1 00:00:02,800 --> 00:00:05,760 Amen. Good morning everyone. 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:11,600 House of the Lord this morning. Good to be back home. 3 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,120 Good to be with you fine folks here on this Sunday morning. 4 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:20,080 I am a little tired and body that the Spirit is willing, even 5 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:21,920 though sometimes the flesh is weak. 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,880 Amen. It's good to be here, good to 7 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,760 see your faces here. And I was telling them in the 8 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,920 back that on the way home yesterday, I caught up on every 9 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,160 service I missed here. So I listen to brother Mason 10 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:37,840 about it's time to bury the dead bodies and I listen to the 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:41,720 Bishop on According to the Code and I listen to brother Zach 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,120 about my Brother's keeper. And isn't it great? 13 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:47,840 Brother Zach stayed in the book of Genesis for Wednesday and I 14 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:52,680 just, I don't know if he meant to do that or if God directed 15 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:54,400 him. That just proves to you that's 16 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,120 where we need to be on Wednesdays. 17 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,160 Amen. So but we're grateful for their 18 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,560 voice and taking the time and putting in the effort and the 19 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:05,519 energy, all those that kept things going around here while 20 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:08,240 we were gone. I got the list on my desk. 21 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,400 People showed up for prayer and that's always comforting that 22 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,240 you were here for prayer on the 1st Thursday of the month and 23 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,200 the here we are in the month of August, which seems like a 24 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:20,080 whirlwind that we're already here. 25 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:22,400 Amen. And again, thank you. 26 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:24,480 Yes, the, the surprise of the truck. 27 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:27,480 Here's how surprised there was. It didn't even recognize it. 28 00:01:27,480 --> 00:01:30,720 That's how tired I was kind of pulled into the drive. 29 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,400 I did notice my lawn. I knew that brother Fred was 30 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,240 going to take care of my lawn, but it looks like he's probably 31 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:37,840 cut it freshly because it looked pretty fresh. 32 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,960 And so he even probably did it more than once while I was gone 33 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:43,160 and so unloaded all of her stuff. 34 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,160 And my daughter's the one that said something's different out 35 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:47,960 here. So I went out and I seen it was 36 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:52,040 clean and I noticed my back tailgate that it, it was fixed 37 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:54,480 or if it even was the same one, I didn't know. 38 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:57,200 But that's, that's the, that's the extent of what I noticed 39 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,480 till this morning. I got my truck and seen 40 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:03,360 paperwork in above my visor and realized those were new tires on 41 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,600 my truck, which they were pretty bald, but nonetheless, and got 42 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:09,600 out and looked at and said, yeah, they're not just clean 43 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:13,320 they're new. But and I did, I got broke down 44 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,360 about 3 different times and maybe I'm, I think sometimes I 45 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,080 get more emotional my old age. Plus I was tired. 46 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,720 It's just a perfect storm. Just if I just up here this 47 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:24,800 morning, just start this bear with me. 48 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:27,240 You know, I just don't I don't know what's going to happen. 49 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,080 Amen. But it's been good and it's been 50 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:32,200 good good to be in the House of the Lord today. 51 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,840 Thank you for God's protective hand, Amen upon us and our 52 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:39,720 travels and what He has accomplished over the past 53 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:42,920 several, several days of being gone. 54 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:47,240 This morning I am, I'm going to be in teaching mode 2. 55 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,640 Two reasons. Number ones, I am absolutely 56 00:02:49,640 --> 00:02:55,120 tired #2 I would really want to answer a question that was asked 57 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,800 to me a few weeks ago and kind of delve into it just a little 58 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:00,320 bit today. And it's good. 59 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,680 It's good for all of us and it's applicable to Scripture. 60 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,640 I'm going to go to 1st Corinthians chapter #12 First 61 00:03:07,640 --> 00:03:10,480 Corinthians chapter #12 I'm going to read some verses of 62 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:15,640 Scripture there today and we'll we'll see what what happens here 63 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:18,680 today with, with this the question. 64 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:21,120 And it wasn't necessarily maybe a question as much of A 65 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:25,480 statement or, and it's, it's came up over and over again. 66 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,400 Maybe you've had it before and in the life of the church, and 67 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:31,960 that is even the greater church world. 68 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,960 Sometimes there's come the mode that people use certain settings 69 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:41,600 of scriptures for like the initial gift of the Holy Ghost 70 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:45,360 and speaking with other tongues. And that gets confused in with 71 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:50,560 the gifts of the spirit of tongues, which also gets 72 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,960 confused in with someone like praying then the Holy Ghost, 73 00:03:54,240 --> 00:03:56,200 right? And so sometimes there can be 74 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:01,560 misapplication, for instance, like the gift of tongues, like 75 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:04,560 when you talk about the nine gifts, that's in the setting 76 00:04:04,560 --> 00:04:07,880 scripture I'm talking about today, which usually 77 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:14,360 necessitates an interpretation when then people say not not 78 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:18,040 everybody has that gift, all right, but they want to apply 79 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:20,320 that then to the initial sign, the Holy Ghost. 80 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,680 And then like, well, not everybody will speak in tongues. 81 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:25,160 And whenever they receive the gift, the Holy Ghost, and so 82 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:28,520 it's a misapplication because they're these, these are 83 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,800 individual, a man in their, in their, in their giftings and our 84 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:34,600 experience of them as Christians. 85 00:04:34,760 --> 00:04:36,280 So that's what I want to talk about today. 86 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:37,920 Kind of give a little clarification. 87 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:40,960 Amen to that where they're because what's important, I 88 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,560 think to under score whereas the gift of tongues in First 89 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:49,200 Corinthians chapter #12 not everyone may participate in you 90 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,960 will speak in tongues whenever you receive the baptism of the 91 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,720 Holy Ghost. That is forever. 92 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,960 Every single individual and it will occur and happen. 93 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,960 And so that's important this morning and I'm going to try to 94 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:04,320 move along here that I won't get going if I don't get started. 95 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:06,560 Amen. First Corinthians chapter #12 96 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:11,280 starting with verse #1 the Bible says now concerning spiritual 97 00:05:11,280 --> 00:05:15,800 gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 98 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:19,920 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away into these dumb 99 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:24,520 idols, even as you were led. Wherefore I give you to 100 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:26,720 understand. Wherefore I give you to 101 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,800 understand that no man speaking by the Spirit of God, call of 102 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,880 Jesus a curse, and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord 103 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:37,520 but by the Holy Ghost. Now there are diversities of 104 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,880 gifts, but the same Spirit, and there are differences of 105 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:44,720 administrations, but the same Lord, and there are diversities 106 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:48,040 of operations, but it is the same God which worketh All in 107 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,240 all. But the manifestation of the 108 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:53,320 Spirit is given to every man to profit with all. 109 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,360 For to 1 is given by the Spirit, the Word of wisdom. 