Participants: Pr. John Lomacang
Series Code: ASHF
Program Code: ASHF000143A
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00:23 Hello, friends, welcome to another Wednesday night
00:25 Bible study here at the 3ABN Worship Center. 00:28 As you know my name is John Lomacang. 00:30 Thank you so much for tuning into A Sharper Focus. 00:34 We want to welcome you with a hearty amen. 00:35 Can we say amen? Amen. 00:37 And we are going to open our Bibles tonight. 00:40 We thank you for taking the next 57 minutes 00:43 and just about 30 seconds. 00:45 It's not even an hour long program. 00:46 I think that everyone should tune in 00:48 because we always study very important topics. 00:51 And tonight, we hope to conclude 00:53 the topic on the truth about the Holy Spirit. 00:57 The truth about the Holy Spirit. 00:58 In just a moment, I'll tell you 01:00 how to get a copy of the lesson, 01:01 where to download it, 01:02 and how you can access the other videos and lessons 01:04 that you may have missed. 01:06 And if you've missed questions number 1 to 20, 01:09 then also the site 01:10 that I give you in a moment will be 01:12 where you can find the remainder of the lesson. 01:14 But before we go any further, we always begin with prayer. 01:17 Let's pray together. 01:19 Loving Father in heaven, 01:20 we thank You that 01:21 we can open our hearts tonight as You speak to us 01:23 through Your Holy Spirit, 01:25 we do pray that You'll strengthen us 01:27 that Your Word will be clear in our minds, 01:30 and that what You teach us, 01:31 Father will not only be comprehended, 01:34 but that You will give us a desire to know the truth 01:38 and to know Jesus as our Savior 01:39 we pray in Your precious name, amen. 01:44 Now go to this following website, 01:46 it is ASF.3ABN.org. 01:50 ASF.3ABN.org 01:52 and download lesson number 34. 01:54 What lesson did I say? 01:56 Thirty four, the truth about the Holy Spirit. 01:58 And you should have 30 questions 02:02 that should be three pages. 02:03 And tonight we're gonna begin on question number 21. 02:06 And on that same website is where you can find videos 02:10 of the prior broadcasts. 02:12 I am the standard host, 02:14 but sometimes we have other people hosting 02:15 that I really appreciate like 02:18 sometimes John Dinzey, and Shelley Quinn, 02:21 and once in a while Pastor C.A. Murray, 02:23 and also recently, more recently Jill Morikone, 02:27 and we surely do appreciate all of them. 02:29 Amen? 02:30 But tonight I'm excited about this lesson 02:32 because we're gonna hopefully finish it, 02:34 and I think we should be able to. 02:36 But before we do that, 02:37 we always sing our theme song which is in what? 02:40 Victory in Jesus. Let's sing the song together. 02:51 I heard an old, old story 02:54 How the Savior came from glory 02:58 How He gave His life on Calvary 03:02 To save a wretch like me 03:06 I heard about His groaning 03:09 Of His precious blood's atoning 03:13 Then I repented of my sins 03:17 And won the victory 03:20 Together. 03:21 O victory in Jesus 03:24 My Savior, forever 03:28 He sought me and bought me 03:32 With His redeeming blood 03:36 He loved me ere I knew Him 03:40 And all my love is due Him 03:43 He plunged me to victory 03:47 Beneath the cleansing flood 03:51 I heard about a mansion 03:55 He has built for me in glory 03:58 And I heard about the streets of gold 04:02 Beyond the crystal sea 04:06 About the angels singing 04:10 And the old redemption story 04:14 And some sweet day I'll sing up there 04:18 The song of victory 04:20 Key change. 04:21 O victory in Jesus 04:25 My Savior, forever 04:29 He sought me and bought me 04:32 With His redeeming blood 04:36 He loved me ere I knew Him 04:40 And all my love is due Him 04:44 He plunged me to victory 04:47 Beneath the cleansing flood 04:52 He plunged me to victory 04:55 Beneath the cleansing flood 05:02 Amen. 05:03 Now tonight our topic is, let's say it together, 05:06 "The truth about the Holy Spirit". 05:10 Now what we've done up to this point 05:14 is we have covered 05:15 some of the basics and when you talk about 05:17 the Holy Spirit there's really nothing basic, 05:20 but I would primarily say the basic understanding. 05:23 Now let me just broaden that 05:25 because there is a conception or a belief 05:28 that the Holy Spirit 05:30 was not available until after Jesus left. 05:33 But if that was the case 05:34 then everyone in the Old Testament 05:36 was in trouble. 05:37 But you go all the way back to Genesis 6 05:39 and you find this phrase, 05:41 "My spirit will not always strive with man." 05:45 So the spirit has been working on the hearts 05:47 and lives of men and women ever since the entrance of sin, 05:51 ever since the Garden of Eden. 05:53 And we find the references throughout the Bible. 05:55 Matter of fact, 05:56 the reason why the prophets were able to prophesy 05:59 is they had the Spirit of Prophecy. 06:02 They could not know anything about prophecy 06:04 except the spirit had revealed it to them. 06:07 That's why Elisha prayed for a double portion 06:10 of the spirit that Elijah had. 06:13 And so the Spirit of God has worked 06:15 all through the Old and New Testament. 06:18 What differed though, after the ascension of Jesus, 06:22 He chose, 06:24 and we're gonna go over this very quickly here in a moment, 06:26 but He chose to carry the gospel 06:30 to the rest of the world. 06:33 But He was beginning with men 06:35 that did not have that natural ability 06:37 to talk the language of the entire world. 06:40 And so He said, 06:41 "You can either do one of two things, 06:43 you can either go back to school 06:44 for the next 20 years 06:46 and learn all the languages of all the people 06:48 that we're gonna assemble at Jerusalem 06:50 or I could do it for you miraculously." 06:54 And so the Lord shows, 06:56 He said, "Now we don't have all the time 06:58 for you to go back to these 07:00 universities and centers of learning and education, 07:04 but I'm gonna do 07:05 through My Holy Spirit in a moment 07:07 what cannot be done adequately to cover all the languages 07:11 that met in Jerusalem." 07:14 Now let's go very quickly, 07:15 since we're not gonna look at that 07:17 under any of our questions here. 07:18 Matter of fact, we will see that briefly, 07:20 but let's go to Acts 2, I want you to see this. 07:24 Acts 2. 07:29 And this will fit wonderfully 07:32 in the context of the clarion call, 07:34 you know, Jesus when He rose, 07:36 He said, "All authority or all powers given 07:39 unto me in heaven and earth." 07:41 And He says, "Go therefore and make disciples," 07:42 of how many nations? 07:44 "Of all nations." 07:45 So how do you do that except 07:47 you are able to communicate with those nations? 07:49 And in reality these disciples 07:51 that followed Him for three and half years, 07:54 some for a little shorter than that were all Galileans. 07:58 Another way to say that 07:59 they were all Southern Illinoisans 08:02 or they were all from Puerto Rico, 08:06 you know, they were all from, you know, Germany. 08:07 And then He says, 08:09 "Now take the gospel around the world." 