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Song books to turn to page number 404.

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We're going to be singing When the Battle's Over.

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Welcome to Sherr Foundation Baptist Church.

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You can find your seats and grab your song books.

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Turn to page number 404.

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We're going to be singing When the Battle's Over.

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On page 404, let's sing it together on the 1st.

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Am I a soldier of the cross afar?

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I'm sorry I messed it up, okay?

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Let's take it back up from the second part of that verse.

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I was, why do they got these all parentheses up

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right there, okay?

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This is the book's fault, it's not my fault, okay?

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This is good leadership over here, okay?

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Just deflect as much as you can.

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Let's take it from this second, okay?

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And shall I fear to own his cause

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or blush to speak his name?

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When the battle's over, we shall wear a crown.

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Yes, we shall wear a crown.

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Yes, we shall wear a crown.

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown

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in the new Jerusalem.

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Wear a crown, wear a crown, wear a bright and shining crown.

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown.

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in the new Jerusalem.

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Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease?

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While others fought to win the prize and sail through bloody seas.

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown.

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Yes, we shall wear a crown. Yes, we shall wear a crown.

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem.

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Wear a crown, wear a crown, wear a bright and shining crown.

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem.

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On the last Shura...

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I must fight if I would rain increase my courage Lord I'll bear the toil endure

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the pain supported by thy word

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown.

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Yes, we shall wear a crown.

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Yes, we shall wear a crown.

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown

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in the New Jerusalem.

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Wear a crown, wear a crown,

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wear a bright and shining crown.

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and

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And when the battle's over, we shall wear a crown in the new Jerusalem.

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Amen.

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Good singing, Brother Daniel, because that was open to us up in a word of prayer.

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I'll bless those that are on the way here.

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Amen.

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Our second song is song number 332, Channels Only.

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Song number 332, Channels Only.

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Song 332, Sing It Together on the First.

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How I praise thee, precious Savior, that thy love laid hold of me.

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Thou hast saved and cleansed and filled me, that I might thy channel be.

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Channel's only blessed master, but with all thy wondrous power.

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Flowing through us, thou canst hear

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Use us every day and every hour.

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Empty that thou shouldst fill me, A clean vessel in thy hand.

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With no power but as thou givest, Graciously with each command,

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Channels only, blessed master

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but with all thy wondrous power.

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Flowing through us, thou canst use us, every day and every hour.

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Witnessing thy power to save me, setting free from self and sin.

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Thou who bodest to possess me in thy fullness, Lord come in.

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channel

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only blessed master but with all thy wondrous power flowing through us thou

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can't use us every day and every hour on the last Jesus fill now with thy spirit

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hearts that full surrender know that the

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streams of living water from our inner man they flow channels only blessed master but

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with all thy wondrous power flowing through us thou canst use us every day and every hour

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Amen. Good to see you this time. We'll have

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announcements.

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All right, good evening everyone. The verse of the week is John 8 verse 36.

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John 8 verse 36. If thy son therefore shall make you free, he shall be free indeed.

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service times are

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1030, 330 on Sunday with

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630 on Wednesday.

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So many times are 1230 on

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Saturdays and 1 PM on

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Sunday.

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For June we had 15

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salvations.

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So far in July we have

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five for a total of 106

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salvations.

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innovations.

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All right, attendance is down below. Upcoming events in July 28th. That would be the next

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homeschool day here at the building at 11 a.m. Just RSVP with Ms. Kylie so she can plan the

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games, food, and all the other things that go into that event.

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Currently we're in the middle or in process of having the July-August Summer Soul Awareness

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Challenge where we invite 25 people to church and preach them gospel and this is outside

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of normal soul winning times.

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So just obviously going good so far but it's good to have that.

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Hopefully everyone is able to get through that and we get a few more visitors and a few more salvations in this month

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All right

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See here kids your memory verse right now is Matthew 19 verse 14 Matthew 19 verse 14

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But Jesus said suffer little children and forbid them not to come unto me for of such is the kingdom of heaven

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Tithes and rules are down below.

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Yesterday was a pastor and his wife's anniversary.

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So hopefully had time to wish them a happy anniversary.

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Coming up shortly in the next week is Miss Sherry's birthday

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followed by Melana the 15th and Abby Graber coming up on the 19th.

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So yeah, next week. All of those are next week.

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So just so you know.

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If you have any other prayer requests, please let the Thompson's known.

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They will add it to the bulletin.

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move that let's turn to Lord in prayer.

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Hello Father, thank you so much today.

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Thank you so much for allowing us to come here.

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We pray for those that may have been pulled away tonight

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for various reasons. We pray for those that

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may still be traveling here.

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We just pray that they arrive

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safely. Lord, we also keep in prayer

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Amanda

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and the Gats right now

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because they have

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a family loss. Let's just

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keep them in prayer in this time of grief.

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Let's also keep Sister Adji

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from Yakima on prayer because her health is not going well right now so keep them

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in prayer. I'll also keep Amanda mother in prayer for God's guidance in her life. My

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wife's father and her aunt's prayer just for their health and also for Jones

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Lupus treatment. For God's will and Timothy's life, justice in Shanika's life.

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Lamon's family with their baby just recovering from the surgery that did go

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well.

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And also for keeping prayer for Kylie's great grandmother,

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even though she has recovered from the hospital,

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we all know these things can take time to heal.

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Keep Kyle's in health and also for his uncle, who has,

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I believe,

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turn for the worst in comfort care,

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so keep them in prayer as well.

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And let's just keep all the people in prayers.

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We come into the heat time, there's a lot of fires,

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heat stroke and a lot of other things

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that can be happening right now.

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Let's keep this whole church in prayer for safety

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during the blistering heat right now.

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In all these things we pray in Jesus' name, amen.

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And our next song is song number 315, Take My Life and Let It Be.

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Song number 315 take my life and let it be

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And then after this, I'll do the Bible reading when Brother Paul does the offering.

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Kylie, could you give me my Bible too, as a matter of fact, so I can get there?

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Song number 315, Take My Life and Let It Be.

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Let's sing it together on the first.

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Take my life and let it be

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Consecrated Lord to thee

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Take my hands and let them move

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At the impulse of thy love

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At the impulse of thy love

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Take

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my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for thee. Take my voice and let me sing, always

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only for my King, always only for my King. Take my

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Silver and my gold, not a mite would I withhold.

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Take my moments and my days, let them flow in ceaseless praise.

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Let them flow in ceaseless praise.

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Take my will and make it thine, it shall be no longer mine.

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day

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my heart it is thine own it shall be thy royal throne it shall be thy royal

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throne amen good scene brother Paul could you bless the offering for us

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Lord, all of us will come in time of sickness, in time of hurt, in times of trouble, just as us, our families, our church.

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Lord, let us always remember to look diligently to help one another, especially those that are safe in Christ. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Alright, if you guys want to turn your bells to 1st Corinthians chapter number 14, we're going to read the whole chapter as is our custom.

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1st Corinthians chapter number 14. We'll begin there.

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at verse number one where the bible says fall after charity and desire spiritual gifts but rather

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that you may prophesy for he that speaking in unknown tongues speaketh not unto men but unto

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god for no man understandeth him albeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries but he that prophesied

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speaketh unto men to edification and exhortation and comfort he that speaking in unknown tongue

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edifyeth himself but he that prophesied edifyeth the church i would that you all speak with tongues

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but rather that you prophesied for greater is he that prophesied than he that speaketh with tongues

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except to interpret.

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the church may receive edifying. Now brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall

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I profit you except I shall speak to you either by revelation or by knowledge or by prophesying or

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by doctrine? And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a

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distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? For if the trumpet give

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an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? So likewise ye, except ye utter by the

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tongue words easy to be understood.

