Well welcome to
presentation number eight
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in the series on,
The Secrets of Pentecost.
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We have a very
exciting subject to study today.
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The title is, The
Tongues of Men and Angels.
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What are the
languages of angels?
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Well, we're going
to take a look and see.
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But before we do, we want
to ask for the Lord's presence,
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as we always do
before we open His Word.
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So let's bow our
heads for a word of prayer.
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Our loving Father, we
come before Your throne,
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as we have every
session before, to plead for the
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presence of Your Holy
Spirit through the ministry
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of the angels.
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We are going to study
very important things.
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Things that are
misunderstood to a great degree
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in the Christian world.
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And we want to understand
things as You would have them
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understood from Your Holy Word.
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Remove preconceived notions,
remove obstacles from our
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minds and hearts, that we
might be able to hear Your voice
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speaking to us.
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We thank You, Father for
the privilege of approaching
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Your throne in prayer.
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And we know that You
have heard this prayer
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because we come before
Your throne in the mighty
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and powerful name of our
Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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We'd like to begin our study
today by turning in our Bibles
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to Matthew 28:19-20.
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Now these are words that
Jesus spoke immediately before
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His ascension to heaven.
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And so let's read
there in Matthew 28:19-20
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where Jesus gives the great
commission to His disciples.
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It says there...
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So where are the
disciples supposed to go?
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To all of the
nations to make disciples.
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And then what are
they supposed to do?
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So the great commission
involves preaching, doesn't it?
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Jesus is saying,
"I want you to go out
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and I want you to preach the
gospel to all of the nations."
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Now in Mark 16,
there is a passage which is
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parallel to this one.
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In other words, it's taking
place in the same time frame
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as Matthew 28.
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Only, it adds details that
we don't find in Matthew 28.
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So let's read that passage.
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Mark 16 and
beginning with verse 15,
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and we'll read through verse 18.
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So what is the mission that
Jesus gives to His disciples?
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To go into all of
the world and preach the
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gospel to every creature.
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In other words, the purpose
of the giving of the Holy Spirit
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is to empower the
disciples to preach the gospel.
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And then notice
that when they preach,
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there are going to be believers.
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So it's speaking about
those who hear the message.
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And then it says in
verse 17, "And these signs..."
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Remember that word, because
we're going to come back to it
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in our next study.
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This is right before
the ascension of Christ.
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Now some people
have misunderstood this
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and they have church where
they pick up snakes on purpose.
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This is saying, if by
accident a snake bites you,
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you know, and it's a poisonous
snake, you're not going to die.
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And some people, some
Christians, even drink poison.
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They say, "Well, because
God gave the promise that
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if I drink poison,
it's not going to hurt me."
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Well the fact is,
that's presumption.
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It's saying, if by accident
or somebody plans to kill you
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by putting something
poisonous in your drink,
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God is going to overrule.
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But it's not giving you
license to pick up snakes
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and to drink poison stuff.
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And so it continues saying...
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These are all
spiritual gifts, aren't they?
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Tongues, the gift of
healing, the gift of exorcism.
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In other words, God is
going to give gifts to those
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who believe and
receive the gospel of Christ.
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Now in summary, three
key points that I want us
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to notice in this passage.
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Number one, the
mission is to preach the gospel
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in the whole world.
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Number two, the
purpose of preaching the gospel
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is so that people will
believe and will be baptized.
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And those who
believe and are baptized
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will receive
the gift of tongues.
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It doesn't say everyone will
receive the gift of healing.
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It doesn't say everyone will
receive the gift of exorcism.
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It doesn't say everyone will
receive the gift of tongues.
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The Holy Spirit, we're
going to find, gives the gifts
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according to the need of
the time according to what the
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Holy Spirit wills, not
what human beings will.
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Now we need to ask the
question, when Mark 16 says
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that those who believe
will speak with new tongues,
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what does that
mean, "new tongues"?
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Well let me tell you
what the Bible versions do.
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The New Century
Version, as well as many others,
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translate the word, "tongues,"
there as, "new languages."
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In other words, the word
that is used there is, "glóssa,"
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where we get the
word, "glossolalia," from.
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Which means, to
speak in tongues.
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And so many Bible versions,
they don't say believers will
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speak new tongues.
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They say that they
will speak new languages.
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And that's precisely
what Jesus means, by the way.
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We're going to notice that.
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And a slim minority of Bible
versions, such as for example,
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the Good News Translation
and Today's English Version,
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they say that people
will speak in strange tongues.
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Now that is a mistranslation,
because it does not
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say, "strange tongues."
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It simply says, "glóssais."
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In other words, they will speak
in tongues, in new tongues.
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To say that they are strange
tongues is an interpretation.
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It is not a translation.
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Unless by that you
mean that they're strange
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to the person who is
speaking them because
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they've never spoken
that language before.
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Now the question then is,
for whom are these tongues new?
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Are they new for the
people who are speaking them?
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Or are they new in the
sense that they're not spoken
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anywhere on planet earth?
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I believe, in the light
of what we've studied in our
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previous session, they
are languages which are spoken
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somewhere on planet earth
but which the preacher did not
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previously know,
which the preacher received
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by a miraculous
intervention of God.
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Incidentally, in Acts 2:4,
and verse 41, and verse 44,
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we find the identical ideas
that we just read in Mark 16.
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You have the idea of
receiving the Holy Spirit,
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you have the idea of
speaking in new tongues,
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you have the idea of
unbelievers believing
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when they hear the Word
spoken in their own language,
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and you also have the
idea of those who believe
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being baptized and
receiving the Holy Spirit.
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So we know that what
Mark 16 is referring to
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is the same gift that took
place on the day of Pentecost.
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And we've already studied
that on the day of Pentecost,
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those were not unknown tongues
in the sense of gibberish,
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a language that is
spoken nowhere on planet earth,
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but it refers to languages
which those who spoke did not
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know before, which
the Holy Spirit gave them
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the capacity to speak.
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Now let's review
what the purpose of the
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gift of tongues is.
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What is the purpose according
to the passage in Mark?
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It's for preaching the gospel
to every creature, isn't it?
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Isn't that the
purpose of the gift of tongues
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also according to Acts 1?
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Let's read again what
Jesus said in Acts 1:8.
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It's so clear that the
gift of the Holy Spirit
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and the gift of tongues
is given for witnessing.
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It is given for evangelism.
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It is not given so that a
person can speak in a tongue
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that is spoken
nowhere on planet earth.
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That's not practical, that's
not going to win any souls,
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because they're
not going to understand
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what the speaker is saying.
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And so notice what
Jesus said in Acts 1:8.
