 It's the glory of God, gentlemen! It's official that I am now a continuationist. When you look at, and I'm serious, I am serious when I say I am, I used to say that I'm not a cessationist and I'm not a continuationist, but I would say that I am a skeptic with the Bible. I'm gonna take what you say or take what I see and I'm gonna judge it by the scriptures. But I've changed my mind. After spending some time in prayer, after just reading and doing more research and just looking at things and contemplating things, I have decided that I am now a continuationist. Yep. Now, I'm also going to predict. I'm gonna predict. You call it prophesy if you want to, but I'm gonna predict that when I finish saying what I'm saying, I think most of you're gonna become continuationists as well. If you are not. Some of you guys are cessationists. Some of you guys are already continuationists. Some of you guys who are continuationists, you might change your continuationist views. I don't know. Some of you guys who are in the middle, you might change, but I think we're gonna make a very good case as to why you ought to be continuationists. Now, when I say continuationists, I don't want you to think that I mean the continuationists that we've seen, the ones that we've talked about. Now, I wanna say what, and I said it yesterday, I'm stealing something. I am stealing something that one of the viewers said yesterday, it is mine, all mine, I love it. And I think it applies this, well, I'll even say it again. He said the hardest person to reach with the truth is the one who has gotten results from a lie. That is, it just stuck with me. The brother just said something stuck with me and it kind of applies because there are people who go to charismatic churches and they feel like, notice I said feel, feel like they've gotten something and so it doesn't matter what they've said, doesn't matter what actually happened, it just resonated with them and so that's the truth that they're gonna hold on to, that's they're gonna hold on to as truth and the actual truth doesn't matter. So everybody focuses on, when we talk about continuationists, we focus on typically certain gifts, right? The, what they call the sign gifts. Now truth be told, the Bible does not identify certain gifts as sign gifts or apostolic gifts. The Bible doesn't, as a matter of fact, the Bible states it or shows it as the pneumaticone, things of the spirit or spiritual things. So however the spirit moves through you, those are, that's the move of the spirit, that's the pneumaticone and it looks like these spiritual gifts, these giftings, are you with me? And so we tend for whatever reason to focus on the outward manifested gifts such as prophecy, tongues, now casting out demons, being slain in spirit, those things. The problem is sometimes at least of late we either have not tried to show or prove that they're actual authentic or false or they're hard to determine if what's happening is true. Meaning if someone comes and tells you that they were speaking in tongues and they say it went like this and it sounded like it went along with the Bible, then we have no way of knowing it's true or not, we weren't there. Or someone says this person had hands laid on them and they raised grandma from a dead. Well, we weren't there. But then you have these folks who will give these prophecies vague, they might be, they might even give specific prophecies that might be in a year, two, three, four years away and by the time it happens everyone's forgotten about it and when it doesn't happen no one has thought anything. Fortunately for some people, for some of us that we can actually go back and look at the tape and see that they were wrong. But, and I know some of you are wondering what's Corey up to? No, listen, I'm a continuationist. I am, I'm a continuationist and I'm gonna be chest champ, you're gonna be a continuationist after this. I'm a continuationist till the day I die. I'm riding with the true authentic biblical continuationist. Now, again, we tend to focus on three gifts that we decide whether we're continuing or we're ceasing that tends to be typically three, speaking in tongues, prophesying, casting out demons and then we can throw in there laying on of hands and that might show up as someone being healed or being slain in the spirit. So we kind of make that forth but it kind of goes in there with the casting out of demons sometimes but let's make it four. Now, the key verse that most Charismatics hold on to hold on to is Mark 16. And typically we've discussed verses nine through 20 whether they are authentic or not but they tend to focus on 17 and 18. Now, I believe though, while I'm saying that I'm a continuationist I also believe that Charismatics, 99.9% of Charismatics are cessationists. Now that's something totally different than what I'm saying. I'm saying I am a continuationist and I'm saying the very folks who call themselves continuationists, the very folks who abhor cessationism, they are actually cessationists themselves. Wait a minute, can you please explain? Well, before I do, let's first deal with the Mark 16, 17 portion because it comes up, let's go ahead and I don't know why I have that highlighted as that but I'm sitting and looking at my screen. I don't know why I have something to highlight the way it is, but let's go to Mark 16 and let's start off in, let's start in verse 16. The passage says, he who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved but he who has disbelieve or has not believed shall be condemned. Now notice by way before we continue, notice it states that the one that won't be saved isn't the one that's not baptized, it's the one that doesn't believe, meaning that I think the person who wrote this and notice I said it that way, that person is saying that it's not this water baptism that folks allude to that's gonna save you, it's this baptism that a believer gets when you believe you get baptized. I believe this is what this person is saying. Now, we don't believe most of us and you'll be hard pressed to find, well, I wouldn't say hard pressed, the overwhelming majority of textual critics, people that actually do this for a living that go and look at the different textual evidence, those who are translators for different translation committees such as ESV and ASV and so forth, NIV, they go and look at these things and they realize they, wait a second, this does not seem like it's authentic that it was part of the original, by the way, by the way, there are more, I think there's even more than three endings that are in dispute as to whether the shorter ending is the preferred ending, the actual ending, meaning that it ended at first eight, there obviously we have the long ending. We also have two others, at least two others, I believe, endings that are also longer, one even longer than this, which we don't talk very much about. And so, most believe that this six, versus nine through 20 didn't belong, especially because the fact that Mark tends to track with Matthew and Matthew does not have this in it as well. And what we believe is that this was a scribe, maybe someone's actual personal manuscript and they wrote in it for themselves, which is fine. We happen to find it and we don't know if this was part of someone's personal reading. We're not fully sure of the entire story behind it, but still, most people tend to believe that it is, or most textual critics tend to believe that it's not authentic, but a couple of things you ought to consider about the passage that I'm getting ready to read. Matter of fact, let's read that first and then let's come to the issues regarding it. It says that he, I'm sorry, verse 17, these signs, here it is, these are the signs, these signs will accompany those who have believed. In my name, they will cast out demons in my name. They will speak with new tongues, they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any daily poison, it will not hurt them. They will lay hands, they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover. Well, let's kind of just jump in that for a second and we'll move on to why I believe that charismatic are the true authentic, that they are really cessationist. Before we get there, though, let's go ahead and deal with their main, this is one of their main topics, their main passages. The question is, who this passage, I'm sorry, was this passage in the original? We've covered that, we won't go into, won't do an in-depth study on that maybe later, but was this passage authentic? Does it belong, was it in the original? I say no, but even if it was, it doesn't change anything from the text. It didn't add anything new, didn't change anything. Second, was he speaking to everyone or was he speaking to a specific audience? Meaning, is this to say that every Christian, every single believer would have these gifts? Every believer, is that what it's saying? Or is it stating that speaking of those who he's speaking of his disciples? And a case can be made for both. A case can be made for both. Now, the last one is, did he mean every one of these gifts would follow? In other words, that a believer would have, would exhibit every last one of the, and this is why it's important, because we're talking about all of these gifts, let's look at the gifts that he says will follow. He says, one, they will cast out demons. So that's one, one, they will cast out demons. Two, they will speak with new tongues and the word that's used here is the word low size. They will speak it, and by the way, the word kina, so they will speak in, they will speak languages new. So in tongues, they will be speaking new. Are you with me? So that's two things they'll be saying. And the third thing they'll be doing is, they will pick up serpents. They will pick up, not they, if they do, it says they will pick up serpents. All right, that's not an if, that's they will. Now, the next one, the fourth one is not one of the things that the Bible says that they will do, it says if, if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them. And then the last one, they will, they will, everybody ought to be saying will, they will, they will lay hands on the sick and the people they lay hands on, they will recover. And so there is no, if you're gonna say that this is a command, this is required, this is prescriptive, well then fine, fine. That means that you will lay hands on the sick. And when you do so, not they might recover. There is no, they will lay hands on the sick and they may recover, no, it says they will recover. Are you with me? And they will speak in new tongues, new languages. And the word that's used there is languages. We'll get there in a second. There's not gonna be a discussion over the different gifts in depth, we won't do that here, we've done it before, we'll do them again. But they will, they absolutely will cast out demons. They will speak with new languages. They will, you will. Not might, you will pick up serpents. The only one that you might do is you might drink poison or anything like that and you will not get sick. And it says that you will lay hands on, on the sick. You will lay hands on the sick and they will, not possibly, not maybe, not after six weeks, not after going to the hospital and seeing a doctor, no, they will recover. Are you with me? Now, why do I say that I am a continuationist? And why do I think that you all either will be or at least ought to be continuationists and why do I believe that virtually