 go ahead and start. Would someone be willing to open us a prayer please? Let's break. What about I come before your presence in the name of Jesus. We thank you for this brand new week and as we begin our session today we thank you for your grace that you have empowered our teacher Lord God bless your Lord God as she's recovering from her viral fever or I speak life I speak health over her body that Lord Jesus she will recover quickly from their viral fever in the mighty name of Jesus Lord God we cover her by the precious blood of Jesus Lord God and also Lord Jesus we thank you for each one of us who are in the class Lord I pray that you open the eyes of our understanding and you you bless us with the spirit of wisdom and revelation so that we can grasp what our teacher is teaching today Lord God bless her Lord God use her Lord God and prepare each one of our hearts and be ready for the class in Jesus name amen. Thank you so much Zalto Lee appreciate your prayer for healing again just mostly better just have a cough so if I get into one of those bouts in the middle of class please excuse me but otherwise I'm doing a lot better so we covered a lot last week I'll just do a quick review but before that I posted our assignments I'm not sure if all of you had a chance to look at that I posted two assignments on the classroom one is a reflection paper and the other is your final paper we will have one more quiz which I'll post probably the last week of the semester and I'll give you all a week to submit the quiz but have you all been able to look at those assignments should we go over them quickly just to answer any questions okay okay sure do you all have any questions do you want me to just go over the question a bit explain what you'll need to do or was it pretty clear it's clear but I think it will be nice to get an explanation to write little more better okay okay sure so the first assignment which is which is due this week is a very short one so I've given you all till Friday right 27th October yeah till Friday I think it'll be Friday evening in Indian time and Friday night or UTC I can see some people have already handed in that's great okay so the question is to pick any topic from 1st Corinthians chapter 1 to 12 and share something that you have learned personally from these chapters but not only to share it in theory but how how do you want to take that and apply that teaching or what you've learned to your life what kind of practical steps will you take to apply it to your life so I gave you just some questions just to help you think about what you can include in the paper so what topic impacted you or was there something that the Holy Spirit kind of highlighted to you in these chapters and then what about that impacted you like why was there something specific in those in that teaching that impacted you what new revelation did you receive how can you take that how does it apply to your life at present so we want to look at present not at some future thing that you're going to do with it but at present or how does what you learn to apply to you and and what are some practical steps you can take to apply it to your life at present so that was the those are the just some questions that you can think about so that in case you didn't know what exactly or how exactly to write the paper those were some questions I gave for the grading I do want all of you to use like to write from your own personal learning so not to copy from any website or anything outside so personal and original writing please also check your grammar check your spellings because this is also written paper so that's important if you need help you want to ask one of another student or somebody to just look through it and give you feedback that's a good way to get any errors corrected submission before deadline answering the questions or like I want to see that you've understood the question have you answered it properly and then keeping it within 250 to 300 words so it's a short paper but I did want us to not just do it as a or do this class or do the paper as something just that is academic but to be allowing what we're learning to be impacting us personally and so this paper is important for that reason linden no you can you can type out the paper linden I've so you have to submit it on google classroom and I've created the document there the google docs you can just go into the google doc put your name in in the title of the document I've given you a format for how I want your name to be put in your last name first name and all of that and then you can put in you can answer the question there and submit it on google classroom directly so similar to how you did your first paper and all of you should have got back your the first assignment that you turned in I think for some people I had some feedback and I'd ask you to resubmit so if if any of you have got that please also check that and resubmit I still have a doubt about the first assignment so it says it says to about any topic does it mean all it should be like one topic for all the questions or so many things that we learned we can put it together on the paper you can put many things only thing is it's a very short paper like 250 to 300 then you might end up just listing many points and not fully looking at how are you going to apply it so it won't be very you won't be able to go very deep into one thing so it may be better to choose one or two or three things that you've learned you decide you decide when you're writing if you feel like there's more things you'd like to include and you're able to include it and keep the paper shop then you can go ahead and do that yeah thank you no problem okay so that is the first assignment that's due this Friday and then you have a final paper now this final paper is going to be a good amount of work so I I also just want to suggest that you'll start soon start your work on it soon and feel free to send your work to me as you're doing it or if you have questions and I can keep giving you feedback through the process so on your final paper I've asked you to pick any topic from either first or second Corinthians and to look at that teaching on that topic throughout the book so if you pick a topic from second Corinthians then you look at what Paul