1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:02,040 It's great to be here with all of you this morning. 2 00:00:02,040 --> 00:00:04,800 We have a wonderful crowd, and we're so thankful for that. 3 00:00:05,520 --> 00:00:08,800 We have some visitors that are here among us from the community 4 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,200 and maybe other places of the congregations, and we say 5 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:12,560 welcome, and we're glad you're here. 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,880 As I have been announcing, this Sunday, we're going to begin a 7 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,600 short miniseries on the day the Kingdom came. 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,360 You remember that we just finished a series on the 40 days 9 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,000 from the time that the Lord Jesus rose from the dead until 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:32,640 he ascended into heaven in Acts chapter 1 and all the 11 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:37,120 significant things that actually happened over those 40 days. 12 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,840 The title of our lesson this morning though, as we begin our 13 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:47,920 series on the Kingdom is Baptism of the Holy Spirit and Speaking 14 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:50,800 in Tongues. Now I got to say, these are two 15 00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,240 things that are very much misunderstood today. 16 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:56,640 You might remember that two lessons ago when I mentioned 17 00:00:56,640 --> 00:01:00,240 some things in Acts chapter 1, when Jesus made a promise of the 18 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:03,400 Holy Spirit to be given to the apostles, He was talking about 19 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,160 the baptism of the Holy Spirit. And I just mentioned in passing, 20 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:09,680 there's a difference between the baptism of the Holy Spirit in 21 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:14,560 Acts 2 and Acts 10 and the gift of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 and 22 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:16,160 verse 38. We talked about what those 23 00:01:16,160 --> 00:01:19,840 differences are, but today we want to talk about the baptism 24 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,640 of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues and how all of that 25 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:26,640 happened the day the Kingdom came. 26 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,400 Going back to the significance though, you remember of those 40 27 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:34,120 days, remember this, I'll be very brief, but sometimes a 28 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,480 number is just a number. That's true. 29 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:41,000 And as we said in great detail, 40 is just 40. 30 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,560 The significance of the number 40 with regards to days or years 31 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:50,680 in the Bible is God happened to choose this period of time of a 32 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:55,480 time of testing, trial, purification and preparation 33 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,840 leading to a new beginning, transformation or significant 34 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:04,320 divine action. That was examples in the Bible 35 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,640 of all those things concerning 40 days and 40 years. 36 00:02:07,640 --> 00:02:12,080 That's the significance of 40. And while it's true that during 37 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,040 that period of time, from the time Jesus rose from the dead to 38 00:02:15,040 --> 00:02:19,320 the time he ascended into heaven 40 days later, it's obvious that 39 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,520 was a period to prove his resurrection. 40 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,680 But it was also very significant because Jesus chose that time to 41 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,920 prepare his apostles for the greatest thing they will ever 42 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:36,160 do, and that is to take the gospel to the world and to talk 43 00:02:36,160 --> 00:02:39,640 about their role in the coming Kingdom of preachers of the 44 00:02:39,640 --> 00:02:42,360 gospel divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. 45 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:46,120 Now regarding the Kingdom, very briefly, it's nothing new. 46 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,520 Daniel prophesied about this hundreds of years before the 47 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,920 events that actually transpired in Acts chapter 2, in Daniel 48 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:56,880 chapter 2 and verse 44. And in the days of these kings, 49 00:02:56,880 --> 00:03:00,360 the God of heaven will set up a Kingdom which shall never be 50 00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,080 destroyed, and the Kingdom shall not be left to other people. 51 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,880 It shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and 52 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,320 it shall stand forever. I don't have time to go very 53 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:12,880 deeply into this prophecy, but let me just say this. 54 00:03:13,360 --> 00:03:16,080 The Kingdom that's being referred to by Daniel in the Old 55 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,240 Testament is talking about the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. 56 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,120 And it's talking about the greatest Kingdom in all the 57 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:23,960 world that will never be destroyed. 58 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,120 May I say, don't ever think the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is going 59 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,080 anywhere. It's going to stand forever. 60 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:35,280 Daniel said, and get this, Peter even said it's everlasting. 61 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:38,800 Meaning when Jesus comes back, those that are in the Kingdom of 62 00:03:38,800 --> 00:03:43,720 Christ will be handed over to his Father, and therefore it 63 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:47,000 will be everlasting and it will never be taken away. 64 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:50,160 Salvation will have it, all those wonderful things. 65 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,160 But to be in the Kingdom, everlasting in heaven, you got 66 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:54,800 to be in the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. 67 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:58,000 Now, Daniel prophesied about that a long time ago, but not 68 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,280 just Daniel, how about Joel and Isaiah? 69 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:04,320 They all prophesied about the establishment of the greatest 70 00:04:04,320 --> 00:04:07,120 Kingdom in all the world, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. 71 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:10,120 All right, let's Fast forward. Let's go into the New Testament 72 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:12,560 times. John the Baptist, the cousin of 73 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,000 Jesus, the forerunner of Jesus comes on the scene and says this 74 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,839 regarding the Kingdom. He said repent for the Kingdom 75 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:25,440 of heaven is at hand. 1 chapter Later after Jesus was baptized 76 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,360 in the river Jordan by John the Baptist to fulfill all 77 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:33,520 righteousness, he was tempted in the wilderness 40 days and 40 78 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:36,760 nights. After all that happens, he 79 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:41,000 begins his Galilean ministry. And in Matthew chapter 4, Jesus 80 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,240 picks up the baton if you will, and speaks about the Kingdom. 81 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:48,520 And he says he began to preach and to say repent for the 82 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:52,480 Kingdom of heaven is at hand. Two chapters later in the Gospel 83 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,600 according to Matthew, in the greatest sermon ever, priest in 84 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,800 the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus actually gave a model prayer, 85 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:03,240 which is often times referred to as the Lord's Prayer. 86 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,080 But nowhere in the Bible does it say the Lord's Prayer. 87 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:08,320 If you want to know what the Lord's Prayer was, you have to 88 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:10,720 look at John 17. You would have to look at a 89 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:12,680 prayer that the Lord actually prayed. 