You must learn to read the Bible in context.

David mused about (meditated on) the brevity of life and his suffering at the hands of his enemies, and therefore resolved not to sin by his words (his tongue). And this was precisely the reason why he kept silent in the presence of his enemies (unlike you who love to spurt words of judgement upon me.) When he no longer could remain silent because a hot desire in his heart urged him to speak, he said these words:

Psa 39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Psa 39:5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
Psa 39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psa 39:7 And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.
Psa 39:8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.
Psa 39:9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
Psa 39:10 Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

David expressed the same warmth in his bones when he kept silent about his sin in Psalm 32.

When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. (Psa 32:3-5).

None of the above speak of the fire of the Holy Spirit. How could it when He had not been poured out then. David is merely expressing his feelings.

You cannot conclude that when you see words like “hot,” “warm,” “burned” etc. in the Bible that it refers to the fire of trhe Holy Spirit. That’s just plain childishness.

john kangas

I have tried my level best to make you understand that there is a literal fire (Luke 9:55) and a metaphor for a fire. I have also tried to explain to you that fire is often a symbol (metphor) of vengeance in the Bible ( Isa 5:24; Isa 61:2; Isa 66:24). Yet you persist in judging me. You say you love me? Thatr’s a lie because if you had you would not have judged me and said things like ” i pray God opens the eyes of your heart and takes out that stony heart so you grant Jesus’ wish and allow Him to kindle the “fire” in you as well.” With that you emphatically told me that I am not saved. Is that what the fire in you likes to do to other people?

Don’t bother to write a comment here again.

john kangas,

I suggest that it is you who don’t have the eyes to see and the ears tro hear. Climb down from your haughty little horse, humble yourself and admnit that you are the one who needs ears to hear.

I suspect that you have done the Alpha Course. Am I correct?

john kangas,

You are talkling nonsense. I don’t have time to waste. You are completely unable to differentiate between a literal fire and a metaphor.

Jesus also said “I am te Door.” Is He a lieral door? He said “I am the Bread of life.” Is He a literal bread? He said that He would have gathered Jerusalem under his wings like a hen gathers her chicks. Was He a literal hen?

When I used the word “universalism” I did not refer to the offer of salvaiton to everyone and you now that, and yet you chose to change the subject. If “the Kingdom of God is within you” then the Pharisees who asked Him about the Kingdom were also baptized with the Holy Spirit and also had the fire of God within them. That’s ludicrous, to say the least.