08:11 And they probably thought, "Lord, I'm a fisherman, 08:15 I could barely speak this language properly, 08:18 how am I supposed to do that?" 08:19 And so the Lord did something 08:22 through them and for them 08:24 that they could not have done 08:25 in their own educational circles. 08:29 Look at Acts 2 very quickly. 08:32 Matter of fact, 08:33 Acts 1:8 08:34 that's where I like to begin Acts 1:8. 08:39 Well, you know, that's part of our questions, 08:40 let me leave that one out. 08:42 I'll go to Acts 2, okay? 08:45 I look at my questions 21 and I don't want to go there. 08:48 Acts 1:8, Acts 2:1-2. 08:52 Thank you, honey. 08:55 You guys listen very well, that's good. 08:57 Acts 2:1 and 2. 09:00 "This is now when the day of Pentecost had fully come." 09:05 That mean had arrived. 09:07 "They were all with one accord in one place." 09:10 Now the reason why it says 09:12 when the day of Pentecost had fully come, 09:14 I mean, they had already arrived there 09:15 before the ceremony began. 09:17 But when that day, for example, 09:19 if you had to travel from all the places 09:20 that we mentioned here, 09:22 you couldn't wait that day to go there. 09:24 So some came from Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria 09:27 all different parts while they were in Jerusalem. 09:28 But they came from all the different countries 09:31 that we'll talk about in just a moment here. 09:33 So they arrive for the ceremony, 09:35 but when the day came 09:36 when it arrived, look what happened. 09:39 Verse 2, 09:40 "And suddenly there came a sound from," where? 09:44 "Heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, 09:48 and it filled the whole house where they were," what? 09:51 "Where they were sitting." 09:53 Now I'm not gonna go to verse 3. 09:55 So you find right away what I want to show you here 09:57 is that miraculous incident that occurred, 10:01 that sound was heard as a rushing mighty wind. 10:05 And surely they probably said 10:08 "We never heard this before, what is that?" 10:10 And then you find the very next thing 10:11 that's talked about 10:13 and we'll talk about that in verse 3 in just a moment 10:16 as we get to question number 22. 10:18 But these are men that have natural abilities, 10:22 one is a converted tax collector... 10:25 I mean, all different types of talents and skills 10:28 that they all have naturally, 10:29 but what they did not possess 10:31 is how we're gonna carry the gospel around the world. 10:35 Now let me go ahead and show you the people 10:37 that were gathered there, look further down. 10:40 In Acts 1, 10:42 and we're gonna look down to verse 9. 10:45 These are the people 10:46 that they had to communicate to that day. 10:50 Look at verse 9. 10:52 "Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, 10:56 those dwelling in Mesopotamia, Judaea, Cappadocia, Pontus, 11:02 and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, Egypt 11:07 and the parts of Libya, adjoining Cyrene, 11:11 visitors from Rome," both what? 11:14 "Jews and proselytes," as converts, 11:18 "Cretes and, " what else? 11:19 "Arabs." 11:21 So you find all these nationalities are now 11:23 all of a sudden at your front door, 11:25 they show up so to speak at church. 11:28 And I'm English I'm saying, 11:29 "Okay, Lord, 11:32 I know we have Louis to translate into Spanish, 11:34 but what about the rest?" 11:36 Because we do have translation in our church 11:39 for the Latinos or the Latinas for the Spanish. 11:43 They get a copy of my sermon 11:44 and they are hopefully able to keep up with me. 11:47 But in order to be able to communicate a message 11:49 that's in English to people 11:50 that are in a different language 11:52 you need to have a what? 11:53 Interpreter. 11:54 Now some people from other languages 11:56 or other countries are able to understand English. 11:59 So they have the gift of understanding, 12:01 we have Polish. 12:02 And so, 12:04 but this wasn't necessarily the case 12:06 when that gathering of the day at Pentecost had fully come. 12:09 Now before I go to slide number 21, 12:12 I want to show you because we have something 12:17 that exists in Christendom today. 12:20 And let me ask you the question very quickly, 12:22 and we'll see this here in a moment. 12:26 The tongues that were given 12:28 to the disciples on the day of Pentecost, 12:34 was it something they could learn, yes or no? 12:40 What was it? What is it called? 12:45 Say it? It was a gift. 12:48 Now when we look at that very quickly, 12:50 I want you to go with me to Romans 12. 12:52 It was a gift. What is a gift? 12:55 Do you buy the gift 12:56 or does somebody else buy the gift? 12:58 If I'm giving you a gift, do you buy it or do I buy it? 13:01 I should be the one buying if I'm giving it to you. 13:04 Now a lot of times children would say 13:07 and this is mostly in reference to Christmas 13:09 or maybe their birthday, they'll say, 13:10 "Mom, Dad, I wrote a whole list of things 13:14 that I like to have, 13:16 and I'll be happy with any one of them." 13:18 And so you pick one from the list 13:20 and you surprise them with it. 13:21 Now it's a surprise 13:23 because they don't know which one you pick. 13:24 But, in fact, it's still a gift because they didn't buy it, 13:27 you chose which one to give to them, right? 13:31 Look at Romans 12, 13:32 let's look at some of these gifts. 13:34 The reason why I'm showing you this is 13:35 because it's amazing to me that the one gift, 13:38 the one gift, the what gift? 13:42 One gift that has been used 13:45 as misinterpreted and misapplied. 13:49 The one gift, none of the others, 13:53 nobody is praying for any other gift. 13:56 I don't want the other gift, I just want one. 13:59 Let's look at this, 14:00 Romans 12:46, look at this. 14:06 Verse 46, "For as we have many members in one body, 14:10 but all the members do not have the same," what? 14:13 "Function." 14:14 They don't all have the same function, 14:16 each one of them has a different function. 14:18 Another way to say that 14:19 is each one of them has a different gift. 14:22 Now we know that's true in our congregation. 14:24 There are some people that say, 14:25 "Pastor, whatever you do, 14:27 don't ask me to preach a sermon." 14:29 Then there are others that say, 14:31 "When you ask me to preach again? 14:32 You know, when would you give me 14:34 another chance to preach?" 14:35 Some of them have that gift. 14:36 Some people say, "I sing on a hill far away." 14:40 Others say, "I will be glad to sing." 14:42 Because they have that gift. 14:43 Some people have the gift of teaching, 14:44 others say, 14:46 "Look, just give me something 14:47 that I'll be glad to just keep the church clean, 14:51 please don't put me up front." 14:53 Each person has a different gift. 14:55 And these gifts as the Lord has appointed them 14:57 these gifts were given as the Lord chose. 15:00 Look at these gifts, verse 5, 15:02 it says, "So we, being many, are one body in Christ, 15:08 and individually members of," what? 15:10 "One another." 15:12 In other words we all are together, 15:14 we all belong to one another. 