Listen to this....http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/how-to-receive-the-gift-of-the-holy-spirit
The facts are, not every time someone was converted or was baptized in the Holy Spirit in Acts did they immediately speak or pray in tongues.
There are three major instances. One on the day of Pentecost. Two when some Gentiles were saved. And three when Paul ran across some men who had just received John's baptism but had not gotten the Holy Spirit yet.
But, John Piper points out, "Acts records at least nine other conversion stories, but never again mentions a two-step sequence with tongues (8:36; 9:17–19; 13:12, 48; 14:1; 16:14; 17:4, 34). This shows how difficult it is to establish a norm from the way things happened back then."
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