90 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:18,160 That would be his prayer. Jesus was giving a model prayer 91 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:22,000 before the Kingdom came. In other words, here's a way to 92 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,480 pray not not words to be regurgitated or repeated over 93 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:32,160 and over and over repetitiously. All right, Jesus says pray in 94 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,000 this manner. Our Father who art in heaven, 95 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:39,240 hallowed be your name. Then he said your Kingdom comes 96 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:44,240 or when the Kingdom comes your will be done on earth as it is 97 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,600 in heaven. Remember when we studied this 98 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,960 two years ago? Can't believe it's been 2 years. 99 00:05:49,680 --> 00:05:53,920 Two years ago I looked in Matthew chapter 6 on this 100 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,400 passage. Remember it is inappropriate for 101 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,520 us to pray today for a Kingdom to come in the future. 102 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:07,880 That's already been established. However, the word Kingdom means 103 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:11,880 rain. Jesus said the Kingdom is within 104 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:16,800 you, meaning Jesus on the right hand of God on the throne is 105 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:20,760 reigning over the Kingdom. If the Kingdom is within you or 106 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,440 people, he's reigning in the hearts of baptized believers 107 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,880 that are his. So the only future reign of 108 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:29,880 Christ, it won't be another Kingdom. 109 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:31,640 It's already here. We don't pray for that. 110 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:35,600 It will be, though, in the heart of someone that is not a 111 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,440 Christian today, that becomes one down the road. 112 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,120 That's the only prayer that we pray for people to come to the 113 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,320 Kingdom. So the future reign of Christ in 114 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:45,760 their heart will happen when they come to Jesus. 115 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:49,040 We'll pray for a Kingdom to come that has already been 116 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,560 established. Jesus was talking about a model 117 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:59,320 prayer for a time before that. All right then, after the 118 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,480 resurrection and before the ascension, Jesus told his 119 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:05,480 disciples to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit to come. 120 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,520 And he said, But you shall receive power when the Holy 121 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:14,560 Spirit has come upon you again. He's talking to to the apostles, 122 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:18,880 and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in Judea and in 123 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:22,200 Samaria and to the end of the earth. 124 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:26,600 So this here is talking about the baptism of the Holy Spirit 125 00:07:26,840 --> 00:07:30,160 that was promised in Acts chapter 1 and verse 5 where 126 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:34,000 Jesus says for John truly baptized with water, but you 127 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,400 shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. 128 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:45,160 OK, after the ascension of Jesus in Acts 1, Matthias is added to 129 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,600 the 11 replacing Judas, and now you've got 12 men. 130 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,400 And these twelve men are ready for the greatest monumental task 131 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,000 of their life. And that brings us to Acts 132 00:07:56,080 --> 00:08:00,520 chapter 2, when the day of Pentecost had fully come. 133 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:07,800 Most of you know about what Pentecost means, and Pentecost 134 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,040 actually means 50th and we get that. 135 00:08:10,040 --> 00:08:13,480 We understand. And sometimes people use the 136 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:18,840 word Pentecost out of context to almost create or generate some 137 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:23,520 kind of a religion. But Pentecost was a Jewish day. 138 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:28,000 In fact, the word Pentecost in Acts chapter 2 is referred to 139 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,440 two different places, two different ways in the Old 140 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:32,880 Testament. It is actually referred to as 141 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,679 the Feast of Weeks in Exodus chapter 34. 142 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:40,360 It is also referred to as the feast of harvest in Exodus 143 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:44,840 chapter 23 and verse 16. In Exodus chapter 34 and verse 144 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:49,560 22, the Bible says you shall observe the feast of weeks of 145 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:52,920 the first fruits of wheat harvest and the feast of in 146 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,600 gathering at the year's end. It was a Jewish religious feast 147 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:00,480 day. That phrase or these phrases, 148 00:09:00,480 --> 00:09:04,320 feast of weeks and feast of harvest by New Testament times 149 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:09,200 among Jewish people, were simply called or referred to only as 150 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:14,200 the Day of Pentecost, because it simply refers to what was 151 00:09:14,200 --> 00:09:18,720 observed 50 days after the first Sabbath following the feast of 152 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,880 the Passover. How do we know that in Leviticus 153 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:27,520 23 beginning in verse 15? And you shall count for yourself 154 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,320 from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought 155 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,560 the sheaf of the wave offering seven Sabbath shall be complete. 156 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:40,320 7 Sabbath 7 * 7 is 49. Count 50 days to the day after 157 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:45,320 the 7th Sabbath, and you shall offer a new grain offering to 158 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:47,880 the Lord. What a perfect time for the 159 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,120 Kingdom of Jesus Christ to be established. 160 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:52,280 You got a whole bunch of Jewish people. 161 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:56,000 They're there in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, 50 days 162 00:09:56,000 --> 00:09:58,720 after the Passover. They were coming for the purpose 163 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,560 of a grain offering to the Lord. And scholars tell us there were 164 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:04,400 so many Jewish people there that day. 165 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:08,520 Some say even over 1,000,000 people perhaps were in Jerusalem 166 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:13,320 for this great event. You know, it's interesting. 50 167 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,840 days after the Passover would have landed on Pentecost Day, 168 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:21,200 which would have been on Sunday. Significant. 169 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:24,400 Yeah, I think so. Old Testament, significant day. 170 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:27,520 Sabbath day. New Testament, significant day. 171 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:30,000 First day of the week or Sunday accident? 172 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:34,080 Absolutely not. First day of the week. 173 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:36,840 Sunday morning. It was time for the Kingdom to 174 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:39,520 come. And what an audience they had of 175 00:10:39,560 --> 00:10:42,240 all these Jewish people from all over the world. 176 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,640 All right, notice now what happened when the day of 177 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:52,320 Pentecost had fully come. It says they, we're all with 1 178 00:10:52,320 --> 00:10:54,920 accord in one place. OK, who's they? 179 00:10:57,160 --> 00:10:59,560 They is very important here. You're going to hear they and 180 00:10:59,560 --> 00:11:03,160 them very important. And if we can understand who 181 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:05,680 they and them are in Acts chapter 2 here in these 182 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:09,080 passages, then we can understand who actually gets the baptism of 183 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,720 the Holy Spirit, who actually can speak in tongues and all 184 00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,280 that. It says they to understand the 185 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:19,120 context of they you got to go back to the previous chapter 186 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:22,800 because these were not written with chapter and verse breaks. 