 your head shined by the blood of Jesus. Heinebaka, ratakahasa, mandarabakatara, ratarakaseka, ratarabakata, come on and pray in the spirit. Sekatarabaka, ratabakashakata, mandokosokota, ratarabakata, ratarabakasakata. There's a miracle for you. Mandakishin did it with Surya, intestinal problems. Someone with similar intestinal problems. We've seen several people being delivered from the classmate bags. Surya Vasuyam, mandarabakasakata. I don't make this stuff up. Ikonololobokosakata. So here we go. Aba, abasala, terese kelemasa indeseke, dese kelemasakata, emberete dese elemeseke, embeshite kelemasa, emberutusu, kirinimasa kala namaseke te kereche, embeshite kelemasa. Hey, welcome back everybody. I hope today that you all are ready to kind of do a little bit of deep dive into this whole issue of tongues. And when you look at tongues, what the purpose of tongues are is what we're hearing today. Does it resemble, is it any way like what is describing the Bible? Are there different types of tongues? Those are the kind of things that are gonna be answered. When you look at the examples that were just playing and of those, the very last one was my favorite because that was my grandson. We call him three, his name is Anthony the third. But he was the only one of all of those people who was legitimately trying to say something. And that's the issue. And so we wanna get into what tongues are. And for some reason, people get a little bit offended by it because it comes down to their experiences, what they felt, what they know. And I get that, I really do. I used to be a part, I said, I used to be a part of a Pentecostal church. The very first church I was ever a part of was a Pentecostal church. And so that's how I was taught. That's what I thought, that's what I knew. And there were things that I felt like I experienced, that I experienced as well. But when we get down to it, is it our experiences and how we feel or even what we think versus what the scripture say? And if there is an issue there, if there's a contrast, if there's a vision between what the word says, if it's clear that this is what it says, this is what it means, but yet I experienced this, then I've gotta go with that because, and you all can relate to this, we all have had times in our lives where our emotions, our feelings, what we thought, how we understood, this kind of betrayed us, right? How many of you have ever felt like with somebody in high school maybe, that you were in love and then coming to find out your not or sometimes unfortunately when we're adults and we come to find out that it was just a feeling, right? It was just something bad I ate. So we're not going to confuse emotions and feelings and even experiences, none that anyone else can legitimize versus what the word says. And so we wanna start off first by talking about what tongues are and where they come from. So let's be clear. Tongues are, at least biblically, a gift of the Holy Spirit and what it's called, it's called pneumatican. It's part of the pneumatican, the things that are spiritual or spiritual things. And so it comes from the spirit. It isn't, and so when someone says spiritual gift, it's appropriate to say it's spiritual gift, but let's be clear. It is from the Holy Spirit. What's the purpose of that? What is the whole purpose of the Holy Spirit? And so I wanna get into the scriptures here and let's look at what Jesus says is the purpose of the Holy Spirit. And let's see if we can kind of glean what not only just tongues are, but some of the other gifts that are either abused, misused, or maybe used correctly. We're gonna touch a little bit on this issue of whether they ceased or not. Not a lot, we'll say that for another time. So anyway, let's go ahead and get into it. I wanna go ahead and go to the passage here. We're gonna go to John 15. And guys, let me know if you can read these, the passage is correctly. If the font is big enough or not, let me know, I'll increase them right now. If not, we'll go ahead. But anyway, Jesus is speaking to his disciples. He's just told them about bearing fruit and remaining and so forth. And he goes on to this because he's getting ready to introduce the Holy Spirit into this whole discourse. I'm sorry, I clicked the wrong thing. He's getting ready to introduce the Holy Spirit into this whole conversation. And he says to them, let's go to verse, let's start in verse 25. But the word that is written in there, the law must be fulfilled that they hated me without cause. Look at verse 26. But when the helper comes, whom I will send you from the Father, the spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, he will bear witness about me. And you also will bear witness because you have been with me from the beginning. So the purpose of the Holy Spirit, as Jesus himself is explaining to them, when the Holy Spirit comes in you, he's got one ministry, one main ministry. He is going to testify of who? Now I'm asking that question, even though he just said it, so it should be obvious, he's going to testify of who? Of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is not gonna come and testify of himself. We see that in John 16 also. He's not gonna come and testify of himself. He's going to come and testify of Jesus. He's not gonna come and testify of God. In a generic sense, he's going to testify of Jesus. Why? Remember Jesus makes this statement. He says, greater things than I do, you'll do. Why? Because I go to the Father. Well, what happens when he goes to the Father? The Holy Spirit comes. And he doesn't mean greater in the sense of, you're gonna do better things. No. I've heard some people say these things and it's just silly to even say such a thing. Because first of all, to think that you'll be able to do anything greater or on the magnitude that Jesus has done, the greatest thing that he's ever done is save souls and we're not gonna do that or die for someone's salvation. We're not gonna do that. But the word greater that's used there, the word make us is the word that's to be interpreted as in terms of volume. We'll do more. Well, why would we do more than he did? We're gonna do the same thing, which is to reconcile people. Remember, Paul says in a second Corinthians that we have been reconciled. So we have been given the ministry of reconciliation. That's our job to reconcile the world to the Father. And so that's what Jesus was doing. And so when he leaves, the Holy Spirit comes. And so we join into that same ministry. And since Jesus in his earthly ministry, he was relegated by time and space. And so he was only in wherever Jesus was, was where he was. If he was in Nazareth, that's where he was. If he was in Capernaum, that's where he was. And so when the Holy Spirit comes into us, we're all over the place. We should be doing exactly what he was doing just in different places. And so you've got some people in Dallas, some people in Houston, some people in Indianapolis, some people in Chicago, more needed in Washington definitely. Some people all over the world spreading the gospel. That's the ministry that we're supposed to be a part of. And so that's the point and purpose of the Holy Spirit. And so let's see, in verse, let's go back over to the scriptures. I'm gonna pull this up so you don't just take my word for it. In verse, in chapter 16, verse 13, he says, when the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears, he will speak and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me. Again, he will glorify me for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. That's important, guys. And the reason why I'm kind of harping on that because a lot of times you go to churches and you see them emphasizing the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the spirit and then laying hands on folks and people falling out and running around and so forth. And that's not magnifying Jesus. Regardless of what you think, it certainly isn't talking about Jesus. It certainly isn't sharing the gospel. And so he says he is going to glorify me. He's gonna testify of me. Well, that makes sense because when Jesus speaks to the apostles in Acts 1-8, what does he say? He says to them, he says that you shall, when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, he reiterates what he just said, you shall be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the rest of the world. And the reason why I kind of slowed down that part, I want you to pay attention to how he said it. He puts it in chronological order for a reason. He wants them to be witnesses and us as well, but then primarily to be witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the rest of the world. Why Jerusalem and Judea first? Well, because that's the Jews. You've heard and said to the Jews first and then to the Gentiles, well, God is starting it this way. He doesn't want a divided church and so he's gonna start with Israel first. And so on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit comes and they, and we're gonna talk about this in a little bit, but when they start speaking in these tongues, we're gonna talk about what these tongues are, who's the audience? Jews from all over. They have come to Jerusalem, so you're gonna be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea. So that's the Jews. Then to Samaria, those are the Samaritan cousins of theirs. Those are those who are, those who have intermingled with other people, but there's still Jews who have just kind of left Judaism, so to speak, and then to the uttermost parts of the world. So to the Jews, then to the Samaritans, then to the Gentiles, right? And we see that happening in Acts. First the Jews get it, then in Acts 8, you see the Samaritans, then in Cornelius house, those are the Gentiles. We also see another group in there also, which is John's disciples, John the Baptist's disciples. So to run around the countryside, they're still faithful saying, repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. And so they're being faithful. And so now they also get introduced to the Holy Spirit. And so the role, the ministry of the Holy Spirit is to testify of Jesus. So if he is in us, and a good indication of us having the Holy Spirit, which is an indication of us being saved, because you cannot be saved if you don't have the Holy Spirit. They come together, the wet and the water, the water and the wet. You can't have the water without the wet. You can't have the wet without the water. You can't have Christianity without the Holy Spirit. You can't have the Holy Spirit without Christianity. So if the Holy Spirit lives in you, what does he want to do? He wants to magnify and to testify of Jesus. Now it's going to show up in different ways with different people. Maybe somebody is out there leading a crusade. Maybe someone is just talking about Jesus on their job. Maybe you're just sharing it with some kids on the, you know, in the neighborhood. Maybe you're just talking to a friend who's going through something, but Jesus is going to come out. I don't care what you say. And so if you feel like you've got that much Holy Ghost in you and it's got to come out, it should come out in that fashion. It should come out with people knowing who Jesus is. People will know that you're his because you'll testify of it. We talk about tomorrow, we're going to talk about our, some of us are going to talk about our favorite football teams or we'll talk about politics. We'll talk about everything else. My God, if we've got Jesus in us, we should be talking about Jesus. That should be the first thing or at some point in time coming out of our mouths. And so Jesus says, when he's in you, you are going to be my witnesses. And so I'm going to do it with the Jews first and then what happens? Once the Jews receive the Holy Spirit, they understand these 12 apostles who received the Holy Spirit first. 920, we've covered that. And if we need to, we'll cover it again, but there was 12 apostles who received the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost. He starts off with them. He builds a foundation upon them. And then they speak in these different languages to these Jews from different areas. And so the issue is, if I'm going to witness to someone of my own understanding, if I speak English, I can witness to someone in English. The problem comes about when I need to share the gospel with someone who doesn't know my language. And so, Houston, we got a problem. Well, in comes the gift of tongues or a better way of putting it is the gift of languages. The word that's used is the word in the different case endings or different tenses is the word glow sigh, or you might see glow sighs, but the word simply means languages. It's never been meant to be understood as some unknown language. I'm going to cover that, but it's never, ever, ever meant or even used in the scriptures as some unknown language. If someone believes they have, they have an example of an unknown language being meant or being spoken, then let me know and we'll go ahead and cover that and debunk that because there is no such thing as Jesus meaning or as Luke is writing or as Paul is talking about some unknown ecstatic language that no one understands but you. And we're going to show how when Paul brings it up, he's really insulting them when he says that. So, they're speaking these languages to Jews. In Acts 8, Philip, who is a Hellenistic Jew, he's not Jewish by ethnicity. He's Gentile. He goes down to Samaria and they believe the problem is they don't receive the Holy Spirit. Well, why? Well, because God doesn't want a divided church and so who comes down? Well, none other than Peter and John. Why? Well, when they lay hands or when they give authority, when they give witness or testimony that these Samaritans receive the Holy Spirit, when they go back to the church of Jerusalem, they can't say these other Jews who don't like, remember they don't like the Samaritans and the Samaritans don't like them. You talk about a racially divided landscape more than we've ever seen. It was that way then. And so they couldn't say that these Jews, that these Samaritans, yeah, they're saved. They believe in Christ, but they don't have what we have. They don't have the Holy Spirit like we have it. And so Peter, and now he's what's called the first among many, he is the leader so far. He's the guy that's doing most of the talking, most of the leading. He's kind of given direction. And so when he says it, when John says it, one of the 12, when they said, yes, these Samaritans, they received the Holy Spirit and the evidence was that they began speaking in these languages. Well, then the church in Jerusalem could not deny this, right? Because