 Good question that's been asked and I want to ask you guys also because I might be confused I might be mistaken But do you think this is what a manifestation of the Holy Spirit looks like? In Jesus name every demonic spirit that kept him from hearing I remove it in Jesus name One of the common Criticisms levied at me by people who disagree with me is that I don't have the Holy Spirit Or I am rejecting and move the Holy Spirit. I've never experienced the Holy Spirit all those things. Well Let's just assume Let's just assume that they are correct matter of fact matter of fact Let's assume that you guys who agree with me also You don't have the Holy Spirit or you've never experienced it Maybe you have the Holy Spirit you just not you haven't been baptized. It hasn't Manifested you have not yielded yourself to the full power of the Holy Spirit. Okay fine So let's just say that everybody every Prophets Christian every aspiring Christian would want to have the Holy Spirit and to experience the Holy Spirit to its fullest I mean after all who would not want to experience the Holy Spirit? I I would maybe I haven't maybe they're right Maybe I have not experienced the Holy Spirit to the level that they have maybe I've got some growing to do Maybe I've got a long way to go when it comes to Feeling the Holy Spirit now they'll also say this they'll say that Well Corey you you read too much. You're you're relying on intellect. You're relying on knowledge. You're relying on on books. I Guess as though that's a bad thing. Well My question is this and I think you probably want to know the same thing if I have not experienced the Holy Spirit Should I or would I is it appropriate? Is it is it even desirous for me? Is the right thing for me to want to experience the Holy Spirit the way they experience the Holy Spirit in the Bible? I Would think that the way that I would want to experience it or that anyone would want to experience the Holy Spirit Would be the way the Holy Spirit was experienced by people in the Bible When we see because we all agree the Bible is true That is those of us who are believers. We believe that the words of scripture are true And so we believe that that is absolutely without question true Now forget let's put it aside what we see today Whether that's true or false whether that's authentic or fraudulent We all can agree. I don't care which side of the coin you follow on whether you are Charismatic whether you are more conservative in your worship whether you believe the gifts have ceased whether you believe the gifts have continued We all believe that what we saw in the Bible The Holy Spirit being revealed in the Bible that that way was absolutely biblical that that way was authentic That was the the as we say the real McCoy. I don't think there's anyone that we're gonna find it's gonna say no That was fake If they say so we're talking about non-christian stand, but we're talking about for Christians those of us who call ourselves believers who have placed their faith in Christ or at least have professed that We all believe that that what we see in let's say acts and Romans and first Corinthians and all these other places in the Bible what we saw in the Gospels that that was a true move of God And so that's what we want That's what we want. And so what we want to do is one let's talk about what it is To have the Holy Spirit what this what the Holy Spirit is what he does what he does in us What his ministry is in us how he works in us and then let's also kind of compare it to what we see today And if that's accurate because Even if someone were to say that what we see today is true No one or maybe not there's a debate There's a debate now I think the debate should be settled because I think that you ought to be able to compare what you see today and compare it to the Bible And if it doesn't line up, well, then there you go there and lies your there lies if I want to be like them Then being like them would require me having and receiving and the in the in the Holy Spirit showing up just like then That's what I would say. That's just me And so remember I said just fairly recently. I said that I am now identify Excuse me identifying as a continuationist Some of you all haven't heard that I am a continuation number previously I called myself not a continuationist or a cessationist But what I said was I was a skeptic with the Bible And so if you said that you had any particular spiritual gifts then fine I'll just compare it with the scriptures But now what I'm saying now without a question I am a continuationist and I believe that even even a John MacArthur who is a cessationist I believe that he would get on board with this. I believe, you know what? I want to ask Justin I believe that Justin Peters would get on board with this as well I believe that every single solitary cessationist will get on board with my definition of a continuum of a continuationist Because here is the definition or should be the definition of a continuationist The gifts continued if they continued just like what we saw in the Bible In other words When someone is speaking in tongues, it's just like what we saw in the Bible It is going to continue just that way If it's different then that means what we saw in the Bible has ceased If someone is a prophet they're prophesying If that gift is continuing then it will continue just like it was done in the Bible not vague It would be specific and it would come true not five percent of the time not 20 not 37 Not even 97.5 percent of the time, but it would come true all of the time If a person had the ability to I don't know heal someone they they said they have this gift of healing fine Well, then it would just it would work just like the Bible Meaning I don't need to go and take any medicine for it. I don't need to wait Five days or five weeks or even five minutes. No, it is done instantaneously by the way Someone asked, how do you know if a person has the gift of healing? Would you would you ever Deny the the ability for someone to be healed supernatural? No, I think God does heal Now the question is does this person who say he's laying hands on you does he have the ability? Well, guess what that's not even a big deal It really isn't you know why because if john lays hands on me and I'm sick And I should trust that he has the gift of healing which by the way if you've got the gift of healing It's not required of me to have faith It's required on you to have the actual gift But if that's the case then we can figure this out real quick We can figure this out real quick because as soon as you lay your hands on me and pronounce healing on me Well, then bam, it's done The moment that I can move and walk away and realize that I have not been healed Then I'm on my way to the doctor to actually see if I can get some some actual healing Because if God is going to do it it's going to be done right then and there And so that way would not interfere and if someone in the process while I'm going to the doctor wants to come and heal me Well, then amen also So I believe that the spiritual gifts continue If they're there they will continue to be just like what we saw in the bible It should be no departure. Amen. And so the question is One how does First of all, who is the holy spirit? Well, the bible tells us as a matter of fact, let's let's put them on the on the Let's put on the screen It's important to realize that every single every single what you say every single christian that is Every single christian. I'm sorry for anyone comment, but every single christian Has the holy spirit according what paul says, of course, we know paul has the holy spirit So he says for for even as the body is one And as yet has many members and all the members of the body though They are many or one body. So also is christ and here it is For by one spirit, we were all baptized into one body Whether jews or greek whether slaves are free. We were all made to drink of one spirit So we all if you are christian you all have been baptized in all this remember paul not paul john says i baptized you with water Now he's comparing that to what jesus is going to do. He says that jesus is going to baptize you with the holy spirit question Do you know i'm sorry, do you know or can you explain why some are referring to the holy spirit as a female if anyone If anyone is explaining i mean is is Uh Referencing the holy spirit as a female that person is just off As a matter of fact the bible clearly gives indication and uses the the masculine form the bible refers to him as a heat The bible now does he have a x y chromosomal makeup like me like males do No, no, is he a is the holy spirit a man? No He doesn't have a x x chromosomal makeup or x y matter of fact He doesn't have a chromosomal makeup and so he's not a male But we use a term he because it is Well, one is how the bible refers to him as But when they refer to him as a female what they're trying to do is trying to be real gender inclusive and so forth Run from those people those people need to They have already disqualified themselves and so yeah, when you hear that run Please run But all of us as christians have been baptized into the holy spirit the identifying mark of every christian is the holy spirit If you have the holy spirit, you're christian if you don't have a holy spirit. You're not a christian It's just that simple. There is no waiting for a second batch a second. No, there is no Um Second act by the lord you get saved and then you wait for what say as they say in the old days Terry for the holy spirit. That's not how that works. You get saved instantaneously. How do we know because paul said that every All of us have been baptized and so that includes a person who just got saved That includes a person who's been saved for five days five years or five minutes all have been baptized into the holy spirit and so We need to be clear about that now How did the holy spirit move in the bible? interestingly enough We don't have unless you all can think of one We can't think of one time in the bible where there was a move of the holy spirit And people didn't know it I can't think of one one moment where the holy spirit Moved someone was healed some sort of miracle occurred and even Non-believers they also recognize it now What they did with it that was something different We saw the Pharisees or many of the Pharisees not all but many of the Pharisees Who saw it and and would intentionally reject it and ascribe something the Pharisees Or that it is from the devil, but they even still knew that matter of fact They even said that we know that something's happened And so every time someone was healed that someone spoke in legitimate languages The bible declares that even not only did the believers accept it, but also the unbelievers also knew it Today though, we