187 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:27,200 It was 1 continuous letter written by Luke to Theopolis the 188 00:11:27,200 --> 00:11:29,640 recipient. And you go back to the very 189 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,200 verse before this was was in chapter 1 and verse 26 and it 190 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:39,360 says and they cast lots and the lot fell on the thighs. 191 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,240 This was the apostles when they just when they were replacing 192 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:47,360 Judas Iscariot and he was numbered with the 11 apostles. 193 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:51,960 So on the day of Pentecost, the apostles were with 1 accord in 194 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:56,360 one place, the same people that cast their lots where God chose 195 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,240 who Matthias was going to replace, He was going to replace 196 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,960 Judas and it was the apostles and only the apostles. 197 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,840 OK, what happened to them in verse 2? 198 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:10,960 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing, 199 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,720 mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were 200 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:17,240 sitting. All right, it's important that 201 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:19,040 we actually just read what it says. 202 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,840 Tell you what it doesn't say. It doesn't say the wind filled 203 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:27,600 the house. It also doesn't say very 204 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,240 important, the Holy Spirit filled the house. 205 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:36,760 It doesn't say that either. It says there came a sound from 206 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,840 heaven. What filled the house? 207 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:44,720 The sound. The sound filled the house. 208 00:12:44,920 --> 00:12:48,040 What did the sound sound like? Didn't say, Didn't say there was 209 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,760 wind. It said it sounded like a 210 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:53,960 rushing, mighty wind. And why do I make that point? 211 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:56,640 Because some people believe that when the Holy Spirit 212 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,800 miraculously comes today, and some believe that He does, it 213 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,560 fills the house with wind and all that, and it fills the whole 214 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:08,280 house itself, floating around and say that, remember, the 215 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:11,800 apostles were the recipients. And notice it was a sound from 216 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,320 heaven as a rushing mighty wind. That's what filled the house. 217 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:21,400 OK, what happened to them? There appeared unto them again 218 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:25,600 them and they same, same people, apostles, what'd they get? 219 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:33,160 Divided tongues as of fire. And it sat on each of them, the 220 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,960 apostles. You know, divided tongues 221 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:42,320 doesn't mean fork tongue. Divided tongues actually means 222 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:48,800 to divide into parts and distribute what's being 223 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:51,600 distributed. The tongues. 224 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,640 We'll get to what that means in a minute. 225 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:58,680 Divide into parts and distribute themselves among the apostles. 226 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,560 That's what distributed themselves to the apostles when 227 00:14:02,560 --> 00:14:08,360 they received the Holy Spirit miraculously was divided or a 228 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,600 division of or different parts of tongues going in different 229 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:14,720 directions. This is again the baptism of the 230 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,400 Holy Spirit. What does it mean to be filled 231 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:22,880 with the Spirit? They were all filled with the 232 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:26,440 Holy Spirit. To be filled with the Holy 233 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:30,680 Spirit in this passage means to be filled mentally or under the 234 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,680 full miraculous influence of the Holy Spirit. 235 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:37,960 According to the New Analytical Greek Lexicon, page 232, they 236 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:42,040 were filled or under the miraculous influence of the Holy 237 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:46,480 Spirit. Who was they were the apostles, 238 00:14:47,560 --> 00:14:52,600 all right. And they began to do what? 239 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:58,120 Speak with other tongues. Now I want to make some points 240 00:14:58,120 --> 00:14:59,800 here. I want to slow down here. 241 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:06,240 They were able to speak with other tongues. 242 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:11,720 Why does it say other? What is other? 243 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,720 According to Vincent, other tongues are language is strictly 244 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:17,600 different from their native tongues. 245 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:19,840 OK, well you might say, well that could be anything, right? 246 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:22,920 Give me an example, practical example. 247 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:28,560 I speak English. I'm now 59 years old. 248 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:32,280 I don't know another language. Any other language other than 249 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:37,960 English is another language. It is different than my native 250 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:41,040 tongue. When I was in high school. 251 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:45,520 Complete waste of time. I had to take two years of a 252 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:47,440 foreign language. Complete waste of time. 253 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,320 What I did, I should have taken. Spanish would have done me some 254 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:51,320 good. Wish I did. 255 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:54,640 You know what I did? I took French. 256 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,880 Worthless waste of time. You know why? 257 00:15:57,000 --> 00:15:59,360 My sisters took French and my dad spoke French. 258 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:01,400 And I thought it was a way to help me through it. 259 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:03,120 I thought it'd be easy. Never used it. 260 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:04,880 And by the way, I still can't speak French. 261 00:16:05,720 --> 00:16:07,280 I got through it so I can go to college. 262 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:09,160 I the day I was done with this class. 263 00:16:09,160 --> 00:16:10,800 I still don't remember any. I'm done. 264 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:15,920 My point is, that was another language. 265 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:20,080 It was a language that was different than my native tongue. 266 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:25,280 Some people say, though, that these other tongues or other 267 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:30,120 languages are ecstatic Babel or gibberish that nobody can 268 00:16:30,120 --> 00:16:32,320 understand. I've actually even heard it like 269 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,840 this. I've heard people say, well, it 270 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,720 is a heavenly language. I've heard people say it is a 271 00:16:38,720 --> 00:16:42,800 special private language that God gives you when you're saved 272 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,240 to let you know that you are saved. 273 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,400 Let me tell you one of the saddest things I've ever heard. 274 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:52,080 I was studying the Bible with a young lady and she was really 275 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,080 sad. I said, I want to study with 276 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:55,520 you. I said, why are you so sad? 277 00:16:55,520 --> 00:17:00,360 She said, you know what, I wanted to be saved so long ago 278 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:07,079 and somebody told me if I couldn't speak in tongues like 279 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:15,520 they were, I'm not saved. So I completely left every 280 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:20,119 concept of God in my life. I got completely away from the 281 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:24,680 Lord because I figured if I couldn't speak in tongues, I'm 282 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:26,240 not saved. Why bother? 283 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:31,000 What's the use? Nowhere in the Bible does it say 284 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:33,000 that tongue speaking. We're going to get to what that 285 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:35,320 actually was. But nowhere in the Bible does it 286 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:38,360 say that tongue speaking was a sign that you're saved. 