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Notice the purpose of the power.
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So the purpose of the
gift of tongues is to witness.
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Now did you notice the
sequence of places where
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the disciples were
suppose to witness?
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It says that they were
suppose to witness in Jerusalem,
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in Judea, Samaria, and
then to the end of the earth.
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By the way, this verse
gives you the basic structure
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of the book of Acts.
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Let me just go through the
book of Acts in broad strokes
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so that you can see
that this one verse gives you
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the sequence or the
movement of the gospel
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in the entire book of Acts.
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In Mark 16:15-17 where
Jesus speaks of new tongues,
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Jesus is in the
upper room in Mark 16.
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Actually, He's
not in the upper room.
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He's actually right
before the ascension
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with the disciples
upon the Mount of Olives.
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But then in Acts chapter
2 through chapter 7 you find
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that the events are
taking place in Jerusalem.
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Remember,
Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria,
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to the ends of the earth.
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And so, from Acts
2 through chapter 7,
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you have events that are
transpiring in Jerusalem.
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And of course, Acts 7 speaks
about the stoning of Stephen.
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But this is all
happening in Jerusalem.
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Then in Acts 8:1-2,
which we're not going to read,
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we're told that the disciples
were dispersed to Judea
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because of the
persecution in Jerusalem.
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So in Acts 8:1-2, the
gospel has gone to Judea
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because the
disciples are persecuted
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and they have to spread out.
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Then if you go to Acts 8:4-25,
the disciples are actually
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preaching in Samaria.
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Notice the sequence: Jerusalem,
then Judea chapter 8:1-2,
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then Samaria.
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And it's interesting
to notice in Acts 8:6-7
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when the gospel goes to
Samaria, two signs are mentioned
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that the apostles
were actually performing.
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One was casting out demons,
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and the other one
was healing people.
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Are those two of the gifts that
Jesus had mentioned in Mark 16?
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Absolutely.
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Now when you get to Acts
9, you have the conversion
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of Saul of Tarsus.
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So I want you to
notice the sequence here.
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In Mark 16:15-17, Jesus
is about to ascend to heaven,
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and He speaks these
words; that His followers will
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speak in new tongues.
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Acts 2 through 7, the events
are taking place in Jerusalem.
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Acts 8:1-2, the events
are taking place in Judea.
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Acts 8:4-25, the events
are taking place in Samaria.
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And then in Acts 9, you have the
conversion of Saul of Tarsus.
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Now why would the
conversion of Saul of Tarsus
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be particularly significant?
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Because Saul of Tarsus
was going to take the gospel
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to the utter
most ends of the earth
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on his missionary journeys.
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Right?
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Which is what happens in
the rest of the book of Acts.
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In Acts 10 and 11, the
gospel goes to Caesarea.
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In Acts 18, the
gospel goes to Corinth.
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In Acts 19, the
gospel goes to Ephesus.
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And of course, there
are many other places
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where the apostle Paul
took the message as well.
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So do you see that the
structure of the book of Acts
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is found in this one verse?
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The message begins in Jerusalem.
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Actually, when Jesus is
about to ascend to heaven
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He speaks of the new tongues.
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Then the message
goes to Jerusalem,
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then it goes to Judea,
then it goes to Samaria,
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and eventually it goes
to the ends of the earth,
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as Jesus had predicted.
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Now I want to read
you a couple of statements
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from the spirit of
prophecy on the gift of tongues
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on the day of Pentecost.
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One of these I've read before,
but the other one I have not.
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The first one from,
Desire of Ages, 821,
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I have not read in
a previous lecture.
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The second one I have.
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But I want to read it
again because it tells us
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what the gift of tongues, of
speaking in new tongues, was.
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It says there in,
Desire of Ages, 821...
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The spoke the
languages without an accent.
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That's amazing.
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Now the second statement,
as I mentioned I already read,
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Acts of the
Apostles, pages 39-40.
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Speaking about the gift
of tongues that was given
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to the apostles, it says...
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What is meant by, "fluency"?
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Naturally, easily. Right?
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Remember what happened at Babel?
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The tongues were
confused because God didn't want
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evil to consolidate, to
centralize, in one place.
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So God says, "I'll make
it very difficult for evil
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to consolidate and to form
a global system against God.
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So I'll spread them
out in different languages,
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in different
tongues, different cultures,
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so that they don't get
along and so you don't have a
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united rebellion
against my kingdom."
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Of course, that created a
problem on the day of Pentecost.
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Because the apostles
could only speak Aramaic,
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and there were
many languages there.
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And so God says, "I'm going
to undo what happened at Babel.
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I'm going to give My
servants the capacity
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to speak those languages."
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And so she continues saying...
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What was it they
were going to speak?
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They were going to
speak gibberish, right?
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Words that
nobody could understand.
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Of course not.
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A sign, if you please.
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Those are my words there.
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So was this a sign
to unbelievers that God
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had worked powerfully for them?
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That's an important point.
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Because
tomorrow, 1 Corinthians 14,
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we're going to see that the gift
of tongues is for unbelievers.
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Now notice what
it continues saying.
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But now we need to ask
the question about Corinth.
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For some reason, you know,
people say, "Okay, we accept
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the idea that in Acts
2 the gift was languages.
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And we accept that in
Acts 10 the gift was languages.
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And we accept that in
Acts 19 it was languages.
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But in 1 Corinthians 14 that was
a different kind of language.
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That was an angelic
language that is spoken
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nowhere on planet earth."
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What they're saying is that
the gift in 1 Corinthians 14
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is different than
the gift that God gave
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in all of these other places.
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Now there are three main views.
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Let me summarize
those three main views
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about what was happening
in the church of Corinth.
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View number one is the
idea that the gift of tongues
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in Corinth was a
genuine gift that was unrelated
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to the gift that
God gave in Acts 2.
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In other words, the idea is that
the Corinthians were speaking
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an angelic language.
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Not a language of the
nations like happened in Acts 2.
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In other words, it
was a genuine gift,
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but it was the gift of
speaking in an angelic language,
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not a language that was spoken
somewhere on planet earth.
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There's a second view.
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And that is, that the
Corinthians were speaking
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in a language that is
spoken nowhere on planet earth,
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but that this was a counterfeit.
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In other words, they
were speaking gibberish,
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but this was not a true
gift of the Holy Spirit.
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This was actually a counterfeit.
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And number three, there
was the view that the gift
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that was given in
Corinth is the identical gift
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that was given
in the book of Acts.
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In other words, it's
not a different gift.
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It is the same.
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It's languages that are spoken
somewhere on planet earth.