don't quite have that as a matter of fact We see them manifesting in some of these churches some things that we don't think looks right And we'll say what about some of these other miracles because or some of these other Manifestations of power that you guys supposed to have and I heard The explanation that that this particular gentleman is going to give Is actually not a good explanation He's going to say that the reason why they don't show the miracles in their church Is because they don't want to kind of make a display that it I'll let you listen to it and then we'll just see how this study the lineup Get miracles like that in our ministry. I don't post them. Why don't I because I don't want nobody saying I'm more to faith I don't want nobody saying that I'm you know, um, whatever the case may be people get documented healings of Okay, now first of all that is not a good reason why you should not Um show a miracle But why why would you hide an actual miracle an authentic miracle? Who would I can promise you this? I I can promise you this if If there's a camera around and there's a miracle at my hands The world is going to see that Not because it's something for me to boast about but it's to show the world that there is a god That there is a god by the way, let me say this For some reason we don't like the simple things We don't we don't think that something miraculous is just something mundane And here's what I mean by that. I don't mean that waking up and so forth. No, that's not a miracle That's that's just who god is that's just what god does god just kind of holds A miraculous something is something something miraculous is something that is not often repeated Okay, but if you want to say us waking up is a miracle miracle fine Um, but when when something special super net when you know for a fact it is something extraordinary In terms of god moving something he doesn't do every day Well, let me just say this uh, if it's something simple We don't we we downplay that We think that it's got to be something just out there Just something Amazing to to say that god exists that there's god. No, no, that's not true. Think about naming Y'all remember naming naming was the the leprous leader of the assyrian army who when he came to When he came to elisha because the reason why he went to elisha was to show some proof of something Remember the little girl his little slave girl said that if only my master knew that there was a prophet in Israel and then when he goes there he realizes that the that the man of god is there And he wants to worship the true god So it's to give validation to to god to point people to god That's what that's what miracles are supposed to be doing down for they're supposed to point you to god And so the first thing that uh name is told to do is to do what go and dip himself into the jordan river in seven times That's that's too easy That's that's far too easy far too easy And then one of his servants went and said listen if he would have told you to do something more difficult You would have had no problem whatsoever And so when god tells us to just pray No, no, no that in any old body can pray. I want to do something special. I didn't see somebody do a back flip I need to see someone fall out. I need to see some some some tongues and some frothing at the mouth Well, if if god wants to show himself up and he does often in just something so simple as this And something so simple as prayer or his word You would think his word would be enough that is the greatest miracle that we have in our in our midst is that Given to us by who the holy spirit, but The bible or miracles should point us to god Now he says that he wouldn't want he He didn't want folks to think that he's word of faith would have well if if whatever they thought Whatever they thought about you if they saw that it was an actual authentic miracle Then they would have a problem. But the fact is you show these These little vague fake unfulfilled prophecies You show these Demons being cast out. So you say but why not show a miracle? Why not show someone who who didn't have eyes now have eyes someone who didn't have limbs now they have limbs Show someone who was a quadriplegic And now they're walking I would Why would you not I would show that as often as I could You know sicknesses stuff. That's like throwing on the altar like a real Look at look at apostle. Look what happened It's on our live video like on sunday services. I get on video and then when I post it I get a call of I don't really want nobody in my business, you know, so it gets so I think it's a two fold And it's just it does like weird if it like you're like broadcasting Like look at all this stuff. I did we're using it. We're using people. We we broadcast the miracles We're exploiting people. Yeah, that's not that's fair. So we don't I think there's a the line It's not fair to say that we're not doing them God is not using people to do them. We just can't promote them because we're living in a different age of There's just a lot of sensitivity That would kind of go against the bible the bible promotes miracles all the time The bible is not bachel about pointing out its miracles. As a matter of fact, the bible says that We can't write down all we wish we could can't even write down all the miracles There's not enough pages the book would be too big to show all the miracles that Jesus has said all the great things that he's done And so the bible is not bachel about it But you're saying that we should not which tells me something that wait a minute That should be in in line in stepping with what the bible is doing the bible is about pointing people to god And if a miracle does so with an amen when jesus came on the scene No one believed in him because no one knew him But he began performing these miracles and he got a following Yeah, yeah, Virginia. He he can cast out demons in public. They can cast out demons in public They can get prophecy in public. They can have people slaying the spirit in public But now these folks want their prop privacy Why name the person who's the person in the bible? I could be wrong, but who is the person in the bible who was healed and didn't want people to know I couldn't see before and now I see I had lepros. I was I was lepros now. I'm clean Who's you know, I don't know. I'm bachel. No, no, no, no not me. No, no blind No, I'm still blind. I can't I can't see anything. No, we don't see that in the bible And so It comes across I could be wrong But it comes across as though there is nothing to see there. There are no miracles You mean tell me every single person that that's been healed or have had a miracle happened to them They don't none of them want anyone to know It comes across as uh An inauthentic statement And the problem is we don't have people calling them to the carpet. No that is wrong. That is not keeping with the scriptures That's just that it is what it is now People will also accuse us of When they say they've done something And then we say no it hasn't they'll say well no you're blaspheming the holy spirit and what you're doing is You're crediting the works of god to the works of satan. No, we're not we're first of all We don't know that you've done anything But then again here you see we don't want to show you we don't want to show you anything So therefore okay, so you're you're telling us You're telling us something but we can't see and because we can't you're not going to show it to us because Yeah, we want we want to protect people's privacy. That just doesn't line up with scripture It just doesn't line up with scripture And so for that we have that we we're going to call foul But now isn't it also the same as crediting the works of the devil to god when someone is doing something sinful or Antithetical to the bible to the scriptures and then you say it's the it's god. Well Does god have a problem with that? Crediting the works of the devil To him when you see people when you see people being paid to come and pretend to be Having a demon cast out and we know they're they're paid actors Or someone is being slain this spirit because a god lifts his foot Or because someone blows on the microphone and the person back in the back falls down Isn't that just as bad? I think so but again Having biblical proof Is not Something that is it does it just doesn't seem like it's kind of the standard with a lot of people Here's a person who when asked about or talked about this issue about people being slain in the spirit He's not hiding and he's not he's not he's not even hiding the fact that it doesn't have to be in the bible Firstly, there are those who believe that the manifestation is anti-biblical Second, there are those who believe that the manifestation should be rejected because it is extra biblical Let me first address the concern that being slain in the spirit is anti-biblical There is nothing in scripture that specifically condemns the manifestation itself The manifestation cannot be considered anti-biblical as there is nothing in the scripture that labels it as demonic or of the flesh In fact, the skeptics will say it's not even found in scripture So if that were true, what grounds would they have in the first place of labeling it as anti-biblical? Those who say it is anti-biblical say so without any justification whatsoever Now his argument was really a non-argument. It was really a silly argument It was an argument that because the bible doesn't say you shouldn't be slain in the spirit Well, then therefore it's okay to be slain in the spirit. The bible doesn't say that you should It's a lot of things the bible has to say that you shouldn't do and we know it's wrong But again That tells you the standard of him and others like him The standard isn't the bible the standard is what I feel the standard is how How how our emotions are are involved The standard is this over here not the bible And I'm saying if you want someone to experience god and you want them to experience the holy spirit Don't you want them to experience the holy spirit of the bible? Now I believe that experiencing the word that the holy spirit got Or gave us Is just as important is is somebody said I see you have new spectacles. No, these are I've I've been I don't know why I caught that. You know why I caught that these glasses The holy spirit and these glasses helped me to catch bj taylor. Tell me I said no, I've had these I wear the other ones. They're older. They just I've had them for a while. They just I can see better. Yeah, I can't really see with these glasses I can I can tell there's a camera there. I can I can see colors No, I'm kidding. I can I can see fair enough with these with these glasses But those other glasses are actually better. There's cheap glasses and I've got her to it to the eye doctor Pretty soon. I keep