how did the other Jews in Jerusalem and all everywhere else, under whose hand did they receive the Holy Spirit? Under these apostles also. So then we go to Cornelius's house and the same thing happens. And so to the Jews and Judea, then to the Samaritans, then to the Residual World, the Gentiles. Problem is though, when we start moving outside of this comfort zone, this area where we all speak the same language, someone's got to help us to translate and they didn't have professional translators back then. You might go to a region where now you could buy it, you could pay for a translator then, but they weren't doing that. And so God instead gifted them to do so. So God gives them the ability to speak in these languages. And so, excuse me. So now I want to make sure you all are with me. The purpose of the spiritual gifts, the purpose of the Holy Spirit is to magnify Jesus. You're going to find out that there is no such thing, no such example of anyone having the Holy Spirit and magnifying or edifying themselves. That's going to come up in 1 Corinthians 14 and someone's going to say, well, yes, but the spiritual gifts are to magnify or to edify yourself. You can't find that. Outside of 1 Corinthians 14, I challenge you to find that and I want to show you, if you think that's what tongues are about, I'm going to show you where you are incorrect. And we're going to use simple logic. We're going to use the languages and we're just going to use it in context, okay? So someone's going to say, as we're moving along, because there's only a few examples of these languages being spoken up. On Acts, in Acts 2, then we see it through Acts when obviously the Jews receive it, when the Samaritans receive it, even though it actually doesn't really say verbatim or specifically that they spoke in these languages. We know they spoke in these languages because Simon the Sorcerer is trying to buy it after he sees what has happened. Well, what has happened? They speak in these languages. And then also when Cornelius's house, they speak in these languages. But then if you go to Romans 8, 28, this passage for some reason gets brought up as an example of someone speaking in tongues and that tongues become these languages, this spiritual language, this sometimes an angelic language, this language that just cannot be uttered, okay? Let's look at the passage. You all see if you see what I'm seeing. It says likewise, the spirit helps us in our weakness for we do not know what we, I'm sorry for we do not know what to pray for as we ought to, the spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. And so people are going to say that, see, there's an example of these groanings that they're not really English and that can't be understood. But look at what he says, though. You tell me if this is something that's verbalized. He says with groanings too deep for words or some versions might say words that cannot be uttered. The Greek word that's used there is the word sthanagmois. It is an inward sighing. It's not outward. It's not verbalized. It's inward. And so this could not be talking about, about tongues or about a language, could it? This is talking about, there's just this, this expression that's going on that you can't find the words for. But the spirit knows, and so the spirit, because he's in us, he's interceding for us. Well, that makes sense because Jesus did say that he'll be interceding for us daily. So that's all that is. That has nothing to do with tongues at all. No one is speaking here. It doesn't make sense in the Greek. It doesn't make sense in the English. These are groanings too deep for words or with words that cannot be uttered. Are you all with me? So when someone wants to go to that and use that as an example, no, that is not what that is. Just tell them, just look at them, shake your head. That could not be what that is, okay? So now the next time that we see these languages, these tongues come up is where? In 1 Corinthians 8, in 1 Corinthians 14, but before we get there, let's go to 1 Corinthians 12 because there's an issue that we have that Paul has to, I can't even spell. That Paul has to address. And it is my contention, Corinthians, I can't spell. It is my contention that Paul is not writing this book as a means to say, hey guys, that a boy you guys are doing a great job. No, that is not what Paul is getting at. And so, let's see, am I spelling this wrong? Oh, I'm sorry, there it is. I just wanna make sure I was, let's go ahead and go there. Put it on the screen for you guys to see. 1 Corinthians 12, the point of 1 Corinthians that Paul is writing, Paul, now 1 Corinthians is not the first letter that he wrote to the church in Corinth. He's written before. And so he's, 1 Corinthians is probably more likely the second letter that he's written to them. Maybe the third, who knows? But he's writing to one to respond on some things that they've answered before and to even address the thing that he talked about before. And so the whole theme of 1 Corinthians is this issue of unity and that there'd be no divisions. We know that because in the very first chapter, matter of fact, the first couple of chapters he's talking about, that he's bothered the fact that there are these divisions. He says, I wish there'd be no divisions among you. It's been reported to me and so in doing so, you guys are behaving like near men, like carmen. And so he talks about unity in the church, in the body, even when it comes to the family and marriage and so forth. But then we get to 12, he talks about unity as it relates to spiritual gifts, which is why he says now in verse one, chapter 12, concerning spiritual gifts. The word that's there for spiritual gifts is the word Numitikan, which is the word for spiritual things. Now we translated spiritual gifts, but that's fine. He says, now concerning spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant, all right? Or uninformed. So here's a question. Why would he bring up or even mention that I don't want you to be ignorant? Well, clearly something is being done ignorantly, not in the right fashion. He says, you know, let me move this out of my way. I can't, I got something here blocking my own view. He says, you know that you were pagans, when you were pagans, you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the spirit is really important. No one speaking in the spirit of God ever says, Jesus is a cursed and no one can say Jesus is Lord, except the Holy Spirit. Oh, wait a second, Paul, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. Reading this, what do you mean no one in the spirit could ever say Jesus is a cursed? Who in the right mind would ever say Jesus is a cursed? Well, I just said, Paul says, I just said, I don't want you to be ignorant concerning these spiritual gifts. Now we're talking about tongues right here. I don't want you guys to say Jesus is a cursed. Well, why would he need to write that? Because what's happening is inadvertently, people are actually saying Jesus be a cursed. They don't know what they're saying and that's the problem. You guys don't know what you're saying and some of you has been reported that you are saying Jesus is a cursed. You can't have the Holy Spirit and say Jesus is a cursed just like you have to have that same Holy Spirit to say Jesus is a Lord. So I'm comparing the fact that you say Jesus is a Lord and you do so only because of the Holy Spirit. But then you turn around and some of you are saying Jesus is a cursed because you're not paying attention to what you're saying. You are doing this thing all wrong, all wrong. Remember the book of 1 Corinthians, the letter to Corinth in this example, the entire letter, the entire book is not written to say guys, you're doing a good job. He's not writing to commend the church. He's writing to rebuke them to tell them hey, you're doing these things wrong. And so in this example of 1 Corinthians, we get to type of 12, also when it comes to spiritual gifts or spiritual things, we got a problem guys. We got a problem one because there's cause and there's a division and there's this misuse of it. So let's go back to the passage and I wanna read something because we, again, we seem to, we forget this. We're not paying attention to this. He says, I'm gonna learn how to use this better one day. In verse 12, I mean verse four, he says now there are varieties of gifts, but the same spirit and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord and there are varieties of activities, but the same God who empowers him all in everyone. Now, look at verse seven, vitally important, you know, understand this part. He says to each is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good. For each is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good. Some of y'all version might say for the benefit of all. The point that Paul is making that he just said spiritual gifts, these spiritual things are for the benefit of everyone, for the common good of everyone. They're not meant for you. My spiritual gift is not meant for me. Your spiritual gifting is not meant for you. If I've got the gift of, let's just say in this day, if I were gifted with the ability to heal, it's not for me to heal myself. If I were gifted with the ability to teach, it's not for me to teach myself. If I was gifted with the ability of helping or giving, it's not for me to do it and splurge on myself. No, it's for the benefit of the body to grow the body. Which is why he talks about that there are different gifts with the same body. And so he goes on to talk about that for one is given through the spirit, the utterance of wisdom, the other, the utterance of knowledge according to the same spirit. And so he's going down these different gifts and these different uses in the body and so the point that he's making is y'all, we're all part of the same body and we are to build up the body, to protect the body, to undergird the body, to grow the body, not to grow yourself, not to edify yourself, not to make to be about you. And so you've got these preachers out here who either intentionally, they know better or unintentionally, they just haven't studied. They don't know, both are dangerous because you have, in many cases, you've made a mockery before unbelievers about this faith that we have. There is no such thing as this ecstatic that sounds like gibberish babbling that's ever called tongues. Some folks get offended by that. You get offended because, hey, I've done that. Are you trying to say that I didn't speak in tongues? Are you trying to say that what I was saying was babbling or gibberish? Well, no, I'm not Paul is. I'm not the Bible is. And I don't mean to be rude or come across as uncompassionate. Again, I was in the same boat, felt like I spoke in tongues, felt like all of stuff was legitimate. But then I started, something hit me one Sunday. I'll never forget this. We had a particular sister in the church. She was older than me, but Sister Johnson. And about 1058, roughly, there about every Sunday might be 1057 if the spirit hits early. It might be 1101 if the spirit's a little bit late. But around that same time, we used to time it. Yeah, 1058, she starts speaking in tongues, getting up, shaking her hand and spinning around. And she'll make this statement. She'll say that it's like fire, shut up in my bones, I just gotta tell somebody. Well, at this time, I was the outreach minister. My job was to go out to witness the people. That's what I did all the time, every day. Seven days a week, I'm out witnessing. You send me to Walmart, I'm gonna stop and witness to somebody. Send me to the grocery store, I'm gonna stop and witness to somebody. So my natural thought was, wait a second, if you just gotta tell somebody, why are you telling us? We're already believers, we're already here. Why don't you go if this Holy Spirit is in you and you just can't contain it and you wanna let someone know the goodness of the Lord? Why not tell people who don't know who the Lord is? That was my first thought. And now I didn't start tearing apart this whole issue of tongues, but my thought became was, why? Why are you speaking in these languages? What's the purpose of this? Because I'm always asking, why? What purpose does it serve? If what I'm saying, and guys, you gotta ask yourself this question, if you leave here thinking that you don't agree with what I'm saying, that's fine. My question is, why do you do it the way you do it? What's the purpose? Now I'm telling you what the purpose biblically of what it said. I'm trying to lay this out so that you see that every spiritual gift falls in this category, not just one. It's not that tongues are their own separate type of gift, but then all the other gifts are different. No, all the gifts are given for the benefit of the others. We get to chapter 14. We're gonna see Paul reiterate this a couple of times and we're gonna see him rebuke people for edifying themselves. So the whole point that he's making is, with regard to this, there's this division. Some of you guys, what's happening is this. If I start ranking and categorizing certain gifts, because how do we do it? We think that maybe tongues are one of the gifts to be desired, and prophecy, and healing, and so forth. Well, these are the ones that everybody would love to have, but they're also the ones that are abused. These are the ones that we see guys that ain't right. When someone is laying hands on somebody, just knocking folks down or throwing your jacket, or blowing on somebody, or waving your hand and people are falling out. And we know just that he looked right even to the natural person. But even us, like, wait a second, where do we ever see that? Where do we ever see Paul or Jesus doing any of this stuff to believers? Oh, well, in the garden, when Jesus says I am, they fell back. Well, first of all, those were unbelievers. The only time you saw somebody being so-called slain was someone being slain by the Holy Spirit who were nonbelievers. He didn't even possess people. So I don't think you want to compare yourself to them. So you see these misuse, these abuses of these apparent gifts. You'll see people giving these little vague prophecies. Someone in here, somebody right now is having a problem when they're married. The Lord is just telling me he wants you to just pray about it. Really? Someone in here is having back problems, really. Somebody in America who happens to be watching has a back problem, has an achy joint or something. Really? And so they give these little vague prophecies, but in the Bible, prophecies are specific, and so they abuse that and no one ever calls to the carpet and we say, hey, this is gonna happen to you and it doesn't