every charismatic is a sensationist? Well, a couple of reasons. One, they don't seem to have their gifts line up with the Bible. And before I get there, one thing ought to be spoken of and that is, how come the people that seem to say they exhibit these particular gifts have that doctor? I covered this before and I do like the fact that, now I don't necessarily agree with his, how he takes cessationism where he gets it from. I'll disagree with him on 1 Corinthians 13, but he makes a very good point that is John McCartney. So how do we test whether somebody is speaking the truth? Do we ask if they do miracles? No, in fact, here's the strange thing, the people who claim to do miracles all have bad theology. Do, are we supposed to believe that God is authenticating deceivers? Are we supposed to believe that God, the Holy Spirit, has given miracle power to people who have bad theology, who misrepresent the Trinity, who misrepresent Christ, who misrepresent, in many cases, the gospel and who get rich doing it? Are we supposed to believe that God is authenticating? Now, why is it that God won't use the people with sound doctrine, the people who focus on the word? Now, whether you disagree with how they use the word, they at least exegete the passages, they use expository teaching and preaching to go through the word rather than go surface and see, okay, I think it means this and then run with it. Why is that? Why is it that we don't look at the fact that the people who we tend to say, wait a second, that's not right and then we listen to the rest of their doctrine, the rest of their doctrine is off? Is God or has God, as a matter of fact, for the Charismatics who are actual cessations, has God ever in the Bible utilized people with bad doctrine to show his power? He doesn't need to, which apostle that we see using, which apostle do we see exhibiting these powers, these gifts in a magnificent way that we would love to see here today, that some folks plan and say that they've seen, which of these apostles, which of these prophets had bad doctrine, which of them had it wrong? Notice before Paul even, when Paul had it wrong, Paul had no gifts for the spirit. Notice that Paul, when he was persecuted in the church because he did it out of ignorance, God wasn't working in him mightily. He loved the Lord but God wasn't working in him and he was persecuted in church incorrectly but Paul did not show these sign gifts, these outward gifts until after one of the Holy Spirit came in him and then two, he obviously understood the scripture, he spent time with the Lord and in that he spent time learning what God wanted him to know, what God wanted him to do, are you with me? And so we don't see anywhere in the scriptures anybody with bad doctrine, anyone. Teaching, I'm sorry, showing these particular powers. We don't see that. Now, if we want to look at some of these different gifts, we can start seeing, and we're gonna go through a few of them, we're gonna go through tongues, we're gonna go through prophecy, casting demons out, people being slain in the spirit, healing, salvation, a few other things. And we're gonna see if charismatics are actually cessationists or continuationists and then I'm gonna see or I'm gonna show you that I am an actual continuationist and why you ought to be a continuationist as well. Now guys, do not get sidetracked, this is not about John MacArthur, pay it, follow the bouncing ball guys, pay attention, okay? This is about whether you are a cessationist whether you should be, what type of cessationist should you be, the charismatic kind or should you be, I take that back, are you the continuationist type of the charismatic continuationists who I really believe they are cessationists or are you my type of continuationists? And there's a difference. There's a big difference between me being a continuationist and them being a continuationist, them being a cessationist, are you with me? Let's start off with one of the ones that you just see everywhere. These people being slain in the spirit. I'm not slain in the spirit, I mean speaking in tongues. It's like everybody does it. Everybody wants to speak in tongues. Every tongues hear tongues everywhere, tongues tongue. So I wanna start off, I wanna play a clip and I want you to hear something. There's a couple of errors in there and I want you to see where people get off, especially charismatic. Now am I saying that charismatic are not safe? I'm not saying that, make sure you guys understand that's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying that charismatic Christians are not Christians, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the doctrine or the teachings that they hold to is off at least in a few regards. Are you with me? Do they believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for us? Yes, they do. Do they believe that you have to place your faith in that to be safe? Yes, they do. They just believe that after that, then you have to tarry for the Holy Spirit or there's a second feeling and this Holy Spirit feeling is gonna come with these outward signed gifts. And one of the ones that they say, many of them say that it's evidenced by the speaking in tongues. And so let me play this clip by someone who I vehemently disagree with but I wanna show you a couple of errors in what he's saying. Let's talk today about speaking in tongues or glossolalia, which is the official term and it is biblical. Now, let me say this. First of all, even off to a bad start. How many of you have heard this term glossolalia? Glossolalia. Have you heard that? Glossolalia. You keep hearing glossolalia. Well, if you've heard that term and you believe that like he says, that's the official term, it's not. Glossolalia is nowhere found in the Bible. As a matter of fact, a buddy called me up a few weeks ago, a few months ago and was doing a study on tongues and says, hey, Corey, is there, is a term glossolalia in the Greek in the Bible? No, it's not. Now it's a combination of two Greek words and this was added a lot later folks to kind of identify what they're talking about but glossolalia is a term for tongues or languages and laleo is I speak or lalea means speaking. So the term speaking in tongues is not referred to in the Bible as glossolalia. Are you with me? As a matter of fact, we only see this. Now we'll see it in different phrases. As a matter of fact, let me put it on the screen. Let me put this on the screen. I don't know why I have this. Oh, I know why because it's an old. If I just do a quick look at when we see speaking and tongues together in the Bible, specifically in the New Testament, let's see if we see this, how it's written over in the Greek and it's important because we'll come to something that is not found in the Bible. Let's start in Mark 16, 17. This word speak with new tongues and so we see over here in the Greek, we see glossis, glossis is the plural form and then we have this speaking, which is the word lilusis, which is they are speaking and then this word kinase, kinase, which is new. So they are speaking in tongues, all right? So glossi either before or after laleo, whichever tense voice will move this in. Are you with me? Let's keep, and there's a reason why I'm doing this. Let's keep going. Let's go to more speaking in tongues, Acts 2, 4. The word is lalein, same thing and then we see heterize, glossis. So to speak in other languages, now remember guys, remember every time, every time, and this is why I'm gonna say why they cannot be continuationist, every time in the Bible, the word glossis is used, it's used to refer to languages. That's just what the word means. It means, I'm sorry, it means two things. It means an actual, the tongue in your mouth, the member. So when James is talking about, can we tame the tongue? Can we tame our mouth? It's used in that regard or it's used in languages. It doesn't mean anything else. It doesn't mean some sort of gibberish, some sort of babbling, something that no one understands. And then there's this correction that comes later but we'll leave that alone at least for now, but that's what it means, all right? Let's go to Acts 2, 11. Let's get to more of these. Here we see the word. I'll pull this up so you guys can see this. In 2, 11 we see it also again, glossis, and then laluntan, laluntan, which is they were speaking. And so speaking to them, the other languages, I'm sorry, our own, hemeterize, which is our own. And so we see that there. So the point I'm trying to get to is that when we talk about this manifestation, this spiritual gifting, it is speaking in tongues, speaking in tongues, speaking in tongues. Are you with me? There's a reason why I wanna say that. There's a reason why I wanna pull that up, but I'll wait for just a little longer. I wanna hear what this brother has to say, this man has to say. Typical, but it needs to be understood. Well, now I want you to start like this. It is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And sometimes we can treat it like it's the Father, the Son, and the Holy Scriptures. Remember that the Bible, at one point, the New Testament did not exist. It was inspired by God and written by men, and then it was canonized later. And so, yes, we're gonna look at Scriptures, but I would be remiss if I did an entire teaching about speaking in tongues, but didn't allow the Holy Spirit to be my guest of honor today. So my guest of honor is the Holy Spirit, and I want you to, before I even jump into the Scriptures, to say I am willing to allow the Holy Spirit to teach me all things. I am willing to open up my ears to hear what the natural ears cannot hear. Now, did you already say it? He said, first of all, it's the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, not the Father, the Son, and the Holy Scriptures. Cute, but what are you getting at? Well, the point that he's getting at, and of course he goes on to elaborate, that we need to be in tune spiritually to hear from the Lord, because after all, when this was coming down, they didn't even have all the Scriptures. Now, that part is true, but it's almost as though he's trying to put the Scriptures kind of on a back burner, and that the preeminence of what we do will flow from the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, specifically the Spirit. And let's just pray that the Spirit open our ears, our minds, our hearts so that we can receive code, meaning that stop reading the book so rigidly, stop following the book and let the Spirit speak to you. Problem is, how do you judge the Spirit? He says, test, not every Spirit comes from God. So you need to test that Spirit. Well, how do you do so, Mike? Well, you do so with the Scriptures. And so it's just putting the Scriptures in subordination to the Holy Spirit. Well, that can't be since the Holy Spirit is the one who gave us the Scriptures. And so you can use them in tandem. If you think something is coming from the Holy Spirit, well, then fine, gotta Bible to look it up. We've got a Bible to kind of go along with it and make sure that I'm not just hearing what you, because you said it so nicely, because you said it in a way, and because maybe I'm not as trained, I'm not as educated in the Scriptures, you said it in a way that I like what you just said. Yeah, because guess what the world is? Not just charismatic, not just charismatic Christians who are trying to be spiritual. The world wants to be spiritual. I'm spiritual. I'm not really religious. I'm