287 00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:43,200 Nowhere other people say that these other languages or other 288 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:48,080 tongues refer to heavenly or angelic language. 289 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:52,720 And do you know why this is what happens when you take passages 290 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,080 out of context, You make the wrong application. 291 00:17:57,040 --> 00:18:00,360 And because of this passage, they take this passage out of 292 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:05,160 context and say that I'm just speaking the tongues of angels, 293 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:10,360 angelic heavenly languages, when I do this gibberish. 294 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:15,040 But this word here, tongues, is a Greek word, glossa, which 295 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:19,200 means normative language. It is normal languages. 296 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:22,040 I'm going to prove that to you and I'm going to prove their 297 00:18:22,040 --> 00:18:23,160 understanding of it and all that. 298 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:24,920 But that's what the actual word means. 299 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,560 Remember in verse 4, tongues is not gibberish. 300 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:33,200 Tongues is normative language by definition. 301 00:18:33,560 --> 00:18:38,160 All right, because of the misunderstanding though, about 302 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:40,520 people thinking, well, it's the tongues of angels. 303 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,920 It's this passage right here in First Corinthians chapter 13, 304 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,800 verses one through 3, the apostle Paul context. 305 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,960 What's the emphasis? The emphasis is the motive 306 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:55,000 behind the act, and that is love. 307 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:59,840 That's the context. And what he's saying is, as he 308 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:05,800 speaks in hyperbole or an extreme exaggeration, he's using 309 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,560 extreme exaggeration to prove that even if I can do a whole 310 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:13,400 lot of these great magnificent things, if I don't have love or 311 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,080 that's not the motivating factor behind it, I'm nothing. 312 00:19:16,160 --> 00:19:19,160 In fact, he says this in hyperbole or extreme 313 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:21,200 exaggeration. After he said this in this 314 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:22,360 first, I'm going to get to it in a minute. 315 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:27,120 He said if I can understand all mysteries, is it possible for a 316 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:30,000 human being to understand all mysteries? 317 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:34,440 No, he's speaking in extreme exaggeration. 318 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:37,560 He's saying even if I knew all mysteries and understood it all, 319 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:42,960 He said even if I had all knowledge, no, that's for the 320 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:46,400 Lord. Nobody understands that, right? 321 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,440 And then he says this. And even if I had all prophecy, 322 00:19:51,800 --> 00:19:58,200 if I could do that, and even if he said I had faith, that was so 323 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:02,240 great that I can move mountains. And by the way, sometimes, like 324 00:20:02,240 --> 00:20:07,880 in Matthew 17, when the phrase move mountains, it's talking 325 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,520 about mountains of difficulty in a figurative sense. 326 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:16,200 OK, in First Corinthians 13 one through 3, when it talks about 327 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,800 faith moving mountains, it's talking about literal mountains 328 00:20:18,880 --> 00:20:21,200 because he's speaking in hyperbole and extreme 329 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,200 exaggeration. What he's saying is this. 330 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,720 Even if my faith was so amazing, I can literally move a mountain, 331 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:32,000 if it is not based upon love, it profits me nothing. 332 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:36,160 Keeping that in mind, let's look what he says about angels and 333 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,160 tongues of men and angels. He says, though I speak with the 334 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:44,800 tongues of men and of angels, He's saying, exaggerating the 335 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:46,280 point. Even if I can speak all the 336 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,800 tongues of men and even if I can speak all the tongues of angels, 337 00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:53,880 I can do that too. If I have not love, I am nothing 338 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,920 but empty noise. That's the context. 339 00:20:57,120 --> 00:21:01,040 But because it says the tongues of men and angels, people have 340 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,680 said, well, that's what I do when I go into this little 341 00:21:03,680 --> 00:21:05,400 gibberish or Babel or whatever I'm doing. 342 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,880 I'm not making fun, folks. I'm really not, which some 343 00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:10,600 people believe. They go into something that 344 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,040 nobody can understand. They say, well, I'm just 345 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,120 speaking angelic words like Paul did. 346 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:21,840 All right, OK. By the way, all of this 347 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:29,520 historically comes because of the influence of the charismatic 348 00:21:29,520 --> 00:21:35,600 movement in 1960. And by the way, when I say 349 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:39,040 charismatic movement, it's not a particular church. 350 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:45,560 The charismatic movement was a movement that affected religious 351 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,560 affiliations in the United States. 352 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:53,080 Its origins actually started. The movement started in 1960. 353 00:21:53,840 --> 00:21:57,880 But what's amazing is in research, it actually goes back 354 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:01,320 to some roots. They go all the way back to 19 O 355 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:06,720 6IN Los Angeles, CA at some big revival meeting they had where 356 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,800 all of a sudden people claimed they got the baptism of the Holy 357 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:12,360 Spirit that they got, that the apostles got next to and they 358 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:14,680 spoke in tongues. And the tongues that they said 359 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,040 they spoke were those angelic languages that nobody could 360 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:29,960 understand. The movement though, and by the 361 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:33,000 way, I didn't write this, you can Google it, you can look at 362 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:36,680 the encyclopedias. This is this is fact, a prime 363 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,600 force of the education and popularization of this movement 364 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,000 is called the Full Gospel Businessman's Fellowship 365 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,480 International. This organization has grown from 366 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:48,800 a small beginning in 1952 in Los Angeles to many thousand 367 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,400 adherents, always boldly advocating it's experiential 368 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:56,480 religion with emphasis on Holy Spirit, baptism and speaking in 369 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:58,600 tongues. The thrust of the movement has 370 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:02,120 been accelerated by spectacular claims of flamboyant 371 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:05,200 personalities through multimillion dollar television 372 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,800 ministries. Healings of all kinds of claim 373 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:10,520 lengthen, legs straightened, spines cancer removed, 374 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,000 miraculously, even puppies raised from the dead, washing 375 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,040 machines healed, empty gas tanks supernaturally filled. 376 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,640 Wouldn't that be great? And one lady reported been given 377 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:24,200 the new your belly button. I didn't write that and I'm not 378 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,120 making fun. I'm reading what I read. 379 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,240 Then there was a book written. There was a book written 380 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:37,440 entitled Why Should I Speak in Tongues by Charles and Francis 381 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:39,560 Hunter and this is what they claimed. 