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How shall be known what is spoken for you shall speak into the air there are it may be so many kinds of voices in

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The world and none of them is without

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Signification therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian he that speaketh shall

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Be a barbarian unto me even so ye for as much as you are zealous of spiritual gifts seek that you may

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Edify or excel to the edifying of the church

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Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret for I for if I pray in an unknown tongue my spirit

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pray it, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then? I will pray with the Spirit,

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and I will pray with the understanding also. I will sing with the Spirit, and I will sing

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with the understanding also. Else, when thou shalt bless with the Spirit, how shall he

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that occupyeth the room of the unlearned say, Amen, at the beginning of thanks, seeing he

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understandeth not what thou sayest? For thou verily giveest thanks well, but the other

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is not edified. I thank my God.

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I speak with tongues more than ye all.

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Yet in the church I'd rather speak five words

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with my understanding, that by my voice

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I might teach others also, than 10,000 words

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in an unknown tongue.

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Brethren, be not children understanding,

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how be it in malice be children, but in understanding be men.

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In the law it is written with men of other tongues

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and other lips, while I speak unto this people,

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and yet for all that will they not hear me,

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hear me say it the Lord.

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Wherefore tongues are for a sign,

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not for them that believe, but to them that believe not.

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But

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Prophesying service not for them that believe not but for them that which believe if therefore the whole church become together into one place

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And all speak with tongues and there come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers

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Will they not say that you're mad?

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But if all prophesy and there come in one that believeth not or one learned he is convinced of all he is judged of all

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And thus the secrets of his heart made manifest and so falling down on his face

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He will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth

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How is it then brethren when you come together every one of you?

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have a psalm, have a doctrine, have a tongue, have a revelation, have an interpretation,

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let all things be done unto edifying.

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If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two or by the or by at the or at

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the most by three and not by course and let one interpret.

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But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church and let him speak to

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himself and to God.

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Let the prophet speak two or three and let the other judge.

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If anything be revealed to another that saith by that the first hold his peace for ye may

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all prophesy one by one and all that all may be that all may learn and all may be comforted.

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to the prophets are subject to the prophets for God is not the author of confusion but of peace

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as in all churches of the saints. Let your women keep silence in the churches for it is not permitted

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unto them to speak but they are commanded to be under obedience as also say at the law and if they

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will learn anything let them ask their husband at home for it is a shame for women to speak in the

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church. What came the word of God out from you?

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came unto you only. If any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let

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him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of

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the Lord. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren,

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covet to prophesy and forbid not to speak with tongues. Let all things be

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done decently and in order. Let's pray. Dear Father God, thank you so much for this

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wonderful day. Thank you so much for everything you do for us, God. Thank you

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so much for this church, God, and for everybody that came to church tonight, God. I just

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pray that you be with the people that couldn't make it, God. I just pray that

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you would help me right now, God, to preach a sermon that'd be edifying to people in this

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room. I just pray that you'd help me to interpret this passage well in a way that pleases you,

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in a way that's correct, God. And I just pray that I could help the people in this room

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to understand this chapter better when I'm done with this sermon. I pray that you'd keep

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me from saying what you don't want me to say, help me to say boldly what you do want me

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to say, and I pray that you'd help me to have a clear train of thought as I preach, and

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I pray that you'd fill me with your Holy Spirit. And as you say, I pray, amen.

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Title of my sermon tonight is Uttering That Which Cannot Be Uttered. We're here in 1 Corinthians 14,

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and we're going to actually focus in on verse number 12 where the Bible says,

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Even so ye, for as much as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the

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edifying of the church. Wherefore, let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may

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interpret. For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth that my understanding is unfruitful.

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So this is going to be part two in my verse by verse through chapter number 14.

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Last week I spent a lot of time clarifying things outside of chapter number 14 surrounding the subject of tongues that I just thought was necessary to bring up.

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Things like in Acts 2. As a matter of fact I just had listed down some of the things that we talked about, the bigger things that were outside of the main text itself.

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The first main thing that I brought up in the pre-sermon to the verse by verse of this if you will was the fact that tongues means languages.

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In the Bible it's very evident, there's so many chapters to prove that from it's not even funny.

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And even nowadays, we still use the word tongue to mean language.

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Like if you say, oh, in my mother tongue, even though that's not very common, that's

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still, we all understand what that means.

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It's like your mother language, right?

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The one you were born speaking, the one that you learned first growing up.

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So tongues means languages.

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The second thing we talked about was the fact that in Acts chapter number two, the miracle

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that is the gift of tongues in that chapter is not people babbling.

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It is the disciples being filled with the Holy Spirit.

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the first interaction of the gift of tongues.

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And when they were filled with the Holy Spirit,

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he allowed them to speak in different languages

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that they had never learned before by his permission,

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by his acceptance, by allowing them to utter

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these foreign languages to the people that were there

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that didn't understand Aramaic at the time,

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or Greek at the time, or whatever they were speaking

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in that area.

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And it's very obvious in Acts that that's the case

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because you see them say...

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He literally lists off like all these nations.

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He's like, you know, the Parthians,

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he's like the Arabians, the Cretians,

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he's like all these kind of people.

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We do hear the disciples speak in our own language,

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the wonderful works of God,

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and our own tongue, the wonderful works of God.

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So very clearly the gift of tongues

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has nothing to do with Babel,

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it has to do with speaking languages

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that the Holy Spirit is allowing you to miraculously speak.

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That is the gift of tongues.

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And that's chapter number two.

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But then number three, we'll talk about the fact of.

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why I don't believe these gifts are in effect anymore.

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And there's a bunch of different arguments you can go into

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of why we don't believe they're in effect anymore.

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But what I really submitted to you hard

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in my last sermon on Wednesday was the fact that

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these are all attached to the preaching of the gospel

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and more specifically the spreading of the gospel

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into all the world.

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Because we saw on Mark chapter number 16, verse number 15,

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that is the great commission right there.

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And then directly after that,

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he begins to explain the different gifts

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that the believers will have that believe on.

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him and tongues is included in that list. So I think it's very obvious that the

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Bible is connecting these two things that he was giving them these gifts like

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the gifts of tongues and the casting out of devils and of the taking of serpents

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and not being hurt and drinking deadly things and not being hurt by them. He's

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giving them that as a gift to help them spread the gospel into all the world. But

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now that the gospel is spread into the all the world which the Bible makes very

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clear Paul says that he was innocent from the blood of all men on this earth.

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Once the gospel did go into all the world though, I believe that the gift of tongues in every spiritual gift truly

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was done away at that point.

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We're going to get into that a little bit more in this sermon, but

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As far as the chapter itself goes, okay, what we talked about in chapter 14, because that was the pre-sermon sermon, okay,

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but in chapter 14, these are the three main things you need to learn going into this sermon if you weren't here for the last one.

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Number one, the unknown tongue that we see in this chapter does not mean a heavenly prayer language,

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it means a language that nobody else in the room understands.

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It would be saying a foreign language in our modern vernacular. That's what the unknown tongue is.

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So it's not you...

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Praying in some mystical language is impossible to learn it is you speaking in a language that nobody else understands

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Which leads into the second thing that's very important to understand which is this that the reason why he's saying when you're speaking in an

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Unknown tongue that you're speaking to God and not to men is

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Because nobody in the room can understand what you're saying

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But clearly God knows all languages so he understands what you're saying and we also know the Bible says where there's two or three to

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Gather together in my name there am I in the midst of them so very clearly if I'm speaking up here

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and like Chinese or something like that, which nobody speaks Chinese in here.

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Okay, at least not that I'm aware of. Okay, nobody speaks Chinese in here though.

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So if I just started piping off in Mandarin, then guess who I'm speaking to?

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Nobody in this room. I'm just speaking to God, right? Because he's the only one who's

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gonna understand what I'm saying and to myself if I'm speaking that language.

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Because that's what I point out to you. And this is very important to realize.

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Look at verse number 28 of this passage real quick. It says,

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but if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church and let him speak to himself.

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and to God.

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So clearly if you're speaking to yourself,

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you have to know what you're saying.

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You can't just be babbling to yourself.