more spiritual than anything else. I'm, yeah, I'm a Christian, but I'm more spiritual than anything else. Well, guess what? So is Satan. Satan, you know, you know, the most spiritual person is on the planet or the most spiritual thing on the planet is? Satan, super spiritual, super spiritual, spirit, there's spirit there. Now, not the spirit of God, not in terms of being holy, no. And that's exactly where Satan wants us to go. So that's why you're gonna find a lot of times the lines being blurred from Christians, Christian thought to this new age thought and the rest of the world, because where we meet up is in the middle at spiritual. And so I'm a Christian, I'm spiritual. I'm not really religious. I'm about this relationship, so I'm about being spiritual. And then this other person over here says, yeah, me too, I'm spiritual as well. And then we start sharing things and we start sharing recipes and we start sharing our godly thoughts or ungodly thoughts. And next thing you know, we've got an entirely different understanding of the scriptures and of God. Now, no, if I'm gonna be spiritual, I'm gonna be biblically spiritual. Are you with me? To that, before I continue, the Bible tells us, the Bible tells us that we should what? In terms of the scriptures, if I'm going to be, this is why I say, he can't be a continuationist. He's not a continuationist. He's a cessationist. Now, John MacArthur said something and I think that he got this from me. Yeah, I think John MacArthur got it from me, but sometimes it helps to hear someone else say it, so I'll let him say it. I've been saying this before. I'm not sure where he got it from, but I think maybe he got it from the Lord because what you're doing over here, you charismatic folks, that didn't line up with what we see in the Bible. So if you're gonna be continuing anything, you should be continuing what we saw in the Bible. You guys aren't continuing anything. They want to be continuationist. They believe in tongues that aren't languages, whereas clearly in the New Testament, they were languages. They believe in miracles that aren't necessarily like the miracles Jesus and the apostles did, and they say that. They believe in revelation, divine revelation, but not infallible revelation. So they have miracles that aren't the same as the New Testament miracles, tongues that aren't the same as the New Testament tongues, prophecies that aren't the same as the New Testament prophecies, that's not continuation. Exactly. That is cessationism. You have ceased with the pattern of the scriptures, and you have, you're not continuing it because if you continued in the tongues of the Bible, if you continued in the type of word that we read in the Bible, if you continued all those gifts, it would look just like we saw it in the Bible. Now, I guess MacArthur and I need to apologize because I found out where I got it from. I didn't get it from MacArthur. I got it from Sucan Red and so, I owe you, we both owe you. But they don't, if you're a continuationist, then shouldn't the word of God be important to you, like you say it is? Remember, it's Peter, one of the apostles, who certainly had the spirit in him, who certainly had these gifts. Look what he says. He says, therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, like, look what he says, like newborn babies long for the pure milk of the word so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation that is if you have tasted the kindness of the Lord so that you can grow in it. The word was placed high. The written word was placed high. The word of the Lord is high in our lives. Even though something feels good or sounds good, it made me do good, I don't know. It still doesn't compare to the actual word. Are you with me? And so the Bible also tells us, Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 3, 16, he says, all scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training and righteousness so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work. Now, yes, this passage was written when we didn't have very many of the New Testament scriptures written. We didn't have some, as a matter of fact, Peter even calls Paul's writings as scriptures. Do you think that Paul only intended to mean for the Old Testament passages? No, he meant all. That's why he said all. All passages, whatever scriptures you've been given, they are God-inspired. This is why the cessation is crowd who they probably aren't really cessation. They might be more like me. Have stated that if you got these folks that are saying they are apostles and prophets and they've gotten an actual revelation from God, well, if you get a revelation from God and you write it down, then it came from God. If it came from God, then guess what? It should be on par with the scriptures. I get what they're saying. Now, for us true continuationists, we just want things to continue in the same vein as the Bible has it, meaning if I see tongues, if I deal with, let's deal with tongues first. If I hear tongues, I expect tongues to continue in just the same way that we see in the scriptures. Now, in the scriptures, did they speak tongues all the time? No, they did not speak in these tongues all the time. As a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, for all my cessationist, my cessationist charismatic friends, you charismatic folks, you are actualizationists, did you know we don't have very many passages in the Bible or even very many books in the Bible that even bring up tongues? We don't. We've got two main that being acts and first Corinthians. And then we could, if we wanna say that Mark 16, the latter portion is authentic, well, then fine, we've got three books. But I think we only have two. That being acts two, and then we also, well, not acts just two, acts two, and then a few more passages as well in acts. And we have first Corinthians 12 and 14. That's what we have. So it's not even a particular gift that has a lot of time, a lot of ink used on it in the Bible. And so it's not when I say that I think that these languages, this gift has continued. I just expect when I see it, it should sound and be performed just like I see it there in the Bible. Yeah, I am a true, listen, I'm a true continuationist. True continuationist. Matter of fact, can I pull up a couple of scriptures? Let me go and pull up a couple of scriptures. First of all, we know that when these spiritual gifts come, when the Holy Spirit comes in us, what does Jesus say is gonna happen? Jesus tells the disciples first and then we see it happening and then moved to us. He says that when the helper comes, the Holy Spirit, whom I will send from the Father, that is the spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, what will he do? He will testify of me. Now, as a true continuationist myself, when I come from a long line of continuationists, that being anybody in the Bible, as a true continuationist, I believe that it should continue just like Jesus said, that the gifting of the spirit should do what? Testify, magnify, witness of Christ. Should not testify, witness of me. It should not give me glory. The intent is not to bring me glory, not to make me look good or feel good, but it's intended to make him know, magnify Christ. We see that very same thing happening in Acts 1. Remember, Jesus reiterates it in Acts 1. He says, when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, use guys, uses. When it comes upon use guys, I'm using my cheaper Italian accent, use guys. Jesus says that you shall be, because you have the Holy Spirit, you will be my witnesses, you will testify of me. You matter of yourself. You won't even go around testifying and saying, hey, who wants to come down and receive the Holy Spirit? You're not gonna say, where in the Bible, where in the Bible do they say, come down and receive the Holy, come on down, line up, receive the Holy Spirit. No, they're asking, come on. We want to receive Christ. We want salvation. And then once you place your faith, all of us have been baptized into the Spirit. Are you with me? And so he says, when it happens, Jesus says, you will testify, be my witnesses. And it goes to the point about magnifying him. They'll magnify Christ in Jerusalem and Judea and folks get saved in Sumeria, folks get saved. And to the rest of the world, we see in Acts 19 as well, Gentiles get saved. In Acts 10 and 19, we see Gentiles getting saved because they magnify Christ. Are you with me? So that's what it is. So as real continuationists, it should be done that way. As a matter of fact, let's go to Acts 2. Let's, since we're on tongues and this is gonna be probably our last portion on tongues, I think, I think, who knows? But let's see. The Bible says in chapter 2 of Acts, again, I'm a continuationist. Don't know about you guys. Hopefully you guys are at least tongue continuationists. If you are tongue continuationists, if you are a glossize continuationists, let's see how it started off and let's continue this. He says, verse four, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with, here it is, other languages, heterize, glossize as the Spirit was given to them. And now we know that they were speaking in language. They weren't just saying something. They weren't saying some gibberish, something that they didn't understand. How do we know if they weren't saying something that they could not understand and that others? Well, first of all, let's keep reading. We'll see two things. That the person that's speaking in these languages knows what they're saying. And then two, well, three things. They know what they're saying. Two, they're saying something in a different language. And three, the hearer also understands it. Let's see that. Because again, I want us to be true Bible continuationists. Verse five, now there were living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven. And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together and were bewildered because each of them was hearing them. They were hearing them speak in his own language. Uh-oh, wait a second. So the people were hearing them speak. They were speaking in their languages. And we heard them speaking. They were actually speaking in an actual language and we were hearing it. Now, verse seven, they were amazed and astonished saying, why are not all these who are speaking Galileans? How is it that we hear each, we hear them in our own language to which we were born? Parathens and Medes and Elimites. Now let's drop down to verse 11. Cretians and Arabs, we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God. So again, they're also speaking about the mighties of God. In other words, AKA Jesus, which is what Jesus said they're gonna do. So we're gonna be continuationists in that vein. Are you guys with me? Now, here's how we know that the speaker knew what he was saying. Let's continue. And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity saying to one another, what does this mean? But others were mocking non-believers, mockers were mocking and saying they are full of sweet wine. Here's how we know they understood. But Peter, taking his stand with the 11, raised his voice and declared to them men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let it be known to you and give heed to my words. For these men are not drunk as you suppose for the only the third hour, but this is what was spoken through the prophet Joel. Now he says what Joel was speaking of and then he goes on to say what