382 00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:44,400 Anyone who questions tongue speaking today or other aspects 383 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:47,880 of the charismatic movement is condemned and lined up with the 384 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:51,400 Pharisees who criticized Jesus and accused him of doing His 385 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,680 work by the power of Satan. And if Jesus baptized with the 386 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:59,640 Holy Spirit yesterday, then surely He will continue today 387 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,960 and tomorrow. I want to notice with you, 388 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:06,480 though, the reason for these tongues or languages. 389 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:10,280 First of all, they did it as the Spirit gave them utterance. 390 00:24:10,360 --> 00:24:13,600 The Spirit gave them utterance, OK? 391 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,120 They were guided miraculously by the Holy Spirit. 392 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:21,960 Now when you ask the question, well, why, why, why did they 393 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:25,480 actually speak in tongues? Well, we have some obvious 394 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,880 answers that are running through our heads right now, and it's 395 00:24:27,880 --> 00:24:29,880 with the revelation and confirmation of the Word and all 396 00:24:29,880 --> 00:24:33,160 that. That's all true, but do you ever 397 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:37,800 stop to consider the practical benefit of why they had to be 398 00:24:37,800 --> 00:24:42,520 given the gift of these normative languages that they 399 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,240 never studied in the presence of a vast audience of a million 400 00:24:46,240 --> 00:24:50,120 people? Why one scholar put it this way? 401 00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:54,600 The miraculous ability to speak this is practically now in 402 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,120 tongues was necessary for a group of uneducated apostles to 403 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:01,040 preach to all nations. When the gospel was completely 404 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:04,400 revealed and written down, the need for miraculous ability to 405 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:06,720 speak in foreign languages ceased. 406 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:09,120 How do I know that it ceased again? 407 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:11,160 That love Chapter First Corinthians 13. 408 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,040 Here we go again. Love never fails. 409 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:17,600 Well, whether there are prophecies, this is miraculous 410 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,080 prophecies, spiritual gifts, and we're going to get to that 411 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,760 later. Whether there are tongues, 412 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:26,400 whether they are knowledge, it will vanish away. 413 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:31,240 All those things are going to happen and tongues that we're 414 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:39,320 talking about are going to cease when 1st Corinthians 13, nine 415 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,720 and 10 for we know in part and we prophecy in part by the way 416 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,360 in part is talking about the temporary use or the temporary 417 00:25:47,360 --> 00:25:50,760 need of the miraculous spiritual gifts. 418 00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,240 There was a time for it, absolutely a time for it. 419 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:04,240 That's which was in part now miraculous gifts. 420 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:09,360 Really quickly. There was a need for miraculous 421 00:26:09,360 --> 00:26:13,160 spiritual gifts before the Word of God was completed. 422 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:17,120 When the apostles went somewhere and preached the Word, or 423 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:20,000 somebody else went and preached the Word and people were saved 424 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,400 and they were baptized for their mission to bear sins and added 425 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:27,360 to the Kingdom. Right when they left, they left 426 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:29,960 people behind and there was still no New Testament. 427 00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,240 The only way that they can continue to authenticate the 428 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,120 messenger, authenticate the message, and prompt a response, 429 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:41,080 which was the reason for miracles. 430 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,280 The only way they can do that is through spiritual gifts and 431 00:26:45,280 --> 00:26:47,480 leaving miraculous things behind. 432 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,200 The only ones that can do that were the apostles, and they 433 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,880 would come and lay their hands on them and somebody would have 434 00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,080 the gift of miraculous prophecy without the Bible. 435 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,440 Somebody would have the gift of healings without the Bible. 436 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,800 Somebody would have the gift of tongues without the Bible and so 437 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:03,480 on and so forth. All of that would be done away 438 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:04,680 with. When what? 439 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:07,000 When that which is perfect is come. 440 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:12,280 Please understand this is not Jesus because one interpretation 441 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,120 is this is Jesus. In other words, all this stuff 442 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:18,240 is going to continue until that which is perfect, which is 443 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:19,840 Jesus, comes back at the end of time. 444 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:24,440 No, that which is perfect is found in James 125. 445 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,400 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, that's 446 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:33,200 the word of God and continues in it, and is not a forgetful 447 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,400 hearer, but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what 448 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,600 he does. OK, when the word of God was 449 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,440 completed, that miraculous gifts has ceased. 450 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,640 Why is it called the perfect law of liberty? 451 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,560 It's called that because it makes us free from our sins and 452 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:55,480 gives us the spiritual liberty that cannot be from any other 453 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:58,480 source. So to sum up so far, tongues 454 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,760 will ease. Language is given to apostles 455 00:28:01,760 --> 00:28:05,000 miraculously through the baptism of the Holy Spirit in Acts 456 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,280 chapter 2. It was not gibberish or ecstatic 457 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:10,960 Babel that could not be understood. 458 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:15,640 They were also given later temporarily through the laying 459 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,400 on of the apostles hands to confirm the word of God. 460 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,520 Spiritual gifts, but they're going to cease when the word was 461 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,880 completed. And that task was accomplished 462 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:31,120 by the close of the 1st century. Now I got to make a point here. 463 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:38,960 I've been wanting to make this point because of the influence 464 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:44,400 of the charismatic movement on Christian professing religions, 465 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,600 or I'm just going to say on Christianity as a whole. 466 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:57,320 Perhaps because of that, often times Christians, in an attempt 467 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:01,240 to get away from the charismatic movement or the influences of 468 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,600 the charismatic movement, have gone way too far in the opposite 469 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:10,480 direction, almost to the point where people sometimes become 470 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:16,280 robotic in their service. The Bible says Spirit and truth, 471 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:21,200 and sometimes because we want to get so far away from the 472 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,600 charismatic movement that we take the spirit out completely, 473 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:30,720 even to the extent where people say the Holy Spirit doesn't do 474 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:35,520 anything today, He's done. You know what didn't make sense 475 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,360 to me? Now his work in revealing the 476 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:43,400 word is completed. But what never made any sense to 477 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:46,080 me is why is it we believe we all believe this because the 478 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,040 Bible teaches this. There's three in the Godhead 479 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,800 God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit. They're all deity, they all work 480 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:53,480 together. We all get that right? 