1 00:00:00,900 --> 00:00:03,200 You know, there's two things that come up in religious 2 00:00:03,200 --> 00:00:07,900 discussions today and I think it's very common, two things, 3 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:13,100 one are Miracles and the other is the concept of speaking in 4 00:00:13,100 --> 00:00:15,600 tongues. And so, from this passage of 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:19,300 scripture in First Corinthians chapter 13, verses 1 and 2. 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:25,400 I've taken the title, the tongues of men and angels, you 7 00:00:25,400 --> 00:00:28,300 know, I was looking over this very idea that it's been over 8 00:00:28,300 --> 00:00:31,700 five years, is I preach? Anything like that here at this 9 00:00:31,700 --> 00:00:33,900 place so I thought it might be fitting. 10 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:36,400 I think it's relevant. I think these are things that 11 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:38,600 need to be understood from the word of God. 12 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:41,700 What does the Bible say? And what did Paul actually mean 13 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:45,400 in First Corinthians 13? Beginning, there in verse 1. 14 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:50,500 Paul said though, I speak with the tongues of men and angels 15 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:55,700 but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging 16 00:00:55,700 --> 00:00:59,800 cymbal and though I have the gift of Prophecy and understood 17 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:04,800 or understand all Mysteries and all knowledge and though I have 18 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:08,300 faith all Faith, so that I could remove mountains but have not 19 00:01:08,300 --> 00:01:12,300 love. Paul said, I am nothing. 20 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,200 Let's ask our self a couple of questions though. 21 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:20,100 What is a miracle? And does God help us today? 22 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:23,900 Well, he absolutely does, but we want to ask ourselves the 23 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:28,500 question, does he do so miraculously the definition of 24 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:30,600 the word miracle? And really, this is a very 25 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:34,700 simplified definition. A simplified, definition of a 26 00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:39,300 miracle is a supernatural act, that's done by God. 27 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:45,700 Without means As a supernatural act done by God without means. 28 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,900 All right. So what's Providence Providence 29 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:51,100 by the way? And I have to say, there's 30 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:53,600 nothing about God. That is not Supernatural. 31 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:57,200 You can't say that. God is Not Supernatural, 32 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,700 everything. God is is Supernatural. 33 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,800 In John chapter 4, the Bible says that God is a spirit and 34 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,300 they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in 35 00:02:07,300 --> 00:02:11,300 truth. So God everything about God is 36 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:13,500 Supernatural. So, what's the difference 37 00:02:13,500 --> 00:02:17,100 between a miracle and God's Divine Providence? 38 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:20,800 Here's the difference. God being Supernatural. 39 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:24,900 Accomplishes. His will through memes, through 40 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:26,900 physical means. Let me give you a quick example. 41 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:30,500 Bob prayed for Terry just a moment ago. 42 00:02:30,700 --> 00:02:34,600 Okay. Terry had triple bypass surgery 43 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,400 on Tuesday. We prayed for Terry. 44 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,900 We prayed for Terror, we prayed that God would be over that that 45 00:02:42,900 --> 00:02:47,400 God would oversee that we prayed that God would keep Terry safe. 46 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,600 We also prayed for those that would administer care and to 47 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,600 him, we prayed for the doctors. We pray that the doctors would 48 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:58,100 even have wisdom beyond their years and experience to do the 49 00:02:58,100 --> 00:03:00,400 right things for him. Medically, we prayed for the 50 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,700 anesthesiologist, we prayed for the nurses, that would be in his 51 00:03:03,700 --> 00:03:06,900 care. Terry made it through the 52 00:03:06,900 --> 00:03:10,100 surgery and he made it through very well. 53 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:17,400 So, who gets the credit? God gets the credit he gets all 54 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:22,300 the credit because God did that through natural means. 55 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:27,800 God uses me as he uses medicine. He uses doctors, he uses those 56 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:31,800 things but God who is Supernatural gets all the 57 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,900 credit. That is Providence. 58 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:36,100 That's not a miracle. What's a miracle? 59 00:03:36,300 --> 00:03:42,300 A supernatural event by God done through Supernatural means or 60 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:46,100 without natural means now. Miracles that existed in the 61 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:50,800 Bible existed for a reason. Number one, all four of these 62 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:54,300 things are attached to the Miracles that are found in the 63 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:56,700 Bible. They were always for a purpose, 64 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:00,700 they were always for a reason. Number one, it was always for 65 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:05,300 the purpose of introducing a new era of Revelation. 66 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:08,600 What do I mean by that? It was talking about a time 67 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:13,200 which God would speak Miracles existed during those times 68 00:04:13,300 --> 00:04:16,500 number two, Two Miracles were for the purpose of 69 00:04:16,500 --> 00:04:20,500 authenticating, the messenger giving credibility to the 70 00:04:20,500 --> 00:04:23,900 messenger number three. It was to authenticate. 71 00:04:23,900 --> 00:04:26,400 The message that the message was right? 72 00:04:26,500 --> 00:04:30,700 And the message was true and the message came from God and number 73 00:04:30,700 --> 00:04:36,400 four and please get this It was always to repair a response. 74 00:04:38,100 --> 00:04:40,000 You can't find one miracle in the Bible. 75 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:43,700 That was done for a personal private benefit. 76 00:04:44,800 --> 00:04:47,300 A personal private benefit to a miracle. 77 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:50,800 It was always the show. The glory of God, it was always 78 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:52,600 to show the glory of Jesus Christ. 