 All right, now I want everyone to raise your hands and we're gonna pray in times. Hallelujah. Let's do it. Oh, we love you, Jesus So coho rush out the car She just received the gift of time But should open in a mama dress today, please get it. They put all the time cool up a shadow of old sickie I love the work of the Holy Ghost is to she can be men rail out in the Holy Ghost I Love that the different sounds of the gift of tongues I don't have any of you all actually saw the video with Marcus Rogers and his response I don't know how many you all saw the video that Alan par put where he says why he no longer speaks in tongue I don't know what he had said in the past I know some things that he said and so before I get going I want to say a couple things one Someone's gonna say well, you just love Alan par You don't want to say things I'm far actually one of the first videos ever did the kind of critique down par About a year and a half ago. Maybe two years. I'm not sure was a critique about him on on tongues matter of fact He and I talked about that and so it's not that I am afraid or have an issue with critiquing anybody if I see I think it's definitely incorrect and Just so that we can make everyone clear and aware I am not a Cessation is I'm not one that says that the spirit the spiritual gifts have ceased now I am one that says that haven't really seen him not the way that we've seen in the Bible. So therefore I am a Biblical continuation is meaning that I believe that if you show me a gift a move of the spirit That looks like what we see in the Bible. I'm all for it. Have no problem with it whatsoever I have no problem with God moving as a matter of fact God doesn't change God is the same yesterday today forever more that does not mean that there aren't different Dispensations and God isn't doing something different with different people because of different times For example, there will never be a need for God to have to send his son to be on the cross again He's not doing that again There will be another never ever ever be another day of pentecost There will never be a garden of Eden creation seen again So some things just will not happen even though the God who provides over it doesn't change So let's make that clear, but I want to make this also clear Whatever God wants us to know either about him or what he's doing. Would you all say would you all agree with me? Maybe it's just me But whatever is needed whatever is necessary whatever is essential those things are clearly taught, right? I can't find a doctrine issue a key doctrine issue that is not clearly as well as constantly talked and taught about so Before we jump into it. Here's my question Here's my question. Mm-hmm. Is there a spiritual gift any spiritual gift that we don't ever see in the Bible? meaning if a spiritual gift is shown if A bit if a spiritual gift is spoken of in the Bible aren't there examples of it Now I'm just asking you all this question right now because I want to know what you all think about it If there is a spiritual gift in the Bible a named spiritual gift Do you think do you think that it is also shown in the Bible? Now the reason why I'm asking this question is because again And I'm not one of those that think that if someone speaks in tongues or someone doesn't pick in tongues that that person's not a believer I believe that Christians Can be wrong about different things and I think that us as people who believe in the word and who love the word Want to delve into the word? It's not about proving what's wrong. It's about not doing what's wrong It's not about showing who's right, but it's about knowing what's right and anyone Anyone that thinks that you should not look into the scriptures and find out what it says first of all Everything is in the scriptures why so that we can learn of God We are told to grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord now some people some people are Bothered at the fact that we would even have these discussions Well, you should why why wouldn't you why would we not have a discussion about it if the Bible has a discussion about it? And if someone is an error then we should also point that out why there is a danger now when I saw Allen's video I Agree with it with almost all of it When I saw Marcus's video, I didn't agree with any of it because I think that I think that Marcus Now and you have seen me recently say that I'm not condemning Marcus I can't say if he is saved or he's not saved Why because it's possible to be saved and be misled as a matter of fact, it's possible to be saved and sorely be misled in terms of doctrine because again You're not saved by what you know by who you know But it's the what you know that draws you closer to who you know And I just happen to believe that Marcus is not a very good teacher now I'm not above being corrected and as a matter of fact, I had actually engaged with him a couple times The last time that I spoke up that's that I there was some sort of little engagement was actually I think on his channel And I was in the chats and asked him to have a conversation He said he would and he told me to DM him and I DMed him whatever it is a few times and no response He actually has my number because he actually well He has my what do you call the little messenger thing? He has that and so he could if he wants to but I don't think he really wants to which is fine My bigger issue is not engaging him although I would like to matter of fact who knows I made my brother lives in Chicago I might just go to Chicago and just go and visit Marcus Wouldn't that be wonderful just to show up on a Sunday service and just talk with him I would interrupt the service but just speak with him. Hey, can we talk for a second because I don't I don't think that That he is above growing. I'm not above growing. I'm not above learning anything new But that being the case he might very well be saved would just be severely lacking hall Although he also may actually be a wolf. He may actually be a false teacher Maybe intentional or he may be an unintentional wolf or heretic Your intent doesn't matter in terms of what you are now your intent can change what you are But if you if you are dug in and you are going to go down with the ship in terms of being a heretic within That's when you but if you are Legitimately ignorant and I'm not saying that to say to be mean but people can be ignorant We're ignorant about a lot of things all of us are ignorant about something So I want to go ahead and jump into some of Alan's clips because I think what he's saying there are a lot of points and a lot of what he says Resonates now my story is similar. Although my story is a little bit different as well So let's let's go ahead and jump into it What's up everybody so yes, you read that title correctly I want to talk to you about why I stopped speaking in tongues and why now He's saying why he stopped speaking in tongue As I watched it. I don't I didn't hear him saying you better stop speaking in tongues also now Obviously, he would lead you that way But he's saying why he didn't he's giving kind of his testimony as to what brought him out of that how he came to this conclusion Now, let me just say this a couple things one There are a lot of folks who were bothered by his tongues as Though he was mocking they felt they felt mockery. They felt as though you're mocking the gift. You're making fun of the gift Maybe I Didn't see it that way and here's why I don't see it that way Because when you see the y'all saw the little video montage in the very beginning those very same people who are Felt offended felt like their gift was being mocked Don't say a word to that You don't say a word when you hear some of this other foolishness You don't say a word when I didn't see that the very same people that are upset I didn't see them upset when Daniel Adams is writing tongues on the board Yeah, I didn't see them having a problem when the people are singing tongues rapping tongues There are a lot of clips that I left off. Some people are literally rapping tongues One guy in the studio. He was doing tongues. I said no. No, I'm gonna leave it alone there are a lot of times if people will do things and The people that are offended don't get offended when they do it They get offended when someone like Alan does it, but then let me also say this Did Alan's tongues? This is just me. Did it not sound better than what we normally hear and I can say that because listen I started off in a Pentecostal charismatic church Matter of fact, some of you all know I never said this before but my family's background my mother's side my father's side They don't they couldn't they couldn't spell church my family my father's side my mother's side Yeah, they could they grew up in the church of guidance crisis As a matter of fact some of you Kojic people at least you'll know that you'll know this name CH Mason my grandparents knew him not knew of him, but knew Bishop Charles H Mason So we kind of grew up or my mother grew up and we heard I would hear tongues Growing up especially with my grandmother and I would ask what in the world Did you just say and course? She always thought that we had the devil. She would say lucid lucid I thought she was saying my question was was was mama. Who is Lucius? Is it? What do you mean Lucius? He said the grandma keeps saying Lucius said no Grandma said no boy. I'm saying Lucid because y'all got the devil in you So that's kind of how we I heard about it even though I wasn't going to church My mother was a bit rebellious at the time which I'll talk about that later because One of the things that keeps thrown out keeps being thrown out is that people and they're saying it's about Alan They said it about myself That we don't have faith. We are denying the power of the spirit. That's where you're gonna hear me go off on a rant Let me so let me just prepare you. There's gonna be a bit of a soapbox I'm gonna stand on this soapbox and I'm gonna give my rant and I'm gonna dare and I'm being bold when I say this There's someone to disprove what I'm gonna say on my rant There's a point in this argument that is really insulting We'll get back to it But again back to what Alan was saying. He's giving his point his reasons as to why he left why you may want to do So as well listen before I get into all these it is not my intent to minimize anybody's Experience or your expression as it relates to how you connect with God I'm just gonna take you on my journey as I started speaking in tongues and why I no longer speak in tongues today I'm gonna give you several reasons as to why and how I got to where I am today Okay So the first one is more of an experiential reason and I'm gonna call that just simply peer pressure for lack of Another term but college and I attended a charismatic church I experienced some things there that I had never experienced it's like my eyes were open to the feeling of the emotion of the Experience of the church and and how people were expressing themselves in worshipping all these different things And so what I quickly realized coming from my traditional Baptist church is that I felt like a fish out of water Now there are a lot of people that will say the same thing as a matter of fact Marcus and a few other people disagree with that Well, let me just say this and the folks that I saw disagree with that aren't that old Marcus is not very old Marcus is a few Years older than my oldest child. He I'm I'm not quiet. I guess I I guess technically physically I'm old enough to be his father, but he is a few years older than my oldest child. So In terms of being around tongues and so forth when I first spoke in tongues Oh Corey spoke in tongues. Yes. I spoke in tongues when I first spoke in tongues Marcus had was about we hi So it's so sometimes folks come in people who who make these statements as though they've never had that experience But they don't know anything what is about what it's like I know group being around folks at a Pentecostal charismatic church There are those who don't have those particular gifts or exhibit those gifts and they do feel out of place I told you guys a story about a lady who was Some of you Marcus probably know this and some of the other folks that were that were criticized and probably know this At least you'll know this some of the other folks had been that grew up in kind of charismatic of Pentecostal church Especially Church of God in Christ We had what's called tearing service You might know what tearing service is tearing for the Holy Ghost because they believe there's a second outpouring of all You get saved and then you receive the Holy Spirit at a later filling And so you would go at the front of the church usually in the evening on a Sunday evening Maybe and just tarry for the holy wait for the Holy Ghost and how will you know that you have the Holy Ghost by speaking in tongues? Do you think that's pressure? Do you think that's a lot of pressure because you're in a church where everyone is expecting you and others to speak in tongues If you speak in tongues, that's normal if you don't well what's going on? And so this particular lady who was out giving giving away food to the homeless Sharing the gospel helping people doing whatever she can she did not think that she had the Holy Spirit You'll tell me what was causing her to share the gospel to help the homeless to get to the needing things like that What was behind I believe was the Holy Spirit and she was so distraught that she just did not speak in tongues And so there's a lot of peer pressure Amongst people in the church when you go to a game a football game and folks are cheering and it's your team And you're not they're gonna look at you Just like when people are in a room laughing you walk in a room and everyone's laughing and you don't know the Joke, what are you gonna do anyway? You're gonna laugh too as a matter of fact You're gonna laugh asking hoping that some will fill you in peer pressure is real even amongst adults God says that all we are like sheep. You know why because we do what sheep do we are led astray from the moment We are led astray. We act like sheep. We are sheep You know why because sheep do dumb stuff and follow dumb stuff. That's what we do and it's a we're easily enticed Let away and so it's a lot of pressure there Everyone is doing a certain thing and you're not what's wrong with me other folks might even look Hey, what's wrong with you? And so he is spot-on on this. This does happen I looked around and I saw a whole bunch of other people speaking in tongues Hey, I'm seemingly having this experience with God this encounter with God and I was totally clues as what was going on I didn't even know what tongues was right? And so right away I started feeling peer pressure and for that reason I just started mimicking what I heard other people saying and I said things like this Now little did I realize at the time that what was going on in that church was completely unbiblical because you know Let me just stop for a second before he goes there You when you speak in tongues, here's the question and no one no one answers this question adequately But why is it that because again if you're just on the outside looking in or you want to speak in tongues and if you want to do it the right way if You want to do it the right way well then if you see everyone speaking in tongues Then you want to speak in tongues and if you hear everyone speaking in tongues you want to sound like they sound Where do you live in this country? I'm not sorry. I'm sorry. Not where do you live? But your accent gives away either where you live or where you're from how you speak Have any you ever spoken with someone from New Orleans who is born and raised in New Orleans? You speak with them for about five fifteen twenty seconds That's that's that's uh, uh, uh, New Orleans speak with someone from New York Specific from certain boroughs of New York. You can tell someone from Chicago or Minnesota or Canada Even even LA what about here down the South? You know where those accents come from? You weren't you that you weren't born speaking with that accent. It was taught. It was learned No one actually to our Jamaican someone's Jamaican's you weren't it wasn't in you But you heard others and that dialect that way of speaking Became how you spoke you say some of the same things the same ways that your mother or your father or your grand You don't know why you say where does come from well because your mother said it Well, where she get it from her from her mother and then from her mother So you've been you've been saying the same thing in our family We're saying the same things that we've been saying since the 1800s and I don't even know the person that originated this That's just how it is That's just how it is now people are gonna get upset and bothered because what Alan was speaking was wasn't tongue Well when I was speaking tongues my tongues my tongues sounded like your tongues and The people who people will still say are godly folk spirit field who still speak in tongues They have the spirit of God in them. They accepted my tongues as tongues How come you people to all this Holy Spirit all this Holy Ghost who can interpret tongues and no tongues Understand whose tongues are real tongues and not tongues couldn't tell me that my tongues weren't real tongues Spoken tongues everyone said who the Lord is working in this young man right here See the problem is when people come back and say that's what that wasn't tongues Says who says you you don't even know what tongues is in many cases because again Again, I'm gonna ask someone to show me this where in scriptures and Let's say before we get the first Corinthians 14 Where in scriptures do we see examples of tongues being spoken? Because even if we don't if we look at extra biblical sources and when I say extra biblical sources I mean sources of