Participants: Wintley Phipps
Series Code: 17SCM
Program Code: 17SCM000010A
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00:00 ♪ >> WELCOME TO 3ABN SPRING CAMP
00:15 MEETING, 2017. EXPOSING THE COUNTERFEIT. 00:18 ♪ >> HELLO, AND WELCOME TO 3ABN'S 00:25 2017 SPRING CAMP MEETING. HAVE YOU BEEN ENJOYING THE 00:29 SERVICES? >> YES! 00:30 >> AMEN. WHAT A BLESSING. 00:32 I'M SO THRILLED WHEN WE HAVE CAMP MEETING HERE AT 3ABN, THE 00:37 MUSIC, THE PREACHING, OUR VIEWERS WHO COME FROM AROUND THE 00:41 WORLD TO JOIN US. IT JUST MAKES ME FEEL LIKE A 00:45 LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN. OUR SPEAKER THIS EVENING, IS 00:50 NONE OTHER THAN PASTOR WINTLEY PHIPPS. 00:53 HE IS NO STRANGER TO MANY OF -YOU, BUT TO THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY NOT KNOW HIM, LET ME SHARE A FEW 01:01 FACTS. PASTOR PHIPPS WAS BORN IN 01:05 TRINIDAD, BUT THEN MOVED TO MONTREAL, CANADA. 01:09 IN HIGH SCHOOL WE ATTENDED KINGSWAY COLLEGE IN CANADA, AND 01:14 LATER, OAKWOOD COLLEGE, WHICH BECAME OAKWOOD UNIVERSITY IN 01:19 HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA. THAT'S WHERE HE RECEIVED HIS 01:23 BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE IN THEOLOGY. 01:28 HE WENT ON TO EARN AN MASTER'S IN MICHIGAN. 01:31 HE IS THE FOUNDER OF THE U.S. DREAM ACADEMY. 01:34 A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION, DEDICATED TO PROVIDING 01:40 MENTORING, ACADEMIC TUTORING, AND EXPOSURE OF COMPUTERS AND 01:48 THE INTERNET TO CHILDREN WHO HAVE HAS IMPRISONED PARENTS. 01:54 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD HIM SING IN YES, MOST OF YOU HAVE 01:58 HEARD HIM SING. AND GOD HAS OPENED SO MANY DOORS 02:02 FOR HIM WITH HIS GREAT INSTRUMENT. 02:04 HE HAS PERFORMED FOR JIMMY CARTER, RONALD REAGAN, THE 02:10 BUSHES, BARACK OBAMA, AND HE HAS PERFORMED AT SEVEAL NATIONAL 02:14 PRAYER BREAKFAST EVENTS AND OTHER CELEBRATIONS. 02:17 HE HAS CONDUCTED LECTURES, EUROPE, AUSTRALIA, AFRICA, NORTH 02:23 AND SOUTH AMERICA. PASTOR PHIPPS SERVED AS SENIOR 02:30 PASTOR TO SEVERAL CHURCHES IN THE WASHINGTON, D.C. AREA. 02:34 HE CURRENTLY SERVES AS PASTOR OF THE PALM BAY SEVENTH-DAY 02:38 ADVENTIST CHURCH IN PALM BAY, FLORIDA. 02:42 PASTOR WINTLEY PHIPPS IS MARRIED TO THE FORMER LINDA GALLOWAY, 02:47 WHOM HE MET AT OAKWOOD. THEY HAVE THREE SONS. 02:51 WINTLEY THE SECOND, WINSTON AND WADE. 02:54 OUR MUSIC AND SERMON WILL BE PROVIDED BY PASTOR WINTLEY 02:57 PHIPPS, AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED WITH THE SONG AND A WORD FROM ON 03:04 HIGH. GOD BLESS YOU. 03:10 >> GOD BLESS YOU. ♪ 03:35 ♪ OWED TO JESUS ♪ ♪ I SURRENDER ♪ 03:42 ♪ ALL TO HIM I FREELY GIVE ♪ ♪ I WILL NEVER ♪ 03:53 ♪ LOVE AND TRUST HIM ♪ ♪ IN HIS PRESENCE DAILYNESS ♪ 04:10 ♪ I SURRENDER ♪ ♪ ALL ♪ 04:16 ♪ I SURRENDER ALL ♪ ♪ ALL TO THEE MY BLESSED 04:32 SAVIOR ♪ ♪ I SURRENDER ALL ♪ 04:49 ♪ ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER ♪ ♪ HUMBLY AT HIS FEET I BOW ♪ 05:06 ♪ WORLDLY PLEASURES NOW FORSAKEN ♪ 05:14 ♪ TAKE ME JESUS ♪ ♪ TAKE ME FLOOUDZ -- NOW ♪ 05:22 ♪ I SURRENDER ALL ♪ ♪ I SURRENDER ALL ♪ 05:40 ♪ ALL TO THEE, MY BLESSED SAVIOR ♪ 05:50 ♪ I SURRENDER ALL ♪ ♪ I SURRENDER ALL ♪ 06:13 ♪ ALL TO JESUS I SURRENDER ♪ ♪ ALL TO HIM I FREELY GIVE ♪ 06:31 ♪ I WILL EVER LOVE AND TRUST HIM ♪ 06:38 ♪ ALL TO HIM I FREELY GIVE ♪ ♪ AND I SURRENDER ALL ♪ 07:02 >> AMEN! >> AMEN! 07:07 >> HALLELUJAH. LET US PRAY, FATHER AS WE OPEN 07:12 YOUR HOLY WORD, I ASK THAT YOU WOULD CLEANSE ME OF ALL 07:17 UNRIGHT UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, FILL MY LIFE 07:24 WITH YOUR HOLY SPIRIT PRESENCE AND POWER. 07:26 SPEAK TO ME, THROUGH ME, AND FOR ME. 07:29 I PROMISE YOU, LORD, I'LL ALWAYS GIVE YOU THE HONOR, THE GLORY 07:36 AND THE PRAISE. IN JESUS NAME I PRAY. 07:41 AMEN. >> AMEN. 07:42 >> AMEN. >> WELL, THEY GAVE ME THE 07:47 TOUGHEST TOPIC TO DEAL WITH TONIGHT. 07:49 [ LAUGHTER ] >> AND SOMEHOW I FEEL LIKE THAT 07:57 OLD BLACK LADY, SHE WAS 93 YEARS OLD, IN THE HOSPITAL, NOT DOING 08:03 VERY WELL, HER FAMILY HAS COME TO VISIT, AND -- AND THEY WERE 08:09 STANDING AROUND HER BED. THE DOCTOR CAME IN, AND WHEN THE 08:14 FAMILY LEFT, IT WAS JUST THAT OLD LADY, THE DOCTOR, WAS 08:20 TALKING ABOUT THE FAMILY ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT TO DO HEROIC 08:25 MEASURES, YOU KNOW?-WELL, WHEN THE FAMILY LEFT, THE DOCTOR AND THAT OLD LADY IN THE 08:31 HOSPITAL ROOM, ALONE, AND SHE RAISED HER HAND AND WITH ONE 08:36 LONG BONY FINGER, SHE DID LIKE THIS. 08:38 [ LAUGHTER ] >> HE CAME OVER TO HER SIDE, AND 08:46 HE IS LEANED UP TO HIM AS FAR AS SHE COULD, AND HE SAID TO THE 08:51 DOCTOR, DON'T LISTEN TO ANYTHING THEY SAY. 08:54 YOU GIVE ME ALL YOU GOT. [ LAUGHTER ] 09:06 >> SO TONIGHT FOR THE NEXT FEW MINUTES, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU 09:10 ALL I GOT. [ LAUGHTER ] 09:16 >> IT'S HARD TO DESCRIBE THE WHIRLWIND OF EMOTIONS THE 09:28 DISCIPLES WENT THROUGH AFTER THE DEATH OF JESUS ON CALVARY. 09:34 THE EMOTIONS THEY EXPERIENCED, RANGED FROM DEPRESSION AND 09:44 DESPAIR TO EXCITEMENT AND ECSTASY. 