 Is it possible that I'm wrong about a particular passage? Well, obviously it's possible that I'm wrong about a particular passage. It's possible that anyone can be wrong about a particular passage. The question is, if I'm wrong, how did I get to be wrong? Is it because I'm doing something intentional? Or maybe it's not intentional. I just refuse to accept a particular position. And so I'll do any sort of scriptural or textual juggling, twisting of the scriptures to make my point fit. Or it's possible I'm not wrong. It's possible I'm right. It's possible that what I'm doing is the right way to go about doing it rather than accepting what someone else says. And I can actually just do the work myself. And so I got a comment yesterday. I looked at someone, someone actually put up something. And I want to put that person's comment up and then go from there. So here's the person's comment. I want to go ahead and read it to you guys. And then we'll go from there. This is in a video that we did that same day. And his issue was something I set up in 1 Corinthians 14.1. And in that particular passage, I was just stating what the text says really by the Greek. Now, there are people that have a problem with me saying or using the Greek if it leads away from what they think, if it bothers them. And then they're, in my opinion, there's no other way for them to actually answer the text. And I just said, well, you should go ahead and do the work yourself. So let's look at his comment first. He says, this is why I stopped watching the channel, which is a silly statement. You stopped watching the channel, but you're watching the channel. He has a problem. He has a problem with the interpretation of a text. He resourced to the Greek to try to remove the possibility of the charismatic interpretation. Well, I'm not trying to remove any charismatic interpretation. I'm looking at the text. What do you want me to do? What is it that I should do? Should I just say, okay, well, this text in the Greek seems to say this, this interpretation over here by someone else says that, let me just go with what they say. Let me forget about doing my own homework. Forget about, let me look at the text. Forget about using the tools. Forget about it using Greek. If I happen to know even just a smallest centel of Greek, forget about using that. Just go with what someone else says. Is that making any sense? No, it doesn't. So he says, verse 14-1, he says, gifts is not there. We're going to look at that. Then the next step, the next point is the reason he says that is because in the video, Sam says, it says, gifts plural. And so that means that is not a person with a gift, but God gifting that person with healing from prayers. No Bible translation renders it just spiritual. Yet Greek Ramarian, Corey, he's trying to be funny, which is fine, just rewrites the scriptures to make it say what he wants. It's dishonest. It's dishonest. Get a Greek scholar to confirm it if it's true. Well, first of all, I don't need to get a Greek scholar if I can read the Greek, but secondly, there are translations that have just the spiritual. And we'll just show you one. Matter of fact, a popular translation that actually renders it that way. So Jesus is God who this person is. Let's go ahead and look at each other. Well, I didn't get a response back also from our brother, Arsenal Ford. He said, you said that you stopped watching, but you're commenting on something you just watched. Make it make sense. Now, here's my response. My response was, or you could do the work yourself. Go look at the Greek, find an inalinear or maybe pull it a Bible. Look at each word and then tell me where I'm wrong. I'll even do you one better. I'll make a quick video proving my point, though you may not watch it because you said, you stopped watching, you stopped watching channel. So I want to go ahead and pull that up. I want to use a couple of different things to make this point. Now, when I want to go to the text and let's deal with what I'm saying. And the reason why this is important because it just shows us, you, myself, how we ought to look at a text. If there's some sort of ambiguity, some sort of way that maybe I'm not seeing the way you see it. If there's some confusion and let's just, if we're not in unison the text, what it says, well then let's look at it ourselves and see because it's possible that I could be wrong. You could be wrong or they can be wrong. We all could be wrong. So let's look at the text. First Corinthians 14.1. It says, pursue love yet desire earnestly, spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy. We're going to look at two passages because two passages say the exact same thing. First, his point was that I said that the word gifts is not there. Well, there's a reason why I talisized. Matter of fact, if you were to go to look at in the King James Version, the New King James Version, so forth, you'll see the word gifts is a talisize. What does that mean? That means that in the Greek, the word gifts is