they were saying. So guess what? Pete and John B, thank you for the super chat. I appreciate that. Peter knows what he was saying. He knows what they were saying. The others don't know what they were saying. The people that are hearing it know what they were saying. The people who did not speak those languages, they had no idea what they were saying. And then even the mockers were saying that they're just drunk. So what do we have? We've got one, these people are magnifying God with this language. And it's an actual language being spoken. The person that's speaking it knows what they're saying. And then for or lastly, the people that are hearing it, they hear it in their language. And then there is also, because of the crowd is like, well, what's going on? There is also five understanding, interpretation. That's literally what the word means guys. When we hear this word that these be interpreter, it doesn't mean that they're cause what we do sometimes is we imagine that it's like an interpreter at the UN or if I go to a, let's say, a Spanish only service and there's an English person speaking something like that, there's an interpreter inside. No, it's not like that, but there's somebody who's specifically aside to interpret it and know that there must be an interpreter means there must be interpretation. There must be understanding. And so what does Peter do? He explains to the crowd what they need. He interprets to them. So you got the folks that hear it, they don't need an interpreter. The person that's saying it, they need an interpreter. Now if it's just those two, then we've got interpretation. And then the crowd who's standing around listening, they get interpretation as well. Are you with me? So that's the way that it should be. So I am a continuationist in that vein. And I believe that the gift of tongues or low-sized languages should continue just like that. Michael, thank you for super chat. Now what I would say is since not once did anyone in the Bible under the power of the spirit ever speak some folks are gonna say that tongues are an angelic language. Well, that's being aces. If you say that tongues are an angelic language, well then now what you are is not a continuationist, you are a cessationist. If you say that tongues are a private prayer language. If that's the case, then you are a cessationist. You're not a continuationist because why? Because not once in the Bible do we ever see anyone speaking in an angelic language. Not once in the Bible do we ever see anyone praying in tongues. Not once in the Bible, if you say that prayer, the tongues are meant to edify you. Not once in the Bible do we see someone being commended for speaking in this unknown language that edifies themselves. Paul rebukes that in 1 Corinthians 14. So we're gonna be continuationist. You can be cessationist. By the way, Paul even says, goes on in chapter 14 to say that if you speak and you don't know what you're talking about, he says you're doing the wrong thing. He says, as a matter of fact, some of you guys are praying in the spirit or you might be praying in the spirit, but praying in tongues, Paul didn't say the solution is to pray in tongues. No, he says pray with understanding. Speak with understanding. Understand what in the world that you were saying. Understand, he says I will pray with understanding. I will sing praises with understanding. I will do everything I can with understanding or with me. And so when someone says that there is the gift of tongues and then there's someone saying that there's this speaking in tongues, those two different things. Well, no, because by the way, the same word that you, and I said that it is this close size, Laleo or Lalontag, whichever way that you wanna put it, that's the exact same way that it's phrased in 1 Corinthians. There is no such example of a private or public differentiation. And so in that regard, I am going to be a continuations. I will continue understanding and appreciating this gift, the way it was done in the Bible. That's number one. What about the next one? Because if you're gonna say that you are in prophecy, I would like to see your prophecy also be like in the Bible. I mean, if you're gonna be continuations, be a real one. Don't lie, don't make up stuff. Don't be deceptive and don't be ignorant when it comes to these particular gifts. Let's be continuationalists. If they say we should be continuationalists and granted, I'll agree, the Bible does not say. The Bible does not say, and again, I do not go to 1 Corinthians 13 to where it says that we prophesy and part and so forth and then when that which is perfect come, then those things are gonna cease. Again, it's tied to not just languages and tongues, it's also tied to knowledge as well. Knowledge has not ceased. Thank you, Ashford Super Chat. So all of those are tied together. The only reason or when they're going to cease is when there's no need for any of those things. Is there any need for someone to speak to someone in a different language to give them the gospel? Well, I think that need is probably still here. Who knows? I might be in Bogotá, Colombia. Cory, why are you down in Bogotá, Colombia? I'm not moving any product. I don't want y'all to think that. I'm not moving any white colored product while I'm in Bogotá, Colombia. I'm not visiting any cartel members. I'm down there to share the gospel. And I'm down there and I come across somebody who speaks Spanish. I don't have an interpreter there. I don't have a guide there. It's just me and I want to give this guy the gospel. And supernaturally, the spirit comes upon me and I start speaking perfect Spanish, the way that he would understand in Colombia. Could that happen? Sure. Now, no, so you're kind of right. That's not why I'm there. That's not why I'm there. Could it happen? Sure. There's no biblical reason why it couldn't happen. And by the way, there are people there who also on the planet who we don't know their language. This, I forget the name of this little group that we've kind of kept them to themselves, left them alone. But what if someone wants to give them a gospel and God wants them to get the gospel? We got to speak to them some kind of way. So as long as it is done biblically with an amen. If you speak in these languages and it looks and sounds just like the Bible. Amen. I'm down with you. I'm down with your apostle, Aubembre. Thank you for the super chat. I appreciate that. That's, I'm for you. Again, we are continuationists. We are continuationists. If I'm going to prophesy. Now, whether it be the foretelling or the forthtelling, it should look like the scriptures. So, in the Bible, this prophetouette, remember Paul says in verses one and verses five, he says, I wish that you was speaking these languages in order that you would give a revelation. That's not what it says. That actually is what it says in the Greek guys. That actually is what it says in the Greek. Someone wants to disagree with me. Fine, go find you a Greek scholar. Go find your Greek teacher. Go find your second year Greek student. And then he'll tell you, she'll tell you, yeah, that's actually what it says. It says, Milande hen a prophetouette, which means I want you to speak in these languages in order that you would bring a revelation that you would prophesy. And the prophesy we're speaking of, he's not, I want you to speak in tongues in order that you will tell the future. No, it's the forthtelling prophecy. It's only what it could be. And so yeah, I want you to do so in order to bring a revelation. Well, that's just what Jesus said they're gonna do anyway. He wants the spirit in us to do anyway to bring a revelation of the mighty works of God like it's done in Acts two, that Jesus said they would do in Acts one that he tells him before he dies in John 15. So us true continuationists want us to prophesy just the way it's done in the Bible, whether it be foretelling or foretelling. But let's stick with the foretelling, the future telling. This is gonna happen in five days, five weeks, five months, five years, that kind of foretelling, F-O-R-E telling. Well, us continuationists believe, since we're continuationists, we want it to continue just like it is in the Bible. How was prophecy done in the Bible? The foretelling prophecy, 100% accurately. No, a true continuationist, not like a lot of the Charismatics who, again, they're believers, but it's just that you've been told this, a cessations will believe that it can be done differently. We'll cease to do it the way that it was done in the Bible. If I'm not doing it that way, then I'm ceasing that pattern. But if I wanna do it exactly like it's done in the Bible, then I'm continuing it. Are you with me? Can I get a witness in the chats on the yard, down the street from anybody who is an actual Bible continuationist? I am. I believe it should be done with languages, not some sort of ecstatic words. And I believe prophecy is 100% accurate. There is no, I can see what he meant. No, no, 100% accurate. Also, also since we are continuationists, I also believe that since Bible prophecy, the foretelling kind was specific, then we got that too. We got that matter of fact. So I need, I need it. Don't tell me someone, somebody, someone, somebody with skin in here is having trouble breathing. Okay, well, who is that? Well, somebody with skin, whatever be all of us. Somebody's having trouble breathing. Okay, you mean a kid with asthma, an old person whose lungs are just full of old tobacco, just tobacco residue, they're having a hard time breathing. There's someone, there's a woman in here who is struggling looking for a mate. Really? You figure that out all by yourself, huh? The Lord showed you that? Just like the young lady who said that the Lord showed her that inflation is gonna be coming. Really? So the last couple of years, no news stations told you that, huh? Tommy J, thank you for the super chat. So you got that all about, the Lord told you that, huh? Okay, okay. So it's always specific, not like some folks, plus specific, no, it's specific. It is specific. And guess what? It's directed to somebody. It's not just specific, but it's directed to someone as well. Now, prophecy, most prophecy in the Bible was forth-telling. Most Bible in the Bible was forth-telling. So how about we get some good forth-telling, that goes back to what we said earlier, the sound doctrine, some good sound teaching. Now, here's something else you gotta understand. Still sticking with the foretelling prophecy. If we're gonna be really true continuationist, most foretelling predictive prophecy was a warning. Most foretelling prophecy, they were warnings. How come today, it's just me, I'm wondering, because the true continuationist that I am, not like you cessationists who wanna change stuff up, but the true continuationist makes me wanna know how come like 99% of the prophecies that we see is God is gonna do something good. God is gonna do something amazing. God is gonna bless you. God is gonna take you from here to there in a Cadillac. God is like Aretha Franklin. He's gonna, we're gonna ride on a free way of love. What color Cadillac, Carol? We're gonna ride on a free way of love in a not pink Cadillac, pink Cadillac. And we won't look back. Yeah, that's the kind of prophecy that we get today. We don't get prophecy where this bad thing is gonna, and it better be, because by the way, by the way, if you go to a church and a so-called prophet gets up, and he says, everybody