15:16 But look at verse 6, "Having then gifts," 15:20 what is the next word? 15:22 "Differing according to the grace 15:25 that is given to us, 15:27 let us use them if prophecy," what? 15:31 "Let us prophesy" in portion to our faith... 15:34 "in proportion to our faith or ministry, 15:37 let us use it in our ministering, 15:40 he who teaches," in what? 15:42 "Teaching, he who exhorts." 15:44 You know there are some people 15:46 that have the gift of exhortation, 15:47 they can encourage you, they can exhort. 15:50 You know, we have... 15:51 I don't want to mention names, 15:52 but it says he who gives with what? 15:54 Liberality. 15:56 There are some people that love to give 15:59 when they hear that you could, 16:00 "Oh, I'll be glad to give time, 16:03 talent, testimony, and treasure." 16:05 Going on, where am I now? 16:07 In verse 8? 16:08 And it says, "He who leads, with," what? 16:12 "Diligence, he who shows mercy with," what? 16:16 "Cheerfulness." 16:17 And so you see these gifts that are listed there, 16:19 what amazes me is that one the gift of tongues 16:22 which we're gonna talk about specifically today, 16:24 you don't hear pastors saying, 16:27 "Pray for the gift of teaching." 16:32 That's the evidence of the Holy Spirit. 16:34 You don't hear people saying, 16:36 "Pray for the gift of exhortation." 16:38 That is necessary, 16:40 everyone should have the gift of exhortation. 16:42 You don't hear people saying, pastor saying, 16:44 "Pray for the gift of ministering," 16:47 because if you don't have the gift of ministering, 16:49 you're not a Christian. 16:52 But the devil chooses 16:54 the one that he can twist that's what he always does, 16:57 he chooses the one that seems to be mysterious 17:01 in order for people to be deceived by it. 17:04 Now I'm gonna go to question number 21 17:06 in a moment. 17:07 But here's a slide I want you to see it. 17:08 Let's bring the slide up, it's about Glossolalia. 17:10 I want you to look at this very quickly here. 17:12 And then go ahead and bring that up 17:13 on the screen my graphic people I appreciate that very much. 17:16 Glossolalia, this book is entitled, 17:18 "How to speak in tongues." 17:21 Now the problem with the title of this book is you don't... 17:24 How to speak in tongues, you can't learn how? 17:27 It's a gift that the Spirit decides you need. 17:30 It says, "Louis, you need a gift of tongues. 17:32 Yannick, you need the gift of tongues. 17:33 Cynthia, you need the gift of tongues." 17:35 You know, there's no learning how? 17:38 It's not learning how to drive or learning how to sing? 17:40 In Glossolalia, put it back up again 17:42 one more time, thank you. 17:44 In Glossolalia 17:45 that's the pronunciation glos-uh-ley-lee-uh. 17:48 "It's incomprehensible speech 17:53 in an imaginary language," 17:56 not an existing language, 17:57 "Sometimes occurring in a trance state, 18:00 an episode of religious ecstasy, 18:02 or," what? 18:03 "Schizophrenia." 18:05 Meaning, whenever it happens 18:06 you don't know what people are saying 18:09 because for one, Glossolalia, 18:11 this movement that really gripped America 18:13 in the early 1920s. 18:15 It didn't start in America until about the early 1920s. 18:19 And I'll mention the name of the person 18:20 who would come to me here in a moment 18:22 that these are serial... 18:26 Let's now meditate 18:28 and when you are really deep into meditation 18:29 then all of a sudden 18:31 this language will manifest itself, 18:32 and you'll know you have the Holy Spirit. 18:35 It began that way, 18:37 then it began to jump the fences 18:38 into different movements. 18:39 And one of the reasons 18:41 why it's often identified with Pentecostals, 18:43 and I say this out of respect, 18:44 if you're Pentecostal, one of the reasons 18:46 why it's often identified with Pentecostals or Pentecost 18:49 is because it's what happened on the day of Pentecost. 18:52 But what happened on the day of Pentecost was not confusion, 18:56 it only appeared to be confusing 18:58 because the people that was speaking the language 19:01 did not have that natural ability. 19:03 Let's go to question number 1, sorry, question number 21. 19:08 So when you find this thing that is incomprehensible, 19:14 imaginary, intelligible, or lack of intelligence, 19:18 something that has no earthly bearing at all, 19:22 that's not the evidence of the spirit, 19:25 that says the word Glossolalia. 19:27 So you cannot go to a course, 19:29 I remember, my wife and I being 19:30 with the Herald Singers 19:32 and we were doing a concert in Hawaii. 19:33 And I remember as we were getting ready 19:34 for the concert, 19:36 there was a class being held in the back 19:37 of this big church, 19:38 and, you know, I said, "What is that class?" 19:40 He said, "It was a Sunday Church." 19:41 They said, "What is that class?" 19:43 He said, "Oh, that's a class 19:44 where you learn to speak in tongues." 19:46 And I thought, "What? 19:48 You learn to speak in tongues?" 19:49 "Yeah, they teach you how to speak in tongues." 19:51 And I was intending to show a video tonight, 19:53 but we'll do it another time on the modern manifestation 19:58 and how it's really, really pushed. 20:00 You know, pray for the Spirit of God. 20:01 Okay, let's pray, really pray, 20:03 "Lord, give me the spirit of the tongues." 20:04 That's it's urged on you 20:06 like there's some kind of when you get it, 20:08 you have now transcended humanity 20:10 and you are up there. 20:12 But that's not the way the Bible teaches it. 20:14 Look at question number 21, here it is. 20:17 What territory did Jesus intend for the gospel to cover? 20:23 What territory did Jesus intend for the gospel to cover? 20:26 Acts 1:8, let's look at that together. 20:29 Acts 1:8 is where you already turned. 20:31 So I might as well bring it up on the screen, 20:33 "The Lord said," 20:34 but look at this, "But you shall receive," what? 20:38 "Power," that's dunamis, like dynamite, 20:41 "When the Holy Spirit has come upon you, 20:45 and you shall be witnesses to Me in" where together, 20:48 "Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, 20:52 and to the end of the earth." 20:54 In other words, you will be able 20:55 to transcend your local community, 20:57 but you have to get the power to do it. 21:00 And the power enables you, like power enables anything. 21:04 You might have a wonderful device, 21:05 but without power is it gonna do anything? 21:08 Absolutely not. 21:09 So we all know that, 21:11 all these wonderfully designed devices. 21:13 So the Lord created man in His own image, 21:15 He gave him every ability, 21:17 but to transcend the natural abilities 21:19 He had to give them the power. 21:21 And the Holy Spirit was the one that was needed on that day 21:25 for this large gathering 21:26 of about 9 or 10 different nations, 21:29 people coming to Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost, 21:31 the most wonderful attended 21:33 event because it was the best weather of the year, 21:36 that was the highest attended ceremony, 21:41 the ceremony of Pentecost. 21:43 So people are coming there... 21:44 Now follow this carefully. 