happen 20 years down the road or we're not gonna chase this so-called prophet down and say, hey, you were wrong about that. Now, we did have a few who kind of had some egg on their face this past election cycle who prophesied that Trump was gonna win. But then when it comes to these gifts of tongues, that's something that anybody can do and it makes it seem like these folks are really spiritual because if you're in that church, you're in that environment, don't you just think that if you belong to a Pentecostal church and that somebody who's speaking in tongues, don't you just kind of feel like everyone's like, hey, that guy's really, really spiritual? That, ooh, the Lord is sure working in you. Look at the spirit move, right? Well, I don't see in scriptures the spirit moving like that at all. So the question is, are people desiring these gifts? And if people are desiring these gifts, well, what about the people who don't have those gifts? They're gonna feel like second-class citizens or lesser in the spirit. Well, the only thing, the only gift I have is just the ability to help people or to comfort people and who, you know, it's kind of like in the choir. If in the choir, you've got your drummers, you got your bass players, you're good guitar players and you got to lead singers, you got the director, you got the guy on the organ, the piano, what have you? Sometimes we look at certain people as though they have a better gift in the choir. And now maybe someone may think that the person is singing has a better gifting as a race in music than the less of the guy on the drums. Take the drums out and see what happens. If that's the kind of music that you like or take the piano out. The point that he's making is we're all part of this same body and you guys are starting to rank and desire certain gifts and it's causing a division. Now, if you think that this gift is the better gift and you want to be as spiritual as possible, what are you going to desire? You're going to desire that gift, right? So here's what's funny. In between chapter 12, as Paul is laying the foundation as he's getting ready to get on him about these spiritual giftings and chapter 14 where he goes into tongues, sandwiched in between there is First Corinthians chapter 13. Well, why? Because numerically, Corey 13 comes between 12 and 14. But why does he bring up this whole issue of love? Well, simple, because love is the whole thing that all of this stuff should be couched in. Love for yourself, does that make sense? Should I be out there using my spiritual gifts and showing love for myself? No, I should be showing love to other people. And what does Paul say? He says that love, he also says the tear of the Lord, but also love compels us to share the gospel with people. And so that same love, he's consistent. The Bible is consistent. That same love should be what we use when we share the gospel. So let's go back to the passages, to the scriptures and let's go over here to chapter 13. Let me move my cursor down. So he says, in verse one, if I speak in tongues of men and of angels, but I have not love, oh, hold on, wait a second, we got a problem that someone's gonna say, see, Corey, there's another type of tongue. It's an angelic language. And so Paul is saying, I speak in these angelic languages also, but is that what Paul is saying? No, it's not. Paul is not saying that some people speak in these angelic languages. Paul is speaking hypothetically. How do we know? Well, let's keep reading and we'll see it. He says, if I speak, I'm sorry, in the tongues or the languages of men and of angels, but have not love, I'm a noisy gong or clanging cymbal. If I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all that I have and I deliver my body up to be burned, but not love, I don't have it, I gain nothing. So we know Paul is speaking hypothetically because did Paul speak? Do we ever have an account of Paul speaking in some sort of angelic language? No, maybe we just hear him, but let's ask the question. Did Paul have all prophetic powers? Somebody said, well, maybe he did. Well, here's one thing we know he didn't have. Did Paul have all knowledge? No, he didn't. No, he did not. And so the issue is, or did Paul ever move a mountain? No, he did not. So he's just saying, if I can do these things, I don't have anything. If I don't have it in love, none of this matters. And so is there some angelic language? Do we have ever an example of an angel coming and speaking in a different language? No. Do we have an example in the Bible of anyone ever speaking in the language of an angel? No, we don't have any of these examples. And so it would be incorrect to assume that Paul is speaking about a totally different heavenly language that we don't know anything about. Right? Because again, if I'm speaking in this heavenly language, what am I speaking to? And someone's gonna say, well, it's a language between you and God. Well, okay, well fine. Does God speak English? Does God speak Spanish? Does God speak German or French? What's God's language? What's his language of choice? And what if a person can't speak? What if a person is mute? Does that mean he can't speak to God? No, God is not speaking here and here. He's speaking here and here, right? And so is there anything that you can say in English or whatever your language is? Is there anything that you can say that anybody can stop God from hearing? Obviously not. And is there anything that God can say that anybody, the devil or anyone else can stop from getting to you? No. Well, someone's gonna say, well, he stopped, we had one angel stop another angel coming to see a prophet in the Old Testament. So what about that? One, two different dispensations, but two, the message got to him, right? And so he wasn't speaking to the person in their heart. Why? Because the Holy Spirit wasn't there in him at that time. Remember again, different dispensations. And so if the Holy Spirit is here and God is the Holy Spirit, I mean, the Holy Spirit is God. I said that the wrong way. He's speaking in you. So there is no need to ever worry about someone ever interrupting the lines of communication between us and God. That is not how that worked. So he's not speaking in some sort of unknown language that we don't know. Now, going back to that, let's look at what he says, how he wraps it up in chapter 13. He says, we all know the whole part about love is patience, love is kind. He says, look at this. He says, and I'll come back to the whole issue of verses nine through 12. But verse 13 says, so now faith, hope and love abides. These three, but the greatest is love. So why is he bringing that out? Why is he mentioning that the greatest love? Again, if I'm talking about these spiritual, if there is no love, if love isn't compelling you to use your gifting on someone else, then I don't know what you're doing. You're wasting your time. Now, 14, he's going to address the root of the problem. So let's go ahead and go to 14 and let's see this. He says, pursue love and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts or the numitikans, the giftings, especially that you may prophesy for one who speaks in a tongue, speaks not to men, but to God, for no one understands him, but he utters mysteries in the spirit. All right, now we've got a problem here. And I don't think people are paying attention to this problem. Let me tie these two together real quick. I don't think people are paying attention to this because we are so used to kind of thinking something, one thing means this, one thing means that. I've missed my passage somewhere. In 1 Corinthians 14, he says desire or pursue love. And in doing so, he says desire the gift of prophecy. Here's the problem. When we say prophecy, what do we mean by prophecy? Well, we don't necessarily, now prophecy all it simply means is to give a revelation of God, that's it. And there's obviously, there's two ways that can be done. There can be a fourth telling and there can be a foretelling. The foretelling is the one where we commonly think of, that's where someone says, hey, there's gonna be a famine in the land. It's gonna rain. This is gonna happen. It's predicting the future, right? What we commonly ascribe to prophecy, but fourth telling is just simply giving the thus say at the Lord, giving what God has said. And so he's saying earnestly desire to prophesy or to give a revelation of God, okay? And I believe he's limiting it to just the fourth telling, just giving God's word. He says, for one who speaks in a tongue speaks not to men, but to God, but for no one understands him, but he utters mystery in the spirit. May I ask you guys a question? And I use this example before, and if you've seen any of the other little videos that I've done on tongues, I keep using this example because it's something that we can all make, understand and it kind of makes sense. If I got a buddy, and I've got a young lady, my buddy's single and this young lady's single, and I don't know how we do it as Christians, I wanna hook them up. I wanna do a little church matchmaking. And I'm telling my buddy over here, the guy about this young gal. And I said, hey, got this girl, I want you to meet. He said, well, tell me about her. Oh, she's nice. She's nice, good Christian girl. She is so sweet, good parents. She doesn't have any kids. Not that that's a problem, but she's ready for a family. She's got a good job. Hey, matter of fact, I hear she's even got a pretty nice inheritance. She is so sweet, she can cook. She cleans well. She is just wonderful, wonderful, happy spirit. So he's happy. And then I say, but, then his face drops, right? Because what is the word but? But is a word, is it a word of comparison? No, it is a word for contrast. And so what does he, what is, what is Paul contrasting? Paul is contrasting, he says, for one verse two, who speaks in a tone, speaks not to men, but to God. For no one understands him, but he, others, mystery in the world. On the other hand, the one who prophesies verse three speaks to people for their up-building encouragement and consolation. Verse four, the one who speaks in a tone builds up himself, but the one who prophesies builds up the church. So real quick question, what should we be doing? Building up ourselves or building up the church? Now he's contrasting the two, which is why he says the one who speaks in a tone builds up himself, but the one who prophesies or gives or brings about God's revelation, he builds up the church. The two can't be the same because the word, there's a contrast there. If they were the same and they both were equal in his eyes, he would have just used the word and, right? That's what you would have done. It's the same in Hebrew. And in this case, it's the same in Greek. He's contrasting them. Also, you'll see this in your English and it's also there in the Greek. Notice what, how he, how the word tongue is rendered. It's rendered in the singular. So he's talking about some ecstatic, unknown, as a matter of fact, the King James version might have it as unknown language. If you speak this unknown language, look what he says in verse two. He says, no one understands them, but he utters mystery in the spirit. This is where we get the phrase, now the Greek phrase, this is where we get the phrase, only God knows what he's saying. So one of you guys, if someone says something and someone says, hey, what do you say? And I say, I don't know, only God knows. He's speaking mystery in the air, only God knows. It's not a compliment. And that's not how Paul meant it. And we know it's not how Paul meant it because he contrasted with building up the body versus building up yourself. All you do when you speak in these, and what Paul is talking about, he's talking about these unknown, ecstatic, babbling, these gibberish, these words. And I know it might be offensive, but that's all I can categorize it. If you're speaking in a way that nobody can understand it, only, only, who knows, only God knows what you're saying. Only God knows what you're trying to say. And of course, God does know if you are legitimate, because don't get me wrong. There are believers, legitimate believers who do speak in these unknown languages that are non-biblical. There are people who do that and they're still safe because we do it out of ignorance. And again, we know Christians can do things spiritually out of ignorance, because he just said, in chapter 12, verse one, I don't want you to be ignorant concerning spiritual gifts, right? So it can happen, you can be a believer and do something ignorantly in the spirit, right? Because he's gonna address this issue. There needs to be a connection between what we do so-called in the spiritual sense with an understanding. So if we're gonna say something, there needs to be an understanding. If we're gonna do something, there needs to be an understanding as to why we do it, which is why one of the gifts of the spirit is self-control. There needs to be this control about what we're doing, what we're saying, we should know what we're doing, and it should be deliberate, intentional, all for the glory of God and for the building of the body, not for the building up of Corey or for Bob or Joe or Mary or Sue. It should be for that purpose. And that's what Paul is calling out. And so he says, on the other hand, verse three, the one who prophesies speaks to the people for their up-building encouragement and consolation. Let me go there. I want you all to see it with me. So let me ask you all a question. If a person is building up the body, encouraging the body and consoling the body, and that's being contrasted with the person who is building up himself, do you think those two are on the same level? Which one is the preferred way? Both can't be, because again, the word but is used there. And the word, the Greek word for but there, this uses the word day. And then let's go back to it, going back to verse four, but the one who speaks in tongue builds up himself with the one who prophesies builds up the church, verse five. Now I want you all to speak in tongues. Now, it might seem funny. Wait a second. I thought he was getting on people for speaking in tongues. Is your English version giving you the plural or the singular tongue? In this part, it's giving you the plural. There's a reason why there's, and I'll show you in a little bit, the difference between the singular and the plural. He said, but I want you to speak in these plural tongues even more to prophesy. The one who prophesies is greater than the one who speaks in these tongues unless someone interprets. Well, wait a second, Corey. That doesn't make sense to me. I don't get it. You just said you're talking about