is gonna lose their job, you ain't going back to that church. I ain't going there. I don't know if y'all saw it, y'all probably, you good Christians probably should not have seen it, but in the movie Life, when Eddie Murphy and, what's it, Martin Lawrence get there, and Eddie Murphy can read, and most of the other prisoners can't read, and so it's doing mail time, and they're asking him, can you read my letter? And he says, yeah, your mama died, your daddy died, your cat, nothing but bad news. And then he asked, well, anybody else want me to read their letter? No, no, no, no, no. Well, same thing with prophecy. These guys aren't stupid. They aren't stupid. Thank you, Alicia. And you are a blessing too, as well, my sister. Thank you for the super chat. They don't wanna hear bad news, and they know that, so I'm not gonna tell them. Remember what Troy Black said, that just out of this desire for greed, for more money, he's gonna say what he wants them to hear. If I just say it this way, if I say that, or I say it more, then I'll get more money, I'll get more donations, all that stuff like that. Well, he's not the only one that does that. He just happened to mention it. He just happened to admit it, which I don't, I bet he regrets that. You know how I know that Troy Black regrets that because he hit me with a copyright strike, because of that. That got defeated as well, but yeah, I didn't make you say it, and I didn't make you do it. Troy, I'm just saying, why don't you just be a real true continuationist? And if you do have to get the prophecy, it's gotta fall in line with the way we see it. Not a half-hearted prophecy, even though you got people out that they're gonna make excuses for you when you get it wrong, because prophecy isn't perfect. Yes it is. First of all, do you know the validation that we had that we can use with most people to say that the Bible is true? The one thing that we can hold over every other religion's head, and I do it. I do it. I've done it gloatingly. I've done it with kind of this almost a sinister smile on my face when they say something about the Bible, compared to, let's say, one of their Vedas or the Koran or anything else, or just atheists. I said, it's the only book on the planet with predictive prophecy that has come true 100% of the time. Matter of fact, I told you guys I was in that room with those 42 Muslims that wanted to get on me, and I said, your book didn't have any prophecies. Your book has not one predictive prophecy in the Koran that's come true. Yes it is. I said, well, give me one while I'm here. It's a bunch of you guys here. Surely you guys can read and can tell me, and they couldn't. They couldn't. I said, so why don't you guys put that book where it belongs? This is just me. If you get me going, I'll get to going. If you put that book where it belongs on the shelf and give your life to the only savior, place your faith in him that he'll be your Lord, not Muhammad. And I told her I said, cause when you guys pray, there's no one on the other end of the line. Oh, it was time for me to go to him, but that's okay though. I made it out safely. Also, if we're going to be continuationists, if we're going to be biblical, since Charismatics say that we are to do just like, the Bible gives us a pattern of following Jesus. Amen. Not to be Jesus, but to follow the pattern that's given. And so if we are going to cast out demons, because what do they read in Mark 16 that they will cast out demons? Okay. I think a good construct, a good constructions, a good continuation such as myself, as well as you guys, the Lord is telling me, I feel it in my spirit that you guys are becoming continuationists. Yeah, I feel it in my spirit that you guys, so when someone says you're a cessation, you'll say, no, I'm a continuationist. You're the cessationist. What do you mean? Because you have ceased to follow the pattern of the Bible. You don't do it like them. You've taken Isaiah 45 where it says that I, the Lord will do something new. You've taken it in that he's gonna do something new right now. And by the way, you misunderstood that. He ain't talking about doing something new right now. He already did it, by the way. But you're the ones that have it all wrong. And so we are the true continuationists. And a good continuationist knows that when it comes to demons being cast out, we know one, it's never of a non-believer. I mean, it's never of a believer. It's always of a non-believer only. Now, can someone just put a pin there and just say, Cory is getting ready to do some damage to the demon slayers or those who feel like they can cast out demons. I'm getting ready to do some damage. I'm getting ready to hurt what they say. I'm getting ready to hurt their beliefs. I'm getting, now they won't get it. You guys are gonna get it. But I'm getting ready to impune them. And they're not gonna like it. They're gonna search and search and so they're gonna deny it. They're gonna hear what, they're going to hear what I'm going to say. They're gonna deny it upfront because it's what they do. They're gonna spend some time in the Bible because I gotta figure out a way to get around what Cory just said, what Cory did. And I'm only gonna use their words. I'm only gonna use their accusations. And I want you guys to make sure that you hit, what I'm getting ready to tell you, make sure you hit them with this. I see Dray Day for Christ. Dray Day, you're always hitting them. Make sure you do a video with, I'm getting ready to hit these guys or something. Who else up there? Senior counter, I know Senior counter is always messing with them. Did I see the bald head guy what he's had on Seiko? I don't see him, but Seiko hit him. Who ever sees this? Please hit them with this. Give me about two minutes. I'll come back to this point that I'm going to level at them that's gonna make all of what they're saying for not. Give me a second, but back to what I was saying. It's only of non-believers who've had in the Bible who've had demons cast out, not of believers. And so a good continuation of this will continue it in that same vein. It was always done prior to the founding of the church, meaning before Acts 19, we don't see anymore. So once the Holy Spirit has come up on every last people group, the last one being even John's disciples, those folks running around saying repent for the kingdom of heaven's at hand, we don't see it happening. We don't see demons being cast out. We don't see anyone saying, hey, you know what your problem is? You know what your church's problem is over there in Corinth or in Ephesus? The problem is you need a demon getting out. We don't see that. Let's continue in the same vein. Spirit-filled believers never worried about sharing their bodies with an unclean spirit. So as a good continuation is, neither will I. Neither will I. Now, nowadays, what do we say? Demons go to church now. Demons read their, demons, the hosts that they've taken over, that host or the person's being demonized, they like to say now, they read their Bibles and they manifest when told to. That's not continuing what we've seen in the Bible. Yeah, we didn't see demons in the Bible or the people with a demon praising God. Now, in the Bible, they manifested prior, right? Now they manifest on command. Make sure we hit this note right here. When we hit this note and I say this, then y'all start manifesting. Not once did apostles tell us to cast out demons. So if we're gonna be continuationists, we're gonna follow that. There's not once where an apostle told us to go and cast out demons. As a matter of fact, as a matter of fact, neither did Jesus. Jesus never commanded us to go and cast out demons. He only commanded the apostles. Did he command the 72? Some might say so, some might not. He just says, matter of fact, he didn't even say so. He just said that when the 72 came back, they said that even the demons are subject to us. They mean that they were casting out, don't know. But Jesus never said, of course, they went in his name, in his authority. And so that makes sense if they did cast out demons, but we don't have a command to do so. So a good continuationist won't follow something that we weren't commanded to do. By the way, us good continuationists, we won't do this. We'll never deny that a demon has been cast out. We will never deny that, you know why? Because in the Bible, no one ever denied that a demon was cast out. No one ever, hey, no, no, no, no, no. There wasn't a demon cast out, what demon? No, we knew, they knew a demon was innocent, that a person was possessed prior, and they knew that afterwards a person was no longer, there was evidence and everybody knew it. So a good continuationist will also know that as well. A cessationist may not. Cessations tend to listen and believe to the people rather than the book. Yeah, now, I said I was gonna throw what I think, I might be wrong, but I think this is pretty damning. I think this is pretty harmful to their doctrine. So I got a question for anyone who is a cessationist who believes that you can cast out demons, who believes that Christians can have demons. To you cessationists that believe in Christians manifesting and having demons and so forth, especially you guys of the Vlad Savchuk nature who believes that knuckle cracking and thumb sucking and flatulence and so forth and burping and sexual, those are demons, okay, okay. And Christians can have those. I got a question. Since demons can enter Christians, since demons can manifest in Christians, since Christians can be demonized, then if that's the case, and that demon can cause a Christian to sin, because we've heard that as a matter of fact, Isaiah Salavar said that a demon entered into Judas causing him to sin, a demon entered into Ananias and cause Ananias sin. Now, we believe that Judas was not a believer, but let's say if Ananias was a Christian, then their rationale is that a demon entered into a believer Ananias and cause him to sin. Okay. So if a demon can enter into a Christian and that demon can cause that Christian to sin, and if sinning too much will cause a demon to lose his salvation, if so fact though, then are you saying, it sounds like you're saying that a demon can cause a Christian to lose his salvation. All you folks that believe that, I would love for you to give me an answer. You won't give it to me directly, but please somewhere in your video someplace, tell us how it is that a demon can cause someone to lose their salvation. That's literally what you're saying. That's the only implication. And if that's the case, if that is the case, then Jesus was wrong, because Jesus says, no one can snatch them out of my hand. Oh, by the way, oh, by the way, oh, by the way, let's go ahead and just start dealing with salvation if we're going to be a actual strict continuationist. A strict continuationist is going to follow the pattern of Christians in the Bible. Not the people that call themselves Christians now, but the actual Christians that are in the Bible. Yeah, I know Dana, I don't agree with that, but they agree with that. They believe that these demons can do these things. And if that's the case, the demon can have you send your way out of salvation. In other words, the demon can snatch you out of his hand as well as cause you to be killed. Cause remember if Ananias was a Christian and he was demon possessed, then he got killed for being demon possessed. So not only will you lose your salvation, you're going to get