21:47 If you want to get the message to the rest of the world, 21:50 you have the message ready when the messengers show up. 21:55 If you want to get the message to the rest of the world, 21:57 you have the message ready 21:59 when the messengers 22:00 that gonna carry it back arrive. 22:02 And they all arrived on the day of Pentecost 22:04 which now takes us. 22:05 So question 21, the answer is, 22:07 how much of the world did the Lord intend to cover? 22:10 To the end of the earth, the whole earth. 22:13 Let's go to number 22. 22:18 What ability would the disciples need 22:21 in order to minister to the world? 22:24 Acts 2:3, we were in Acts a moment ago, 22:28 let's visit it again. 22:29 What would they need? 22:31 I just gave you the answer, but let's go and look at that. 22:35 Acts 2:3. 22:36 What amazes me is you can walk through this methodically, 22:39 you can say, okay, 22:42 those who believe in speaking in tongues, 22:45 you have to start where it began 22:47 on the day of Pentecost, 22:49 you can read through this entire story 22:51 and how can you come away with some mysterious 22:54 unbelievably unable to understand language. 23:01 You cannot come away with that. 23:03 Let's look at verse 3. What would they need? 23:06 Bible says, "Then there appeared 23:12 to them divided tongues," 23:14 or cloven tongues as the King James says, 23:16 "As of fire, and one sat upon," what? 23:21 "Each of them and they were all," what? 23:24 "Filled with the Holy Spirit and began to do," what? 23:28 "Speak with," what? 23:29 "Other tongues, as the Spirit gave them," what? 23:33 "Utterance." 23:34 Now follow this, 23:35 they began to speak with together, 23:37 other tongues. 23:38 So were they speaking in tongues already? 23:41 Yes. 23:42 Yes, they were speaking in a tongue already, 23:44 but now they are speaking in other tongue. 23:47 They were already speaking in a tongue, 23:49 understood by the Galileans. 23:51 But now they need another one, 23:54 they now need another one because the one they have 23:56 so they were already speaking in a tongue. 24:00 But now the Lord says, 24:01 "You need some more 'cause you don't have enough." 24:04 So He's now gonna give them, 24:06 He's gonna install in them the power of the Spirit of God 24:08 to begin to speak in other tongues. 24:11 Let's follow the story down before we go to 23. 24:14 Let's look at verse 4. 24:18 "And they were all filled with," the what? 24:22 "Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost 24:24 and began to speak with other tongues 24:27 as the Spirit gave them utterance." 24:30 And verse 5. 24:31 "Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, 24:37 devout men out of," together, 24:40 "Every nation under heaven." 24:43 So the Lord says, "Okay." 24:46 Now I want you to notice something, 24:47 this is really, this is a spiritual insight. 24:50 One of the nations that are not listed here, 24:53 the Lord caught up with them later on 24:55 through the work of the Apostles. 24:58 Philip which means in the Greek, 25:00 one who loves horses, caught up with the Ethiopian. 25:05 Later when the Ethiopian 25:07 was on his way back to Ethiopia, 25:09 the Lord says, 25:10 "Ah, we didn't get the gospel to Ethiopian yet. 25:12 Go get him Philip." 25:14 And the Lord led him 25:16 by the Spirit into the wilderness 25:17 and he had that one-on-one evangelistic series 25:20 with the Ethiopian unit 25:22 who took the message back to Ethiopia, 25:24 and whether you know it or not outside of Jerusalem, 25:27 Ethiopia has been the second place on earth 25:29 where the Sabbath has been kept the longest. 25:32 Amen? 25:33 So the Lord said, "Oh, we didn't get Ethiopia, 25:35 they were not there on the day of Pentecost. 25:39 So let's get them now, Philip, 25:41 and you carry the gospel back to them." 25:43 And whoever wasn't there, 25:44 the Lord, you go to the Book of Acts 25:45 and you'll discover one by one 25:47 those who dwelled in the family of Cornelius, 25:50 they were not there. 25:51 But they wanted to do God's work, 25:53 and Peter was sent to the house of Cornelius. 25:56 And they began to speak with tongues 25:57 and they were included 25:59 in carrying the gospel to the rest of the world. 26:01 So you begin to see that whoever God wanted 26:04 to include in proliferating this message, 26:07 He gave them the power to speak in another language 26:10 that they did not naturally have. 26:13 And so I don't want to go away from that, 26:15 but let's look at the very next verse 26:17 because you may have missed the last lesson, verse 6, 26:21 it says, "And when this sound occurred 26:24 or was noised abroad," 26:25 as the King James Version says, 26:28 "The multitude came together, and were," what? 26:31 "Confused or confounded," depending on the translation, 26:34 "Because everyone heard them speak together 26:38 in his own language." 26:42 So get this now, this is the day of Pentecost, 26:44 this was identified with the Pentecostal movement, 26:47 this is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, 26:49 this is the manifestation of other languages 26:51 or other tongues, 26:53 but what other tongues were they? 26:54 According to verse 6, 26:56 "Those who were dwelling there heard these Galileans 27:00 speaking in their language." 27:03 So it was not an earthly language, 27:05 it was unknown to the disciples. 27:08 So when the Bible says unknown 27:10 as it does in the King James Version, 27:11 unknown to the user, 27:13 not to those who are receiving it. 27:15 Okay, let's go on further. 27:17 And it says in verse 7, 27:19 "They were all amazed and marveled, 27:22 saying to one another, 27:23 'Look, are all these who speak not from Southern Illinois?' 27:32 'Are not all these who speak,' what? 27:34 'Galileans?'" 27:35 And verse 8, 27:37 "And how is it 27:38 that we hear each in our own language 27:41 in which we were together born?" 27:44 So wherever they were born on that day 27:47 they hear their language, 27:49 these Galileans are speaking their language. 27:51 You ever said that to people, 27:53 now you're speaking my language. 27:54 We say that in a very lighthearted way 27:56 what we mean is, 27:58 "Hey, now I could understand what you're saying." 28:01 When I did the series on clean spirits, 28:02 you got to speak the language of the young people 28:05 which is almost like an unknown tongues. 28:08 You got to speak the language 28:09 to be able to connect with them. 28:11 Am I telling the truth? It's still used today. 28:14 You know how to reach them 28:15 'cause you could speak their language. 28:16 That's the same terminology, 28:18 in order to reach somebody 28:19 you have to learn how to speak their language. 28:22 I wouldn't send Louis to Germany, 28:24 but I'll be glad to send him to South America, 28:26 Central America obviously with his wife. 28:27 And they could hold 28:29 an evangelistic series very easily 28:30 because they what? 28:32 They speak the language, that's the key. 28:34 The Lord said, "You need to speak the language 28:36 to reach the people I want to reach." 28:38 And they heard those men so they said, 28:41 "How is it that we hear them speaking in our own language?" 