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Sometimes in life when we come 
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circumstances, we all of a 
sudden find we have to slow down

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in all areas of life. 
Something as simple as eating a 

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meal, there's some types of food
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almost inhale and swallow 
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And I, I'm a fast eater too. 
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Anna says, did you even taste 
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You just, you just inhaled it. 
And yeah, I did for the taste 

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buds that I've left. 
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but there's certain meals I eat 
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I eat really slow because I want
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because the way the food is made
or the way just the type of food

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it is. 
There's a, there's a parallel in

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Scripture here. 
The Bible is some of it's light 

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reading. 
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It's just a story. 
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a story that's easy to follow, 
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And we just read it and that's 
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But there are other passages of 
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We read them and then we start 
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We start really going slow. 
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Corinthians is one of those. 
Sometimes you just have to slow 

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down and really dig in. 
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teach us? 
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We're in First Corinthians 14. 
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this week. 
I'm so glad we have multiple 

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preachers here, pastors who 
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to preach all of it. 
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chapter 14. 
And this for me is again, slow 

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chewing. 
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down enough that we can just get
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And even then we'll have 
questions that we won't have 

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answered because I don't have 
all the, I don't even know all 

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of this, what this exactly means
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And neither does anyone. 
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this, neither do they. 
There's a lot of stuff here that

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people look means this. 
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Well, what's the core the 
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to teach the Church of Corinth 
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We've heard already of spiritual
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in First Corinthians. 
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elaboration and an expansion on 
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prophecy. 
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special. 
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But I want to make a comment 
here and a lot of gifts that God

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has given us that come through 
by way of the mouth that we the 

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words we use, the things we say.
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powerful thing in the world is? 
It's the tongue. 

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There's nothing more powerful 
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You've heard this little quote 
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tongue is mightier than the 
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The tongue can be used for both.
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Encouraging people, blessing 
people, worshiping God happens 

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through the use of the tongue. 
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the tongue is the way it comes 
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The same holds true on the 
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The tongue can also be used for 
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and harmful things. 
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but in James chapter 3, if 
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sometime, James talks about the 
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importance of the use of the 
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He says it's, it's, it sets the 
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It sets our whole life on fire. 
It's set on fire by hell. 

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He says it can't be tamed. 
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deadly poison. 
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find how the Psalms talks about 
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mouth, we bless and we incur. 
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God's will that we use our 
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ministry that he's designed us 
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You see, when a person becomes a
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has now been saved. 
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Satan's domain. 
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now mature. 
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everything under control. 
Satan can still test that 

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person, attack that person, and 
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but doing stuff that doesn't 
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doesn't help. 
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be going on in Corinth. 
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Corinthians chapter 14. 
Satan knows well this person's 

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now lost to me, but maybe I can 
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influence others, or maybe I can
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And that's what sometimes 
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Corinth. 
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used well or wisely or even 
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confusion and chaos and 
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Orderly Worship. 
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believe this, I don't want to 
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think we have orderly worship. 
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worship, right? 
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However, this does not mean that
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we have nothing to learn from 
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I really believe that this is 
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So when we worship in the 
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of orderly worship? 
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everywhere else zigzagging 
through whatever goes on through

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the week? 
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Is my mind here? 
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Yes, I'm here physically, but 
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spiritually, am I here? 
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God in my heart? 
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especially this last sermon 
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I have grown fonder and more 
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First Corinthians because you 
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We fit right in. 
It's like us, we too have 

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struggles and problems and 
obstacles that we wrestle with 

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and deal with and stumble and 
fall and repent and all the 

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rest. 
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And it's a wonderful past, 
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One of the problems in the 
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worship. 
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Our disorder in some ways may 
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but we need to still ask, does 
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glorify God or does my worship 
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As Paul writes, we're never out 
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We're never in a place where we 
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OK, got this, let's go home. 
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be a church where when we leave 
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being here, your being here has 
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Your being here has edified 
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morning. 
Your worship has honored God and

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you've been blessed. 
And if you've read chapter 14 