79 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,100 It was always for the purpose of bringing in things that we that 80 00:04:56,100 --> 00:05:00,400 God wanted man to accept. So all four of these things are 81 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:03,900 attached to all the Miracles that are found in the Bible. 82 00:05:03,900 --> 00:05:07,700 Now interestingly interestingly and again we're talking about 83 00:05:07,700 --> 00:05:10,900 miracles supernatural act without natural means. 84 00:05:10,900 --> 00:05:14,400 Okay. Of all of the years that the 85 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:19,500 world has stood miracles in that capacity, only existed in three 86 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:23,800 brief periods of time. It was in the days of Moses and 87 00:05:23,800 --> 00:05:27,000 Joshua. It was in the Days of Elijah and 88 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,100 Elisha and in the days of Christ and the apostles. 89 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,800 Okay? So Moses and Joshua, God 90 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,900 introduced a new era of Revelation. 91 00:05:36,900 --> 00:05:41,100 It was called the law and God brought in the law therefore 92 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:44,300 Miracles existed to Confirm that law. 93 00:05:44,300 --> 00:05:46,800 It was in the Days of Elijah and Elijah. 94 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,500 That was the period of the prophets. 95 00:05:48,500 --> 00:05:53,700 Again, God was speaking again through prophets and miracles 96 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:58,600 accompanied that and finally Christ and the apostles, and 97 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,300 that was from, when Jesus was living, He was talking about the 98 00:06:02,300 --> 00:06:05,000 kingdom of the church being established and it was done in 99 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:09,900 the days of the Apostles. Now, interestingly of all those 100 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:14,900 time periods, Was less than a hundred years. 101 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,000 Moses and Joshua less than a hundred years, Elijah and Elisha 102 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,800 less than 100 years Christ, and the apostles less than 100 103 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:26,700 years. And by the way, there's going to 104 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:29,700 be one more time when Miracles are going to happen, one more. 105 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,400 It's at the end of time. When the Lord comes back, 106 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,400 everything that will be done, then we'll be done super 107 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:39,000 naturally. When we are raised to walk as if 108 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:42,600 from the grave and we are those that are going to go to heaven, 109 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:45,300 those are going to be redeemed on that day. 110 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:48,700 All of those things are going to be a supernatural event, but 111 00:06:48,700 --> 00:06:52,800 that's the only other time that these Miracles have existed. 112 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,500 All right, let's back up. Let's talk about spiritual 113 00:06:55,500 --> 00:06:59,000 gifts. What about spiritual gifts in 114 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,200 the early church during the days of the Apostles? 115 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:03,800 Okay. Do you remember in Acts chapter 116 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:08,000 8, when Philip was a preacher and he was in Samaria and he's 117 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,700 preaching to those Samaritans. And there was a man, there by 118 00:07:10,700 --> 00:07:14,900 the name of Simon, the Sorcerer, the gospel was preached, they 119 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:18,100 believe the gospel, they believed in Jesus, they obeyed 120 00:07:18,100 --> 00:07:21,100 the gospel by being baptized for the remission of their sins, 121 00:07:21,300 --> 00:07:25,500 including Simon the Sorcerer. But you know what happened? 122 00:07:25,700 --> 00:07:27,300 There was a time this was in a Time. 123 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:31,900 Of spiritual gifts to confirm the word of God and authenticate 124 00:07:31,900 --> 00:07:35,200 the message. So spiritual gifts were left 125 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,600 behind but Philip was an evangelist. 126 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,000 He didn't have that kind of power. 127 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,100 It had to come from the laying on of the Apostles hands. 128 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,900 So they called Peter and John, here, comes Peter and John, and 129 00:07:45,900 --> 00:07:50,200 they laid their hands on them, and they received a spiritual 130 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,400 gift. All right, one of those gifts 131 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,600 was the speaking in tongues. Another one of those gifts was 132 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,200 the interpretation Ocean of tongues. 133 00:07:58,300 --> 00:08:01,700 Another one of those gifts was the gift of Prophecy, the gift 134 00:08:01,700 --> 00:08:05,600 of healing and we're talking about miraculous things, 135 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:11,000 miraculous knowledge That was a spiritual gift. 136 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:14,200 And, you know, without the word of God being present, without 137 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,800 the word of God being completed, there had to be something, they 138 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,200 had to leave behind something to authenticate the message and the 139 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,200 messenger, didn't they? That was spiritual gifts. 140 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:28,300 Okay, let's talk about the church in Corinth, the church in 141 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:30,000 Corinth. And First Corinthians chapter 142 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:36,200 12, Paul deals with spiritual gifts and there were those that 143 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,500 were coveting spiritual gifts. And finally, in First 144 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:45,300 Corinthians 12, and, One it says, but earnestly desire, the 145 00:08:45,300 --> 00:08:50,300 best gifts and yet I show you a more excellent way. 146 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:52,800 You know, it's interesting about that. 147 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,100 It makes it sound that he's saying, I want you to earnestly 148 00:08:57,100 --> 00:09:00,300 desire, the best gifts and you know what, that's what they were 149 00:09:00,300 --> 00:09:03,500 doing, they were looking for the Shoah gift. 150 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:05,900 In other words, you can just imagine human nature. 