actually not there. Now, I've stated before, I don't have a problem with you using the word gifts. I'm just stating that the point of this word doesn't mean necessarily gifts, spiritual gifts. It means the things of the spirit, the spiritual. There's a reason for that. Now, we're going to even use the Bible to show that this word used here actually does mean the spiritual or things of the spiritual, spiritual things, not spiritual gifts. In this context, do I have a problem with someone using spiritual gifts? I do not. I've stated that over and over again that spiritual gifts is perfectly fine. That is what they're implying. But to be more closer to the text, the things of the spirit is really what he's really saying. Not so much the spiritual gifts, but so what you should desire are the things of the spirit, the spiritual. If that leads to gifts, then amen. Again, I don't have a problem with gifts being used, but there's a reason. Matter of fact, let's go and just kind of compare some other passages. So let's go ahead and look at some other passages and just kind of compare those. So let's go to... Let's pull up. We've got the King James Version. We have the NLT. We have the ASV. Now, we've already seen the NASV, but the King James Version, it says follow charity and desire spiritual. And notice the word gifts are italicized in that text also, but rather ye may prophesy it. NLT, let love be your highest goal, but you should also desire special abilities, the spirit gifts. So notice spiritual gifts is not there. So this is kind of keeping more long lines of what I've stated. Also the ASV, follow after love, yet desire earnestly spiritual. And then we see gifts are italicized. Why? Because in the Greek, the word gift is not there. Is there a word in Greek for gifts? There absolutely is. As a matter of fact, if you were to do a word search in the Greek and look up spiritual gifts, there's only one place where you'll find the two words put together. It doesn't mean a whole lot, but the point is though that we have made it a big issue about going after spiritual gifts rather than going after or as the Bible says, as Paul says here, rather than going after pursuing spiritual gifts, which the text doesn't say, the text says pursue love, but desire the spiritual. And I said the spiritual because it's ta numitika and that word numitika means the spiritual. So desire the things of the spirit, whatever that may bring, however the spirit goes. And so in other words, you don't find yourself trying to desire or go after pursue, which is what some people have kind of changed the text to say, to pursue certain spiritual gifts. Because let's be honest, certain spiritual gifts, there are some that are more involved. We want to be, if you want to go after the spiritual, you want to be as spiritually endowed as possible and you have a choice, then you would want to pursue maybe tongues, prophecy, healing, those are the gifts that we see put out today, more and more coincidentally, those are the ones that also happen to be the ones that are the most abused. So there's a reason why I'm stating what I'm saying, but what I want to do also, I want to go just look up Lagos. And I want to look up this passage here. Let's put Lagos on the screen also. On Lagos, there's different ways that numitika, here's that word numitikas, the different ways that it can be shown. In this fashion, spiritual gifts, it's the same word now. All this is showing is how it's used as spiritual, spiritual, spiritual person. In this case right here, we're looking at the word for spiritual and we see a couple of times that it's used in Romans 111, 1 Corinthians 12. And again in this passage, 1 Corinthians 14. Now what I want to do is I want to show also where this is used, not just in terms of spiritual gifts, but in terms of just the spiritual. So let's click on this and let's look at a couple of passages. How about 1 Corinthians 10-3? And in 1 Corinthians 10-3, let's look over here and here's the word numitikum and it says, and all ate the same spiritual food. Okay. If we look to the right, look at the NASB translation, the English translation, all ate the same. The word numitikun is that, is that to be taken? They all ate spiritual gifts, food? No. It's just spiritual things of the spirit. Let's go back to it. Look at some more examples. 1 Corinthians 10-4, following behind it. And all drank the same, same word, numitikun, spiritual. Let's look at other passages. 