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Are you understanding
the three points of view?
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First point of view is
that it was a genuine gift
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that the Corinthians had, but it
wasn't the same gift as Acts 2.
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It wasn't languages, it
was an angelic language.
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But it was a true gift.
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The second view is that
they were speaking gibberish,
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a language that is
spoken nowhere on planet earth,
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but it was a counterfeit.
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It was a false gift.
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And the third view is that
the gift in Corinth was the same
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as in Acts 2.
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It was the ability to speak
real languages that are spoken
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somewhere on planet earth.
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Now was the gift of
Acts 2 a different gift
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than 1 Corinthians 14?
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Was, in other words, the gift
in Acts 2 the ability to speak
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languages that are
spoken somewhere in the world,
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whereas 1 Corinthians 14
the gift is the gift to speak
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some angelic tongue that is
spoken nowhere on planet earth?
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That's the question
that we need to ask.
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Now let me give you
some very important details.
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The word,
"tongues," in 1 Corinthians 14,
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which is the word, "glóssa,"
is identical to the word
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that is used in
all of the passages
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that we've already studied.
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It's identical to the
word that is used in Mark 16:17
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where Jesus said that
they will speak in new tongues.
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It is identical to
the word that is used in
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Acts 2, Acts 10, and Acts 19.
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In other words, in 1 Corinthians
a different word is not used.
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It's the same
word for, "tongues."
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Secondly, the expression,
"speaking in tongues,"
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appears in only five
places in the New Testament.
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The expression,
"speaking in tongues."
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It is used in Mark 16:17,
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it is used in Acts
2, Acts 10, Acts 19,
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and 1 Corinthians 12 through 14.
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Would that lead you to
believe that the gift in
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1 Corinthians 12 through 14
is the same gift that you find
00:21:46.50\00:21:50.44
in Mark 16:17, Acts
2, Acts 10, and Acts 19
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if the same expression is used?
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Absolutely.
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Now additionally to
this, if the apostle Paul
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was speaking about a
counterfeit gift there in the
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church of Corinth, that
they were speaking gibberish
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and that this gibberish
was actually a counterfeit gift
00:22:10.36\00:22:13.19
of the Holy Spirit, one
wonders why the apostle Paul,
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in 1 Corinthians 12 through
14, would refer to tongues
00:22:17.17\00:22:20.40
as a gift of the Holy Spirit.
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And one would also wonder why
the apostle Paul would say in
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1 Corinthians 14 that all
of us should desire this gift.
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If it was a counterfeit,
why would he say that
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we should desire this gift?
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Furthermore, the apostle Paul
says that he spoke in tongues
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more than everyone, he
says in 1 Corinthians 14.
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If it was a
counterfeit gift, would he say,
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"Oh, I speak in counterfeit
gifts more than anyone."
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Of course not.
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And so these indications show
that the gift that was given
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in Corinth was the same
gift that was given in Ephesus,
00:22:51.27\00:22:56.97
in Caesarea, in Jerusalem,
and of which Jesus spoke
00:22:57.01\00:23:01.04
in Mark 16:17.
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Now there's an additional
reason why I believe that in
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1 Corinthians 14, you're
dealing with the same gift
00:23:08.02\00:23:10.59
that you find in
the book of Acts.
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And that is that there are
only two verses in the Bible
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that use a
combination of three words.
00:23:16.79\00:23:19.69
Now in the Old
Testament, in the Septuagint...
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You know, that's
the Greek translation
00:23:22.96\00:23:24.40
of the Old Testament.
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...you find in Genesis
11:7 these three words...
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And I want to read Genesis 11:7
as it appears in the Septuagint,
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as it appears in
the Greek translation
00:23:35.74\00:23:37.45
of the Old Testament.
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And the reason I do
this is because Corinthians
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is written in Greek.
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So you have to read the
Old Testament text in Greek
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in order to compare it with
the New Testament text in Greek.
00:23:46.82\00:23:50.23
Are you following me or not?
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And so it says
in Genesis 11:7...
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"...language..."
00:24:00.24\00:24:01.57
It's the word,
"glóssa," where we get the word,
00:24:01.60\00:24:03.41
"glossolalia," from.
00:24:03.44\00:24:04.84
"...that they may
not understand..."
00:24:05.27\00:24:07.68
That's the second word.
00:24:07.78\00:24:09.11
The word, "akouó," in Greek.
00:24:09.14\00:24:11.45
"...one another's speech..."
00:24:11.48\00:24:13.92
Which is the word, "phóné."
00:24:13.95\00:24:15.68
So in Genesis 11:7, it speaks
about confusing the language,
00:24:15.95\00:24:22.92
"glóssa," that they may
not understand, "akouó,"
00:24:22.96\00:24:26.46
one another's speech, "phóné."
00:24:26.66\00:24:29.06
As I mentioned, there's only
one other verse in the Bible
00:24:29.46\00:24:32.20
that uses the combination
of those three words.
00:24:32.23\00:24:34.47
And it's found in
1 Corinthians 14:2,
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which we will study
in detail, Lord willing,
00:24:38.41\00:24:41.38
in our first session tomorrow.
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It says there in
1 Corinthians 14:2,
00:24:43.41\00:24:46.18
here the apostle
Paul is speaking,
00:24:46.21\00:24:47.82
"For he who speaks..."
00:24:47.92\00:24:49.75
That's the word,
"phóné," in Greek.
00:24:49.85\00:24:52.15
"...in a tongue..."
That's the word, "glóssa."
00:24:54.59\00:24:57.83
"...for no one understands..."
That's the word, "akouó."
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So if this combination
of words in Genesis 11:7
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refers to languages of the
world, and in 1 Corinthians 14:2
00:25:13.11\00:25:18.01
the same three words
are used in the same verse,
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one would have to conclude
that it's the same gift.
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Are you with me or not?
00:25:23.85\00:25:25.25
Now, did the Babel
builders speak real languages?
00:25:25.55\00:25:29.76
Of course they
spoke real languages.
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Did they know
those languages before?
00:25:32.09\00:25:34.30
The ones who spoke
them, did they know those
00:25:35.93\00:25:37.63
languages before?
00:25:37.67\00:25:39.00
No.
00:25:39.17\00:25:40.50
Instantaneously, they
were given the ability to speak
00:25:40.54\00:25:44.21
a different language
than they knew before, right?
00:25:44.24\00:25:47.04
They all spoke the
same language before.
00:25:47.14\00:25:49.64
And so when they got the
gift of tongues, you know,
00:25:49.71\00:25:52.01
one was speaking French,
another was speaking English,
00:25:52.05\00:25:54.18
another was speaking Spanish,
00:25:54.22\00:25:55.55
another
Japanese, another Korean.