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That doesn't make any sense,

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but it does make perfect sense if you're speaking

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in an unknown tongue to everybody else

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but you in the room.

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Thirdly, the last thing that we talked about

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before we get into this chapter

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was the fact that verse 14 is not saying.

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that Paul doesn't understand the language that he's speaking in or that he's praying in.

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When Paul's saying that he prays in a foreign language right here, in an unknown tongue, okay,

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he is receiving the benefits of this prayer. His spirit prayeth is what the Bible's saying right here.

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But what the point he's trying to draw from verse number 14, in my opinion, is that he's saying,

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hey, just because I understand what I'm praying, just because my spirit prayeth,

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that doesn't mean that anybody else in the room is getting any kind of benefit from that.

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my understanding of what I'm saying.

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Because that's the only way that this really

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can make sense to me, because he's basically just saying,

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yeah, if I pray in an unknown tongue, it's not beneficial,

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it's not fruitful to anybody else that's in the room.

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Just think about this for a second, okay?

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Can you really say that we're praying together as a church

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if someone's praying in an unknown language?

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Like if I called on Brother Daniel right now,

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I was like, hey, Brother Daniel.

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I'm gonna need you to pray for the service.

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And then he starts busting out the Russian, okay?

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He's understanding what he's saying right but to everybody else in the room besides his wife right okay?

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But the greater part of the room okay doesn't understand what he's saying so therefore nobody in the room could get any benefit

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From what he's saying nobody can understand what he's saying is what Paul is pointing out in this

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It's not fruitful for anybody else in the room to speak in an unknown tongue to pray in an unknown tongue

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And and this is all

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Evident in the fact because you can imagine

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Imagine I come up here and I'm like, okay guys, let's pray for the service. Okay, everybody. Let's pray real quick. Okay

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Thea moose a fire stop our poli y'all all the Osa Connie y'all men a K

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Y'all team at the CMO so far as tolla

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Meli tigas a mocha process for me tora. No, I'm a with thesis not kind of a colocated man. So

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Onomatopoeia soo Christ to

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process for me I mean

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You guys, are you guys edified now?

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You guys understand what I'm saying?

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You guys get the prayer?

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You can't even say the amen yet.

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No, no amen's, right?

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You get the amen though, yeah, okay.

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That's the one thing you can't say from that.

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So why I'm doing that though is to demonstrate

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that you guys have no idea what I'm saying right there.

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So therefore you cannot get any understanding

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from what I just said right there.

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What I did say right there though is this,

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because here's the reality, when you speak in tongues,

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you're supposed to interpret them.

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Here's the interpretation for this.

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I said, you know, God, thank you for this day,

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thank you for this church,

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thank you for the members of my church,

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please help me to preach.

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a good sermon amen that's what I said now you can get edification from that

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right because now you understand what I'm saying this is precisely what Paul

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is saying right here that if only I'm praying a language I understand I'm the

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only one that gets benefit from it

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Um, where you guys at though? You're in verse number 14. This bleeds really well into verse number 15 though

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Because that's kind of the recap but it bleeds also into verse number 15 as well, which it says this it says

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What is it then? I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the understanding also notice here though that paul doesn't say

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My understanding right here. He says the understanding later on he does bring up my understanding and i'll explain what I think that he's saying right there

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But right here he says what is it then i'll pray with the

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Spirit and I'll pray with the understanding what understanding the understanding of the whole room clearly right so with everybody else understanding

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Because he very easily right here could have said with my understanding

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But he doesn't he says with the understanding and then he says I will sing with the spirit and he doubles down this and I

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will sing with the

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understanding also the understanding of who the understanding of everybody else in this room so that

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They can be edified by what he's singing or by what he is prank and you have to think about this as well

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Would Paul be saying that he's gonna go and sing in an unknown tongue?

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Like, this doesn't make sense either.

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Like, um...

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Which brought me to a whole rabbit hole when I was studying the sermon out because I was like do Pentecostals also sing in tongues as well?

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Which they do you can just go look it up on YouTube and there's these people that they bust out like some random beats

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And then they're also doing that but I don't know but like to kind of a beat or whatever

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So I guess there are people that that pray in tongues

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I don't think that's the standard Pentecostal though because I've never heard of that before but

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Nevertheless people this is the reality you can take any clear passage

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Unclear passage of scripture and make a doctrine for it. We see it all the time people do

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with the baptizing for the dead, that's what the Mormons do.

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They take one unclear scripture in 1 Corinthians 15,

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and they're like, well, I guess we better be baptizing

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for the dead.

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It's like, dude, that's not what he's saying

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right there, though.

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It's the same thing right here.

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They look at these verses and they're like,

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wait a minute, in unknown tongue,

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we need to just start babbling in our church service.

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Contrary to what Paul says in this chapter,

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it is very insane to me, okay?

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Look how we know this, though,

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that this is what he's saying, okay?

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Verse number 16, it says,

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else when thou shalt bless with the Spirit,

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how shall he that occupy through the un-

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learned say amen at that giving of thanks,

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seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest.

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Then look at verse number 17

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and compare it with verse number 14

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and see how they line up perfectly.

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It says, for thou verily give us thanks well,

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but the other is not edified.

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Doesn't that line up perfectly?

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Like my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is not fruitful.

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Like I'm praying, but my understanding of what I'm saying

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is not fruitful anybody else in the room.

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And then here he says,

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for thou verily give us thanks well.

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But the others not edified, the others not gaining anything from that is what I

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believe he's saying right here.

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I think that makes the most sense with this passage of scripture.

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Verse number 16 as well.

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Okay.

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I want to point out a couple of things before we move forward is that it says

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the unlearned verse number 16.

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We can read it one more time.

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It says else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that

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occupied the room of the unlearned say amen.

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If I give you a thanks, seeing he understands not what thou sayest.

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This only makes sense to say the unlearned if they could actually learn what they're talking about so that they're not unlearned anymore.

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You guys follow what I'm saying?

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Like, you can't call them unlearned if the language that he's trying to speak would be like unlearnable, that they can't understand.

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Very clearly this is showing that this doesn't make sense for a heavenly prayer language,

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but it does make sense for a foreign language that someone could be speaking.

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Someone could come up and speak and then I just did the little prayer in Greek.

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You could learn that same thing.

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But right now, you're unlearned.

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But then I'm also unlearned in Russian or in Spanish or whatever.

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So this is just how, this is what he's saying here in my opinion, okay?

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What else we got here, okay? You guys are in verse number 16 right now. Oh, this is what I want to say.

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I pointed this out last time, but I'll point out again because it really drives the point

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that if someone else cannot say amen to what you're saying when you pray

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because they don't understand it, then how could you say amen at the end of your prayer,

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to end your prayer? It doesn't make any sense. If they don't understand what you're saying so they

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can't say amen, then you cannot say amen to your own prayer because you don't understand what you're saying.

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But then also I want to point out this, okay,

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that before moving to verse 18 is that.

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How is it possible for you to be edified by a prayer that you're praying that you don't understand?

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That flies in the face of everything that Paul is saying in this chapter so far.

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And we know that you are edified by the prayer because look at verse number four one more time.

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It says, He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifyeth himself, but he that prophesied edifyeth the church.

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So if this guy is edifying himself by praying in an unknown tongue, but Paul's theme, his reoccurring...

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theme throughout all these verses has been if you don't have understanding

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then you don't have edification that can only lead you to the conclusion that the

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man who's praying here understands what he's saying that's the only way he could

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be edifying himself

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Or how does it even make sense then that he could be edifying himself while not understanding it

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while the other people in the room are not being edified because they don't understand it?

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It just doesn't make sense when you break these things down. This is just again a case of

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a couple unclear scriptures that they're just running with instead of just kind of

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taking a step back and thinking about these things properly.

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We'll look into verse number 18 though now.

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But we'll get the context for 17th for verily for thou barely gives things well, but the other is not edified

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I think my God I speak with tongues more than ye all.