1 Corinthians 15-44. And it says, it is sown a natural body. It is raised up a spiritual body. What's the word for spiritual that's used over here? It's the very same word for spiritual, numitikun. And so this word numitikun, numitikun, numitikas, numitikun, these very same words are used. And depending upon the context, we can see that even though the word is spiritual, it's referring to something. And so at times, if you want to use, if you want to supplant the word gift, that's fine. But the point is, things of the spirit, you're sown in this case, in verse 44, go back to it. There is also a spiritual. Now this, it's sown a natural body. As a matter of fact, here it is, a natural body. Well, the word soma is the word for body. And then if there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual. And the word spiritual, well, then it's speaking about a body. And so that's why the word body in this case is italicized, the word body is not there, but it's referring to a spiritual body. And so my point is, when you see this word numitikun, it's not necessarily referring to spiritual gifts. It's referring to something of the spirit, what the spirit is offering, or spiritual, spiritual things, spiritual. And so if we kept it as spiritual, yeah, it might cause folks to do some extra homework and see, well, what is it talking about? Make people think, well, I think that's a good thing though. I think it's okay to make people think and to try to see what the text is saying, rather than having someone tell you what it's saying. There's other passages, a matter of fact, how about this famous passage? Let's go to Ephesians 1-3. In Ephesians 1-3, blessed be the God, the Father of the Lord of Hours, Jesus Christ. Now notice what it says, here it says, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessings. Well, the word that's used here is every spiritual. Numitikun, or in this case Numitikun, everything of the spirit, all the spiritual, every spiritual things. And so the point is, now obviously this is blessed with every spiritual gifts. It can't be that word there, the same word that's used there means every spiritual gift. It just means everything of the spirit, what the spirit has for us. And it varies. It might show in some sort of spiritual gifting. It might show up in just some other ways, some other use of the spirit. And that's the point. So let's continue going to 1 Corinthians, going back to 1 Corinthians 14. So this word gifts, I don't mind it being there. I don't have a problem with it. But again, the point is, is the word Numitikun, or Numitikun, or Numitikas, whatever tense, or whatever declension, or whatever, whatever, it's the same word. In this case, this is a, this is a neuter, plural, accusative noun. So, but here's where it gets a little catchy for some people, where some folks are bothered. But especially that you may prophesy. Now what I'm not going to talk about is what tongues are. It's not a verse or a video over tongues. I won't deal with that. I'm just going over what the text says. But especially desire that you may prophesy. Now, because English changes, however you write this, you can see an English passage, some words in English, and somebody who speaks English might differ with someone else who also speaks English, because English kind of morphs, words change in their meaning over time. Even now, certain words, what did you mean this? What did you mean that? We all have instances where we see or hear something and we're wondering, what do they mean by that? We're seeing the exact same words or hearing the same words and not sure what exactly they meant. Someone might say, well, they meant this. Another first might say, well, no, I think they meant this. And that happens also with the written text, especially going from Greek to English. So it'd be helpful to look at the Greek to see if there's some benefits in life that can be shared on it. So he says this phrase right here, but especially desire that you may prophesy. Now remember, we were just told by Paul that it's the spirit that gives the spiritual gifts. This is the spirit that gives these giftings. You name the gift, it's the Holy Spirit that gives them. And now the question is, is he speaking of actual spiritual gifts that we should desire? Well, let's look at the text, but especially that you may prophesy. So should we earnestly desire certain spiritual gifts? I don't think that's what the text is speaking of, because what it says right here is, my lawn, they henna profituated. Now I have these underlined in the English and the Greek. The reason why is because this shows up again in verse five. Now I wish that you all spoke in tongues but even more that you would prophesy, my lawn, they henna profituated. So the very same my lawn, my lawn, they henna profituated is also in verse one, my lawn, they henna profituated. What does that mean? And that's the point. So let's look at this. And what I want to do is, I want to, and the reason why I'm comparing both of those, I want to look at something that Daniel Wallace put in his, this book that I have here, a pretty helpful book. It's a good resource. Greek grammar beyond the basics. And so rather than actually reading it from me, I'll just put it on the screen so you all can read the section I'm reading from. He's speaking of this word right here, henna. This word that's highlighted henna, it means in order that, so that. It's a purpose. It tells the reason why something is being done. And so here's the complimentary use of the word henna. I know this might be a little bit