00:25:55.58\00:25:57.12
They were speaking all
the languages of the world,
00:25:57.22\00:25:59.35
but they were real languages.
00:25:59.45\00:26:01.26
And one group could not
understand the other group
00:26:01.29\00:26:04.19
because they spoke
in different languages.
00:26:04.39\00:26:06.53
I believe that what
was happening in Corinth
00:26:07.06\00:26:09.46
is that the
Corinthians were returning
00:26:09.66\00:26:11.97
to what happened at Babel.
00:26:12.07\00:26:13.54
They were speaking real
languages, but they were
00:26:13.87\00:26:16.64
speaking these languages in
church where nobody understood
00:26:16.67\00:26:19.77
the language that
they were speaking.
00:26:19.81\00:26:21.58
Are you
understanding what I'm saying?
00:26:21.68\00:26:23.28
In other words, you go to
a church where the language
00:26:23.58\00:26:26.85
is Latin, and here
they're rattling off Japanese.
00:26:26.88\00:26:30.05
Well you know, people
cannot understand that language.
00:26:30.49\00:26:34.49
Right?
00:26:34.52\00:26:35.86
They can't understand
it, but is it a language
00:26:35.89\00:26:37.79
that is spoken
somewhere in the world?
00:26:37.83\00:26:39.79
Of course it's a language that's
spoken somewhere in the world.
00:26:39.83\00:26:42.46
So what was happening in Corinth
is that everyone in the church
00:26:42.50\00:26:46.43
was speaking in the
tongue that God had given them.
00:26:46.47\00:26:49.00
And incidentally, when
God gave the gift of tongues,
00:26:49.04\00:26:51.74
it remained
with people for life.
00:26:51.77\00:26:53.91
The gift of tongues was
not that God gave the apostles
00:26:54.64\00:26:57.71
the ability to speak in
a language, and then after
00:26:57.75\00:27:00.52
they shared the gospel
they forgot the language. No.
00:27:00.55\00:27:02.88
It was given to them for life.
00:27:02.92\00:27:04.92
Which is very important
to realize because if it was
00:27:06.49\00:27:09.12
given for life, that
means that when the Corinthians
00:27:09.16\00:27:11.09
received the gift, you
know, here they go to church
00:27:11.13\00:27:14.50
and you have who knows
how many, fifty of them,
00:27:14.80\00:27:18.13
rattling off a tongue
that nobody can understand
00:27:18.17\00:27:21.17
even though they're languages.
00:27:21.20\00:27:22.80
Nobody can
understand because the people
00:27:22.90\00:27:24.57
don't speak those languages.
00:27:24.61\00:27:25.94
Are you with me or not?
00:27:25.97\00:27:27.31
In other words, what they
were doing was that they were
00:27:27.34\00:27:29.48
abusing the gift of
tongues that God had given.
00:27:29.51\00:27:32.78
And the gift of tongues in
Corinth was not like the gift
00:27:32.88\00:27:37.15
that Kenneth Copeland
used recently in that meeting
00:27:37.19\00:27:40.72
with all the Pentecostal
leaders where Tony Palmer
00:27:40.76\00:27:44.46
was there, you know,
sharing a message from the pope.
00:27:44.49\00:27:47.06
You know, nobody
could understand what
00:27:47.23\00:27:49.20
Kenneth Copeland was saying.
00:27:49.23\00:27:50.57
I don't think even
God was understanding
00:27:51.27\00:27:52.90
what he was saying.
00:27:52.93\00:27:54.27
You know, there
was no interpreter.
00:27:54.77\00:27:56.64
And even if there was an
interpreter, how do you know
00:27:57.31\00:27:59.91
that the interpreter
was really interpreting what
00:27:59.94\00:28:02.18
Kenneth Copeland was saying
and not inventing some message?
00:28:02.21\00:28:05.11
Are you following me or not?
00:28:05.28\00:28:06.61
That is not the gift of tongues.
00:28:07.02\00:28:08.82
It's not speaking a
language that is spoken nowhere
00:28:09.08\00:28:11.52
on planet earth that
no one can understand.
00:28:11.55\00:28:13.66
It is a language, but
the Corinthians were speaking
00:28:13.86\00:28:16.93
in different tongues that
people could not understand
00:28:16.96\00:28:19.66
just to show off the
gift that they had received.
00:28:19.69\00:28:23.23
Now let me share
with you some of the
00:28:23.47\00:28:25.00
characteristics of Corinth.
00:28:25.03\00:28:27.17
Corinth became a Roman
colony in the year 44 BC.
00:28:28.04\00:28:33.17
It was a major
junction between the eastern
00:28:33.78\00:28:37.55
and the western Mediterranean.
00:28:37.58\00:28:39.55
In other words, people
from the eastern and western
00:28:39.58\00:28:41.58
Mediterranean all passed
through the city of Corinth.
00:28:41.62\00:28:45.05
It was also a bridge
of trade between northern
00:28:45.32\00:28:48.89
and southern Greece.
00:28:48.92\00:28:50.43
It had a population
of approximately 200,000,
00:28:50.93\00:28:54.80
which was composed
of Romans, Greeks, Jews,
00:28:55.20\00:28:59.07
and people from
many other nations.
00:28:59.10\00:29:01.67
We know that the apostle
Paul spent a year and a half
00:29:02.07\00:29:04.91
in Corinth during his
second missionary journey.
00:29:04.94\00:29:07.98
Corinth was one of the most
immoral cities of antiquity.
00:29:08.81\00:29:12.88
A terribly immoral city
in the continent of Europe.
00:29:13.15\00:29:17.45
It was a metropolitan
and cosmopolitan center.
00:29:17.62\00:29:21.46
And the gift of tongues
was necessary in order to reach
00:29:21.76\00:29:25.46
all of the language groups
that passed through that city.
00:29:25.49\00:29:29.20
Are you
understanding the reason for the
00:29:29.73\00:29:31.37
gift of tongues in Corinth?
00:29:31.40\00:29:32.80
It was a place where
there were so many nations
00:29:33.20\00:29:36.37
and so many languages that
it was necessary to give the
00:29:36.74\00:29:39.67
church members the
ability to speak those languages
00:29:39.71\00:29:42.64
so that they
could share the gospel.
00:29:42.74\00:29:45.08
Now Corinth was a messy church.
00:29:45.38\00:29:48.38
Actually, there were
several churches in Corinth.