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So whether Paul means right here that he speaks more languages than them all because he's

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just an educated man or whether he means it's by the power of the Holy Ghost, the gift of

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tongues, I'm not 100% sure.

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But it did make me think when I was typing this sermon out, I was really thinking about

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it.

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I'm like, and I talked to you guys a little bit about this last Wednesday, if the gift

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of tongues when they actually could speak in that language, if it was something that

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they permanently learned.

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very much.

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when the disciples spoke all those languages in Acts 2,

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if they permanently learned those languages,

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or if it was just for a temporary time.

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I'm bringing that up on purpose because it's going to lay the foundation for something

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I'm going to bring up potentially later and I don't just want it to catch you guys off guard.

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But I did wonder that when I was writing this, but we'll come back to that in a second.

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For now, I'm just going to say this, okay? Paul was an educated man, so it's likely that he knew

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multiple languages just by his education alone. Because at that time,

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he's a tent maker and the language of commerce is going to be Greek.

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So he obviously knows Greek, I mean he's writing in Greek so clearly he knows Greek.

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And also the native tongue of the Jews at this time was Aramaic, so he probably most certainly knew

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Aramaic. And then he's a Pharisee of the Pharisees, so he probably also knew Hebrew

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so that he could read the Old Testament in the original language if you will. So I think at the

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very least Paul knows three languages before there's any gift of tongues involved in this at all.

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but you know I

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And you can attribute that to his education, obviously, right there, because he was raised

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at the feet of Gamaliel.

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Paul was no idiot.

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I mean, you can tell by how he's writing.

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He's a very educated, very smart man.

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But also you could also apply this to the get the tongues because Paul also went into all the world and preaches the gospel

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So it's also very likely that the holy ghost just used into the use

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To have to get the tongues more often than anybody else because he's encountering more, you know foreign people than anybody else

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So these things are also very possible as well

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Uh, but for now we'll just kind of we'll leave that at there. Let's go to verse number 18

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I guess we're still just for context. He says I think my god I speak with tongues more than you all yet

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In the church I'd rather speak five words of my understanding, that by my voice I might

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teach others also than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue."

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So here Paul is kind of clarifying right here, he's like, hey, speaking in tongues is not

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bad though.

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It can't be bad if you're speaking in tongues by the gift of the Holy Ghost because it is

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a gift of the Holy Ghost.

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So Paul is not saying that it's bad to speak in a foreign language, he's trying to balance

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what he's saying right here.

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Because he's really hammering how much better prophecy is than the gift of tongues.

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But then he kind of draws it back and he's like hey, but I just want to make it clear to you guys like you know

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Tongues is not a bad thing. It's just as a time and a place for these things

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Okay, and he kind of more so balances this out at the end of the chapter. He says in verse 39

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He says wherefore brethren covet to prophesy and forbid not to speak with tongue

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So he says don't forbid the speaking of tongues. There is nothing wrong with speaking in tongues

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What Paul is making very clear here? He's trying to balance this because people always go overboard

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that I've learned, you know, just in my time of like watching people listen to my dad's sermons,

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you know, or just, you know, throughout, you know, looking at other pastors that I've looked up to

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with their sermons, they'll say something that's very logical and then very reasonable. And then

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sometimes people will grab onto it and they'll just send it to the extreme. And you're like, dude,

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that's not even what he said in the sermon itself. Why are you acting like this? It's bizarre. So

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Paul understands this. So he tells them to balance it out. He's like, Hey, I'm not forbidding the

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Speaking of time.

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And he's like, but the point that he's drawing from this is just this is that

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At church, that's not the time for you to be speaking in foreign languages before the whole congregation of people,

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because church is for the edification of the body of Christ.

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So there's a time and a place for everything, and at church, when you're amongst other people

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that are all trying to be edified, that's not the place to be speaking in tongues,

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is what he's saying. Not before the whole church. You can beat yourself, he says, but not before the whole church.

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And then...

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Also in this, Paul is making the point right here

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like with the five words.

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He says, I'd rather speak five words in a language

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that you and I both understand, okay,

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than to speak 10,000 words in an unknown tongue

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because if I speak in an unknown tongue,

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none of you guys are gonna get what I'm saying.

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It's impossible for them to learn

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or to apply anything to their life

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if he's speaking in an unknown tongue,

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in a language that they don't understand.

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Verse number 20, he says this.

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Brethren be not children understanding how be it malice be children button understanding be men

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I thought this was really interesting

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in terms of obviously

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This analogy right here

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Children have a lack of understanding just because they're not you know, their brains don't develop

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They don't have all the life experience that we have as adults

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So obviously they're gonna have a natural lack of understanding but then also when you apply this to languages

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I think it's very interesting as well

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Because kids as much as they have a general lack of understanding they also depending on how young they are just have a lack of

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Understanding of their own native language as well, right?

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That like if I'm speaking to the Korean or Tidus I have to kind of you know lower down what I'm gonna say

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I couldn't just

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speak to them super eloquently or they wouldn't understand.

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They'd be children concerning understanding.

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And I think a parallel you could draw from this

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is that he's kind of like saying like this,

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just how if you're speaking to a kid

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and you're using words that would be hard to be understood,

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the same would be true at church.

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And if you're speaking in a foreign language,

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a language that people could kind of grab bits and pieces of

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from the words that sound similar, like amen.

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Like Brother Paul caught that, OK.

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you cut the

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Because that sounds exactly the same, amen, right?

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Or the body language, you can kind of get what someone's saying, but it's going to

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be like the understanding of a child.

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You know what I mean?

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Because I'm sure children listen to the sermon sometimes and they're like, what in the world

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is he talking about?

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You know what I mean?

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Some of the words in the Bible are pretty difficult for the children to understand.

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We were reading through Genesis with Titus and Corrina, and some of the things they were

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saying I was like, man, I don't know if they're going to pick that up right at this moment.

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This is like, you know, he bear him and you know making the Ark and the gopher wood

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They're probably like what is a gopher in a wood like what is going on here?

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But anyways, I'm kind of going off around each other

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But what I'm saying about this I think the parallels interesting that Paul says don't be children concerning understanding

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Be men when it comes to understanding but when it comes to malice the things that are bad

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Then you should have a childlike knowledge of these things. I think it's interesting

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verse number 21 of this passage

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Here Paul begins to kind of explain the purpose of tongues, the gift of tongues.

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It says, in the law it is written with men of other tongues and other lips,

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will I speak unto this people? And yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

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I'm going to write a trail map later on in a different sermon, okay, but I'll come back

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to that. I'm just going to try to keep on the main focus right now. Verse 22 it says,

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wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not,

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but prophesying serveeth not for them that

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not, but for them which believe."

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So the purpose of tongues...

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is not to check someone's salvation like so many Pentecostals assert.

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They do that all the time. Who's had that happen to you before? Has anybody had a Pentecostal that would be like,

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well show me that you believe in Jesus Christ because I can show you that I speak in tongues.

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That's why I think a lot of people at these churches will go along with the tongues thing because

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it kind of puts their spirituality and their salvation and jeopardy in the eyes of other people.

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They're like, oh if I'm not speaking in tongues like everybody else is,

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there must be something wrong with me. So I think that's how they convinced these people.

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to go along with these things.

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But right here Paul's saying,

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hey tongues is not for a salvation check,

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it's supposed to be a sign to unbelievers.

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And I just think that this is so ironic,

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I read this last week as well,

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but it's like if tongues is a sign to unbelievers,

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then why is it that the Pentecostals

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predominantly speak in tongues?

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at church with other believers and then by themselves at home.

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Why aren't they going out in public and speaking in tongues?

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That would make the most sense. It's a sign for unbelievers is what he says.

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But yet they do it when they're in private. Yet they do it at their church where they're amongst

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other believers that wouldn't think that it was weird or think that it was odd.

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So I just it's very odd to me. Okay. Here's why they do this though.

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Okay. Go to Romans 8.26 Romans 8 verse number 26.

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Because we would say like, why would you pray in tongues?