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closely, you've read about the 
all the disorderly conduct 

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mentioned in in chapter 14. 
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tongue and what's goes on in the
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The tongue is the gateway out of
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There's an issue that needed to 
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the issue of tongues and the way
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What Paul is referring to here 
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or strange foreign languages and
maybe some have different 

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interpretations, but that's the 
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And you're welcome to chat with 
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And I'm not here to to debate 
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Just this is the way I see it. 
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tongues, foreign language that 
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even the one who's who's 
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Let's read first Corinthians 
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Paul writes, pursue love 
earnestly, desire the spiritual 

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gift, especially that you may 
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For one who speaks in a tongue 
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for no one understands somebody 
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On the other hand, the one who 
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their upbuilding and 
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The one who speaks in a tongue 
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who prophecies builds up the 
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Now I want you all to speak in 
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prophecy. 
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greater than the one that speaks
in tongues, unless someone 

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interprets so that the church 
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Now, brothers, if I come to you 
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be benefit? 
How will I benefit you unless I 

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bring some revelation or 
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teaching? 
If even a life, if even lifeless

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instruments such as the flute or
the harp do not give distinctive

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notes, how will anyone know what
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And if and if the bugle gives an
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ready for battle? 
So with yourselves, if with your

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tongue you utter speech that's 
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anyone know what is said? 
For you'll be speaking into the 

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air. 
There are doubtless many 

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different languages in the 
world, and none is without 

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meaning. 
But if I do not know what the 

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meaning of the language, the 
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to the speaker, and the speaker 
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So with yourselves, since you're
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the Spirit, strive to excel in 
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Therefore, one who speaks in a 
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interpret. 
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spirit prays, but my mind is 
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What am I to do? 
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I will pray with my mind also. 
I will sing praise with my 

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spirit, but I will sing with my 
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Otherwise, if you give thanks 
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in the position of an outsider 
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For you may be giving thanks 
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person is not being built up. 
I thank God that I speak in 

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tongues more than all of you. 
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rather speak 5 words with my 
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than 10,000 words in a tongue. 
Brothers, do not be children in 

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your thinking be infants and 
evil, but in your thinking be 

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mature in the law. 
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strange tongues and by the lips 
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Will I speak to this people and 
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to me, says the Lord. 
Thus tongues are a sign not for 

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believers but for unbelievers, 
while prophecy is a sign not for

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unbelievers but for believers. 
If, therefore, the whole church 

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comes together and all speak in 
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unbelievers enter, will they not
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That if all prophecy and an 
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he is convicted by all, he's 
called to account by all the 

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secrets of the heart are 
disclosed, and so falling on his

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face, he'll worship God and 
declare that God is really among

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you. 
What then, brothers, when you 

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come together, each one is a 
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tongue or interpretation. 
Let all things be done for 

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building up. 
If any speak in a tongue, let 

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there be only two, or most at 
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let someone interpret. 
But if there's no one to 

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interpret, let each of them keep
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himself and to God. 
Let two or three prophets speak,

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and let the others weigh what is
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If a revelation is made to 
another sitting there, let the 

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first be silent. 
For you can all prophecy 1 by 1,

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so that all may learn and all be
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And the spirits of the prophets 
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For God is not a God of 
confusion, but of peace in all 

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the churches of the Saints. 
The women should keep silent in 

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the churches, for they're not 
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be in submission, as the law 
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If there's anything they desire 
to learn, let them ask their 

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husbands at home, for it's 
shameful for a woman to speak in

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church. 
Or was it from you that the word

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of God? 
Was it from you that the word of

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God came? 
Or are you the only ones it has 

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reached? 
If anyone thinks he's a prophet 

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or spiritual, he should 
acknowledge that these things 

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I'm writing to are a command of 
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If anyone does not recognize 
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So my brothers earnestly desire 
to prophecy and do not forbid 

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speaking in tongues, but all 
things should be done decently 

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and in order. 
That is slow chewing. 