putting it out Because the first two times the eye doctor messed up my prescription The eye doctor did not have the holy spirit clearly because she kept giving me the wrong prescription So I just got tired dog on it. I'm just gonna keep looking out of these and out of these I got two pair of glasses and both of them Are underperforming Neither of them are biblical. How about that? I don't have biblical glasses so Anyway Back to the topic again But the standard should be here The standard is the word The standard is the word And he says that he will have his even his word will be above his name And what does god think about his name? He thinks pretty highly of that and so too of his word And so the fact of the matter is that his word is up there So why not let let's just lean on that if his word is awesome and amazing and powerful That's all we need that is literally all we need now Again for him Well, the bible doesn't say it the there is no bright red sign that says do not get slain in the spirit So it's okay to get slain in the spirit. The bible doesn't say I can't call out demons 25 times and having cough out spit up The bible doesn't say don't do it that way The bible gives us an example and so paul says Imitate me as I imitate christ or follow me as I follow christ. What's up? We're gonna follow god. Let's follow him Let's do that. But now let's talk about briefly before I play any other clips Let's let's talk about what the holy spirit actually does in us. Now. By the way, the bible is clear First of all what the holy spirit is going to do is he is going to regenerate us He is going to give us a brand new heart. We see that in ezekiel 36 We see it in germa as well as other pastors in the new old testament. We see it in titus We see it in in first peter, but we also see it here in john three where Nicodemus comes to jesus and he says that you must be born again Nicodemus says how can a man be born again when he's old he said he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb And be born candy. Jesus says truly truly verse five I say to you unless one is born of water and the spirit now this word for for born Going back to verse three is the word genefe anothem, which is genefe anothem, which means to be born from above The same words are used in Titus uh three The same words are used or the same words are used. I'm sorry are used in first peter You have to be born again born from above and then as we go down and find out that this clearly is an act of the Holy spirit and it's not being born again is not something you do It's something that is done to you. How do I know? Look at verse eight. He says the wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it But you do not know where it comes from so he used an example of the wind The wind goes you don't know where it's going to or where it's coming from He says so it is of everyone who is born Of the spirit everyone who is born of and notice it's in the Perfect middle so it is those who have been born in the past tense perfect the past tense It's not the past is the perfect But it's in the past and it's in the middle Which means it was done to you for the benefit in this case the benefit of god So this is an act happening to you The holy spirit does that Which is why god says in ezekiel as well as other places that he is going to put his spirit in it So this this this re this regenerating heart Our heart being regenerated that is of the spirit. He does that first and foremost now the bible also says this about The holy spirit tells us in Ephesians 1 13 also Ephesians 4 30, but we'll just look at one passage. It's in him Uh that is christ You also after listening to the message of truth the gospel of your salvation having also believed You are sealed in him with what the holy spirit of promise remember Remember it is jesus who takes us and baptizes us into the holy spirit And so being in him this comes as a byproduct He says who is the given who is given as a pledge of our inheritance with a view of redemption of god's own possession And so excuse me. And so we are going to have this holy spirit Now notice implicit in that if he has given this as a pledge or the our bond as a down payment until That necessarily means that if we're going to have the holy spirit until We take possession of heaven Or being with the father until then that necessarily means another thing about the holy spirit, which means he's not going to leave us That means he's here to stay that means he's not going to reverse that that means If you've got the holy spirit, guess what you're going to always you're going to always have At least on this earth the holy spirit now one question. I asked in a bible study And The answer the correct answer to this question is I don't know I'm going to tell you what the question is But the answer to this bible study is I don't know I've asked uh different bible study groups And they said I don't I don't know now you can speculate and I can't tell you if the answer is right or wrong But here's the question the question is we know what the holy spirit does now In us, but what is the holy spirit going to do with us? particularly In heaven in eternity. What what is the holy spirit's role then? We don't know the bible does not the bible doesn't tell us what the holy spirit's role in us is going to be then We can speculate and you might be right. You might be wrong. The bible just said and tells what we do know Is what he does in us now. He regenerates us He seals which by the way is protection and he stays with us. He keeps us That's why the bible can say that he who began to get working us He is going to complete it. How's he going to do that? How can jesus make the statement that he won't lose not one? Because the holy spirit is in us now We're told We are told that Not every spirit is of god And so we should test the spirit to see if it is of god meaning That it's possible To experience a spirit that is not of god Meaning there are spirits out there that are not of god now when someone has this this This new fangled way of experience the holy spirit Especially if it's not biblical, you know what you're going to have them tell you They're going to try to convince you that you should not use your mind that you should not think Turn your head off and let your heart let your stomach let your emotions guide you That's not biblical, but this is what they say So you gotta shut this off Turn your mind off You already said you have to shut this off Turn your mind off now. This was the young person What's the young fellow's name wilson wilson jaylon wilson? This was his his coming out party. He goes to some prophet or apostle who Wants to give you the holy spirit He wants to give you the holy spirit. He hasn't had you spoken in tongues No, I ain't speaking tongues back there. Well, you're about to now. You gotta turn this turn this off I want you thinking just do what we want you to do. Just feel it. Just feel the mood of the room Come in and just take a temperature of the room and then join in come on in The water's hot or should I say look lukewarm come on in jump on in don't think Don't think just forget this Act like god didn't give it to you and just use your emotions Don't think Don't think however Is that biblical? Well, no, we're supposed to we're supposed to grow in the grace and knowledge of the lord I don't want you to think now the bible tells us though Since this man wants to give him the gift of tongues And whatever other gifts he wants to impart But doesn't the bible speak against that the bible tells us that it is the spirit that does so Verse 12 i'm verse 4 of type of 12 in first krypton says now there are varieties of gift But the same spirit and there are varieties of ministries in the same lord Now if we drop down to verse 11, we'll see But one and the same spirit works all these things Distributing to each one individually just as he will do y'all see that so now No one can give you the holy spirit That is something that the i mean i'm sorry. No one can get you a gift of the spirit That is something that only the holy spirit can do Now if you believe that it is If it is One specific gift or two gifts or he'll give you whichever gifts As they're needed what you also need to know that the holy spirit is going to the biblical holy spirit is That when he manifests when he shows up when he works in you What he is going to do is going to be the benefit of not for you It's not for the benefit of edifying you it is for the benefit of of helping or edifying Now where do we find this out? Where do where do we see as a matter of fact? What do I have in it? Where do we see the bibles telling us that the holy spirit these gifts are for others and not for you? Well a couple places a matter of fact. I don't know. I have this not highlighted Let's put on the screen in first Peter chapter 4 verse 10 He says as each one has received a special gift Look what he says employ it In serving one another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God And so what we have to do what we have to have we have to use the holy spirit these giftings for not ourselves But for others as a matter of fact there's a few more passes I want to put up here to also bring this point out In first green thing chapter 12 verse 70 says but to each one is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good For to one is given the word of wisdom through i'm sorry. I don't want to read all of that but verse 7 Each one is given the manifestation of the spirit Why and for whom for the common good of others for the benefit of others not for you And please again, we've covered this before so we won't do it to date But june 20 does not speak of you Edifying yourself It absolutely does not we've covered that before And so but now there are other passages that also speak of this Ephesians 4 29 does so Romans 15 2 says so a few passages in 1 Corinthians 14 verses 5 verses 12 verses 17 verses 26 All of these speak and teach that the spiritual gifts are to manifest are manifest manifested to edify others You should seek to edify others not to edify yourself. And so when people get verse 2 He is making he's making a comparison of how this authentic gift Versus this other gift this unknown tongue that no one knows what you're saying All you're doing is edifying yourself and paul is rebuking something in 1 Corinthians 14 That's what it is. You're just saying things you don't know and the only persons get any kind of benefit out of it Is you why because you feel spiritual you feel like you've done something And no wonder because you've got people telling you to turn your mind off don't think That's not very biblical guys And so the holy spirit is going to give us gifts And what we're going to see is we're going to see the manifestation Or the the fruit of