tongues and contrasting with prophecy and you're talking about the singular and the plural. Here's something that you might, well, I know you won't see it unless you see it in the Greek. Paul is saying something that I wish that will be fleshed out a little bit more. Go back to, let's go back over here and I wanna show you something. This may look like gibberish when you see it. Here's the Greek passage. He says, I desire, I wish, but I wish that all of you are speaking in, this is the plural version of tongues in these languages. Malandehena profite. What that is is in order, I'd rather that you speak in these languages in order that you give a revelation. Same thing in verse one. He says, pursue love. Diocetane Agapain. He says pursue love, but he says the same passage here and there. Malandehena profite. I want you to prophesy in order that you prophesy. I don't know if you, so let me see if I can kind of help you to make sense. When Paul is saying I want you to speak in these languages, again, he's using these plural verses of singular. Why is it between the plural and the singular? The difference between the plural and the singular is the singular is the unknown, the ekana baka hoshababa, whatever, and no one knows. That's categorized as a singular tongue. Again, the King James Version will have it as an unknown tongue. Some of the versions might also, this unknown tongue that nobody, including you, knows what you're saying. Versus the plural, which is the languages, French, German, Spanish, what have you, Mandarin. Those are the same, because it's many of those, right? I'd rather you do those. And here's why I'd rather you do those, these plural, known languages. I'm saying known languages. I'd rather you speak in these known languages in order that the word would be preached. This is matching up with what Jesus said. The purpose of spiritual against the purpose of the Holy Spirit is so that Jesus be preached. How do you preach Jesus in this ecstatic, babbling gibberish? You can't, you're not. But if you're preaching it to someone in a language who you don't know and they understand it, well, then you can preach the gospel in his language, right? And so if I come across Joe Bob from some island who doesn't speak what I speak, and I don't speak what he speaks, but I've been gifted now to say this, but now I can share the gospel with him. So now God makes his bridge. And it's interesting of note, remember Jesus tells them to be, you'll be my witnesses and you'll go throughout all the region, throughout all the world preaching the gospel. Recall back in the Old Testament, God tells these people in Genesis, I want you to be fruitful and multiply. And what do they do? They're not fruitful and not multiplying. They stay in one place. As a matter of fact, they decided to build a great mime into themselves. And so what does God do? He comes down, he gives them these different languages. And when they get these different languages, what do they do? They scatter. Problem is when they scatter, they didn't scatter with the glory of God. They didn't scatter magnifying God. And so here God uses languages to confound them but to spread them. Now God is gonna come a full 180 or 360 if I'm saying this right. He's gonna come all the way back and now use languages to bring him to them like they should have done in the beginning. Little side note, but now. So the point is I need to have these languages to communicate the gospel to other people because everyone doesn't speak what I speak. At this point in time, you've got people that's been in captivity, that's been moved about and so forth. You've got people in different parts even just this area who speak different languages. Just in first century Palestine, you've got people who speak a little bit of Hebrew, Aramaic, you've got people who speak, the predominant language was called the lingua franca, is Greek, which is somebody might say, well, how come the Bible hadn't written, New Testament hadn't written in Hebrew since these are Jews because they were taken into captivity and they lost their language? Just like captives of any other country, let's just use here in America when people came to America as slaves. Slaves began speaking English and began to lose their language. Same thing there. And so even when Jews started returning back to the land, they still spoke the language that they grew up with. In this case, Greek. Most of Rome spoke Greek and Latin. You got different languages being spoken. So there needed to be, there was a necessity for someone to be able to carry the gospel in a different language. So when you go to Asia Minor, or when you go all throughout to Crete, or when you go to Thessalonica, when you go to all these different places and maybe they all don't speak Greek. Paul is planning churches all over and everyone doesn't speak Greek. Everyone doesn't speak Latin. That's why Paul says, I'm thankful that I speak more languages than all of you and I wish that you would do as well for the benefit of the gospel being preached, right? So real quick, I wanna pause because I wanna make sure that I'm not losing anybody. I wanna see if anyone has any questions or if anyone says no, Cora, you're off your rocker, you are moron and you don't know, you haven't experienced, this is what I love. You haven't experienced the spirit of God you just haven't had an encounter with the Holy Spirit like I have. My retort is this, yes I have and how I know so is because of when I went out and witnessed, that was God doing it. I didn't wanna go out and do that. That's the Holy Spirit moving me. When you encounter Christ, when you encounter God, when you encounter the spirit and the spirit is doing most of the working in you, you are gonna testify of Christ. You're not gonna testify of yourself. So I wanna look and see if anyone has any questions, any hate core, you're wrong, anything like that. So let's see, where is, let's see. He says, where is the interpreter then? Because all I see is church pushing tongues, not interpretation, good point. Many times you're gonna see someone up and saying, what's funny, I've always thought this was funny. I know people who speak Spanish do this or speak a different language. They'll start off speaking something and then they'll go to Spanish and come back. But now they always let us know what they're saying. But in church, you'll see this when people sing. Nowadays, you'll see this when people are preaching. They'll go from English to tongues and like, well, what did you just say? The church that I was at, one of my favorite pastors, he was a bishop in the Church of God and Christ. He was over a bunch of different churches. Love the man, he was a good man. Doctorally, I believe he, there's no question, he was off, especially when it came to this issue. But as far as being a leader and being concerned about people's lives, I'll give him that. But I used to ask him, what's going on here? How come, what did you just say? I said, I don't know. The spirit just took over, I don't know what I said. And so me and my buddy might look at each other. Shouldn't you know what you just said? Now, Paul is gonna address us in a little bit. We're only in what, verse five, verse six. Paul is going to address this, but we need to understand, you need to understand. So let's look at some more of these. By the way, guys, my brother Matthew here, guys, if you have not, or do not know who this brother is, go to his YouTube channel. I believe it's every day, I believe. He's got some good words, some good Bible studies. He's gonna, we're gonna be working it out. We're gonna talk later on, working out for him to come on as well. So anyway, go and check him out as well. But he says, first tons in the Bible was the Tower of Babel, languages of the earth. Second evidence was Pentecost. They spoke in languages of all of them, amen. So when you see tongues, get out of the habit that you've been taught or you come to understand that languages are some sort of spiritual, no, they're language. Paul is gonna address this issue of language, which is the necessity, why we have to have an interpreter. There needs to be interpretation. I need to know what I'm saying. You need to know what I'm saying. We all need to know what's being said. So there's not this mystery. That's the issue that Paul is rebuking here, okay? So let's jump back over. Let's say, hold on, I saw, sold out for Christ. She says, I saw a Japanese woman that never spoke English, but when the Holy Spirit fell on her, she was speaking tongues in English. It was amazing to watch. Now, I was at a church. This was, I'm getting out. I almost said 30 years ago. It was almost 30 years ago, but it was about 25 years ago. And I'll never forget it. We were on one side of the church. A lady gets up and she starts speaking and someone, when we were walking, I said, yeah, she was speaking a certain language. Another person understood it. Now, I can't say yes or no. I couldn't fully understand what she was saying. And when someone says this person said it in their language, I was in no position to say, that's incorrect. If that's wrong, couldn't do it. Matter of fact, let me jump to the end. I'll come back to this guys. I might shock some of you people. When it comes to spiritual gifts, I believe that people are misusing these gifts. They're abusing them for their own gain or sometimes out of ignorance. I say, now I believe the likelihood that these gifts have probably ceased. Paul does say, people bring up that Paul says, don't forget tongues. Okay, fine. So I'll say this. If a person speaks in tongues, they say they speak in tongues. Okay, fine. If a person says that they have the gift of healing, fine. If a person says they have to get the prophecy, fine. I don't care, fine. Paul says in Romans to use those gifts. I'm not saying use them on command whenever I say, hey, prophesy right now. No, but I'm saying, if you're a prophet, you should be prophesying, huh? And they should be accurate. If you have the gift of healing, you should be healing. When they came across folks that need healing, they healed folks. Do they always heal everyone? No, but there should be a record and account of you healing people. If you're speaking in these languages, first of all, get out in the mission fields. Stop walking around amongst other Christians with his spiritual gift. And, because the question's gotta be, like I had about the lady at that church and who you're referring to, my sister, is was this person speaking to another Christian? Because that's what it's for. We're gonna see where these languages are for the unbeliever, not the believer. And so if someone wants to say, hey, these gifts are still in play, fine, fine. Let's just, Paul, the Bible has given us a way to validate if they are true or not. If you do them the wrong way, we're gonna call you out on it. Why? Because it hinders us, it makes the Bible, the gospel, us and Christ all look back, right? So look what he says. Let me go to move. I got this. Let me see what he's saying. He says, if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, I will pray in the spirit and I will pray with my understanding. I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with my understanding. Okay. That's just really quoting the other verses. Let's see, 10, there are, 10, undoubtedly there are all sorts of languages in the world yet none of them is without meaning. Exactly. Paul, as a matter of fact, let's go ahead and get to that. We'll come back to, we'll still come back to some of you guys's questions. Let me move this thing. I am getting better, by the way, at this software. One day I'll master it. So anyway, he says, let's go to verse six, brothers. If I come to you, look at this. If I come to you speaking in languages, he says in plural, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching? If even lifeless instruments such as the flute or the harp do not give a distinct note, an understandable note, how will anyone know what it's played? If the bugle gives an indistinct sound, who will get ready for battle? He says, so it is with yourselves. Now let me pause for a second. You all know the song Amazing Grace. I don't care if you heard Amazing Grace played at a black church or white church. When that tune is playing, if it's in a three, four, a six, eight count, if it's in a four, four count, that doesn't matter, how the tempo is played, when you hear it, you know what to sing, right? You may not know the second verse or the third. All we know is the first part, Amazing Grace, that's the way to sound, right? Or if someone starts playing Happy Birthday, you know the tune, right? There is intention and understanding to the note. Same thing he says with you. He says, so it is with yourselves. And so let's go back to it. So it is with yourselves. If with your tongue, now this part, he's not speaking about language, he's speaking about the actual member of your mouth. If with your tongue, you utter speech that is not intelligible, how will anyone know what it said? Paul is bringing up a problem. For you will just be speaking into the air. Now, I can't, I wish we were in class, I'd say by show of hands, how many of you speak in this unknown language? And every time there's always, when I do a class there's always somebody who says, yes, we can use these languages. Okay, if no one understands what you're saying, what if Paul just says, he says you'll just be speaking into the air? Y'all, that's not a compliment. Paul is insulting. He's saying, y'all don't do that. Remember he's writing to rebuke the church because they're doing things spiritually in ignorance. Paul is not writing to commend you guys for doing anything good. He's writing to rebuke you for what you're doing inappropriately, incorrectly, ignorantly. And so if someone is speaking this unknown, ecstatic, and I'm gonna use the word again, babbling, gibberish. If it sounds like gibberish to me or to everyone else, that's what it is. That's what the understanding of gibberish is. We don't know what you're saying. And Paul says, you will just be speaking into the air. All right, so let's continue verse 10. He says, there are doubtless, many different languages in the world. And look what he says, and none, not one of them, none of them is without meaning. But if I do not know the meaning of the language, I will be a foreigner to the speaker and the speaker will be a foreigner to me. So it is with you. Matter of fact, hold on, let's pause for a second. So let's just understand what he just said. If I'm speaking to you, and I don't know what you're saying, you're in this room full of all these English-speaking people, and you go speaking