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You'll have noticed in this 
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emphasizing honing in zeroing in
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gifts. 
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struggles with their worship 
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They needed to be brought back 
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As I studied and I processed 
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week, I struggled with how to 
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vastness and explore that to 
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shallow. 
And I started reading what other

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writers have said and outlines 
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And I wondered, how do I best 
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morning that it works for us. 
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in a step by step form, I 
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follow that not word for word, 
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after that. 
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here, prophecy is a desired 
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Paul begins with prophecy as an 
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But notice the backdrop in verse
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He says pursue love as Paul is 
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from writing about having love, 
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Sunday. 
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with pursue love in light of 
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He says pursue love, and the 
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hunting after chasing an animal,
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something. 
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our base foundation. 
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So much rides on it. 
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And as we heard last night, if 
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not love, we have nothing. 
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all of what we do. 
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everything else. 
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everything else comes from. 
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really adds up to anything. 
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ever growing foundation in 
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the gifts of the Spirit can work
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It's in the context of love that
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his people to build the church, 
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another. 
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not all gifts are equally in an 
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or applicable. 
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is important. 
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Church of Corinth, but it had 
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confusion there was disorder 
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Paul wants them to have all 
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especially after prophecy. 
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as OK, Jake, can you tell me 
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the economy? 
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This prophecy simply means 
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This is what the Lord says. 
This is how we should respond in

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light of these circumstances. 
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means. 
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God's word and it's a gift. 
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this now kind of separates it. 
So let's go move on. 

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It says in verse 2, prophecy is 
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He says verse 4, the one who 
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himself. 
It's not a bad thing, it's a 

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good thing. 
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builds up the church. 
There's almost a devotional 

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element to the Speaking of 
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Notice the two different ways 
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The gift of speaking mysteries, 
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one understands, the gift of 
prophecy that everybody can 

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understand. 
People have really argued over 

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this passage and it's been, have
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Some believe even. 
I'll go, I'll just mention 

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something here. 
I read an article on time that 

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there's some people who actually
believe if you have not spoken 

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in tongues, you're not saved. 
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Acts where people got saved, 
they're baptized in the spoken 

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tongues. 
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If you have been saved, you've 
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spoken in tongues, you've not 
been saved. 

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That's an extreme overreach, I 
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I disagree with that. 
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who've professed Christ died for
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If speaking in tongues was the 
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how many here would not be 
saved? 

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Who are godly people who are 
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Who are followers of Jesus 
Christ? 

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I agree with Warren Weirsby who 
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tongues to be saved, what about 
First Corinthians 1230? 

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Paul writes there. 
He says do all possess gifts of 

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healing? 
Do all speak in tongues? 

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Do all interpreted interpret? 
In other words, not even the 

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Church of Corinth did everybody 
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And some people go on the other 
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of tongues, that's history. 
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And it's a gift that was one, 
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time, and and that gift has 
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That doesn't exist anymore. 
And so we don't have to think 

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about it. 
It's yeah, that doesn't pertain 

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to us and so on. 
I don't agree with that either. 

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There are people who I believe 
God gives the gift to speak in 

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tongues in some way. 
I know a very dear Christian 

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friend of mine and I've asked 
him he he believes that maybe 

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more strongly than I do, but 
I've asked him his experience 

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and he shared some of that. 
I do believe that it's real and 

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there are places and times it 
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rare as we look more in depth. 
That's not the primary gift that

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Paul is concerned about that the
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The word prophecy is perhaps 
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speaking in tongues. 
If you're not so much referring 

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to people who go about telling 
the future. 

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As I mentioned, it's about 
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church. 
A person pursuing God's love 

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will be able to use the gifts 
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edifying the body blessing, 
blessing the church, but also 

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growing himself. 
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better for the building up of 
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tongues. 
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He says for one who speaks in 
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to God. 
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it. 
For what? 

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For no one understands him but 
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Spirit. 
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tongues is not men speaking to 
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And Paul acknowledges it. 
He recognized it and he says in 

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verse 5, Now I want you all to 
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to prophecy, even more to 
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The one who prophecies is 
greater than the one who speaks 

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in tongues. 
Unless someone interprets so the

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church may be built up. 
Paul wants them to be engaged in

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building up the church. 
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better. 
Let's go further. 