110 00:05:56,360 --> 00:05:58,400 These are the gifts of the Spirit, the 9 gifts of the 111 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:03,080 Spirit, the given the Word of Wisdom to another, the word of 112 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:07,000 knowledge by the same Spirit to another faith by the same Spirit 113 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,600 to another, the gifts of healing by the same Spirit to another, 114 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,680 the working the miracles to another, prophecy to another, 115 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,760 discerning the spirits to another, diverse kinds of 116 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,640 tongues to another, the interpretation of tongues. 117 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:25,000 But all these work of that one and the self same Spirit 118 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:31,080 dividing or distributing to every man severally as he will. 119 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:35,000 So this morning I basically want to talk about tongues today, the 120 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:39,640 initial sign spiritual gift and, and in the mode of prayer. 121 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:42,000 All right, hey man, let's pray today. 122 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:46,960 Father, I thank you today, God, your word, Lord Jesus, God is 123 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:49,240 forever settled. The grass may wither and the 124 00:06:49,240 --> 00:06:52,120 flower may fade, but the word of the Lord will stand forever. 125 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:53,880 We're thankful Lord, for your word. 126 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,120 He gives us instruction. God, enlightenment, God, they 127 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,640 are words to live by, words to die by. 128 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:01,520 God will give the glory and the praise. 129 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,480 God, for what you accomplished through this word and the lovely 130 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:07,920 name of Jesus Christ this morning that I pray and the 131 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:13,040 church say Amen, Amen. You may be seated this morning 132 00:07:13,600 --> 00:07:17,840 in Jesus name. And so we want to just take a 133 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:22,960 little bit of time this morning to differentiate between these 134 00:07:22,960 --> 00:07:27,400 these different tongues today and to clarify the distinctions 135 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:32,440 between these different manifestations of tongues or or 136 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:36,680 languages, as you could call it, because it's important again, so 137 00:07:36,680 --> 00:07:40,560 that we don't fall prey to miss applying some guidelines that's 138 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:43,400 for one of these manifestation of tongues to a different 139 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,440 manifestation of tongue where where it doesn't apply. 140 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:49,080 And so that I believe that is important. 141 00:07:50,080 --> 00:07:53,400 What if we look at these this morning in our passage, it's 142 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:57,400 speaking in particularly about the gifts of divers, divers 143 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,080 kinds of tongues. And the word divers just 144 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:04,800 basically means different kinds of tongues, which can really 145 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,720 point to a couple different things. 146 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:12,000 When we talk about different kinds of tongues #1 We 147 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:18,040 understand through Scripture that tongues, that language can 148 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:23,480 be either heavenly or earthly. The Bible tells us that in First 149 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:29,120 Corinthians chapter #13 the Paul right into the church at Corinth 150 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:30,720 said. He said, though I speak with the 151 00:08:30,720 --> 00:08:34,799 tongues of men, which would be earthly, tongues can be a real 152 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:37,559 language of the earth that is used. 153 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:42,559 That may be unbeknownst to you, you, you might have English as 154 00:08:42,559 --> 00:08:46,320 your native tongue in your native language, but this divers 155 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,400 type of tongues you may speak in the language that you were not 156 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:51,320 taught, you've not been instructed in. 157 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,360 It's not like part of your your maybe your bilingual, maybe you 158 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,000 know, English and Spanish, but it's something outside of that 159 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,680 scope that that is a earthly tongue. 160 00:08:59,680 --> 00:09:02,360 We have so many different languages and dialects across 161 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,080 the world today. It's numerous, but it could be 162 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:06,720 that. But he says, though I speak with 163 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,360 the tongues of men, which is earthly tongues, things that 164 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:12,440 someone in the land of this earth would be familiar with if 165 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,240 they heard it, if it was their native language and of angels. 166 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:19,160 All right, so we're Speaking of something that exceeds the 167 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,360 earth, something that is a heavenly, He says that have not 168 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:25,040 charity I become as a sounding brass or tinkling symbol. 169 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:29,000 So we talk about diverse diversity for different kinds of 170 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,000 tongues. It could be simply that that it 171 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:33,600 could be tongues of men or of angels. 172 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,120 All right. And so the apostle Paul brought 173 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:41,160 that to our attention in First Corinthians chapter #14 the the 174 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:45,120 Scripture often calls this divers kind of tongues. 175 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,240 It often calls it the unknown tongue. 176 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:54,480 Again, a tongue that is unknown to the one who is speaking it or 177 00:09:54,480 --> 00:09:59,440 being used by it could be, again, another human language 178 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:03,320 that may be foreign to you, or it could be a heavenly language. 179 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,520 All right, it's that of angels, so to speak. 180 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:09,640 And so there are divers kind of tongues in that respect. 181 00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:13,600 But there's also divers type of tongues when we talk about that, 182 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,600 because there is tongues that he's used for personal 183 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:21,760 edification that we call praying in the Spirit. 184 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:25,200 All right, The Bible says, when you know not what you ought to 185 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,240 pray, there are groanings that cannot even be uttered, and you 186 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:32,080 pray in the spirit. That's for personal devotion, 187 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:35,720 personal edification. But then there is another aspect 188 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:39,040 that requires interpretation, that when you've heard it, 189 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,000 you've, you've seen things shift in this congregation before. 190 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,120 I must say holy hush or a boisterous voice of tongues that 191 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:52,520 was formed to us come forth in that tongue necessitates an 192 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:55,960 interpretation. All right, So 2 gifts working in 193 00:10:55,960 --> 00:10:59,800 tandem here in, in First Corinthians chapter #12 the 194 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,440 diversity of tongues and then interpretation working in 195 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,680 tandem. And that then edifies the body. 196 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,880 It builds up the church. It's for the edification of the 197 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:11,200 church. So it's different than one edify 198 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:13,880 self, another edifies the church. 199 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,440 But even to to pile on top of that, then we have this initial 200 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,200 sign of receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, right? 201 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,120 They spoke in tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance 202 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,960 according to Acts chapter #2 and according to the Word of God. 203 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:31,920 That, though, puts us in the body. 204 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,880 That puts us in the body. The Bible states this. 205 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,320 If I can find the Scripture, because I don't have, there's 206 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,800 probably going to be some scriptures today that I don't 207 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,800 have written down here in my notes that I'll just go to. 208 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,720 And I'm trying to find this one verse #13 of First Corinthians 209 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:49,520 12. It's shifting now. 210 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:51,880 It's speaking about four by one spirit. 211 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,000 The Spirit's talking about is the Holy Spirit or the Holy 212 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,920 Ghost. For by 1 spirit are we all 213 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:02,520 baptized into one body? The Bible speaks about the Holy 214 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:06,160 Ghost as being the baptism of the Spirit or being infilled 215 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:08,440 with the Spirit. He says by 1 spirit are we 216 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,720 baptized into the body. And the Bible continues to say 217 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:14,200 whether we be Jew or Gentiles will be bond or free. 218 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:16,880 We've all been made to drink into one spirit. 