28:43 And let's finish, look at verse 11, 28:46 Acts 2:11. 28:51 Let's start with the words we hear them. 28:53 "We hear them speaking in our," what? 28:56 "Own tongues, the wonderful works of God." 29:02 And I like verse 12, they said, "So they were all amazed, 29:04 and perplexing to one another, 29:08 'Whatever could this mean?' 29:11 'What could this be?' 'What's going on here? 29:14 'How could they be doing that?'" 29:17 This is the fulfillment of Joel 2. 29:19 This is a fulfillment of Joel 2. 29:22 Look at verse 17. 29:26 "And it shall come to pass in the," what? 29:29 "Last days, says God, 29:30 'I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, 29:35 your sons, and your daughters shall prophesy, 29:40 your young men shall see," what? 29:42 "Visions," your old men shall," what? 29:45 "Dream dreams. 29:46 And all my men servants, and all my maid servants 29:51 I will pour out my Spirit in those days, 29:54 and they shall," what? 29:56 "Prophesy." This is huge. 29:58 What did He say they'll do 30:00 when the Spirit gets poured out, they will do what? 30:02 He didn't say they'll speak unintelligible languages, 30:05 He didn't say they'll speak in languages 30:06 that nobody understands, He said they will prophesy. 30:10 And when Paul once again visited the church 30:13 even at Corinth, he said, 30:14 "Brethren, you can pray for all those other gifts, 30:18 but I rather that you may prophesy 30:20 that we might understand something." 30:22 And he says, 30:23 "But if the Lord speaks to us through another tongue, 30:28 please make sure somebody 30:29 is available to interpret that." 30:31 How could you interpret something 30:33 if it does not have any understanding?" 30:35 All right. 30:37 Let's go on now to question number 23. 30:41 And we'll finish, we'll move right along. 30:43 Question number 23, here it is. 30:45 Is speaking in tongues a mandatory gift 30:49 from the Holy Spirit? 30:51 Let's look at 1 Corinthians 12:29 and 30. 30:56 All right, 1 Corinthians 12:29 and 30. 30:59 The simple reality of the whole exercise 31:02 of tongues is the Lord says, 31:04 "We've got to get this message out." 31:06 And today one of the beautiful things 31:08 is the gospel is going to all the world, 31:11 the Adventist Churches on every continent, 31:13 you know, it's a wonderful but every Sabbath 31:15 we're speaking the same message but in a different language. 31:21 That's the cute, that's the beauty. 31:22 Same message, but in a different language. 31:26 Sabbath School Lesson, 31:28 you know, we have people that interpret it 31:29 from English into Lithuanian 31:32 and all these different languages, 31:34 speaking a different language, but the same message. 31:40 1 Corinthians 12, look at verse 29. 31:44 Paul asked a very simple question. 31:45 And he's asking this in Corinth 31:47 where the languages were multiple, 31:48 it was an international port and international church. 31:51 Look at the end. 31:53 He says, "Are all apostles?" Answer with me, what? 31:57 No. 31:58 "Are all prophets?" Answer together. 31:59 No. 32:01 "Are all teachers?" No. 32:02 "Are all workers of miracles? 32:04 Do all have the gifts of healing?" 32:06 No. 32:08 "Do all speak with tongues?" Answer? 32:10 No. 32:11 So put the answer down, 32:13 is speaking in tongues a mandatory gift 32:17 of the Holy Spirit? 32:18 Today that's how it's pushed, that's how it's pushed. 32:22 If you don't speak with tongues, 32:23 you don't have the Holy Spirit. 32:26 Have fun with yourself, go to YouTube, 32:29 type in speaking in tongues, 32:30 and you will see an array of pastors... 32:35 I looked up some myself I was gonna show a video today. 32:38 One pastor says, 32:39 "Speaking in tongues is a gift 32:40 that Christian must have in order to be effective. 32:43 If you don't have that, 32:44 you cannot be an effective witness for Jesus." 32:48 And another one was given a course, 32:49 okay, now brother, he said, now really, okay, 32:51 "You got to really pray this prayer, really hard." 32:54 Say, "Okay, Lord, I want to be really happy. 32:57 Come on, pray that I'll really be happy." 32:59 Okay, now say, "I want to be really joyful." 33:01 If you don't really mean it, you won't really be joyful. 33:03 You've got to be happy and joyful 33:04 before tongues comes next. 33:06 And by no means am I belittling this, 33:08 but what I'm saying is you're trying to make 33:10 a teaching out of something 33:12 that is not taught in the scriptures. 33:14 It's a sad reality. 33:16 Look at the next question. 33:17 These are questions 33:18 that you may have answered already 33:20 if you've done our prior lesson, 33:21 but let's go ahead and illustrate 33:22 the point very effectively. 33:24 It says answer 33:26 the following six questions in number 24. 33:28 All right, the following... 33:32 Is it six or seven? Seven. Okay, I can count. 33:36 Okay, answer the following. 33:37 Okay, here's the first question on the screen. 33:39 All right, question A, let's bring that up. 33:43 Does an Italian need to speak 33:47 in another tongue to witness to an Italian? 33:50 Check which one you say? And tell me what's the answer. 33:53 No. So check no. 33:55 Let's go to the next one, B. 33:56 Does a German need to speak 33:58 in another tongue to witness to a German? 34:00 Answer what? No. Put the check mark there. 34:03 Okay, let's go to the next one, C. 34:05 Does a Nigerian need to speak in another tongue 34:08 to witness to a Nigerian? 34:10 Answer what? No. 34:12 Okay, we're doing right along. Now let's go to D. 34:14 You're doing very well on the course. 34:16 Does an Italian need to speak 34:19 in another tongue to witness to a Nigerian? 34:21 Yes or no? 34:22 What tongue should he speak in? 34:24 Nigerian or the Nigerian receives 34:27 the gift of interpretation to understand in Italian. 34:30 Okay, let's go to E. 34:33 Does a Nigerian need to speak 34:35 in another tongue to witness to a German? 34:37 Yes or no? Yes. What does he need to speak? 34:41 German. Right. Let's go to F now. 34:45 Does a German need to speak in another tongue 34:47 to witness to an Italian? 34:49 Yes or no? Yes, he does. 34:52 What does he need to speak? Italian. 34:54 Now here is the real kicker, G. 34:58 Do English speaking people need another tongue 35:03 for English speaking people? Together. 35:06 No. Together. No. No. 35:11 A thousand times no. 35:14 So if you are in an English fellowship 35:18 and you are taught 35:19 that you need to speak in tongues 35:21 to communicate the gospel, 35:25 our address is 3777... 35:30 No, really, you're not in a Bible based church. 35:35 If you are told that you need to speak in English 35:38 in an English fellowship 35:39 that you need to speak in another tongue, 35:40 sorry, in an English fellowship to have the Spirit of God. 35:44 The Lord will not give you that gift 35:46 because you're all ready amongst your own people. 35:48 Evidence of that, 35:50 the Galileans were ministering together 35:52 some for three and half years, some for three years. 35:54 They didn't need to speak in other languages 35:56 because they were among their own native people. 