151 00:09:06,400 --> 00:09:08,700 This guy over here, he wanted to have speaking in tongues but no, 152 00:09:08,700 --> 00:09:11,500 this guy over here had it. This guy really wanted it. 153 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:13,100 This guy was jealous of this guy. 154 00:09:13,100 --> 00:09:15,300 He wanted to have the tongue. He wanted to have a show, a 155 00:09:15,308 --> 00:09:19,100 gift, this guy over here, he was puffed up and he and he was 156 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:22,600 arrogant about the fact that he had a better gift than the other 157 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,800 guy over there. So it makes it sound when you 158 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:29,400 look at this verse that, he's saying, I want you to desire the 159 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,100 best gifts, but in the original, it doesn't say that. 160 00:09:32,100 --> 00:09:36,900 In fact, it literally says this in the Greek, it says, you are 161 00:09:36,900 --> 00:09:41,200 continuing to covet the showy gift. 162 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,400 In other words, he's saying what you're doing, but then he's 163 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:47,300 going to say that there's an excellent way. 164 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:51,500 I'm more excellent way and its first Corinthians, 13 and 13. 165 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:55,800 And now abideth faith, hope and I love these three, but the 166 00:09:55,800 --> 00:10:02,400 greatest of these is love. What kind of love? 167 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:06,400 Obviously, it's agape, love, and agape. 168 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,800 Love is the highest form of love you could ever have. 169 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,800 It's the Love, by the way, that is always connected to God, it 170 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,500 is a love of service and sacrifice. 171 00:10:18,900 --> 00:10:22,900 So in John 3:16 a passage, we all know that God, so loved the 172 00:10:22,900 --> 00:10:25,300 world that he gave his only begotten son. 173 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:27,900 In other words, he loved the world. 174 00:10:27,900 --> 00:10:32,800 It was demonstrated Agape, Love in the giving of his son service 175 00:10:32,800 --> 00:10:35,900 and Advice for others. That's agape love, okay? 176 00:10:36,700 --> 00:10:39,900 Talk about some things that love isn't, I'll be very brief about 177 00:10:39,900 --> 00:10:42,000 this. If you ever stopped to consider 178 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:47,100 and Ephesians chapter 5, when Paul says, love your wives, when 179 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:51,500 Paul says, love your wives, Now, I'm not talking about the Love 180 00:10:51,500 --> 00:10:54,400 Languages because I believe in all that to not talking about 181 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,600 that kind of love not talking about romantic love. 182 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,400 In fact, did you know that? That's another Greek word 183 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:03,800 entirely the word for romantic love and it exists romantic love 184 00:11:03,800 --> 00:11:06,700 exists but it's not found in the New Testament at all. 185 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:10,000 Not one time. So what is he talking about in 186 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,500 Ephesians chapter 5? When I can read that? 187 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:15,200 And Paul saying, you need to love your wives. 188 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:17,100 What kind of love is that romantic? 189 00:11:17,100 --> 00:11:19,700 Love know a good feeling inside now. 190 00:11:20,100 --> 00:11:24,700 It's talking about agape love. And Paul says it like this, you 191 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:29,300 love your wives as Christ. Loved the church. 192 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:33,500 What did he do? And he gave himself for it. 193 00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,700 Little side note here. All the men that have wives. 194 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:45,600 If that's how you. Imparted your leadership in the 195 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:49,200 home. I have never yet met a woman 196 00:11:50,100 --> 00:11:54,700 that would fail to want to desire to submit to such 197 00:11:54,700 --> 00:12:00,200 leadership. If a man loved his wife like 198 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,800 Jesus Christ, does the church and gave himself for it in 199 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:08,600 service and sacrifice what woman, what wife would not want 200 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,200 to be a part of that would not want to submit to that. 201 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,100 All right. What else is it not? 202 00:12:14,300 --> 00:12:17,800 This kind of love is not defeat of feeling of emotion, you know, 203 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,600 there's things in life sometimes, we feel them, and we 204 00:12:20,700 --> 00:12:22,700 love somebody because it feels like that. 205 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,500 And we feel that naturally, we have natural affection and all 206 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:28,400 that. That's not this word either and 207 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:32,500 thirdly and finally, it is not ecumenical, big word, big word 208 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:33,900 and looking spend much time on it. 209 00:12:33,900 --> 00:12:37,800 But here's what it means. Extra ecumenical love is a 210 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:42,200 feeling of Tolerance and acceptance for someone else from 211 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,100 a spiritual perspective. Regardless of what they believe, 212 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:49,200 regardless of what they practice and regardless of what they 213 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:53,700 teach that is ecumenical of, that's not in the Bible, some of 214 00:12:53,708 --> 00:12:55,600 the Bible at all. What's in the Bible? 215 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,300 Commanded, love is agape, love it. 216 00:12:58,300 --> 00:13:01,600 Is the highest form of love? You can have. 217 00:13:01,900 --> 00:13:05,400 What is Paul saying? Paul is simply saying this, he 218 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,500 is saying if you don't have the right kind of love, it doesn't 219 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:12,400 matter what you do. Agape love. 220 00:13:13,500 --> 00:13:16,300 Another example, John 13 and one, I love this passage. 221 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,700 In John 13, verse 1. Now, before the Feast of the 222 00:13:21,708 --> 00:13:26,900 Passover, when Jesus knew that, his hour had come, that he 223 00:13:26,900 --> 00:13:31,100 should depart from this world to the father, having loved his 224 00:13:31,100 --> 00:13:35,600 own, who were in the world. He loved them to the end. 225 00:13:35,700 --> 00:13:40,200 It makes it sound like this. Jesus loved them to the end of 226 00:13:40,208 --> 00:13:42,100 his life. Now is that true? 227 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,300 Yes he loved them till the end of this life. 228 00:13:45,300 --> 00:13:48,300 Yes, that's not what this passage is talking about. 229 00:13:48,300 --> 00:13:50,200 It literally means this in the original. 230 00:13:50,400 --> 00:13:56,300 It says this, he literally love them to the very limits or as 231 00:13:56,300 --> 00:14:01,200 far as love could go. That's a guppy love. 232 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:06,000 You love someone to the limits agape. 233 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:09,200 Love is just that Paul is dealing with speaking in 234 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:11,200 tongues. He's dealing with all of these 235 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:15,000 spiritual gifts and it has to be a god, they love where you have 236 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:20,000 the right motive of service and sacrifice and humility in all 237 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,200 those things or it is meaningless. 