219 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:20,000 And so whenever we receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and we 220 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,280 speak in tongues as Acts 2 tells us, and the Spirit gives us the 221 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:28,440 utterance in order to do so, that initial sign and that 222 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,160 speaking in tongues places us in the body. 223 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,960 So we have these divisions, The initial sign of the Holy Ghost 224 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:37,880 to speak in other tongues places us in the body. 225 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:39,840 And #1 let's back up for a moment. 226 00:12:40,160 --> 00:12:43,040 First Corinthians 12 tells us these are the gifts of the 227 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:46,280 Spirit. In other words, they belong to 228 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:48,600 the Spirit. If I were, if I were to take you 229 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,960 by my house, and I said, well, that's the House of Paul. 230 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:53,680 Another way of saying that that's Paul's house. 231 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:56,880 Paul being possessive of the house, all right, those that 232 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:00,520 belongs to me. And these are the gifts of the 233 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,600 Spirit. They belong to the Spirit. 234 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:08,640 So you must have the Spirit to operate in the gift of diverse 235 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,840 tongues and to pray in the Spirit. 236 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:14,920 You must have the Spirit even in Scripture. 237 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:19,080 The first time that we see the initiation or the Bible speaking 238 00:13:19,080 --> 00:13:22,280 about anyone speaking in tongues, it was in the book of 239 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:27,120 Acts concerning the initial gift of tongues and the sign that 240 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:29,640 accompanied that gift of speaking in other tongues. 241 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:34,640 You will not operate in diverse tongues and interpretation these 242 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:38,080 gifts of the Spirit unless you have the Spirit. 243 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:42,040 The spirit gets you in the body. The Bible says in first 244 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:44,640 Corinthians 12, it goes on and even says more starts talking 245 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:47,760 about the body of Christ, how there's one body, there's many 246 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:52,240 members right of the body and about how we're how we have 247 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:56,000 different functions in the body being a part of the body and 248 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,080 it's speaks about prophecies and all these things. 249 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:02,200 But again, you must be a part of the body in order for that to 250 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,680 take place when you receive the gift, the Holy Ghost, and you 251 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:09,160 speak in tongues as the Spirit gets the utterance that puts you 252 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:12,760 in the body. All right, If God uses you and 253 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:17,840 you open and yield to speaking in tongues, the gift of tongues 254 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:21,280 for the purpose of an interpretation of tongues, that 255 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:25,320 edifies the body. But if you pray in the Spirit 256 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,520 and you're an intercession, you don't know what to say and 257 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,720 you're not speaking in English, but you're praying to God that 258 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:33,960 edifies you. So that differentiates than the 259 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:37,200 purpose of these three different things, these three different 260 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:41,600 types or kinds of tongues that the scripture makes mention of. 261 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:44,960 Amen, Amen. So it's important, it's 262 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,880 important then to look at them. And, and the other thing is, and 263 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:51,000 I'm, I'm probably going to be all over my notes. 264 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,480 I got notes, but my mind's like rolling like this right now as 265 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:56,520 well. Again, and I already made 266 00:14:56,520 --> 00:15:01,480 mention this to begin with, that whenever we talk about the gift 267 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:05,280 of the Holy Ghost, that's for all of us. 268 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,600 I know, I know the society in which we live in, there are a 269 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,040 lot of different ideas and concepts, right? 270 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:18,320 But let's go back to Scripture. The gift of the Holy Ghost is 271 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:24,120 for all of us, all right? This, the baptism of the Holy 272 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:29,920 Ghost, is what the the New Testament gospel writers spoke 273 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:34,480 of, and that Jesus even spoke of himself as being the promise of 274 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:37,600 the Father. You'll read, and you're probably 275 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,720 going to have to use your fingers because I already told 276 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:41,440 Brother Mason, you ain't going to have everything I'm going to 277 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:43,200 say today in the Scriptures I go to. 278 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:48,560 But if you go to Luke chapter #24 if you go to Luke 24 and 279 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:56,040 like verse 45 this morning, the Bible states these words in 280 00:15:56,040 --> 00:16:01,920 verse #45 of Luke 24. And this is, this is Jesus. 281 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,560 He's opened their understanding. The Bible says that they might 282 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:10,000 understand the Scriptures and said in them, thus it is 283 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:12,800 written. And thus it behoove Christ to 284 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:17,000 suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that 285 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,040 repentance and remission of sin should be preached in his name 286 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,440 among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 287 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:27,560 And ye are witnesses of these things. 288 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:32,520 And behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you. 289 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,480 But Terry, in Jerusalem, in the city of Jerusalem, until you be 290 00:16:36,480 --> 00:16:41,160 endued with power from on high. So He's given them some 291 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:45,760 instruction, Repentance and remission of sins is going to be 292 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:50,640 preached in His name, and it's going to begin at Jerusalem. 293 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:55,160 Acts 2, whenever they are gathered together, the 120 in 294 00:16:55,160 --> 00:17:00,120 the upper room, Acts 1 and 2, chapter 1 and chapter 2, we see 295 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:04,880 these group of disciples and 120, even Jesus's own mother 296 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,280 Mary is present among them. They're gathered in the upper 297 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,040 room. They have been tarrying there. 298 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,720 They've been continuing there. They have been praying all 299 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:19,359 right, and it's in this place even that later we see in Acts 300 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:23,000 2, Peter preaches the message of Acts 238. 301 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:28,480 Then Peter said them, repent and be baptized, everyone of you in 302 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,400 the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your 303 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:35,240 sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. 304 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:39,640 Repentance and remission of sins was preached in His name 305 00:17:39,840 --> 00:17:44,000 beginning at Jerusalem during that feast of Pentecost, when it 306 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,520 was required, according to the book of Deuteronomy, for all 307 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:51,920 people to come to this feast. The population of Jerusalem went 308 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,480 many times over during the feast of Pentecost because of 309 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,080 everybody that's coming in. But Jesus said before this ever 310 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:02,720 occurred, he said, I want you to go there because I'm going to 311 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:05,680 send the promise of my Father to you. 312 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:09,440 But you need to tarry there and wait for that, that that power 313 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:12,600 from on high. You can turn to Acts chapter #1 314 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:15,400 just a few chapters over from where we just were, or books 315 00:18:15,400 --> 00:18:19,840 over Acts chapter #1 and verse #4 the Bible says. 316 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:23,760 And being the symbol together with them, commanded them that 317 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:27,000 they should not depart from Jerusalem. 318 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:32,800 But wait for the promise of the Father, which saith He, ye have 319 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:36,400 heard of me. This is Jesus, Jesus, this is 320 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:39,240 talking here yet again. He says, you've heard this of 321 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:41,960 me. For John truly baptized with 322 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,400 water, but ye shall be baptized. And note the language. 