09:50 HIDING IN DREAD ONE MOMENT. THE NEXT MOMENT WATCHING WITH 09:54 EXHILARATION AS JESUS WAS BEING CAUGHT UP INTO THE CLOUDS, 10:00 SURROUNDED BY THOUSANDS OF ANGELS. 10:05 IN THE BOOK OF ACTS THE BIBLE TELLS US, THEY RETIRED TO AN 10:12 UPPER ROOM TO CHOOSE A REPLACEMENT FOR JUDITH, AND TO 10:17 WAIT FOR THE OUTPOURING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 10:22 THE SPIRIT JESUS PROMISED HE WOULD SEND TO THEM. 10:27 WHILE IMMERSED IN PRAYER, WORSHIP AND PRAISE, SUDDENLY 10:35 THEY HEARD A SOUND LIKE THE BLOWING OF A VIOLENT WIND. 10:41 NOW, WE WHO LIVE IN FLORIDA, WE WHO HAVE LIVED THROUGH -HURRICANES, WE KNOW THAT SOUND. 10:49 IT'S A SOUND LIKE NO OTHER SOUND. 10:53 IT IS A SOUND THAT FILLS THE HEART WITH FEAR, AND TERROR. 10:59 I REMEMBER WATCHING A BROTHER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD BEING 11:04 INTERVIEWED ON TELEVISION AFTER A RECENT HURRICANE. 11:08 THE REPORTER ASKED HIM, WHAT WAS IT LIKE? 11:14 WERE YOU AFRAID? THAT BROTHER SAID, WELL, WHEN 11:18 THE WIND STARTED GETTING BAD, THEY TOLD US WE HAD TO GET OUT, 11:24 SO WE HAD TO EVAORATE. [ LAUGHTER ] 11:32 >> HE WAS TRYING TO SAY EVACUATE, SAME THING, EVAPORATE, 11:38 EVACUATE, JUST GET OUT. [ LAUGHTER ] 11:45 >> BUT THAT SOUND, IT'S A FRIGHTENING SOUND. 11:51 IN THE BOOK OF ACT, 2:1, THE BIBLE SAYS WHEN THE DAY OF 11:57 PENTECOST WAS FULLY COME, THEY WERE ALL IN ONE ACCORD -- WITH 12:03 ONE ACCORD, IN ONE PLACE, AND SUDDENLY, THERE CAME A SOUND 12:09 FROM HEAVEN AS OF A RUSHING, MIGHTY WIND, AND IT FILLED ALL 12:15 THE HOUSE WHERE THEY WERE SITTING. 12:19 THE BIBLE TELL US, THAT THE SOUND WAS AS OF A RUSHING MIGHTY 12:25 WIND. IT FILLED THE WHOLE HOUSE. 12:31 EVERY CORNER, EVERY CREVASSE. EVERY ROOM, SUDDENLY ABOVE 12:37 EVERYONE'S HEAD, THERE WAS A SIGN OF FIRE -- SIGNIFYING THE 12:46 ANOINTING POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 12:47 AND THE BIBLE SAYS IN VERSE 3, IT APPEARED UNDER THEM CLOVEN 12:56 TONGUES LIKE FIRE, AND IT SAT UPON EACH OF THEM, AND THEY WERE 13:01 ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND BEGAN TO SPEAK WITH -- WHAT? 13:06 OTHER TONGUES AS THE SPIRIT GAVE THEM UTTERANCE. 13:10 >> AMEN. >> BROTHERS AND SISTERS, AS THEY 13:14 WERE ALL FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST, EVERYONE IN THE ROOM 13:20 BEGAN TO SPEAK FLUENTLY IN A LANGUAGE THEY HAD NEVER STUDIED, 13:27 AND A LANGUAGE THEY HAD NEVER LEARNED. 13:31 AND EACH MAN SPOKE AND SAID WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS TELLING THEM 13:36 AND PROMPTING THEM TO SAY. NOW, THERE IS A REASON THIS 13:42 OUTPOURING OF THE SPIRIT IS KNOWN AS PENTECOST BECAUSE IT 13:50 HAPPENED AT THE FEAST OF WEEKS, WHICH ALSO HAPPENED 50 DAYS 13:55 AFTER PASSOVER, AND PENTECOST IS GREEK FOR 50 DAYS. 14:02 AND NOW THAT WORD, PENTECOST, HAS BEEN MEMORIALIZED, AND MADE 14:09 SACRED, NOT BECAUSE OF WHEN IT OCCURRED, BUT BECAUSE OF WHAT 14:14 HAPPENED ON THAT DAY. THE BIBLE TELLS US THE PEOPLE 14:17 WHO WERE OUTSIDE THE UPPER ROOM WERE HEARING SOUNDS -- IT WAS 14:24 NOT THE SOUND OF THE MIGHTY RUSHING WIND THAT THEY REALLY 14:28 HEARD. IT WAS THE SOUND OF MANY 14:32 FRAGMENTS OF MANY LANGUAGES BEING SPOKEN ALL AT ONCE. 14:37 IT WAS THE SOUND OF A UNITED NATIONS UNDER ONE ROOF. 14:43 THE WORD QUICKLY SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE CITY, SOMETHING 14:47 REMARKABLE AND SOMETHING UNUSUAL IS GOING ON IN THAT HOUSE, AND 14:51 BEFORE LONG, A LARGE CROWD HAD GATHERED OUTSIDE, AND THEN ONE 14:58 BY ONE, THE APOSTLES CAME OUT OF THE HOUSE, AND BEGAN SPEAKING IN 15:03 LANGUAGES THAT WERE NOT NATIVE TO THEM. 15:06 >> AMEN. >> ON APOSTLE SPOKE AND SAID 15:18 HOLA. ANOTHER SAID SALUDE. 15:26 ANOTHER SAID [ SPEAKING FOREIGN ANOTHER SAID, WHAT YOU BRO? 15:37 NOW YOU STAY? [ LAUGHTER ] 15:38 >> AND JUST LIKE YOU WERE LISTENING TO ME AMAZED. 15:42 THE PEOPLE LISTENING WERE ASTONISHED AND AMAZED, BECAUSE 15:48 EVERYONE PRESENT UNDERSTOOD WHAT THE APOSTLES WERE SAYING IN 15:51 THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. WAIT A MINUTE, SOMEBODY SHOUTED. 15:55 ALL OF THESE MEN SPEAKING ARE GALETTIANS. 16:02 HOW DO WE ALL HEAR THEM SPEAK IN OUR NATIVE LANGUAGES AND 16:08 DIALECTS? HOW WE HEAR EVERY MAN IN OUR OWN 16:12 TONGUE WHERE IN WE ARE BORN? WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? 16:19 WE HAVE PEOPLE FROM ALL REGIONS, FROM EVERY PART OF ASIA. 16:26 WE HAVE PEOPLE FROM EGYPT, LIBYA, SIGHRINE, ROME, CRETE, 16:37 ARBRABIA, AND EVERYONE IS ABLE TO HEAR AND UNDERSTAND WITHOUT 16:40 NEED OF AN INTERPRETER. THEY ARE PREACHING ABOUT THE 16:44 WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD IN OUR OWN LANGUAGE, AND IN OUR OWN 16:50 DIALECT. OTHERS BEGAN TO SAY, THIS MUST 16:53 BE A TRICK, A BIG CIRCUS. OH, WE KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON. 16:58 THESE MEN ARE DRUNK. [ LAUGHTER ] 17:00 >> IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE WE KNOW WHAT THEY ARE SAYING. 