238 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:28,700 Okay, so let's talk about this. Let's talk about the tongues of 239 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:31,300 men, we're going to talk about two things, the tongues of men 240 00:14:31,900 --> 00:14:34,600 and the Tongues of angels. And what does the bible actually 241 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,300 talking about? When it says that when we find 242 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:40,200 out the tongues of men, Paul said, he said though, I speak 243 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:45,000 with the tongues of men and angels is what he said, remember 244 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:49,200 that, I just mentioned a moment ago that speaking in tongues was 245 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,800 the showy gift. That's the one that everybody 246 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:56,100 wanted a half. And and Paul said, you continue 247 00:14:56,100 --> 00:14:59,000 to covet this show a gift, but I'm going to show you a more 248 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:02,200 excellent way and that was the motivation being loved right. 249 00:15:02,500 --> 00:15:04,600 All right, so they had the showa gift. 250 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,400 Let's talk about speaking in tongues, though. 251 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,700 It's a very misunderstood Concept in the world today. 252 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:15,200 Let's just notice what the Bible says in Acts chapter 2, this is 253 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:20,900 the first time when the gospel was preached, with man, having 254 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:25,300 the opportunity to respond. It's the first time that the 255 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:29,100 gospel was preached and man, having the opportunity to 256 00:15:29,100 --> 00:15:33,400 respond to the gospel. Notice while this sermon is 257 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,300 being preached. This is what happened. 258 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:39,400 Jesus told his disciples. Wait, in Jerusalem until they 259 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:43,400 got power from on high notice. What happens when the day of 260 00:15:43,400 --> 00:15:48,900 Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one Accord in one 261 00:15:48,900 --> 00:15:51,800 place. And suddenly there came a sound 262 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,300 from Heaven as of Of a rushing, Mighty Wind, and it filled the 263 00:15:55,300 --> 00:15:57,400 whole house where they were sitting. 264 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:03,100 And then there appeared to them divided, tongues as of fire and 265 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:06,800 one sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the 266 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:10,900 Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the 267 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:15,800 spirit, gave them utterance, okay? 268 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:19,300 So what is it? What's the tongues? 269 00:16:20,900 --> 00:16:23,400 It's very simple. All we got to do is look at the 270 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:26,500 word, look at the original word and what it means. 271 00:16:26,700 --> 00:16:30,200 Tongues come from the word glossa. 272 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:34,900 It's found here in this passage and it means human language. 273 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,100 That's what they spoke. But there's so much more, they 274 00:16:39,100 --> 00:16:42,400 spoke human language. I'm going to prove that to you 275 00:16:42,408 --> 00:16:47,000 in just a minute. It is normative human language. 276 00:16:47,100 --> 00:16:52,200 It is not a private speech and it was never a private speech 277 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,800 between an individual, and God, and you know what else? 278 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,400 And I'm not making fun. I'm not doing that at all, but 279 00:16:58,400 --> 00:17:01,000 it wasn't some gibberish that nobody could understand. 280 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:04,500 It was never that, and it was never for private use. 281 00:17:04,500 --> 00:17:08,200 It was not that at all, either tongues that were spoke in Acts 282 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:13,200 2 and verse one was human, Which, all right, let's go to 283 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:17,400 Acts 2 verses five and six and then there were dwelling in 284 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:22,800 Jerusalem Jews devout men from every nation under heaven. 285 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,500 And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and 286 00:17:26,500 --> 00:17:31,200 they were confused because everyone heard them speak in his 287 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:36,600 own language. They spoke languages. 288 00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,600 What else? You know, what else that picture 289 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,300 this? There's about a million people 290 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:46,700 or so in Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost, 50 days following 291 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:50,900 the Lord's Passover, it was Sunday morning about 9:00 and 292 00:17:50,900 --> 00:17:54,200 all of this is going to happen and the apostles are speaking in 293 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,900 languages. They did not study and they 294 00:17:56,900 --> 00:17:59,300 would speak the words and other people would hear it in their 295 00:17:59,300 --> 00:18:01,200 own language. That's what it says. 296 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:03,900 So they were confused, you know, they were confused. 297 00:18:03,900 --> 00:18:07,300 Look at this. Then they were all amazed and 298 00:18:07,300 --> 00:18:10,600 marveled saying to one. Another look are not all these 299 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:14,900 who speak galilaeans. Now, you know, there was more to 300 00:18:14,900 --> 00:18:17,100 it than just saying these guys are From Galilee. 301 00:18:18,700 --> 00:18:21,600 Way more to it. By the way, there's a term today 302 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:26,100 that's not used in a derogatory sense, but it was back, then it 303 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:28,600 would have been a word or term. Like this would have been very 304 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,500 derogatory, you know what that is. 305 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:33,300 It's the modern-day phrase of redneck. 306 00:18:35,300 --> 00:18:40,100 I guess I'm one of those. Been a Cowboy my whole life. 307 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:44,600 Redneck. It's actually a term used today 308 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:47,400 in a positive way. In other words, I don't know in 309 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,700 today's vernacular is kind of cool to be a redneck. 310 00:18:49,700 --> 00:18:55,300 I would say But there was a time when the word was not used in a 311 00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:59,000 positive sense. But in a derogatory sense, what 312 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,000 did they actually mean? When they said, aren't all these 313 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:04,600 that speak galilaeans, they meant several things. 