323 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:48,240 He's talking about receiving the Holy Ghost as being baptized 324 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,720 with the Holy Ghost. Ye shall be baptized with the 325 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:55,600 Holy Ghost not many days hence. This is something that we read 326 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:58,160 of the Scripture. He's, he's referring back to a 327 00:18:58,160 --> 00:19:00,200 time whenever John was baptizing. 328 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:03,480 All right, you can read of it in Luke chapter #3 and Matthew 329 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:08,520 chapter #3 Jesus was baptized, but he told the people that he 330 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:11,680 was baptizing. He said, there's one that cometh 331 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,960 after me, whose shoe latch I am not worthy to undo. 332 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:20,400 He says, and he's going to come. He's mightier even than I and 333 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,440 he's going to come and he's going to baptize you with the 334 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:28,360 Holy Ghost and with fire. He says this over and over 335 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:29,920 again. You look at it in in Luke 336 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:34,560 chapter 3 and also in Matthew chapter #3 he says John only 337 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:38,040 baptized in repentance, but once coming baptize you with the Holy 338 00:19:38,040 --> 00:19:41,800 Ghost and with fire. Now if you look again at Acts 339 00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:46,880 chapter 1, like verse #12 the Bible tells us that after Jesus 340 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:50,600 ascended and his disciples, if you, if you remember Scripture, 341 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:54,080 the story he ascended, the disciples are there, they're 342 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,800 gazing as he's being taken up. Some angels say, why stand ye 343 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,240 here gazing? The same Jesus is taken away 344 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,280 from you is going to come in like manner, right? 345 00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:06,680 He ascended from the Mount of Olives, but he had told them, 346 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,040 what did he tell them? Go to Jerusalem, wait for the 347 00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:15,800 promise of the Father. And so the Bible says. 348 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,920 Then return they, this is Acts 112, unto Jerusalem. 349 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,800 They're being obedient to what the Lord said from the Mount of 350 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,720 Olivet, which is from Jerusalem, a Sabbath day's journey. 351 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,120 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room where 352 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:33,120 both Peter and James and John and Andrew and Philip and Thomas 353 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:36,360 and Bartholomew and Matthew and James the son of Alpheus, and 354 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,920 Simon the Zealots, and Judas the brother of James. 355 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:42,400 Look at verse 14. These all continue with 1 accord 356 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:44,880 in prayer and supplication. They continued there. 357 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:49,480 They're tarry in there just as they have been told and spoken 358 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,760 to to do so again. It even says in verse 14 women 359 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:56,200 were there, Mary the mother of Jesus was there, Amen with his 360 00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,160 brethren. Let's just pause for a moment. 361 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:04,360 Amen that Mary, when we read in Acts 2, Mary the mother of Jesus 362 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,320 received the promise of the Father. 363 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:10,680 She received the Holy Ghost and spake in other tongues as the 364 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,360 Spirit gave the utterance. She was blessed. 365 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:17,720 The Bible says blesses the woman that you know who who who gave 366 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:21,480 suck and to Jesus Christ. Yes, a very honorable thing, but 367 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:27,440 the Bible describes to us that she still needed, she still 368 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:31,800 needed the baptism of the Holy Ghost, Amen. 369 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,960 She still needed that. And so nonetheless, here they 370 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,280 are, they're following all this. It was for everyone. 371 00:21:36,440 --> 00:21:38,160 It was for everyone. How do I know this? 372 00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:41,600 Again, when we read Acts 2, those famous words of Peter, 373 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,200 he'd been preaching to them, the gospel message. 374 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:47,320 He talked to them how this saying, Jesus, whom you 375 00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:49,720 crucified, God has raised him up. 376 00:21:49,920 --> 00:21:52,440 He's preaching the gospel. He talks to them about his 377 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:56,320 death, his burial, his resurrection and whenever they 378 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,800 learned that they had crucified their Messiah, whenever they 379 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,880 learned what they had done, there was a certain amount of 380 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:07,160 guilt that came up on them, a certain amount of of conviction 381 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,000 that came up on them. That's what spawned the question 382 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,680 then, sister, am I when they said, what shall we do? 383 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,480 And Peter answered that then with the repentance and being 384 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:20,520 baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, right for the rich sins 385 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:22,080 and you shall receive the Holy Ghost. 386 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,080 But it doesn't stop there. It says in verse 39 for the 387 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:26,440 promise. What promise? 388 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,360 The promise of the father. So wait, wait one a minute. 389 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:31,600 Peter's doing something interesting here because he is 390 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,080 making a connection between the Holy Ghost and the promise. 391 00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:36,840 The promise of the Father was the Holy Ghost. 392 00:22:37,120 --> 00:22:39,960 The promise of the Father is what was going to happen right 393 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,440 here in the Scripture. He said for that promise, which 394 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,200 was the promise of the Father, that Jesus said he would sin. 395 00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:49,960 He said, is unto you and to your children, and to all that are 396 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,840 afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. 397 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,040 Ladies and gentlemen, the initial sign of speaking in 398 00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,920 other tongues as the Spirit gives the utterance just wasn't 399 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:04,160 for the 1st century church. It was for every generation from 400 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,360 there, even to now. And we have enough examples 401 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:10,360 still today. Just this past week, I seen 402 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:13,640 people speaking in other tongues for the first time. 403 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,160 That was the initial evidence that they had received the 404 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:18,640 promise from the Father. It did not. 405 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,440 It did not stop in the 1st century. 406 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,720 It started in the 1st century and it's not stopped yet. 407 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,800 It's for everyone, as many as the Lord our God shall call. 408 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,480 Well, how do you say it's for everyone? 409 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:37,680 Well, in one place the Scripture in John chapter #7 like verses 410 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,080 3637 around there, the Bible describes that Jesus is at a 411 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,000 feast. It's the last day of the feast. 412 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,360 And he's standing and he's crying into the people, and he's 413 00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:51,880 saying, if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 414 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,240 And he said he that believeth on me, as the Scripture have said, 415 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,920 out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. 416 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:04,880 But in parentheses in the next verse he qualifies everything 417 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:10,200 and says that the this he spake concerning the spirit that those 418 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,040 that would believe upon him should receive. 419 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:16,600 And it says though, but the Holy Ghost was not yet given at this 420 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,760 spot because Jesus had not yet been glorified. 421 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,960 What's that mean? Jesus at this point had not 422 00:24:22,960 --> 00:24:27,480 died, He had not been buried, and he had not been resurrected. 423 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:30,040 Amen. So the Holy Ghost hadn't come 424 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:34,320 because Jesus was still there. Because in John 14 he told them, 425 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:38,720 he says I will go away, but I'm going to send you a comforter. 426 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:40,800 And he told us what that comforter was. 427 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,000 The comforter was the Holy Ghost. 