Greek or Hebrew or Aramaic First century Palestine at the time that Jesus walked and died and so forth around that time and even before that This word that's used was always always known to mean a language so for the first 1900 years of the church and even before that the the three thousand four thousand years prior to that Languages different languages was what that meant But the super spiritual showed up on the scene and then we changed the definition because the Lord is doing a new thing Which is bogus but that being the case That's what it's always meant. Here's a question. How many times in the Bible? Guys, we're gonna be we're gonna be students of the Bible How many times in the Bible do you see the word tongues being spoken? How many times have we seen tongues actually not being told about tongues? But how many times do we actually see it or hear it? Meaning how many times do we see it or hear it and know exactly what's being stated? What's happening? There's only one time in the Bible where tongues are spoken and we know what's happening other times We're told what happened for example in acts 10 We're told that the Gentiles spoke in tongues But we're not told what they say We are told that John's disciples spoke in tongues at acts 19 But we're not told what was said Paul critiques them and we'll get the first Corinthians 12 and 14 Paul critiques their tongues their use of tongues or as Paul would even tell us is that their ignorance their misuse of their abuse of tongues But we don't know exactly what was stated what was said The only time the one time in the Bible where we see and we see in here the example of tongues is where? In acts 2 and so obviously we're gonna have to go to acts 2 in just a little bit and look and see what's being stated but We need to be Bereans because again There's nothing worse worse. I'm sorry. There's nothing worth having a bad walk Pride or being unbending to something I'm taught or I feel my emotions are not worth me having a bad walk And a bad walk is when you are going to deliberately go against what the word says Just because you mean to tell me Corey my tongues weren't real tongues. I know what I felt okay Well, so what I understand that you know what you felt. I'm not trying to be harsh But the same way you know what you felt when you were in love the first time or in love the third time Or when you were in love the fifth time or the first divorce or the second divorce Yeah, you you knew you felt it when you bought that car You just knew this was it when you when you got that job. This was a job That's what happens When we think we know something or feel something it's never ever about our feelings Hey, man, every adult can say the same thing every adult can say, you know what you're right It's not about feelings. It is about the word of God And so what I want to do is again deal with the word But I want to go to theirs and as we look at their comments Then we are going to then call it is gonna cause us to delve into the words Let's go back to the last thing that Alan says you had a whole church speaking in tongues all at the same time Which is a direct contradiction to 1st Corinthians chapter 14 Which therefore further undermine my trust in the spiritual leaders who were promoting this encouraging this and Didn't see anything wrong with what was going on in the church services now for me growing or coming up in in In this church and I'm hearing everyone speaking tongues and I'm just trying to I want to be a student I'm trying to learn and so I'm asking the pastor Bishop Why did you just stop what you were doing and started speaking in tongues? You went from English to tongues back to English and asked him Well, what did you what would you say and he said well? I don't know the speakers took over and my thought was should you should you know what you're saying then? My question was as I'm thinking Should you speak in tongues? What are you saying? Why are you speaking in tongues? What's the point and the first thing that I heard was this to edify? And just like Alan Alan spoke about also in our church There were mass Mass tongue speaking. There's a lot of people speaking in tongues at one time. Well, the the scripts are clear on that now It wouldn't even be an issue It would not be an issue if everyone's tongues were private Whether they are legitimate or illegitimate whether biblical or unbiblical if everyone who spoke in tongues did so in the private Privacy of their own home we would know about anyway We would we would have a reason to question or to wonder And so we're so we're gonna address that in a second. Is there a different type of tongues and so forth? Someone says we speak mysteries in the spirit. We're gonna look at that passage to to see exactly what it says by the way guys Much to the chagrin and much to the dismay of some people we are going to look at Greek Sorry, but it was given to us in Greek and so therefore we are going to tackle the Greek but Would it also be helpful if we knew what? Tongues were for what spiritual gifts for what the Holy Spirit coming in us is going to do because before the Spirit shows up Jesus also addresses what tongues are supposed to be or what the Spirit is supposed to be so before I get there though I want to start off and this is gonna be how we jump into the scriptures, but I want to listen to Marcus's His rebuttal to Alan's video on tongues because when you listen to different youtubers different preachers Different teachers. All right, sometimes there's verses that it changes the whole context of everything, right? And I always say the Bible flows the Bible cannot contradict itself, right? And so if somebody is ignoring a verse that doesn't match with their interpretation We have a serious problem and why where Alan Parr is teaching is so dangerous and it's anti Christ is now Let me say this he's he says well Alan's teaching is dangerous and anti Christ, which is laughable But what he's just said is that about people not using the whole Bible? Because what he's saying is that Alan didn't go to all the passages that he would have gone to or we're gonna Do so we've done in the past and by the way Alan does go to 1st Corinthians 14 Does he does he stay in 1st Corinthians 14 the whole time? No, he's telling why he stopped speaking in tongues, but we're gonna go there and guys when I tell you That as he thinks that Alan's contradicts himself he contradicts himself in an amazing fashion And he says some things that just are just blatantly ignorant and I'm giving him the benefit of that I really am But when you come back and say hey, wait a second, let me question what you're saying Let me what what is this? How do I take this and then you come back and say that no I think you're trying to be too smart you being you're thinking this you're doing too much thinking Let the spirit flow. I'm not gonna just let the spirit flow. I'm not sure what the spirit is John tells us not all spirits are of God Tested, you know what? We're not we are not so great so awesome So wonderful that we cannot be fooled that we can't think this is the move of God and it's not How many other godly men in the Bible thought it was God and what? We can do things on our own and it and it and it just be that our own and so when he makes his statement well Marcus we're gonna hold you to that same standard. You're saying people are not using the entirety of the Bible It's because this is something that God wants you to experience. It's beautiful. Guess what? It's for everybody God now You all have to forgive me for stopping but we have to go to the scripture But here's the question if it's for everybody why doesn't the Bible? I asked the first question if It's a clearly defined doctrine Should not the Bible clearly define or tell us to do it? Then we should do it and they're gonna say this thing about not having enough faith to speak it Here's another question Here is another question If you have to have faith or enough enough faith to speak in tongues How much faith to speak in tongues did the people who originally spoke in tongues? How much faith do they have? When John's disciples spoke in tongues, they had no idea of Or anything about tongues or about the Holy Spirit, didn't they? Same thing with the Gentiles Same thing with the Samaritans So it's not that I've got to have faith in I've got a want and desire of these tongues That's not how that works. That is not how that works. And then the other thing is I Don't speak in tongues anymore Are you gonna tell me that my walk my faith is diminished? It's acting promise you this now, you don't know this you all you can do is take my word for it, but in Terms of my growth in terms of where I am Far better than it was when I was speaking in tongues now So might have a different a different experience, which is fine. It's your experience and again I can't take your experience anywhere All I've got not your experience because how silly would it be for me to rely on your experience or your words When I'm gonna look at the word myself, I'll look at his word not your words. Amen, but let's go to it God is not this kind of guy like oh, it's just for you and you and you're my special kids And I just picked you know out of ten I picked five and I'm gonna let them experience it and never let you experience this power Never let you have this intimacy that would not be fair of God And so what ends up happening is, you know, sometimes people if they haven't spoken tongues yet that there's a little intimidation there You know Alan Parr says there's peer pressure there There's this feeling like a second-class citizens the citizen, but the reality is tongues is for everybody I'm just going to and again, where does it say that as a matter of fact? It literally says the opposite now he addresses this a little bit and when I tell you it is horrible exegesis or ice of Jesus Maybe both after this next clip are gonna go into the scriptures to Use the word of God to destroy his whole theology in the first two or three minutes with it Just a couple of verses that he just refuses to address and there's many verses that he just stays away from Because it goes against what he teaches and he's trying to compensate a right for a lack of faith in this area The first is that there is not one example in the entire New Testament Where you see a person praying in a private prayer language to God you will not find it in the Bible now Absolutely false right there. All right first Corinthians 4-2 for anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people But to God in the so he is saying first Corinthians 14 to Let's go there This is someone praying in a private prayer language And then he's gonna butcher as to who is actually doing it So let's go and we're gonna come back to this and you'll see why I have a lot of these things Highlighted and underlines is for the full one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God for no one understands But in his spirit he speaks mysteries now some versions says in his spirit like this version says this translate says in His spirit other translation says in the spirit the problem is we're not sure if it's in the spirit Or if it's in his spirit if it's in his spirit, which by the way it actually could be Grammatically speaking This is one of those times where it's really hard to tell It could be in his spirit if it's in his spirit Well, this didn't prove anything as a matter of fact It debunks those that you go to this passage to prove the existence of their sort of tongues But this clearly isn't someone having a private prayer language Indeed no one understands them. They utter mysteries by the spirit No one no one. All right. I know it sounds funny that I'm enunciating these words like this But I really want it to sink in no one understands them They utter mysteries by the spirit so only them and God can understand first Corinthians 14 4 says he that speaketh in a unknown tongue edified himself But he that prophesied edified the church So not only do you speak in a unknown tongue to God that nobody else can understand right Also, when you speak in tongues, you can edify yourself now. Yes, you can go to Okay, so now let's put that on the screens Well, first Corinthians 14 for the one who speaks in the tongue edifies himself But the one who prophesied as a father church now the question is going to be is it possible That he Marcus and others are taking this passage wrong now. There's only two ways that you can take this There's only two ways that you can take this Either paul is making a positive affirmation About the people who speak in this unknown tongue as he used he's used the king james version that has the word unknown By the way, the word unknown is not in the in the greek text Nor is it even in the received text text accepted So unknown is just added to kind of help us to understand Maybe what paul what they think paul is saying but there's only two ways take this One way is that paul is giving a positive affirmation as to what they're doing The other way is paul is giving a negative given a critique Now we're going to find out that paul is literally writing to criticize what they're doing The question is going to be What did he actually criticize and no none of the people I've spoken to even those who disagree They can never tell me what's actually being criticized here by paul because we know he's writing Matter of fact, the entire letter to the church of current is an issue of this this unity Division and so forth and he talks mainly about just folks picking different clicks and so forth One says i'm a paul one says i'm paul also and so forth He says aren't you just being like mere men? There should be no divisions That's y'all that have the exact same thought pattern, but we should be unified He speaks about division and unity as far as that's concerned as far as the church writ large as as far as Families husbands and wives and so forth as well as Concerning spiritual gifts. We'll get to that in a second, but Why are the disciples told that the spirit is going to come upon them? What does jesus say is going to happen with people when the spirit comes upon them? Well, let's go to it in john 15 Jesus is preparing to leave And this is important. It's a matter of fact Before we go there. I want you to think about this for a second ash And i'm asking you guys questions for a reason I'm asking you questions because I want you to think about this I want you to jump into the scriptures Even if you can't get it now listen Keep this rewind this rewind it like it's a vhs tape But keep going over and and and run through the scriptures and try to do your best to prove your point But don't prove your point for the sake of proving your point try to prove your point because you want to find What the truth is there's nothing wrong with being wrong When you find out that you're wrong. It's a good thing because you found out something new I'm saying this because again guys There are a lot of things that I used to believe and I no longer believe tongues is one of those things And again after a while my head and heart they have to match up And so my heart wanted tongues to be true and I was a faithful person serving the lord But in my head wait a second. This isn't as i'm reading the scriptures Why why why in the word are you reading the scriptures cori? Well, because my heart wants me to read more and more of god's word It's what he left us It's the one thing that he left me and you and all of us in the exact same abundance We all have the exact same word to read from I have no more than you have I have no more of the word than you have and you have no more of the word than I have Now in terms of holy spirit, I don't know if you have the holy spirit You don't know if I have the holy spirit. We do have the same word So my heart cost me to go read and I was being bothered by that now by the way At the end I'll give everyone an opportunity if you want to chime in cori you're wrong You're the worst teacher ever. You're the worst person on youtube. That's fine Or I like your cori, but you're just ignorant and stupid on this which is fine that part is fine. So now Jesus makes a statement He says When the helper comes remember Jesus getting ready to leave when the helper comes whom I will send to you from the father That is the spirit of truth who proceeds from the father What does Jesus say the holy spirit is going to do? It's on the screen. He says he the holy spirit will testify about me So now can we take that to mean that what it just said the holy spirit is going to testify about Jesus? Yes, we can't take it that way as a matter of fact, it works out just that way Jesus tells them that when the holy spirit comes He in you will testify of not of some generic god not of spirituality Not of blessings not of financial rewards and so forth, but of Jesus. That's what he's going to testify of the holy spirit in them And we know that because in acts one eight Jesus says You when you receive power from the holy spirit, he will come upon you and you shall be you shall receive power And then what does Jesus say they're going to do with this power? The holy spirit in them they shall be his witnesses where Jerusalem Judea and Samaria and to the rest of the world That's important another question that you need to be thinking of them I'm throwing some questions out here guys that I want you guys to think about Whether you can answer or not doesn't matter. I want you to be able to answer, but I also want you to think about it one Why did tongues this outpouring show up at this time? Why did they show up at this time? Why didn't tongues this phenomenon of speaking in tongues? Why didn't show up before Christ? Why didn't show up? I don't know when Elijah roamed What why didn't show up when when when moses was on the earth? Why not even when jesus was there, but after his death bearer