481 00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,880 Everybody will say, well, God's working in my life. 482 00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,080 I pray to him all the time. I need God, Oh, I need Jesus. 483 00:30:01,640 --> 00:30:05,080 So God and Jesus are working in my life every day in some 484 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:08,760 capacity, even in some capacities that we can't 485 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,280 understand or describe or explain, but we know what's 486 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:13,600 happening. We're good with that, right? 487 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,560 Oh, but the Holy Spirit's just been sitting this one out since 488 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,520 the 1st century. He does nothing. 489 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:22,960 That never made any sense to me at all. 490 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,600 That's not the topic of this sermon, but I'm just going to 491 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:36,680 tell you, God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit all work in our 492 00:30:36,680 --> 00:30:40,960 life. I'm just going to leave it right 493 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,120 there. Do without what you want. 494 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:46,480 Maybe that'll be a sermon for another time. 495 00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,000 One man actually said the Holy Spirit's dead. 496 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,440 That scares me to death. Why would you say that? 497 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:54,360 That's a deity. No, he's not dead. 498 00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,200 Again, I'm not saying miraculous stuff. 499 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,000 I'm not saying charismatic stuff. 500 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:02,560 Please don't put words in my mouth. 501 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,000 Hear what I said and let's leave it at that. 502 00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,200 Let's move on. Verse 5. 503 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:08,920 And then we're dwelling in Jerusalem. 504 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,440 Jews, devout men out of every nation under heaven. 505 00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,400 Obviously because of the feast of Pentecost, you got a large 506 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:15,840 number of Jews there present, right? 507 00:31:16,080 --> 00:31:20,040 And the Bible says from every nation under heaven, why would 508 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:22,960 there be Jews from every nation under heaven? 509 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,000 This phrase right here, Jews in a plural sense describing them 510 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,600 from every nation under heaven is talking about the Jews of the 511 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,760 dispersion that were dispersed or they were asked to flee or 512 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:38,520 made to flee from their native land or the land of their 513 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,840 ancestors of Israel. It's also called the Diaspora 514 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,000 Jews. It's also called that the Jews 515 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,600 of the dispersion. So the phrase is used to 516 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:54,520 describe Jewish people scattered from their homeland. 517 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,880 Keep that in mind because look at verse 6. 518 00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:01,080 And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and 519 00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:06,520 were confused because everyone heard them speak in his own 520 00:32:06,520 --> 00:32:08,680 language. Does that sound like gibberish? 521 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,640 Does that sound like ecstatic Babble that nobody can 522 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:15,160 understand whatever was being spoken of? 523 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,600 Remember, verse four is talking about normative languages. 524 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,120 Now we're going to get to what this word means right here. 525 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:28,360 Language in verse 6. They were confused because they 526 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:31,760 heard them speak in their own language. 527 00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:38,040 Now, Diaspora Jews in the Roman Empire mostly spoke Greek. 528 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,000 In the East they spoke especially Aramaic. 529 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,800 Yet many Diaspora Jews would also be familiar with local 530 00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:50,520 languages and dialects spoken in the areas where they live. 531 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:57,960 In fact, this word language here is a different word than glossa 532 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:04,160 of tongues, which means general, regular, normal languages. 533 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,160 This word is more specific. This word is the Greek word 534 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:10,280 dialecto. And by the way, that's where we 535 00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:12,480 get the word you know it's coming dialect. 536 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:17,840 They heard them speak not only in languages that were real, but 537 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,720 they actually heard them in their own dialect. 538 00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:29,440 Notice the reaction to that. Now they were all amazed and 539 00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:32,240 marvelled, saying to one another, look, are not all these 540 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,200 who speak Galileans? There's two reasons why this 541 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:36,560 response. First of all, they're marvel. 542 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:37,920 Wait a minute, these guys are Galileans. 543 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,240 Number one reason. First of all, these guys were 544 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:45,040 country boys. I don't know how to put them 545 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:46,560 down. These guys were hay seeds. 546 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,520 I guess there was. They weren't linguists. 547 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,840 These guys. Galileans, according to Vincent, 548 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:57,560 were blamed for neglecting the study of even their own language 549 00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,520 and charged with errors in grammar and ridiculous 550 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,800 pronunciations. You've even known that guy that 551 00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,320 always mispronounces all the words. 552 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:10,920 What if one of those guys is always mispronouncing all the 553 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:16,560 words? OK, what if that guy all of a 554 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:21,040 sudden start speaking 5 different languages and dialects 555 00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:24,719 in addition to that? That was perfect and flawless 556 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,360 and people were hearing what he had to say in their own language 557 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,280 and in their own dialect. Oh wait a minute. 558 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,840 That's pretty amazing isn't it? That's what they were doing. 559 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:36,679 They said. Whoa, wait a minute, what's all 560 00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:38,639 this stuff? These uneducated guys, aren't 561 00:34:38,639 --> 00:34:44,320 they all galileans #2 reason. Zur says Galileans generally 562 00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:46,760 spoke in a tongue that was particular to themselves. 563 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,760 And that's exactly what they shot old Peter with when Peter 564 00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:52,800 was there denying Jesus. And they said your speech 565 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,920 betrays you. In other words, you're a 566 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,360 Galilean speaking in the in the language that's particular to 567 00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:10,440 yourself. Then verse 8 and how it is that 568 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:16,560 we hear in our own language. This is the same word as verse 569 00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,920 6, dialecto meaning dialect or subgroup. 