this language, you're a foreigner to us and we're a foreigner to you. We have this, now you're really breaking friendship with us. I'm not saying that you are breaking friendship with Christ or anything like that or whatever, but I'm saying we don't understand you. And as a matter of fact, you don't understand you. Houston, we got a problem. So we gotta fix that. If I do not know the meaning of the language, because he says all these languages, they have a meaning to them, understanding there's grammatism, there's rules. One of the things that has helped me immensely is learning the Greek. And you'll see me bring this up a lot. And when I was in high school, and junior high, and I guess elementary for that matter, they gave us these different rules. You know, what a noun was, what a verb was, and so when you learn these languages, I've learned more about the English language now learning Hebrew and Greek than I did back then. And so you talk about predicate, predicate, nounatism and so forth and some of this anarthas, all these little rules. Well, they make sense, there's a meaning to them. So it is with Greek, so it is with Hebrew, Aramaic, Mandarin. Any language, there's rules. Why? Because when a person who speaks those languages, speaks with another person, words have meaning. If I'm talking to a woman, and I'm changing the meaning of a word without letting anyone know, and I said, hey, you sure are ugly. She's gonna have a problem with me because I just call her ugly. And I said, no, no, no sweetheart. No, I mean ugly is meaning pretty. Well, no, words have meaning. And so I cannot change the meaning of these words just to suit somebody. Are you with me? And so Paul said the same, he's reiterating this, there's meaning to languages, guys. And so he said, let's go on to verse 12. He says, so it is with yourselves, since you are eager for the manifestation of the spirit, uh-oh, since you are eager for the manifestation of the spirit, strive to excel in the building up of the church. What did I say? These spiritual gifts are for, Paul said it in verse seven of chapter 12, for the building up of the body, for everybody else. If your tongue is to edify yourself, you are in contrast to what Paul is saying. You cannot take that part of chapter 14 and say tongues are to edify the body when Paul says no desire to build up the church or to edify the church. We got a problem here again. So if you are going to be eager for the manifestation of the spirit, we all should. We should want the spirit showing up in our lives every day. We should want to be filled every day. Now, remember what the spirit does. In Ephesians 5, 18, he says, do not be drunk with wine, aware in his dissipation, but so contrast it with being filled with the spirit. And it's not like, okay, I'm drunk with wine. Uh-oh, now I ought to be drunk with the spirit. Uh-oh, no, that's not what he's saying. The contrast is being drunk with wine versus being controlled in control with the spirit. And so when the spirit takes over, when the spirit is in me, I am going to intelligibly, intellectually, knowingly do things, not haphazardly, not in a way where I don't know what I just did, man, y'all, what was that? Because remember on the day of Pentecost, what did they accuse him of? They accused him of being drunk. He said, no, we ain't drunk. No, we're not drunk at all. We are in full understanding, we've got all our faculties. We are preaching the gospel. And we know that because these people from all these different areas of the world are coming to Christ. The evidence is people come to Christ. Understand this, guys, when languages are spoken in the Bible, people came to Christ every time. When languages are spoken, Christ is magnified, the body is built up. And that's Paul's issue here, that the body needs to have this to build it up. Not for you to build yourself up. So let's go back to it, verse 13. Therefore, one who speaks in a tongue should pray that he may interpret. For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. Again, what form is your English version of tongue in? It's the singular version. So if I pray in these, if I speak in these little unknown languages, this babbling, this gibberish that I'm calling, he says, what shall I do? Obviously there's a problem because he says, what shall I do then? You would not ask, what shall I do if there is no problem? And so Paul gives an answer. What am I to do? I will, verse 15, I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. In other words, I'm gonna pray with some understanding. I will sing praises with my spirit, but I will also sing praises with my mind. Otherwise, if you give thanks with your spirit, how can anyone in the position of an outsider say amen to your thanksgiving? He does not know what you are saying. So here's the issue. How many times have you guys been at a church service or someplace else and someone goes and speaks in tongues and everybody says, amen? What'd you say amen to? You don't know what he could have said something about your mom. He just said, amen. He could have cursed God. He could have said Jesus is a curse. And you just said, amen. So that's why Paul's saying guys, I don't want you to be ignorant about this stuff. I'm giving you this stuff to benefit and build up the church. And you are in turn causing a mockery. You're hurting people. And so let's keep going. Verse, where do we leave off? Verse 17, you'll be giving thanks. You may be giving thanks well enough, but the other person is not being built up. Again, there it is, Paul is complaining. The other person needs to be built up. I thank God that I speak in a tongue singular or plural. Plural, tongues, meaning languages, more than all of you. Nevertheless, I would rather you speak five words. I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others than 10,000 words in a singular tongue or plural tongue, singular tongue. So he says, brothers, don't be children in your thinking. Let me pause here for a second. If I look in this camera and I say to any of you who believe that tongues are what we see in some of these churches, and I'm not here to condemn the Pentecostal or charismatic church, I am not. I'm not one of these guys who gonna say Pentecostal and charismatic folks aren't going to heaven. I'm not saying at all. I know some people who speak in tongues who believe in this stuff, who love the Lord. They do, I think they do so out of ignorance. And Paul says, so you have a zeal for this thing, but just do it with an understanding. So you can have this sincere desire and just do it sincerely the wrong way. And so I'm not attacking people in these churches. I am not. This is a means to correct, to make us smart about the Bible. And so he says, don't be children. So if I say to you, don't be children, would you take that as a compliment? Because who's he talking to? He clearly isn't talking about people who are speaking languages. He clearly isn't talking about people who are speaking, who are not speaking in these languages or who are not speaking tongues. He's talking about people who are speaking incorrectly, who are saying things that no one understands, not even themselves understand. And so he says in verse 20, he says, do not be children in your thinking, be infant and evil, but in your thinking, be mature. In the law it is written by people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners, I will speak to this people. And even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord. And so Paul is bringing up a passage from the Old Testament and in this passage it's talking about languages. Okay, so it's clear what tongues are. Thus verse 22, tongues are assigned not for believers, but for unbelievers while prophecy is assigned for unbelievers, I mean not for unbelievers, but for believers. So let me stop it for a second. For God goes into his so-called church, I mean his prayer closet and he's praying in tongues by himself. Question is two for one, who's interpreting? Two, where's the unbeliever? Who are you talking to? If I'm talking to somebody on here and this person speaks English and I speak English, what's the need of me speaking another language? When we both speak this language, if I speak another language and the other person knows the language, also that's fine. If I start speaking Spanish and he knows Spanish and we both know English, if I go to Spanish, that's fine. But you saw in the opening Kenneth Copeland and some other guy speaking back and forth in tongues and neither one of them knew what they were saying. Who does that build up? Who does that edify other than yourself? And so that's the greater issue. So he says, when we come together, his issue is this. When we come together, let me go to that pass. I want you all to see what I'm talking about. When we come together, verse 26, how come, now I'm saying it kind of in my redacted, how come every time we come together, somebody always has something to say? One of you always have a sin, a hymn, a song, a lesson. You want to teach somebody something? Lord told me this, a revelation from God or a tongue or interpretation. He said this, let all things be done for what? The building up of the whole body. So let all things done for the building up, not for yourself, but for the building of everybody. Verse 27, if any speak in a tongue, let there be only one or two or three at the most. Now, we know he's speaking about an actual language because that's the only way that you can say it. If anyone is speaking in languages, grammatically you have to use a singular to refer to a singular known language. And when done so, there need to be two or three at the most, all taken terms, and there needs to be an interpreter. I'll never forget a person was at our church and sir, it was the pastor preached very well. He preached very well. And it was exciting and folks like, hey man, you know, emotions were getting up and then this wasn't a Pentecostal church and we didn't do a lot of speaking in tongues. And one young lady, she started speaking in tongues and he just put his hands down and just kind of just waited and I waited for her to get through. She stopped. Cause typically what will happen is if someone goes speaking in tongues and no one else is kind of reciprocating, no one is kind of following them, they tend to stop. Which is maybe why you never see people speaking in tongues on the airplane or speaking in tongues in the grocery store. You always see them in what we call a safe zone in a safe environment at church or in a Bible study. But no one just at the office or in the job room, you just all of a sudden just break out in tongues, right? And I wouldn't recommend it either. But after she was speaking in tongues and no one was kind of going along with her, she stopped. And so he asked her question. He says, okay, is there anyone here who could interpret? Is there anybody in here? And does anybody know what she says? Anyone interpret? And he says, well then, based on what Paula said in 1st Corinthians 14, please be silent. And so he did talk with her later on and try to explain and show her the description. So she understood. She just said, okay, I just kind of got caught up. And that's what happens, guys. It's easy to get caught up. Tomorrow night when my cults go and beat, who are we playing tomorrow night? We're playing somebody. When we beat them, I'm gonna get caught up in the emotion, in the afford. Now I'm not gonna go speaking in tongues, but I might, I'll make some actions and say some things and move in ways that I wouldn't do around anyone else. They're looking at me like, this guy has lost his mind. Easy. He flipped out, right? And so there needs to be some order to what we're doing. God is not the author of confusion. Let everything as Paul's gonna say be done decently and in order, right? And so if this isn't done in an orderly fashion, Houston, we got a problem. Or in my only Spanish, no bueno, right? We don't, this shouldn't be this way. We are to be an example to one ourselves, but also the world we are like. And so does this mean that there can be no tongues today? Again, Paul does say, do not forbid the speaking in tongues. So the question is, so Corey have tongues ceased. Now, you know my take on it because when people abuse certain things, the natural tendency, the inclination is to move to the other side, right? When you hear someone say that God doesn't speak, someone said the Lord told me this. He was speaking to me a lot, but he gave me this vision. So the natural tendency of someone who knows this guy is just full of it, is to say, no, God doesn't speak at all today. And maybe they need to clarify themselves because he does still speak here and here. I mean, he does. Why don't we pray? But it's because this guy has abused it so much, we can go all the way to the other side. We don't want any of this. We've seen this church with this loud, crazy, almost concert-like atmosphere and folks doing ungodly stuff. And so we wanna push back the other way and have a real reserve. Matter of fact, get rid of the drums, the bass and guitar. We're just gonna have a piano and clap. We're gonna have a banjo, right? So we don't wanna go too far this way or too far that way. So does, do we still have tongues? Here's why many will say we don't. After this, you know what the Bible doesn't talk about again? Doesn't talk about tongues. Doesn't come up. Do the church fathers, the early church fathers, the disciples of the apostles and then their disciples, the first century and second century church, do they talk about tongues? No, they don't. We see Parham show up in the late 19th century, early 20th century bringing this up. But we go all this time without seeing these tongues. Why? First of all, when these true languages show up, every time we see in the Bible, I want you to pay attention to this, every time we see in the Bible that these languages, that these tongues are being spoken, there's an apostle there. Notice that. We don't see tongues just breaking out when someone other than the apostles there. It's not like Joe Bob, the new convert is there and unbelievers start speaking in tongues or new beliefs start. No, it always is under the hand of apostle. That should bring something to your attention. So nowadays, if you've got this guy over here, this church starts speaking in tongues, okay, fine, if we're gonna do it according to this, where was the apostle at? It doesn't say that the apostle has to be there. I'm just saying, I just want you to notice something from the Bible. Also, every time it's spoken, it's a language and that the church is attitude. Jesus is magnified and the church is attitude. So it should be that