geekish, but see if you can follow. The complimentary henna completes the meaning of a helping verb such as phthalo, or I desire I wish, which we see in verse five, or dunamai, which is able to, or I'm sorry, this case not able to, or I'm sorry, power ability to, and the like. In classical Greek, this would have been expressed by a complimentary infinitive. Although complimentary, the force of the entire construction verb plus the henna clause is usually that of purpose in keeping with the lexing of the main verb. And he gives an example, 1 Corinthians 14-5. I desire that all of you to speak in tongues, malande henna, prof tuete, this henna prof tuete, I want you all to speak in tongues with even more to prophesy. It's the, but even more that I would say, I would write it differently now. Translators write it in all sorts of ways because they're trying to convey the best way. That's why you'll see a translation committee come back and later may change a word. The very same Greek word is there, but maybe there's a better English word because we're not trying to give it an exact word for word translation. We're trying to give a word for word translation that best connotes the actual meaning, the thought sometimes. And so even with the NASB, we have the NASB 1995 and the NASB 2020. Same translation committee, but they might say, you know what, this word might work a little bit better in today's understanding of the English. And so it says, note the parallel, I'm sorry, I want you all to speak in tongues, but even more prophesied. Note the parallel between the first half of the verse, which uses a complimentary infinitive and the second half which uses a complimentary henna. Now his whole point is that as we read this particular text, there's a reason why in verse 14.5 and verse 14.1, there's a reason why we have this my lawn, the henna, prophesied. And even if you don't understand Greek, let's go to an inner linear. And I hope this isn't confusing, confusing folks, but I want you at least to see where I come from this. I'm not just pulling this out of thin air. The first word that we see here in is pursue, which is the Delca, Delco, which is, or in the Greek is Delcate, which means to pursue. I want to drop down, pursue love yet, desire earnestly, spiritual gifts. Let's get to this part where it says, desire. Oh, I'm sorry, but the Milande henna, prophesied. Let's get to this part, the spiritual gifts where we see. Now by the way, underneath here, we have the Greek, the English word, we have the Greek word, the verb. If you want to use the strong concordance and look at that word, that's fine also. And then below each one of these, we have the definition of that word. So in this case, desire, it's a lot, oh, which is to be zealous, to be jealous, to be zealous, to desire. By the way, the word earnestly is not actually there, it's just desire. So then we have spiritual gifts, numitikos, which is, as we see here, if I, if I highlight it, you can see that the word, it's the adjective, it means spiritual. The word gifts is not there in the Greek, but especially, or malon, more or rather, okay. Then the very next word that we see, that you may prophesy, well, that you may prophesy, it's not there, but the word, profituete, is to prophesy, which means to give a revelation, to inform, to tell. So, how do we come across this? Malon, as a matter of fact, was missing here, even in the interlinear. So let me find a better way to pull this. So let's go back to the actual Greek, and let's look at this word, malon de henna, here's that word henna, notice below this, below my picture, my image, notice what the word henna means. It is, it's there, it's a conjunction, it's complimentary, to the subjunctive, it says that, or in order that, so that. So, if I, if this word means so that, in order that, in order that, what? What is telling, what the purpose of what was stated previously? In other words, I desire the spiritual things in order that, you prophesy. That's the point. So in order, now it doesn't mean that you have to get the prophecy, don't desire the spiritual things in order that you can foretell the future. It might be foretelling the future. It might be just simply to give an indicative revelation of what the say at the Lord. Telling of the Lord, giving information, informing. I'll let you, you fight over what, what is meant by prophesy. But that's the point in order to prophesy, in order to give a revelation. If we drop down to verse five, again the same thing is there. I wish you all spoke in tongues, because that's the spiritual gift that they're talking about at the moment that Paul is bringing up. But even more so, in order that you bring a revelation. So in order that, henna, so that same word, look at the bottom in order that, that in order that, so that you would prophesy. Melan, more or rather, I'd rap, but I rather you do so in order that you would prophesy or rather or more over. That's the whole point. I want you to do, I want these, the spiritual things in order, the