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See how this kind of life 
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Paul is serious and he used this
illustration of the of the 

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instruments. 
He says if a harp is being 

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played the wrong tune, nobody 
knows what the harp, what the 

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what the song is about, or if a 
bugle is the sound is blown for 

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a call to battle. 
If it's the wrong notes or if 

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it's the wrong tune that's 
played, nobody knows. 

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It's time to call to battle. 
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you know what it sounds like 
when the instruments just don't 

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line up or don't work. 
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It's annoying. 
And you, I'm sure you've heard 

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music that's played like that, 
and you might just, oh, just 

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practice somewhere else. 
You don't like it. 

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Paul says speaking in tongues 
can be counterproductive if no 

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one is there to interpret what's
being said. 

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Doesn't say it's not good, 
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but it should not be used if 
there's no one to interpret. 

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The purpose of these gifts, the 
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gift of edification. 
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happen, there must be 
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said. 
The question is not which 

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language, Even the bottom line 
is, is it understood? 

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Is it, is it explained? 
Both tongues and prophecy must 

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edify to those those who listen.
He says in verse 12, strive the 

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last part, strive to excel in 
building up the church. 

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Therefore, one who speaks in the
tongue should pray that he may 

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interpret verse 14. 
For even if I for if I pray in a

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tongue, my spirit prays but my 
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What am I to do? 
I'll pray with my spirit, but I 

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will pray with my mind also. 
I will sing with my spirit or 

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sing with my mind also. 
Both are valid, both are good. 

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But in a church setting, he says
verse 19. 

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In a church I would rather speak
5 words with my mind in order to

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instruct other than 10,000 words
in a tongue. 

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And if you preach normal like I 
would, some say I've talked too 

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fast. 
But if you preach normal you 

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would say please speak about 
10,000 words in 40 minutes 

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roughly give or take. 
So a 40 minute sermon in tongues

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or five words. 
Paul says those 5 words are 

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better. 
The purpose of the gift is for 

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the ministry of building up 
edifying. 

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Paul emphasizes these that five 
understandable words are more 

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value than 10,000 spoken in a 
tongue that no one knows. 

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And so speaking in tongues is 
not wrong, but don't give a top 

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priority when we wonder where 
the Corinthian where the where 

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the Corinthian believers not 
doing what Paul is telling them.

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Nope. 
If this if everything had been 

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good in the Church of Corinth 
and this aspect, Paul would not 

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have written it. 
And it's very easy to move from.

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Order to chaos, it's always 
easier to get into disorder. 

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It's harder to bring things to 
order. 

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There's proper places and times 
for each thing, but it's so, so 

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easy to just let it degenerate 
or go into all kinds of chaos. 

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And they had to be reminded. 
You got to get this straight, 

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guys. 
And churches are very different 

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and this church is different 
from other churches. 

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And there's churches that have 
very loud, expressive and very 

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emotional or, yeah, very 
expressive services. 

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And there's churches where 
nobody talks. 

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They all walk in, sit silent. 
Somebody comes up, announces a 

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song, they sing solemnly. 
Somebody goes up, prays, 

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somebody goes up and preaches a 
sermon. 

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And I've had people say, well, 
what's wrong with your church? 

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We are not either or, but we are
too serious in some people's 

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minds. 
And one person came here one 

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time and said, there's no joy 
with you guys. 

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You don't dance. 
And no, you don't express 

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yourself verbally. 
Well, we don't. 

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We are. 
We are traditional. 

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We don't. 
And this person actually left 

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because of it. 
I'm not saying anything in 

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judgment of any church here, but
I want to mention the risk of 

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our modern day worship sort of 
sliding into areas that don't 

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really edify or don't really 
build up is what we preach here,

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is what we say is what we do 
edifying is how I visit with my 

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neighbor in the foyer and, and 
after the service. 

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Before the service is edifying. 
But mostly we're talking about 

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the service here. 
So God is the one who we worship

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and our neighbor's the one we 
help build up with our worship. 