these gifts such as what we see in chapter 5 of galatians love peace joy You all know the whole the whole um list There should be some evidence Of the spirit being there Are with me now. Is it the same with everyone? Does everyone have The exact same outward fruit That everyone else does when it comes to holy spirit. No There are some people that are more mature. There are some people that are still growing Are you with me? There are some people who From day to day it's hard to tell Now that didn't mean that the spirit didn't work in them We might see we might see the growth later, but Somebody somewhere in america if not if it if it ain't but just you Someone should be able to tell that that the lord is working in you. There's some there's some growth It's it's it's literally impossible for you to have the holy spirit and the holy spirit doesn't do anything The holy spirit is not it's you're not like an airbnb The holy spirit is coming there just to just chill out hang out and do absolutely No, the holy spirit is going to work in you Mainly what we know he's going to do is like he told the disciples Like jesus told the disciples in john 15 Is he says when he comes whom i will send to you from the father That is the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father He will testify about me and we see the holy spirit in people Testifying about christ Even to their demise if it meant them having to be killed or punished or put in jail That's going to happen as a matter of fact the bible says that all of us who desire to live godly In christ we shall suffer persecution And Don't we don't know how that's going to be some folks They may suffer persecution to the point where they die There are some who might they get imprisoned They they get arrested They're just praying they're wearing a shirt all these different things that come about as far as being christian. Well, we're told that but Because we have the holy spirit we've taken solace in his word and we we put his word Up here and our experiences somewhere else then it doesn't bother us If the word see if experiences matter Then what what's going to end up happening is negative experiences Um are going to have a heavy weight in our thinking I don't want this bad thing because if you notice the people that that seem to have The greatest amount of if you let them tell it the greatest amount of holy spirit They tend to be one Pretty light on doctrine pretty light on theology pretty light on understanding They will get upset with you because you quote the scripture But because you're not using the scripture, you know, you know, it's not You know, that's not What we're doing here as christians what we're going through as christians it's not star wars guys This isn't star wars This is not luke letting go and using the force This this is not that what this is is being trained up in his word Luke says what is the exact purpose of speaking in tongues and is tongues absolute sign? Okay Since we're going to use the bible as our example, let's look at the examples in the bible now There are going to be people are going to tell us that There are different types of of tongues There's a private tongue. There's a public tongue. There's a gift of tongues and they're speaking tongue, but absolutely not is uh You're going to see the word for speaking And then you're going to see the word for tongues the greek word for speaking and the greek word for tongues um in every case and what they were for were Was to preach the gospel They were they were there to magnify christ and let people know Who did not speak the same language as you because again when jesus says that you'll receive my spirit Receive the spirit and be my witnesses where just like john 15 says be my witnesses in jerusalem And your d.m. Sumerian, but that part is fine because we speak the same language But when we get to the uttermost parts of the world Well god, we got a problem Because listen, I know you want me to go and preach the gospel in china, but I don't speak what these folks speak Lord, I don't I if you send me listen if you send me a few hundred miles. Well, of course, this is texas almost a thousand miles to the south I don't speak what they speak Matter of fact, let's be honest. We're in texas. I don't speak what everybody in texas speaks. So How am I going to share the gospel if god has desire to Make himself known throughout the world which by the way initially that was the goal But man wanted to stay in one place and build this monument to themselves the the tower of babel So what does god do confound the language? You're gonna you're gonna do what I said to do Whether you want to or not now they didn't get a chance to do but they started the process of Moving folks throughout the world because their language was confounded. So now They spread about and then you got all these folks speaking these different languages So what does god do use this gift of of having them to be able to supernaturally speak in these languages To share the gospel and every time we see the bible Every time we see it happening in the bible It's done just that way And paul says in verse one and five he says and you it's hard to you don't see it quite as clearly You can't see it in english. You really can't in english, but it's crystal clear in the greek That I would rather you speak in these languages in order that he says my london hand of the prophet I in order that you Would prophet wetti Prophecy and there's not the foretelling the future telling he doesn't want you to speak in tongues In order to tell the future No, he wants you to speak in tongues these languages in order to Prophecy foretell to give a revelation or right now indicative what's happening right now in our case the word of god Give what the word of god says so that people can come to christ Let them know that jesus died on the cross for them That's how that works. Okay, and so when they say well, there's this private gift. We'll prove it We're in scripture says because we're going to use the bible as our guide And I want to use I want to have an outward manifestation of the spirit like we see in the bible Well, do we see an outward manifestation of the spirit where someone speaks in these Private tongues by ourselves. We don't have that We don't have that anywhere in the scriptures And if someone says that that there's a private tongue in the public tongue Give me one scripture for the private tongue Give me one and so That's what tongues are for without without going too far into let me also go ahead address a couple of these other ones Daughter of Zion says when you read the word at home, does it edify you? Or someone else tongues builds us up to edify. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no We read it Remember there is no gift of reading though There is no spiritual gift of reading Are with me And we don't have also a a gift. I mean a scripture where it says that we should edify ourselves now Reading the word will that build us up? Sure, but we're not we're not giving any giftings to do so But reading yeah, is there a gift of reading? No, there's not a gift. There's not a unnamed spiritual gift of reading and so We'll grow in our in the grace Our appreciation love for the lord and in our knowledge That's where we get our growth from so we should grow in the grace of not now sometimes it's someone helping us Sometimes I was reading it, but there is no spiritual gift of reading. Are you with me? uh, let's see He says from um Unknown fact the gibberish tongue is actually a new age practice called light language and it's not Yeah, this one one day um, I'm gonna You all have seen how it's gotten out of hand now where you see people not just speaking in tongues Now they're singing in tongues now. They are writing in tongues and now you've got folks Believe it or not You've got people who are signing Doing sign language in tongues That that that I'm she said that's not the point. I'm sorry daughters. I'm I miss it. I apologize. I missed it I'm moving fast. Sorry about that, but The giftings the pneumatico Is for the benefit of everybody else It's not for us And so if we're going to follow the biblical example, well, then let's do what the biblical example is If it's going to be and we don't have by the way a biblical example of someone Let's say having there someone hands laid on them and then falling out We we can't find a biblical example that and so if I want the I want the bible holy spirit I want the bible. I don't want the I don't want that. She said go back over. I'll go back over I don't want the bible holy. I mean I want the bible holy spirit. I don't want I don't want the charismatic Holy spirit the pentagon I want the bible now if the charismatic holy spirit looks like the bible holy spirit for the name in Unfortunately, I've got eyes and I got ears. It doesn't look like it does not look like the same holy spirit. Where's this thing at? There it is. She said, okay If this thing quit moving so fast on me, I keep there it is says when you read the word at home Does it edify you or someone else? It keeps moving. I gotta look over here because it keeps moving on me. Um Tongues built us up to edify ourselves others as well Okay, what did I what did I miss? I I'm not getting it right in a different way. I'm missing it. I'm missing it. I missed I thought I might be wrong I might be wrong. I'm I again blaming on the glasses blaming on my unbiblical glasses Blame it on my unbiblical glasses also what the holy spirit does the holy spirit comforts us Do you all know so also know this other thing that the holy spirit does? We don't speak about it a lot But the holy spirit restrains someone The holy spirit is the one that is credited with restraining the man of law. Let's go to second. That's alone in separate two now this is when the Okay, dash. Hold on. I'll come back to that but this is where The people in second that's alone is they they have to get Paul responds back with them because he spoke about this what we call the the rapture in In first that's alone is they were afraid they missed it And he writes them backs and kind of comforts them. No, you haven't missed it But he makes a statement here pretty good statement as a matter of fact He says verse three He says let no one deceive you for it will not come unless the apostasy comes first this great falling away What is the great falling away? Well, this might be it right now. That's what it looks like Excuse me this great falling away this great apostasy is going to take place is people Not falling away from believing but falling away from the report the faith are you with me The faith is what we what we read This gospel Matthew Mark Luke John acts first sacred by the way the gospel is The gospel is not just Matthew Mark Luke and John It is not just Matthew