spiritual things are there in order that you would bring revelation. Now, if it's a foretelling revelation, if it's a right now revelation, doesn't matter. I'm just talking about the whole point of this. And so let's, so when the person says, Corey, you got this wrong. Let's pull, I want to pull this back up. Can I pull this back up? Is it still there? Let's pull this back up. So when he makes a statement, let's go back to it. Let's pull it down. So he says, in 1 Corinthians 14, when he says that there, that the gifts is not there. The word gifts is not there. That part has been proven. It's just simply not there. Okay. Now it's in, it can be implied. If you think it's implied. Amen. Fine. I don't have a problem with that. But I want you to get a fuller understanding of what the word pneumaticus means. The reason he says it because in the, I'm not sure what video he's speaking of, but he says no Bible translation renders it just spiritual. We've already shown one and there are others that render it spiritual. But again, all, I shouldn't say all, but virtually every translation that you're going to look at in English is going to have the word gifts italicized because the word, and the reason why the word gifts is italicized because it's not there in the original. That's an easy point to prove as well. Yet the Greek Ramarian Corey, he's being, he's being facetious and funny, but it's fine. Just rewrite the scripture. All I did was give a word for word translation of the Greek. And now let's try to make it make sense to make it say what he wants. I'm not making it say what I want. I'm making it say what it says. It's dishonest. Get a Greek scholar. Well, how about this person or anyone else be the Greek scholar? I don't have to rely on them. Now I can, and you're going to find the same thing. Here's a Greek scholar, Daniel Wallace, who's saying the same thing I'm saying. He's a Greek scholar. Now you want me to go and grab one off the street and find one? I don't think they're going to be all that interested in coming on just to have this little conversation. Although we've had a Greek scholar on before, two of them as a matter of fact, and they had not refuted what I'm stating in other areas because this is pretty straightforward. Now again, the reason why we're having this conversation when we're talking about this is just so that people will understand the tools are there. Even if you don't quite understand the Greek, you can still get a decent understanding. As a matter of fact, hopefully it would even encourage you to just want to study it and learn it for yourself. I think this is a good example of someone who didn't like what I said. It's bothered by what I said, but what they're bothered by is me simply just giving a straightforward rendition of what the text says. And that I cannot apologize. So, desire the love. I'm sorry, pursue love. So what are we pursuing? We're pursuing love. And then he says, desire the spiritual, the things of the spirit, whatever that is. And I use an example of a person wanting to be married. Should they pursue marriage or should they just desire it? It's one thing to desire marriage. It's another thing to pursue it. Pursuing after something because you really want it so bad can lead you to getting any old thing. Whether as desire it, I really want to be married, but that doesn't mean that you might sell it or do something that's unsingling or compromising yourself for it. Pursuing, you possibly could. We've seen examples of someone who desires to be married versus someone who is actually pursuing it. And so we will desire the things of the spirit. Why? In order of that, we would, in order that you, anyone else would bring a revelation. That's what the word prophetouette means. That's the point. And I'm giving it word for word. And I would hope that we would use the same, the same way that I've done this. I hope that we would do this with every other text, be it in the Hebrew or Greek, be it in the Gospels, be it in Revelation, be it in one of the Epistles. Doesn't matter. Use the tools that you have. There's never been a time in history where just the common person has access to all of the tools like we do today. And so for that, I would not apologize, nor should anyone else apologize or be ashamed for using what we have at our disposal. Why would I be ashamed or not use the Greek if I know it? Why should I just say, you know what? I'm not going to use it because this person doesn't like it. No, that's a him problem. That's a you problem. If you've got a problem with someone who might have a little bit of understanding of the Greek or Hebrew and you disagree, well, it's incumbent upon you to find out for yourself rather than saying you disagree because you disagree with the assessment that they make because it differs from what you've been taught, not what you've learned and what you if you go off what you've been taught rather than what you've learned on your own, well, that makes you a ripe candidate to be led astray. Amen.