428 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:47,400 So he hadn't yet been glorified, but he said the water you will 429 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,200 drink of and that well that will come out of you. 430 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,200 He said it will be the Holy Ghost. 431 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,080 That's what I'm talking about. You can't talk about this stuff 432 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:03,040 about getting excited it he said whosoever if a man thirst. 433 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,000 Not only that, when you read the very last chapter of the Bible 434 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,560 of the Revelation chapter 22, there's a verse of Scripture in 435 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,800 there like in the teens that says that the spirit and the 436 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,680 bride say come. So it says, it says the Spirit 437 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,720 and the bride say come, and it says and let him that is a 438 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,200 thirst come. He even says he uses this word. 439 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,200 This is a bit you want to talk about a big word in the English 440 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,680 language. He said whosoever will let him 441 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,600 come and notice the verbiage and drink of the water of life 442 00:25:38,360 --> 00:25:41,040 freely. If you take that and you couple 443 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:43,080 that with John and you understand. 444 00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,840 And John, he said whenever I'm talking about thirst and water, 445 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,000 I'm talking about the Spirit and you couple all that together. 446 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:53,400 Before he closes out the Book of Revelation, he is once again 447 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:58,480 underscoring this is for whosoever will that is thirsty. 448 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:00,680 The promise of the Father is for you. 449 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,720 And when you receive the promise of the Father, you will speak in 450 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:10,040 new tongues as the spirit you just received gives you 451 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,680 utterance. So it's for everyone. 452 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:18,480 Someone say it's for everyone. It's for everyone. 453 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,240 I ain't don't know where I'm at anymore. 454 00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:28,280 It's for everyone. Now, if I've already received 455 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:35,080 the gift of the Holy Ghost, that initial sign of His Spirit, and 456 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:39,600 I'm in the service, and that holy hush happens, that 457 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:43,800 boisterous speaking in tongues happen, and there's a reverence 458 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:48,920 and I already had the Holy Ghost, it's not as though I'm 459 00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:51,560 getting the initial evidence of the Holy Ghost all over again. 460 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,920 But now having been put in the body by virtue of receiving the 461 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:03,920 Holy Ghost, I have access to the gifts of the Spirit. 462 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:10,400 Let's pause for a moment because the last verse in our text this 463 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,440 morning talks about all these things. 464 00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,520 Work by the same Spirit. It's all by the same. 465 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:20,280 It's the Spirit that you received at your new birth. 466 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,440 They all work by the same Spirit. 467 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,600 And look, that spirit divides or distributes it says in verse 11 468 00:27:27,960 --> 00:27:33,040 to every man severally or as his own, as he will, as God wills. 469 00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:39,840 What that means is this, there's a possibility for anybody that's 470 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,720 filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost to operate in any 471 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:50,240 gifts of the Spirit. It's listen, this, it's not like 472 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,640 you got, it's this level of super spirituality you reach and 473 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:55,400 then you can operate in the gifts of the Spirit. 474 00:27:56,960 --> 00:28:00,240 That's not the case. For that matter, the Bible tells 475 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,880 us in the church at Corinth that they lacked in no gift. 476 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:06,560 If the Bible also talks about that, they had some carnality 477 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:11,720 that happened in the church. They weren't perfect, but they 478 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,840 had been born again of the water and the Spirit. 479 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,560 What happens in the gifts of the Spirit? 480 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:19,400 Is it? Yeah, it is your human body and 481 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,520 your human mind and thoughts and tongue working in tandem with 482 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,000 his spirit. All right. 483 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:29,920 And so anybody in this place could be used in any of the 9 484 00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:31,960 gifts of the Spirit. Why do you say that, brother 485 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,640 McGee? Because I think sometimes we sit 486 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,920 on cues and we get filled the Holy Ghost and we think, well, 487 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,280 no, that's only pastor's job or that's only that person's job. 488 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:41,640 So that's not the case. We need to be open that God can 489 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,360 use any one of his word of knowledge, right? 490 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:46,600 And I've, I've done series on all these things that someone's 491 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:48,400 like watch, see, talk about where you can go back. 492 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:50,920 I have a series on the gifts of the Spirit somewhere there in 493 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:53,040 great podcast land. Amen. 494 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,280 Amen. And we probably spend a lot of 495 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,200 time there, not as much as we have in Genesis, but none the 496 00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:04,400 less anybody can. But the Bible also tells us, and 497 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:10,000 it's like verse #29 of our text verse, Corinthians 12, verse 29. 498 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:13,760 Are all apostles, Are all prophets, are all teachers, are 499 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,760 all workers of miracles, have all the gifts of healing? 500 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:19,240 Do all speak with tongues, do all interpret? 501 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:24,800 And the question all that is no, not everybody is used with 502 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,240 diverse tongues and interpretation of tongues. 503 00:29:27,640 --> 00:29:31,520 No, but that's when it says do all speak with tongues. 504 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:34,000 That's not applying to your initial gift. 505 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:37,960 Someone say, well, see right there, not everybody. 506 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:43,640 No, it's misapplied. This applies to the gift of 507 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:48,560 diverse tongues, not your initial sign of the Holy Ghost. 508 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:51,120 All right? And so it's important to 509 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,440 differentiate between the two. Amen. 510 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,560 The Bible says in First Corinthians 1413, I got to move 511 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,760 down. The Bible says, wherefore let 512 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,000 him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may 513 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,520 interpret. So we're talking about 514 00:30:07,800 --> 00:30:12,640 exercising the gift of diverse tongues, pray that he may 515 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:16,960 interpret. That's important again, because 516 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,560 in order for the church to be edified, there must be an 517 00:30:20,560 --> 00:30:25,480 interpretation outside of that. Sometimes confusion can be 518 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:29,920 generated within a house when there's no interpretation. 519 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:35,040 Why? Well, I hate to tell you, I only 520 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:39,800 know one language and there's some days I'm wondering if I 521 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,840 know that one. I make my family proud sometimes 522 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,120 as I stand behind the pulpit and say stuff. 523 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:49,000 They're like, we don't know that guy. 524 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:54,360 You don't have his verb agreeing with his subject, you know, And 525 00:30:56,800 --> 00:31:02,840 what I'm saying here, when we look throughout Scripture, it 526 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,120 was usually all everyone. What are you saying? 527 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:11,160 For instance, on the day of Pentecost all 120 spoke in 528 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:19,480 tongues all when you read, for instance, Acts chapter #10 529 00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,320 Cornelius of the Italian band, a Gentile. 530 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:31,320 The Bible speaks for one in in verse #42 They knew that they 531 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,360 had received that gift, that the Holy Ghost have been baptized, 532 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,920 if you will by the Spirit, because the Bible says they 533 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,880 heard them speak in tongues. Who did? 534 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:47,240 The whole household of Cornelius when you read later in Acts 535 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:52,280 chapter 19 and the the 12 disciples of Ephesus that they 536 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:56,360 met and the question was asked, have you received the Holy Ghost 537 00:31:56,360 --> 00:31:59,600 since you believed? We didn't even know there was 538 00:31:59,600 --> 00:32:02,120 such a thing as the Holy Ghost. And then they begin asking them 539 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,080 concerning what how they were baptized. 