570 00:35:22,320 --> 00:35:27,240 Give you just a quick example. OK, In the Philippines, all the 571 00:35:27,240 --> 00:35:29,800 years I went to the Philippines, people come up to me after when 572 00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:31,320 I get home back in America because they just don't know. 573 00:35:31,640 --> 00:35:33,520 And they say, hey, do you speak Filipino now? 574 00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,760 There's no such thing. There's no such thing as speak 575 00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:42,560 Filipino. There's Tagalog, There is all 576 00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:48,240 different other dialects and you can go to point, you can go to 577 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:52,920 one place or one province and that dialect in that area is 578 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,720 their own language. In fact, even the Bible, you got 579 00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:59,760 to get a Bible in that dialect. It doesn't read the same at all. 580 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,000 We went to talk about an incredible thing that was 581 00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,920 happening to the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 582 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,480 These apostles, these Galileans, they're speaking in languages 583 00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:12,680 and dialects which are subgroups even of those languages. 584 00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:17,600 Amazing. What languages? 585 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:21,240 Parthians, Medes, Elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, 586 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:25,520 Judea, Cappadocia, Pontus, Asia, Phrygia, Pamphylia, Egypt and 587 00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,600 Parsa. Libya, adjoining Cyrene, 588 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:31,040 visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and 589 00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:33,240 Arabs. We hear them speaking in our 590 00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,320 own. There it is, languages. 591 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:39,680 That's how they understood it. What did they hear? 592 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:43,880 The wonderful works of God. At least seven different 593 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,760 languages, by the way, and numerous other dialects of those 594 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,840 languages were being spoken and they all understood. 595 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:59,880 Now, one more thing regarding speaking in tongues, please. 596 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:07,400 The baptism of the Holy Spirit only happened in Acts chapter 2 597 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:12,360 and Acts chapter 10. It was given to the apostles In 598 00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:16,520 Acts chapter 2, when the Kingdom came and the audience being 599 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:21,280 Jewish, Jewish, that was there and they were able to speak in 600 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:26,400 languages that were understood. That is the baptism of the Holy 601 00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:29,960 Spirit. In Acts chapter 10, the baptism 602 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:31,480 of the Holy Spirit happened again. 603 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,640 In that case, it happened to the Gentiles with the household of 604 00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,080 Cornelius, and they spoke in tongues too. 605 00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:42,920 Why did they speak in tongues? Why did they have the baptism of 606 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,320 the Holy Spirit? One reason as a sign to show 607 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:50,120 Jewish Christians now that God accepted the Gentiles into the 608 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:51,920 same body. Isn't that beautiful? 609 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,880 Ephesians chapter 3 says that it was the mystery or the plan of 610 00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,040 God. It was always in existence in 611 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,040 the mind of God, but not yet revealed. 612 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:05,240 It is now that Jew and Gentile would be alike in one body 613 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,080 together. Amazing. 614 00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,720 Only time the baptism of the Holy Spirit happened in both 615 00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:18,200 cases. Real normal languages. 616 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:23,280 And in both cases they were both understood without 617 00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,040 interpretation. Why is that important? 618 00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,400 And I'm going to have to mention one final thing or else it'll 619 00:38:30,400 --> 00:38:34,280 come up as a question. What about the spiritual gifts 620 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:38,760 that we talked about before? What about the spiritual gifts 621 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,320 that we spoke of earlier through the laying on of the apostles 622 00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,120 hands? What about them? 623 00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:47,920 If in Acts 2 and Acts 10 they spoke these languages and they 624 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:52,040 understood it without interpretation, then all of a 625 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:55,200 sudden what about or what was different about the spiritual 626 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,680 gifts, the miraculous spiritual gifts by the laying on of the 627 00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,360 apostles hands as the Kingdom grew and before the Word of God 628 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,480 was completed. What about that? 629 00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:07,120 Well, let's look. Acts 19 and six, when Paul had 630 00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:12,040 laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them and they 631 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:16,240 spoke with tongues, languages and prophesied. 632 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,800 That was a gift of tongues. You know what else they got? 633 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:24,520 1st Corinthians 12 and 10 To another, the working of 634 00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:26,520 miracles. To another prophecy, to another 635 00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:28,960 discerning of spirits, to another, different kinds of 636 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,680 tongues. To another, the interpretation 637 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,640 of tongues. I'm not trying to insult you, 638 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,120 but you know what interpretation means. 639 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:40,480 It comes from the word hermanuo. It's where we, by the way, get 640 00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:44,880 the English word hermeneutics. It's the way that we interpret 641 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:47,200 Scripture, right? It means translation. 642 00:39:47,240 --> 00:39:49,800 What's that mean? It means to interpret or 643 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:53,720 translate is to take one language and put it into its 644 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:56,280 equivalent, into another language. 645 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:02,720 In other words, when they spoke in a language they never 646 00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:05,240 studied. Chris Osborne, I don't know if 647 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:08,600 you speak anything but English. So all of a sudden you get the 648 00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,760 gift of Spanish. No, let's do this. 649 00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,320 You get to get to German. I don't think anybody speaks 650 00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:19,720 German in here. And let's give old Terry 651 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:23,440 interpretation. He, I know he's never spoken, 652 00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:29,960 he's never studied German. Don't you think you get the 653 00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,320 attention of people that just maybe they're speaking from God? 654 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:38,760 Before the word of God was complete, That's what it was 655 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,280 for. That's the reason for it. 656 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,640 Word of God complete. No more use. 657 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:48,960 What did they interpret, though? I want you to notice. 658 00:40:50,480 --> 00:40:54,920 What did they interpret? They interpreted different kinds 659 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:59,080 of tongues. You know what the word kinds 660 00:40:59,080 --> 00:41:02,360 means? The word kinds is the word 661 00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:05,160 genos. It's where we get that word in 662 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,120 biology. Even I remember that from high 663 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,840 school. Biology, genus, wasn't it like 664 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,000 Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species? 665 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:15,720 And maybe the only thing I remember from biology, but I 666 00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:18,840 remember that in high school I got that one. 667 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:22,840 Don't you see, folks, please listen to me. 668 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:29,720 It means family, group, race, and nation. 