All with One Accord (Donald Gee) - Deal Pentecostal Church

can affirm before God and men that reputable Pentecostal
leaders heartily condemn such practices.
The simple truth is that a Bible Pentecost consists of the
overflowing fullness of the Holy Spirit causing people to
speak with tongues. Without that divine influx, that ineffable
glory in the soul, that veritable "baptism" of power from on
high, there is no adequate cause for the desired effect. Indeed,
the "effect" is not even desired among those rightly
instructed, except as an incidental ordained by God for His
wise and loving purposes: all the desire is for the Spirit and
the Spirit alone. There is something so exquisite in a true
baptism in the Holy Spirit that those who have known it
either subjectively or objectively can never be satisfied with
anything less. These utterly worthless substitutes are not only
nauseating; they are a cause for grief and indignation. For not
the least harm from mechanically, instead of inspirationally,
produced "tongues" is that they leave the disappointed seeker
prejudiced against the real thing.
And disappointment there must be. It is inevitable. The
hungry soul finds satisfaction in nothing less than the living
God. In a true baptism in the Spirit it is God who thus is
received into the waiting "temple" of the believer, already
cleansed by faith in the precious blood of Christ. It can be
boldly affirmed and supported by the testimony of thousands
that in such a case there is no disappointment. There cannot
be, except in the limitations of the human vessel. The
speaking with tongues is a sheer delight and sets the spirit free
as never before to declare the wonderful works of God in a
language of ecstasy. But if it is not the overflow of a divine
fullness, but only a worked-up imitation of the truth, a swift
and sad disillusionment will follow. There will be no lasting
joy; no deepening and strengthening of the spiritual life; no
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