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What's all this pointing to? 
What is the goal? 

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The goal of the gifts? 
He says in the law. 

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It's written by people of 
strange tongues and by the lips 

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of foreigners. 
I'll speak to this people and 

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even then they will not listen 
to me, says the Lord. 

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There's some confusion here and 
I admit I don't fully understand

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all this. 
He says in then verse 22, the 

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tongues are assigned not for 
believers but for unbelievers, 

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while prophecy is assigned not 
for unbelievers but for 

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believers. 
But then he seems to contradict 

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himself and verse 23 and on if 
therefore the whole church comes

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together and all speak in 
tongues and outsiders are 

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unbelievers enter. 
Would they not say you're out of

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your minds? 
I just thought they were for 

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unbelievers. 
But if all prophets and 

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unbeliever or outsider enters, 
he is convicted by all he's 

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called by Count OS. 
I thought the believers were the

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ones to benefit from the 
prophecies. 

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And then verse 25, the secrets 
of his heart are disclosed until

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falling in his face, he'll 
worship God and declare that God

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is really among you. 
Now I did read different 

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commentaries and they don't 
agree how they explain this. 

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I'm not going to pretend here 
this morning that I got this all

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figured out, but there's some 
things to point out here. 

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This passage does seem confusing
and some commentators say, well,

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it sounds like contradicts 
itself. 

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If in 23 we're all called to 
speak in tongues, unbelievers 

456
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think that we're out of our 
minds. 

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But then 24 all prophecy. 
If through all prophecy, 

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unbelievers are convicted, what 
what I do know is this prophecy 

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overrides towns. 
The end goal is that people, no 

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matter what we do, no matter how
we worship, how we structure, 

461
00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:00,760
how we organize, the end goal 
must always be that someone 

462
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comes through those doors who's 
a stranger and unbeliever. 

463
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:07,640
Whatever we do here, that person
needs to see God is here and 

464
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become convicted. 
And so both believers and 

465
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unbelievers will benefit from 
it. 

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Tongues may be a sign of 
working, but the people in the 

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presence of a tongue, but the 
people in the presence of a 

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tongue session would not be 
convicted of their sins unless 

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someone was interpreting. 
There's a danger for us to focus

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on one element like the extreme 
of the other. 

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I want to caution against, OK, 
now while we speak in tongues, 

472
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we can't force this. 
This is spirit generated. 

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This is not something that, 
well, now you speak in tongues, 

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00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,480
let's have a tongue session. 
It's how the Spirit moves a 

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person. 
God wants to communicate to us 

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and the whole person. 
We must not leave it one or the 

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other. 
And if our service is in 

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session. 
The purpose of prophecy is that 

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for the whole body to listen, to
be uplifted and those who are 

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not yet followers of Christ, 
they will fall on their face, on

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their not literally. 
Maybe they did there that God is

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among them. 
So what does an orderly service 

483
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:09,400
look like? 
Well, let's continue, he says in

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orderly. 
The orderly use of the gifts is,

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he says in verse 26, when you 
come together, someone sings, 

486
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has a hymn to announce, someone 
has a lesson to teach, someone 

487
00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,280
has a revelation to express, 
someone has a tongue. 

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00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:25,400
There it is or interpretation. 
Don't use a tongue if don't 

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speak in a tongue if there's no 
interpretation, but let all 

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things be done for building up. 
And the verse 26, he talks about

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00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:36,960
this, keep this in moderation. 
Don't just go. 

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00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:39,480
I like time. 
You all know how stuck I'm to 

493
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the clock. 
Maybe that's unhealthy, but have

494
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,360
it orderly. 
To me, that structure, it means 

495
00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:46,600
a lot. 
And if there's no one to 

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00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:48,640
interpret it, this guy shouldn't
even use his tongue. 