killed for it. All right. Now let's go back to the salvation issue. Cause a strict construction, construction, I keep saying that with a strict continuationist such as myself as well as you now, a strict continuationist believes in the continuing pattern of salvation. Remember the Bible tells us that we as sheep, or as we like to say on this channel, us sheepesses, if we are going to continue in the spirit, that means we're going to continue following because isn't that what Jesus said in John 10? He says that my sheep follow me. We keep following him. As a matter of fact, we hear him as a matter of fact, as a continuationist, we also believe that if we hear another voice such as a demon, we won't follow, we'll turn away and go the other way. And when he speaks of us Gentiles, sheepesses, he says that they will follow. We will hear. So a strict continuationist also believes that a Christian cannot lose his salvation. That's just us continuations, us real life, honest to goodness continuations. We believe that because all we're doing is continuing the pattern, the spiritual pattern of believers in the Bible. But for some reason, the charismatic who call themselves continuations with their mathematicianists, they keep losing their salvation. Matter of fact, not only do charismatic continue to lose their salvation, they also have to keep going up for deliverance. That's not either, okay. Who in the Bible was delivered and then needed to keep getting delivered? Over and over, we don't see that. But again, who am I as a continuationist to tell you cessation is how to think? Also, one thing that, and there's no scripture for this, there is no scripture for this next thing that I'm gonna say. Here's the reason why. Here is the reason why. Matter of fact, let me answer this question. Let me answer this question. She says, why do you think that so many men are addicted to porn? Women want to be head of the house and bring 50-50. Now people are hearing demon voices and doctors are saying it is flu and COVID, so much lawlessness. Well, that, an unbeliever can have a demon influence in them. And even a believer can have a demon try to come after them. The Bible says that the devil desires this, or Peter was told that the devil desires it like we, and that Peter says that he walks around like a lion, seeking whom he may devour. He's gonna try to make your life miserable. Now, we have dominion over us, not the other way around. There are unsaved people. By the way, y'all do realize there are unsaved people who call them, who think that they're saved. There are nonbelievers who think that they are believers. That's why Jesus as well as Paul says that we ought to examine ourselves. Not everyone says we Lord, Lord. And so there are some people who are just under some sort of demonic influence, but even prior to there being a demonic influence, connection for you to win. Prior to that, we've got a sin issue that's in our skin. That's in our flesh. Paul addresses that. Paul says, the good that I wanna do, I don't do the bad things I wanna stop doing, I keep doing. And he talks about his flesh, not a demon, but his flesh. Are we to say that Paul was demon possessed? Now, probably Isaiah South of our prophecy that he was demon possessed, but we know he was not possessed. It's just ours, our sin nature. It's our flesh. We were delivered spiritually, but this wasn't. I don't care what you like about your skin. It ain't, it's nothing good about it. So just because someone says they're a Christian, doesn't mean they are. And if they're a Christian, they cannot have a demon cast out of them because the demon's not in them. If they got a demon cast out of them, they weren't a Christian. That is pretty good equations, pretty good math. Now, I cannot point to a scripture to show my cessationist friends that they're wrong. However, they can't point to one either, and that's the problem. It's a made up doctrine. It's a made up belief. And that is us as continuations, we don't believe that anyone receiving the Holy Spirit, anyone being saved or touched is going to be slain in the spirit. Because as a continuations, we don't see that being continued anywhere in the Bible. A continuations believes that this gift continued just like it did. However, there was no one, no believer ever got slain in the Bible, none. No Christian ever was. As a matter of fact, even when, why is it that when folks supposedly get healed, come down and get healed, they fall out. When did a person get healed in the Bible and fall out? Well, a continuations will tell you never, and we wouldn't stand for that. A cessationist will say, yeah, that's different, but we're doing something new. We have ceased to do it differently. We've ceased doing it the old way. We're doing it a new way. As a continuations, we also recognize that if you've got the Holy Spirit, you've got self-control. And so we're gonna, that's the one thing cessations don't keep. That mean, and I mean by cessations, these old school continuations, the incorrect continuations. If you are a continuations, then you are gonna continue to have self-control. That didn't change. Amen. We covered salvation. Here's something us continuations will also stick with, but the true cessations who call themselves continuations, they don't rock with this. They don't like this. That is, as a continuations, we will continue the teaching and the practice that we see in the Bible. That is, every spiritual gift is to edify others, not to edify ourselves. Because again, that's what the teaching of us continuations bring about. Let's go to, where's it at? I'm clicking the wrong one. I know, oh, there it is. In Peter says this, first Peter chapter four, verse 10, he says, as, I push the wrong button. As each one has received a special gift, employ it in what serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If you've got a spiritual gifting, if you've got anything from the Lord, you use it in serving others. Paul says that these spiritual things, the numitikom, these spiritual gifts, were given for the benefit of the common good of others, for everybody else. And then the passage that they always love to go to, us good continuations, we'll go to that and show the cessationist how they're wrong. Uh-oh, dog on it, I typed Jude 120. No, I didn't, I typed first Jude 20. That's not gonna work either. What is wrong with this thing? Oh, I know I got changes, sorry. Bam, there it is. Continuation, we understand what this passage means. It says, but you beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. One, we know it's not meaning the pray in the Holy Spirit, praying in tongues, because nowhere as a continuation is do we see anyone praying in tongues. Nowhere do we in the Bible see that in the spirit means in tongues. So a cessationist will come and say, well, yeah, it's never meant that, but it does now. A cessationist will come and say, in the spirit has never meant in tongues, but now it does. Because we've ceased doing it the way they did in the Bible. But as continuations, we're gonna always hold that same definition. Oh, by the way, us continuations also believe that it's not telling us to build up ourselves. No, it's saying that each one of us should be building up others. That's literally what it says in the Greek. That's what a continuation is gonna believe, that my job is to build up others. Your job is to build up me and everyone else. That's our job as believers. But a cessation says, no, we're through with that. We are no longer gonna just build up each other. We're gonna start building up ourselves. We are gonna edify ourselves. That's what we're gonna do, even though there's no teaching in that, in the Bible. We have ceased to do that. So now, with regards to the gifts, they were used, and think about this for a second, guys. The gifts were used to promote the word of God. Whereas now, charismatic will use the word of God to promote the gifts. Let me say that again. In the Bible, spiritual gifts, the numitikon, was used to promote and lift up the word of God. But now they'll use the word of God to promote and lift up spiritual gifts. So huge difference, and there's something wrong with that. Because we don't have spiritual gifts for the sake of having spiritual gifts. The gifting is to build up and to magnify God through his will, as far as we're concerned, through his word, because it's what we have. That's why they make life of the word, but they'll use the word, they'll use the passage here and there to twist it a little bit, to make it seem like this, like, for example, John 14-12, greater things we will do than he did because he goes to the Father. So see, we'll use that passage to promote us having these spiritual gifts to do greater things, more wonderful things. Are you with me? We'll use that 1 Corinthians 14-2 to say that we're supposed to be edifying ourselves with these spiritual gifts. Well, that's not what it says at all. In any one of those passages, it's not what they mean. Katrina's saying, why do you say, stop saying they? Are you mean me? I should say they. I said 99.9%. Now, if that's not you, then you're part of that 0.1%. But kind of hard to find Charismatics who don't believe in some way, shape, or fashion what I'm saying, it's kind of hard to find Charismatics who are the previously identified Continuationists. It's kind of hard to find those. They are without a doubt, Sensationists. It's kind of hard to find any Charismatic who doesn't believe in that matter of fact, that's what a Charismatic is. They believe in the outward manifestation of these gifts. And so I say that they believe in these gifts, not continuing in the way that we've seen them in the scriptures. Because if you go to a church and they're all Continuationists, the way I say they should be Continuationists, you don't see this foolishness. You don't see people falling over each other. You don't see folks just giggling just because they got the Holy Spirit and they just make me giggle. I'm just laughing. Why? Because it's funny. What's funny? I don't know. You don't see people falling out. You don't see people speaking in a language that's not like in the Bible. No, they do something brand new. Now, some are gonna point to what they would consider to be the stalwarts of the Charismatic movement. The former Continuationist movement. But their realization is, people point to Dr. Michael Brown. By the way, by the way, by the way, by the way, is detox here? Is detox here? I need to see if detox is here. I gotta see if detox is here. The reason why I'm asking if detox is here, I know he is a moderator on, I think he's a moderator. I think detox you're a moderator on Ruslan's channel. Oh, there he is, yeah. Now, I'm cool with Ruslan. But Ruslan said something that, oh, it didn't make me mad, it didn't make me hot, but got me going. If you know anything about me, I love the challenge. Now, I've gotten old enough to where I don't just go after any and every challenge, right? If some guy who's six foot eight, 360 pounds with an axe is at my front door, he said, come on Corey, come fight me. No, no. Now, my pride is saying, you know what? Yeah, where my shoes at? Where my shoes at? I'm coming at, that's my pride, but my head says no, stay back here. Where, get your phone. Yeah, officer, you got 10 of your best come out here, there's this guy who is talking about kill another officer. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna hand it up. Yeah, I'll let you deal with him. That's me, that's me. So my pride might kick in and make me wanna challenge. When Ruslan said the other day, I better be careful about challenging Dr. Michael Brown. No, no, no, no, no. I wish he would, I would wish he would hurry up and I don't think it's gonna happen. I don't think it's gonna happen, but I wish he would. I wish, I wish he would. Why? Cause the man has a, what did he say? He has a legitimate doctor's degree. So do you know how many people with doctor's degree disagree with him more than he can ever imagine? Who know the language is far better than him. Yeah, he's got a PhD on Near Eastern languages. So he ain't the only one. I know some folks at DTS who that's their, that's their main thing at DTS. The, their focus there is the languages Hebrew and Greek. Some folks grew up speaking it. So, and they'll disagree with him. Dr. Michael Brown, I would love for him. Now he's, he put out a challenge to talk to the Hebrew Israelites. And I think he's gonna, I think he's gonna kill him. I really do. But I wanna have this conversation. He wants to talk with, with John McCarthy. John McCarthy's a pastor of a nice sized church, church, what stuff going on. And so he's not going to, no, I don't have to, Dr. Michael Brown. I get pastors don't have time to do that kind of stuff. They have to sit their schedule. So, but I got time. I would, I would love. And it won't be just over tongues. It could be over all these things regarding the spirit. All these spiritual gifts. Because I think that Michael Brown has shown himself not to be really the best at it. And people say, well, the best of the continuations and I'm saying the old continuations, not as true continuations, but the best of the charismatic like himself, they don't hold to all this foolishness. I beg to differ. Dr. Brown, yes you do. It's by your spirit to run the race. By your spirit, by your spirit, by your grace and faith to run the race. By your faith to run the race. Grace and faith, by your spirit, by your spirit, Grace and faith, Grace and faith. Now, before we get back to it, my question is, what is he doing that is a continuation of what the Bible had happening? I knew it was coming, I got to. By the way, there's a reason why he doesn't do, he didn't put, you don't see a lot of him on camera doing it because it's gonna come off as like, wait a second, you can't call out this person. You can't call out that person for their shenanigans and you're doing the exact same thing. But yeah, and it's not like he has said, you know what I was wrong about that? No, what is this? So Dr. Michael Brown, or anyone else, what is what he's doing? What he's doing, is that a continuation of anything that we've seen in the spirit? And then fire, you know, call them. That's not, we don't say it in the Bible. And then of course, he's gonna give his tongues that aren't biblical either. Yes, by your spirit to run the race. Good to do it. Thank you, Father. Kiri Abayushitalabai. Everyone just begins to pray. Now, before we get back to that point, you heard the little tongue. You know how I do sometimes, they go from English to tongues to English. That's what you do. Go pull up Michael Brown, Dr. Michael Brown, I'll be cordial, I'll be nice. He's a doctor. Dr. Brown's videos on tongues and he talks about that he'd be interpreter. And this public, he talks about the difference between the private and the public so forth and there is no such thing as a private but fine. You just spoke in public in tongues without interpretation. That's not you being a continuationist. That's you being charismatic without a scripture to back you up. So that, we don't see that being continued. We don't see that continuing anything in example that we see in the Bible. And this is in many cases, some of the one of the guys that everyone points to. So in truth, in truth, we are the continuationists. Cecilia says, go to, and I'll go to that real quick. Where's my, where's it at? Oh, there it is. Okay. She says, go to Acts 19.17. And I know what you're gonna ask me. Let me put on the screen. She says, go to Acts 19.17 and read where it says that there were 12 men together. Paul places hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit and they spoke in tongues. What, oh, no, yes, there's something different. You asked something different. Okay, let's go to that real quick. I thought you were gonna ask something different because a lot of folks say, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second. Weren't, did someone get a demon cast out of them? Yeah, they did. And then after that last group, so let's go to Acts 19.19. Now it happened, or it happened, that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul passed through the upper country and came to Ephesus and found some disciples. He said to them, did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? And they said to him, no, we cannot even, no, we have not even heard whether there is a Holy Spirit. He said, into what then were you baptized? And they said into John's baptism. And Paul said, John baptized with the baptism of repentance, telling people to believe in him who was coming after him. That is in Jesus. When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them and they began speaking with languages and prophesying there were in all about 12 men. So your question is what language, well, we don't know. The Bible never indicates what the languages are except in Acts two. We don't know what languages they were speaking of in Acts eight. We know they were speaking languages because Simon wanted, he saw it and wanted to get it. Same thing in Acts 10 when Cornelius and the Gentiles began to speak in these languages. We don't know. We just know that the word that's used there is languages. And so it is a matter of fact, and there's that phrase, alleluum te glosais, that's used there in the Greek, alleluum te glosais. And so they're speaking with languages. They're speaking languages. So that's all we didn't say what, which languages that they were speaking. But again, and we've covered this before, the reason why you would see that happening is because, because it gave validity to these Jews to know that it's not just us, but it's these other people that are also getting in as well. And so he's not doing this thing, this work in us, but he's doing it in everyone. The Holy Spirit has been given to everybody and the way that they would obviously outward, they would have some sort of outward sign. I know that something happened on the inside. And so the Jews could never say that it's just us. Yeah, there were people that got demons cast out of them, but like you said, they were never Christians. And so we're going to have more of the language to edify anyone. We don't know who all was around it. We don't know. Now remember, you're gonna make me do an entire study on this or conversation on this. A couple of things are happening with these languages. They would magnify, because it just says that they were speaking with tongues and prophesying. They weren't giving the future. They were just giving a prophesied way. They were giving this forth telling prophecy. They were just giving a revelation. They were magnifying God. Now, where there are other people there around to hear, it doesn't say, but one of the other reasons, we covered this before, one of the other reasons why you see these different people groups getting the Holy Spirit is so that there would not be a divided church. The one identifying mark of the body of the church is that we have the Holy Spirit. If you don't have the Holy Spirit, you're not part of the church. If you are part of the church, if you say you are, you say you're a Christian, but you have no Holy Spirit, then you're not part of the church. That's just, this is all it is. Jews are not the true Jews. Jews are not saved unless they have the Holy Spirit. That only comes about by faith. And so that we wouldn't have a divided church in the beginning, the Jews received it first, then their Samaritan cousins received it. So the Jews were like, okay, fine. They received it, because remember the Bible said they believed, but hadn't received the Holy Spirit. And so what do they do? They sent down two Jews, Peter and John, two apostles down, and then they gave witness to these Samaritans now receiving the Holy Spirit. Then we go to the Gentiles. And then the Jews that were there when the Gentiles received the Holy Spirit and started speaking in tongues, what did they marvel at? They weren't marveling so much that, hey, they're speaking in these languages. No, they marvel like they got the Holy Spirit too. And so it was one of those gifts where we can identify everybody who is a believer gets the Holy Spirit. And so they can also be validated to have had the Holy Spirit too. They're running around the countryside, preaching repentance and so forth. That's all they know. That's all they know. And so now, they don't know the full story. They get the full story, they receive the Holy Spirit and bound. And oh, by the way, that's the last we hear of that of someone received believing and then immediately receiving the Holy Spirit. The next thing that we hear about it is that Paul is saying that everyone who has believed has been baptized into the Holy Spirit. Good question. For the same reason that I did it. She says, so if I thought I spoke in tongues, you call the gibberish, why did I do it without trying? The same reason I did it. The same reason that I might clap without trying to clap. The same reason why I might shout without trying to shout or whatever. Because sometimes you're in a room and it comes out. You think you're supposed to do it and you do it. If I know I'm supposed to do something, it becomes automatic, right? Or if it's what the crowd is doing, it's what the audience is doing. You rarely see someone going to, let's say some Episcopal church and then all of a sudden start speaking tongues. Now some will do it. Now we don't know the motives behind it. We just don't know. But what we can't do, what we can't do is place our experience or what we felt or what we think was going on. We can't place that above clearly what the scriptures say. If we're going to be, in this case, true continuations, we want to continue the pattern that is given to us by the Bible. And so because of that, it didn't really matter in the end. I've had this conversation with other people who said, well, you mean tell me that I didn't, that I didn't feel what I felt when I was speaking to these tongues? Are you telling me that wasn't authentic? No, I'm not telling you that the Bible is. The Bible is telling us this is the pattern. And it goes to me as well. I'm not saying this of just you. I'm saying this also of me. There were times where I really felt like, man, that felt good. I really felt like the Lord was in that. And what did I do? I was edifying me. And that was Paul's issue. He said, all you're doing is just edifying yourself. Nobody else got anything out of that but you. And you don't even know what you got out of it. It just felt good. That's his point in chapter 14 verse two. So it doesn't matter because I can promise you this. I can promise you this, sweetheart. I know at some point in time, that is if you are a heterosexual female, that you have felt a certain way about a guy who now you call them all kinds of names, right? That happens. And so our feelings cannot be trusted. Our feelings don't