has taught on that topic throughout the book of second Corinthians or if you're looking at first Corinthians eating food offered to idols what all does Paul teach about that in the whole book okay so while you're looking at Paul's teaching of what what has been said on that topic some things to look at is the historical context the cultural context the meaning of the original Greek language so look at the if if that is going to be relevant and it's going to help your study to look at what does the what are some words that he has used and what is the original language word that's used what is the meaning of that word and then also understand what is the context within which he's writing so food offered to idols why was he writing that to the Corinthians at this time so the context within the letters and context within scripture as a whole so we want to also take what does the rest of scripture say about food offered to idols so we'll take we'll understand Paul's teaching in context of first Corinthians and then back in the context of all of scripture and then you give your conclusion at the end of the paper of so like a small summary of so this is what is the teaching on this topic you can give like a paragraph summary at the end but through the paper I've given you some steps for what all you do select the topic read the whole book and list all the teaching on that topic then look outside of that book in the rest of scripture what all teaching is there on the same topic in the rest of scripture and here you can use outside sources when you're looking just to find out where else in scripture is this topic talked about and then step four is you can get outside help for just helping you understand what scripture teaches on this topic so this is where you can do your referencing of other websites other sources and all of that and then step five is to give your conclusion what is your learning about this topic from the study okay so your main source of understanding and inspiration is the Holy Spirit so keep praying and allowing God to reveal his truth as you're studying the scriptures you can reference outside content but whatever you're referencing from the outside I want you to mention it in the paper that this is you've used an outside source and definitely I don't I don't want to have like your whole paper copied and pasted from any website or outside you can reference I've mentioned where all you can use outside references so you can do that again check your grammar spellings check that you've answered the question thoroughly and submit your paper on time so you have until 18th November I think that's a week before the semester closes yeah 18th November is a Saturday um so you can submit that paper before then but in the process of researching like while you're selecting the topic feel free to reach out to me you can email me or post on Google Classroom yeah reach out to me and let me know once you've selected the topic then as you're doing your research if you have questions if you just want to check that you're doing the right thing feel free to reach out to me so yeah any questions are we on good no questions okay okay great so we'll go into our lesson for this week I was also I've been um trying to get the other video done but because of sickness have not been able to so I'm hoping tomorrow that I'll be able to record it yeah tomorrow I also have a class tomorrow and then after that so I'll just post it once it's done sorry about the delay okay so last week we covered from chapter 12 so I'll just do a quick review chapter 12 we looked at the spiritual gifts and where Paul is just kind of introducing the spiritual gifts what are the spiritual gifts what is the purpose of the gifts and who is the source of the gifts the Holy Spirit God gives these gifts to the church for the benefit of the church and and then he talks about all of the different ways these gifts can be utilized then we look at the fact that we are all one body so even though there are all these differences we all have these distinct functions and gifts within the body um all of these things come together uh so that we are able to serve one another and we are all united uh as one in Christ um so that is chapter 12 and then chapter 13 is the chapter on love where he says uh let whatever you're doing in the use of your spiritual gifts let love undergird all that you're doing and he goes into detail about what love looks like so the way love should be expressed as we gather as a church and then we went into chapter 14 um so chapter 14 he um having introduced the gifts then talked about love undergirding all that we do uh he then comes into the section in chapter 14 uh comparing tongues and prophecy use of tongues and prophecy uh within the church and um he's saying uh because our goal is to love one another when we come together as a church when we are using our gifts uh he's encouraging use of prophecy so that other people can understand what is being said or if tongues are being used then that there be interpretation within the church gathering so uh we must remember that here he's talking about the church gathering he's not um he's not uh talking about personal use of tongues he mentions it briefly in between he talks about how tongues uh is something that edifies a person uh spiritually but it edifies that individual uh whereas um if there is interpretation then others can also um can also gain understanding can also be edified spiritually if you're using tongues and also providing interpretation uh and so um so he's talking about these two specific gifts tongues and prophecy in this chapter so we went right up to verse 15 we'll continue let me just start a little behind because that is we'll be in the middle of something so okay so we'll just start from verse 13 uh therefore let him who speaks in a town pray that he may interpret for if I pray in a town my spirit prays but my understanding is unproven what is the conclusion then I will pray with the spirit and I will also pray with understanding I will sing with the spirit and I will also sing with understanding um so verse 13 he's saying so if you're speaking in a town then pray that you will interpret um because uh if if you don't interpret then uh your understanding will be unfruitful