540 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,560 The Bible speaks that they received the gift of the Holy 541 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,480 Ghost and spoke in other tongues as well. 542 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,760 Who? All 12 of them. 543 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,280 It wasn't a splattering of one or two here when the two No, no, 544 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,760 no, some did, some didn't. They all did because that was 545 00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:25,760 the initial sign of receiving the Holy Ghost. 546 00:32:26,160 --> 00:32:30,800 All right, that differentiates from the gift of divers tongues 547 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,880 that we have in First Corinthians 12 and 1st 548 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,520 Corinthians 14, for that matter. Looking at this again, is that 549 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:38,240 right? Doing OK? 550 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:42,160 Look at the skin. Even in Acts chapter #8 some 551 00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:46,040 people want to quibble over Acts chapter #8 because there's 552 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:47,920 Philip down there. He's in Samaria. 553 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:53,080 He's preaching their signs and wonders taking place, evil 554 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,560 spirits being dispatched. And the Bible says there's there 555 00:32:56,560 --> 00:32:59,880 is a man in the city, Simon, who was a sorcerer who bewitched the 556 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:02,520 people. And he also believed the Bible 557 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,920 says in verse 13 of Acts 8. And he was baptized and he he 558 00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:08,440 continued with Phillip and he wondered at the signs and the 559 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:13,080 miracles that were going on. But word got back, word was sent 560 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:17,960 to Jerusalem and heard that that these at Samaria had received 561 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,120 the word. So they sent to them Peter and 562 00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:21,880 John. Peter and John comes down. 563 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,120 And the Bible says whenever they came down, verse 15, who when 564 00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,880 they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive 565 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:31,600 the Holy Ghost. And whenever we read that they 566 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:33,320 did in verse 17, they received the Holy Ghost. 567 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:35,840 A lot of people want to quibble over well, it didn't say that 568 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:38,800 they spoke in tongues, but you got to remember the Bible says 569 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:43,040 Simon's observing all this Simon, who was once a sorcerer. 570 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,840 Look at verse 18. It says he says when he saw the 571 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:49,000 laying on of the hands of the apostles and the and the Holy 572 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,520 Ghost was given he offered them money. 573 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:59,280 What did he pick up on? If the Holy Ghost is just 574 00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:01,880 something that just happens and you just have faith that it 575 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,120 happened and there's nothing visible, nothing audible. 576 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,920 What did he pick up on? What caused him to say, wow, 577 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,760 I'll pay money to what did he pick up on? 578 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:13,320 I'll tell you what he picked up on. 579 00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:16,840 He picked up on what happened in Acts 2, What happened in Acts 580 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:20,560 19, What happened in Acts 10 because when you receive the 581 00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:25,199 gift of the Holy Ghost, ye shall speak with new tongues. 582 00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,760 He picked up on the exact same thing that happened everything 583 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:32,880 else and to solidify in nature, both in Deuteronomy and also in 584 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,560 the Gospels like Matthew, the Bible states that out of the 585 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,040 mouth of two or three witnesses. It states in different ways. 586 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:44,760 Let every word be established or let the matter be established. 587 00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:50,400 We have at least three, if not 4 Amen precedence here in the New 588 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:54,040 Testament Scripture that they received the Holy Ghost they 589 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,880 received or they spoke in new tongues when they received the 590 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,920 baptism of the Holy Ghost. That establishes the matter. 591 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:03,960 If you got two or three that this is not a one pony verse 592 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:09,600 somewhat, no, we haven't established Amen pattern Amen of 593 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,680 what happens when someone receives the gift of the Holy 594 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,480 Ghost. What that means is we don't need 595 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:19,640 to expect anything less than what the Scripture than what the 596 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,840 scripture preaches and then what it teaches. 597 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:25,760 Amen. And so there's multiple in these 598 00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:28,760 different settings, people receiving the gift of the Holy 599 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,800 Ghost and speaking in new tongues. 600 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,480 So if we come over then the 1st Corinthians 14 and we tried to 601 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:40,760 apply some of the same stuff, it's not going to work because 602 00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:44,720 it's the gift of tongues, of diverse tongues. 603 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,480 For instance, First Corinthians 14 and verse 27, if any man 604 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,480 speak an unknown tongue, let it be by two or at most 3, and that 605 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,880 by course and let one interpret. You can't take that and apply 606 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,080 that to the initial sign of receiving the gift of the Holy 607 00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,480 Ghost. That applies to the gift of 608 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:09,400 diverse tongues, meaning that two or at most 3 should do this, 609 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:13,320 that by course or by turn, and that there should be 1 interpret 610 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,120 why for the edification, because if its purpose is for the 611 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,840 edification the body, we want the body edified all right, for 612 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,280 the purpose of edification, Amen. 613 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,560 So you miss apply their operations if we don't 614 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,360 understand their differences. Amen. 615 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:39,400 My glasses back on here. So if you've ever been in the 616 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:40,560 service, I don't know if you have. 617 00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,160 If you've never been in the service, there are times that 618 00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:47,920 there is the operation of diverse tongues and you can 619 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,160 almost feel it happening before it happens. 620 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,440 A shift in the atmosphere, in the service, that someone with a 621 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:59,280 loud voice, elevated tone enough to rest our attention, will 622 00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:02,480 speak in a language that is unknown to them, of tongues, of 623 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:04,440 men or angels. Amen. 624 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,320 And then we pause, and we wait upon the Lord and upon someone 625 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:12,840 to willingly yield themselves to give the interpretation a right 626 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,840 of the tongue. I don't have time to go on all 627 00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,280 this, but there's a big difference between a translation 628 00:37:17,280 --> 00:37:19,080 of a tongue and an interpretation of a tongue. 629 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,680 Translation could be word for word meaning of what is spoken. 630 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:29,440 Interpretation is like a general paraphrasing of concept and 631 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:34,440 meaning. All right, so it's important. 632 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:37,800 And yes, we want to be sensitive to the Holy Ghost, that spirit 633 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,640 that we received that placed us in the body for operating in 634 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,360 these things. Because yes, for the fridge 635 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:49,400 sometimes, or I say this, I pray in the spirit, I, I want to get 636 00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:55,000 there every day, right? And I told you when I do that, I 637 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:00,200 might not know what I'm saying, but God through me is doing 638 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:05,760 something for stuff I don't even know about, about circumstances, 639 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,760 situations, maybe even things in my own life that he's I'm not 640 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,000 even Privy to. Amen. 641 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:15,080 I need that, that personal edification, that personal 642 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,280 building up. But the church also needs 643 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:21,400 edification as well. And so we got to keep a, a, a 644 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,800 proper balance. The Bible says in Jude one and 645 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:26,240 verse #20 I'm trying to keep, listen folks, I got to keep 646 00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:28,800 track of time. I, I was at, I was a revival 647 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:32,960 brother Curtin and, and we had four services, 1st 2 services. 