314 00:19:04,700 --> 00:19:09,500 One there, From Galilee that's obvious to. 315 00:19:09,700 --> 00:19:12,900 They're speaking in a tongue that they didn't study in 316 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:15,900 Galilee because there were no universities that taught 317 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:21,100 languages in Galilee three. That's where the hayseeds lived. 318 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,300 That's where the common folk lived over there in Galilee for. 319 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,900 Do you remember when it said, the idea of when Joseph of 320 00:19:28,900 --> 00:19:32,400 Arimathea, when he came to get the body of Jesus, do you 321 00:19:32,408 --> 00:19:36,500 remember what Arimathea means? According to Luke, it means city 322 00:19:36,700 --> 00:19:42,900 of the Jews or Judean. You know what Galilee means? 323 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:48,600 City of the Gentiles. Gentiles were looked down upon 324 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,300 they weren't smart. Now they're sitting here, 325 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:55,200 they're standing there, they're listening, it was a million 326 00:19:55,200 --> 00:19:58,100 people there. They're speaking in languages. 327 00:19:58,100 --> 00:20:02,800 They have not studied their hearing language in their own 328 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:08,700 native tongue, and they were From Galilee little side, note 329 00:20:08,700 --> 00:20:10,200 here. The same thing was said about 330 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,900 Nazareth Jesus, the greatest one that ever lived. 331 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:17,700 The greatest preacher, the world ever knew. 332 00:20:19,200 --> 00:20:20,800 The only one that ever was perfect. 333 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:24,900 Remember what they said about Jesus in addition to oh he's 334 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:27,900 just a carpenter's son, remember what they said in addition to 335 00:20:27,900 --> 00:20:30,000 that? They said can anything good come 336 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,000 out of Nazareth. It was the same kind of 337 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:37,000 phraseology, it was the same kind of derogatory phraseology. 338 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:42,800 As saying these guys are Galilean Notice verses 9 through 339 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,000 11, here are the people that were present and here were the 340 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:50,300 people that were hearing this sermon in their own language 341 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:55,300 parth, Ian's medes elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia, 342 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:01,100 Judea, and Cappadocia pontus and Asia, phrygia and pamphylia, 343 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:05,400 Egypt, and parts of Libya, Libya adjoining. 344 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:09,500 Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes. 345 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:14,700 It's cretans and Arabs we hear them speaking in our own 346 00:21:14,700 --> 00:21:18,800 tongues, the wonderful works of God. 347 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:22,500 Okay. How did they know it was? 348 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:26,500 The wonderful works of God. Because they heard it in their 349 00:21:26,500 --> 00:21:30,200 own language. That's what was spoken in X2, 350 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:32,900 folks. That's what was spoken in Acts 351 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:35,500 2. It wasn't some gibberish. 352 00:21:35,500 --> 00:21:38,400 It wasn't that at all? It wasn't some stammering 353 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,100 wasn't, it was bona fide languages. 354 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,600 That's exactly what it was and what, they preached. 355 00:21:45,700 --> 00:21:49,200 All right, so it is intelligent normal. 356 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:53,300 Human language in Acts 2 verses, 6 & 8 though. 357 00:21:54,300 --> 00:21:59,600 There was more, and when this sound occurred, the multitude 358 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,900 came together and were confused because everyone heard them 359 00:22:03,900 --> 00:22:08,200 speak in his own language. How is it that we hear each in 360 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:11,200 his own language? In which we were born, okay? 361 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:15,200 This word language is the word glossa, which is the word, the 362 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:18,300 general word for normal language. 363 00:22:18,300 --> 00:22:21,000 Oh, but there's more this got really good. 364 00:22:21,100 --> 00:22:24,800 In fact they heard them not only in that General Language? 365 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,400 They even heard it in a specific language. 366 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,300 You know what that word means? That's from the word dialect. 367 00:22:30,300 --> 00:22:34,600 Oh or subgroup, that would be like this in your own dialect. 368 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,000 You all know I go to the Philippines every year. 369 00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:43,800 I've been going there for the first time, 13 years ago and if 370 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:48,400 the Lord Wills in January, I will be going again. 371 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:54,100 Preach the gospel. And for years, people always ask 372 00:22:54,100 --> 00:22:57,200 me they just don't know any better about it. 373 00:22:57,208 --> 00:23:00,400 They don't, they don't understand when they asked me 374 00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:03,100 this. But they come up and they'll say 375 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:06,300 now that you've gone so many years, can you now speak 376 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:10,100 Filipino? Kate, there's no such thing. 377 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:14,100 Filipino people, speak languages. 378 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,600 In fact they speak Tagalog. They speak. 379 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:21,400 Ilocano that's just too. They're two of the major ones 380 00:23:21,500 --> 00:23:24,700 but did you know, you can go to different provinces and you find 381 00:23:24,700 --> 00:23:29,700 what different dialects which is like, for example, one of them 382 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:33,200 is that Pangasinan and you know what, it sounds totally 383 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:36,100 different than what you find in other languages out there in the 384 00:23:36,100 --> 00:23:38,500 Philippines. You can go to different parts of 385 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:41,900 the entire place and you can find different Dialects, you 386 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:43,400 know what? These people got to hear. 387 00:23:43,500 --> 00:23:46,000 You want to talk about a miracle, the apostles were 388 00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:50,700 preaching, the gospel, and they were speaking in their language, 389 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:56,400 but everybody there heard them in their own language and 390 00:23:56,400 --> 00:24:02,900 dialect. All right. sometimes people say 391 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:05,800 this, Yeah, that's acts to preacher. 