that is you won't be able to understand what you are praying and neither will the congregation that's gathered be able to understand but if you have the gift of interpretation then uh you will be able to benefit the congregation because you can pray and you can also interpret for them and you can sing and you can also uh sing in words that they understand um and this is yes in the uh context of gathering as a congregation so we'll go from then to verses 16 onwards can somebody read verse 16 to 20 for us please can you mention the chapter writing part uh chapter 14 16 to 18 right 28 just 16 to 20 and then we'll start yeah verse 16 to 20 otherwise if you bless with the spirit how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say amen at your giving of tongues since he does not understand what you say for you indeed give thanks but the other is not edified i thank my god i speak with tongues more than you all yet in the church i would rather speak five words with my understanding that i might teach others also than 10 000 words in a town rather than do not be children in understanding however in madiz b bates but in understanding be mature thanks jeffina um so he says uh if you so if you are not doing that that if you are not interpreting uh and you if you are not giving understanding to the listeners uh then even if you bless them and you're uh blessing them uh speaking in tongues um they won't be able to receive that blessing they won't be able to say amen to what you have said because they don't know what you've said uh and so um they are not able to receive the blessing that you've spoken and they're not able to uh fully uh fully appreciate the blessing that has been given to them and so he talks about the place of the uninformed so people who have not understood uh what you said because you've spoken in tongues um and uh he says it for verse 17 so indeed you have you give thanks and that's uh that's a good thing but the other person is not edified right and so what he said clearly in chapter 12 is uh the gifts are for the benefit of all right so if they're not benefiting people then uh you're actually missing out on the point of why you're using the gift in the first place uh verse 18 so here we see that Paul is not saying don't speak in tongues right he's saying I speak in tongues more than you all and though I have this gift um in the church so that's the specific thing he's talked about in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding so I would rather speak five intelligible words that other people will understand uh than speak 10 000 words so rather than speaking a lot in tongues that rather just speak a little bit and actually communicate something that will benefit the other person who is listening and then verse 20 do not be children in your understandings but be wise so he's saying be be children when it comes to evil but when it comes to understanding and maturity in spiritual things uh be uh you need to grow up so um there's a right place for being like a child and there's a right place for being a mature adult um so being like a child with regard to evil but be mature when it comes to spiritual things uh from there we go into verse 21 if someone can read verses 21 to 25 we'll just read that as one section verse kundian chapter 14 verse 21 to 25 in the law it is written with men of all their tongues and other lips I will speak to the speaker and yet for all that they will not hear me says the lord therefore tongues are for a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe therefore if the whole church comes together in one place and all speak with tongues and there come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers will they not say that you're out of your mind but if all prophesy and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in he is convinced by all he is convicted by all and thus the secrets of his heart are revealed and so falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is truly among you thank you um so um he again continues and um and it comes to the end of the section on tongues and prophecy um he goes back to a quotation in Isaiah uh so it's Isaiah 28 11 and 12 and he talks about how um it's actually a verse of judgment uh that God speaks on the people of Israel so he's because they have not listened to the Lord when the Lord has corrected them he sent prophets to them he is going to send their enemies against them and so the enemies will go and with the other tongues through the lips of foreigners I will speak to these people so when their enemies capture them and they are hearing these people speak another language even then at that time they won't listen to the Lord um so that is the judgment that God speaks in Isaiah in this case uh why is this verse quoted here uh what he's saying is um that when when someone is speaking another language and someone hears it and doesn't understand it doesn't listen to it uh that is a sign that they are an unbeliever so just like in Isaiah it proved the hardness of the Israelites' hearts that uh they were even after they were given up to their enemies even after they were captured they still would not turn to the Lord um this this is talking about how when an unbeliever hears something in tongues um they will not recognize that it is a spiritual thing to them it will just sound like nonsense and so it will uh not only will it show that they are not a believer because they will not uh they will not recognize it as something that is coming from the Holy Spirit but also it will not make them a believer because they will uh not understand what is being said and they will not be able to respond to it in faith uh so that's what he goes on to say in verses 20 verse 23 this is what he explains if the whole church comes together and everyone speaks in tongues and inquirers or unbelievers coming will they not say that you are out of your mind right so um if the whole church comes together so everyone comes together in a church gathering and they're all speaking in tongues and someone comes from the outside someone who is is in a place where they want to know or they they don't know about Jesus but they are just coming to find out or they're just an unbeliever and they've come to this service if they hear