the gospel is being preached. And so we don't see that today. Can I say, and I'm one of these guys who I take the middle road on gifts, ceasing as a matter of going to, did I already do a video? I think I already did a video. I've done so many videos. I can't remember what I've done or said, but do I take the tack that gifts have ceased? I don't know. I don't know. And I'm comfortable with that. I'm comfortable having all this, this little Bible software and all the books and so forth and keep studying and studying and studying. I'm comfortable coming back and saying, I don't know. But like I said, if you do have that gift, I'm gonna hold your feet accountable to what the scripture says should be done. And so far, I haven't seen it. I haven't seen these legitimate gifts of healing that people are talking about. I've seen it. And I believe God can still heal. Sure, God does what he wants, how he wants, when he wants. Sometimes just cause he wants cause he's God. Do I believe can tongues still be around? So let's say we go to some, cause there are places where we don't even know their languages. There are people who have just been left alone and we don't know their languages. And we wanna give a gospel. Can God still use that? Well, sure. And so that's why I won't shut the door, but I'll shut the door on the phony, the fake, the nonsensical sort of tongues that we've seen out of some of these people. If you feel like that you speak in tongues, it better be the correct way. It better be a language. It better be to an unbeliever. If not, if the criteria is missing, I'm gonna say, you need to be quiet. Please sit down, be quiet. Don't speak according to what Paula said. So that being said, I wanna jump into some questions, to some rebuttals, to some hardcore, you are moron, you don't get this. Yeah, you are so far off. Excuse me. Now, move, I got this. You came early, brother, or since I'm not sure if you were men or female, you came early and you seem to be on the side of speaking in tongues. Let me ask you this. Is there anything that you would say that, hey, Corno, you're wrong on this about? Let me know. Let me see what Wesley Curry says. When Jesus said to you from the Holy Spirit, no time to talk, what do you say? I'm not sure what you mean by that, brother. I'm not following what you said. Let's see. There's a lot of conversations going on and I didn't keep up with you guys as you were going. It says, if you read the Bible, are you edifying the church or yourself? Well, good question. If I read the Bible, I'm doing it for the benefit of myself, obviously, but who also is, because I'm reading the Bible, who should be the beneficiary of this? So if I eat, am I eating for the benefit of the church? No, there are some things, but here's my counter to that because you're gonna say, that's not a spiritual gift. Well, guess what? Neither is reading the Bible. The reading the Bible is not a spiritual gift. Where's the gift of reading the Bible? So are we supposed to do it? Sure we are. And does the spirit lead us into it? Sure, but that's not one of the spiritual gifts. Understanding it, you might say, is something different. And my understanding and then sharing it, that's what we're called to do as well. He says, why, let's see, why did I skip over verses 14 and 15? Did I? I don't think I did, but let's go back to it. No problem. Let's go back to 14 and 15. Matter of fact, I did go over that, but I'll do it again. If I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. If I pray in a unknown tongue, a ecstatic gibberish babbling singular tongue now, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. What am I to do? Paul is presenting a problem. I will, so here's a solution. I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also. I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing praises with my mind also. And for some reason, some people have thought that if I pray in the spirit, that means praying in tongues. No, it doesn't, doesn't mean that at all. Doesn't say that. We've let certain people hijack what certain meanings are, but that's not what that means. It just means I'm praying with, I understand I'm praying in concert with the spirit, right? Doesn't mean that I'm giving some unknown babbling or gibberish or some sort of spiritual language. That's not what it is. So it is, let's see. So it is possible, misspelling right there, nowadays for a believer to speak in tongues, agree, okay? Again, I take the text that I'm not gonna say it is impossible that they have been seized because the passages that we point to in First Corinthians 13, when it says we know in part, but then when that, which is perfect, these things will go away, no one adequately has been able to demonstrate what the in part or what the perfect is, right? Not the in part, but what the perfect is that comes. Because I've seen people literally scholars, literally blow holes and the other person around me. It's just one of those things and it's okay to say, I don't know, I'm not sure what that means. I think it might mean that, but I could be wrong. And so I leave open the possibility that I could be wrong by saying, if you do speak in these languages or if you have any other gifts, I've got a guide, a roadmap to hold you accountable to. Okay, so I didn't skip over that particular passage. If you all have any other passages you think I skipped over. Olin Pratt, hey brother. He says, what Bible software are you currently using? Well, I'm not using it is using me is kicking my tail, but this is a cordon software. It's like a, it's like Lagos Bible software. And right now I've got it with a few things that come with it. I've got some more things. I won't add anything to it until I master this stuff. But this is a cordon's Bible software. They've got payment plans. So if you don't want to pay the $800,000, whatever it is, you can pay the monthly plan, which is cool. Also, I love it. I mean, I love it. So I can't wait to once I get a hold of it and get it down fat, but I can go and get some more of this. Let's see, is the laying on of hands needed to receive the spiritual gifts? Roderick Fuller, if I had a, if we were in class, if I had a star to put on your forehead, I used to do it in first grade to put on your forehead, or if I can give you a cookie, I would. We're going to do a video over this issue of laying on of hands. Laying on of hands, there are some things that we call idioms, right? They, we say something. It doesn't mean verbatim or literally what we say. It just means something. It can note something. Laying on of hands is also one of these idiomatic phrases that are used. Sometimes it does look, actually mean literally laying on, putting someone's hands on somebody, but that necessarily means physically touching. Laying on of hands means I'm just kind of over it. I'm seeing it. I'm governing it, right? So when Paul says that, I don't, I can't remember the password right off the top of my head where he doesn't even know who all he laid the hands on. Sometimes you can lay hands on people and not know who it is. You don't, you don't, you can't literally lay hands on thousands of people in a certain amount of time. It's just hard to do. So laying on of hands is just basically saying, I'm getting my approval of it. So when I lay, I'm laying hands on you all. So when someone says something, hey, they've got my approval. I, I'm over this. I sent them out. Okay. So that's really kind of what that means. We'll go more in depth when we do that. Let's see who else is on here. Shanae says these churches never use interpretation. They, you rarely see it. You rarely do. Let's see, let's see. So brother, you can't turn, so brother, you can't turn speaking in tongues off and on or practice speaking in tongues. Can you turn it off and on? Well, if it, if it's a gifting of the spirit, then it's going to come when the spirit says so. And so if it's the spirit that's going to use it, the spirit knows why you should be doing it. And if the purpose of it is for evangelistic reasons for an unbeliever, when you come across an unbeliever who doesn't know that language, it should kick in, right? It never kicks in. We see it out in public, right? We never see it really kicking into some, I don't know. I don't know this guy. When was the last time you guys see a stranger out in public go up to another stranger who didn't know and just start speaking to him in another language? But that's the point of it. That's, that's to spread the gospel. It's what you see every time in acts. And so it's not an issue of turning off and on. It's an issue of the spirit knowing when and to whom it's for, it's gotta be to an unbeliever. It's gotta be to let them know about Jesus in their language. And so I wouldn't say that it's an issue of turning it off and on, but if that's how the spirit has gifted a person, then it should be used in the correct fashion, right? Let's see. One highway walker. I rarely speak in a tongue and always doing worship. And it's followed with praise in English. It bothers me when my friends pray in tongues and I have no idea what she is saying. So I can't agree. And like I said, I'm not gonna be so dogmatic and say you can or can't. I'll just say, again, we've gotta go to the two ways. I like Joshua when he says, I pray in two tongues, English and Spanish. Let's see. Can you talk about first Corinthians 13, eight. I kind of did. And I don't want to get too far. Here's what's funny, guys. I just realized how I can move this thing a lot better than I could in the past. I just by accident, he says, as love never ends, as for prophecies, they will pass away as for tongues, they will cease. As for knowledge, it will pass away for we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. So the issue is going to be, what is the perfect that comes? Someone gonna say, it's the canon. I don't, I don't, it's hard for me to say that or to see that it is the canon could be. Some are gonna say, when Jesus comes back, some are gonna say, after. Their problems or their potential problems with whatever answer we give, there's obviously a correct answer. I don't, I can't wrap my hand fully around it. We shouldn't mean anything because I can't get it. And so maybe they have ceased, maybe they haven't. And again, I think to be on the safe side is just to say, I think this, but I'm open as I'm okay with it, which is why, you can tell me, if I believe that tongues have ceased and I kind of believe that, because again, we don't see them talked about it. They were that important, the church was still growing after 1 Corinthians 14, we don't see them coming about. And maybe the perfect is the founding of the church. Maybe that's what he's talking about. And I can go with that. But if I say tongues have ceased, am I open to being wrong? Sure, but I'm not open to being wrong on how they're supposed to look. And so I can ride with me being wrong on that dirt. As what software is this? That's again, it's Accordance software, Accordance Bible software. They have a free trial guys. If you all wanna go, I should get paid for this. Accordance has a free trial version of their software. I would highly recommend you guys go download it, check it out, play with it. You might say, hey, I love this thing. Now, the first thing you're gonna find out is kind of daunting, there's a lot to it, but you'll love what comes with it and what you can do with it. Now you can research things, got all these different commentaries from people that have died a long time ago that you never heard of, but who make good points and some are also new. They've got the Greek and the Hebrew on there. Let's see. Galassalia and I don't know what this other word that you have there, Randall. But, going back to this software, today's video is brought to you by Accordance Software. Going back to this software, let's go, I'm on Romans, let's go to, let's go back to first Corinthians, first Corinthians 14, and let's see the word. Let me show you the word. Here's one word, here's the word, Glossae, okay? And if you look down at the bottom, the bottom left part of this software, you can see where it says, we translated this tongue, but it can mean tongue, can be language. There are, what happens is when we see this, we'll see it in different tenses, in different, let's say it can be in the plural, it can be in the singular, it can be in the, and it uses a part of simple, it can be used as, it can also be used as an Allen. Here is the plural, Glossae means the exact same thing, it just means language is, or is just the plural version of, it's the plural version of this, okay? Both of them are feminine as well. So here it is again, also Glossae's. So that's, if that's kind of what you were referring to, Rendo, I'm not sure. Anyone else, and we're gonna go ahead, let's see, this is, oh, it's less than an hour. I thought this was, it'd been longer. Okay, hold on, I wanna get this, what Doug just said. So there's a possibility of a cloven tongue that felt as fire and axe, a having language that all understands happened once will be heard when Christ returned. By the way, this picture, I like that. But someone said that what happened on the day of Pentecost was not that they spoke in these different languages, what it was was, they spoke in a heavenly language and then each person from different parts of the world or different regions, they just heard it in their own language. Here's why that's not true. First of all, there's no spiritual gift of hearing, okay? Secondly, grammatically, he clearly says that they were speaking, yeah, they heard them, that word is used, that verb is used, but it says they were speaking in these languages. And so we can't get past that, so it does absolutely mean that they spoke verbally in different languages. Of course, again, that's what Jesus said they were gonna do, Jesus, we gotta, we have to go back to what Jesus said is the purpose of this stuff. And I think that's the problem. The problem is we negate that this stuff didn't just come because some church taught it or because I'm sitting here teaching it. No, this came as a result of what Jesus says is gonna happen. He says the spirit is gonna come in you and you are gonna testify of me. It's not, he did not say the spirit's gonna come in you and you're gonna testify of yourself or you're gonna build yourself up. He did not say that. Please, please, please, please, please. Let me say another time, please stop it. That's not what he said. Jesus reiterates that again when he sees him in acts and says that when the Holy Spirit comes, going back to John 15 and 16, you are gonna be my witnesses in Jerusalem today and to the rest of the world. And