00:29:48.42\00:29:50.59
Some of the problems
that the church in Corinth had
00:29:51.19\00:29:53.96
were factions or
clique in the church.
00:29:54.06\00:29:56.99
There were
jealousies and quarreling,
00:29:57.33\00:29:59.39
as you read the books.
00:29:59.49\00:30:00.83
There was one case of
incest that was being committed
00:30:00.96\00:30:04.40
by one of the church members.
00:30:04.43\00:30:05.90
Some of them were
participating in prostitution.
00:30:06.13\00:30:09.10
They were suing
one another in court.
00:30:09.30\00:30:11.77
They were
criticizing people who ate meat
00:30:12.21\00:30:15.68
that had been offered to idols.
00:30:15.71\00:30:17.58
Some of them were
celebrating orgies.
00:30:17.88\00:30:20.55
They were abusing
the Lord's Supper.
00:30:20.75\00:30:22.88
Some of them were
denying that Jesus resurrected.
00:30:23.45\00:30:26.39
They were saying that the
resurrection was spiritual.
00:30:26.42\00:30:28.99
And they were also misusing
and abusing the gift of tongues
00:30:29.29\00:30:34.10
in the church of Corinth.
00:30:34.46\00:30:36.13
Now let's ask
some questions about
00:30:36.63\00:30:39.30
1 Corinthians 12 through 14.
00:30:39.33\00:30:41.30
We're not only
going to study chapter 14,
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we're going to take a look
at chapter 12 and 13 because
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tongues are also
mentioned in those chapters.
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And let's just ask a
series of questions about
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1 Corinthians 12, 13, and 14.
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Here are the questions.
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Number one, must
everyone speak in tongues?
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Number two, is the gift of
tongues the most important gift?
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Number three, is the gift of
tongues for personal edification
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or a sign of spirituality?
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Number four, is the gift of
tongues the ability to speak
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the languages of
the nations of the world
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or is it an unknown tongue
that is not spoken anywhere
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in the world?
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And finally, what
conditions must exist in order
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to receive the gift of tongues?
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Those are the questions that
we're going to try to answer
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as we take a look at 1
Corinthians 12 through 14.
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Now I want to mention
that there are four lists
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of spiritual gifts in the
writings of the apostle Paul.
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Four lists.
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There is one gift only that
is mentioned in all four lists.
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That's the gift of prophecy.
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Tongues are only mentioned
in two of the four lists.
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Now I want us to take a
look at these four lists
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to see if tongues
is the most important,
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if everybody needs to
speak in tongues, etc,
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to see if we can find
answers to our questions.
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1 Corinthians 12:8-11 has the
first list of spiritual gifts.
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Here, the apostle Paul says...
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And we're going to
emphasize certain points.
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"But the manifestation of
the Spirit is given to each one
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for their
personal edification..."
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No, no, no, no.
That's not what it says.
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For what?
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"...for the profit of all."
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Let me ask you, if I was
preaching here in Papiamento,
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which is a dialect from
the Netherlands Antilles,
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would that be for
the profit of all?
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Now if I knew Papiamento,
would that benefit me?
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Of course it would benefit
me because I would understand
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perfectly what I'm saying.
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But it wouldn't
benefit you at all.
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It certainly
would not profit you.
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So the apostle Paul is saying,
"The manifestation of the Spirit
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is given to each one
for the profit of all."
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Not for your profit, not
for your self-edification,
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not for a
spiritual high for you.
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But for the profit of all.
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Now notice...
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Now let's notice some
details about this passage.
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Where are tongues
mentioned in this list?
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They are mentioned last.
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The gift of tongues and
the interpretation of tongues
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are last on the list.
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Furthermore, we noticed
that none of these gifts are for
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personal self-edification
or to experience
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a personal spiritual high.
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All of them, as we
noticed, are for the benefit
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of the whole church.
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And verse 11 explains
that the Holy Spirit decides
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who gets which gift.
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We are not to seek the gifts.
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The Holy Spirit gives the
gifts that He knows that the
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church needs at any
given moment of time
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as He sees necessary.
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And the reason why I mention
this is because there are many
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charismatics who actually
feel guilty because they don't
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speak in tongues,
and they do their utmost
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to receive the gift of
tongues and to speak in tongues.
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And they feel guilty, they feel
like they're not even saved,
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if they can't speak in tongues.
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Because they're told
that everybody has to have
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the gift of tongues.
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Now let's go to list number two.
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It's found in 1
Corinthians 12:28-31.
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Here, the apostle Paul
says, "And God has appointed..."
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Who has appointed?
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So am I suppose to say,
"Lord, give me tongues,"
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and the Lord
gives me tongues? No.
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The Lord gives the
gift of tongues when He sees
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that it's necessary, not
simply because I want it.
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Now is there a
hierarchy of gifts here?
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Yes there is.
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Where does he put tongues?
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Last on the list.
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And then verse 29
he asks the question,
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"Are all apostles?"
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What would the
answer be to that?
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What answer is the
apostle Paul looking for?
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No.
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"Are all prophets?" No.
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"Do all speak with tongues?"
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What would the answer be?
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No.
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"Do all interpret
tongues?" Of course not.
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Do you notice, once again,
that he puts the gift of tongues
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last on the list, and
the interpretation of tongues
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last on the list?
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And he's establishing
a hierarchy of gifts,
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because he says, first, second,
third, and then after that.
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So he's prioritizing the
gifts by their importance.
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And then he says in verse 31...
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And of course,
the more excellent way
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is found in chapter 13,
which is the way of love.
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Love is the greatest
gift of the Holy Spirit.
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So summarizing, there
is a hierarchy of gifts
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denoted by the words, first,
second, third, and after that.
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Second, last on the
list is the gift of tongues.
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All did not receive
the gift of tongues,
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according to the apostle Paul.
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Third, the entire
argument of 1 Corinthians 12,
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if you read the whole chapter,
is that there is one body
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with many members, and
each member has a different gift
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for the benefit of the body.
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What good is it for
everybody to have the same gift?
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That's like your
whole body being a head.
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Or your whole body being a foot.
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Or your whole body being an arm.
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There are different gifts
given to different individuals
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for the benefit
of the entire body.
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The ideal of God is not that
everybody have the same gift,
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the gift of tongues.
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Now the apostle Paul
says in 1 Corinthians 13:8
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that tongues will cease.
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So it's not one of
the most important gifts.
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Now let's go to
list number three.
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It's not found in 1 Corinthians.
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It's found in Ephesians 4:11-13.
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Here, the apostle Paul
says, "And He Himself gave..."
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Who gave?
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Once again, it's
the Lord, isn't it?
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And I continue reading.