35:58 They were in their own communities. 36:01 They were in their own neighborhood. 36:03 They did not need something other than they already had 36:06 to be able to communicate when I already understood. 36:09 I could go to any state in the United States 36:13 and preach, set up a tent and preach, 36:17 with the exception of parts of Miami 36:21 and other places 36:23 where the Latino language is very... 36:26 You know, I was down in Miami, Louis, 36:27 I keep referring to Louis, he's in the front row, 36:29 and his wife Xenia. 36:31 Alex, I'll say Alex, since Alex is also Latino. 36:33 I was down in Miami, 36:35 and I saw a store with the sign on it, 36:38 we speak English. 36:41 And I thought, "Is this America?" 36:44 There portion, my wife and I were in LA 36:46 a number of years ago, 36:47 and we didn't know where we were, 36:49 and I said, "Let me ask somebody." 36:50 She said, 36:51 "They don't speak English in this neighborhood." 36:53 I said, "This is America." 36:55 I pull up at the bus stop. 36:57 I'm telling you, English, Senior. 37:04 She said, "I told you, 37:05 we're not in the right neighborhood." 37:08 The point is well taken, 37:10 you've got to be able to speak in the language of the people 37:13 you want to get answers from 37:15 or I have to be able to understand 37:17 their language which at that moment... 37:18 If I was on an island, 37:20 the Lord may have given me 37:21 the gift of interpretation, or gift of understanding. 37:24 See. 37:28 I was invited to Australia to be the speaker 37:30 for a Polish Festival. 37:32 I thought 37:34 "You want me to be the speaker for a Polish Festival?" 37:38 I had four sermons, 37:39 well, they gave me an interpreter 37:41 for every sermon. 37:42 Now the first guy was a little slower 37:43 than he could have been so they gave me another guy, 37:45 and finally they gave me a guy 37:47 that he mimicked everything I did, 37:49 when I did this he did that, when I was like this, 37:51 he was like that, he was right there with me. 37:54 And they said, "Wow, what a powerful sermon." 37:56 I said, "No, what a powerful interpreter," 37:58 because they didn't understand a word I said, 38:01 you know, with the exception of a few. 38:03 And so I thought "Man..." 38:04 And I was down in Chile, and I spoke in Chile, 38:08 and they gave me an interpreter and a Spanish interpreter 38:10 and he said, "Powerful message, Pastor." 38:12 I said, "Thank the interpreter for the message," 38:14 because if you don't have an interpreter... 38:18 Paul says, "I rather speak five words 38:22 in my understanding 38:25 than 10,000 words in an unknown tongue." 38:29 But what's happening today 38:31 is you have this cut loose exercise in churches, 38:33 "Oh, you have a Spirit fell in that person, 38:35 Spirit fell... Oh, Spirit is over there." 38:36 And nobody is interpreting, and it's unintelligible, 38:39 and nobody knows what it is. 38:41 And you know what they say, "That's God did that." 38:44 God is seen as involved in something 38:46 He did not authorize. 38:48 Let's go to question number 25. Let's go to question number 25. 38:53 Now this is something people always often miss, 38:56 question 25. 38:58 Did the Apostle Paul have the ability 39:01 to speak with tongues? 39:03 Let's go to 1 Corinthians 14:18. 39:08 1 Corinthians 14:18. 39:10 Just to show you 39:11 this is a very powerful scripture 39:13 to show you that Paul was not talking about strange, 39:16 unable to understand languages 39:19 because Paul was highly educated. 39:22 He was a Pharisee of the Pharisees, 39:23 he is a Jew, he was very intelligent. 39:26 And he had that ability. 39:28 Look what he says in 39:30 1 Corinthians 14:18, here it is. 39:33 He says, 39:35 "I thank my God I speak with," what? 39:38 "Tongues more than all of you." 39:44 That means, "I speak in more languages 39:46 than you guys here in Corinth, I could do that. 39:50 I thank God that I could do that. 39:52 I could speak with more tongues than all of you." 39:56 And look at the next verse 19. I just said it. 40:00 "Yet in the church I would rather," what? 40:03 "Speak," what? 40:04 "Five words in my understanding, 40:07 that I may teach others also than 10,000 words in a tongue." 40:11 And the King James Version 40:12 puts the word unknown in there, have you noticed that? 40:15 Because that's the actual Greek, 40:16 it meant unknown to the listener. 40:19 It meant unknown to the listener. 40:21 In the New King James Version they simply put in a tongue 40:24 because in the original Greek it wasn't included, 40:26 but in the context of a language 40:28 it meant unknown. 40:29 Why are you talking to me 40:31 in a language I don't understand, 40:32 to me it's unknown. 40:33 That's why Paul says, 40:35 "I'd rather say five words that you understand 40:38 than 10,000 words you don't understand." 40:40 Oh, it makes sense. 40:41 And I say this again 40:43 if you missed the earlier comment. 40:44 The Church of Corinth 40:45 was an international body of believers. 40:48 So they had that ability to speak 40:51 in very many languages. 40:53 But the Lord said, "You don't need that, 40:56 you really don't need that." 40:57 Now let's go to number 26. 41:01 So the answer is, did Paul speak with, 41:03 have the ability to speak with tongues? 41:04 The answer is what? 41:06 Yes, he was highly educated. 41:08 He was highly educated, very well traveled, all right? 41:13 Now let's go to 26, here is the question. 41:16 What further description 41:18 does the Bible give to the tongues? 41:22 What further description 41:24 does the Bible give to the tongues? 41:27 Okay, we are in 1 Corinthians 14. 41:32 And we are going to look together 41:35 at verse 10 and 11. 41:39 All right, let's go and look at that together, 41:41 verse 10 and 11. 41:43 Wow, this is very interesting. 41:45 Paul says, "There are, it may be, so many," what? 41:52 "Kinds of languages in the world, 41:56 and none of them is without," what? 41:59 "Significance." He goes on verse 11. 42:02 "Therefore, I do not know the meaning of the language, 42:07 if I do not know the meaning of the," what? 42:10 "Language, I shall be a foreigner to him 42:15 who speaks and he who speaks will be a," what? 42:18 "Foreigner to me." 42:20 You know why he said foreigner? What's a foreigner? 42:22 Come on, tell me? What's a foreigner? 42:26 You are a foreigner, Yannick. 42:28 Yannick is a foreigner, he's not from America, 42:30 he's from Poland, right? 42:31 He's a foreigner. 42:33 So he comes to America the first time, 42:34 he speaks to me in Polish, I speak to him in American, 42:36 and we're like two guys that are ignorant. 42:39 We have no way of communicating, 42:41 so we do sign language. 42:45 What? 42:50 That's why I'm so thankful for these smartphones nowadays. 42:54 My smartphone I could choose a language although 42:56 it just chops up the language, 42:59 I could choose, I'm gonna speak in English, 43:01 but I want to interpret it in Russian, 43:03 or Tagalog, or Chinese. 43:07 And it says it in that language 43:09 to the person that I'm speaking to, 43:11 I try that though, I try that with Fieta. 43:14 And she says, 43:15 "Oh, it's a horrible translation of Russian." 