resurrection and ascension Why didn't he why didn't tongues even show up when jesus walked there in his earthly ministry? Why? Some other questions when thinking about these spiritual gifts or the move the spirit question one Who causes the spirit to move in a person? Think about that. Who causes the spirit to move in a person? Is it us or the spirit? I think it's a spirit that causes the spirit to move in us Who causes the gifts of the spirit to manifest us or the spirit? It's the holy spirit that causes these gifts to manifest in us Who gives these gifts? Is it our will or his will? We're going to read it's his will he gives according to his will and if that's the case then how in the world Can bad teaching or misunderstanding be an impediment to receiving tongues? If the spirit works in us Then whether you know something or not is going is immaterial If the now think about this if the spirit is the one that moves in us And he's not doing it because we're so smart But it has he wills Then whether I believe in tongues or not is immaterial because again the very first people they ever spoke in tongues They didn't know anything about tongues never spoken tongues Jesus just tells the disciples you'll be my witnesses, but he didn't tell them i'm going to give you different languages They don't know So stop making this point that you got to have faith you got to this you got to know that you got to know it No Best and oh by the way Again if the spirit is going to work in somebody it doesn't matter what you are what color you are where you're from and so forth He's going to move in you and cause you to speak in these tongues I say tongues are languages because that's what that's what tongues are They are literally languages people will say differently, but you can't prove it You can't prove it And that's the point. Let's go back to what Marcus said to 1st Corinthians chapter 14 He can look notice he mentions this verse, but he won't read it It's some things that paul may have said about praying in tongues and things of that nature But nowhere in the bible do so yeah, you know first one things if you want to go look you can go look at it But you know and it's like he's brushing it to the side because it's so clear that paul says I pray in an unknown tongue to god But because now he would he just said he said that alan's kind of brushing the side He didn't mean I don't know what we want to deal with that or whatever because it's so clear that paul says that I pray in an unknown tongue to god First of all, that's wrong. Either you just ignorant of the scripture or you're lying Let's go back to that past. We're going to come back to it and and and delve into it a little more fully But is this paul saying that he prays in an unknown tone to god in chapter 14 verses 2 and 4 He says for the one The one who's doing so And the word for one is um I'm sorry I'm trying to have my my my greek lineup with me as well For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to god for no one understands But in his spirit or in the spirit either or he speaks mystery But the one who prophesies speaks to men for their edification and rotation and consolation one who speaks And by the way, this is the speaking one of the one that's speaking so paul is not speaking about himself So when marcus makes a statement that paul just said That he is speaking mystery there. He's being an unknown tongue to god. That is wrong That is so incorrect. And so maybe maybe marcus you need to start going to the scriptures and incidentally Incidentally and I don't watch a lot of marcus writer stuff As a matter of fact, I haven't really covered him in a good while But I can't recall him ever putting the scriptures on the screen I can't recall him ever putting the scriptures on now. That's the reason why I do so I put the scripture on the screen because I want you to see what I'm looking at Hey, no, Cory. That's not what that says. Oh, I see what you're saying, Cory As a matter of fact, I'm going to show you something where this whole issue that they bring up that tongues The gift of tongues and speaking in tongues are two different things We're going to make sure that everyone knows that that is a lie We're going to make sure that tonight that everyone knows that speaking in tongues and the gift of tongues That if you say they're different, you are incorrect and you we might want to find someone else to listen to If someone's listening to marcus, and I encourage anyone if you listen to marcus on his teachings on tongues Really anything else? I just would not do so Remember, this is the same marcus that has uh several false prophecies It's the same marcus that said that what god is what do you say? 1500 miles high or wider feet. I forgot what he says something like that This is the same marcus that believes that if you are baptized in water and they don't say verbally in jesus name It's the same marcus. It says that if you don't do so, then you're not saved Remember that was the reason why the gentleman that died that drowned went back the guy had placed his faith in christ Had been baptized thought that he was a christian Marcus goes and convinces this man that he's not a christian He's not saved because he was not baptized the right way He was baptized But the person said in the name of the father the son of the holy spirit It's true story He was baptized in the name of the father the son of the holy spirit And because he wasn't baptized with the person verbally saying in jesus name, then you didn't really get saved So you got to go back and get baptized to get saved And so he got baptized in an area on the base where they weren't supposed to be And at some point in time either after the baptism immediately after what have you The man dranny was swept away in this running current now Details are if he as to whether that was immediately after during what I don't know The fact is he would not have been there in the first place Had it not been for you telling him that he needed to be rebaptized all over again You shouldn't have been there marcus because it was off limits now To what to to the degree of culpability that marcus has in that I don't know what the army did but and so i'm not i'm not going to say that he's responsible for this man's death But it did lead to him being there in the first place But again, this is what bad doctrine can do bad doctrine can do things like that. And so because of that Because of that you ought to avoid what he's saying just like what he just said here that it was paul That made that statement paul didn't make that statement Paul yeah, he mentioned that but he kind of Covered it up. There's there's a lot of documentation on this And so i'm not making this up at all and i'm not i'm not jumping on marcus for his past Listen, but the point is his teaching has not changed He has he may and listen he may have a good intention a good intent I don't care what your intention is though when you do wrong and you stay doing wrong and you stay and you continually Mangle the scriptures you should be avoided when it comes to having someone listen you teach That's just a fact Because it does not match his theology and what he teaches He's not gonna speak the whole word of god the whole counsel of god to a person praying in a private prayer language The way you do several times in the book of acts. So right there That's another problem with his argument. He says you don't actually see even though paul says it in 1st Corinthians 14 You don't actually see anybody in the now. He's gonna give a rationale I've said it before Come on. I'm gonna i'm gonna call uh, allen allen. Have you been taking my notes? Don't kid, but he made a statement You don't see anyone ever praying In tongues There are a lot of things that we see in the that we see that people they are saying that we don't see an example of You never see anyone praying in tongues. You never see angelic tongues tongues of an angel. You never see this Well I say because you don't see it in the bible is our pattern that we ought to follow He says no And now I want you to listen to his rationale Praying in private in tongues. Well, the problem with that argument because I know some of uh allen paar's uh doctrine Well, what about uh when the bible says to baptize in the name of the father son and the holy ghost in mafio 24 Nowhere in the bible do we see someone getting baptized in the name of the father and the son of holy ghost and getting dunked in the water It says that in mafio, right? But everywhere where someone actually got dipped in the water And i'm not talking about john's uh baptism unto repentance. I'm talking about after that in the new covenant Right. They always got baptized in the name of jesus. So I would just This is where I I I didn't want to fall out. But it's like wow, okay So his rationale is because we don't ever see anyone doing this Then What about when jesus says baptize the name of the father and the holy spirit? We never see anyone else doing that Well, wait a second marcus. Are you saying that we should baptize in the name of the father and the holy spirit? What are you saying? Because your rationale is that we should baptize in the name of jesus because that's what it literally says Okay, well then following your logic. We should not ever we should not ever say that someone is praying in tongues And we should not ever say that there are angelic tongues or angelic languages ever What his defense is just absolutely laughable Maybe this is why the the the seminary that they were trying to put together never never never never kind of came into fruition Maybe this is why because again, he has an issue with people using their head and learning that learning Being doctrinal is a problem for him because he he is of the adage that many churches or many profess christians have today Because everybody knows if you really want to love god, you got to be ignorant The united negro college fund as a motto A mind is a terrible thing to waste Modern american christianity has a different take on that. We just believe a mind is a terrible thing Which is true. We believe a mind is a terrible thing. We shouldn't think we shouldn't think at all So let's go back to what he's saying just wonder what would be his answer to that if that's going to be how he You know defend it. Well, we've never seen it Well, first Corinthians is clear that I speak in an unknown tongue to god part 16 17 18 Which by the way, remember I had this discussion with alan par before he says that this verse doesn't even belong in the bible Now when they had their conversation, he said that alan was bringing up mark 16 17 And he said there are many scouts matter of fact most scholars Will say that the longer ending of mark 16 doesn't belong Now these are folks that that that's their living they're paparologists. They are textual critics They look and see what we don't have early manuscripts that have that but that's fine. That's fine Let's go ahead and grant now the fact that marcus was oblivious to that Not to whether you land on one side of the it It's immaterial right now if you think the longer ending Belongs or not by the way, which longer in there are actually three longer endings But that's not the point the fact that marcus when he was told this Didn't even know that there was a controversy about the longer ending of mark 16. Why are you pastoring? Because he gets on on on alan for not knowing what tongues are because he didn't grow up in the church and did so And so how are you a teacher? Well, first of all when alan began teaching That wasn't when he didn't know about tongues And so for him to say that it's just first of all is hypocritical because you yourself did not know about this controversy regarding Mark 16 17, but we we are going to assume we're going to move forward as though mark 16 the longer ending that it belongs Because even if it does you still he still violates it So now he's just taken away from the bible and these signs should follow them that believe in my name They shall cast out devils. They shall speak with new tongues. It doesn't say some that believe god doesn't have this special little group of people Right, let's go there. This is one of the things that when when when marcus came on alan show some time ago And even when other folks have called with the carpet on this he has he shies away from this So let's go to mark 16 17 and if you notice on the screen you're going to see these little lines I'll tell you what these lines are in just a second These signs will accompany those who have believed now. This is will accompany This is this is a future active indicative. That means these are going to happen if this is Legitimately the words of god This is saying It will Happen so these are the signs that will now he agrees with this point. Okay. Now it's plural These top top if that's plural These are the signs. These are the signs. So man, these are the signs plural. I want that to be clear What's going to follow one sign? No, all of them These are the signs that will accompany those that believe in my name They will cast out demons. They will cast out demons. This is also Plural future active indicative. So they will cast out demons Also, they will speak in new tongues Also, they will pick up serpents not they might know they will And if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them There there's the only if the only condition if it happens and fine It won't it won't hurt you and then they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover That doesn't happen with markers or any of the folks all these folks that are running to mark 16 17 and 18 You're failing because you're not laying hand on folks and folks are recovering So if you're going to top this passage tell all of it You can't just pick and choose. I'm going to make this verse 16 and verse 17 and 18 I'm going to make it to a buffet I'll pick and choose the one I want to and then come back and try to prove that you are Casting out demon or healing folks because you were pulling out these imaginary snakes out of people's backs Well, Marcus wasn't really serious about that being a real snake Well, then why did Marcus put up an x-ray of a person with a snake inside them? So he's playing with people and people just aren't following You don't have to go and check the scriptures yourself in a second I'm going to show why these are underlined in just one second You do not want to miss the point about why these are underlined, right? That oh, yeah, you know five of my children. I'll let you speak in tongues I'll let you edify yourself in the spirit, but i'm not going to give these other Uh, my other children that privilege that doesn't make no sense Now some people argue well verse 18. They shall take up serpents if they drink any deadly thing It shall not hurt them. They said well, oh, so are you going to take up serpents? Once again, they make a mockery because of their lack of faith But to me when I read that they shall take up serpents It just means that god is going to protect you right if i'm a believer i'm protected I'm covered if if I drink any deadly thing it's not going to hurt me because i'm covered It doesn't literally mean go pick up a snake and I remember without it doesn't literally mean go pick up a steak But it literally means go speak in tongues You are so contradictory that it's amazing. It's funny and listen And I'm doing my best not to be mean I really am I really am my wife said Cory be a little nicer Be a little nicer In your in your old age you're getting a little bit more Crogity she didn't say Crogity But you're getting a little bit more cantankerous No, she didn't say cantankerous You're just not being as nice as you could be and I'm sorry. I'm sorry, honey. I could be a lot nicer I really could but there are times where you just This is bothersome this this is bothersome and again I'll just use the words of the great apostle prophet Mike Todd. You can be saved and stupid Tweet that you can be saved and stupid Can I get an amen from the audience? By the way, thank you. He says that whenever You have to do something to receive anything from God. You have just undermine the gospel Exactly right. So I've got to I've got to do something to get God to move By the way, the word if you look in the bible When we talk about the word spiritual gifts we talked about this on last week How many times is the word clash remind me how many times is the word spiritual gift in the bible Some of you all are maybe just joining How many times is the word the phrase spiritual gifts actually in the bible? You might be shocked you might be shocked to find out that it's not very often that this word is actually in the bible Very it's not there very many times one time one time But now is it implied other cases? Sure, but there's a reason why you need to know What the actual true word is you're going to hear this word pneumaticona pneumaticos There's a reason why you need to know this word because it refers to the the things of the spirit the spirit moving That's what we classify as these gifts. So the move of the spirit the pneumaticona the spiritual things The things that are spiritual That's going to be important as we move a little bit further. So I want you all to keep this in mind I know it's a lot that I'm throwing out at you, but I want you all to remember these things again If you have to go back and and rewatch it or what have you rewind the vhs tape then then so be it Outfaith is impossible to please god So you can't receive something by faith if you don't believe that you need it So you can't receive it if you've been taught wrong faith coming by hearing and hearing by the word of god Now a couple things faith comes by hearing hearing by the word of god. Why is that? Why is that wrong? Well, because when we look up that passage in romans 10 where it says faith comes by hearing and hearing