17:03 PETER STOOD UP AND SPOKE TO THE CROWD, SAYING, MEN OF JUDAH, AND 17:07 ALL OF YOU WHO ARE VISITING JERUSALEM, LISTEN TO ME, I WILL 17:11 TELL YOU WHAT IS GOING ON HERE. WE HAVE NOT BEEN DRINKING. 17:16 WE ARE NOT DUNK. FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE IT IS ONLY 17:20 9:00 IN THE MORNING. [ LAUGHTER ] 17:23 >> WHAT YOU ARE WITNESSING IS A MIRACLE OF GOD. 17:27 A MIRACLE PROPHESIZED BY THE PROPHET JOEL, FOUND IN JOEL 17:33 2:28, AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS AFTER, WHAT? 17:37 THAT I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH AND YOUR SONS AND 17:43 YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESIZE, YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS. 17:50 YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS, AND ALSO UPON THOR IS 17:54 VANS AND HAND MAIDS IN THOSE DAYS WILL I POOR OUT MY SPIRIT. 17:59 AND RIGHT THERE THAT DAY, PETER PREACHED A SERMON THAT EVERY MAN 18:04 UNDERSTOOD IN HI OWN LANGUAGE. PETER PREACHED WITH POWER. 18:08 HE PREACHED WITH THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY GHOST UPON HIM. 18:12 HE SAID WHOEVER CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED. 18:18 AND THIS LORD OF WHOM I SPEAK, SAID PETER, HIS NAME IS JESUS. 18:24 JESUS OF NAZARETH, A MAN APPROVED OF GOD BY YOU, OF 18:32 MIRACLES AND SIGNS AND WONDERS. HIS NAME IS JESUS, THE ONE WHO 18:36 YOUR LEADERS TURNED OVER TO THE ROMANS FOR KRURS FICTION, WHO 18:42 WASFY CRUCIFIED AND SLAIN FOR OUR SINS. 18:47 HIS NAME IS JESUS. AND THROUGH HIM GOD BROKE THE 18:50 CHAINS OF SIN AND DEATH. THROUGH HIM GOD DEFEATED THE 18:54 POWER OF DEAT AND THE GRAVE, AND GOD RAISED HIM UP. 18:58 AMEN! WHEN THE FATHER SENT AN ANGEL TO 19:02 STAND AT THE TOMB, AND SAY SON OF GOD, THC FATHER CALL THEE, 19:12 AND NOW WE CAN REST IN THE HOPE THAT THE SAME GOD WHO GUIDES THE 19:17 PLANETS WILL GUIDE US TO OUR ETERNAL HOME IN THE HEAVENS! 19:22 >> AMEN! >> PETER SAID MEN AND BRETHREN, 19:27 THE PROFIT DAVID TOLD US THE MESSIAH WOULD COME AND DIE AND 19:31 BE RAISED FROM THE DEAD. HE TOLD US HE WOULD NOT STAY IN 19:35 THE GRAVE, AND NEITHER WOULD HIS BODY DECAY, AND JUST AS HE 19:41 PROPHESIZED, GOD RAISED UP JESUS ON THE THIRD DAY. 19:44 AND IF YOU NEED WITNESSES, SAID PETER, WE ALL HERE CAN TESTIFY. 19:49 BECAUSE WE HAVE SEEN HIM IN THE FLESH. 19:52 >> AMEN! >> AND DON'T GO LOOKING FOR HIM. 19:56 HE HAS DESCENDED UP TO HEAVEN, AND NOW HE SITS AT THE RIGHT 20:01 HAND OF THE FATHER, AND HE HAS CALLED US TO PREACH THIS GOSPEL 20:06 OF GOOD NEWS. BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I WANT YOU 20:09 TO KNOW THE BIBLE SAYS WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THIS, THEY WERE 20:14 PRICKED IN THEIR HEART, AND SAID UNTO PETER AND UNTO THE REST OF 20:19 THE APOSTLES, WHAT SHALL WE DO NOW? 20:24 PETER SAID UNTO THEM, REPENT, AND BE BAPTIZED, EVERY LAST ONE 20:30 OF YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THE REMISSION OF YOUR 20:35 SINS FORSAKE YOUR SINS, TURN YOUR LIVES OVER TO GOD, AND BE 20:40 BAPTIZED IN THE NAME OF THE LORD, JESUS CHRIST. 20:46 AND THEN PETER GAVE HIS GOSPEL APPEAL. 20:51 NOW I GOT TO TELL YOU IT WAS NOT A SOFT, PLEADING APPEAL WITH 20:56 SOMEBODY SINGING JUST AS I AM.-[ LAUGHTER ] >> NO. 21:00 >> PETER'S APPEAL WAS DIRECT AND TO THE POINT. 21:04 HE SAID TO THE CROWD, SAVE YOURSELVES! 21:12 SAVE YOURSELVES! THE BIBLE SAYS ON THAT DAY, 21:16 ABOUT 3,000 WERE BAPTIZED. 3,000 WERE ADDED TO THE CHURCH 21:24 IN ONE DAY. NOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS, OF ALL 21:31 THE SPIRITUAL GIFTS, THE GIFT OF THE ABILITY TO SPEAK IN A 21:36 DIFFERENT LANGUAGE UNDER THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, IS 21:42 DEFINITELY ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL, MISUNDERSTOOD, AND 21:49 CONTROVERSIAL GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 21:52 MAYBE YOU HAVE BEEN TO A CHURCH WHERE SUDDENLY THERE WAS AN 21:59 OUTBREAK OF MONOSALAIC PHRASES, AND IT WAS SOMETHING YOU 22:10 COULDN'T UNDERSTAND. SOMETIMES SOMEONE WOULD 22:13 INTERPRET, AND SOMETIMES NOT. THIS PRACTICE HAS BECOME 22:18 WIDESPREAD IN THE CHURCH OF KORRENTH. 22:23 PAUL ADDRESSED THIS SITUATION HEAD ON. 22:29 AND PAUL WAS CLEAR. HE WAS STRONG. 22:32 HE WAS DIRECT. HE DID NOT MINCE HIS WORDS. 22:37 AND YOU CAN TURN WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES TO FIRST C 22:49 CORE -- CORINTHIANS 14. HE COUNTERED THE ABUSES IN THIS 22:56 CHURCH. AND WITH EACH ARGUMENT PAUL 22:59 PRESENTS, YOU GET A CLEARER PICTURE OF THE ABUSES THE GIFT 23:03 PAUL FELT COMPELLED TO -- TO ADDRESS. 23:06 THE ABUSES OF THE GIFT THAT PAUL FELT COMPELLED TO ADDRESS. 23:11 NOW LET ME EXPLAIN ONE THING THAT IS CRITICAL TO YOU 23:16 UNDERSTANDING THIS SCRIPTURE, THIS CHAPTER. 23:18 MANY OF THE PEOPLE COMING INTO THE CHURCH WERE COMING FROM 23:27 PAGAN RELIGIONS. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU 23:30 REMEMBER THAT. AND IN THE PAGAN WORSHIP 23:34 SERVICES, THERE WAS A LOT OF COMMOTION, DISORDER, AND 23:42 CONFUSION. PEOPLE WERE SHOUTING OUT, AND 23:45 SHOUTING BACK AT THE ONES TEACHING AND SPEAKING. 