648 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:34,920 I used a little hanky like I do around here. 649 00:38:35,120 --> 00:38:38,800 And I preached for 45 minutes. It things were operating right 650 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,120 with his air. It was hot in the church. 651 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,160 So the next night I upgraded to a wash rag. 652 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:45,760 I preached for 50 minutes. The last service I was there, I 653 00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:48,120 upgraded to a hand town. I preached an hour and 7 654 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:52,800 minutes. So if you ever see the wash rag 655 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,880 start to increase, as it gets longer, so does the sermon. 656 00:38:57,720 --> 00:38:59,640 And if it's harder, I'm staying longer. 657 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,480 I told them that at camp meeting because I'd upgraded there too 658 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:09,760 by the last night. I have this big old towel. 659 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,240 But they I say they didn't let me appreciate last night. 660 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:21,200 Services went on for two hours and 45 minutes and they said you 661 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,400 do what you want to and I wasn't going to do that to him. 662 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,320 Then I got all kinds of complaints that I didn't. 663 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:32,440 So I don't know, nonetheless, Jude one verse 20. 664 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,520 But ye beloved, building up yourselves, see, there's the 665 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,080 personal edification, building up yourselves on your most holy 666 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:43,560 faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the 667 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,280 love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ 668 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,680 unto eternal life. There is nothing wrong with 669 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:54,480 praying in the Holy Ghost, nothing wrong in speaking in 670 00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:58,040 tongues as you have your time of prayer. 671 00:39:58,040 --> 00:40:01,040 Again, whenever we do this, we move into a mode of building up 672 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,520 ourselves on our most holy faith. 673 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:07,360 All right, but again, this is not to be confused. 674 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:09,840 That time of praying in tongues is not to be confused then. 675 00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:12,800 Well, I need an interpreter. No, and it's not to be confused 676 00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,520 with that initial sign of the Holy Ghost that you received 677 00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:18,280 when you first come to know the Lord. 678 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:21,560 The benefits are there. The Bible describes it in First 679 00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,000 Corinthians 14 and verse 2. For he that speaketh in an 680 00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:29,240 unknown tongue without an interpreter is is being implied 681 00:40:29,240 --> 00:40:34,000 here. Speaketh not unto men, but unto 682 00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:37,640 God. For no man understandeth him, 683 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:41,800 howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries. 684 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:46,480 But verse 14 of the same chapter tells us, For if I pray in an 685 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:51,160 unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding 686 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:55,320 it's unfruitful. But God understands and God 687 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:58,040 knows what he is doing. Praying or speaking in the 688 00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:02,520 unknown tongue without an interpretation is something that 689 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:06,360 both we and others do not understand. 690 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:13,320 Unless, and this has happened, there is a foreigner or someone 691 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:17,920 that knows more than one, more than one language there that may 692 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:22,440 speak the language that God is speaking through you, that 693 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:27,960 tongue of men, and they may understand, although you may not 694 00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:29,640 understand. Amen. 695 00:41:29,720 --> 00:41:35,800 And so I could get into a lot of, you know, on the ditches 696 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,320 here of the road here. But I think it's important even 697 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,080 this morning that we need to be sensitive to know whenever God's 698 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,960 just want us to pray in the Spirit and whenever he's wanting 699 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:49,120 to edify the church with tongues of interpretation, right? 700 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,880 Because sometimes I think God's really moving on someone and 701 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:54,640 he's really moving on them just to pray and intercede in the 702 00:41:54,640 --> 00:41:56,720 Spirit. And he's not wanting to edify 703 00:41:56,720 --> 00:41:58,040 his body. He's wanting to edify them. 704 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,200 But sometimes we, we get lost in the fray, you know, and miss it. 705 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,200 And that's OK because we're humans, aren't we? 706 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,520 God's a gracious God and a merciful God, but nonetheless 707 00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:10,040 praying in the Spirit act Romans chapter #8 verse 26, it says 708 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,280 likewise, the spirit also helpeth our infirmities for it. 709 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,120 And I've, I've made reference to this already. 710 00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:20,880 For we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the 711 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:24,640 Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with 712 00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:28,280 groanings which cannot be uttered. 713 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,240 Amen. So Paul didn't discourage them 714 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:33,920 from being used in diverse gifts of tongues. 715 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:38,120 He didn't discourage them from praying in the Holy Ghost or 716 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,000 praying in tongues. Not at all. 717 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,960 Matter of fact, he even said one place in Scripture, he said he 718 00:42:42,960 --> 00:42:47,080 was thankful that he spoke in tongues more than most, right? 719 00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:50,840 But he's basically given us a guideline to distinguish the 720 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:55,680 difference between the different manifestation of tongues in our 721 00:42:55,680 --> 00:43:00,000 life and not to make one or the other what it isn't or what it, 722 00:43:00,000 --> 00:43:02,040 you know, understand what I'm saying, Not to try to apply. 723 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,720 No, not, not everybody. So not everybody will get, you 724 00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:07,960 know, speak in tongues. He's trying to differentiate so 725 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,280 we won't mix and muddle these together. 726 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,680 Amen. If a message in tongues has no 727 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,760 interpreter, there could be a few things at play. 728 00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,040 Maybe maybe maybe the person mistaking that for really they 729 00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,520 should have just been praying and devotion to God in tongues. 730 00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,080 Or perhaps it happens where flesh. 731 00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,360 Maybe someone was dealing with someone to give the 732 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:31,040 interpretation, but they were scared and afraid and they just 733 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,320 didn't do it. We've had instances here. 734 00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:35,920 People went home and then called back, pastor, I'm sorry I said 735 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,640 this is what God want to say. OK, we'll share that. 736 00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,120 That's fine. Amen. 737 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,440 The Bible says in First Corinthians 1413, Wherefore let 738 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,040 him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may 739 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,520 interpret. And here's the thing, if God 740 00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:54,800 uses you to give a message in tongues, you also need to pray 741 00:43:54,800 --> 00:43:56,840 that you might interpret. Don't just think. 742 00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:59,280 Well then, then that's on somebody else. 743 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:05,920 No, it could be you. It could be Amen. 744 00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,960 I've seen a goddess used me in that aspect before. 745 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,080 Amen. But he wants them to understand. 746 00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,080 Amen. 1st Corinthians 14, verse 28. 747 00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:19,160 But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the 748 00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,720 church, and let him speak to himself and to God. 749 00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:25,960 That is wisdom. Let there be silence in the 750 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,040 church. Let us just interact with God 751 00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:30,920 for a moment and see where the edification needs to be at. 752 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:36,440 Amen. A person may be present in the 753 00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,440 room. We have never heard someone 754 00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:46,040 speak in tongues, period. And it could convince them that 755 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:48,280 indeed something real is taking place. 