matter. The truth of the word of God is the truth, irrespective of what we felt, what we think, or how we've been taught, right? So, but again, detox, let Ruslan know. I need to go ahead and email me and text them. Hey, man, listen, what's going on with this with this Dr. Michael Brown thing? I want him. I want, that's right. Does humans are finicky? We are untrustworthy. We are just, we're human. That's what we are. If you can trust us, then if you say I trust that guy, well, then you listen, be careful, be careful. But yeah, when he told, when he said that, be careful, Corey, this guy's a doctor and this and that and that. Okay, okay. Now, I would, he's gotten more to lose than I do. If I were to have a conversation with him and he made me look bad, well, everyone, it's like I told the guys who wanted to fight, one of the big guys wanted to fight one of the younger guys or one of the smaller guys or the older guys. And I said, be careful. I said, because if that little dude whoop you, you have nothing to gain from this. You have everything to lose. If you beat him, everyone expects you to beat him. If he beats me, everyone expects him to. But if I have a conversation with him and he can't answer my questions and he can't, then, mm, and the reason why I say he can't, it's not, is he gonna write a new Bible? Is he gonna make these words mean something different? They mean what they mean. And so the question that I would ask, whether it be tongues or casting demons out or being slain in the spirit, okay, and you're not gonna answer the question. I'll ask him, I'll ask when he says that angels are angels, that tongues are an angelic angel, I mean, an angelic language. My question is gonna be, doctor, where do you get that from? Has there ever been anyone in the history of history, in the history of the Bible that spoke in an angelic language? When actual angels showed up on the scene, what language did the angels speak? We don't even have an example of angels speaking in an angelic language. What is Dr. Brown gonna say then? Well, I just feel, I just think, I just know you can't, none of that stuff. Tell me what the word says. Can't, I think I'm talking to Dr. Brown out of this conversation. I should be quiet. I should be quiet because he can't, anyway. Anyway, but guys, so let me ask you guys a question. Before we get ready to go, I don't think anybody bought, dog gone, nobody bought an eggnog. I needed, I needed to have a car. I was gonna go in there and drink some eggnog and we don't have any. Lord, my family. But, is anybody who came on the broadcast formerly a cessationist, now a continuationist? What'd you say? Yuck for a tire or eggnog is good, better than almond milk, that's for sure. Is anybody a continuationist? Is, I got to, I need to know. Help a brother out. Help me know that something happened, that the spirit, the Lord worked and that you all who were once cessationists are now continuationists, even though, even if you were like me before, if you were a skeptic with the Bible, you were neither, you were neither continuationists or cessationists, but now you're a continuationist. Help me, is anybody a continuationist? A new and actual authentic, thank you. There you go, Nieland said I got delivered. First of all, let me, we got a new problem. We got, we got a new problem. We got, we got a new problem, Angela said I am how, amen. Amen, but Angela, we got, we got some demons to fight. We got some, to all you, to all you non-Christians, to all you heathens that are blaspheming, eggnog, quit it. In the name of the Lord, stop it. Look at, Marjorie said that's not, that is not net. What's wrong with you? What is wrong with you people? I thought you people were saved. There you go, Nicholas. I thought you folks were saved. I'm pretty sure you probably saved folks as running around putting salt and pepper on your grits. Yeah, put this much sugar in your Kool-Aid. I know, yeah, you folks need more delivery. You folks, you folks need deliverance. Jonathan, what do you say here? Here's some spare change for the eggnog. Thank you, Jonathan, for the super chat. I appreciate that. Marquette, add two Marquette? All right. Well, listen, what it is is, I shouldn't say that you guys aren't saying what it is. It's eggnog is for the more spiritually mature. You guys that are babes drinking milk still. Yeah. Donovan, Donovan, praise Lord. Flesh and blood did not reveal that to you. Butter and sugar go on grits. Anyone disagrees, you need to repent right now. Anyway, before we leave, update, Nick will say this is gross. It's not gross, people. It's not gross. Hold on, hold on, let's do what Marquette said. He said, with regards to First Corinthians 13.1, with regards to angelic language, does this verse say this language exists? No, let me tell you why. Let me, let's go to it real quick. That's a good question, by the way. I thought I would actually go to First Corinthians 13, but, uh-oh, but I didn't. Let's cover that real quick and let's determine why it's not an authentic thing. Let's see what Paul's actually saying. He says, if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but I do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have a gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. Paul's point is he's speaking about how we ought to do and use these actual spiritual gifts in love. That's his whole point. If I don't have love, and so now he is speaking without question, hypothetically, hyperbolicly, and he's using hyperbole in a hypothetical fashion. How do I know? He says, if I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, well, the question is, are there tongues of angels that he could speak in? If he could. Now, I'm saying that what he's saying is something that's just so far out of the stratosphere. He just used that as an example. If I could fly to the moon and back, if I could, if I'm like Superman, if I'm able, if I'm faster than a locomotive, if I'm able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, if I could do all that, but don't have love, that's what I think he's saying. And why do I say that? Because verse two says, if I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I have nothing to question. Has anyone in the Bible ever removed, has anyone in the Bible ever removed a mountain? Does Paul have the kind of faith to remove a mountain? Does he have that great faith to remove a mountain? Does Paul have that? Well, he didn't have enough faith to remove the thorn in the flesh, did he? Did Paul know all mysteries and have all knowledge? No, he's speaking in hyperbole, meaning he's speaking in a way, this ain't true, I'm just using it as an example, if I could do those things, but I don't have love. Cause again, we don't have an example of an angel speaking in any language other than the person he's speaking to, and we don't have an example of anyone else speaking in an angelic language. We don't know what language angels speak. When angels speak to each other, do they speak like that? Is it some sort of spiritual communication? We do not know. We do not know. And since we don't know what we can't act as though we do, in that is no. Thank you for the super chat he says, do you think people sensationalize God? It seems to me, when people say, I think God is trying to show or tell me something, some say it's a feeling, some say, yeah, we do. We do, we do one, because we have no way to put it in words. We have no real way to put it in words, what we think or what we feel, in often case, what we want. We can make something be something that it is. Y'all heard the little joke where the guy says, thank you, basically, pick up some, what? Coquito, what is Coquito? I have no idea, what is Coquito? Now you threw me off. Somebody tell me what Coquito is. But the guy says that, I think the Lord wants me to have some Krispy Kreme. Do they still have Krispy Kreme? I think the Lord wants me to have Krispy Kreme. I've been praying and I think the Lord wants me to have Krispy Kreme. And so he drives there and Krispy Kreme is closed. And so what does he do? He says, I'm gonna drive around this and Lord tell me, tell me if you want me to have Krispy Kreme. And he said, the eighth time around I drove around, they opened up, well, it must be the Lord's will. We can make anything seem that it's the Lord's will because we want it to be, but that ain't the case. And so we do sensationalize it just so we can get what we want out of it. That happens all the time. What is Coquito? What? Okay, I don't know. Cheese grits is good, Cheshire. I don't know what's wrong with these folks. Cheese, listen, if they don't like it's because they ain't had it. But what is Coquito? Somebody, I need to know what, basically, what is Coquito? You doing told me get some Coquito, what is that? Now you got me. I'll tell you what, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, you don't love me. I'll look it up myself and figure it out. What is it? Oh, it's Puerto Rican eggnog. If it's, okay, Puerto Rican eggnog, is it something in it? Is it like, you know, a little something, something in it? Don't have me get some Coquito and come on here and, you know, I'm tipsy and I'm slurring my words. I'm speaking in some new wine tongues on this channel. Is that, Coquito, an alcoholic fruit drink? Yes, I can't do, I don't like the taste of alcohol. I really don't. When I was in college, I was one of those guys that would have a drink in my hand because we're supposed to have a drink in our hand and I wouldn't drink it. If it had this much in it, by the time of the night, it was over to have this much in it. I just, I've never liked it. So it can have rum, but not always. Okay, so it can have alcohol or it might not. Okay, yeah, if you invite me out to drink, I'm just gonna look at you, I'll give me some water. So anyway, look at Karina's comments. Okay, let me go to, all right, where's it at? Where is it at? Okay, Coquito is coconut eggnog that is spiked with a type of rum. Okay, yeah, I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't do it. So anyway, but now I have a really, really burning desire to drink regular eggnog. I think I might go get me some eggnog. You know what? But I haven't forgot, I told you guys before the years over with someone prophesied to me and told me that I'm gonna drink almond milk on here. I'm gonna drink some almond milk, I don't want you to walk away being a false prophet. I'm gonna drink some almond milk before the years up. Matter of fact, I might pour some almond milk. No, I wouldn't do that. I was gonna pour some almond milk in my eggnog. That would be blasphemous. That's two covenants right there. No, almond milk, eggnog, no. Anyway guys, I love you. I got to run. I got so much to do in these next couple of days. I gotta say, I told you there's always something. I gotta see what there's a leak out back and it's freezing outside. I gotta go outside and figure out what this little leaky thing is out here going on in the back of the house. And so if I die of hypothermia, it's been good knowing you guys. I'm on my way to heaven without my eggnog. What? I'm sorry, mayo on rice. Y'all find out who the person is talking about mayo on rice and let's ban them please. That, ugh. Anyway, y'all gonna keep this going. I love you guys. I will see all of you new continuationists on tomorrow. Oh, by the way, we're gonna have a special little broadcast with two guests on tomorrow. Look forward to seeing you guys. Be blessed.