when the Holy Spirit comes, what do they do? They begin doing that. Trust and take what he said and that he meant exactly what he says. Don't try to find some spiritual deeper meaning to it. There's not. He's straightforward. He's clear. You know why he's straight and clear for it? You know why Jesus doesn't give us or the Bible doesn't give us this deep spiritual meaning because we're not as deep in spiritual as we think we are. That's why. He knows that we are incapable of understanding all of these deep things. Remember, and some of you all were here last night on the live, Jesus said, I told you earthly things and y'all don't get that. How am I gonna tell you all these heavenly things? You keep messing with the earth, leave the simple stuff. So when I wanna go deep with you, you can't go with me. So I'll stay right there where you are, right in the sheep categories, which is why he calls us sheep. Then call us lions. Then call us eagles. Then call us anything in regal or smart, ferocious or intelligent. He calls us sheep for a reason. Look at how we act sometimes. Look at how we think sometimes. And so for that reason, he speaks to us in the way sheep would understand. He uses what's called anthropomorphic languages so that we can relate. He talks to us like where you would talk to a two-year-old or a five-year-old, you talk in the way they can understand it. So God does the same thing with us. He uses languages that we can deal with when it says, we spoke to God face to face. Well, God didn't have a face. He used an Hebrew alpanae, which is upon him before your face. Well, he didn't have a face, but we understand that he's speaking right before us, face to face in that regard. And so he speaks to us in a way that we can understand. And so when Jesus made that statement clear and apparent, and then we see it happening just like I said, because someone's gonna disagree. The problem is if you disagree, then you gotta make, then you create a new puzzle that has to fit with what Jesus said. Jesus is introducing this is gonna happen. And so if tongues are something different than what I said, make that fit with what Jesus says and you just can't. Make that fit with what the Greek words mean. You can't make that fit with what Paul is saying, Paul rebuking them. And he's contrasting the edifying of the church versus edifying yourself. And so you're not going to be able to do so. Okay? Let's see. Hold on. I don't know where's my, there's my cursor. Let's put some more up here. He said in Acts, Gentile spoke in tongues as a sign to the Jews. Jews require a tongue, I mean a sign in order to believe. Well, Vymon, I don't know if you are a male or a female. My friend, partially you are correct. But also it was more than just a sign to them, but it was also a necessary tool to get the gospel to people who don't speak Hebrew or Greek or Latin or Aramaic. You need to have some way to get the gospel to people who just did not understand what you're saying. Okay? Let's see. I saw something, let's see. Of him, in turn Jesus came to speak only what he heard the father say, or say is, and do only those things. Okay, that must be conversations you guys are having amongst yourself. Let's see. That's the hard part, trying to read only the conversations you have for me and not the ones you have for yourself. If someone gets the vaccination, they lose salvation. Why would they lose salvation if they get vaccinated? Yeah, off topic. Let me just say this about this whole vaccination stuff. I am not anti-vaxxer and I'm not pro-vaccination. Let me just say this. Some of us are consistent, some of us are inconsistent. I don't think we should ever tell someone what to do, what to put in their bodies. I also believe that most people, or a lot of people got the vaccination because someone told them to get it. A lot of people are not getting it because someone else told them not to get it, right? I had some sort of little rash or something on me. I don't know what this, we could not figure out what it was. And it was bothering me so much, the nurse came back and gave me a shot. You know, I didn't ask her. I didn't ask what was inside the other things she gave me, I wish I would have, but even if she would have told me, it was up and up or whatever, would have known anyway. And then she gave me some prescriptions. Take one of these every other day or what have you got. Didn't know what it was. And if I looked it up, I still wouldn't know. My point is this, do your own research, your own studying, praying, and then follow your heart. Don't follow the mandates and dictates of the government. If you feel like, hey, I need to have this job and I'll go ahead and do it, fine. Won't hate you if you get it, won't hate you if you don't get it. Here's something, I've had COVID and I got the vaccine. So I guess I'm good both ways, huh? My wife had COVID, what's she having about three, four weeks ago? Feeling really bad. I mean, she went to the hospital a couple of times and didn't tell anybody, but at least none of you guys. Went to hospital a couple of times and she's fine now. And so she's got the antibodies. And so my daughter's had it. I think my second youngest, the 24, I think she's had it. And so COVID didn't really mess with us as minors. But since my wife married into the family, it bothered her. So she's not a true minor. She married into the family, don't tell us. But anyway, I don't care what you do with your body unless you have a baby. But I don't care that you get a vaccine or you don't get a vaccine. I do care if you force someone else to not get one or force one else to get one. Bad is a choice that a person should make, whether they make the choice ignorant really or intelligently, okay? So let's go, I see some more. Hey, brother, thank you, appreciate that. Kevin says, hey Cory, what are your thoughts on those who catch the Holy Ghost in church and dance around the or... My pastor, and this is kind of what I took on too, my former pastor said, y'all, we're going to this church. No, no, no, no, no, the church is coming to us. And it was a friend of his and they kind of get a little, they get charismatic. And he says, when they get to running around and this next, I want you all to sit down for a couple of reasons. Cause I don't want you participating in that catching the Holy Ghost stuff. And I don't want you to get hurt. If they go running around and they run in each other and bust each other's head and run to a wall, must be the Holy Ghost, right? So we're not going to inhibit the Holy Ghost. We're not going to quench the spirit, let them have it, let them run in each other. If they fall out, we ain't catching them. We ain't looking the weights in this church. We just going to let them have at it, right? And so one lady in the choir, she gets to go in and apparently she called the Holy Ghost and flipped over the back of the pews in the choir loft. It was funny because she was okay afterwards at the moment it was kind of like, I can not take it back. It was funny when it happened too. Cause all you see these legs in the air, she caught the Holy Ghost according to her and the Holy Ghost wanted to injure her. I guess that's what it was. And so that's not the way the Holy Ghost works. It's just not, we don't find that at all. Folks falling out in the Bible, they have all the everybody that fell out were unbelievers at the time, right? None of them were safe. They were demon possessed or in the garden, Jesus says, I am they fall back. They weren't believers. And so that's not how the Holy Ghost works. Okay, Ray Matthew, are there any moderators here? We have a, who's a troll? No, we don't have a moderator. I need to get one. Who's a troll? Point him out. I'm learning how to operate this thing. And so I read, man, he says, I read but I don't fully understand the Bible. My sister, none of us fully understand it. In January, and I want to say this as we're getting ready to wrap up. Okay, I see you're right. In January, we are going to, and I'm looking for the person to talk about, we are going to start this Bible study. I'm going to tap this Bible study because guys, I think, let's see, how do I do this? Okay, here we go. I think, I don't know how to do this. I'll figure this out later. I think it's vitally important that we understand how the Bible works. And so what I want to do is I want to share with you some methods, some stuff. I'm not going to tell you what to think. I'm just going to show you how we ought to approach this. There's a way that God gave us the scriptures. And I'm speaking not just to you, Mandy, but to everyone else. There's a way that God gave us the word so that obviously all of us, you shouldn't have to have a seminary degree. You shouldn't have to have this little goofy Bible software or a bunch of books. You should be able to read your Bible and get the meaning and understanding that God wants you to have, right? And so there's a way to do it. I'm going to show you what happened with these couple hundred inmates who, you need to understand how it gets in prison. It goes down sometime. And so these are guys who were cussing in church. They just kind of rough around the edges. And so you would see this little harmony coming together like, okay, these are the rules. This side goes, right? And so if we have a good understanding, because if we just read the Bible, the way we read other things, that would be probably the problem. Sometimes we over spiritualize it. And so that kind of gets us in trouble sometimes. Like, let's see, it says, ask the Holy Spirit to teach you as you read. Re-revelations, it describes the times, the mark and all this. The problem is, how many people have you heard disagree who also they have a Holy Spirit? People in this camp, I've got the Holy Spirit and the Lord led me to believe this. I'll hear the Lord show me this, right? Well, whose Holy Spirit is right? So in the end, what we've got to do is let the scriptures be the arbiter. Let those be what dictate how we see and believe it. We want to be consistent. We want to have a consistent hermeneutic. Let me give you a quick example that I love to share. Every Christian needs the cultural Bible. I don't know what the cultural Bible study is. And so I am under a rock, y'all. I just heard of literally, probably a month ago of this guy named Joe Rogan. Never heard of him before. And so somebody said, were you under a rock or something? Yeah, I kind of was. I never heard of him before. And so somebody sent me something and said, you ought to talk about this. And I am, I'm gonna talk about, I'm gonna get on him as far as what he has said about how ignorant and stupid and dumb we are as Christians. But so I don't understand what the cultural Bible study is. But anyway, any of you all watch football, any of you all watch sports, in football there's this argument. It seems to be foreclosed right now as to the best ever as a quarterback. The time Brady is a go. And I say, no, he's not. He ain't even the second or third best. And I can prove it. And so what I do is, and this is gonna write this Bible study. You want to be consistent in your argument, right? And so I'll say, well, who is, who is why I see the best? Well, because he's got the most rings. He's got the most titles. So our championships will determine who's better and who's not. Well, yeah, okay. So I'll give him one guy who's got two rings versus a guy who has none. I said, well, no, no, that guy with two rings certainly isn't better than the other guy. Well, you just said that this was a standard. Well, no, not always. And so the point that I'm getting at, by the way, Peyton Manning's the best quarterback ever. But the point that I'm getting at is that whatever your argument is, whatever your standard is, it needs to be consistent all the time. So when we read the Bible, we're gonna take it for what it says word for word, literally. There are times where you can't take it literally, but the Bible lets you know. I use the example of revelations when John is saying, and I saw something like this. And so he's letting us know that he's using imagery, right? Psalms and Proverbs, there's poetry there. It is not, obviously there's not in some, in any particular chronological order. There's no context necessarily there with all of them. And so we want to use the same thing when it comes to reading the scriptures, and there's a way. And I can promise you this, Manning, everyone else who's joining, it's a free Bible set. It's not, hey, take this Bible set and then I'll also steer you towards a paid Bible set. It's nothing like that. I want people, that's our passion, that's what I do, is to go over the Bible and to show them the best way to come to a conclusion. You won't get my conclusion. You'll hear what I think. But you'll see why I think that. And you'll see why maybe this argument doesn't hold up if we use just consistent, just the way you think already, the way you read things already. Cause sometimes we have these, we're looking for hidden motives, hidden gems, because this pastor came up with something I didn't come up with, and so it must be something different. So I want to encourage you all when it comes out, in January you'll have a little work that you'll download, homework, you can either do it live with us or on your own. So let's see, what did you say? I mean, the cultural study Bible, it focuses on cultural backgrounds. Okay, well, legend glory. I'll look into it and see what that is. Let's see. For you, Carla, I will have to view this from the beginning because I came in late, bummer. No, listen, listen. Review it four, five or six times, okay? Let's see. Amen. All right, guys. So, X-10 on the Gentiles. Okay, let me read this cause it's this fist and then we'll go ahead and get ready to close this question. Can you explain X-10 when the Gentiles spoke with tongues? Who were they speaking to? So here's what we do. Let's go over to this handy dandy, still you have to be learned software. You said X-10, okay, let's put on screen. Accessory of there was a man named Cornelius Accenturean, of what was known as the Italian cohort, devout man who feared God. Let's see. You're talking about when they spoke, let's see, now it's in the end, man. Okay, let's see. Where, let me know what verse you're talking about. All right, let's see. I don't want to read this whole passage. And as he talked with them and he found the president and said, then you yourself know them all, leave with the Jew, they're in court in 40 days, about an hour, the ninth hour, and he's your brother, the nerd. I said that once, so Peter opened his mouth, truly understand guys, there's no partiality, but in every