Have you been in peace? "When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place" (Acts 2:1). "The Day of Pentecost" here marked the beginning of the Early Church and with the apostles speaking in tongues means that they spoke and expressed themselves in different foreign and regional languages. Jesus' apostles were martyred and thus came the passing of the Early Church. Nowadays, there exists interpreters and translators which makes it much more easy to switch between languages, from one language to another or vice versa, for those servants of God who are not capable to speak in these languages, and so there isn't any need for someone to become deluded by speaking in strange tongues and uttering incomprehensible gibberish under the pretext of speaking in tongues. Paul even said he would rather speak five words with his understanding than ten thousand words in tongues. But, even so, tongues will cease.
We receive the Holy Spirit simultaneously when we become born-again. Acts 1:8 says, "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth." By "you shall receive power" it refers to the fact that the power of the gospel Word of the water and the Spirit which is that of a dynamite (Romans 1:16) would cover the earth (the word dynamite is derived from the Greek word "dunamis" which means power, strength or ability) and doesn't in anyways means fleshy power in order to operate in the domain of signs, wonders and miracles. This power of the gospel of Jesus' water baptism and crucifixion is in and by itself a miracle among miracles when it comes to the cleansing of sin for mankind.
I decided to walk on this path of the truth, first, by denying myself and carrying my own cross which is my true calling. I believe in the leader and president of my Church because as a righteous servant of God he preaches the Lord's gospel of His (water) baptism at the Jordan and the shed blood on the Cross. Given this, since I am as well a born-again righteous person we both see eye to eye. Beyond any doubt it would really be a discourtesy for me to ask you to believe in this man and me as human beings because each one of us is living mired with weaknesses and shortcomings. When there are just too many self-styled leaders in God's Church the spiritual order in the Church of God becomes broken and these cracks will rather make a way for the Devil to get in and prey on any gullible listeners. The Gulf of Guinea waters became a hotbed for pirates of the sea and to the attention of the state authorities of the region at a short notice a flagship SOS on maritime safety and security was sent across the African Union member countries, championed by the United Unions and under the steering committee of Cameroon on how to counter the prevalence of these attackers. A ship set on sail has one captain onboard at the helm or wheel who becomes among others the principal interests of the assailants. Like that, it is no exaggeration to say what I have just said because the Apostle Paul said the Church of God in Corinth had ten thousand self-made instructors: "For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel" (1 Corinthians 4:6). They were some of those who didn't give heed to his gospel and as such sidelined him away. So my spiritual father as well as yours aren't our only crosses for us to bear.
And for sure I relish whenever I find displayed knowledge of the Dead Sea Scrolls which are parts of the Old Testament relic discovered by a Bedouin goat herder in Qumram caves. They were found in the spring of 1947 by a Bedouin herder and for one thing there is no may be or maybe not they form parts of the Old Testament of the Bible. Concisely on posts hinted and complete awareness of the Roman Catholics' religion (ie Catholicism), Jehovah Witnesses, Allah and Mohammed, of the so-called Gnosticisms' True, Real God, The Dead Sea Scrolls, the Rastafari's JAH, The Holy Grail in Abd-Ru-Shin's Grail Message (In The Light of Truth) and so forth, still yet becoming a Roman Catholic, Jehovah Witness or True Gnostic or Muslim and my enthusiasm toward Muslim folks, Mohammed, Allah and of Islam as well as a Rastas man can be juxtaposed because my experiences of letting go especially one godly criterion plus so many others far between should be remembered even though inconclusive and unaccountable without being at any rate ineffably impartial. My sins still remained intact in my heart. In contrast to God's Church on earth which testifies to His great sacrifice of His water (baptism) and blood together for our sins.
Those unborn souls who are believing in this or that are thereby missing an awful lot. And believing in anything in between without any satisfaction they are indeed drinking from "broken cisterns that can hold no water" (Jeremiah 2:13). They are in fact lured by the cunning tricks of Satan, the Devil, into believing in a pseudo salvation, mysticism and superstition as Christian sinners leaving them inherent through their misguided prayers in the same sin state before and after they know the name Jesus. And problematic with superstition is in the sense that you believe in only the Cross of Jesus as the only thing needed to save us from sins thereby turning Christianity into merely one of the world's religions. With religious pluralism comes philosophical and man-made thoughts, such are utterly incompatible with us, those who are born again of the gospel of the water, the blood and the Spirit. To its revival by Christians today (~1990s) is this powerful Word of the gospel of water and the Spirit. The fact that the powerful Word of the gospel of the water and the Spirit was lost, dead and buried amid other gospel propagators, apart from the apostles and their disciples of the Early Church, does not mean that no one else believed this true gospel at that time. But just as God said that He will bring both the former and the latter rain of the Holy Spirit the gospel of the water and the Spirit is being preached across the world. To everyone who will now hear the gospel of the water and the Spirit that we are spreading he/she will receive the remission of their sins thereby receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit and eternal life as a result.
In the meantime it is a fact that I am walking in the Spirit per se living a Spirit-filled life within the gospel of the water and the Spirit, the true gospel, which God prepared for us and talks about. No more deliberating on whether or not to convert to Islam with the Shahada creed (the first and one of the five pillars in Islam) or simply why not even return to a former religious life of which following my perspective as usual is a nominal atheistical defiance.