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Thank you.

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We'd say like why would you pray in tongues if it's a sign for unbelievers? What's the point of that?

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This is the verse that they always go to and I've turned this verse before but I want you to turn

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here because this is the verse that Pentecostals will bring up outside of 1st Corinthians 14 to

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show you that speaking in tongues and the way that they do it the battle is legit. They'll be

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they'll say this is why we're praying by ourselves. It says likewise the Spirit also helpeth our

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infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit...

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itself make an intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. So right there they'll

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be like, oh yeah, see, this is the speaking in tongues that the first Corinthians is talking

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about because it's the Holy Spirit praying on our behalf. This is the verse that they

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will bring you to if they don't take you to first Corinthians 14. Okay, this is a very

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big verse. I've had multiple Pentecostals bring this verse up to me. Okay.

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But here's the problem with their interpretation, okay, is that they're saying the exact opposite of what this verse says.

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Because look what it says actually, at the very end there it says,

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but the Spirit itself maketh intercessions for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

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And then they say that their utterings are that of the Holy Ghost.

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That's the opposite of what this is teaching right here, okay?

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It also flies in the face of what the Book of Acts is teaching in Acts 2-4 it says,

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and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and began to speak with other tongues.

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as the spirit gave them.

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utterance. Oh, so that this is not talking about tongues here, is it? In

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Romans 8 26, what it's talking about is that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us

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because we're carnal people and we don't always know what we should pray for. So

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how does he intercede for us? Not out loud, not in babble, but he intercedes in

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our heart spiritually is what he's talking about. Just how Christ is a

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mediator between us and God and we don't audibly see that or we don't visually

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see that, but you know it's still happening. The same

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is true with the Holy Spirit that these are groanings though which cannot be uttered.

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So you cannot use this as a proof verse for tongues. That is the opposite of what the

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verse is saying. It's actually really mind blowing. Okay. It's very crazy. Okay. But

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also okay, look at verse number 27 because this proves that this is the Holy Spirit.

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Some people have questions about this verse itself, but looking for verse 27, it makes

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it clear what he's saying.

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He says, and he that searcheth the hearts, who is that?

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It's God, right?

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Knoweth what is the mind of the spirit.

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That's obviously the Holy Spirit, right?

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Because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

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So it's very clearly, it's the Holy Spirit making intercession for us.

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That we ask for things that we ought not sometimes.

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And you know, the Holy Spirit is guiding our prayers and thank God for it because we don't

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NOPE

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what we should ask for sometimes.

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That's really what's hard.

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Sometimes we'll be so confident in what we're asking for

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and praying and just be like,

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God, why wouldn't you just give me this nice mansion

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on the South Hill?

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This, it would be so great.

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We could have fellowship there.

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We could have all these church barbecues there.

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It would be so great, wouldn't it, God?

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Why won't you give this to me?

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But we don't know what the will of God is, truly.

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Not like we know in some aspects,

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but we would be silly to think that we understand

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the mind of God fully.

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That we understand why God does what

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he does in every instance in our life

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and why he withholds from us what he withholds from us

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in every instance from our life.

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An example I used before at Shirt Foundation in Vancouver

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that I thought was a really good example of this,

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like I said, if everybody in the church got a million dollars,

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you

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this weekend, I was like, what do you think the odds are that every single person that received that money would stay faithful to church?

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What do you think the odds would be? Probably not that high, right? Because people, they mean well, and when they're in a temptation that they can handle, if you will, they do well,

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but then when you get put something like a carrot that's too big for you as humans, we'll fall and we'll take the bait on that.

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That's why God specifically says he won't tempt us with anything that we can't handle.

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But that's above our own you know will or strength because I guarantee you if you gave every single member of sure

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Foundation of all the plants a million dollars

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Not every single person would stay faithful church because they would just find something to do at their time now that they have a bunch

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Of money to spend you understand what I'm saying

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Then it's like how can I go to church when I need a jet ski on Sunday? Hello?

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I'm gonna cut this million dollars a blessing I gotta make the most of it

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You know what I mean? That's what people are so all that's a rabbit trail to come back to say this that

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When it comes to the will of God you should be very glad

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that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us because we don't always understand the

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mind of God. In fact we know very little about the mind of God when you think

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about it in the grand scheme of things. Obviously we have the Bible but we don't

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know every moving of God. If we could comprehend everything that God does then

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he wouldn't be an amazing God in the first place. If we could just you know

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completely put God in a box it wouldn't be a God worth serving. Our God is

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greater. His ways are higher than ours is what the Bible says and you should just

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realize as a Christian and

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and not assume things too quickly.

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I guess that is still just more of a rabbit trail, but just like there's lots of situations in life

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where I've gone to God in prayer and been like, God, why aren't you doing this for me? I don't

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understand. The Bible says if I pray for this, you know, and if there's two people asking your

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will, you're going to give it, you're going to answer our requests. Like, why aren't you

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getting my vengeance? Why aren't you giving me this thing that I'm asking for? Why aren't you doing

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etc.

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But we just as Christians, we have to put our faith in God and trust that he knows what's best for us.

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Just as a child has to trust their parents that they know what's best for them when they don't give them the sugar before bedtime.

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You're like, but mom and dad, it would be awesome.

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It's like it would be awesome maybe for you for a moment.

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And then it's terror for everybody else, right?

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You guys understand what I'm saying?

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Verse 23, go back to 1 Corinthians 14, verse number 23.

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Now that we've established that that's not a proof verse for the Pentecostals, verse number 23,

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this is like the only passage of this scripture that the Pentecostals take to heart, unfortunately,

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and it's not in the good way, okay? It says this, it says,

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if therefore the whole church be come together into one place and all speak with tongues,

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and there come in one, come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers, will they not say, you're mad?

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And this is the reality of the Pentecostal church to everybody that's in the world nowadays.

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like

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Obviously, I think there's a lot of good Pentecostals out there that are just being misled, they're being deceived, and they're not trying necessarily to...

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to blaspheme the name of God by what they're doing, okay?

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But the reality is still true that that is what they're doing

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when they're doing this madness that they call tongues in the church.

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They're blaspheming the name of God.

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They're making like an open mockery of God

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because so many people in this world will look at them

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and be like they are insane and they'll point to that and be like,

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Christianity is insane.

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Here's the example, Pentecostals rolling on the floor,

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speaking in tongues, people barking like dogs,

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people laughing hysterically, people running around the church,

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and they'll be like...

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these Christians are crazy

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That's what you're doing when you're going against the words of God in this passage

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It's unfortunate that that's what they're doing because I think a lot of them sincerely try to do well

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But this is the problem when you evil, you know, it says evil communications corrupt good manners and that's talking about doctrines

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Okay, when you have bad doctrine, it leads to bad behaviors

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It leads to things that are against the word of God unfortunately

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So that's why I break this chapter down the way that I do because it's unfortunate that so many people fall victim to this

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And like I said, I think a lot of it is peer pressure.

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I think a lot of it is truly that if I don't speak in tongues

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like everybody else does at my Pentecostal church,

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then I'm not holy.

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Or there's something wrong with me, or I'm not saved.

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I don't have the Holy Spirit.

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That's what they're putting into these people's minds.

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So they have a ton of motivation to want

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to go along with the crowd.

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So it's unfortunate, but it has to be preached against because it is wicked that it's bringing a blot to the name of Jesus Christ.

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It truly is.

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That when people bring up, like when I say that I'm a Baptist, they'll be like, oh, are you one of those like Southern Baptists,

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like those holy roller kind of people that are just, you know, taking up the stakes?

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I'm like, no, no, no, that's some crazy people in the South.

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Like we don't do none of that.

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Okay.

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But that's what they're doing.

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They're blaspheming in the name of God, whether doing it on purpose or not.

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That's what's happening because they're going against what this passage of scripture is saying.

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Because what does Paul said in this chapter? He's like, hey, when you go to speak, speak one by one.

