We use pride to cover our inferiority, our shame, our hateful character. When pride bears fruit, we feel our heart burning with self satisfying astonishment, which can only be temporary. Such, if misinterpreted, by many of the pentacostal church members, would be taken as filled by Holy Spirit, speaking in tongue. While it is actually not but self induced satisfaction of proud desire burning the heart. This great risk could lead to separation from the word of God, our Lord and even to destruction. If the pride is allowed to continue, one would only fool himself in the sense of pretending to be filled with the Holy Spirit, because one cannot be a servant to both sin and God.
I believe the Holy Spirit works great miracles, even speaking in tongues. But I also believe that many who have claimed to be with these gifts are actually just pretending to be, confused, fooling even themselves.
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