392 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:09,300 I get it. But things changed after that. 393 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:12,800 I get it Frank. Yeah, you made your point that's 394 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,000 acts to but things changed after that. 395 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:20,600 Well, let's notice In Acts chapter 10, beginning in verse 396 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:24,700 44, while Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy 397 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:30,400 Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word and those are the 398 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,700 circumcision who believed were astonished as many as came with 399 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:38,300 Peter because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out 400 00:24:38,300 --> 00:24:41,800 on the Gentiles. Also for they heard them speak 401 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:47,400 with tongues and magnify God this is gloss. 402 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,700 Elsa, this is language. Okay, now the baptism of the 403 00:24:52,708 --> 00:24:57,300 Holy Spirit happened twice, it happened in Acts chapter 2 and 404 00:24:57,300 --> 00:25:00,400 it happened in Acts chapter 10, okay. 405 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:05,700 And with that the baptism of the Holy Spirit came and those that 406 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:09,400 were able to speak were able to speak in tongues where others 407 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,000 heard in their own language with no interpretation. 408 00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:18,300 There was no interpreter, that happened twice x 2 and X10. 409 00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:24,000 So acts to it's still just languages X10, it's still just 410 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:27,800 languages. And also in Acts chapter 11, 411 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,900 it's talking about languages. And by the way, this is Peter 412 00:25:30,900 --> 00:25:34,300 reporting back to Jerusalem about what happened in Acts 10 413 00:25:34,500 --> 00:25:37,100 and this is what he said, then. I remembered the word of the 414 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:40,600 Lord how he said John indeed baptized with water but you 415 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:42,800 shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit. 416 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:46,600 If therefore, God gave them the same gift. 417 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:54,400 X10 X20, same gift language. They spoke languages as he gave 418 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:56,900 us when we believe in the Lord, Jesus Christ. 419 00:25:57,000 --> 00:26:00,500 Who was I that I could withstand God. 420 00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:06,200 All right? The same gift acts 11, 16 and 16 421 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:11,900 and 17 but also there's another one Acts 19 and 6 and when Paul 422 00:26:11,900 --> 00:26:16,200 had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them and they 423 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:20,300 spoke with tongues Things and prophesied, never remember this. 424 00:26:21,700 --> 00:26:24,200 There's a difference between the baptism of the Holy Spirit, only 425 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:25,800 happened. Next to next ten, right? 426 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,900 No interpretation needed. But remember what I said at the 427 00:26:28,900 --> 00:26:32,100 very beginning, I said, spiritual gifts were given for 428 00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:35,600 the purpose of the Apostles would lay their hands on people, 429 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:39,300 and it would add credibility to the message and the messenger. 430 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,700 Okay? In the days of spiritual gifts 431 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:45,900 in Acts 19, we're talking about spiritual gifts, and Paul an 432 00:26:45,900 --> 00:26:49,300 apostle laid hands on them, but you know what happened? 433 00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:51,300 They needed to have somebody interpreted. 434 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:54,400 It. So we go to the next passage 435 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,100 First, Corinthians 12 and 10 to another, the working of Miracles 436 00:26:58,100 --> 00:27:01,600 to another prophecy, to another Discerning of spirits, to 437 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,200 another different kinds of tongues, to another, the 438 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:09,300 interpretation of tongues. And by the way, this word 439 00:27:09,300 --> 00:27:12,600 interpretation, it comes from the Greek word Herman. 440 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,400 Ooh. Oh, which means translation. 441 00:27:16,100 --> 00:27:20,000 And by the way, it's where we get the word, hermeneutic it is 442 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,400 they way of interpreting scripture as with the word, 443 00:27:22,700 --> 00:27:25,400 Inuvik means, okay. Are you kind of getting the 444 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:28,500 point when languages were spoken? 445 00:27:29,500 --> 00:27:32,400 And by the way, if it was a spiritual gift of be like this, 446 00:27:33,100 --> 00:27:38,100 be like this If Chris, for example, had this particular 447 00:27:38,100 --> 00:27:42,000 spiritual gift and he had the gift of tongues. 448 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,200 Here was the miracle, the apostles would lay their hands 449 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:51,300 on Chris and Chris would now have a showy gift a spiritual 450 00:27:51,300 --> 00:27:53,500 gift of speaking in tongues. What does that mean? 451 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,600 In other words, he had the gift of being able to speak in a 452 00:27:57,608 --> 00:28:02,100 language, he never studied Okay, he never studied the language 453 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,500 and it was all languages at all understood. 454 00:28:04,700 --> 00:28:08,500 And then Gabe over here is to say he was given the gift of 455 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:12,600 interpretation. So Chris would speak, he didn't 456 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:15,700 know the language Gabe would interpret, he didn't know the 457 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:17,300 language. That was the miracle. 458 00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:20,600 That was the spiritual gift and that was done through the laying 459 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:25,500 on of the Apostles hands. They were always understood 460 00:28:26,100 --> 00:28:29,800 everything that was said by way of tongues now in First 461 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:35,000 Corinthians 12 and verse 10, there's more To another the 462 00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,900 working of Miracles to another prophecy to another Discerning 463 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:41,300 of spirits to another different kinds of tongues. 