Mark. The gospel is all of this Placing our faith in Christ and then what comes as a result of it. Are you with me? And so The apostasy this great falling away are people who are now moving away from this belief And specifically we're talking about Christians those who are named Themselves as Christians who now don't hold to the same view as we ought to hold to that One you can be gay practicing gay and be a committed Christian You'll you're seeing more and more of the accepting and promoting of women as pastors You're seeing more and more of a lot of different heresies and so forth We talk about a lot here There is this moving away or That Now you find Christians who are saying that yeah, even though Jesus says I am the way the truth in life No one comes with possible by me. You're even seeing Christians Christians who are saying there's other ways though I'm pretty sure somebody in another country somewhere who's never heard of Jesus. They'll get into So this is what we're seeing and so he says It won't happen until this great falling away this apostasy says He says let no one to see you in any way For it will not come what will not come well this this being caught up this rapture that I believe Will not come until The apostate comes first and the man of lawless is revealed the son of destruction Who opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object to worship now that hadn't happened yet So that he takes his seat in the temple of god displaying himself as being god Which by the way won't be too difficult for him to to call himself god Why is that because now we've got a part of this apostate. We've got christians People who call themselves christians saying that we are also gods ourselves So now let's continue. He says do you not remember that while I was still with you I was telling you these things and look what he says And you know what restrains him now So that in his time, he will be revealed. Well question What do you all think is restraining him the holy spirit now? What does that necessarily mean us? Wait a minute. Cory. How could that be us? How is it that us as christians are restraining him because where's the holy spirit at? He's in us When this is why we believe that that's folks that believe like me Believe that in this the church being the believers being raptured being taken away And so now he comes because What we won't do is stand by and allow it to happen. Well, as best we can as best we can and so Well, we believe that that he is the holy spirit is the one who is in us And not just necessarily in us. He doesn't need us to do anything But he is the one who is restraining Thank you so much. Eric. I appreciate that. Thank you so much You all don't know and I'm not just saying this but it's some of these words that people say that really do Make me feel good. It keeps me going Uh, thank you, Michael. Uh, lemay. Am I Michael lemay? Thank you for the super chat as well. Um I don't want to get in this tongues thing, but when our tongues biblical Tongues are biblical When they look like what the bible portrays them as The bible knows of no such thing as a tongue being anything but an actual language That's what the word low size means. It means an actual language And so when we go to tongues when we look at it It is somewhat matter of fact if we go back to First crimson chapter 12 Um, when we look at what they're doing, let's put back on the screen He says now concerning spiritual gifts and the word is numitiko when we look at it The word this uses spiritual gifts is the word numitikon spiritual things Now I want you to notice what he's speaking about what's be what's ignorant what they're doing ignorant or ignorant league He says, you know that when you were pagans you were led astray to the mute idols However, you were led therefore I make known to you that no one Speaking l alone, which is also the word that's also Used the Greek word that's also you talk about speaking in tongues. It's that word l alone or derivative of it L alone no one is speaking by the spirits Of god says jesus is a curse and no one can say jesus is lord except by the holy spirits So apparently there are people who are speaking Who don't know what they're saying? Does that sound familiar? Apparently there are people who are speaking who don't know what they're saying and they're saying Ignorantly because he says that I want to be ignorant. They're ignorantly saying that jesus is a curse. Well, who says that? Who says that? well, some Someone who doesn't oh lord someone who doesn't know What they're saying can unintentionally say that jesus occurs and he says you can't say that by the holy spirit Just like the only reason why you say that jesus lord is also by the holy spirit And so I don't want you to do things or say things in this case ignorantly Which happens are you with me? Thank you Jennifer for the super chat. I appreciate that as well. So that's what Biblical tongues are actual biblical languages. Let's put back on the screen so you all can see that again so He's speaking of someone saying something are you with me so now And it didn't have to be we don't have to talk about necessarily spiritual gifts I mean it's talking about tongues. It can be prophecy Prophecy should look like the bible version of prophecy Tongues should look and sound like the bible version of tongues Healing should look like and feel like the bible version of healing all these gifts Should look like the bible version. Oh, by the way, this also impunes us as well. Love Should look like and feel like and show itself up like the bible version of love How do I feel about uh this oneness versus trinity doctrine that I think a lot of folks who who get involved in that don't even understand the uh the two What's most important is that we realize that jesus is god the bible says that you cannot be saved You absolutely cannot be saved unless you believe that jesus is god How do I mean? Well, the bible says that jesus is lord the bible is clear also That there is only one lord according to moses according to the bible due to around me 435 and 39 there's only one lord One lord and who must we confess that jesus says according to romans 10 that he is that lord There's only one lord. He's lord of all lords And so if a person doesn't believe that he's lord, he cannot be saved And when the bible says that he is the lord Speaking of god, that's it So What does the greeks say about though? Yeah, I really want to say on this time. You know what's funny When I cover tongues, I'm gonna hear somebody say no, I don't want to cover tongues again But I don't want to cover tongues you got which I don't have a problem with it I don't I really know he says what does the greeks say about the flaming tongues that appeared over the heads of those On the dead pinnacross. Let's go there. Uh, it is going to be really more Kind of metaphoric, but let's go there acts too And when the dead pinnacross had come together, they were all joined together in one place and suddenly there came From heaven a noise like a violent rushing wind and filled the whole house Where they were sitting and appeared to them tongues as of fire now this word as of fire Uh, this word right here this word Hoseis which is kind of like or about or as this where we get the word as right here And it's man. It was like fire on them like like Jeremiah says like fire shut up in my bone didn't mean that he actually had fire in his bone They didn't really have fire on them. This is just kind of metaphorically speaking Uh of how powerful it was that they they were just on it. By the way, let me just say this to my sister I just I just saw her Um, y'all keep keep praying for my sister dina I won't say What she's dealing with but strong lady in the lord lovely lady lord. Yep. Yep. Y'all keep praying for her Hi dina by the way Anyway Keep her in your prayers not that she hadn't done anything What did she do she didn't do anything she didn't do nothing bad so anyway, but that that's the point that he that he's making that This is just how powerful it is Now does he mean something by the fire? Well, what we do sometimes is we can say that well every time we see the word fire that this always means judgment It does not mean always mean judgment, but a lot of times it does Is this a judgmental fire that is happening could be sometimes And let's just be honest. There are times where the bible will give us words Even imagery that What does that mean? It's not as clear as we would like it to be because again Even though we are all trying to be smart christians. We ain't we ain't as smart as we would like to be if there's some things We just don't know there's sometimes you have to say i'm not quite sure I have an idea. I have an understanding. I think this might be the case. I'm not sure I haven't decided if all if i'll let you in on on this or not But there's one particular guy who didn't like me very much as a matter of fact I think they said I think the count now is like eight nine ten videos. He's done on me like back to back to back But his point was that I don't I would use the word As what I feel like God has done with me is I think I feel Rather than coming out and saying definitively, I know Because I don't I don't need to but anyway And so I use example of paul who says in the spirit He either went to heaven either in the spirit or in the flesh Now I believe that is that that is probably in the spirit But he says it's in second in second Corinthians Paul uses the words. I don't know Now he's talking about himself. I don't know Now was he being figurative or was he or was he just trying to speak in tongue and cheek? Well, I think he was actually I don't know it was so real I don't know if I was there physically or spiritually It was an a vision. I don't I don't know And so there are times we can actually say I I just don't know. I'm not totally sure. I think I feel That's just humility. Amen um Okay camera says I think daughter of zine was saying you are saying that tongues would not be something That that god would uh, hold on this thing. I gotta read over because it's moving too fast over here I think daughter of zine was saying that you are saying That tongues would not be something that god would give us to edify ourselves But we can't read the word and the word and understand it without the spirit You know what kind of take can I say this camera? I'm still confused I'm still confused as to the point Let me read it again That tongues would be would not be something that god would give us to edify ourselves But we can't read the word and understand it without the spirit Okay When okay when we read the bible Can we and when the bible The bible is not saying that people can't understand what the word is saying The victoria says It's the glass. That's not the glasses. It's