23:50 YOU ARE PROBABLY SAYING THAT'S WHAT GOES ON AT MY CHURCH. 23:55 [ LAUGHTER ] >> THE NEW MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH 23:58 IN KORRENTH, WERE BRINGING THESE PRACTICES INTO THE CHURCH. 24:03 SO WHILE THE TEACHER OR THE PREACHER WAS PROCLAIMING THE 24:06 GOOD NEWS OF THE GOSPEL, THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO FROM THE BACK OF 24:12 THE CHURCH WERE SHOUTING OUT AND-SHOUTING BACK AT THE PREACHER. IN CORENTH, HOWEVER, THEY WERE 24:23 SHOUTING OUT PHRASES, THEY WERE SPEAKING OUT A EXPERIENCE OF 24:29 ECSTASY, AND SHOUTING OUT WORDS AND UTTERANCES, NOBODY COULD 24:34 UNDERSTAND. AND SOMETHING ELSE. 24:36 SOMETHING ELSE WAS DIFFERENT. IT APPEARED AS THOUGH WHEN THEY 24:43 WERE IN THIS EXPERIENCE IN AN INVOLUNTARY FASHION AS THESE 24:50 UNINTELLIGIBLE WORDS AND PHRASES WERE BEING SPOKEN, IT APPEARED 24:56 AS THOUGH THOSE PEOPLE'S MINDS AND MOUTHS HAD BEEN TAKEN OVER, 25:01 AND THEY WERE NO LONGER MASTERS OF THEIR OWN CONSCIOUS, AND 25:08 MENTAL FACULTIES. THAT'S WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE 25:12 CHURCH AT CORENTH. IT WAS A PHENOMENON LIKE 25:17 PENTECOST, BUT IT WAS A COUNTERFEIT OF PENTECOST. 25:22 DID YOU HEAR WHAT I SAID? IT WAS A PHENOMENON LIK 25:28 PENTECOST, BUT IT WAS A COUNTERFEIT OF PENTECOST. 25:34 AND, YET, LIKE IT IS TODAY, DON'T LET ANYBODY FOOL YOU, IT 25:38 WAS ACCOMPANIED BY AN OUTPOURING OF EMOTION AND FEELING AND 25:44 EXCITEMENT. NOW THE MAIN PROBLEM WAS NO ONE 25:49 HAD ANY IDEA WHAT THESE PEOPLE WHO WERE SHOUTING OUT WERE 25:52 SAYING. THEY WERE CLAIMING THE LA GIJ 26:00 MASSEY OF THE GIFT OF TONGUES, BUT THERE WAS NO ORDER, THERE 26:03 WERE NO RULES, AND NO ONE IN THE CHURCH WAS GETTING ANYTHING FROM 26:06 ALL OF THIS CONFUSION, AND EVEN TODAY THERE IS A LOT OF 26:12 CONFUSION ABOUT THE GIFT OF TONGUES. 26:15 NOW, THE CONFUSION WE SEE TODAY ALL STARTS WITH ONE CLARIFYING 26:29 MISINTERPRETED WORD FOUND IN THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE. 26:35 WATCH WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SHARE WITH YOU. 26:39 LOOK AT IT, FIRST CORINTHIANS 14:2, THE BIBLE THERE SAYS, FOR 26:48 HE THAT SPEAKTH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE, SPEAKTH NOT UNTO MEN, 26:54 BUT UNTO GOD. NOW I WANT THEM TO HOLD THAT 26:57 SLIDE UP. I WANT YOU TO LOOK AGAIN, AND 27:00 YOU WILL SEE IT IN YOUR OWN BIBLES AS WELL. 27:05 DO YOU NOTICE THE WORD UNKNOWN IS IN BRACKETS. 27:13 DO YOU SEE THAT? DO YOU KNOW WHY? 27:17 THAT'S BECAUSE THE WORD UNKNOWN IS NOT IN THE ORIGINAL 27:22 TRANSCRIPT FROM WHICH THE BIBLE WAS TRANSLATED. 27:33 THAT WORD UNKNOWN WAS INSERTED TO CLARIFY, AND HELP US 27:37 UNDERSTAND THAT THEY SPOKE IN A LANGUAGE THAT WAS NOT KNOWN BY 27:42 THOSE WHO WERE HEARING IT. IN OTHER WORDS THE LANGUAGE WAS 27:52 ORIGINALLY UNKNOWN TO THE ONE WHO WAS SPEAKING IT. 27:54 IF ALL OF A SUDDEN, I STARTED SPEAKING CHINESE, YOU CAN BE 28:00 SURE THAT I AM SPEAKING IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE. 28:07 [ LAUGHTER ] >> BECAUSE IT IS A TONGUE, A 28:17 LANGUAGE, THAT IS NOT KNOWN TO ME. 28:21 BUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS, RELIGIOUS TEACHERS AND PREACHERS 28:27 HAVE TAKEN THAT WORD, UNKNOWN, AND INVESTED IT WITH A WHOLE 28:33 DIFFERENT MEANING THAN GOD INTENDED. 28:40 WOW. FIRST, THEY MADE THAT WORD 28:42 UNKNOWN TO MEAN A LANGUAGE OR A TONGUE UNKNOWN TO THOSE WHO WERE 28:49 HEARING IT AND THEY HAVE TURNED UNKNOWN TONGUE AND THEY NOW MAKE 28:54 IT MEAN SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS THAT GOD DIDN'T INTEND. 28:58 THEY MAKE IT MEAN A PRIVATE LANGUAGE. 29:01 HAVE YOU HEARD THAT ONE? A PRIVATE LANGUAGE. 29:04 OR -- OR A SECRET TONGUE. WHEN ALL ALONG, UNKNOWN WAS 29:09 SIMPLY MEANT TO MEAN, A LANGUAGE THAT WAS UNKNOWN TO THE SPEAKER. 29:18 THAT WORD WAS THERE TO -- PUT THERE TO HELP CLARIFY. 29:22 THE TRUTH IS, MANY THROUGHOUT CHRISTIAN HISTORY, BEGAN TO 29:27 DEFINE UNKNOWN TO MEAN SOMETHING GOD NEVER INTENDED IT TO MEAN. 29:32 THEY HAVE EVN BUILT ENTIRE CHURCHES AND DENOMINATIONAL 29:38 MOVEMENTS AROUND THAT ONE WORD UNKNOWN. 29:42 YOU HAVE PEOPLE TODAY WH TEACH THAT UNKNOWN MEANS UNKNOWN TO 29:49 EVERYBODY, EXCEPT THEM AND GOD. YOU HAVE PEOPLE TODAY WHO TEACH 29:56 THAT THIS IS MY PRIVATE PERSONAL PRAYER LANGUAGE IN WHICH I TALK 30:00 TO GOD AND GOD TALKS TO ME. CAN I TELL YOU SOMETHING. 30:06 YOU DON'T NEED A SPECIAL PRAYER LANGUAGE TO TALK TO GOD, OR HEAR 30:11 GOD TALK TO YOU. MATTER OF FACT, YOU DON'T EVEN 30:15 NEED A VERBAL UTTERANCE TO TALK TO GOD. 30:20 WHEN I TALK TO GOD IN MY MIND, NOW THAT'S AN UNKNOWN TONGUE. 30:26 [ LAUGHTER ] >> BEAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT 30:33 I'M SAYING OR PRAYING WHEN I TALK TO GOD IN MY MIND. 30:38 IT IS UNKNOWN TO EVERYONE WHEN I TALK TO GOD IN MY MIND. 30:43 IT IS EVEN UNKNOWN -- PRAISE THE LORD -- TO THE DEVIL. 30:47 >> AMEN! >> AND TO HIS DEMONS AND ANGELS. 30:51 NOW THAT'S AN UNKNOWN TONGUE. WHEN I TALK TO GOD IN MY MIND, 30:56 THE ONLY PERSON IT IS NOT UNKNOWN TO IS JESUS. 