669 00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,640 You can't have a family of ecstatic Babel. 670 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,880 You can't have a group or a race or a nation of ecstatic Babel, 671 00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:47,720 but you can have national languages and racial languages. 672 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:57,480 OK, why was it important that they all understood First 673 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:01,320 Corinthians 1423? Therefore, if the whole church 674 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:04,800 comes together in one place and all speak with tongues, and 675 00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:09,360 there come in those who are uninformed and unbelievers, will 676 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,360 they not say you're out of your mind? 677 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,640 The King James, the old King James says, Will they not say 678 00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:17,520 you're mad? I don't know. 679 00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,600 You know what I'd say when they all say you're nuts? 680 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:25,440 You got all this going on? It's chaotic. 681 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:27,880 Everybody's doing their own thing. 682 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:34,760 You don't think God's brilliant normative languages, even though 683 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,840 they were real languages, they had to be understood by way of 684 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,400 interpretation or else people that came into the assembly. 685 00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,080 If everybody's speaking in all these different languages and 686 00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,200 nobody understood, the uninformed and unbelievers going 687 00:42:47,200 --> 00:42:49,240 to say, man, these guys are out of their mind. 688 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:59,280 The Lord's brilliant, remember, it was for a purpose. 689 00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:03,640 Authenticate the messenger, authenticate the message and 690 00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:07,960 always, please. Miracles were always to prompt a 691 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:11,240 response. They were never for personal or 692 00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:15,160 private benefit. Ever Find one passage that says 693 00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:19,120 that I'm wrong and please tell me after services always for 694 00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:23,480 that reason. So you've been wonderful. 695 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:24,680 Thank you for your kind listening. 696 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,200 So in conclusion, what did we learn? 697 00:43:28,080 --> 00:43:30,360 We learned the Holy Spirit baptism was promised to the 698 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:34,840 apostles. We learned that promise was 699 00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:38,720 fulfilled in Acts chapter 2. It was promised over here, by 700 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:43,080 the way, by John the Baptist and also Jesus. 701 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:46,000 It was fulfilled in Acts chapter 2. 702 00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:51,120 They, the apostles, spoke in tongues or languages over 7 703 00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,120 languages and also a number of specific dialects. 704 00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,560 And those present all understood them. 705 00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:04,040 They all heard and they all understood about the wonderful 706 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:08,600 works of God. Our final passage. 707 00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:13,360 Here's their their immediate reaction and response. 708 00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:17,760 Acts 212 and 13. So they were all amazed and 709 00:44:18,080 --> 00:44:21,200 perplexed, saying one to another, whatever could this 710 00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:23,080 mean? Others mocking said they're full 711 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:26,480 of new wine there. There's always those guys. 712 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,400 Some say, what could this mean? They've already admitted we've 713 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:31,720 heard the wonderful works of God. 714 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,280 They've already admitted we heard it in our own dialect and 715 00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:35,880 language and all that stuff. We heard it all. 716 00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,160 What could it mean? And there's always some guy, 717 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,520 There's always that guy. These guys are drunk. 718 00:44:42,560 --> 00:44:48,520 They're full of new wine. Next lesson, we have some guest 719 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:51,880 speakers coming up. But when I speak again, it's 720 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:56,000 Part 2 and I'm going to call that Peter's masterful sermon. 721 00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:00,160 This was the introduction to lay the foundation of the day. 722 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:03,440 The Kingdom came through the baptism of the Holy Spirit and 723 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:10,520 the speaking in tongues. We never close a time where we 724 00:45:11,040 --> 00:45:13,200 preach the Word of God without extending an invitation. 725 00:45:13,200 --> 00:45:14,680 I don't know how it is here with you today. 726 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:16,240 Are you hearing you're not a Christian? 727 00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:18,000 The steps to become a Christian are very simple. 728 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:21,640 The first thing you got to do is hear the Word of God. 729 00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:28,080 Romans 10/17 So faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word 730 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:29,320 of God. We've done that today. 731 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,720 Then what? You got to believe with all your 732 00:45:31,720 --> 00:45:33,200 heart. Hebrews 11 and 6. 733 00:45:33,320 --> 00:45:35,960 Without faith it's impossible to please Him, for he who comes to 734 00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,280 God must believe that He is, and then He is a rewarder of those 735 00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,800 who diligently seek Him. Then what? 736 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:46,560 I got to change my life. It starts with changing my mind. 737 00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,400 I got to repent of my sins. Truly these times of ignorance 738 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,000 God overlooked, but now commands all man everywhere to repent. 739 00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,040 Then what? I got to be able to say the 740 00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,320 greatest thing I will ever say, that Jesus Christ is the Son of 741 00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,800 God. Acts 837 Then Philip said if you 742 00:45:59,800 --> 00:46:01,200 believe with all your heart in your may. 743 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:05,360 And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the 744 00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,640 Son of God. These are prerequisites. 745 00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:13,040 They lead toward the point of salvation, but the point of 746 00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:16,920 salvation is to be baptized for the remission of sins. 747 00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:20,120 Mark 1616. He who believes and is baptized 748 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:22,240 will be saved. He who does not believe will be 749 00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:25,600 condemned. And folks, baptism is not an 750 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,360 outward sign of an inward faith. It is not a confirmation of 751 00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,760 what's already happened. It's what saves us. 752 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:37,200 How do I know that One final passage first Peter 321 the like 753 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:43,200 figure where the even baptism does also now save us, not the 754 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,560 putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good 755 00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:48,320 conscience toward God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 756 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:51,480 If you have never taken those steps of obedience, we would 757 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:52,920 love to assist you in that today. 758 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:55,000 Maybe you have. Maybe there's just something in 759 00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:57,960 your life that's not what it should be corrected today. 760 00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,280 Repent of that, confess it. We'll pray with you and for you. 761 00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:02,840 God will forgive and restore. If you want to be the class, 762 00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,720 come forward while we stand while we see.