just me. It's just I can't I can't blame it on the glasses but The bible is not saying that people can't read the bible and understand it. That's not what he's saying He's not saying that we don't if because it's it's actual words We can read I can read a set of instructions. I can read a menu. I can read all I can read a newspaper So I don't know what a newspaper is we had those back in the day You get them at early in the morning in the evening to see what was going on in the world or you would turn on Walter Cronkite or Somebody on cbs eating new dan rather To see what was happening. It's a newspaper anyway We can all read and we can see what it says We just can't take it in We can we don't want to It's just like someone telling you the truth Just like the pre-tortation it might be It's just like Someone telling you about yourself. It can be totally true and you hear what they said And you get upset about what they say and you repeat what they say But you're not gonna accept it It's the same thing with this when you when we read the bible even even critics Someone like a bart ermine who can read the bible knows exactly what it says But he can't read it. He can't understand it He can't internalize he can't accept it and so He said I see newspapers on the trains trains. Oh, okay. You live in the city where trains are That's what it means And so Yeah, even a baby can read it There are children who can read the bible and can understand some portions of it The spirit is going to help us to grow in our understanding Without question Now does that mean day one? You got the Holy Spirit today and you read it You're gonna understand everything. No, that's nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Not at all Uh, sometimes it's a lot of what we have to do is just kind of divorce ourselves of preconceived notions of what we've thought how we felt A lot of that has to take place Just to let you know what my grandma thought this my my church taught this And so sometimes you got to kind of get it out of your head Right and we got to get past certain things For example, we've been told That my uh, if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways And I will heal from well, that's not about us But we say it so often in regards to the church that we it's not about us Because we keep reading the the punishment for not doing so is to be taken out of our land Well, that clearly isn't us. It's about Israel, but we keep applying certain things um Now when it comes to um when it comes to this issue of tongues It's a gift giving given to us or to people To share the word with someone who doesn't know the word It's not given to show you that you love the lord It's not given for you to speak to god You don't need the whole you don't need tongues to speak to god What you already have is your mouth your mind and you have the spirit There is nothing that's going to come in between as a matter of fact. Let me let me go to a passage um Because and I want to I want to throw out a particular implication I want to throw out an implication um Before I go there says uh can Can someone demonstrate or show the fruit of the spirit and not be You can look like it. You can listen Yeah Let's go to it. Let's let's put that on the screen. I'll come back to this passage in a second Let's go to Galatians Let's go to Galatians five and we're told to walk by this spirit. Let's go to verses But the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience now Can other people non-christians show love? Sure they can Do you think I don't know if he had any kids Who knows but if Hitler had a son Do you think he loved his son? I'm pretty sure he did Do you think a a buddhist has joy? Make may have some peace sure now for now. It's not true peace Have you ever met an atheist or Someone else have patience sure These are just the things that should come as a result of having the Holy Spirit Now it doesn't mean that if you don't have the Holy Spirit you can't have that no But you'll know because you'll start seeing these things show up Are there some gentle Atheists sure I've met some Matter of fact is every Christian gentle. No um, what about Now faithfulness sure The Holy Spirit is going to work that in you, but there's some people who are there's some faithful muslims We we know for a fact there are some faithful muslims. Don't we they will strap a bomb to themselves So faithful are they and just? blow some folks up So but now here's one that we should certainly be able to identify with The more we go as believers and that is self-control We should be able to exhibit self-control, but unfortunately, there's a lot of christians who do not have self-control And so it is possible It is possible um I'm not trying to not I don't I really I tell you what daughters I asked a question a different way try to ask it a different way and I will I will answer I'm really missing you Blame it blame it on the brain blame on the age, but I'm but just Reask it again type it in again and a different way A different way. I just I just didn't catch how you said it And maybe because I've got all these different things in front of me and I don't have any notes And so I'm trying to go through this and keep my frame of thought so Put it up again. I don't I don't have a problem to answer your question so Now let's go to this Uh, and I I want to I want to put up the implication I want to I want to look at this passage Of something that the Holy Spirit does and I want to see if you guys can really get this the implication From this passage. This is something the Holy Spirit does and by the way guys, this is not tongues This is not tongue. He says Romans 8 26 in the same way the spirit also helps our weaknesses You say that again in the same way the spirit also helps our weaknesses For we do not know how to pray as we should but the but the spirit himself The spirit himself intercedes how so For us with groanings too deep for words Now What is the implication? Let me tell you what the implication is and this is why Um, wait a minute. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. No, listen. I tell you what we we're not gonna do We are not getting off his broadcast until you figure out another way to ask that question You can't blame me for not being able to answer the question. I can't figure it out You gotta also be able to answer to ask it differently Ask it you you'll figure it out. You'll figure it out Out because I now really want to know why I'm missing it And because maybe I'm just seeing it differently, but let's get back at so so don't you go anywhere You make you you retype that thing Anyway, now the implication is this and I want you to hear this out if the holy spirit Helps our weaknesses Think about the holy spirit is in us Helps our weaknesses When we don't know what to pray or to ask for he's there On our behalf Speaking to whom to the to the father, but he but the spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deeper words Now Shouldn't that naturally be a barrier for a demonic spirit interfering with us and we don't even recognize it Shouldn't the holy spirit that's a weakness. Shouldn't the holy spirit be there Isn't the holy spirit going to help us in that weakness? I I I would think so I would think so so Now I want to hear what I'm trying to figure out. Listen, I You may feel like you asked you may have asked it in the best way and you may have you may have asked it in the perfect way There's more than one would ask a question Ask it like I'm an eight-year-old. I like I'm missing it or someone else who understands the question She's asking ask it a different way. I'm not What do you say? You're saying she wants me to agree. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be agreeing about So I promise you I'm not really I'm not ducking your question. I don't have How many times have I covered tongues? How many I've covered tons of trillion times Okay, Katrina. You asked a question. I'm missing it. I'm missing it It can't be I'm not trying to ask a question if I'm sitting literally asking you guys You know, you know what I could have done to not answer answer the question Just simply not posted the question the first place. I mean, they're almost 2000 questions or comments that have been that have gone by I could have just Play dumb and act like I didn't see it, but I did see it and so I want to ask answer the question so I don't want to speak English anymore You asked it for okay. So now now I got to go find Katrina's Okay, one question that she puts up I have never heard anyone say that they say that Okay, I've heard you say that they say that no Christian tongue or not it. Okay. That's not the question. She asks, okay Okay, her point was that let's see if this is her point was that we read the bible at home in private Yet it does edify us And we use that to edify others Why would that not be the same thing with praying in a private prayer language? Okay, I did answer the question. Here it is. Let me say let me say it again Tongues are not for you There is no gift of reading you read Yes, you read that will that edify you will that build you up? Sure. It's not a spiritual gift Now when you're reading you're gaining knowledge you're gaining understanding There's a there's a lord use it to build you up. Yes But as far as a spiritual gift unless you could find a spiritual gift of reading But in terms of a spiritual gift the spiritual gifts are named not all of them Maybe there is a spiritual gift of tongue. I mean reading and uh, we haven't it hadn't been shown to us Maybe maybe maybe there's a spiritual gift that's not named but reading Here's why we know that that reading is not a spiritual gift because guess what they were doing before the Holy Spirit showed up on the scene reading they non-christians read Now tongues are for a specific reason Tongues or languages are for the people to hear the language Think about it guys. The word tongues means language the word both sides means languages Why would I give you languages? The purpose of the languages is for someone to hear a language is for the hear the speaker and the hearer Who's the hearer when you when you speak in these languages? Who's the hearer god? Well, why does he need a special language? Or in this case a heavenly or special language when he can hear you in english Matter of fact, he can hear you before you open your mouth. He can hear what you really meant when you said what you said in english said that No one believed you That's what he can do Okay, he doesn't need the the devil can't interfere with your communication with god so Languages again every other example that we see when languages are actually employed When languages when tongues are employed and there is no biblical rebuke Such as what we see in acts It's a language when we see