31:02 THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS SOMETIMES WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WE SHOULD 31:09 PRAY, OR HOW WE SHOULD PRAY, BUT IN THOSE TIMES, THE BIBLE SAYS 31:13 THE SPIRIT OF GOD TRANSLATES FOR US. 31:16 >> AMEN. >> DID YOU GET THAT? 31:20 MAKE AN INTERCESSION FOR US WITH GROANINGS, WHICH CANNOT BE 31:25 UTTERS OR UNDERSTOOD BY US. NOW I GOT TO CONFESS TO YOU, AND 31:31 I ADMIT SOMETIMES WHEN I TALK TO GOD, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M 31:39 SAYING, BUT HE DOES. SOMETIMES WHEN I AM CRYING OUT 31:44 TO GOD, I'M TALKING TO GOD WITH MOANING, AND WHALING, AND 31:53 WHIMPERING. YES, I WHIMPER BEFORE MY GOD. 31:57 SOMETIMES I NEED HIM TO SHOW UP IN MY LIFE, AND I CAN'T EVEN 32:01 FIND THE WORDS. ALL I CAN SAY -- HELP ME LORD! 32:06 >> AMEN. >> AMEN. 32:08 >> I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, BUT I KNOW GOD KNOWS. 32:13 MATTER OF FACT, I BELIEVE THAT EVERY MOTHER IN HERE, HAS PRAYED-FOR THEIR CHILD IN A LANGUAGE 32:20 NONE OF US CAN UNDERSTAND OR INTERPRET. 32:23 >> MAIN. >> I BELIEVE EVERY MOTHER IN 32:27 HERE HAS CRIED OUT TO THE LORD FOR THEIR CHILDREN, GOD! 32:34 SAVE MY CHILD! >> AMEN! 32:38 >> AMEN. >> SPEAKING WORDS THAT YOU CAN'T 32:42 EVEN TRANSLATE. YOU HAVE PEOPLE HERE TODAY WHO 32:47 TEACH, PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD, IN THE CHRISTIAN WORLD, WHO TEACH 32:54 THAT UNKNOWN MEANS LANGUAGE THAT ONLY THE ANGELS SPEAK. 33:00 HAVE YOU HEARD THAT ONE? A LANGUAGE THAT ONLY THE ANGELS 33:05 CAN UNDERSTAND, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S CALLED UNKNOWN. 33:09 I WANT -- I WANT YOU TO KNOW, IF GOD CAN EVEN UNDERSTAND THE 33:13 THOUGHTS I THINK, WHY DO I NEED AN ANGEL LANGUAGE TO SPEAK TO 33:21 HIM WHEN HE CAN EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M THINKING? 33:24 WHY DO I NEED AN ANGEL LANGUAGE TO SPEAK IN CHURCH? 33:30 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WHATEVER MEN TODAY MAKE THAT WORD UNKNOWN 33:35 TO MEAN, WE MUST NEVER FORGET IT WAS NEVER IN THE ORIGINAL TEXT. 33:42 MATTER OF FACT, IN THE BOOK OF ACTS WHEN IT DESCRIBES 33:47 PENTECOST, IT DOESN'T SAY UNKNOWN TONGUE, AND THAT WORD 33:50 UNKNOWN WAS NOT EVEN INSERTED BY THE APOSTLE PAUL. 33:55 IT WAS NOT IN HIS ORIGINAL LETTER. 33:57 DID YOU GET THAT? WHEN PAUL WROTE THAT, HE DIDN'T 34:01 WRITE UNKNOWN TONGUE. IT WAS INSERTED BY A TRANSLATOR 34:06 TO CLARIFY THAT UNKNOWN MEANT UNKNOWN TO THE ONE WHO WAS 34:12 SPEAKING IT, AND NOT UNKNOWN TO THE ONES WHO WERE HEARING IT. 34:17 NOW THE VERY WORD THAT WAS MEANT TO CLARIFY THE THOUGHT HAS BEEN 34:22 USED TO CONFUSE IT. NOW, ANOTHER THING, WHEN THE 34:27 BIBLE SAYS IN 1 CORINTHIANS 14:2, FOR HE THAT SPEAKTH IN AN 34:36 UNKNOWN TONGUE, THE WORD TONGUE HERE IS THE WORD USED TO SPEAK 34:41 ABOUT KNOWN LANGUAGES. IT IS NOT USED TO DESCRIBE 34:45 SECRET LANGUAGES UNKNOWN TO MEN. SO THE BEST TRANSLATION IS, HE 34:50 THAT SPEAKTH IN AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE. 34:55 >> AMEN. >> NOW FOR THE NEXT FEW MOMENTS, 34:59 LET'S LOOK AT A FEW OF THE ABUSES OF THE SPIRITUAL GIFT 35:04 PAUL WAS ADDRESSING. IN 1 CORINTHIANS 14:4. 35:11 PAUL SAY HE THAT SPEAKTH IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE EDIFIES HIMSELF, 35:17 BUT HE THAT PROSIZES EDIFIES THE CHURCH. 35:22 PAUL IS SAYING HERE, IF YOU SPEAK IN CHURCH IN A LANGUAGE NO 35:26 ONE UNDERSTANDS, YOU ARE TALKING TO NO ONE BUT YOURSELF. 35:30 IF YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO BENEFITS FROM A GIFT OF THE HOLY 35:36 SPIRIT, WHAT GOOD IS THAT? EVEN IF YOU ARE SPEAKING THE 35:41 MOST PROFOUND SPIRITUAL MYSTERIES, WHAT GOOD IS IT, IF 35:45 YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS IT?-pONLY YOU AND GOD. 35:52 BROTHERS AND SISTERS CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT CONFUSION THERE 35:54 WOULD BE, AND THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN AT PENTECOST IF THE 35:58 DISCIPLES WERE SPEAKING TO THE CROWD IN LANGUAGES NO ONE COULD 36:03 UNDERSTAND? THAT WOULD NOT BE PENTECOST. 36:08 THAT WOULD BE PLENTY LOST. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOST 36:13 OPPORTUNITY TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL. 36:16 IF THE DISCIPLES WERE SPEAKING TO THE CROWD IN LANGUAGES NO ONE 36:21 COULD UNDERSTAND, THE PEOPLE GOD WERE TRYING TO REACH AND 36:25 ENCOURAGE, THEY WOULD NOT BE UPLIFTED, THEY WOULD NOT BE 36:29 EDIFIED, IF THEY COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS BEING 36:31 SPOKEN. NOW WE'RE GOING TO TOUCH ON A 36:34 FEW OF THESE ABUSES. 1 CORINTHIANS 14:1. 36:41 FOLLOW AFTER CHARITY AND DESIRE SPIRITUAL GIFTS, BUT RATHER THAT 36:50 YE MAY PROPHESIZE. PAUL IS SAYING IF YOU COVET THE 36:53 GIFT OF THE SPIRIT, PRAY FOR THE GIFT TO PRECISEPROSIGH, BUT FOR THE 37:03 GIFT TO SPEAK IN TONGUES. THE GIFT OF TRANSLATION IS THE 37:07 GIFT OF SPEAKING IN TONGUES, BUT IT IS NOT A GIFT TO PROCLAIM THE 37:13 GOSPEL WITH CLARITY AND UNDERSTANDING. 