43:18 Because it's Americans 43:20 trying to do this interpretation in Russian. 43:23 The point of the matter is unless these languages, 43:26 unless you know the meaning of the language, 43:28 get that clearly, unless you know the, what? 43:31 Meaning of the language. 43:33 Then I speak to you... 43:34 I'm a foreigner to you, you're a foreigner to me. 43:36 Now when we go to Europe, or when we go to Australia. 43:41 I've been to Australia before and I said, 43:43 "Wow, your language, you have a weird accent." 43:46 He said, "No, you have a weird accent." 43:48 Because you go around the world and what happens? 43:50 Your tongue is different. Go to South Africa. 43:55 In America there are places, 43:56 the people in Mississippi 43:58 don't sound like the people from Boston, right? 44:02 Or New York, or California 44:05 where everybody sort of speak beautiful and proper. 44:10 It changes from one community to the other. 44:13 And the key is knowing the meaning. 44:16 So write this down. 44:17 What further description does the Bible give to tongues? 44:22 What is it? 44:24 Meaning, know the meaning, 44:28 know the meaning. 44:32 Know what it means. 44:33 If you don't know the meaning, it's a waste of time. 44:36 I'm not making any headway, 44:38 you're not making any headway 44:40 because I don't know what you're saying, 44:42 you don't know what I'm saying. 44:44 One of the stories I remember very well, 44:45 my good friend Pastor Doug Batchelor. 44:49 Years ago I don't know he does this still, 44:51 maybe, maybe not, but I can't speak to the issue. 44:54 But years ago 44:57 he picked up a guy hitchhiking, 44:58 he was on his way back to Covelo, 45:00 Northern California. 45:02 And he picked up a guy hitchhiking, 45:05 and they talked all the way, 45:08 gave the guy some money to buy food. 45:12 He said, "I need a job." 45:13 He said, "Okay, I have some property 45:15 you could help in my garden." 45:16 The guy was there for a couple of days 45:19 and he has a friend 45:21 that lives not too far from him. 45:22 I won't mention the person's name on air. 45:24 But his friend came over and said, 45:27 "Hey, you have a guy working for him." 45:28 And then he said, "Come here, Doug." 45:30 He said, 45:32 "I don't know you spoke Spanish." 45:34 He said, "What do you mean? I don't speak Spanish." 45:36 "You've been talking in Spanish with that guy all the time." 45:40 He didn't even know he was. 45:41 And then what happens this guy, he picked up a Spanish, 45:45 he communicated with him all the way, 45:47 and his friend who was English said, 45:48 "I never knew you spoke Spanish." 45:50 He said, "I don't speak Spanish." 45:51 The Lord at that moment gave him the gift of tongues 45:55 to communicate to this man 45:56 who eventually accepted the gospel. 45:59 And you know this man disclosed, 46:00 he said, "When you picked me up, 46:01 my intention was to rob you. 46:04 But when you spoke my language, 46:07 and you spoke to me about the Lord, 46:09 it changed my heart. 46:10 And I couldn't rob you, you took such good care of me." 46:13 Those are the moments that God sees opportunities 46:16 to win people to Jesus, and He gives you the gift, 46:18 he said, "Doug, you're going to need help 46:21 because if you don't speak this man's language, 46:23 you're going to be held up." 46:25 So I'm going to... 46:26 I'm stepping in, and you know what? 46:27 You don't ask for that, the Spirit gives as He wills. 46:31 As He what? 46:33 As He... 46:34 1 Corinthians 12:11, look at this. 46:36 He gives as he designs, He gives as He determines, 46:40 we don't say, 46:41 "Hey, I need this, I need that." 46:44 All right? 46:45 1 Corinthians 12:11, look at this. 46:50 And speaks of all the guests but then it says in verse 11, 46:53 "But one and the same Spirit works 46:55 all these things, 46:58 distributing to each one of us individually," 47:02 the next three words. 47:03 "As He wills." 47:06 He decides, you don't take courses, 47:09 you don't buy books, 47:10 you don't get audiotapes on how to speak in tongues, 47:13 it's a spiritual gift. 47:15 It is a what, together, spiritual gift. 47:17 Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. 47:20 You don't give somebody the gift of love 47:23 or the gift of happiness, thus the fruits, 47:27 you get the fruits and the gifts 47:29 are for the growth of the entire church, 47:31 for the function of the body, 47:33 for the spreading of the gospel. 47:35 Let's go to number, what? 47:36 Now, number 27. 47:38 Go to number 27, moving right along. 47:40 It says, look at this. 47:42 What is necessary... 47:45 I think we answered the question already. 47:46 But what is necessary 47:49 when a person begins to speak in another language? 47:54 What is necessary? 47:55 Let's go and answer that. 47:57 What is necessary? 48:00 They need an interpreter, all right? 48:02 Let's look at the text, 48:03 I don't believe I had that on the screen 48:05 but let's look at the text very quickly. 48:07 1 Corinthians 14:19. 48:09 Let's look at 1 Corinthians 14:19. 48:11 All right. 48:14 And I gave you the answer a moment ago. 48:16 I rather speak five words 48:17 in my understanding than 10, 000 words 48:19 in an unknown tongue. 48:21 So what is necessary when a person begins to speak 48:24 in another language, what do you need? 48:27 You need an interpreter. 48:28 If you don't have an interpreter 48:30 you are a foreigner to him and he's a foreigner to you. 48:37 Let's go to number 28. 48:39 Let's go to number 28, all right? 48:41 Number 28, here it is. 48:44 Did I do 28? Let's go to 28. 48:48 Okay. Okay. 48:51 And we did the answer. 48:53 Well, let's go to 29. 48:55 You guys are pushing me right along, 48:57 but I'm with it. 48:59 Okay, the answer to number 28. 49:01 What is the prescribed method 49:03 when speaking in another language? 49:06 Understanding. Understanding. 49:09 It's better to have understanding. 49:11 Understanding is the key. 49:14 If I don't understand... 49:19 then you are not fruitful, I am not fruitful. 49:22 We are like standing at a wall 49:25 and nobody has the key to open the door. 49:27 Matter of fact to say that wonderfully, 49:29 thank you Lord for making that very clear in my own mind, 49:32 the Spirit of God gave the disciples 49:34 and the apostles the key. 49:37 Here is the key. 49:38 You go through this gift, 49:40 it will give you access to the entire world. 49:43 And when Paul, and Silas, and Barnabas 49:46 and these apostles traveled, 49:48 they went to so many countries in Asia. 49:53 And the gospel continued to proliferate 49:55 from one to the other, to the other. 49:57 And according to history 49:59 Josephus the historian indicated that 50:01 in just short as 34 years 50:02 the gospel got to the entire world 50:05 because they were able to speak their language. 50:09 Simple but very profound. 50:11 Now let's go to number 29. Let's go to number 29. 50:15 Okay, we jumped over a few 50:16 because we already gave the answers. 50:18 Let's go to number 29. 50:20 How should the use of tongues 50:23 be practiced in a congregation? 50:27 How should the use of tongues be practiced in a congregation? 