a rebuke coming regarding tongues or languages It is so that no one understands why some of you guys read the king jane verse why it even says an unknown language or unknown tongue Why well paul is rebuking something He's he's rebuking the mix the misuse the misuse of tongues is you are only using to edify yourself The akabashababah that Tell me exactly what that does Absolutely nothing Now, okay, and so dart of Zion you went to jew 20. Let's go ahead and eradicate that thought now I want you to be favorite dart of Zion when I show you this passage I want you to see how that cannot be used for two things one For edifying yourself and to pray in the spirit. Let's go to jew jew 20 And interestingly enough I would love for someone not not you guys this isn't for you But but these other guys who have so much of the holy spirit the folks who will impugn us and say that We don't have the holy spirit. How come they don't ever do these sort of teachings I would love to know but anyway, let's go to jew 20 This is what dart of Zion was playing and I'm not and I don't I'm not brow beating you or getting on Yeah, I just want you to see this jew 20 says but you beloved Building yourselves up on the most holy faith praying in the holy spirit now it looks like We're being told to build ourselves up to edify ourselves and the reason why we say edify because the same word for building ourselves up It's the same word for edifying and so That that's fine, but the question is The question is Is this saying for you yourself to build you up? That's the question Or is it saying for you to build others up? Is there a way to find out what the truth is? Well, yes, there is this is why sometimes it is it is helpful It is helpful sometimes to go to the greek. So guess where we're going. We are going to the greek So when we go to the greek They I got pay toy But you beloved now this you Okay Let me ask this question katrina. I'm gonna finish this up. But katrina. Let me ask you a question Have I not covered jude 14? I mean first groupings 14 and jude 120. I mean jude 20 before Have I not read? I've reconciled this before I've reconciled before so this is what i'm gonna do Someone give me a counter. I'm gonna do this in five minutes. Let me go ahead and pull up first Corinthians Um, you know what I'm gonna go to first Corinthians 14 14 Let's go there first because someone want to say well speaking about praying in the spirit. Let's go to Let's go to this issue. Let's go to Where do I want to go to Okay, first Corinthians 14 verse 13. Here it is Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret this notice. This is the singular tongue Notice when you see in first Corinthians even in the english You can see especially specifically in the greek, but in the english you're going to see a singular And a plural paul is comparing which is or contrasting Which is why he used the word but often to come to contrast the singular tongue Versus the plural tongue and or Prophecy profituate which is proclaiming are you with me now? We get down here because we got folks who might think that you want to Pray in a tongue because folks are the real zealous for the holy spirit. I get that paul gives that as a matter of fact He commends them for being zealous But he says if you are so zealous for the holy spirit Then strive for the things that built up the body not edify yourself, but edify the body But look what he says therefore let one who speak in a tongue Pray that he may interpret What does the word interpret me have explaining understanding Pray that there be understanding or an explanation In other words when you say something there should be some understanding How do we know that's the point that he's making look what he says verse 14 If I pray in a tongue a spirit now notice again It's singular if I pray in a singular tongue what he says my spirit prays, but my mind Is unfruitful My mind which is where new oaths is unfruitful. Well, paul starts off this whole conversation About spiritual gifts or spiritual things by saying I don't want you to be ignorant The word mind is no a or no oofs here in verse 14 Look at it on the on the right hand side this greek word right here is mind or thought or understanding Paul starts off the entire conversation with that in this way I don't want you to be ignorant or have no understanding. That's his point I don't want you to be without understanding. I don't want you to be ignorant I want you to know what it is you're doing because you guys are saying some things Ignorantly such as Jesus be a curse he gets to verse 13 and type of 14 and says if I pray in a tongue Yeah, my spirit prays. I'm feeling goodness spirit. Of course you do because you'll know what you're doing Ignorance is bliss sometimes. He says but my mind is unfruitful Now that's the problem. We know it's a problem because the very next verse he gives a solution What then what is the outcome then what then what does he say? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with my mind Notice he did not say I will now pray with understanding while I pray in tongues No tongues is missing out of verse 15. He didn't say keep praying in tongues He says keep praying in your spirit, but pray with understanding pray that you would know pray with the mind I will also sing with the spirit and I will sing with my mind now first Corinthians 14 People bring this up to say you're supposed to pray in the spirit. No, he does not He says if you're doing so the remedy is to pray with understanding now when we go to What was that passage to jude? to jude 20 when someone's going to say that I have um That I'm to build myself up By praying in the spirit. Let's see what it actually says. Hey mustay I got pay toy which is you and the reason why I read that in the greek is because the word you is the plural And then while we understand that the you that he's speaking of is the plural He says building yourselves up the word for yourselves is hey uthos, which is also plural So he says you all build up each other build up others in the spirit You not not me specifically not quarry build up you quarry. No, he says y'all build up each other Y'all and so you can't make that point that this passage is saying for you to build yourself singular up It's not a singular you it's a plural you are you with me that makes all the difference If this was saying quarry or john build up john Then you have a point We should use the holy spirit to build ourselves up if you if that's what that passage says But it doesn't and so since that passage doesn't say you should build yourself up individually And we can't find anywhere else where you should where the bible says that the spiritual gifts are for you to build yourself up Well, then guess what you can't do if you want to use the spiritual gifts or be used by the spirit biblically You cannot if you can't point to an example Then now what you're doing is something that's the the very basic definition of being un Biblical I want to do what I find in the bible not what someone comes up with This whole idea of praying in tongues. This is how unbiblical it is We don't even have any example of it not only in the bible But we don't have any example of it prior to the end of the 1800s or the beginning of the 1900s So we go almost 2000 years without anyone doing this But that would be a contradiction because that would mean that the very gates of hell Have prevailed against the church since if it's to edify us and no one for 2000 years have been able to edify themselves Well, then that seems like a contradiction what jesus says is going to happen. No, it's not The gates of hell do not prevail because we do not need to pray in a tongue You are when you pray you you should have understanding if you don't understand what you're saying how in the world Do you ever say amen to your own prayer? And then what's funny is those very same people that say that that this prayer language This private prayer language is angelic language That's what that is. They'll turn around and do that so-called private prayer angelic language in public And then other people who think that's so spiritual will say amen to that amen. Hey, child Let me do two And there's no biblical basis if you don't have a biblical base for what you're doing by definition that is unbiblical Are you with me? Peyton Probably named after the great Peyton Manning just built differently I am glad you covered these things when I when I was coming back to christ These guys made me very confused made me confused too with tongues and if I was saved Yeah, how do you deal with people that confused like here's what you do the same way I was I've seen a lot of people who were just confused because they were taught that one They were almost like second-class citizens in the spirit that because they didn't exhibit the spirit like others did They were somehow less than they had to grow And the problem is it makes you feel like I'm just not as spiritual as I could be as I should be And that's the problem that hurts people. I've seen that I've seen people get hurt Physically because just trust in God that God's going to heal you. Don't go to dialysis. The law is going to heal you Don't go to your treatment. The law is going to heal that lupus of that cancer And the next thing we know we're we're praying for folks to contribute to their funeral Having a bad understanding of scripture can be dangerous both physically and emotionally and certainly spiritually Are you with me? And so now if you think that you that that the tongues that no one can understand that even yourself Are what you want to do fine Fine have at it Now you do know you're not going to be able to point to a verse in the bible to back that up And do not keep going first Corinthians 14 to that tongues are to edify He's rebuking something. What's he rebuking if he's not rebuking that if paul isn't rebuking first Corinthians 14 to The speaking in the singular tongue the unknown tongue to edify yourself. What then is he rebuking? Corey says I strongly disagree. That's fine. That's fine. You all again. Give me scripture Give give me scripture Thank you regent for the super chat So the point is though and this is the main point be it tongues be healing whatever it is If what you do what you say isn't backed up by the scriptures, then it's not biblical I want my or any manifestation of the spirit to look just I want to look like it looked in the scripture When paul spoke in languages wasn't it actual languages? We see the example in in acts two When hands were laid on someone what happened we we see that When someone was healed supernaturally we see what happens She says he was redo rebuking how they were doing. Well, how are they doing it? They how are they doing it? They were doing it Without any understanding They were doing