37:15 THE GIFT TO PROPHESIZE, IS GIFT GOD GIVES SO YOU CAN EDIFY, AND 37:26 CONSULT, AND COMFORT OTHERS. IN 14:5, PAUL SAYS I WOULD 37:32 RATHER THAT YOUALL SPEAK WITH TONGUES, BUT RATHER THAT YE 37:38 PROFA SIGHED, FOR A GREATER IS HE THAN PROFA SIGHTH THEN HE 37:46 THAT SPEAKTH WITH TONGUE, EXCEPT THAT THE CHURCH MAY RECEIVE 37:51 EDIFYING. PAUL WAS SAYING I WISH YOU ALL 37:54 HAD THE GIFT OF TONGUES AND LANGUAGES, BUT I WOULD PREFER IT 37:58 IF YOU ALL HAD THE GIFT TO PROPHESIZE. 38:02 I WOULD RATHER THAT YOU PRAY FOR AND LONG FOR THE GIFT TO TEACH 38:09 WITH CLARITY, FOR GREATER IS HE THAT PROPHESIZETH THAN HE THAT 38:17 SPEAKTH WITH TONGUES. IN THAT VERSUS, PAUL WAS ALSO 38:21 SAYING SPEAKING TO THE CHURCH IN A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE IS NO HELP 38:25 TO THE CHURCH UNLESS SOMEONE TRANSLATES WHAT THE OTHER PERSON 38:29 IS SAYING. LOOK VERSE 18, PAUL SAID I THANK 38:33 MY GOD, I SPEAK WITH TONGUES MORE THAN YOU ALL. 38:40 AND THEN VERSE 19, HE SAYS I SPEAK MORE LANGUAGES THAN ANY OF 38:46 YOU. BUT WHEN I COME TO CHURCH TO 38:48 WORSHIP OR STAND UP TO PREACH, I WOULD RATHER SPEAK FIVE WORDS 38:55 THE CHURCH CAN UNDERSTAND THAN 10,000 IN A LANGUAGE NO ONE CAN 39:02 UNDERSTAND. >> AMEN! 39:03 >> OH, YES. THAT'S WHAT PAUL WROTE. 39:06 VERSUS 19, YET IN THE CHURCH, I HAD RATHER SPEAK FIVE WODS WITH 39:11 MY UNDERSTANDING, THAT BY MY VOICE, I MIGHT TEACH OTHERS ALSO 39:17 THAN 10,000 WORDS IN -- AND YOU SEE IT IN BRACKETS AGAIN. 39:23 DO YOU SEE IT IN BRACKETS AGAIN? 10,000 WORDS AND -- WHAT? 39:28 UNKNOWN. SEE THAT WORD. 39:29 IT'S IN BRACKETS FOR A REASON. IT WAS NOT IN THE ORIGINAL 39:38 LANGUAGE. THAT'S BECAUSE PAUL IS SAYING TO 39:40 THE PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH, TONGUES ARE A SIGN FROM GOD, NOT 39:45 FOR THE CHURCH, BUT TO CONVINCE THOSE WHO DON'T BELIEVE ABOUT 39:48 THE POWER OF GOD. LOOK AT IT. 39:52 1 CORINTHIANS 14:22, WHERE FOR TONGUES ARE FOR A SIGN NOT TO 40:00 THEM THAT BELEVE, BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVE NOT, BUT 40:05 PROPHESIZING IS FOR THEM WHICH BELIEVE. 40:06 THIS GIFT WAS GIVEN, BROTHERS AND SISTERS, TO REACH UNBE 40:12 UNBELIEVERS WITH THE GOSPEL. IT WAS NOT FOR YOU IN THE 40:21 CHURCH, WHO ALREADY BELIEVE. THAT'S WHAT PAUL IS SAYING. 40:25 IF ALL OF US CAME TO CHURCH, AND ALL BEGAN SPEAKING IN TONGUES, 40:29 IT WOULD BE MASS CONFUSION. THE ONLY THING THE UNBELIEVERS 40:32 WILL SAY, PAUL SAYS, THE ONLY THING THEY'LL SAY IS THESE 40:36 PEOPLE ARE CRAZY. IF EVERY ONE OF US CLAIMS TO 40:39 HAVE THE GIFT OF TONGUES, AND WE INSIST ON BEING THE SPEAKER, 40:46 UNBELIEVERS WILL BELIEVE WE HAVE GONE MAD. 40:49 LOOK AT IT 1 CORINTHIANS 14:23, IF THEREFORE THE WHOLE CHURCH 40:54 COME TOGETHER INTO ONE PLACE AND ALL SPEAK WITH TONGUES AND THERE 40:59 COME IN THOSE THAT ARE UNLEARNED OR UNBELIEVERS, WILL THEY NOT 41:03 SAY THAT YE ARE MAD? BROTHERS AND SISTERS, EVERY GIFT 41:13 FROM GOD HAS A PURPOSE. SAY THAT AGAIN, EVERY GIFT FROM 41:18 GOD HAS A PURPOSE. AND IF ANY MAN SPEAK, AND YOU 41:23 SEE IT IN BRACKETS AGAIN, SOMEBODY SAID I 41:26 NEVER -- SOMEBODY SAID I NEVER NOTICED THAT. 41:29 COME ON, SAY I NEVER NOTICED THAT. 41:32 IF ANY MAN SPEAK IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE LET IT BE BY THREE AND BY 41:39 THE MOST BY FOUR, BUT IF THERE BE NO INTERPRETER, LET HIM KEEP 41:45 SILENCE IN THE CHURCH. LET HIM SPEAK TO HIMSELF AND TO 41:49 GOD. IF THERE IS NO ONE TO INTERPRET, 41:51 SHUT UP. [ LAUGHTER ] 41:56 >> ACTUALLY IT SAYS KEEP SILENT. NICE WAY, HUH? 42:01 LET HIM SPEAK TO HIMSELF, AND TO GOD. 42:06 LOOK AT VERSE 33. WHY? 42:08 BECAUSE GOD IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF CONFUSION, BUT OF PEACE, AS IN 42:16 ALL CHURCHES OF THE SAINTS, AND LOOK AT VERSE 34, LET YOUR WOMEN 42:22 KEEP SILENCE IN THE CHURCHES, FOR IT IS NOT PERMITS UNTO THEM 42:27 TO SPEAK, BUT THEY ARE COMMANDED TO BE UNDER OBEDIENCE AS ALSO 42:33 SAY THE LORD. SO SINCE WE ARE HERE, I'M GOING 42:37 TO UNPACK THIS ONE TOO. [ LAUGHTER ] 42:40 >> ARE YOU READY? HERE IS ANOTHER SCRIPTURE OFTEN 42:45 TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT. REMEMBER, I SAID YOU HAVE TO 42:49 REMEMBER THAT THEY WERE COMING FROM PAGAN RELIGIONS. 42:53 PAUL WAS NOT SAYING WOMEN SHOULD NEVER SPEAK IN THE CHURCH. 42:59 I THOUGHT THE WOMEN WOULD BE SHOUTING AMEN ON THAT ONE. 43:02 [ LAUGHTER ] >> YOU GOT TO LOOK AT THE 43:08 CONTEXT. PAUL WAS SAYING CHECK THIS OUT, 43:12 NOW. WOMEN ATTENDING CHURCHES THAT 43:14 HAVE THAT KIND OF CONFUSION DON'T DO LIKE THE WOMEN IN THE 43:21 PAGAN TEMPLES DO. WHEN THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND, THEY 43:26 SHOUT OUT, AND INTERRUPT THE SPEAKER. 43:29 PAUL WAS SAYING, DON'T CARRY ON LIKE WOMEN DO IN THE PAGAN 43:36 TEMPLES. BE QUIET AND LISTEN. 43:40 THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME. [ LAUGHTER ] 43:46 >> AMEN. >> AMEN. 43:47 >> AND THEN LOOK AT VERSE 35, AND IF THEY WILL LEARN ANYTHING, 43:53 LET THEM ASK THEIR HUSBANDS AT HOME, FOR IT IS A SHAME FOR 43:57 WOMEN TO SPEAK IN THE CHURCH, AND THERE IS SOMETHING YOU DON'T 44:01 UNDERSTAND, PAUL, IS SAYING, IF THERE'S SOMETHING YOU DON'T 44:04 UNDERSTAND, DON'T DO LIKE THEY DID IN THE PAGAN 44:08 TEMPLES -- DON'T INTERRUPT THE SPEAKER. 