nation, anyone's. Okay, oh God. Oh, you're asking verse 44, while Peter was saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard and the believers from among the circumcised who had come with Peter were amazed because the gift of the Holy Spirit was poured out even on the Gentiles, where they were hearing them speaking in tongues and extolling God. Then Peter declared, can anyone with whole water? Okay, so your question is, let's go back to it. So your question is, who were they speaking to? We don't know who the actual audience was. It seems to be that there was an audience, but a couple of things. One, the main thing, Jesus was extolled and the body was added to it by no one else, at least by Cornelius's house. So if the only ones that became partakers of the family were Cornelius, then so be it. But Cornelius didn't have the Holy Spirit, so now Cornelius is added to the body and to be part of the body, you have to have the Holy Spirit. Brother Robert, would you say that everyone who speaks tongues in church while praying, worshiping is fake tongues? Personally, I believe tongues has to be a real language. Anything more than that is simply fake. Do it, let me read it again. Make sure I said this, understood this right. That anyone who speaks in tongues in a church while praying, well, here's what I think. When we're together, coming together corporately to pray and someone speaking in tongues, you are really distracting from everyone else. No one can focus on praying. You know it's hard to pray anyway. You go to praying and you start thinking about everything but what you're praying about. So that can be a distraction. And so Paul does say in 1 Corinthians, let everything be done decently in order. And so, and there should be some interpretation. So when this person is praying and we're all praying and this person is speaking in tongues, annoying us, let's be honest. Are you gonna then, we're supposed to stop praying, stop, wait for you to finish and then have someone interpret? That's probably fake. It could be, I would say it's probably fake, more than likely. Again, I've seen it happen every time, every time I've seen it happen, it wasn't legitimate. So I'll say that. But now, and Ray, I do kind of agree with that as well, remember I said that it is two-fold. It is a sign, it does validate because remember the tongues, and there are two videos, actually there's a few videos I did, but there's one of the purpose in tongues is part one and part two. Talked about the purpose of these tongues. I didn't cover it as much and I probably should have about, it needed to be that the Jews could see that other people, I touched on it briefly that God didn't want to have this divided body. And so if these Jews, I mean, if the Gentiles speak in these languages, just like the Jews did, just like the Samaritans did, well, what are the Jews gonna say? Well, they got the Holy Spirit too. And so we don't have a divided body because again, it's just natural tendencies, us versus them. And so the church in Jerusalem, which at this time was a center of the church, they couldn't say that these heeding, uncircumcised Gentiles, yeah, they believe in Christ, but they don't have what we have. Well, Peter was there, he's the first among equals there, and he's validating, he's laying his hands, he's showing that, yeah, they got it. And so no other Jew can turn around and say that they don't have it. So yeah, you're right. There is the sign part of it as well. So let's see, this is my most simple, I guess. I was invited and didn't want to go, but I went to church. So the person would stop asking me, but I believe what I heard, LOL, as I say it, simple, but best choice, okay? I guess you have a conversation with someone else. I'm not sure what that was about. As far as I know, as far as I know, there is no contextual scripture that there is a fake or demonic tongues. Since Paul said in the same spirit that gives, it gives the Holy Spirit, who said, Jesus, just continue, I'm not understanding what that is, what you're saying. You're right, there is no contextual scripture that there is a fake demonic tongue, except what we just read in 1st Corinthians, when he's talking about that the tongue that they're giving, they're giving them in ignorance. That's what Paul is meaning. If you have to take what Paul is saying, Paul is admonishing, Paul is getting on them because of their issue with tongues. It couldn't be that they're using tongues the right way. It couldn't be that it is this ecstatic eek kind of by kosha, by, by whatever. It couldn't be that. Of course, Paul would just say, hey guys, good job. You are allowing the spirit to work in you and so forth. It couldn't be that. Paul is saying, guys, you're saying some things that you shouldn't be saying, and you're doing it without any understanding. And so, Paul is addressing a fake tongue that's being used in Corinth. Now, interestingly enough, why doesn't Paul address this issue with any other church? Why doesn't it come up anywhere else? We don't know. Is it that tongues at this time were so pervasive that everybody was using it or just only a few? Was it that really it was really only a small number of people that used it? And so that there was really no need to have this real big discourse amongst all the different books. This doesn't come up that we know of in the church of Thessalonica. It didn't come up in Galatia. It didn't come up in Colossus. It didn't come up in Philippi. What's going on with Corinth? Don't know. But it didn't seem to be as pervasive. And it's interesting that the times that we see in the Bible, the spiritual gifts, we don't see a lot of people using them a lot, right? We know of a few that are using them and they're all apostles. But today, everybody's got the spiritual gifts. Everybody today can do what the apostles could do. That should be a red flag right there. That should be some alarm going off. Wait a minute. We didn't have this many people with these awesome powers of the spirit then. And these guys were actually personally chosen and selected by God. And they wrote the Bible. But we got these guys 2,000 years later who have seemingly more power than... That should be something that should tell you, hey, that might not be absolutely correct. We might want to check that out, okay? Let's see, how do you explain to others, which is where Paul says he speaks tongues the most? That was a part where I thank God that I speak more languages than all of you. Because again, what does Paul do? Paul's a missionary. Paul is going around. And so he speaks languages to different places. He goes to different... He planted this church. He goes to all these different places and he has to have these languages, these known languages. Just like if, let's just say, imagine if Jesus had just been crucified a few years ago, right? Which would be a weird thing to think of. But just imagine it happened. And Paul is here today and Paul is going around planting churches. The language of Franca would be English. He would speak to us in English. But if he goes to South America, and now of course this is my Western view, I'm assuming that he, everything started here in America. But let's say he did. And let's say because it's America and Jesus was crucified, he had to be crucified in either one or two places, right? Either California or Washington DC, right? So he's crucified in Washington DC. Paul goes down to South America. He's not speaking English. Or Paul goes for you, brother Matthew. Paul goes to Canada. He has to speak something other than English. They don't speak a different English. And they speak a different English in Canada. Or Paul goes to China. Or Paul goes wherever. He's got to speak these different languages. So Paul says, I thank God that I speak more languages than all of you. And I wish you all would do the same thing because again, the purpose as we read in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verses one and five, the purpose of these are in order that you preach the gospel, okay? And I probably should have emphasized that even more so. And so, you know what? Let me go back to that. Cause I really do want to emphasize that. It is vitally important that we get the reason why he says, and so I'll say it again so that when we leave, you guys understand this part. He says, again, he says desire as a ze lute, which is desire or have this urge to zealous to do so. My loan, the hand of prophecy, in order that you preach, you want to preach the gospel. You want to speak in these languages in order that you preach. Now, here's where he makes it real clear. Here are the words. I'll go real slow. Falo, he says, I wish or I want you, but there's a but that actually in English. We just put this but first. So but I wish all Pontus, all of you, Umas, Leland, which that you speak languages. Okay. That you speak that you're speaking languages in order. Now here it is rather or in order. I mean, rather, but rather you do so in order that you prophesy. Maladehena prostrate. So he's literally saying the reason why I want you to preach. I mean, the reason why I want you to speak in these languages is in order that you preach the gospel. The purpose of and Paul. So Paul clearly in the Greek. It's crystal clear. Maladehena prostrate. He says, I desire, I wish that you are speaking in these languages in order that the gospel be preached, that Jesus be preached. That's what Jesus said. Think about it, y'all. These, these, these puzzles, these things they fit together. Jesus says, I want you or you're going to have the Holy Spirit. He's going to come in you and he's going to speak of me. In Acts, you're going to receive the Holy Spirit and you're going to speak of me to all these different groups, to the Jews, to the Samaritans, to the Gentiles, the rest of the world. And then they received the Holy Spirit and they began to do so. They do it first in Acts two to the Jews, Acts eight to the Samaritans, Acts 10 and 19 we see to Gentiles. And so we see that happening. And now we've got one of these Gentile areas out in Corinth. They understand this gift, possibly Paul used this language, this get the languages to them. And now they want to see it because, hey, they're, they're zealous for it. But you do so in order that you preach the gospel. That's it. You cannot get around that. You cannot. This is why I wish that if I, if I, if I was Paul, if it were me, I'd say I wish you all would learn this Greek or get a good understanding of it because this is exactly what he said. It's clear right here. There's no getting around it, but since folks don't, and I get that everyone doesn't get that. But if what I said in English, what I said in English, should I absolutely make sense? I hope it does. Okay. Okay. Oh, that's a personal conversation you know what I had in me. Let me see for you, Carl. He says, there are tongues to edify the church and there are tongues to speak to God and there are tongues utterances that help us prayer. We'll see, but hold on for you, Carl. That is you're speaking about Romans eight and he says that these utterances are, I think that's what you're talking about. These utterances are groanings that we don't, that we have. He says they're groanings that cannot be verbalized. And so God doesn't need, I want you all to get this. God doesn't need some secret prayer language to talk to us. God doesn't need something super unknown to us to get us. Matter of fact, did he speak to you in tongues or did you speak to him in tongues when you first came to him? No, you didn't. He got ahold of you in the language and your common tone and that's all he needs. Nothing can inhibit what he's saying to you or what you're saying to him. So there is no need to even have this mysterious view. Again, we don't understand the natural, the worldly things. And so we certainly won't understand the spiritual things. There's gonna come a time where all this stuff is gonna make sense and we'll find out that, man, my God, Cory, you were right on this. My God, Cory, you were wrong on that. And that's cool. Most importantly, that you know Christ and that you grow in him. And so this is what we're doing is making sure that we understand what the passage is saying. It becomes a point of contention, a point of division. These are spirit field believers over here who are falling out and these are spirit field believers over here who are not falling out. Both of them can't be the same. And so there's a truth to that. And so this part, he's pretty clear in it. He tells us, again, Jesus says this is exactly how this is gonna happen and happens exactly that way, okay? So guys, it is 1.30. I got a couple of things I gotta do most notably. I got to eat some lunch. I got, I think some work around the house to do. I got a couple of phone calls to make. Take a rest and get ready for church tomorrow. So if there aren't, I've got about two minutes left. If anybody has anything left to say, go ahead and go ahead and let me know. Corey, can you drop the link? You were referring to Jesus Christ's attorney at law? That was, that's a lot of work, Kevin. Go to the page. I'm to the channel. When you go to the channel, look under. Matter of fact, let me do the for you. When you go to the channel, look under where is his iPad thing at, okay? Go to the channel and there's a section underneath there called Soteriology. When you click on it, it'll bring up all the different one on Soteriology. There it is right there. This one right here, I can never lose my salvation. Click on that one. Man, I did a lot of them on Soteriology. So anyway, let's go. Guys, I wanna thank you. I'm eventually getting the hang of this stuff. I'm going to get the hang of this stuff. This software, I enjoy doing these lives. I enjoy doing the recorded videos and also enjoy doing the other stuff that I do as far as again, someone asked me the other day, what is it that I do? I do part of this ministry called share ministry where we just put the gospel out. Our job is to share the gospel to people, bring them to Christ. I always say it's not what you know, but who you know. So the most important thing is to introduce people to Christ, but though it's not what you know, it's who you know, what you know brings you closer to who you know. And so then after that, we wanna share how to understand and learn the Bible, which is how this whole issue of smart Christian came about. Not saying that I'm the smart Christian, that this is what smart Christians do, that we're all smart Christians. We wanna be smart Christians. Amen. So Doug O'Brien, some of you guys' pictures are just absolutely level. Thank you, brother. To you all, deuces as well. Amen. Amen. Goodbye.