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Don't speak all at once. And he says, and when you speak, speak in a language that everybody understands

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or have an interpreter interpret what they're saying.

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And the Pentecostals, what do they do instead? They speak all at once.

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They burst out in the tongue simultaneously and they don't interpret what they're saying.

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That's why people are calling them mad because they're not following the words of God.

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right here. That's the reality because the sign of tongues is not babble and

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it's not you just bursting out all at once. The signs of tongues is done away

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with but it is speaking in foreign languages. We've demonstrated this very

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clearly from this passage. First Corinthians 14 verse 23. I kind of lost my

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place right now. I'm mad. Okay this is what I was going to say about this okay.

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That when it comes to

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Pentecostal I'm sure that they would take this where it says, you know, oh, but you know, it's a sign from believers

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That must be a heavenly prayer language, but it doesn't need to be that doesn't mean that this is babble nor does it have to be

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Because the people in the Acts chapter number two understood perfectly

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That what the disciples were doing when they were speaking all their different foreign languages was a miracle of God

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They understand that they understood this there and that was not babble

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So this does not need to be babbled to be a sign from God. It doesn't need to be a

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heavenly prayer language to be a sign from God.

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Because this is how this would look if it was still in effect.

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This would be the miraculous gift.

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Imagine you could go out soul-wanting

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and knock on someone's door.

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They're like, oh, I speak Spanish.

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And then you could just whip out Spanish on the spot

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and get them saved.

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It would be super awesome.

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I'm like, God, can we get this back a little bit, OK?

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It'd be super cool.

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But this is just not the reality more.

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Because everyone's on equal footing.

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Because I was telling you guys last time,

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God doesn't want people just to believe through signs.

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So they don't, he doesn't.

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want them to just trust in miracles. He wants them to trust in the death, burial

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and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is exactly what Paul brings up right

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after this chapter. He's like, hey, this is the gospel that you have to believe

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that Jesus Christ was, you know, perfect, that he died for our sins according to

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scriptures, and that he rose again on the third day according to scriptures.

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That's what God wants us to put our faith in.

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not just the signs and the miracles.

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And he did that at times,

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and he did that when at the beginning of the spring of the gospel,

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but now per se, if you will, we're on equal footing.

01:11:25.100 --> 01:11:28.800
Okay, people can, so now everybody just has to believe what the Bible says.

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That's what God wants.

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It says that the foolishness of preaching is what God is pleased to save people with.

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Or another way could be like speaking in a language is that church that you know

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Would be like a foreign language. Okay, obviously that'd be the gift of an effect as well

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But read verse 23 with me one more time and I'm getting towards the end of the sermon so stick with me

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Okay verse number 23

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it says if therefore the whole church come to

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become together in one place and all speak with tongues and there are and come in those that are unlearned or unbelievers will they not

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say that you're mad I

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specifically thought about this verse for a long time because

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It is somewhat hard for me to pinpoint what Paul is saying right here because if Paul was just talking about

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You know foreign languages proper of just like a language that you study to learn

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I could explain this very well like I could just be like oh, yeah

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Well clearly there'd be people that have all these different languages and they're kind of in a melting pot area

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And they're speaking in tongues all at one time like in their different languages in the service and paul is kind of being like hey

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Don't do that, which I do think is applicable nowadays

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But the thing is though, is that this is clearly in reference to the gift of tongues though right here.

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It's not just the studied, okay? Because if you look at verse 22, it said,

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wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

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That's not a language you study, that's the gift of tongues that's a sign, right?

01:12:48.900 --> 01:12:52.900
But prophesying is served not to them that believe not, but for them which believe.

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So I was kind of like...

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This is the issue I was having, if you will, okay?

01:12:58.400 --> 01:13:01.400
This was my thought process that, you know,

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if people are being enabled by the Holy Spirit

01:13:04.800 --> 01:13:07.800
to speak in a foreign language,

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why would he allow them to speak in a foreign language

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that nobody else in the room understands?

01:13:11.400 --> 01:13:12.900
You can't understand what I'm saying?

01:13:12.900 --> 01:13:14.400
Like, or there would be, like, no purpose for it.

01:13:14.400 --> 01:13:18.100
Like, if nobody in here, you know, spoke French...

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I don't even want to use French. Okay, let's just go Spanish. Okay, if nobody here spoke Spanish,

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okay, and then like I had to get the tongues at this time, okay, and then I could speak Spanish

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and be like, you know, like, what's the point of that? Like, why would the Holy Spirit,

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obviously I'm speaking as a man here, okay, why would he allow that if that was the case? Because

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it would kind of seem like it doesn't make that much sense. You guys follow what I'm saying here?

01:13:37.520 --> 01:13:43.200
Like, why is it that he would allow them to all speak in tongues?

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even if they didn't all understand what they each other were saying, like what would be the purpose

01:13:47.780 --> 01:13:52.180
of that? This is the conclusions I came to, okay? There's two things I think that could resolve that.

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Number one, like I kind of submitted to you guys earlier, if the languages that you learned

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were permanent, this would explain this very well.

01:13:58.560 --> 01:14:03.560
That you know, if they learned these languages and then they had them, you know, for a permanent

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amount of time, then someone could go to church with the languages that they learned from

01:14:08.040 --> 01:14:09.040
the Holy Spirit, right?

01:14:09.040 --> 01:14:10.840
Because it would still be about the Holy Spirit.

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And then they could just, you know, basically show off these different languages that they

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have now that they understand because they could be like, oh yeah, look how spiritual

01:14:17.460 --> 01:14:18.460
I am.

01:14:18.460 --> 01:14:20.260
in all these different languages.

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these are all the things that the Holy Ghost taught me.

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You guys follow what I'm saying right there?

01:14:24.000 --> 01:14:25.480
So then they could be kind of like flexing

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their spiritual gift,

01:14:26.480 --> 01:14:29.620
even though that's not what God would want from them.

01:14:29.620 --> 01:14:30.960
So that could be the case,

01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:32.520
because again, it would just puzzle me

01:14:32.520 --> 01:14:35.440
if the Holy Spirit comes on and off of people

01:14:35.440 --> 01:14:36.920
and they understand the language fully

01:14:36.920 --> 01:14:37.900
and then they don't.

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as soon as he's done using them in that one moment,

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it puzzles me why he would allow people to speak in a language that nobody understands

01:14:44.640 --> 01:14:47.180
and why he'd let them all speak at the same time

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contrary to what Paul's teaching this passage, okay?

01:14:50.220 --> 01:14:52.960
But if they permanently learn the language, that would alleviate this problem.

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You guys follow what I'm saying right now?

01:14:55.400 --> 01:14:57.640
However, the push backs on that are very obvious.

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The first one is this, is that the Bible doesn't actually say that.

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That's just raw speculation, just to be very clear, okay?

01:15:02.480 --> 01:15:05.240
That's not, there's no chapter in verses that says that I was just speculating.

01:15:05.240 --> 01:15:08.200
I'm telling you my thoughts as I was approaching the scripture.

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And I was like, you know, there is no clear verse that says this.

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But also.

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a better probably even a better pushback than that is the fact that if you think about someone like Samson who had the gift of strength as we obviously saw he had supernatural strength he's ripping the gates off of city like the doors off city gates and he's ripping a line in half right he has unbelievable supernatural strength this was clearly a gift from the Holy Ghost that God gave him

01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:37.360
But Samson rebelled a lot in his life and even if you think about how he ended his life,

01:15:37.360 --> 01:15:43.600
he ended his life using the gift that God gave him of strength to push those pillars out and to kill himself, right?

01:15:43.600 --> 01:15:49.400
Why am I bringing this up? Because you could also just push back and say, hey, you know, that people have free will.

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So sometimes people are going to do what God doesn't want them to do and they would use the gifts that they have in ways that God wouldn't necessarily want them to use them.

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That's very evident in the story of Samson.

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that Samson had

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so much potential and how does he end his life,

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he ends his life killing himself with the gift of strength

01:16:06.740 --> 01:16:08.280
that God allowed him to have.