756 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:55,720 Especially whenever you are in a setting of multiple cultures 757 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:57,920 where there's multiple languages. 758 00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:05,120 I know, dear friend, there was there in their congregation, 759 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:13,640 they had had a, a student from LSU that was with them who was a 760 00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:19,360 Lebanese student in their their congregation and the gift of 761 00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:25,120 diverse tongues, a message in tongues went forth and there was 762 00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:30,080 no interpreter to the tongues in that message. 763 00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:40,240 But this Lebanese guest said, why was that person speaking in 764 00:45:40,240 --> 00:45:42,520 my native language? I speak Arabic. 765 00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,120 Why were they speaking that Arabic language? 766 00:45:47,120 --> 00:45:52,600 And he was at first, a little initially upset because the 767 00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:54,920 person had, you know, invited them to church. 768 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:58,680 And he's like, why would you arrange this for someone to 769 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,760 speak of my native tongue in public and rebuke me for my 770 00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:09,200 sins? Neither the person that had 771 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:13,240 invited him nor did the person who gave the message, Neither 772 00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:18,120 one of them knew Arabic. But God used a miraculous moment 773 00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:24,040 to speak to a Lebanese student and said, and here's God. 774 00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:27,480 He's such a gentleman. There's no embarrassment because 775 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:31,760 no one knew Arabic. Come on. 776 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:35,480 He can speak specifically to that young man. 777 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:43,720 Folks, that's God. OK, I'm trying to keep an eye 778 00:46:43,720 --> 00:46:46,840 here. God's not the author of 779 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,720 confusion. The Bible says everything should 780 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:53,360 be done decently and in order. Amen. 781 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,040 Come see, I'm at 44. Stand with me because I don't 782 00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:57,680 want to take advantage of you folks. 783 00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:01,680 I've taken advantage of a lot of people the past 10 days, so I'm 784 00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:14,420 good. The initial sign of of having 785 00:47:14,420 --> 00:47:16,740 received the Holy Ghost speaking in tongues, that's for everyone. 786 00:47:18,980 --> 00:47:22,860 The gift of tongues as the gift in First Corinthians 12. 787 00:47:25,140 --> 00:47:28,460 Some do. Some though, praying in the Holy 788 00:47:28,460 --> 00:47:36,720 Ghost, that can be for everyone. The initial sign when your first 789 00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:39,920 initial experience with the Lord, repentance, believing all 790 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:42,280 of that, it puts you in the body, right? 791 00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:48,560 The gift of tongues, edification for the body, praying in the 792 00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:51,880 Holy Ghost, edification for self, right? 793 00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,040 You can receive the Holy Ghost anytime, right? 794 00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:01,960 Huh. You're going to be using the 795 00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,600 gift of tongues. It's going to require an 796 00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:08,880 interpreter in order for the edification to take place. 797 00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,080 You can pray in the Spirit, in the church, at home, anywhere 798 00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,400 and everywhere. Amen. 799 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:18,480 I hope this has helped somebody today. 800 00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:29,160 Man, I can say so much more about the Holy Ghost because 801 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,040 you're baptized by this, you don't believe yourself into the 802 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:40,530 body and baptism by water alone don't get you into the body. 803 00:48:40,530 --> 00:48:45,050 You got to be baptized by the Spirit to get into the body. 804 00:48:46,530 --> 00:48:50,450 He told him Mark 1615 right? He that believeth and baptized 805 00:48:50,450 --> 00:48:52,250 shall be saved. He believeth not shall be 806 00:48:52,250 --> 00:48:54,170 damned. These signs shall follow them 807 00:48:54,170 --> 00:48:57,170 that believe, and among the list they shall speak in new. 808 00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:03,760 It's so good. God's folks. 809 00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:07,720 This is a masterful book here. It's so interconnected it blows 810 00:49:07,720 --> 00:49:09,560 my mind. I've been reading this thing for 811 00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:14,440 years and I still come across and I'm like, wow, it's a gift 812 00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:15,960 from God. Amen. 813 00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:19,080 So if you don't have the Holy Ghost today, you can receive the 814 00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,080 Holy Ghost, and when you do, you'll speak in tongues. 815 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,000 Jesus told Nicodemus, right? The wind bloweth where it 816 00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:29,560 listeth where it desires. All right, You didn't hear the 817 00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:32,000 sound thereof. He said. 818 00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:35,600 So is everyone. He was born of the Spirit. 819 00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:37,840 Amen. All right, I got to shut up. 820 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:41,080 Let's pray right now. Today, Father, I love you, God. 821 00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:44,160 I need your spirit. God, I need Lord. 822 00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:47,040 That initial work that I did, Lord, when I was 8 years old, 823 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,040 received the gift of the Holy Ghost and spoke in other tongues 824 00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:51,320 as the Spirit gave the utterance. 825 00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:54,720 God, that placed me in the body, God being a part of the body, 826 00:49:54,720 --> 00:49:58,520 Lord, it gave Lord Jesus access to the gifts of the Spirit. 827 00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,040 I pray, O Lord, that our part of being in the body, Lord, if I 828 00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:06,040 yield myself to Lord, you, Lord, would want to desire to use me 829 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:08,800 in any of those things. Lord, there's a possibility of 830 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:12,560 that taking place, Lord, of speaking, Lord Jesus with the 831 00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,920 gift of tongues for the purpose of Lord interpretation and 832 00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,600 edification. God, in my daily prayer life and 833 00:50:18,600 --> 00:50:22,200 my time with you, God, I can, Lord, speak in tongues and pray 834 00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,720 in tongues. Lord, you can intercede your 835 00:50:24,720 --> 00:50:27,960 spirit through me, God, and things can take place and things 836 00:50:27,960 --> 00:50:31,320 can be spoken I'm not Privy to, but heaven knows the Lord, and 837 00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,440 it may be unraveling something that needs to be Lord attended 838 00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:36,480 to. I thank you, Lord, that you have 839 00:50:36,480 --> 00:50:40,200 given us these privileges. I pray, O Lord, today, help us 840 00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:44,440 God, to operate, Lord, with diligence, God with wisdom, Lord 841 00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,240 Jesus, in these matters. God, they are gifts that you 842 00:50:47,240 --> 00:50:50,360 have given to your church, your body Lord, and as far as the 843 00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:54,560 Holy Ghost to whosoever so ever will God if they come, they can 844 00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,480 drink of the waters of life freely. 845 00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,280 God bless you people today, strengthen them, minister them 846 00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,480 and help them. Lord Jesus to think on these 847 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,720 things. In the lovely name of Jesus 848 00:51:04,720 --> 00:51:10,280 Christ I pray Amen, Amen. The church say Amen Amen. 849 00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:15,160 Folks, there is still 2. In addition to this, if you ever 850 00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:19,640 just search podcast, I know that I've taught and preached and 851 00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:22,120 stuff along these lines once before. 852 00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:26,720 That podcast has thousands and thousands of sermons and 853 00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:29,560 lessons. That again is something I mean, 854 00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:31,920 think years ago you didn't have that afforded you. 855 00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:34,240 You know what I'm saying? They a lot of times they didn't 856 00:51:34,240 --> 00:51:36,760 even record services. It was said and done, but now 857 00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:40,880 you have the ability to go back re listen, you know, ruminate if 858 00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,880 you will. And so that's there and it's 859 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,440 should something we should take advantage of. 860 00:51:44,720 --> 00:51:46,600 God bless you this morning, Jesus name. 861 00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:49,440 Come back to service tonight at six. 862 00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:52,600 All right, shake someones hand, hug their neck if it's 863 00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:56,120 appropriate. Amen and God bless you in Jesus 864 00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:56,640 name.