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00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,680
Then the foreign language and 
when the prophets speak, when 

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the preachers speak, maybe two 
or three at the most should 

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speak. 
I think that much longer worship

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services than we have today. 
Actually, North America is known

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for short worship services. 
I'm not saying they're wrong, 

502
00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,160
they're just not good. 
Sometimes I like them longer 

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00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,000
than shorter in some ways 
because you get more done. 

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And he says in verse 33, God is 
not a God of confusion, but of 

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peace. 
I remember listening to one of 

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my older Bible school teachers, 
and he'd been part of his 

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service. 
And so the young pastor that day

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was a youth pastor. 
He was preaching a sermon and he

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00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:26,440
was so animated, so excited, so 
expressive. 

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And he said by the time that 
service was over, we were all 

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excited. 
Nobody knew about what, but we 

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00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:36,120
were excited. 
That's not good, guys. 

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00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,160
And sure, no sin happened, but 
maybe something was wasted. 

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Maybe somebody should have 
ticked him under his arms. 

515
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,280
OK, tell us what you're trying 
to say. 

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00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:45,680
Tell us trying to. 
Where are you going? 

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00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:48,920
That's kind of, I think what 
happened in Corinth. 

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00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,120
They were not trying to sin. 
They're not trying to do wrong. 

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00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:55,160
There just needed to be order. 
There needed to be structure. 

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00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:01,720
God is a God of order. 
God is a God of structure, and 

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00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,600
the Old Testament services were 
very carefully prescribed. 

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You do the sacrifice this way, 
and you do the washing that way 

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and on and on. 
And the New Testament we're 

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free, but that doesn't mean 
we're free in the sense nothing 

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00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,080
matters. 
We still have to have orderly 

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00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:19,760
worship services. 
But then here in the passage we 

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come to a bump in the road into 
our modern Western ears. 

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This is a serious bump, some of 
which people trip and fall. 

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00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:30,920
Why would God this God's 
command? 

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00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:32,080
Paul says I'm this Lord's 
command. 

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What I'm telling you here, why 
would he say orderly roles in 

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the church that women should 
keep silent? 

533
00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:40,560
That cuts out half the 
congregation right here. 

534
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,320
If you follow it literally. 
They should be signed for, not 

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00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:48,920
be permitted to speak in 
submission as the law also says.

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If they want to learn, ask your 
husband at home. 

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00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,320
Poor singles. 
Then how are you going to learn 

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00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,240
anything Then he says it's 
shameful for a woman to speak in

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00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,320
church. 
What do we do with a passage 

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00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,080
like this? 
Now we have to here's where it's

541
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so important that we have to 
take the Scripture in context. 

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00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:06,520
We have to read not just one 
passage. 

543
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:08,840
You don't explain one passage by
one passage. 

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00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,920
You take the whole and you find,
OK, what else is he saying? 

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00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,440
What other passages are in line 
with this? 

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00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:19,360
And we we know in Chapter 11, I 
believe it is in Chapter 11, 

547
00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:22,920
yes, he says Paul writes again, 
it's the same same letter. 

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00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:28,360
He says when a woman prays in 
the church and she prophecies 

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00:27:28,360 --> 00:27:31,960
all also in the church, she's 
speaking, let her hair be 

550
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:35,600
covered when she praise her 
prophecies, Is he contradicting 

551
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,880
himself? 
No, we cannot say that because 

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00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:39,760
that's not what Paul is doing. 
He wouldn't do that. 

553
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,880
He would not contradict himself.
So what's the problem? 

554
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,600
And again, when you read a 
letter, you have to realize some

555
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:50,920
of the stuff in the letter is 
written with the with the 

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00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,120
understanding that they know 
what they're, what they're going

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00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:55,080
to read. 
And so we don't know what 

558
00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:57,080
exactly happened in Corinth 
except that there was disorderly

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00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:59,240
conduct. 
And somehow in the words of 

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00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,240
service, there was conversation 
going on or interruptions maybe 

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00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:04,880
going on, or women were talking 
in the way they shouldn't be 

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00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,240
talking. 
We're interrupting our different

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00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,400
expositors, different, different
commentaries have different 

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00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:12,920
comments there. 
But all I want to say is this, 

565
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,440
they knew what Paul was 
mentioning to them and they 

566
00:28:16,440 --> 00:28:18,720
didn't really like, OK, we got 
to shut up now. 