It's not the verb to continually hear so faith does not come by hearing and hearing and hearing and hearing It's not it's not it's not the it's not the verb. It's the now a co a which is faith comes by the report Why is that because paul's talking? He's referring to what isaac said the report that isaac brings up who shall uh, believe the report of the lord And so it's the very same report the gospel that paul brings up. He says that's the power It's so powerful That it itself moves you That's how powerful that that that gospel is that that report But that being the case he says you have to have faith Now wait a second The first time I stepped foot in church I thought about tongues and the move of the spirit because that's what I was told And I agreed with it Faith gotta have faith I want to have I want to speak in tongues and guess what I spoke in tongues Why then did we people like myself or alan move away? We don't have faith We had faith when we spoke in tongues But we thought we didn't have faith when we stopped Do you know how condescending that is? But again, how much faith Did matthew How much faith did the disciples matthew john james peter bartholomew that that is how much faith did they have When they first spoke in tongues well Not a lot in terms of knowing about tongues They had never seen tongues Again the gentiles how much faith when they first spoke in tongues that they had they they didn't know anything about it They believe and the spirit fell on them. They didn't even they weren't even sure about the holy spirit We know john's disciples didn't know anything about the holy spirit because they said so we hadn't even heard there was a holy spirit And certainly hadn't heard about tongues So you don't have to have faith in tongues to get tongues As we said before It's the holy spirit that is going to do that So if the holy spirit wants you to speak in tongues and if you think we're wrong about it, well then fine Hush up talking about it because the holy spirit is going to move you to do so But the issue is that there are so many people that and the reason why this is a controversy because there are those that see the The misuse the abuse like wait a second that can't be And then those that believe in it aren't calling out and then other folks say if you don't speak in tongues If you don't show these signs you aren't saved because he's going to say this in just a little bit He is going to say this in just a little bit and now I welcome someone to come back and say, you know what? I want you I want to challenge what you're saying I think you're wrong and you're going to have the opportunity either today And again, we're going to go live again with those who want to kind of come and and and share why I'm wrong You can do you can do so either now or then But I want to learn I want to know where I'm wrong. I don't want to walk around being wrong I don't want you don't want to walk around with something, you know with with lettuce in your teeth You don't want to walk around with something on your face on your head You don't want to walk around with something on the back of your shirt I want you to tell me so that I can correct that And if I see the same thing, I should do the exact same thing Now we're getting close to why these things are underlying So if you're in a baptist church and you don't even know what tongues is There's no way to for you to have the proper belief system and the faith to receive it Now some of you will argue. Well, hey all christians, right? Are filled with the holy spirit because they are believers. I'm going to go ahead and destroy that false teaching Very quickly, right? You know in acts 19, right? People argue. Well, let's start with this Hold on now. I want you to hear what he said He said Aren't all christians filled with the holy spirit and he says I'm getting ready to destroy it or or debunk or whatever He's gonna he's gonna destroy that Okay Let first of all, he's not going to destroy it. Secondly, he's going to contradict He's going to say the exact opposite in just a little bit fusions 113 And whom you also trusted after that you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation And whom also after that you believe you were sealed with the holy spirit of promise check this out What does that say there now? He's speaking about infusions about us being filled I'm sorry being sealed with the holy spirit of promise now He doesn't take it the way it's supposed to mean that that a person that's sealed is sealed forever It's an earnest money down payment that that person is sealed forever He doesn't he doesn't say that someone says yes, uh, hindu speaking in evil tongues. Yeah, here's a funny thing about How come other people In other pagan religions speak in tongues one sounds like like christians speaking in tongues How come god's spirit is causing folks to do exactly what the unbelievers the pagans are doing? That that that's a mystery, but uh, he's telling us that Being sealed is different than being filled It says you were sealed with the holy spirit of promise There's a difference between being sealed and being filled All right. Now if it said you were filled with the holy spirit, there would be no argument So you you believed but you haven't yet been filled you've been sealed with the promise That's the key part that people leave out now. What does it mean to actually be filled? We're gonna talk about that real quick because praying and talking. Hold on before we move forward May I ask you guys a question Do all christians have the holy spirit in them? Now he said a few things already that he that we've shown that he's wrong either intentionally or unintentionally But do all christians have the holy spirit in them? Well, let's how about we let the bible tell us let's go to romans 8 9 and by the way, he's gonna read romans 8 9 and he's gonna miss the whole point But romans 8 9 says however you are not in the flesh But in the spirit if indeed the spirit of god dwells in you But if anyone does not have the spirit of christ, he does not belong to him So if you have if you are in christ, that means you necessarily have to have the holy spirit So let's go and look at a couple of the pastors I I want to I want to play with the software and just start adding it to here Let's just see let's pull some more some more pastors up here And I want to see if I can beat you guys to the punch That is the spirit of truth whom the world cannot receive because it does not see him or know him But you know him because he abides with you and will be in you Now, yeah, Cory. He's talking to the disciples. So he's only gonna be in the disciples Nothing's gonna apply to us, but oh, that's fine. That's fine. I think there are other passages to use To prove the holy spirit is gonna be in us. How about this passage? How about first Corinthians? 619 or do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy spirit who is in you Whom you have from god and that you are not your own the holy spirit is in believers By the way, first Corinthians 12 13 will go there later that tells that all of us have been baptized into the holy spirit How about this one? This is a good passage. There are a lot of good pastors, by the way I don't know why we say that sometimes, but how about this one? How about first john 4 4 you are from god little children and have overcome them because greater is he who is in you That's in by the way in the greek the word in means in In Not difficult in means in greater is he that's in you than he that is in the world Let's pick up a few more passages. What about first john 414 We have seen and testified that the father has sent the son to be the savior. I'm sorry. Am I reading around? For some reason I wrote the wrong one down. I have I have written the wrong one down, but that's okay. How about colossions? 127 I think that's another good one To whom god will to make known what is what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is christ In you the hope of glory. So question Does the holy spirit is the holy spirit in all believers? Yes For him to say so for him to say first of all, let me just say this For marcus rogers to say otherwise Clearly demonstrates that he is thoroughly disqualified to teach anyone This is the basis of the gospel This is the this is the whole point of being saved Marcus doesn't get this and anyone else that doesn't get this should not ever open the bible to teach someone open the bible to read and study and be taught But don't teach anyone else Because this is the basis of our salvation that he would come to live in us And because he is teaching people And doing so arrogantly and incorrectly He needs to sit down Sorry, but it's the truth God says that he will put his spirit in us and cause us to walk. He will be in us So by the way, we are saved by the washing generation Our heart is born from above Born of the spirit The holy spirit is going to be in us If you do not have as paul says in roman's aid If you do not have the spirit in you, you are not saved If you are saved you have the holy spirit in you. It's really that easy. It's that simple It's that basic But it's also that important and because he mangles that you cannot trust him But in regards to these tongues, let's continue tongues because it's private between me and god It's some secret code language that the devil and the demons can't understand They can't interpret it and it's only given to god All right. Well, my friends over at godquestions.org really have a great article on this I'm going to try to put a link in the description box below. We can read the entire thing I think it is extremely well done But to this point they say this some understand praying in tongues to be a secret code language that prevents satan and his demons from Understanding our prayers and thereby gaining an advantage over us. This interpretation is unbiblical for the following reasons Number one the new testament consistently describes tongues By the way, have you all heard that before that was one of the reasons that I was hurt when I asked the bishop I said, well, why do we why speak in tongues because it's a language that the devil can't understand It confuses him Well, my question is and I've asked others Where In the bible can I find that? Where do we where do we see the bible telling us that Tongues is a language that the devil can't understand as though the devil speaks english as though the devil speaks spanish As though the devil speaks canadian as though the devil speaks Mandarin What what languages does the devil speak? So if so you mean to tell me if I pray in my regular language The devil can take that Explain to me how that works someone So if I pray in english and I pray out loud Because I want you all to see the idiocy the stupidity of what he's stating If I pray out loud or pray in english or whatever my native language is The devil can hear it and thwart it Meaning he can stop god from hearing it And if god can't hear it god can't do anything about it But the bible tells us though that he knows what we're going to say before we have before we ask of it Think about how absolutely utterly I want to avoid using the word, but I have to how utterly stupid it is to think that Speaking in tongues keeps the devil from hearing what you're saying As though english you can he can hear that Again, what language does the devil speak and then take it to us logical conclusion. What if I'm preaching in english? If I'm preaching in english well, then can't the devil do the exact same thing to me preaching in english that he would be praying in english It's the same thing Hearing the gospel is what changes people and so The devil can thwart that he can he can fix that Think about that and oh by the way if I pray If I'm praying marcus rogers To get tongues because marcus tells us we ought to have faith and pray to receive tongues But I can't pray in tongues to receive tongues I can't pray in tongues until I actually get tongues. So I got to pray in my native language. Then won't he still interrupt that? Why would why would the devil let my prayer in english go to god? He'll he'll he'll thwart that too, won't he? This is how foolish this kind of teaching is and it's pervasive guys as a human language We already we already explained how that's uh false, right? Because there were times where you pray an unknown tongue to god There's a difference between the baptism of holy spirit with the evidence of speaking tongues and the gift of tongues The bible also says that he gave some various tongues, right? Alan parr believes there's only one type of tongues and essentially Okay, now this is where he's going to start talking about the difference in tongues It's about various tongues the gift of tongues speaking tongues different things And so we're going to look at that in just a little bit He actually believes that that when you speak in tongues, you're speaking an actual language like spanish like japanese But in the book of acts when they saw them speaking in tongues, they assumed these guys were drunk I've never heard someone speak another language and assume yo that individual is drunk The problem with that is Ephesians 4 27 neither give place to the devil this now Okay, come now. He's made this statement plenty times before that They assumed that they were drunk and he says I've never heard a person speaking in chinese or mandarin spanish battalion french and thought they were drunk I just knew it was different language well a couple things first of all If you hear a language that you've never heard before you might I've heard people speak languages some african dialects and so forth That what in the world what are they and it's their language? But More to the point The writer luke is not saying That all the folks thought they were drunk No, these were a certain who who in the bible Said that these people were drunk Should we take the people that said that those speaking in those these languages on that day Should we take what they say as true or any validity because they said that these all these men are drunk Who are the people these were mockers These were people that were come and mocked them These were not believers. They didn't likely they didn't come become believers peter Reach preachers And a lot of them were bothered Marcus They were mockers. They were mocking When you mock somebody you're making fun of them. You're joking. You're not telling the truth We'll get to that in just a second, but what we do know is on the day of pentecost. They were literally speaking languages So he's trying to say that that allen is wrong on this No allen is right and everyone else that believes that they that tongues are an actual language The one time in the bible where we actually get to see what tongues look like They're speaking languages That's the only time in the bible we get to see languages. I mean tongues being in use Oh, by the way, there's another gift that's also there that we only see one time in the bible and That's going to be an issue coming up That's a I need to put this on the screen. He says according to according to marcus Deaf people can't be saved Anyway, let's go back to marcus. This lets us know that you know, we can give place to the devil the devil is not All knowing so the devil is roaming the earth like a lion seeking to devour So when you pray in a language, right? Because he's the prince of the air airplay airwaves prince of the air in this earth He can understand those languages. So if you're praying for sure again, fine He can understand languages my my point to you and I would say to anyone else and to the devil so So satan can hear me pray. So He can hear a lot of things So he's not omniscient You know, what else he's not He's not omnipotent. He can't stop a prayer He cannot If god Here's my prayer. Can't can the devil stop god from hearing it? No Can the devil stop god from fulfilling my prayer for antroman? No, he cannot he cannot Marcus the devil says, okay. I'm going to strategize a way to attack your faith in that area But when you pray in tongues, the holy spirit is making intercession on your behalf. The bible says with utterings with groanings Nobody can understand not the devil and that is all right. Marcus. Marcus just needs to stop talking Let's go to this pass where he says these groanings. He makes these intercessions Now he's going to bring us up again But roman's aid 26 is not an example of tongues only a few times in the bible where tongues even show up Acts two Acts 10 Acts 19 It's the only time that the bible references tongues being spoken The only time the only time that we can see they've been spoken now. You could possibly say acts eight Because simon saw something And there's a reason why Tongues was the gift that people would see and hear why because there needed to be a validation Tongues served two purposes We don't have time to go fully in depth with it, but they served two purposes one As jesus said to share the gospel John 15 says you be my witnesses when the holy spirit comes in you he repeats to get an ax one and then acts two What happens? What do they do? They become his witnesses where the first place they become his witnesses is in jerusalem And they begin speaking languages and then also samaria The third place the next place is into the rest of the world to the gentiles Well, if i'm going to witness the gentiles How are they going to hear it unless i have the ability to speak to them in their language? And then also it is a sign to who to the unbelievers particular which particular unbelievers will particularly The jews the jewish unbelievers Because they could not they could not deny the phenomenon that's occurring These people one are speaking these languages to People are coming to christ how in the first of all they thought it was strange that the the disciples Could even at some point time speak eloquently because