464 00:28:42,100 --> 00:28:42,800 What's that? Mean? 465 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:46,800 Different kinds of tongues that comes from the word by the way. 466 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:52,200 Gino's, member biology. Remember that What was a kingdom 467 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:55,000 phylum class order? Family, genus species, member 468 00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:59,500 that wear that in biology. He's talking about the different 469 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:04,000 kinds of languages to now folks, listen, there's no kinds of 470 00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:08,600 family gibberish but there are family languages. 471 00:29:09,500 --> 00:29:13,400 There's not group gibberish or race or Nation gibberish. 472 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:15,900 But there are those things by way of languages. 473 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,400 Here's the point glossy. Meant tongues meant languages, 474 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:22,300 they were spoken and they understood it in their own 475 00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:24,800 dialect. It was translated in the in the 476 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,100 days of spiritual gifts and it even broke it down. 477 00:29:28,300 --> 00:29:31,300 Into their own kind and they understood it. 478 00:29:33,100 --> 00:29:38,600 In the age of Miracles. now, notice this, though in First 479 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:44,100 Corinthians Chapter 14, verse 23, therefore If the whole 480 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:46,900 church comes together into one place and all speak with 481 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:50,400 tongues, okay, picture this picture. 482 00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,000 This Paul's writing the church to Corner. 483 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,300 You got the whole congregation He pitches it like this. 484 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,900 Everybody in the congregation is speaking in tongues. 485 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,700 In other words, everyone is speaking in languages that they 486 00:30:06,700 --> 00:30:10,900 did not study, and there's somebody that comes in a visitor 487 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:13,700 and he sits among them, you know what Paul said? 488 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:17,600 If that happens, the uninformed and unbeliever that in your 489 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,400 midst, will say you are out of your mind. 490 00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,800 Don't you see? It wasn't confusion. 491 00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:28,000 It was always translated to. So it was heard and understood, 492 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,600 and Paul said, by the way, I'd rather speak very few words than 493 00:30:31,600 --> 00:30:33,900 speak in a tongue that nobody could understand. 494 00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:37,800 So, when tongues were used in the assembly, it was for the 495 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,600 purpose of confirming, the word, it was for the purpose of 496 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:44,600 authenticating, the message. And there was always an 497 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:49,300 interpreter because everybody understood This is not chaos 498 00:30:49,300 --> 00:30:52,100 folks. It was something they all under 499 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:55,600 stood not for private benefit. Either always prompted a 500 00:30:55,608 --> 00:30:58,600 response. But what about this? 501 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,700 What about this? Sometimes folks say this, okay, 502 00:31:03,700 --> 00:31:06,600 alright preacher, that's the tongues of men, I get it. 503 00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:11,300 You proved your point, X2 tongues of men acts 10, tongues 504 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:16,500 of men, X11 tongues of men, acts 16, tons of man, okay? 505 00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:20,700 First Corinthians tongues of men, I get it all that. 506 00:31:22,100 --> 00:31:26,900 But I speak the tongues of angels because Paul said there 507 00:31:26,900 --> 00:31:30,400 are such things as the tongues of angels and he said, and 508 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:34,100 though, I speak with the tongues of of men and angels. 509 00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:37,900 What is that? What is Angel talk, by the way, 510 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:41,700 Angels in the Bible. And I have to tell you this, I 511 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:45,900 have to preface this. I have to say, I don't know 512 00:31:45,900 --> 00:31:47,400 everything there is to know about angels. 513 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:52,400 In fact, years ago years ago, a sister asked me, would you 514 00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,800 preach on angels? And I said, sure and then I went 515 00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:00,300 to studying it and I can read very few things in the word of 516 00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:02,400 God. And I have to tell you that, I 517 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:07,100 can't tell you definitively all that Angels do I don't and I in, 518 00:32:07,100 --> 00:32:10,300 you know what, I really care. I know that God with his 519 00:32:10,300 --> 00:32:12,600 providential care through. Whatever means he chooses gets 520 00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,800 things done. His protective hand is over us, 521 00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:18,800 is that through angels? I have no idea about any of that 522 00:32:19,300 --> 00:32:20,700 and it's okay that we don't know. 523 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,600 All I can do is, let's talk about angels in the Bible. 524 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:28,100 Please in the Bible. They were Messengers. 525 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,500 That spoke human language. Do you know why? 526 00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:35,900 If you didn't understand the messenger, how are you going to? 527 00:32:36,100 --> 00:32:39,700 Understand the message. It was languages. 528 00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:43,300 They understood. So Angels were those that came 529 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:49,800 as Messengers for God. And they spoke human language. 530 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,800 All right, all that being said, then what about this? 531 00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:56,000 What is Paul talking about when he says though? 532 00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:00,100 I speak with the tongues of men and angels and we've already 533 00:33:00,100 --> 00:33:05,100 proven that if you don't have love, it's all meaningless. 534 00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:06,600 We've proven that. That's what Paul says. 535 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,000 We're going to get to that as we wrap this up quickly. 536 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:12,500 But he says, tongues of men and angels. 537 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,200 What was he talking about when he says, tongues of men and 538 00:33:17,300 --> 00:33:20,000 angels? Was he saying this is some sort 539 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:23,600 of special Angelic talk? Was he saying that there was 540 00:33:23,700 --> 00:33:27,200 Angel talk or Angel language? What was he saying? 