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That's again, obviously that's not God's fault,

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that's his fault because we all have free will

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at the end of the day, you guys follow what I'm saying?

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So that kind of leads me to the second explanation of this

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which could be that the gifts of tongues

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was permitted to these people to speak in foreign languages

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but they had free will so they could speak

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in these languages potentially

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that people didn't understand, okay.

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a different foreign language contrary to what God would have wanted them to do.

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This doesn't even have to be in a boasting way though if you think about this, okay?

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Because I was thinking about all the ways that this could apply when I was writing

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this sermon.

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This could just be like in a way of ignorance because think about this.

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Say like someone at the congregation had to get the tongues and

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they could speak in Hebrew.

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you

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And they could be like, hey, well, I know that Jesus was a Hebrew.

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I know that the Old Testament is written in Hebrew.

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So I just think that it'd be better if I'm speaking in the language that my Savior would have known

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and that the Old Testament scripture is written in.

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I'm not saying that that's right, but don't we even see that spirit nowadays too with people

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where people don't want to call Jesus Jesus?

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They want to call him Yeshua because they think it's like way more close.

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Oh, that's the Hebrew way to say it.

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It's like, but friend does.

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The Bible says, Jesus, not Yeshua.

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Okay.

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That can be the Aramaic way of saying it, but the way that the Bible delivers

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that name to us is Jesus, which is Jesus.

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Okay.

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And English it's Jesus.

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So you should call him Jesus.

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Cause we speak English.

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If you speak Aramaic, call him Yeshua.

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If that's his name in Aramaic or in Hebrew or whatever it is, but

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this is America partner.

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Okay.

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So in America, we say Jesus around these parts.

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Okay.

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Just in the church, you say Jesus because that's the language.

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we're speaking why just bring up a random way like we're from a different

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language when nobody else speaks that language it's kind of bizarre it's like

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every time I refer to Greece I don't say like a lava because technically that's

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the name of Greece is a lot of like Helena or whatever and go oh yeah you

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know we want to go on a trip to a lava it's like no we want to go to Greece

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because you're speaking English you understand

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We're not going to Mexico. We're going to Mexico, okay?

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Once you get over the border, you can say Mexico, but until then, it better be Mexico, partner.

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That's kind of a joke, but you guys understand what I'm saying there, right there?

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That it doesn't even necessarily have to be in a boasting way, that it could be in a way of ignorance, like true ignorance.

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Same thing with Aramaic, like they could say, like, oh well, Jesus' native language was Aramaic.

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This is what he cried on the cross, Eli, Eli, long as the batini, you know, my God, my God, why is that forsaken?

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So that's the language I want to speak in because that's the language my Savior spoke

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You guys would see how someone could come to that or they could say especially think about this

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Okay, this is especially true with the Psalms and with the hymns because the Psalms are all written

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Hebrew right so if someone had that I could very easily see someone saying

01:18:52.960 --> 01:18:58.240
like oh you know the Psalms are written in Hebrew so let me teach you guys what

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the Bible says right here in Hebrew right because that's what the Psalms

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were originally written in you see how someone could have that kind of line of

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thinking

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And you might think that that's random, but think about this.

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Paul brings up the Psalms in this chapter.

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Isn't that interesting?

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Look at verse 26.

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He says, how is it, brethren, when you come together,

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every one of you hath a song, hath a doctrine,

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hath a tongue, hath a revelation,

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hath an interpretation.

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Let all things be done unto edifying.

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I think that that's very interesting, OK?

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That he brings up Psalms seemingly randomly,

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just brings up the psalm.

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But it would make sense if someone had to get the tongues

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and they could speak Hebrew at church,

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that they could think in an ignorant way.

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that Paul's correcting here, I'm gonna just read this psalm in Hebrew because

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that's the original language of my Savior. That spirit still kind of permeates,

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it's still around with people nowadays so it wouldn't surprise me that they

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would have this at this time because there's no new thing under the sun. But

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anyways that's the two ways I could see that this being the case because

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I think it's very clearly talking about the gift of tongues and I don't think it just makes sense to only talk about this in a way that people natively learned a language with him directly bringing up what the purpose of the signs of tongues was.

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Which was a sign to unbelievers, yeah?

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Verse number 24 it says...

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But if all prophesy and there come in one that believeth not or one unlearned,

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he is convinced of all, he is judged of all, and thus the secrets of his heart made manifest.

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And so falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth.

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Now, I think that this applies to the gift of prophecy as well, but this is still applicable.

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Like I said, all these things are still applicable either way.

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That's the beauty of this chapter that...

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that we should follow everything that Paul says about speaking in foreign

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tongues here,

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whether it's by our own study or whether it's by the gift of the Holy Ghost,

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because it's all true no matter what. I explained it to you guys last week,

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and when it comes to the prophecy this is true too. Think about this, that

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people come in nowadays and see us preaching the Word of God with power.

01:20:59.240 --> 01:21:02.200
They can see that you're filled with wisdom, with knowledge, with the

01:21:02.200 --> 01:21:03.760
understanding of the scripture,

01:21:03.760 --> 01:21:07.080
and they can see how you're preaching from the Word of God and perhaps like

01:21:07.400 --> 01:21:10.480
that you're preaching from the Word of God can apply directly to their life and

01:21:10.480 --> 01:21:15.400
they can come in and say hey this Christianity thing is real. The God of

01:21:15.400 --> 01:21:16.800
the Bible is truly real.

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But also at this time when they had to get the prophecy proper, you could see how they could be preaching on things that God had revealed to them and that someone could come in and be like, oh, you know, of course, God's real.

01:21:27.500 --> 01:21:33.740
They're like prophesying, like, you know, mysteries from the Bible or they're prophesying things that are directly applicable in my life.

01:21:34.060 --> 01:21:42.860
So you see again how no matter what this is talking about, whether it's the gift or whether it's just the standard prophecy, these things are all still applicable either way.

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But so any way you slice it, okay, getting to the very end of my sermon, okay,

01:21:48.620 --> 01:21:54.300
either way you slice it, the gift of tongues, or excuse me, the gift of prophecy is superior

01:21:54.300 --> 01:21:59.500
to the gift of tongues. So this is why Paul wants him then to desire the gift of prophecy and not

01:21:59.500 --> 01:22:04.620
tongues. So that again, why the Pentecostals obsess about the tongues doesn't make any sense.

01:22:04.620 --> 01:22:09.020
He like spends this whole chapter saying like, hey, it's I, if you speak in tongues, he's like,

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but what you really, really should desire is prophecy.

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And the Pentecostals are like, let's just build our religion

01:22:16.060 --> 01:22:18.300
around this lesser gift.

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It doesn't make sense.

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He's like, he spends his whole chapter saying,

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let me give you the rules about tongues,

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but really I would rather that you prophesy.

01:22:26.620 --> 01:22:29.060
And they're like, we would rather speak in tongues though,

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okay, okay, go against what the apostle Paul

01:22:31.900 --> 01:22:32.740
was saying in this chapter.

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He obviously said, don't forbid to speak in tongues,

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but why would you desire these things?

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Why do they make that their obsession

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when it's the less superior?

01:22:41.100 --> 01:22:45.040
gift. It doesn't make sense. They should be obsessed with prophecies, what the

01:22:45.040 --> 01:22:49.020
Pentecostal should be focused on, but that's harder to fake. It's harder to be

01:22:49.020 --> 01:22:52.500
convincing about that, so they just stick on tongues because you can't really

01:22:52.500 --> 01:22:55.200
disprove them when they're just babbling.

01:22:56.100 --> 01:22:59.140
Verse 26 it says, how is it brother than when you come together every one of you have the

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Psalm, have the doctrine, have the tongue, have the revelation, have the interpretation,

01:23:02.660 --> 01:23:04.580
let all things be done unto edifying.

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If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two or by three and that by course

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and let one interpret.

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These are the last verses I'm going over in this chapter, okay?