they're fishermen. They're this or that they're not they're not learning men Certainly when they start speaking in these languages because if I start speaking some sort of Gibberish ecstatic language no one is impressed by that. Absolutely. No one but if I speak in Uh, perfect mandarin if I speak italian if I speak latin if I speak german wow They would be amazed if I if I speak fluent japanese Wow, especially me if I began speaking what's going on even today Especially then Is the strategic part of praying in tongues praying in the holy ghost now. We made that very clear. Okay that um Here we go jude 120 but ye beloved building up yourselves in your most holy faith praying in the holy ghost island par will tell you that praying in the holy ghost Is just just you praying right it's not tongues, but we see we read it in the very beginning That's why I read those verses at the beginning of the video if you go off of those verses It destroys his whole teaching it shows now the funny thing is is he's he's really confident that what he did destroyed this belief that Paul was talking about praying in the holy ghost and what does praying in the holy ghost mean? If I and I can't do it now, but if I type in just do a word search typing in the spirit or in the holy ghost or in the holy spirit You're going to see it mean everything but in tongues Paul came in the spirit. John came baptizing in the spirit in tongues. No In the spirit never has meant to be taken as in tongues Never we'll go to jude 120 or jude 20 in just a little bit But that does not mean to pray in tongues as a matter of fact when they bring up praying in tongues Watch how paul deals with that Is just just you praying right it's not tongues, but we see we read it in the very beginning That's why I read those verses at the beginning of the video if you go off of those verses It destroys his whole teaching it shows that his perspective is wrong paul clearly says I pray an unknown song to god And I edify it for myself jude Again, if you say something long enough and people if you've got an audience of people that don't want to go back And look and search they'll take what he said that paul said that I pray in unknown tongues more than all of you Did paul ever ever ever say I pray in an unknown tongue one or two more than any of all of you He never said that And again since he's a pastor and should know this the word unknown is literally not in the bible in terms of tongues We'll see why the word unknown shows up though 1 20 says build up yourself on your most holy faith praying in the holy ghost All right, romans 8 26 says likewise the spirit also helps our infirmities For we know not what we should pray for as we ought But the spirit itself make an intercession for us with groanings Which can not be uttered and he that surges the heart This is why he should never teach I want to point something out Let's go to romans 8 26 in the same way the spirit also helps our weeks now He's saying he is literally saying that this is tongues Now I want you folks to believe in speaking in tongues. Tell me if I'm correct or not when he says that this is tongues In the same way romans 8 26 The spirit also helps our weakness for we do not know how to pray He sees the word pray and he gets happy How to pray as we should but the spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings Too deep for words his greek word right here is the greek word. It's the nag moist I don't want you to get too caught on that but the nag moist literally means an inward sighing But something else by the way, would you guys like a new treat? How about a new treat? I haven't I don't I don't recall saying this to you guys before So i'm going to say it today to give even further proof that this is not tongues Let's go back to this passage this word right here. It says too deep for words Now some will say well words that can't be uttered This word right here is the word ala lethose ala lethose now. What does that mean? Well, and this is why these words are underlined This is why these words are underlined I'll tell you right now and then we'll flesh this out in just a second But laleo or lalas is to speak to say In english or in greek if we put the word ah In front of it. What does that mean? Class, please tell me you know this. What does the word ah in front of a word mean? Like if I say Gnosis to no agna agnos I can't even get the word out Agnostic means what to not know What so ah means no or not? So when I put this in front of the word laleo or lalas it means to not speak Unaudible you're not saying a word So marcus rogers, please I think his bible is broke. I think his bible is broke or he's just not open it right way I don't know what it is But either you are ignorant of the scriptures or you are an intentionally deceiving people There's only two ways that we can look at this. You're ignorant or you're intentional in your deceit One of two ways. It's like you're not even trying Or actually it's like you're trying to be wrong. You're doing your best to prove your point What is the mind of the spirit because you make an intercession for the saints according to the will of god That's why you're building yourself up when you pray and the holy ghost guys This is why what he's teaching is dangerous. Some guys will say well, you're you're a false teacher, right? What's so dangerous about what i'm teaching? I'm teaching that anybody can experience this if they've been taught right and they have the faith to receive it It's something that god wants every believer to experience acts when he says you should receive power after the holy ghost has come upon you I'm teaching what the bible says there's a difference between being sealed and being field right and so Why what he's teaching is dangerous is joel two says I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, right Peter and acts two he says repent be baptized right in the name of jesus for missonson You should have received the holy ghost people see what's going on. They say what's happening He says this is what was prophesied and joel two This is the promise that you are sealed with right that we've talking about you're sealed with the promise of the holy ghost God wants everybody to experience So if god wants everybody to experience it and he's not just picking Hey, you know, I got some favorite kids over here I'm gonna let them experience it and i'm not gonna let you experience it right that would make god unjust So what alan power is teaching is anti christ because he's putting you in a place where you believe that you don't need it And god wants you to have it. He wants you to experience it. He wants you to be empowered by his spirit Okay, I want him to kind of go on because what he just said was just dumb First of all if god wants you to have it when he would told us too. He would give it to us The bible tells me we're looking at a second though. We'll get to first print things We intentionally haven't gone to first print things yet But he gives the gifts as he wills I know that they're trying to say there's a distinction between the gifts and the speaking and it's not But the dangers in what he's saying is that one you're not saved He's saying the danger in what marcus is saying Is if you don't speak in tongues and you know better, you're not saved That's the danger that's heresy That is false teaching Right the spirit of christ the same spirit that raised christ from the dead is in you and you have power you have access Wait a second. Wait a second. Hold the presses You marcus just said the same spirit that's in you raised christ from the dead. Did he not just say that? But wait a minute marcus. You just got through saying with your with your water bottle That we're not filled. We just been sealed How could that be You're saying christians don't have the spirit in us, but then you just literally just said you literally just said That the same spirit that raised christ from the dead is in us Let's put it back on the screen and let's rewind it just a little bit Access to power and unfortunately they say what's happening. He says this is what was prophesied and joe too This is the promise that you are sealed with right that we've talked about you are sealed with the promise of the holy ghost God wants everybody to experience So if god wants everybody to experience it and he's not just picking Hey, you know, I got some favorite kids over here I'm gonna let them experience it and I'm not gonna let you experience it right that would make god unjust So what alan power is teaching is antichrist because he's putting you in a place where you believe that you don't need it And god wants you to have it. He wants you to experience it. He wants you to be empowered by his spirit Right the spirit of christ the same spirit that raised christ from the dead is in you and you have power You have access to power Okay, so again the same spirit that's in christ that raised christ and dead is in you All right, you're you're contradicting yourself And unfortunately there are a lot of people that have never tapped into the power because their brain has been Conditioned by this antichrist teaching that it's not for everybody So what happens is as soon as they don't get it the first time they say well I must just be one of the ones that it's not for but the bible clearly says that I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh On all flesh the bible clearly says that there's a difference between being sealed and being filled The devil does not want you to experience speaking in tongues and that Whether the devil wants you to experience or not that has has no bearing on what god's gonna do what the spirit is going to do And that's the point to say you talk you talk about the spirit has this power. See i'm convinced I am convinced that those people that have this this obsession with tongues They devalue the power of god. I think this now I could be wrong Somebody can get upset with me if they want to I apologize in advance if i'm wrong I don't think so. I think what it really is is that you don't have faith I think the people that are in searching of tongues don't have faith That well that's wrong cori that was mean that no that was godly that was biblical and if you let it help you it will Put it on you like some like some sad Let it heal you If you are searching for gifts if you're looking for the manifestation of gifts It's because you don't have faith You don't trust the true power of god You don't trust his word. Certainly enough. That's not it's not enough So I can promise you I can promise you because when someone comes back says I don't have faith And by the way, do you know how insulting that is for all the other people in the chat? Can I ask you guys a question all of you folks in the chat? Do you have faith? Has your faith seen you through? And a lot of people have had had to go through a lot of things More severe than Marcus Rogers has ever gone through and they made it through by their faith Again, I'm looking for I'm looking for the ridiculous person to tell me that I don't have faith I'm looking for that person to say to say to me to my face Yet me I'm the guy that's supposed to still be in prison. My out date is 2025 Wait a minute core. You're out days 2025, but you're outside. That's right. You know why because of god And you're gonna tell me I don't have faith through that go find somebody that knew me Go find somebody that knew me then and knew me now and and find out tell them Ask them do I have faith? Ask them how I live and not just the prison episode No, because many of the people that will sit and complain about someone not having faith Could not begin to go through a lot of things. Remember We had been ran out of our home twice because we had two drug hits put on us Not just a hit to come hurt us but to kill us Told you guys I used to live in Milwaukee I lived there for a year or so a little over a year because somebody was trying to kill us Yeah, faith has been a faith has been with me for a long time or god has been certainly And then when I came to know him I have no doubt whatsoever even when I get in the way And god has to knock me down faith has sure sure been there to help me along the way And so I don't want to hear someone like marcus who just got saved. He what is he 30 something years old? I don't want to hear him telling somebody else About their faith marcus if you had enough faith in the word you'd read it and study it and know it and stop butchering it That's what would happen. I'm gonna get in my soapbox in just a little just a little bit But not right now and that is why what he's teaching is dangerous Now the truth of the matter is it's because he's trying to be too smart for his own good Many people that have never spoken tongues before it's because they're overthinking it And let me explain it like this and then I'll do a quick teaching on it one more time For those of you who really need a uh understanding. I'll go verse by verse line by line I always explain it like this right in the old testament The holy spirit would come upon them But they weren't filled with the holy spirit and the new testament were filled with the holy spirit Now, please understand there's a difference between the old covenant and the new covenant That ain't the word of god for myself Instead of blindly following the spiritual wisdom of the people that I looked up to and when I did I saw some very distinct discrepancy between what was going on in the church and what I was experiencing in my own Prayer time with god and what the bible was actually saying now. Let me give you one of those examples I was taught that there is a big difference between speaking in tongues and praying in tongues And I know many of you watching this video. You have probably been taught the same thing But let's just see what the bible has to say about that and whether there is a clear difference more than like 1st Corinthians 14 22 Thus tongues are assigned not for believers, but for unbelievers Now he's getting ready to make a distinction between he's going to try to prove that tongues speaking in tongues and get to tell two different things And by the way because I saw chris were said that that more and more folks are going to speak in tongues You're absolutely right more and more people are going to speak in tongues with without question without question More people are going to speak in tongues and charismatic tout that that's a wonderful thing more and more people are going to speak in tongues However, what charismatic don't talk about is at the level of minimum wax code and that people are going to fall away How is that people are falling away with more people going to speak in tongues? What's happening? Well, because more people that speak in tongues may not even actually be safe I'm not saying that those that speak in tongues aren't safe What I'm saying is when a lot of folks that are speaking tongues who aren't safe thinking they're safe What's going to happen is as paul stated Sound doctrine will wane That's why it says preach the word be ready in season out. Why for the time will come the time will come When people will not endure sound doctrine So why are people speaking in tongues more the same reason folks are having demons cast out of them more The same reason people like giving these false prophecies more the same reason people are just being slain in the spirit more Because sound doctrine will not be adhered to that's why stop stop stop Acting as though that's a win because more folks are doing it more folks are also turned away from the trinity More folks are turned away from true sound doctrine. That's not me. That's the bible saying so that's going to happen That's why he tells us to contend for the faith There'd be no passage to tell us to contend for the faith If we didn't have to if more and more folks would run to the scriptures Do you all think that more people are running to the scriptures holding on to the scriptures relying on to the scriptures? We don't see that So I welcome every every time someone says that more people are becoming charismatic more people are speaking in tongues Okay, you're proving the bible to be right More false prophets are going to show up more anti-crimes are going to show up. Okay, you're proving the bible right Give me something to make your point true To make it what you're saying is not it's not a good thing More and more people are going to adhere to bad doctrine. Why? Because they have itching ears. They want to feel like matter of fact Paul even says that because you guys desire to be so spiritual that's fine That's why you guys are abusing these tongues and other gifts because you want to be spiritual He says well if you desire to be spiritual, then he says To desire in the building up of the bible. We'll get to that in just a second though We're gonna get there in a second while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers But for believers now when we put that into context with what we read Most people skip when they get the first Corinthians and they want to say tongues is it for everybody They skip those first two verses that I've repeated over and I'm sorry. I have to stop I have to put this up. I've got to put this up because that is What he just said Rick, I'm going to borrow this y'all forget that you saw this. I'll let you see it right now But I'm going to steal this in Jesus name I like this. He says changing a bad pan in Jesus name is 1000 times more field than speaking in tongue Can I get an amen? You are so right. You are so right folks want to look spiritual, but won't act it I had to stop because I saw that so right and over and over because they don't have an answer for it They'll skip down to here, right and they'll say, uh, you know tongues is it for everybody So tongues are a sign not for believers, but this is talking about the gift of tongues