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"So that they can show
how spiritual they are,
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and they can
experience self-edification."
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No, that's not what it says.
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What is the
purpose of these gifts?
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Not yourself.
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For the edifying
of the body of Christ.
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Tongues is not even
mentioned on this list.
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And the gift is given
for the good of the body.
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It is for equipping
the saints for ministry
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and not merely for
personal edification.
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Now let's go to
list number four.
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It's found in Romans 12:4-8.
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Once again, tongues is
not mentioned in the list.
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It says there in Romans 12:4...
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So if everybody spoke
in tongues, would they have
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the same function?
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Of course they would.
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So he says...
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"Having then gifts..." What?
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Ah, differing.
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So does everybody
have the same gift?
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No, it says,
"Having then gifts differing
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according to the grace
that is given to us..."
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Does everybody
have the same gift?
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No.
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There are many
gifts in the church.
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And the Holy Spirit gives
out these gifts according to the
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need of the body;
the needs of the church.
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I want to underline, once
again, a very important fact.
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And that is that the word,
"tongues," and the expression,
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"speaking in tongues,"
is identical in Mark 16:17,
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in all of the passages
in the book of Acts, and in
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1 Corinthians 12 through 14.
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This would seem to clearly
indicate that the gift in
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1 Corinthians 12
through 14 is the same gift
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that we find in Mark 16:17, as
well as in all of the passages
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that we find in
the book of Acts.
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Somebody might say though,
"Pastor Bohr, have you ever
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read 1 Corinthians
13:1-2 where it speaks about
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the language of
angels, tongues of angels?"
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Well, let's read 1
Corinthians 13:1-2.
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Because many charismatics today
say, "Oh no, the apostle Paul
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says that we're suppose
to speak in the language
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or the tongues of angels.
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That's the language that's
spoken nowhere on planet earth.
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It's a heavenly
language," is what they say.
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Well, let's take a look at this.
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1 Corinthians 13:1-2
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Here, the apostle Paul says...
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There's one word which
is a very important word
00:42:22.60\00:42:25.01
in these two verses.
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It's the word, "though."
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What does the
word, "though," indicate?
00:42:29.71\00:42:32.05
It is a conditional statement.
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The apostle Paul is not
saying that the Corinthians
00:42:35.62\00:42:38.35
were speaking in
the language of angels.
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He's saying, "If I
could speak the language
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of men and angels..."
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"If I could have
the gift of prophecy..."
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"If I could know all
mystery and all knowledge..."
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Let me ask you, is it
really possible for us to know
00:42:51.53\00:42:53.57
all mysteries and all knowledge?
00:42:53.60\00:42:55.20
No, it's a
hypothetical statement.
00:42:55.40\00:42:57.74
The apostle Paul is not
saying that the Corinthians
00:42:57.97\00:43:00.18
spoke an angelic language.
00:43:00.21\00:43:01.78
He's saying, "If I could do
that, if I had all knowledge,
00:43:01.94\00:43:06.28
and if I spoke in the language
that the angels speak in,
00:43:06.31\00:43:10.49
but I don't have love,
it would be like nothing."
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He's not saying that
we're suppose to speak
00:43:14.22\00:43:16.36
in the language of angels.
00:43:16.39\00:43:17.73
He's saying, if we could.
00:43:17.76\00:43:19.49
So it's a
hypothetical statement.
00:43:20.10\00:43:22.06
It's not a statement of reality.
00:43:22.10\00:43:24.93
But let's dwell for a
few moments about the idea
00:43:25.37\00:43:29.10
concerning the
language of angels.
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Do we ever find in
Scripture an angel speaking
00:43:33.58\00:43:36.98
in an unknown tongue?
00:43:37.01\00:43:38.48
Can you mention one example
in the Bible where an angel
00:43:39.71\00:43:43.42
came and spoke in a
language that human beings
00:43:43.45\00:43:45.75
could not understand?
00:43:45.79\00:43:47.12
Did they?
00:43:48.42\00:43:49.76
I don't know of any.
00:43:49.79\00:43:51.13
Let me ask you, did the
angels sing in a strange tongue
00:43:51.23\00:43:54.00
when Jesus was born?
00:43:54.10\00:43:55.43
Did they sing, "Glory
to God in the highest,"
00:43:56.36\00:43:58.23
in a tongue that
nobody could understand,
00:43:58.27\00:43:59.97
in their own angelic language?
00:44:00.17\00:44:01.70
Absolutely not.
00:44:01.74\00:44:03.07
How about when the announcement
was made to Zacharias about
00:44:03.27\00:44:06.61
the birth of John the Baptist?
00:44:06.64\00:44:08.14
Did the angel speak to
him in an unknown tongue
00:44:08.34\00:44:11.61
that Zacharias
could not understand?
00:44:11.65\00:44:13.38
Of course not.
00:44:13.72\00:44:15.05
He spoke to him
in his own language.
00:44:15.08\00:44:16.72
When the angel
appeared to Gabriel to explain
00:44:17.05\00:44:19.79
the 2300 day prophecy,
did Gabriel speak in gibberish
00:44:19.82\00:44:24.33
that Daniel
could not understand?
00:44:24.36\00:44:26.09
No, he spoke in
the language of Daniel.
00:44:26.19\00:44:30.37
Now Revelation 5:11-13
speaks about a praise service
00:44:31.17\00:44:37.34
in heaven, and it's given
in the language of the prophet.
00:44:37.37\00:44:41.34
Let me ask you, why would
God speak to us in a language
00:44:42.04\00:44:44.98
that we can't understand?
00:44:45.01\00:44:46.48
It would be impractical for
someone to speak in a language
00:44:46.92\00:44:51.25
that no one can
understand when they could speak
00:44:51.29\00:44:54.69
to people in a language
that they can understand.
00:44:54.79\00:44:57.86
It's senseless.
00:44:58.06\00:44:59.39
Incidentally, the angels
have the gift of tongues.
00:44:59.56\00:45:02.86
Because they
spoke to Peter in Greek,
00:45:04.07\00:45:06.30
they spoke to Daniel in Hebrew,
00:45:06.74\00:45:08.84
and they spoke to
Ellen G. White in English.
00:45:08.87\00:45:10.87
And so the angels
have the gift of tongues.
00:45:11.77\00:45:13.84
Don't they?
00:45:13.88\00:45:15.21
Because they have the capacity
of speaking human languages.
00:45:15.24\00:45:18.08
Now, I'm sure that the
angels have their own language.
00:45:18.18\00:45:23.39
Would you believe that the
angels have their own language?