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When I was going to preach this sermon, okay, when I was going to type this out, I initially

01:23:19.220 --> 01:23:20.140
The video really hit ten.

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Like, oh yeah, for sure, does this talk about languages?

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And then I was like, well, does this talk about languages?

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Or is the two or three, is it talking about the prophets,

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two or three?

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But the more I thought about it,

01:23:29.880 --> 01:23:32.960
like I see the compelling case for the other side of this,

01:23:32.960 --> 01:23:34.160
that this could be talking about like,

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let it be by two or three, like men coming up and speaking.

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But I think that this is saying by two or three languages,

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okay?

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And I'll explain why that is.

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But if I was gonna give you the other side

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of the argument first, okay?

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They would say, look what it says,

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let it be by two or three, or at the most by three,

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and that by course.

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And that kind of, if you know what that means,

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the word course is used a lot in the case.

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King James, it basically means in order or in turn or one by one is basically what he's

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saying right there.

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So he'd be saying like, if you manage to do that, let it be by one or by two or by three

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and that by chorus.

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So in that like one by one or that kind of in order.

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So that could apply both to speaking in tongues or it could be speaking about, you know, the

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men themselves getting up to preach.

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Because if you jump down to verse number 29 of this, okay.

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These are the literal last verses, okay, that were going over in this page. I'm sorry, okay.

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I was trying to tell the truth, but I didn't realize, okay. First of all, look at what it says, okay.

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It says, let the prophet speak two or three and let the other judge, if anything be revealed to

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another that says, by let the first hold his peace for ye all may prophesy one by one that all may

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learn and all may be comforted. So if you compare that up there, it kind of could look like, you know,

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he's saying the two or three is in reference to people speaking. Like, hey, don't go up and speak

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like all at one time.

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Or don't have some guy come up and be preaching a sermon then have someone else

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Interject on the crowd and be like, you don't know what I got something revealed me from the Holy Ghost

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So you just come up and try to take over the service like that. Uh, Michael the archangel guy of askers the church

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He's like, can I just do a prayer? No

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One by one, right? So so but so that does apply the prophets too, but I think what verse um

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what verse 27 is talking about is the languages, okay?

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It makes sense to me, number one,

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because that'd be kind of like

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being against the men's preacher nights, wouldn't it?

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Because you'd be like, hey,

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you can't do like five people in men's preacher nights,

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you gotta be two or at the most by three, right?

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But it's like,

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I don't necessarily think that's what he's saying here.

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I think he's saying by two or by the most by three languages is what he'd be saying.

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This would make sense in a lot of countries, especially not in America as much, but especially

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like in a very mixed population where you would be at where maybe like 50% of the crowd

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spoke Greek and 50% spoke Latin or something like that.

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I can see someone being like two different languages and then you have your own language

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and then it's being interpreted.

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Because anything more than that would just be insane.

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Wouldn't it be like, oh, you're speaking like.

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five languages and then there's a translation for all five sentences it'd be crazy even three he

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even says like at the most three okay he's like you know kind of put in some restraint on it okay

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but he's like and then he's like and that by course so he'd be saying like don't just like come

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up and like alternate between the languages either because that would be even really crazy too imagine

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you come up and speak in english at first and then you switch to aramaic halfway through the

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the sermon, then you go to like, you know, Latin that the other part.

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sermon that would be insane. It'd be crazy. So he's trying to

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because all these things are so that things are done decently

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in order. Isn't that what he says at the end of this? He's

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trying to get some order in this church because it's just chaos

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up to this point.

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But if you look, okay, so I gave you the argument for that one side, but if you go back to verse

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27, look, read this in context, okay?

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And look what it says.

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It says, if any speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two or at the most by three and

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not by course and let one interpret.

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This is why I think it's the languages, because look at the language here.

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It says, but if there be no interpreter, let

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him keep silence in the church and let him speak to himself and to God.

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Wouldn't you expect if the two or by three there was multiple people that he would say,

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let them keep silence in the church and let them speak to themselves.

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But it says let him speak to himself.

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So I think it makes sense that what he's saying is like, hey,

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let it be by the most two or three and if there's no interpreter,

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he's not speaking at all.

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I think that makes the most sense in this passage.

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what we're going to cover next week.

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Okay. Verse 32 he says,

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and the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

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That's the cliffhanger I'll leave you on.

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Because there was a lot of content even in that sermon anyways.

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Just kind of in summary for this sermon.

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I would just say this that it's important. I wouldn't even say this. I just leave the I just leave you with this thought. Okay?

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It is important when you read the bible

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Even when things are challenging even when things are difficult to really like meditate on things to sit there and like just dive into them

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Sometimes it could be uncomfortable because sometimes when you're diving into things it kind of challenges what you believe

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Isn't it true like about passages like sometimes we go into a passage being like

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I know that this is what this passage is.

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I'm going to make this passage say that, but we shouldn't do that as Christians.

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We should go to the word of God openly because as I've said before, if you don't do that

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with scripture, eventually it's going to become obvious where you're lacking in an argument

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or you're lacking in a doctrine and someone's going to exploit that.

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And then when that happens, it makes people question all the doctrines that you believe.

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People have these like crisis is where like they like have one minor doctrine flipped

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upside down in their head and they're just like, well, everything I

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Everything I've learned must have been a lie.

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It's like, well that's not true either though, okay?

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But.

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people um, but when it comes to scripture like this because this

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This is a challenging passage scripture first Corinthians 14 is a hard passage scripture

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I feel like as far as the chapters ago

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This is the most I've had a difficulty with the passage of scripture in

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Terms of just like like I was saying you guys I want to feel like I have integrity when I'm going through the Bible

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I don't want to feel like I'm just like rednecking answers

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So that's why I kind of dive into these things

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Deeper and try to give you the different sides of these things because I could just blow

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all these verses but then what is that profit because if I'm struggling with

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verses then I know other people are struggling with these same set of

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verses so that's why I think it's important to dig into these things. With

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that all being said let's pray. Dear Mother God thank you so much for this wonderful day, thank you so much for the

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do-for-its God, thank you so much for this passage of scripture God, thank you so

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much for a book that does challenge us God and that does make us use our brains

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God and that it's not the Bible is not just some dumbed-down book that was just

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put together by uneducated people God.

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Thank you that the book that we read is so beautiful,

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it's so poetic, it's so deep, it's so amazing to us

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that even if we read it 100 times, God,

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there's just always something more to find

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and there's always something more

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to be interested about, God.

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Thank you so much that you give us the Bible

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and that you give us your complete word of God

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so that we can study and show ourselves approved.

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I just pray that we would all do that

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and I just pray that.

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We will not allow challenging passage of scriptures to make us stumble in the faith.

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I just pray that it would encourage us to study and read our Bible even more.

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In Jesus' name I pray, amen.

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The last song we're going to do is song number 127.

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Song number 127.

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Kiss So Sweet to Trust in Jesus, song number 127.

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Let's sing it out together on the first.

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Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take him at his word,

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just to rest upon his promise, just to know the sith the Lord.

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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him, how I've proved him o'er-

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and or Jesus Jesus precious Jesus oh for grace to trust him more oh how sweet

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to trust in Jesus just to trust his cleansing blood just in simple faith to

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plunge me need

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healing, cleansing flood. Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him, how I proved him more and

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more. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, oh, for grace to trust him more. Yes, to

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sweet trust in Jesus.

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Jesus just from sin in self to cease

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just from Jesus

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Simply taking life and rest and joy and peace

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Jesus Jesus how I trust him how I've proved

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Him more and or

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Jesus Jesus

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Precious Jesus, oh for grace to trust him more.

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I'm so glad I learned to trust thee.

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Precious Jesus, save your friend.

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And I know that thou art with me,

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will be with me to the end.

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Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him, how I've proved him o'er and o'er.

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Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, oh, for grace to trust him more.

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Amen.

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Good seeing you, Brother Ryan.

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Could you close the water of prayer?

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Yeah.