everyone speaking in tongues or they hear many people speaking in tongues that is not going to have any impact on them they are just going to think that this place is a gathering of crazy people and so they will leave there uh still not believing and so that's why he says uh it is a sign for not for believers but for unbelievers what does that mean that uh it it is a sign means it shows that they are an unbeliever or proves that they are an unbeliever and with and they will remain an unbeliever even though they've heard you exercising that spiritual gift of tongues they will remain an unbeliever in this situation uh on the other hand if you are prophesying here he says prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers um and then he explains he explains the opposite scenario in verse 24 so if an unbeliever or an inquirer comes in while everyone is prophesying they are convicted of sin and brought under judgment by all as the secrets of their hearts are laid bare so they will fall down and worship God exclaiming God is really among you uh so this is uh where he's saying this is a sign for uh not for unbelievers but for believers so when there is prophecy what happens is that an unbeliever can come in and because they can understand what is being said uh they they will see that God is moving in this place and they will um they will be convicted by the Holy Spirit because they will uh they will see that what is within their own hearts is being exposed as people are prophesying as people are speaking uh what the Spirit leads them to say and that is what will bring them uh to God's bring them to salvation and therefore they will become believers and so uh prophecy will lead them to belief uh so uh so this is what he's encouraging them to do he's saying uh instead of using tongues when you all gather without interpretation uh use prophecies so that uh if an unbeliever comes in they do are benefited and they may see that God is at work in this place um any questions on this I just want to a little more explanation on prophesying because in verse 22 it says it's not for unbelievers and in verse 24 we see that uh unbelievers are being convicted and convinced because of the prophecy so I believe both are in maybe different context or maybe it has difference in the meanings so I just want you to explain me a little for the prophecy even yeah in verse 22 and 24 I just want to know because it says prophesying is not for unbelievers and then we see in 24 uh they are prophesying so that uh the unbelievers will be convinced and convicted yeah so uh here when we say they are a sign um what we can understand from this context which what he's talking about is it's a sign meaning it proves the state of a person's heart right so in both examples that he gives 23 24 an unbeliever is coming into the gathering an unbeliever or an inquirer is coming into the church gathering now uh if there are tongues it exposes them as an unbeliever but they also remain an unbeliever so uh it's a sign for uh an unbeliever meaning that it exposes that they are an unbeliever and uh it also kind of seals the fact that they remain an unbeliever when you use tongues because they leave they're not being impacted whereas uh if an unbeliever comes in and he has prophecy it is a sign for them in the sense that it exposes them as an unbeliever because they are convicted of sin but they do not leave an unbeliever they leave a believer because they see that god is working there so it says when it says it's not for unbelievers but for believers it means that uh it it uh will help somebody become a believer so the prophecy will help somebody uh move from being an unbeliever to become a believer whereas um tongues will keep a person in a place of unbelief does that make sense so when he's saying um tongues is not for believers but for unbelievers he's saying they will remain unbelievers when you're using tongues but if you reuse prophecy not it's not for unbelievers but for believers is because through prophecy they will become a believer does that answer your question okay okay yeah so that is yeah it is a little bit confusing because he's saying it's a sign and how we understand what he means by sign uh it's it's not used in the typical way the word sign is used but because he explains it further in verses 23 24 and 25 we understand what he's talking about and using that quotation from Isaiah before this uh where when the tongue where even though tongues are used uh the people don't respond they don't listen to what god is saying um and so through that context you can understand what he's talking about okay so uh from there let's move on to the next section so in your notes we also look at uh tongues uh being used so there's a reference to in the book of acts when uh tongues was used and people came to faith now that is a different use of tongues uh where the Holy Spirit came and people were speaking in uh the languages of the people uh that had gathered there it was not in the context of a local church gathering um where you're gathered to worship so understanding that difference so in the context in acts is where tongues was used um and other people could understand right so there were um people who were gathered in Jerusalem who heard uh the disciples speaking in tongues and they could understand what was being said uh so that is a different use of tongues in that case um 26 to 33 can somebody read that for us please 26 to uh 33 okay first kandia chapter 14 verse 26 to 33 how is it then brethren whenever you come together each of you has a psalm has a teaching has a tongue has a revelation has an interpretation that all things be done for edification if anyone speaks in a tongue let there be two or at the most three each in turn and let one interpret but if there is no interpreter let him keep silent in church and let him speak to himself and the god let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge but if anything is revealed to another who sits by let the first keep silent for you all you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets for god is now the author of confusion but of peace as in all the churches of the saints thank you so um we've seen in in all of the previous chapters paul is um giving them instructions about