Let's go first Corinthians 14 20 brother and be not children and understanding how being in malice be children But in understanding be man and the law it is written with men of other tongues and other lips Shall I speak unto this people and yet for all that will they not hear me say the Lord Wherefore tongues are for sign not to them that believe but to them that believe not But prophesying service not for them that believe not but for them that which believe So then why do we go to verse 23? And it says if therefore the whole church be come together into one place and all speak with tongues And there come in those that are unlearned our unbelievers Will they not say that you're mad? So is there a confliction between verse 22 and 23 because 22 is saying that tongues are assigned for the unbeliever Verse 23 is saying hey if you guys are speaking in tongues in church the unbelievers are going to think that you're mad Because it's talking about the the gift of tongues the gift of tongues comes with interpretation Remember Paul says I print tongues and I edify it myself That's the baptism of the holy spirit with that Hey, hey, one of my one of my buddies from prison I just had to say hello to you Paul says That first of all paul didn't say that that's number one But to make this this statement to say that The gift of tongues is different from speaking in tongues Now all of what we covered guys Was the introduction Long introduction now we're going to start the lesson Now we're going to start the lesson, but it's going to be a quick lesson though guys It's going to be a quick lesson and I want to show you guys something I want to I want to go ahead and let's put this foolishness Because it's foolishness. It's ignorant. It's stupid. It's demonic. It's unbiblical more than anything else If I put it that way I want it's unbiblical What are you saying that Speaking in tongues and the gift of tongues are the same thing now. Let's go back as a matter of fact Let's let's go to the very first time That we see tongues been spoken acts to What happened in acts to now remember remember guys first of all Jesus says That the spirit will be in them and they will be his witnesses Testifying of Christ so from what we see in John 15 and acts one We can we can glean at least to some degree that the gifting of the spirit will cause people to testify or to magnify of christ Then when we see it actually happen the very first time that the spirit is poured out on people What's happening? They are doing what jesus says is going to happen. They are Magnifying christ. They're testifying of christ. They're giving the gospel Jesus jesus jesus jesus in this language jesus in that language jesus in that language jesus in that language That's what's happening. By the way What do we know? We don't have time for it, but what are all spiritual gifts for? Paul tells even Romans 12 but also in Romans 12. I mean in first Corinthians 12 first Corinthians 14 Peter says it as well in first Peter 410 look what he says he says as each one has received a special gift Employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the metaphor grace of God Every spiritual gift is for you You do not find passages that tell us that the spiritual gifts Even tongues is to edify your self the only passage you can go to is the one in first Corinthians 14 However, you are mistaking that passage now if that's the only one you have Because that's the one that we have in debate now We're debating as to whether tongues are to edify yourself. I think what paul is saying is a negative Others are going to say it's a positive the problem is if he's saying that you should edify yourself That goes contrary to every other time that the bible is speaking about edifying yourself about edifying others We never see other if take that passage away. We never see the bible speaking about edifying yourself Jude 120 does not say you should edify yourself as a matter of fact Let's go to it really briefly. He says but you beloved building yourselves up on the most holy faith praying in the holy spirit First of all praying in the holy spirit does not mean tongues It never means tongues if that's the case and every other time that it means doing something in the holy spirit or in the spirit Also means tongues it just it's always been known To be in the power or the authority or with the holy spirit by the leading of the holy spirit That's all it ever meant Are you guys with me so far now? But what I want to get this point is jude 120 saying that we should be Praying to build ourselves up. No, it's not. How do I know when we go to it? This word hey mates is plural So you all or let me just say it as they would say it down here in the south y'all Y'all beloved building y'all self up building others up Jude is literally saying you all build others each one of you up That's what he's saying y'all build others up He's not saying you build yourself up or else he will use a singular in both cases He's not saying you build you up. He says y'all now. I understand in the english You see the word you but we also know in english you can be singular or you can be plural You could you could refer to two people 20 people or one person But in this case because greek let's us know if that is plural we see It's plural. So you all spill Yeah, you guys if you from if you from up north use guys Uh build up use guys That's literally what he's saying So stop going to jude 20 and saying that that is example of you edifying yourself. That is not what it's saying So we got this conflict of first christians 14 Is he saying build yourself up by speaking tongues? If so it goes contrary to everything that peter says that paul says that jesus said so it's not to edify yourself again My hand can't edify itself. My pinky can't edify if my hand needs help My other hand has to come and help if my foot hurts my that foot that's hurt can't fix itself Can't help itself. It needs the other parts of my body That's why paul is writing to the church at carinth guys. You are so selfish. You're doing this over here by yourself You got these clicks these little clicks over here No, you are part of the body and every party part of the body is to benefit the rest of the body If you stub your pinky toe your pinky toe is not on his own No, your hand is going to go in comfort. Oh, by the way, your tears are going to show How much you feel for that pinky toe and do I have a witness? And so therefore The bible is clear and we just did a video I think it was last week on Spiritual gifts that they are for other people not for yourself And by the way in this theme Of these people being selfish with their gifts in 1st Corinthians 12 and 14 paul makes this case Over and over again It's like you have to cover your eyes to avoid paul saying that we should build up the body We're going to see that as we go but what we're really going to see is what does speaking in tongues mean What does that mean? Is it a gift? Is there a difference between the gift of tongues and speaking in tongues? Let's go and see so let's start in Acts chapter 2 on the day of pentecost And when the day of pentecost had come they were all together in one place and suddenly they came from heaven A noise like a violent russian wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting and they appeared on them tongues as of just as Of fire distributing distributing themselves and they rested on each one of them So each of the people each of the 12 disciples the apostles there Received the holy spirit were baptized in the spirit and They were all filled with the holy spirit And I want you to look at something and began to speak with other tongues As with the spirit as the spirit was giving them other and so who was giving them utterance the spirit They didn't pray for it. They didn't ask for it. They didn't have faith for it The spirit did so and then gave them utterance. So it was the spirit that was doing it But now look at this They began to speak in these one this word other which would be at the word hetero heterois So other and I say the word tongues is the word language is why because it's always been that way up until When we get to america When we get to 1900s tongues now all of a all of a sudden become something different But notice this word here. Here's how we'll know that speaking in tongues and the gift of tongues would have you is the same thing You're going to see this phrase la lame low-sized now. It won't always be la lame. It's going to be some Some derivation of it Because you're going to see the endings of some of these greek words change It doesn't change the meaning and so I don't want to have an entire greek lesson on it But you're going to see this version of la las or la leo Which is to speak so you're going to keep seeing la leo some version of la leo Over and over again. Are you guys with me? So say it with me la leo You're going to see la leo or some version of la leo You're also going to see what else is underlined glow sighs Glow sighs is the plural form of languages and so when we see this word tongues It literally means languages tongues is kept in there out of tradition more than anything else Because it literally means languages Okay, now We know so because they were speaking when la lame or la leo heterized glow sighs Speaking in other languages. And so when you see tongues This speaking in tongues that requires an interpreter This is what you're going to see la lame or la leo glow sighs Even if we go back to mark 16 17 notice what we see it's on the screen Glow sighs la la la susan which is from the word la leo So we have the leo and glow sighs. So we have tongues or languages And speaking So again Even in mark even in x we're going to see speaking And languages Speaking and languages and we're you're going to tell me if you see a difference in what mark I mean what mark is it saying? There is no difference between what he calls a gift and speaking tongues. It's the exact same thing. Let's go back to x2 Now they were living Jews in Jerusalem devout men from every nation under heaven And when and when this sound occurred the crowd came together and we're going to because each one of them was hearing They the unsafe folks were hearing They were hearing them speak in his own language They were hearing them speak in it now. What's the word have hearing them speaking in There's the word la lame and this word now the word language here is the word Dialecto, which is literally the same thing guys This is what we get the word dialect. So they were hearing them speaking in their own language They were amazed why because they was hearing them. It wasn't that they were saying something kind of ecstatic or gibberish It wasn't that and then the spirit caused them to interpret it wasn't that wasn't that Is that they actually heard them speaking in a different language? They were amazed and astana saying why are not all these who are speaking Uh, la lunte's speaking Galileans that's the word la leo And how is it that we each hear them in our own language? To each uh, I'm sorry to which we're born Parthens and Medes and Elamites So we so they are testifying that they are speaking in these different languages Now let's drop down Let's go to verse 11 Cretians and Arabs we hear them in our own Tongues speaking. What do we see there again? This word for that's why it's underlying again la leo or in this case La lunte and then glow size Languages by the way, there's a reason why it's almost always several couple of times in the plural And the reason why it's not in the singular because there are times where you have you actually literally grammatically have to put it in the singular Okay, but in this case, uh, they are speaking in these plural languages And they all count and they all continue in amazement and great perplexity saying to one another. What does this mean? but others We're mocking The mockers came and saying so the mockers were saying they're full of wine So we don't take into account what they're saying. We don't give any legitimacy to what they're saying Marcus So what does peter do? Guys question What gift must a company? speaking in tongues La leo glow size what what gift must a company? tongues interpretation Now in my discussion with dr. Brown I said that the word interpretation Literally means literally means to explain He said no it doesn't But we came back because we only had an hour. We were we were all about 40 something minutes into it Uh, I didn't have time to go back and correct him. But and we came back later. It literally means to explain Now interpretation is not like you'd see at uh the un You hear it in Spanish and then you got to say well give it word for word or what have you know Uh interpretation just means to kind of give an understanding of what's being said now who needs to have interpretation everybody And the reason why I'm saying this guys is because there's only one time in the bible Just like there's only one time where we actually see and hear gifts being demonstrated There's only one time where the gift of interpretation is also Press it that we see it. That's here. Peter is going to get up and guess what he's going to do He's going to explain what just happened now There's already two groups of people that know what what's being said those that are speaking And those that are hearing it in their language But there's a bunch of other people who are there who don't speak these different languages Who also live there and so Peter is telling them Peter is telling these mockers Peter telling the unsafe people as well who are eventually going to be saved because Thousands are going to be added to the church on that day. How are they added because Peter is now giving them the gospel? Peter stood up taking a stand with the 11. That's why I said the 12 with the 11 and raised his voice I won't go through all of what he said There's no need to because well there is a need to but for a sake of time now if we go through through acts We don't see it in acts 8 although we believe in acts 8 there were Tongues being spoken, but Jesus said you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem We have it happening here in Judea Fasted Jews and then to Samaria the Samaritans do it The Samaritans had believed but they hadn't received the Holy Spirit So that we don't have a divided church where the Jews think when it's only us that gets saved and get the Holy Spirit You else can get saved y'all can believe but you can't get the Holy Spirit like us. Well, uh-uh The Samaritans the Jewish cousins Who they don't like each other also received the Holy Spirit? How do they know because Peter and John Two of the very same apostles who the other Jews received the Holy Spirit under Are testifying that the Samaritans have received the Holy Spirit Then who's next received the Holy Spirit because the Jews might say, you know what? Maybe the the Samaritans they are after all our own cousins They have a little bit of Jewish blood in them But then next in line are the Gentiles the Gentiles received the Holy Spirit and the bible says the Jews marveled At them receiving the Holy Spirit. So let's go there and let's look at the word that's used there While Peter was still speaking these words the Holy Spirit fell upon all of those who were listening to the message All the circumcised as the Jews believers who came with Peter were amazed because the gift of the Holy Spirit Had been poured out on the Gentiles also. So they had to see that the Gentiles also received it Why how do how do they know for they were hearing them? Speaking with tongues now speaking with tongues. Here it is La lune tone glow size or la lay oh glow size. So they're speaking in these That's why I had these underlining for you guys. They see them Speaking in or hear them and see them speaking in this language or these languages they hear them Then if we go to acts 19 same thing now, remember He he I'm sorry He's Marcus says this is different than Then the gift he says it happened while they were at Apollo and I'm sorry the wrong spot. I'm sorry. Yeah, verse two He said did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believe? He said well, no, we didn't we didn't even know about the Holy Spirit And so what happened they believed and the Holy Spirit fell upon them And we dropped down to verse six and when Paul had laid hands upon them the Holy Spirit came upon them and they began Speaking with tongues. Here it is The same word la lay oh or in this case. I'll alone. I love. I'm sorry a la lune te glow size. So again La lay oh Glow size so so far This spiritual gifting of tongues and speaking in tongues is the same We see it born out Now there's no other time In acts where this word is used where these with this phrase speaking in tongues is used So when we go to 1st Corinthians 12 We're going to see it again So in 1st Corinthians 12 he says now concerning spiritual gifts. This is the word pneumatico So it's not spiritual gift. It's the move of the spirit spiritual things I don't want you to be ignorant or unaware You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols However, you were led therefore I make known to you that no one's speaking. By the way, this word is la lune So it's the same word la lay. Oh, so no one's speaking Listen to this guys. No one's speaking By the spirit of god will ever say jesus occurs Who would say jesus is a curse? Why would anybody he said by the spirit of god, how could anybody by the spirit of god say jesus occurs? Well, only if you're speaking because these are people that are speaking Something is coming out of their mouth and they're saying jesus is a curse That means you don't know what you're saying you are ignorant about what you're saying But isn't that what paul just says? I don't want you to be ignorant Unaware remember this word unaware or ignorant this word right here Commit it to memory. I know ain't The word I