00:45:23.42\00:45:25.75
I believe that they do.
00:45:25.95\00:45:27.29
But what use would it be
for the angels to speak to us
00:45:27.32\00:45:29.89
in their language?
00:45:29.92\00:45:31.26
We wouldn't be
able to understand
00:45:31.29\00:45:32.63
anything they're saying.
00:45:32.66\00:45:34.00
It is undoubtedly true that
the angel's speak a different
00:45:34.33\00:45:37.80
language than we do.
00:45:37.83\00:45:39.30
But in the course of
time, listen carefully,
00:45:39.93\00:45:42.27
in the course of
time, everything on earth
00:45:42.30\00:45:44.47
has degenerated.
00:45:44.51\00:45:45.84
Languages have degenerated.
00:45:46.07\00:45:48.54
In fact, Ellen White
makes several statements
00:45:48.64\00:45:50.48
where she says that
God condescends to speak
00:45:50.51\00:45:54.05
in our language, because
if He spoke in His language
00:45:54.08\00:45:56.85
we wouldn't be able to
understand what He's saying.
00:45:56.89\00:45:59.49
Now notice these statements.
00:46:00.72\00:46:02.06
These are remarkable
statements from Ellen White.
00:46:02.09\00:46:04.36
The Faith I Live By, page 10.
00:46:04.69\00:46:08.13
She says, "The Lord
speaks to human beings
00:46:09.10\00:46:11.40
in imperfect speech..."
00:46:11.43\00:46:12.77
Do you think God
has a perfect language?
00:46:12.80\00:46:14.54
Do you think the angels
speak a perfect language?
00:46:15.20\00:46:17.67
Of course they do.
00:46:17.87\00:46:19.21
Would we be able to
understand God and the angels
00:46:19.24\00:46:21.61
if they spoke to us in
the language they speak?
00:46:21.64\00:46:23.65
No. So would it be practical
for the angels to speak
00:46:23.91\00:46:26.72
in their language
that we can't understand?
00:46:26.75\00:46:28.75
Totally impractical.
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Notice...
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Now notice how God condescends.
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What practical purpose would
there be if the Corinthians
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were speaking in an angelic
language that nobody could
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understand when they
could really speak in a language
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that everybody could understand?
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It's senseless.
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God does not waste words.
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God is a practical God.
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Now notice this other statement.
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God's Amazing Grace, page 198.
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It says this...
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So God speaks to us
in imperfect speech.
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Why does He talk to
us in imperfect speech?
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Because if He spoke in
perfect speech, we would not
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be able to
understand what He's saying,
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and it would be
useless to us in our salvation.
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In another statement that
we find in, Selected Messages,
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volume 1 and page
20, Ellen White says...
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Would it be impractical
for me to speak in a language
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that even God cannot understand?
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Of course, it would
be terribly impractical
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to speak in a language
that I can't understand,
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that God can't understand,
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and that other human
beings cannot understand.
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The purpose, folks, of the gift
of tongues was to communicate,
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to communicate the
gospel of God to the world.
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It was not for self-edification,
to show off your high degree of
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spirituality, to edify yourself.
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None of those reasons.
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It was given for practical
reasons so that the gospel
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could be shared in the language
that people can understand.
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One final statement,
Early Writings, page 19,
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where Ellen White says...
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That is, in heaven.
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Does Canaan have a language?
00:49:42.01\00:49:43.58
Of course Canaan has
a... Heaven has a language.
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But would God speak to us
in the language of heaven?
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Of course not.
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He speaks to us in
the language of earth
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because He wants to
get the message across.
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And so she says...
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So God's language
is pure and perfect,
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which has not been
corrupted in the course of time.
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If God spoke to us in
the language that the angels
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use in heaven, we would
not be able to understand.
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So God condescends
to speak our language
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in order to fulfill the
mission of Revelation 14:6
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which takes the
first angel's message,
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it's actually the
three angels' messages,
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to every nation,
kindred, tongue, and people.
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But God has never commanded
us to speak in a language
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that is spoken
nowhere on planet earth.
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So let's answer the
questions that we formulated
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at the beginning
of our study today.
00:50:50.31\00:50:53.01
Must everyone speak in tongues?
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The answer, the
obvious answer, is no.
00:50:58.82\00:51:01.69
The apostle Paul says, "Folks,
not everyone has the same gift."
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It's like a body, like I was
mentioning, it's like the body
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being just a heart.
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The whole body being a heart.
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Or the whole body being lungs.
00:51:12.17\00:51:14.00
Or the whole body being a foot.
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You know, it takes
many different members
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to make the body function.
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And so it takes many
different spiritual gifts
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for the church to
function properly.
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Now let's ask
the second question.
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Is the gift of tongues
the most important gift?
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No.
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We noticed in the lists
that the gift of tongues
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is always mentioned what?
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Is always mentioned last.
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And the interpretation of
tongues is also mentioned last.
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And in two of the lists that we
noticed, two of the four lists,
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there was not even a
mention of the gift of tongues,
00:51:48.24\00:51:51.24
not first or last.
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And so the answer, is
the gift of tongues the most
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important gift, is no.
00:51:56.71\00:51:59.18
The next question is this:
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Is the gift of tongues
for personal edification
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or a sign of spirituality?
00:52:05.65\00:52:07.89
No. The Corinthians thought so.
00:52:08.62\00:52:10.93
We're going to study
tomorrow about 1 Corinthians 14.
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We're going to
study it verse by verse.
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And we're going to
see that the Corinthians,
00:52:15.23\00:52:16.97
they were speaking
languages of the world.
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Languages that were
spoken somewhere in the world,
00:52:19.60\00:52:21.87
but they weren't
spoken in the congregation
00:52:22.30\00:52:24.24
that they were speaking to.
00:52:24.27\00:52:25.61
And they were all
speaking at the same time.
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Can you imagine what it
would be like if in this place
00:52:28.24\00:52:31.65
we had 200 people,
and those 200 people
00:52:31.88\00:52:35.25
were each speaking
in their own language?
00:52:35.35\00:52:38.12
It would be pandemonium.
00:52:38.15\00:52:39.89
It would be like at the tower
of Babel revisited once again.
00:52:39.99\00:52:43.83
And so, folks, very clearly
the answer to this question,
00:52:43.93\00:52:47.63
whether the gift of tongues
is for personal edification
00:52:47.66\00:52:50.67
or a sign of
spirituality, is no.
00:52:50.70\00:52:53.44
Why was the gift of
tongues originally given?