44:12 WAIT UNTIL YOU GET HOME AND ASK YOUR HUSBAND. 44:17 MAYBE HE'LL KNOW, AND MAYBE HE WON'T KNOW. 44:20 [ LAUGHTER ]-p>> MAYBE HE CAN EXPLAIN AND MAYBE HE WON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT 44:32 WAS SAID HIMSELF. [ LAUGHTER ] 44:36 >> WELL, I GOT AWAY WITH THAT. I -- I CAME THROUGH. 44:39 [ LAUGHTER ] >> THAT'S WHAT PAUL WAS 44:44 ADDRESSING WITH HIS COUNCIL. THAT WAS THE CONTEXT OF HIS 44:48 COUNCIL. ADDRESSING WHAT WAS GOING ON IN 44:50 HIS TIME. AND THEN LOOK AT 1 CORINTHIANS 44:57 14:36, WHAT CAME THE WORD OF GOD UNTO YOU. 45:00 PAUL IS SAYING WHEN IT COMES TO THE CHURCH OF GOD, YOU ARE NOT 45:03 THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THEY HAVE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY. 45:09 JUST BECAUSE YOU FEEL YOU ARE CONVICTED ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO 45:13 SAY, DON'T THINK YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE GOD HAS SPOKEN TO. 45:18 >> AMEN! >> YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE GOD 45:21 HAS GIVEN A MESSAGE TO GIVE TO THE WHOLE CHURCH. 45:25 >> AMEN. >> AND THEN PAUL SAYS IN VERSE 45:29 37 IF ANY MAN THINK HIMSELF TO BE A PROFIT OR SPIRITUAL, LET 45:32 HIM ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE THINGS THAT I WRITE UNTO YOU, ARE THE 45:36 COMMAND S OF THE LORD, BUT IF ANY MAN BE IGNORANT, LET HIM BE 45:42 IGNORANT. IF ANYONE TELLS YOU HE DOES NOT 45:44 INTEND TO FOLLOW THE COUNCIL, GOD HAS GIVEN ME TO SHARE, PAUL 45:50 SAYS, THAT PERSON IS IGNORANT. >> AMEN. 45:55 >> LOOK AT VERSE 38, BUT IF ANY MAN BE IGNORANT, LET HIM REMAIN 46:08 IGN IGNORANT. 46:09 WHERE FOR BRETHREN, FORBID NOT TO SPEAK WITH TONGUES. 46:14 LET ALL THINGS BE DONE DERECENTLY AND IN ORDER. 46:19 AND 14:40, ALL THINGS BE DONE DERECENTLY, AND IN ORDER. 46:26 CHURCH LIKE EVERY OTHER GIFT, THE GIF OF TONGUES HAS ITS 46:29 PLACE, BUT PAUL MAKES IT CLEAR, IT IS NOT A PRIMARY GIFT, LIKE 46:33 OTHER GIFTS. YES, THE GIFT OF TONGUES LIKE 46:37 EVERY OTHER GIFT HAS ITS PLACE, BUT AT THEN OF THE DAY, AT THEN 46:41 OF THE DAY, THAT'S ALL IT IS, A GIFT. 46:49 THE GIFT OF TONGUES DOES NOT GIVE YOU MORE IMPORTANCE IN THE 46:53 KINGDOM OF GOD THAN ANYONE ELSE. >> AMEN. 46:56 >> IT DOES NOT GIVE YOU MORE FAVOR THAN GOD GIVES TO OTHERS. 47:01 IT IS NOT A GIFT THAT IS SUPPOSEDLY THE TRUEST EVIDENCE 47:06 OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. >> AMEN. 47:08 >> AND BELIEVE YOU ME, GOD IS NOT IMPRESSED WITH A GIFT HE HAS 47:13 GIVEN TO YOU. [ LAUGHTER ] 47:21 >> HALLELUJAH. HE GAVE IT TO YOU. 47:25 WHY WOULD HE BE IMPRESSED? [ LAUGHTER ] 47:27 >> THIS MOVEMENT TO MAKE THE GIFT OF TONGUES THE PRIMARY 47:30 EVIDENCE OF THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A RELATIVELY 47:37 MODERN PHENOMENON. IT STARTED IN THE EARLY 1900S, 47:42 AND JUST IN CASE ANYBODY TELLS YOU THAT YOU HAVE TO SPEAK IN 47:46 TONGUES TO SHOW YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT, TELL THEM WHEN GOD 47:51 GOES LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO SAVE, HE IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO 47:55 HAVE THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT NOT THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT. 47:59 [ LAUGHTER ] >> YOU DIDN'T HEAR WHAT I JUST 48:00 SAID. GOD IS NOT LOOKING FOR PEOPLE 48:03 WITH THE GIFTS. HE IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WITH 48:05 THE FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT. TELL THEM NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE 48:10 DOES IT SAY THAT ANY GIFT OF THE SPIRIT IS NECESSARY FOR EVERYONE 48:19 TO HAVE BEFORE THEY ARE SAVED. >> AMEN. 48:22 >> AMEN. >> NOWHERE IN THE WORLD OF GOD, 48:28 DOES IT SAY THAT THERE IS ANY GIFT OF THE SPIRIT THAT 48:34 EVERYBODY MUST HAVE BEFORE THEY ARE SAVED. 48:36 >> AMEN. >> NOW LET'S LOOK AT 1 48:41 CORINTHIANS 12:4, THERE ARE DIVERSITIES OF GIFTS, BUT ONE 48:48 SPIRIT. TO ANOTHER FAITH BY THE SAME 48:51 SPIRIT, TO ANOTHER WORK OF MIRACLES, THEN BEFORE I LEAVE 48:55 YOU, WHY SO MUCH CONTROVERSY OVER SOMETHING THAT IS NOT 49:01 NECESSARY FOR SALVATION? [ LAUGHTER ] 49:03 >> THAT'S THE ENEMY. WHY SO MUCH CONTROVERSY ABOUT 49:10 SOMETHING THAT -- DO YOU BELIEVE WHAT I'M SAYING TO YOU? 49:13 >> YES! >> DO YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU DO 49:17 NOT HAVE TO HAVE THAT GIFT TO BE SAVED? 49:21 >> AMEN! >> AMEN. 49:24 >> SPEAKING IN TONGUES DOESN'T MAKE YOU MORE LOVED BY GOD. 49:29 >> AMEN. >> SPEAKING IN TONGUES DOESN'T 49:32 MAKE YOU MORE SPECIAL TO GOD. >> AMEN. 49:38 >> GOD HAS SOME -- ALL OF THESE GIFTS IN THE CHURCH. 