and then and then to know so I in genosco or this in this case. I know ain't I don't want you to be not knowing. I don't want you to be ignorant I don't want you to be unaware This word's gonna pop up again For those that believe you should be praying in a tongue paul paul is going to put that to rest That is if you let him Therefore I make known to you that no one's speaking You're speaking by the spirit of god says jesus occurs just like no one can ever say that jesus is lord except by the holy spirit Now there are varieties of gifts. So what is he speaking of? Gifts different gifts, but the same spirit and there are varieties of ministries and the same lord There are varieties of effects, but the same god who works all things in all parts of who does the working It's god. Let's continue. We're going to run fast But each one is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good So the spirit is given for the common good of everyone else not for yourself This spirit is not the gifts are not for you but for the common good of others Now let's drop down For to one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit another the word of knowledge According to the same spirit to another faith by the same spirit to another the gifts of healing By the one spirit and to another the effect of a miracle to another prophecy And to another the distinguishing of spirits to another various kinds of tongues Now he wants to make it a different distinction, but when it says various kinds Gayne just means different kinds And and and by the way There's different kinds you necessarily have to be speaking them. We know they're speaking them. These are tongues. These are hetero So other which is what we saw the same word that was used in acts to other tongues These are all gifts of the spirit And they are speaking these gifts So to come away and send the speaking in tongues and the gifts are telling two different things But let's keep dropping that would be just that would be Unfounded let me just let's put it that way without me being I don't want to be too harsh Verse let's go to verse 20 Let's go to verse 29 I'm sorry. Let's start 27 now. You are christ body and individually members of it and god has appointed in the church first apostles Second prophets third teachers then miracles then gifts of healing helps administration Various kinds of tongues. So god has given Appointed different kinds of tongues That's just what now marcus thinks there's there's something wrong with it He thinks that's different than what we see in acts No, it's exactly it's literally the exact same words that are being used in acts different kinds of languages Um, and those we says are all not are not all apostles or not all prophets or not all Uh, they're not all that are they are not all teachers or not all Um workers of miracles Here it is drop down do not do all not speak with tongues now this word may Pante's glow size elusive This literally means not all tongues or languages. Are they speaking? He is drawing the comparison to what he just said in verse 29 As well as what he said earlier in chapter 12 There is no distinction between the gift of tongues and speaking in tongues The gift speaking in tongues is a gift according to this passage Because what did he say he didn't want you to be ignorant of? spiritual gifts So and then he says these gifts these that have been gifted gifted or given He tells us what they are The gift is the speaking in tongues So speaking in tongues and the gift of tongues are literally the same thing He says but earnestly desire the greater gifts now. Let's drop go back up to verse 11 really quickly Because I want to make sure that we understand this but one of the same spirit works all these things Distributing to each one individually just as he wills. They are distributing idiotic a costa a costa Which is individually as he each as he wills for each one So he that is the spirit is giving them according to his will not your will pray for tongues all you want If you are praying for tongues, you are praying Ironically because you cannot ask for something God gives it to you according to his will not you And so if if you have if if you have this ability Uh to do so it's only because he gave it to you if you don't it's because he didn't give it to you If if if John doesn't speak in tongues, it's not because of his lack of faith It's because the spirit hadn't given it to him And then again, I still question though many of you who say you speak in tongues if you actually do That's a whole nother story, but For even as the body is one and yet has many members and all the members of the body though They are many one body. So also was christ for by one spirit We were all baptized into the body where the jews are greeks where the slaves are free And we were all made a drink of one spirit again debunking what marcus says that christians don't have the spirit all of us been baptized Baptized in every last one of us now. Let's go to 14 Now I want to go ahead and deal with this these passions want to run really really quickly He says pursue love yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy I've covered this before people don't they don't like it, but they but folks have not refuted it Here it is matter of fact This might be the most tongues that you've heard in a long time actual tongues This is more tongues than what marcus speaks the don't contain agape Uh, zalute daytime numic numitica. This is desire or pursue the love. I'm sorry the uh, the love but especially Desire the spiritual things or spiritual gifts and notice what he says malon bejana props wet a But or rather in order that you prophesy. What is he literally saying? He's literally saying That desire earnestly spiritual gifts so that you can Prophecy that is little and if anyone disagrees here. It is on the screen. It's in the greek go and prove otherwise Don't say that's not what it means and then don't and then refuse to say why it doesn't mean that Diochete tain agape zalute daytime numic numitica Malon de henna profite now this this word malon de henna de profite shows the beginning verse five But notice what he says for the one who speaks in a language. That's why it's underlined High garl alone loci Now the one who speaks in a tongue this word right here is a singular tongue He's going to contrast a singular with the plural does not to men. He is speaking but to god Uh for no one hears or understands But in his spirit or the spirit not sure which one it is He is speaking mysteries. This is not a compliment guys This is a critique again. If you don't think paul is critiquing this then what is paul critiquing paul is and i think i saw someone said that paul was critiquing so i didn't see exactly what it was But what is paul critiquing? What is paul is writing this letter? Okay. I see this paul paul is Criticizing tongues being spoken out loud in a church setting versus prophecy. Here's why this is absolutely false my friend We're gonna get this. He says paul is criticizing tongues being spoken out loud in a church setting versus prophecy I have the interpretation of my tongue But if I speak in front of you you won't understand so it won't build you up paul He says paul is criticizing Tongues being spoken out loud Okay, hold hold that thought my friend Hold that thought and we're gonna see He's he's only criticizing them speaking out loud Okay We're gonna see We're gonna find out that's not the case. We're gonna find that's not the case at all at all But the one who prophesied now. What is paul doing? He's contrasting the singular tongue versus the plural tongue He's contrasting the singular versus the plural Um for the one who speaks in a singular tongue Some of your versions may say the unknown tongue Does not speak to men but to god. No one knows what he's saying For no one understands but in the spirit or in his spirit. He speaks mysteries This is where we get this phrase only god knows in our english. This is an idiom This is where we get the phrase only god knows if I say to you chris for anyone else Stevie dutch brian What does he say? What is what is what is chest saying? Only god knows he's speaking mysteries. Only god knows what he's saying Is that a compliment? No, it's not Paul says, I don't want you to be ignorant Now if he's saying that he's only talking about speaking in tongues out loud Then he could have said that paul could have literally just said I don't want you speaking in tongues out loud What he did say though, he put he says I don't want you speaking in tongues All of you at one time, but he says some other things as well out loud at one time So we're gonna see about this in just a second Verse three, but the one who prophesies. What does he do? He speaks to men for edification and exhortation and consolation Which should we be doing? What our spiritual gives for for the building up of others? Which is why you'll see sometime this highlighted adoy command which is to build up The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself the one who speaks in his singular tongue That's why I have this even kind of semi-circled highlighted Speaks in a singular tongue. All he's doing is edifying himself All he's doing is edify himself The one who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but the one who prophesies edifies the church What are we supposed to be doing? We're supposed to be edifying the church. What did Peter say? What did paul say? We are to be building our Brothers that what did jude say building up others now I wish that all of you spoke in tongues this word la lame close like that which you all did speak in these languages Why because the speaking of the languages are to build up others to Prophecy to give a revelation of christ. That's what jesus says in acts one That's what he says in john and we see it happening in acts, but even more that you would prophesy That's why he says the same phrase is used here. My long day henna Prof tuete in order that you would in order that that's literally what it means So anyone disagrees brother chris if you disagree in order that you prophesy If i'm giving incorrect information by all means you need to stop me and correct me If i'm if i'm interpreting this passage incorrectly What does my long day henna the prof tuete mean what does my long day henna prof tuete mean This henna is means in order to this is the reason why you're doing it in order to Prophecy or bring about a revelation. That's literally what it means. If you disagree Give me the greek rule that that destroys or debunk what i'm just saying Um But greater is the one who prophesies than the one who speaks in these languages Unless then unless he interprets unless he explains The reason why the one who gives the revelation is greater because he's bringing about an explanation But if someone is given a language spoken to and there's an explanation within the person They're just the same way. Why because that person is receiving edification That's why That's why Now uh verse six now brother if i come to you speaking in tongues and languages What would it profit you? Again the same word glow sighs l alone the same word that's used in greek that's all Notice it's always been glow sighs l alone or laleo glow sighs From mark to ax and in carinthians It's been that's those same two words glow laleo and glow sighs So we're talking about the same thing not a gift That's different than the the speaking in tongues. It's the same thing So if anyone's going to keep saying that speaking in tongues and the gift of sound of tongue are different You don't know your word or you're at least not getting out of the greek Or even out of the english for that matter. He says yet even now look what he says What will i profit you unless i speak to you either by way of revelation that's understanding or by knowledge or by prophecy or of teaching Yet even lifeless things even if i play some instrument There's some meaning some understanding of what's being said being played if i play happy birthday on the piano You'll know hey whose birthday is it? Even if i play i don't care if it's a black predominantly black church A predominantly white church if i start playing amazing grace on the piano If i play it in six eight time three fourth time if i played in four four time you'll know amazing grace And you'll fall in line why because there's there's understanding to what's being played He says yet even lifeless things do this He says but if they do not produce a distinction in the notes or the tones How will it be known what is being played for if the bugle produces an indistinct sound A sound that's not known Then how will you get ready for battle so you so you also unless you utter unless you utter By the tongue speech that is clear how will it be known what is spoken now this word right here This is in verse nine so unless you utter by the tongue Unless you utter by the tongue and this is the tongue the mouth unless you utter by the tongue How will anyone know what's being spoken for you will just be speaking to the air? Let me ask you guys a question if i ever tell you hey whatever you're saying you're just speaking to the air That's not a compliment again, there are Many kinds Of languages Now that word gene is the word that mark is harped on see this is different No, it's the exact same that was used in ax and this was used in first Corinthians 12 Different kinds of languages in the world and all of them have meanings. So clearly speaking about different languages But if I don't know the meaning of the language I will be to the one who speaks a barbarian. So if you speak in tongues, I don't know what you're saying I'm a barbarian. I'm a foreigner to you I will be the one I'm sorry. I will be the one who speaks a barbarian and the one who speaks will be a barbarian to me So also look what he says and that's why I would say if a person speaking in tongues, that doesn't mean the person's unsafe Paul says so also since you are zealous Of spiritual gifts or of the numitikon Or knew my tone same thing since you are zealous for the things of the spirit Look what paul says Literally says seek to abound in the edification of the building up of the church now The one time we talk about praying in a tongue paul is not speaking positively of it. Look what he says Therefore let one who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret If you if you speak in a tongue Pray that you can understand that there'll be explanation. That's what the word literally means guys this word literally my you don't you don't have to take my word for it You don't have to take my word for it. You can look right below. I got the word highlighted. It's right below me It says to explain or interpret That's literally what the word means Pray that when you do so if you speak in a tongue Anybody if you speak in a tongue and you don't know what you're saying paul says you need to understand You don't have to explanation Pray that you could understand what you're saying pray that you can that can be explained to you That's by you. You should know what you're saying. Look what he says if I pray in a tongue So paul says if I pray in a tongue My spirit prays No doubt about that when people pray in tongues or speak in tongues I think that in many cases they really truly legitimately Mean it out of their spirit They just but they want to do something and you feel like I gotta pray in tongue if I pray in a tongue But my mind is unfruitful There's no fruit to my mind By the way, the word for mine is no or noose But my mind is unfruitful. What is the outcome? Notice what the solution to the problem is that paul poses I will pray with the spirit I will pray with my mind also the word is no a so not no and the reason why I'm highlighting this No, or no a or noose is because we've seen this word earlier I will also sing in the spirit and I will also sing my mind Now what is he saying? I don't want you to I want you to know That's why I use the word no a or noose because it's the same word that's used in ignoring Which is to not know paul wants you to know He's drawing off of what he said in chapter 12. I don't want you to be ignorant about these spiritual gifts Then he says otherwise if you bless In the spirit only How will the one who feels the place of the un gifted the person doesn't know what you're saying How will they say the amen at your giving thanks since he does not know what you're saying You don't even know what you're saying for you are giving things well enough But the other person is not edified. That's a problem I thank god I speak in here it is Uh, I love I let oh, hello sice again More than all of you. Well, that makes sense. Well, it's because paul did go out and speak in different countries different places I'm I thank god that I speak in language more than you However in the in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also other than 10 Thousand tons of a drop down the weight where he camped on and then I want to deal with this issue about what paul is rebuking He's rebuking you not knowing literally because he literally because he literally just said that He's rebuking not knowing because again He says you're just speaking to the air and when you do so everyone is a foreigner So he's literally talking about someone who is saying something out loud And people don't know what they're saying and also if you pray in an unknown language an unknown term You should want to know what you're saying. So what because what is paul's solution? I will pray with my mind and I will pray with Understanding notice by the way when paul, let's go back up to that when he says when I will pray with my mind Notice what paul did not come back and say he says if I prayed in my tongue He didn't come back and say come back and pray In a tongue with understanding. He didn't even bring back praying you guys are praying in your tongue. So fine What