Practical and effective examples of tongues in modern times

Paul was an apostle and evangelist to the Gentiles who could speak many tongues, or foreign languages, in addition to Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin. He would have had to communicate in the local language because he would have encountered foreigners in every place he visited.

Pauline tongues

Even if not in the language of the various places they visited, they could have prayed and praised in their native tongue as a sign to the foreign people who would visit them. Tongues is a miraculous work of the Holy Spirit that works to shortcut evangelistic exploration. Therefore, the more places they went on evangelistic trips, the more times they spoke in tongues.

The modern charismatics and Spiritists who suddenly and freely speak in tongues at any time of their choosing, "Shababababaa ♫ kara kara kara ♫" or some other unintelligible gargle-like utterance, are not speaking in tongues. It cannot be translated and is just a spell caused by group hypnosis. People who are psychic will see strange visions when they are chanting such spells.

Now that the gospel has spread to the whole world to some extent, there is no need for the miracle of tongues.

Deuteronomy 18:9 "When you come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, 11 or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. 12 For all who do these things are an abomination to the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord your God drives them out from before you. 13 You shall be blameless before the Lord your God.

A valid case of practical tongues with

 Some missionaries went to the Philippine region, where they arrived at a small island inhabited by indigenous people who did not speak their native language. When an indigenous woman died, they asked a missionary to pray for her. The missionary prayed an intercessory prayer with deep sorrow, and all of a sudden the foreign language spoken by the indigenous people, which he did not know, started to flow out of his mouth.

Finally, the dead woman was resurrected through this prayer in tongues. There are still many such cases. The local people confirm the miraculous sign of tongues and come to believe in God.

The phrase "no one understands" in verse 2 means that even if the words are unintelligible to the believers within their own circle, they can be understood and believed by the local people in the foreign country because they are a "sign" for them. In the case of tongues, even if the words are "incomprehensible" to Christians, they can be understood by local people as a "sign" of evangelism to unbelievers.

In summary, Christians with the Holy Spirit can pray in front of the natives and those who do not know the gospel at all in languages other than their native tongue, as needed, and their prayers and praises in tongues can be translated for the local people. In verse 28, he says that he speaks to himself and to God, and he advises them to make good use of the gift of authentic tongues, which was in effect at all times in the first century. As it is described as a gift, the gift of tongues, if received, would have been in effect at all times throughout one's life.

Some say that tongues will continue until the second coming of Christ, but unlike prophecy and knowledge, which are still needed at this stage, if there is no effective situation for tongues as a sign to unbelievers, that is, if you are not forced to be in a situation to witness in an unreached area of the local population, etc., you do not have to intentionally imitate tongues and say "Shabakalasambhava" with believers already familiar with the gospel.  Paul makes a concession and instructs that if you must speak in tongues and cannot translate, "do it alone, praying that you can translate, that is, at your own risk". Sometimes people tell you to pray in tongues while emptying your head, but that is absolutely ridiculous.

Matthew 6:7 And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail(if not needed); whether there are tongues(if not needed), they will cease; whether there is knowledge(if not needed), it will vanish away.

In the Matthew scripture, Jesus said, "Do not pray dutifully," but the original word is batalogeo, which means "the same pronunciation, an unspoken utterance, something that does not function as a language. Therefore, the tongues that Paul speaks of are not monotonous utterances, but a mysterious foreign language that we do not understand, even though it is a language with meaning, and it would have been delivered to Christ. 

However, in the case of modern tongues, I actually found it funny when an African woman was praying in tongues and didn't know that she was saying "Chi-ko chi-ko ♫" when she was praying in tongues, but there's no point in continuing like this forever, so you probably shouldn't do it.