50:31 We're going to go to 1 Corinthians 14. 50:34 1 Corinthians 14 50:36 and we're going to look together 50:37 verse 27 and verse 28. 50:40 1 Corinthians 14:27-28. 50:44 And some of you already there, 50:45 I like that my people are already there, 50:48 they're already there. 50:49 Here we are, let's look at that together, 50:53 "If anyone speaks in a tongue, 50:58 let there be," together, 51:00 "Two or at the most," what? 51:03 "Three, each in turn, and let one do" what? 51:08 "Interpret." 51:10 Let one interpret. 51:12 Going on, 51:14 "But if there is no interpreter, 51:19 let him do" what? 51:21 "Keep silent in church, and let him do" what? 51:25 "Speak to himself and to" who else? 51:27 "To God." 51:28 Is there any language that God does not understand? 51:33 He's God. 51:35 If I just start saying, 51:39 okay, my young lady 51:40 that understands French is behind one of the cameras. 51:44 If I start speaking in French, 51:46 I remember what I said 51:47 when I was in the third grade in French, 51:50 if I mess this up do not send me a letter, 51:54 but I'm gonna try 51:55 and you guys won't even understand... 52:01 I learned in that third grade. 52:04 Don't ask me what I said because what do I need? 52:09 What do I need? An interpreter. 52:13 I need an interpreter. 52:16 Now I did say something about Canada 52:19 and I did say something about my name is 52:22 but if Hannah was here, 52:25 she'll be able to tell me exactly what I said. 52:29 Now if I continue speaking, 52:30 you guys would have looked at me like, 52:35 "Pastor John, this is the English network." 52:38 See, right? Right? Okay. 52:42 Great example, I'm gonna just get 52:44 the last two questions here and let's try this. 52:46 So let's answer question number nine. 52:48 How should the use of tongues be practiced in a congregation? 52:51 No more than two or three. 52:54 And what do you have to have? An interpreter. 52:58 Matter of fact, 52:59 when these evangelists that teach 53:02 this whole idea that you have to have 53:03 a gift of tongues, 53:04 what really gets me 53:06 is when they travel around the world 53:07 to preach in other countries they have an interpreter. 53:10 How ironic is that? 53:13 I remember years ago, the very famous Benny Hinn, 53:15 they showed a big crusade 53:17 he was doing country in Africa, and he had an interpreter. 53:22 A couple of interpreters because you go to Africa 53:24 do not think that in that audience 53:25 is one dialect or one language but many. 53:28 Maybe one language, many dialects 53:30 you have Tagalog and what else you have? 53:32 What's the other one? 53:33 Tagalog and what else? Visayan. 53:35 So don't say because you're in Philippines, 53:36 you're gonna speak Pilipino language, 53:37 what is that? 53:39 It depends on what dialect see? 53:41 So that's all so you got to understand these things, 53:44 or else you could be speaking in one language 53:45 and the other doesn't understand. 53:47 And I was in, we were in Africa, 53:50 we were in Kenya. 53:51 We went to visit a particular tribe, 53:54 Africans took us to visit an African tribe way 53:57 in the bush where there was no water. 53:59 I spoke in English 54:01 and somebody did it in Kenyan, 54:05 and then the Kenyans interpret it into Swahili. 54:09 So there was English, then he said it in, 54:12 the person said it in Kenyan, and then in Swahili. 54:16 And I was speaking to a small group of people. 54:18 And you know what somebody probably thought, 54:19 but aren't they all African? 54:21 Different languages, different dialects. 54:24 We had another to speak about Jesus 54:26 to these people in Swahili, 54:28 the Kenyan, interpreted in Swahili from Kenya. 54:32 So you get the point? 54:33 English, Kenyan, Swahili, 54:34 so, and even in Kenya there are many dialects. 54:36 So you never know 54:38 but there must be an interpreter. 54:39 Let's get to the last question, number 30. 54:44 Why is the popular teaching of tongues 54:47 out of harmony with Scripture? 54:50 Why is the popular teaching of tongues 54:52 out of harmony with Scripture? 54:56 Let's go to 1 Corinthians 14, we're already there. 54:59 We're already there, 55:01 we're going to look at verse 33. 55:03 And then we're going to look together 55:06 at verse 40, all right. 55:09 All right, let's look at this. 55:12 Verse 33 reads as follows. 55:15 "For God is" what? 55:17 "Not the author of confusion but of peace, 55:23 as in all the churches of the saints." 55:27 Wherever you go there should be no confusion. 55:31 No confusion but what happened at the Tower of Babel? 55:35 What did the Lord do at the Tower of Babel? 55:38 He did what? He confused the what? 55:41 Languages, the tongues. See that's what happened. 55:44 When you go in a place 55:45 with all these different languages, 55:46 give me a break, they got straw, 55:48 give me a wood, they got a shovel, 55:49 give me a shovel they got dirt. 55:51 That's what happens 55:52 when the languages are confused and then the Lord indictment is 55:56 God is identified with confusion, 55:59 and the Holy Spirit is blamed for that kind of confusion. 56:02 That's not scriptural. 56:03 Amen? 56:04 Last part, verse 40. 56:09 Let's read this one together, "Let" how many things? 56:12 "All things be done," how? 56:15 "Decently and in order." 56:19 So when Paul talked about this, 56:21 he said, "Let it be by two or at the most by three 56:24 and let one interpret but if there is no interpreter, 56:27 let that person keep what? 56:29 Silent in church. 56:30 Now we have about a minute and a half, 56:32 Yannick, would you come on up. 56:33 Brother Louis, 56:35 I've been messing with you all night, 56:36 people need to know who I have been messing with. 56:38 And Celestina come on up, 56:42 getting all our languages, do we have any more languages? 56:46 French? 56:48 Dan, come on up. Hurry up. 56:51 Come on, we're going to speak. 56:53 Come on, Dan, Giger, come on. 56:55 Okay, well, I would say Iris, but Iris is behind the camera. 56:59 I don't know if Iris... 57:02 Oh yeah. 57:03 Oh man, he is... 57:05 Okay. I stand corrected. 57:09 Now we're going to say, 57:11 I want you to say what you want to, Yannick, 57:16 whatever you want a Christian term. 57:17 And I want you to say what you want to Louis. 57:19 And then I want you to say what you want to... 57:21 Okay, say something in your language to Yannick. 57:26 What did she say? You don't know. 57:29 Okay, now you talk to Louis in your language, quickly. 57:34 What did he say? I have no idea. 57:36 Okay, now you try to speak to her 57:37 in your language very quickly. 57:39 No. 57:41 Okay, now you speak to him in your language very quickly. 57:44 Now you speak to him in his language. 57:46 Okay, what did she say? Now let's all do this together. 57:50 Let's all say happy Sabbath to the camera. 57:52 Happy Sabbath. 57:54 Did you all understand us 57:55 because we all spoke in the same language. 57:57 I tell you, friends, 57:58 if it doesn't make sense keep studying God's Word, 58:01 one day it will come into a sharper focus. 58:03 God bless you. |
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