should you do? He didn't say pray in tongues again. He said pray with understanding He says pray with your mind and pray with understanding. Let's go to verse Let's go to the 20s By the way, we're still speaking about about language because he says in the law he he's quoting He is quoting isaad 28 which is literally speaking about people speaking other languages and so Go back and look at that passage later But he says so then tongues or languages low size Are for a sign not to those who believe But to unbelievers and I think specifically who's speaking of are these Unbelieving jews, but even an unbeliever if someone hears me just a regular believer I think works both ways if you hear me speaking a language that I don't I don't know where you know You're gonna know something's up because every time every time the spirit moved Is there one time in the bible where there was a move of the spirit a legitimate move of the spirit and And people didn't know people always knew that it was the spirit People always gave testimony if I come and give this Y'all forgive me. I'm not trying to be insulting, but if I came and give some sort of gibberish ecstatic language This e kind of a hosha No one's impressed No unbeliever even gets it no unbeliever thinks anything about that But if I start speaking Mandarin if I start speaking german wow, what's going on here? How long have you been speaking german? Just now just now. What do you mean? Just now? What will they do they'll know that the lord has been moving there right continuing So then tongues are a sign not to those who believe but to unbelievers But prophecies a sign not to not too unbelievers, but to those who believe let's drop down Therefore if the whole church assembles together and all speak into there's that word I didn't highlight it, but uh Um, but speaking of tongues speaking tongues and ungifted men or unbelievers enter will they not say that you are mad? But if all prophesy Give these revelations and an unbeliever or an ungifted man enters He is convicted by all he is called to account by all the six of his heart are disclosed and so Uh, he will follow his face and worship god declaring that god is certainly among you the whole point of Every gift is to bring about a revelation particularly as paul says Desire spiritual gifts in order that you can bring about a revelation What is the outcome then brother? How come every time you get together you have a tone? You got a psalm you got a teaching you always have something a revelation of tone an interpretation Let all things be done in application if anyone speaks in a tone It should be by two or at the at the most three in each in turn and one must interpret Let me go back to this one give me one second Now so is paul criticizing them speaking out loud? No He's criticizing the misuse of it. He names a few things one Everybody's doing it at the same time two Note more than three have done it But before he gets to there before he gets to this point before he talks about them doing it out loud in the church He says, you don't know what you're talking about and then he says you're not building up anyone Before he even gets to tongues. He goes through the list of different gifts And says that these gifts are for the upbuilding of others Continuing If anyone speaks in tongue, it should be by two or three at the most three in each in turn and one must interpret He's going to tell us this thing this thing again. But if there is no interpreter, he must keep silent Oh, so you're also doing out loud and there's no interpreter Every time that you have tongues there should be understanding let two or three prophets the same thing happening with prophets Are prophets doing it out loud wrong too? Uh and let others pass judgment But if a revelation is made and another who is seated the first month first one must keep silent For you can all prophesy one by once that all may learn and all may be exhorted And the spirits of the prophet are services the prophet for God is not a guide of confusion But of peace as in all the churches now he's gonna Where's it at? I think I ran past the part Oh, here it is 31 for you all can prophesy one by one so that all may learn And be exhorted. What's the point of spiritual gifts again? So that others will be lifted up built up learn exhorted That's what he's been. That's his point all alone. And so if your tongues Don't build up others your tongues are unbiblical Now this notion that tongues are different are separate Then speaking in tongues speaking tongues and give a tongue. There's no basis for that whatsoever There's never been an angel that spoke in a language a human being every time a human being is interacting with an angel The angel spoke to the person in the language that the person Speaks so we see no examples of a heavenly language We see no examples of anyone praying in language and again the greatest danger of what Marcus is teaching That people who believe this matter of fact, let me let me play this part And then we're almost through the evidence of tongue the gift of tongues is for that unbeliever First come in things 1210 that uh, he gave various kinds of tongues that when you pray in tongues, you are speaking to god Speaking mysteries that no one can understand It says no one let me read again for anyone who speaks in tongues does not speak to people But the god indeed no one understands so that means if you're speaking in this tongue Nobody can understand it so that shows you right there that tongues is not just an actual language because there's nobody That's going to be able to understand it not only that guys Let me ask you this question Is there any example in the bible where someone prayed and asked god for the gift of tongues? Because that's another thing that people will say is hey if you want this gift Just pray and ask the holy spirit to give it to you. All right, so here we go I'm glad that I watched uh that part of the video. Let's go back to ax 19. All right check this out Paul goes to these believers. They haven't been filled with the holy ghost, right? He they're believers they're disciples, right? He says in verse two Let's read the whole thing again And it came to pass that when paulus was a current paul having passed the upper coast came to emphasis paul comes and he challenges their belief system And so obviously with their actions, they might not be verbally saying hey father give me the holy spirit But obviously what paul said stirred something up in them where they took actions to get baptized and they allowed paul to lay hands on them So they were seeking now. They might not have said it verbally They were not seeking they didn't how could they be seeking he again contradicts himself again You have to seek you have to ask for it But these people are not seeking in john 19 again They're not seeking the holy spirit They didn't even know there was a holy spirit and they're certainly not seeking tongues They didn't know if the holy spirit is going to move upon you to speak in tongues or whatever it is He will do so according to his own will marcus rogers. You continue saying wrong Everybody with their mouth. We don't know we weren't there We don't know if they were praying and praising but we clearly see that with their actions They were seeking and the bible says if you see and the reason by the way, what were john's disciples doing? What were they baptized in now? We don't know if these are folks that followed john They were actually his disciples or they heard what john was preaching But remember what john was doing? He's the forerunner Repent for the kingdom of heaven's at hand. They came recognizing their sins being baptized as baptism of repentance So they were looking for The messiah and what he was going to do because that's what that's what they were baptized into So it's not like these are folks that had no clue like these are Foreigners to the gospel. They just hadn't heard anything come to fruition. Seek. You're gonna find here's the thing If you have been taught that tongues is not for everybody Then when you seek one time and you don't get it, you say, oh, I must be one of the ones that it's not for And so you don't seek and if you don't seek you're never gonna find romans eight nine But you're not in the flesh but in the spirit If so be that the spirit of god dwell in you if any man have not the spirit of christ He is none of his and if christ be in you your body is there because of sin because the spirit is life because of righteousness But if the spirit of him that raised up jesus from the dead Well, and you he that raised the christ from the dead should also quicken your mortal bodies by spirit that dwells in you So remember we go back and again Marcus said that the spirit of god is not in all of us But he you're you're reading you're literally reading the spirit of god dwells in us Go back to the verse it says that you are sealed with the holy spirit of promise not field There's a difference between being filled and being sealed. All right This bottle is sealed Right, but if I pour out this water, it's not filled. It can be sealed and be empty So i'm looking for the seal up the seal is on you i'm going to pour out The seal is on you because of your belief the seal is on you because of your belief Remember jesus said you are my disciple if you continue on in my words now the reason why i don't say Old people are going to hell if they don't do x y and z is because i believe that god is a just god He's going to judge you according to what you know now if i teach you this And i show you these verses and i show you how what he's teaching is false and you reject it because of pride Are you rejected because you don't you don't it's me you don't like it because it's me You don't want it to seem like i'm right or whatever reason you reject it Hey, it doesn't matter the truth is the truth now I believe yes, you are in trouble because jesus said you're my disciple if you continue on in my words So if i teach you the word and i teach you how something you've been talked is an error or something I have that you've been talked uh is wrong and it's not biblically sound and you reject it because you want to be right Are you rejected because you want to be religious are you rejected because you don't want to admit That the people that taught you what they taught you are wrong now the reality is you're not rejecting me You're rejecting the truth is now that's what i have a problem with He's saying that if you don't believe what he that Hope you heard what he said If you don't believe what he just talked You're not rejecting him. You're rejecting god Yeah, you don't believe what i say then you're rejecting god And so he's saying that if you don't agree with this You're not safe. That's literally what he said this before He's trying to clean up But now he's back to that to say that if you don't accept i'm teaching you maybe you were ignorant before But now you know i've just taught you And you rejected you are you are rejecting god takes a lot of audacity to say something like that I'm going to get my soap soap box just a second, but i want to deal with this Karen said how do you know you're not cursing god when you're babbling you don't know And that's exactly what paul says. He says some of you guys who are speaking ignorantly You are actually saying jesus is a curse. He's i don't want you to be ignorant I love you guys. I want you to be ignorant because you can say anything Outlandish and some of them work now if tones were so important Marcus If this was something that we all needed to be doing First of all question is why did it take 1900 years? Why did for 1900 years was this gift? And this is a fact Mostly dormant matter of fact the people that spoke this gift used this gift More than anybody else on the planet for the first 1900 years of the church's existence Were pagans People who weren't christian who would be doing this little babbling these these so forth You saw more pagans doing this. You didn't see christians until the turn of the century not this into the last century Why is that why don't you see why don't you see? Peter telling anyone to do it. Why don't you see james or john? Why don't you see anyone being admonished to do so because here's my question? Someone says tongues are for today. Yeah languages. Here's my question Because again, we don't see other folks telling us to do this. What if you were a first century christian? To the brother that said that the tongues are for today, uh, brother. Nathan Imagine you were a first century christian You became a christian In the year. I don't know 60 ad You're not you don't live in karenth. What if you live in, I don't know, Ephesus What if you lived in asia minor? What if you live in africa? What would you would you even know to speak in tongues? The answer is no The reason why I say that because we don't see peter preaching about it. We don't see james preaching about it We don't see james preaching about it. We don't see james preaching about it We don't see john preaching about it. We only see paul speaking about it in one book in first karenthians The reason why I make that point is because there were no bibles for everyone to get all of the scriptures If you were in africa, if you were in asia, if you were in other parts of judea Everyone didn't have all of the complete canon And so everyone didn't have paul's letter to the karenthians You know who had paul's letter to the karenthians those in karenth You know who didn't likely have it those in galatia those in Ephesus So what would you have done since you don't even have scriptures to tell you about this? And if it's so important, why didn't peter tell us? Why didn't james? Why didn't jude? Why didn't john? Why didn't jesus tell us to do so? Why wasn't that they were able to pray in their own language? Why would why when jesus says pray this way? Why didn't he say pray in the spirit? They had letters that were circulated but not a lot remember we're talking about a growing church They didn't have copy machines The way that you would circulate the letters you would have to copy them You have to go to a scripturium or have scribes to actually write these things out And they were teased and did not come through quickly And at the rate that things were growing which is why again guys god gave Prophets those people that would give these revelations of god's word because we did not have at the time scriptures for everyone And so nathan says simply accept the word of god don't pick and choose Nathan you're about an hour and a half late. I covered all of these different scriptures and then before So up until we get to chapter 14 verse 2 You guys believe because you only have you have no other choice but to believe that tongues are a language And we're told that they're interpreter It's the people who believe that these sort of tongues today don't require an interpreter Where did the bible say it? Where does the bible say that even if you're by yourself that you don't need interpreter it doesn't That tongues must and accompany an interpreter and even if you buy yourself since you can't find a scripture to prove otherwise If you start praying in tongues by yourself and you can't explain it You can't interpret well then in jesus name hush Not my words the bible's words through paul Now again, if you guys think that because I saw someone said that that I pray in the spirit or I I speak in tongues and my life is better off way man for you I think you're wrong. I don't And I can't tell you how much god has blessed me as a matter of fact a lot of folks as a matter of fact when you see the level of Comfort when you see the level of control that many of us have and again Let's not get in the habit of Done with someone's level of faith We're not going to impugn someone's level of faith because they don't speak in tongues as a matter of fact We might have to impugn your level of faith for you speaking in tongues because you need that you want that You desire these gifts. You desire these signs. All I want is his word and the and the lord to work in me That's what I want. However he works. He says do not forbid tongues. Have I ever? Ever as long as anyone has ever heard of me. Have I ever stated that we should forbid tongues? I didn't say tongues have ceased I did not What I have said Nathan anyone else that's going to listen is that if you speak in tongues It better look like what we see in the bible Don't come around because you think so better of yourself. You are selfish people Let me say it loudly and clearly you are selfish people if you think If you have the audacity to change what tongues are you're not that no, listen, you are a horrible christian Let me say it loud and clear you are a horrible christian to change god's word Into making tongues to be what you think it is into making tongues something American to make that something that was never intended in the bible as a matter of fact Was never demonstrated in the bible if what you do is not in the bible you are by definition On biblical and you are demonstrating a lack of faith in his word and trusting him moving you You've got to have some sort of outward display of something you look for a sign You desire a sign, but what does Jesus call people like that wicked and unrighteous? That's what he calls people that look for that be the person that doesn't need a sign Be the person that the sign of his death burial resurrection and ascension Let that be the sign that you need. What did he say the sign of Jonah? Let that be the sign that you need have faith in what he's done And have faith in his word and I promise you however he moves you will be adequate But don't come and tell someone that they got to speak in language that you don't even know yourself what you're saying Why not speak the word of god? Nobody says and reveling that and then turn around and preach that Amen