it without understanding You can't come back and say that. Well, they understood what they were doing. No, we didn't So anyway, but listen, it's fine Christ Katrina's we we've covered this you you are not going to hear me on this, which is fine. Sweet heart that that is fine I love you in the lord I love you in the lord. I've been there done. I've been there. I have been on the sides of of tongue speaking I strongly agree with you corey minor. Okay. You said it twice this time. You did all cats That mean thing you say What I want you guys to do Even if I'm wrong and you're right I want you to be Biblically right Conduct yourself in a godly fit. Not that you've been ungodly But also once you do do so in a mature fashion You said I agree with you. I mean, I disagree with you Then you come back and say I strongly disagree with you corey minor. That that's no different what you just said You didn't tell me why Now we're not going to have this conversation over tongues right now because we're getting ready to leave But the point is but the point is give me bible Give me bible give get and then explain to me why no other book after 1st Corinthians 14 even covers this It's so important tongues are so important paul didn't tell you want to do so. So it's so important It's so important. No one in the early church was doing it. It's that important But then 2000 years later When some some yehues and I call them yehues because because even the person parham calling these people the same thing um Sure, I fake tongues. I thought I thought they were real tongues. I'm calling them fake now Then I didn't call them fake. I thought they were legitimate tongues and then then I didn't know what I was what I was saying What I was doing I just knew I was speaking in tongues that I went back to what what did I say asking the pastor? Hey What did you just say? I don't know Every time so I want so do me a favor when you when you speak in tongues ask yourself What did I just say and if you don't know what you said then go to 1st chapter 14 13 14 15 and follow paul's mandate Half understanding. So if you pray in tongues, if you think that tongues is some angelic language paul still does command you to have understanding And so if you pray in tongues and don't have understanding, well then stop praying in tongues until you get understanding That settles it now. Let's put it back on the screen because I want to make sure I didn't just make this up 1st christen's 14 he says for if I pray in a tongue my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful So what what does he want you to do? What is the outcome then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with my mind this word mind. No a is understanding So if you think I'm wrong, but you should keep praying in tongue fine Pray every day pray all day twice on sunday, but you better do it understanding if you think that what you're doing is authentic fine But you better have understanding or You're out of order You can't even say amen to yourself That's the point there needs to be something done decent and in order with understanding and with every Spiritual gifting what do you say? I don't let me answer this one acts Uh-oh dog always moving too fast for me. I'm not following. Oh, no, I'm not hot. I'm not hot. Listen. I'm I'm Uh, I'm just moving I'm not hot. No. I've calmed down for what I never calmed down I'm trying to make a point to you if you think If you think that uh, you're praying in tongues is is is a right way to find listen praying tongues away You're not gonna lose you don't lose your salvation for praying in gibberish You don't lose your this ain't stripes sweetheart. You don't lose your salvation Uh by being wrong or being always right. Nope If I'm wrong, I won't lose my salvation over it if you if you're wrong You won't lose yours. I'm just trying to get you to to be a mature believer in the word. That's all That's all so all right guys, but The whole point by the way, you know, it's funny I just said it was a little scientific it but you know, it's funny if I were to Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. I Okay, wait a second. I know my glasses are not this bad. I know my glasses are not this if it is Then I'm I gotta I know Wait a minute. I know for a fact my glasses are not this bad Wait a second Cory. Did I not read your post correctly? Yes Wait a second. Wait a second. Hold on I'll tell you what I'm about to do. I'll tell you what I'm about to do Let's put the I gotta give me some glasses. You know what I'm calling these people up right Cory is all right You Wait a minute. I know you know what it is. You know what it is. It's I hadn't had enough coffee That that's what it is. I had I hadn't had enough coffee I don't know what to say I feel I feel bad. I listen. I need to repent. I would first of all Your name is Cory. That should have been a giveaway. We go that we were right here Now what I want to know is I got about 47 moderators some of somebody should have texted me and said Cory you you can't see today Your eyes are all over the place. Nobody told me. I need some I need some almond milk. Yeah Yeah, christian. I might need some almond milk. That might be it. That might be it Diana didn't say nothing carol didn't say nothing chess champion say Chess champ finally said something that don't count Lisa didn't say anything I'm sorry, Cory I am so sorry Maybe I ought to She's at work. She's at work. She's got some sort of um Some some somebody somebody's reviewing her class or something like that for With dawg on a chess champ. You didn't tell me big enough. You didn't type big enough. I didn't see it Problem eyes. I don't know what it is. Listen. I've been off today. I'm off. I'm off I'm not off what I said. I'm just off what I saw Diana She's right though. I yeah, you text me. I will I'll I'll see it a week later But no if if it's during a live stream if you guys call me or texting in live stream I have my phone here just in case an emergency pops up for my family. So so uh a lot of times chess champ Will send me something like hey, Cory slow it down or this or that or what have you and so I do I keep this phone um my cult sponsored phone So I can yeah, I feel bad now. I feel bad. I tell what I'm gonna go out of this live stream and come back in We're gonna start it all over I I am so sorry, Cory. I am so sorry I'm I just wow I blame you too, Tyra. You didn't tell me anything either. You should I don't know what to say Yeah, I'm no more tongues. No more tongue. But the whole point guys I could have saved I could have saved myself some embarrassment with these bad eyes of mine Maybe I should just did like Luke and use the force Because I can't see anything. I need you know what I need. I need a braille monitor I need a braille monitor so Let me just say this while we're getting ready to close out with 37 minutes too long I wanted to go an hour 37 minutes too long, but let me say this um You know what I'm gonna get I tell you what I'm gonna get Let me tell you what I'm gonna get. Let me put let me put it on the screen Y'all tell me I'll let you guys tell me if I should do this You all tell me if I should do this. I get miracles like that in our ministry. I don't post See those glasses What if I get some glasses like that? I'm gonna go and get me some brand new glasses. I'm gonna get some glasses like Pagani's glasses Yeah, I'm I'm gonna do should I do that? I'm I'll do I'm gonna get me some of those glasses. How about that? Some big glasses kind of stylish Some that will match every outfit that I got. I don't know that that's gotta be that listen That's gotta be expensive because he's he listen one thing Pagani's gonna do He's gonna have some some eyewear on him He's Yes, yes, son of john. I'm like, uh, thank you for so much. Yeah So Tyra says no, no everybody's a nope But let Victor says do it. It's not my style. I listen. I am not a stylish person I don't I don't do jewelry Um, I don't do necklaces. I just I don't know. It's it's always been my thing for to not be my thing. I didn't I never had Jordans. It wasn't because I couldn't afford. I'm not one of those guys is just super stylish Um, can't tell you how funny story and then we'll get it in This is how not stylish I am and I don't even know good good shoe wear I go to the store to look at some some some tennis shoes I said, I want to go and get me some. I don't even have I don't I was gonna give me some new tennis shoes Yeah, let me go get some new tennis shoes My kids have they bought my tennis shoes So I don't know what I don't know what stylish So I go get some new tennis shoes and I'm trying to find because you know when you go to the store, they got A thousand different and they're all different colors. I don't I don't want neon orange or bright green or any of these other things um monitor Synergism and monitorism my I can't even talk me out What it is is what what uh, sin means like mon um If you're synergistic you kind of feel like that you are helping in your own salvation mana. It's just one It's like it's god is doing it him and him alone okay, so Rough what you know, I tell what I'm gonna do. I'll do I'll do a video over that um, but I go to the store All these just racks and racks of shoes different colors green blue orange purple all kind of colors And I'm just lost it's like oh man. It is like what in the world we're having what happened just white Like my idea there's white and black white with black White with black stripes Yeah, they they had that they don't have that anymore And so I finally see some black shoes This is how this is how old not a big out of touch. I am I see some black Nike's like these are nice I'm looking at them Wonderful and before I go to the guy to say give me my size I look down at my shoes They're the exact same shoes. I don't know. Thank you. Uh in us. Yeah, thank you. I Fundraised for my new glasses. No, I wouldn't do that. No, I wouldn't even like myself, but thank you Um, but I want y'all to give us one thing and we're out of here If you're going to claim that you are being led by the spirit What you need to do is make sure that the spirit that you're being led by looks just like the spirit in the bible I think we all can agree with that Hey, man, and so guys, I will see you all tomorrow always They're doing so because it makes them uh, uh, it makes them look spiritual It makes them look spiritual there. Maria had to get a super chat in with thank you for super chat But then the cowboy part that's not but listen, you will see this weekend. Anyway guys, let me get out of here I'm gonna spend some time Watching a little show No, I have a phone call to me. I've got a phone call to make. I'm sorry But thank you guys. I will see you all tomorrow. God bless you and I hopefully I'll have my eyes working better tomorrow