00:52:53.47\00:52:56.27
It was given, clearly according
to the different passages,
00:52:56.40\00:53:00.68
because the gospel needed
to be shared in the languages
00:53:00.78\00:53:04.41
of the nations that
were represented on the
00:53:04.45\00:53:06.61
day of Pentecost and the nations
that would pass through these
00:53:06.65\00:53:09.85
cosmopolitan centers where the
gospel needed to be preached.
00:53:09.88\00:53:14.92
Now here's another question.
00:53:15.22\00:53:16.96
Is the gift of tongues the
ability to speak the languages
00:53:17.39\00:53:20.83
of the nations of the
world or is it an unknown tongue
00:53:20.86\00:53:24.30
that is not spoken
anywhere in the world?
00:53:24.33\00:53:27.10
The answer is that it is
the ability to speak what?
00:53:27.20\00:53:31.24
To speak languages that are
spoken somewhere in the world.
00:53:31.27\00:53:35.84
And I'll repeat
what I said before.
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I do not have
the gift of tongues.
00:53:38.25\00:53:40.25
You know, I
speak Spanish fluently.
00:53:41.38\00:53:43.39
And not only fluently,
but I can use the idioms
00:53:43.85\00:53:46.82
and I have the idiosyncrasies.
00:53:46.86\00:53:49.22
You know, I am
not only bi-lingual,
00:53:49.32\00:53:51.93
but I'm also bi-cultural.
00:53:51.96\00:53:53.46
And so people say, "Oh,
you have the gift of tongues."
00:53:53.80\00:53:55.93
No I don't.
00:53:55.96\00:53:57.30
Because I learned
Spanish when I was a kid.
00:53:57.63\00:54:00.27
You know, from the
time I was four years old
00:54:00.50\00:54:02.20
I grew up with Spanish.
00:54:02.24\00:54:03.57
So you can't say that it was
a miraculous endowment by God.
00:54:03.71\00:54:07.51
No, it was a learned phenomenon.
00:54:07.54\00:54:09.68
But the gift of tongues, folks,
was not a learned phenomenon.
00:54:09.81\00:54:13.98
The gift of tongues was
a supernatural, miraculous,
00:54:14.32\00:54:17.82
instantaneous gift that
God gave to the apostles
00:54:18.05\00:54:21.82
to speak different
languages to those who believed.
00:54:21.86\00:54:24.53
The ability, for
example, to speak perfect French
00:54:24.69\00:54:28.50
when you didn't even know
one word of French before.
00:54:28.96\00:54:31.67
And it's kind of like the
angels, you know, they have
00:54:32.03\00:54:35.30
all of these different
dictionaries, or all of these
00:54:35.34\00:54:37.14
different courses,
and somehow electronically
00:54:37.17\00:54:40.11
they take the language and
they plug it into their brain,
00:54:40.14\00:54:45.21
and suddenly you can
talk the language and you can
00:54:45.25\00:54:47.65
identify with the
culture, you can use the idioms.
00:54:47.68\00:54:50.09
And you speak it
perfectly without an accent.
00:54:50.19\00:54:52.55
That was the gift of tongues
that God gave that impressed
00:54:52.95\00:54:56.32
on believers and said,
"These guys didn't know
00:54:56.36\00:54:58.29
these languages before.
00:54:58.33\00:54:59.66
And here they're
speaking these languages.
00:54:59.76\00:55:01.50
We better listen to
what they have to say."
00:55:01.53\00:55:04.03
Now the final question,
what conditions must exist
00:55:05.17\00:55:09.00
in order to receive
the gift of tongues?
00:55:09.14\00:55:11.87
In order for God to
give the gift of tongues,
00:55:11.91\00:55:13.78
what condition must exist?
00:55:13.81\00:55:15.51
It must be what?
00:55:16.95\00:55:18.35
Well yeah, you need
to cleanse your soul.
00:55:19.61\00:55:21.22
But I'm mean, under
what circumstances will God
00:55:21.25\00:55:24.75
give the gift of tongues?
00:55:24.79\00:55:26.12
For what reason would He
give the gift of tongues?
00:55:26.15\00:55:28.42
He gives the gift of tongues
when you have a circumstance
00:55:29.36\00:55:32.53
where those who are
present need to hear the Word
00:55:32.56\00:55:36.93
and they don't know
the language that you know.
00:55:36.97\00:55:40.04
The gift of tongues is
given for practical reasons.
00:55:41.14\00:55:44.11
It's given to share
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
00:55:44.31\00:55:46.88
It is not given for people
to simply show off that they can
00:55:47.24\00:55:52.31
speak in a language that
even God doesn't understand.
00:55:52.35\00:55:54.92
It's not like the
"gift," in quotation marks,
00:55:55.35\00:55:58.12
that Kenneth Copeland showed
in the Tony Palmer meeting,
00:55:58.15\00:56:01.82
you know, where he started
rattling off, blessing the pope,
00:56:02.02\00:56:04.93
in a language that
nobody could understand.
00:56:04.96\00:56:07.83
How do you know that
this message is not a message
00:56:08.03\00:56:11.93
from the netherworld?
00:56:11.97\00:56:13.74
And if somebody interprets
the message, how do you know
00:56:14.74\00:56:16.94
that the interpreter is not
inventing some interpretation?
00:56:16.97\00:56:19.87
The fact is, folks, the only
way that you can check it out
00:56:19.91\00:56:22.48
is by seeing if
what the person teaches
00:56:22.71\00:56:25.11
is in harmony with God's Word.
00:56:25.15\00:56:26.61
To the law and to the testimony,
if they speak not according
00:56:27.68\00:56:30.89
to this word, it is because
there is no light in them.
00:56:30.92\00:56:33.46
We have to check what
Kenneth Copeland or anyone else
00:56:33.56\00:56:36.06
teaches to see if it's
in harmony with the Bible.
00:56:36.09\00:56:38.46
We cannot go by some
supposed supernatural language
00:56:38.56\00:56:41.83
that he speaks that no
one can understand, and say,
00:56:41.86\00:56:44.07
"Oh, this is a gift
of the Holy Spirit."
00:56:44.10\00:56:46.23
Now you say, "But what
about 1 Corinthians 14?
00:56:46.97\00:56:49.67
What about the apostle
Paul saying, speaking about,
00:56:50.61\00:56:53.07
you know, when you speak in
a tongue, you speak mysteries?"
00:56:53.27\00:56:55.84
And it refers there
to strange tongues, etc.
00:56:56.04\00:56:59.65
How do we deal
with 1 Corinthians 14?
00:56:59.68\00:57:02.05
Well, folks, that is the
subject of our next study.
00:57:02.72\00:57:06.52
So I hope you don't miss it.
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