how they should gather as a church um so what we've covered in the previous weeks as well with the uh lord supper with the head covering so he's continuing that teaching right even what he's we just covered now and what he's continuing to cover so he wants that to be proper order in these gatherings because everyone's using their spiritual gifts everyone wants to play in tongues everyone wants to prophesy but if it's all happening simultaneously there's a lot of confusion no one's listening to the other person so there's no real uh engagement that's happening with one another we are they're not actually able to minister to one other everyone's just doing anything whenever they feel like doing if they have something they want to say they just stand up and say it uh and then someone may be saying something simultaneously so all of those things so he's just trying to give it order so that when they come together that whatever is being done is being done in a way that is beneficial to people there isn't any confusion everyone's given a chance to share what they have been inspired to share by the holy spirit to be able to present that to the congregation and the whole church benefits in that process so verse 26 he's saying how is it then brethren so that is um he he's not asking how is it that you have these gifts he's saying um what shall we say or when we come together how should we behave um then he says each of you has a psalm or teaching a tongue revelation so each of them was coming with these things and they were so eager to use their gifts that they were all doing it in any order in any way they wanted so this is an amazing thing when we gather as a church for people to come with this kind of um desire to bless one another and to come with that revelation with those spiritual gifts uh that they want to impart what they have been blessed with through the rest of the church right so this is something that we could be praying for for our church gatherings for a small group gatherings or if if our churches have small groups or life groups that gather to encourage views of gifts in these settings where each person comes having something to share to contribute to the gathering um it allows people to exercise their spiritual gifts it allows people to do it in a safe environment where we can correct one another um and it also then enables everyone to be fulfilling their role within the body of Christ there isn't anyone who's just coming and just becoming a spectator or just receiving and going away but everyone is coming bringing their gifts bringing their contribution uh and building the rest of the body up um so it's a beautiful thing to work towards so each one has a sum a teaching a tongue a revelation an interpretation and let all things be done for edification so he constantly is reminding them what is the purpose of the gifts the gifts are for edifying the church um it is uh it should come out of a place of love so there's no place for boasting there's no place for spiritual pride um it's all for the benefit of the body uh all by the grace of God all uh given to us by the will of the Holy Spirit um and should all be done in love and that's why that importance of having interpretation all of those things is there uh verse 27 um so if anyone speaks in the tongue let there be two so he's saying okay now suppose right now someone has something that they want to say in tongues don't like 10 people stand up and all want to talk at the same time let two or three people at the most stand up and each of them take turns say what they have to say and let one person interpret okay so once all of them finish then if there are more people who want to speak in tongues then the next two or three people stand up they share and then it's interpreted and then verse 28 again the reminder if there's no interpreter let him keep silent in church and let him speak to himself and to God um then verse 29 let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge so just as he said uh with tongues let two or three of them stand up speak let one interpret and then you move on you can have more people speak in tongues or if there is someone who wants to prophesy let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge so um here as well the importance of when there is a prophecy being given that uh we don't blindly receive it but we judge for ourselves is this coming from the Holy Spirit um now uh this doesn't mean that if someone has prophesied and um there is something incorrect about what they've said or something that is not in line with uh the word of God something that uh is not in line with the character of God um that doesn't mean that they are they are evil or shouldn't be in the church or shouldn't be allowed to speak uh we're all in a place of learning and growing in maturity so there is place for error which is why there is this importance of judging so someone can share it could be an error and uh as a church you can correct them um whether how you choose to correct in what kind of setting is a different question but um we give space to people to share what they are led by the spirit to share what they feel led to share and you judge whether this is uh from the Holy Spirit whether this is right uh whether this is true whether it's in accordance with God's word God's character God's way of doing things um um and then verse 31 you can all prophesy one by one that all may learn and all may be encouraged right so everyone will get a chance to prophesy right you can all prophesy one by one so that all may learn and all may be encouraged so uh the importance of uh everyone being blessed in this process both the people who are uh prophesying people are using the gifts as well as the people who are there uh to hear what is being shared and the spirit of the prophets are subject to prophets so that is also an important thing that God doesn't uh overtake our own will right we have the will to keep quiet we have a will to direct whatever God is giving us to say to be able to say that when when to say it when to keep silent all of those things and so he says uh you have that power that ability to control that um we'll just wear that 950 so we'll take a 10 minute break um and then we'll come back and continue from here thank you