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00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,440
That's not what they were 
thinking. 

568
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,080
They were thinking, OK, those 
things we were saying in the 

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00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,600
church were not in place. 
And so we should now not be 

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00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:28,480
taking the leadership role. 
When he says they should ask 

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00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,880
their men, that's implied a 
leadership level here. 

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00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:36,640
And if the service had been 
peaceful and had not been, if 

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the women had not been causing 
verbal disruption, Paul would 

574
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:41,880
not have written this. 
Now, I don't want to say here 

575
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:43,320
this, OK, guys, listen to you 
ladies. 

576
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,200
You need to tone it down. 
That's not my pointer this 

577
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:49,240
morning, OK, But this means 
there's order God was at. 

578
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:53,520
God was ordaining for the men to
take leadership and the things 

579
00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,320
that were discussed and not 
saying women can't praise God. 

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00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:58,360
Women can't prophecy or or 
teach. 

581
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,680
That's not what he's saying. 
Women have a voice. 

582
00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:05,880
But here there was a problem and
then in verse on and down the 

583
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:08,360
road a little bit further, verse
37, he says if anyone thinks 

584
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,760
he's a prophet or spiritual, he 
should acknowledge that the 

585
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,920
things I'm writing to you are a 
command of the Lord. 

586
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,880
That's it. 
If anyone does not recognize 

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00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,520
this, he says he's not 
recognized. 

588
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:24,600
So my brothers earnest a desire 
to prophecy and do not forbid 

589
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:27,560
speaking in tongues. 
There was a host of issues in 

590
00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:28,760
Corinth that they had to deal 
with. 

591
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,000
This was one of them. 
So what's our take away this 

592
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,520
morning? 
What difference does this 

593
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,920
passage make to us? 
How will our lives be different 

594
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:36,520
when we leave here now than we 
came earlier? 

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00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,040
Why do you and I come to church 
when we worship? 

596
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,720
Why? 
What's our goal? 

597
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,160
What do we feel needs to happen 
in our hearts? 

598
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,720
What do we want to see happen in
someone else's life? 

599
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:55,360
It's important, as Paul began, 
pursue love in that context, on 

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00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,920
that foundation everything else 
should flow from. 

601
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:03,360
But if love is lacking, all 
kinds of disorder and chaos can 

602
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,040
creep in. 
God wants us to be a church that

603
00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:10,000
preaches and lives out the 
gospel and is a light to a 

604
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,200
hurting and struggling world 
around us. 

605
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:14,800
Maybe some are here this morning
who are not even part of the 

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00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:16,720
body of Christ. 
They've never experienced the 

607
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,840
fellowship and oneness of the 
body of the Saints. 

608
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,880
They're not benefiting from 
being part of the body. 

609
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,400
I would encourage you, You don't
have to worry about not being 

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00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:27,680
perfect. 
Just come, repent, believe we're

611
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,160
all on a journey. 
You'll be in good company. 

612
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:33,680
We want to invite everyone to 
come to Jesus to repent and 

613
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,680
surrender. 
And then with the gifts God 

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00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:38,200
blesses us with, bless us with, 
and he'll bless you with 1-2 or 

615
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,400
more with the gifts God blesses 
us with, use them in a way that 

616
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,920
brings us closer to God and in a
way that blesses the body. 

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00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:49,800
And together we grow into one 
glorious body, the church. 

618
00:30:50,120 --> 00:30:53,080
Let us pray. 
Lord, thank you for the gifts of

619
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,240
the Spirit. 
We're grateful to you that you 

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00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:58,200
use us in your Kingdom on this 
earth. 

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00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:04,400
Lord, may we be found faithful, 
committed, loyal, humble and 

622
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,480
repentant living out your gospel
in this world where there's so 

623
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,200
much pain and there's so much 
hurt. 

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00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,360
We praise you in Jesus name, 
Amen.