49:43 AND THEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THIS IS PAUL'S ULTIMATE TEACHING 49:48 ON TONGUES. I SAID DO YOU WANT TO HEAR 49:53 PAUL'S ULTIMATE -- >> AMEN. 49:55 >> -- DO YOU WANT TO HEAR AFTER ALL THAT PAUL MAKES, ALL THAT HE 50:03 SETS FORTH, THEN HE MAKES CLEAR THE MOS PROFOUND TEACHING ON 50:09 TONGUES. YOU CAN FIND IT IN 1 CORINTHIANS 50:14 13:1, THROUGH THAT WHOLE CHAPTER, THOUGH I SPEAK, WITH 50:20 THE TONGUES OF MAN, AND OF ANGELS, AND HAVE NOT CHARITY, 50:27 HAVE NOT LOVE, I BECOME AS A SOUNDING BRASS, OR TINGLING 50:32 SYMBOL, AND THOUGH I HAVE THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, AND THOUGH I 50:36 HAVE ALL FAITH SO I CAN REMOVE MOUNTAINS, AND HAVE NOT LOVE, 50:40 HAVE NOT CHARITY, I AM NOTHING, AND THOUGH I RESTORE ALL OF MY 50:44 GOODS TO FEED THE POOR, AND GIVE MY BODY TO BURN AND HAVE NOT 50:51 CHARITY, LOVE SUFFERTH LONG AND KIND, LOVE BORNTH NOT ITSELF, IS 50:57 IS NOT PUFFED UP, IT IS NOT EASILY PROVOKED, THINKTH NO 51:04 EVIL, REJOICES IN THE TRUTH, BARETH ALL THINGS, BELIEVE IN 51:09 ALL THINGS, HOPETH ALL THINGS. ENDURETH ALL THINGS, LOVE NEVER 51:15 FAITH, AND WHETHER THERE BE PROPHECY, THEY SHALL FAIL. 51:21 WHETHER THERE BE TONGUES THEY SHALL CEASE. 51:26 AND THAT WHICH IS PERFECT HAS COME, THEN THAT WHICH IS IN PART 51:30 SHALL BE DONE AWAY. WHEN I WAS A CHILD I SPAKE AS A 51:34 CHILD, I UNDERSTANDING AS A CHILD, I THOUGHT AS A CHILD, BUT 51:37 WHEN I BECAME A MAN, I PUT AWAY CHILDISH THINGS, SO NOW WE SEE 51:44 THROUGH OUR GLSS DARKLY, BUT FACE-TO-FACE, I SHALL KNOW EVEN 51:49 AS ALSO I AM KNOWN, AND NOW ABIDETH FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY, 51:55 LOVE, THESE THREE. BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS 51:59 TONGUES! [ LAUGHTER ] 52:07 >> THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE. 52:12 >> AMEN. >> PAUL SAYS IF I DON'T KNOW HOW 52:17 TO LOVE, ALL MY SPEAKING IN TONGUES IS MEANINGLESS. 52:24 AMEN? >> AMEN! 52:25 >> PAUL IS REMINDING US NO MATTER THE GIFT, IF YOU DON'T 52:32 PASS THE LOVE TEST, ALL YOUR GIFTS DON'T MEAN A THING. 52:37 PAUL IS REMINDING US, KEEP FOCUSED ON WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR 52:43 YOUR SALVATION. DON'T LET ANYBODY STEER YOU 52:48 AWARE FROM WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO YOUR SALVATION. 52:51 PAUL REMINDS US THAT LOVE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY GIFT WE 52:57 HAVE. GIFTEDNESS IS NEVER AS 53:01 IMPRESSIVE TO GOD AS FAITHFULNESS. 53:03 >> AMEN. >> FAITHFULNESS TO THE 53:07 PRINCIPLES OF HIS CHARACTER, FAITHFULNESS TO HIS LOVE. 53:11 LOVE IS THE SENETH, THE SUMMIT THE CULMINATION OF ALL THAT IS 53:20 THE CHARACTER OF GOD, WITHOUT LOVE, ALL OF OUR GIFTS ARE 53:25 WORTHLESS. ELLEN WHITE SAYS -- AND PEOPLE 53:27 ALWAYS SAY -- WHEN PEOPLE GET UPSET OR CONCERNED ABOUT QUOTING 53:31 ELLEN WHITE, YOU KNOW WHAT I SAY TO THEM? 53:35 WHEN YOU START WRITING THINGS AS PROFOUND, I WILL QUOE YOU TOO. 53:38 [ LAUGHTER ] >> OH, YEAH! 53:43 [ LAUGHTER ] >> AMEN. 53:46 >> SHE SAID WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED BEFORE THE 53:51 FLOOD? THEY HAD RECEIVED MANY GIFTS 53:55 FROM GOD, BUT THEY USED THOSE GIFTS FOR THEIR OWN SELFISH 54:00 DESIRES, AND THEY TURNED THE GIFTS OF GOD INTO A CURSE. 54:05 BY FIXING THEIR THOUGHTS AND AFFECTIONS UPON THE GIFTS 54:12 INSTEAD OF UPON THE GIVER. >> AMEN. 54:15 >> WHOO! CORINTHIANS IN PAUL'S DAY, THEY 54:22 HAS PROSTITUTED THE GIFT OF TONGUES INTO SOMETHING PAGAN 54:26 THAT WASN'T EVEN REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 54:30 AND IN THE LAST VERSE OF CHAPTER 13, GOD REMINDS US THAT GREATER 54:37 THAN ANY GIFT IS, WHAT? >> LOVE. 54:40 >> GREATER THAN ANY GIFT IS LOVE. 54:46 SOMEONE SAID PEACE. PEACE IS LOVE RESTING. 54:49 BIBLE STUDY IS LOVE READING. PRAYER IS LOVE COMMUNICATING. 54:58 SYMPATHY IS LOVE FEELING. ENTHUSIASM IS LOVE BURNING. 55:08 HOPE IS LOVE EXPECTING. PATIENCE IS LOVE WAITING. 55:17 FAITHFULNESS IS LOVE HOLDING FAST. 55:22 HUMILITY IS LOVE SHRINKING. MODESTY IS LOVE KEEPING OUT OF 55:32 SIGHT. SOUL-WINNING IS LOVE PLEADING. 55:36 OH, I LOVE THAT. >> AMEN. 55:37 >> SOUL-WINNING IS LOVE PLEADING. 55:44 IF I SPEAK WITH THE TONGUES OF MEN AND OF ANGELS, AND HAVE NOT 55:50 LOVE, I AM NOTHING. WITHOUT LOVE IN YOUR CHARACTER, 55:57 ACCURATING YOUR CHARACTER, ANY GIFT YOU HAVE IS MEANINGLESS. 56:05 IF WHAT YOU DO BY HABIT AND DEFAULT IS NOT DEFINED BY LOVE, 56:12 IS NOT DRIVEN BY LOVE, IS NOT DIRECTED BY LOVE, IS NOT 56:18 DECORATED BY LOVE, IS NOT DEEPENED BY LOVE, IS NOT 56:23 DEFENDED BY LOVE, IS NOT DELEGATED BY LOVE, IS NOT 56:28 DETERMINED BY LOVE, ALL YOUR GIFTEDNESS MEANS NOTHING WITHOUT 56:35 LOVE. LOVE BARES, BELIEVES, HOPES, 56:40 ENDURES. THESE THREE, BUT THE GREATEST OF 56:44 THESE IS LOVE. >> AMEN. 56:48 >> PRAISE THE LORD OF HEAVEN. >> AMEN. 56:52 >> SOMEBODY SAY PRAISE THE LORD OF HEAVEN. 56:54 >> PRAISE THE LORD. >> WHATEVER GIFTS WE POSSESS, 57:01 THEY ARE NO VALUE WITHOUT LOVE. THE MOST IMPORTANT GIFT THAT WE 57:10 COULD EVER HAVE IS THE BLESSING OF THE LOVE OF GOD IN OUR 57:16 HEARTS. >> AMEN. 57:17 >> FATHER WE BLESS YOUR NAME. WE THANK YOU. 57:21 WE HONOR YOU. TEACH US HOW TO LOVE YOU MORE 57:25 EVERY DAY. AMEN. 57:27 >> AMEN! ♪ |
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