541 00:33:27,500 --> 00:33:31,700 When he said though, I speak with tongues of men and angels, 542 00:33:31,900 --> 00:33:37,200 He is speaking in hyperbole or he is speaking in a an 543 00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,400 exaggeration, it's an extreme exaggeration. 544 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,200 And what he's saying is this even if I could speak the 545 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,600 tongues of men and even if I could speak the tongues of 546 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:51,000 angels, whatever that is, if I don't have love as the 547 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,800 motivating factor. It doesn't matter at all. 548 00:33:56,500 --> 00:33:59,400 It's nothing. It's nothing. 549 00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,600 But let's go back to the passage and I'm going to add verse 3. 550 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:06,700 Now showing that the whole thing is a hyperbole or an 551 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:09,300 exaggeration. Go back to this though. 552 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:11,000 I speak with the tongues of men and angels. 553 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:15,600 All right now and have not love, I become as sounding brass or a 554 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:19,600 clanging cymbal, notice. The hyperbole, the exaggeration 555 00:34:19,900 --> 00:34:24,600 and though I have the gift of Prophecy and I understand all 556 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,199 Mysteries. Is it possible for Paul to know 557 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:31,199 all Mysteries? No, only God knows that it's go 558 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:35,800 further and all knowledge. Can a man ever know, all 559 00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:39,400 knowledge? Know, only God can do that and 560 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,199 though I have all Faith so that I can remove mountains. 561 00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:47,100 And by the way, the context here is removing literal mountains. 562 00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:50,400 It's not talking about things. We talked about before, where 563 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,199 mountains of difficulty, which was a Jewish colloquial phrase. 564 00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:57,100 This means literally, Paul said if I can even have such faith 565 00:34:57,100 --> 00:34:59,500 that I can literally remove. Mountains. 566 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:05,100 But have not love. I am nothing, he goes further in 567 00:35:05,107 --> 00:35:09,200 verse 3, and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor. 568 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:13,800 And though I give my body to be burned, but have not love it. 569 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:19,900 Profits me. Nothing you see the point, he 570 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:22,900 wasn't saying there's an Angelic language out there that you may 571 00:35:22,900 --> 00:35:25,500 be able to have. He wasn't saying there's some 572 00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:29,100 sort of special thing out there that your private prayer. 573 00:35:29,100 --> 00:35:34,200 Language, what have we noticed? We've noticed this We've noticed 574 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,200 this it was always human language. 575 00:35:37,700 --> 00:35:41,900 It was spoken and understood even in dialects in the age of 576 00:35:41,900 --> 00:35:44,100 spiritual gifts. It was translated and 577 00:35:44,100 --> 00:35:46,800 understood. It was broken down by Family 578 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:51,400 Group, race and nation and everybody understood it first 579 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,300 Corinthians 13 is speaking in hyperbole but there's something 580 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:59,100 I want to share with you. You see where it says Sabelli 581 00:35:59,100 --> 00:36:02,800 and Dionysus. You know, I did a little I did a 582 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,600 little research about that, and I thought was really interesting 583 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:10,000 because Paul inspired by the Holy Spirit to write these 584 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,200 things was writing, some things that they totally would have 585 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:16,100 understood. It was brilliant first. 586 00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:22,700 He said, if I have all these things and it's not love, that's 587 00:36:22,700 --> 00:36:26,900 the motivating factor, I am sounding brass or a clanging 588 00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:31,200 cymbal, right? You know who sabelli and 589 00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,600 Dionysus were they were, they were false gods at the time. 590 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,800 They existed in paganism around that time and history will tell 591 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,400 you as you can, look it up its historical, you know what they 592 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,000 were doing? You know, the worshippers of 593 00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:50,100 these false gods would do, I read, they would do this, they 594 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:52,700 would come together as they would congregate to worship 595 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:57,800 their false gods and they would take symbols and clang them 596 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:01,400 together. They would beat the gum. 597 00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:04,200 They would do that too. And blast the trumpets. 598 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:07,300 And you know what, it sounded like with all that going on, 599 00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:10,700 there was nothing melodious. It was no choice and that's 600 00:37:10,700 --> 00:37:13,900 exactly what Paul is saying is if I have all this and I can do 601 00:37:13,900 --> 00:37:16,600 all this but it's not with love, I'm just noise. 602 00:37:18,900 --> 00:37:20,400 I think you drove the point home. 603 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:28,400 I think they understood. Okay, so What about today? 604 00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,900 We've proven in the New Testament, time in the age of 605 00:37:31,908 --> 00:37:37,900 the Apostles we proven when tongues were given, when they 606 00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:43,000 happened for what purpose, but what about today, what about 607 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:47,100 today? Well, let's talk about today in 608 00:37:47,100 --> 00:37:53,200 First Corinthians 13, beginning in verse 8, Love, Never Fails. 609 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:54,500 He just talked about that. Right? 610 00:37:55,900 --> 00:37:59,400 But whether there are prophecies They will fail. 611 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,600 And by the way, this is miraculous prophecies, okay? 612 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:10,300 Whether there are tongues, they will cease whether there are 613 00:38:10,300 --> 00:38:12,400 knowledge, that's miraculous knowledge. 614 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:18,000 It will vanish away for, we know in part and we prophesy in part. 615 00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:22,600 But when that which is perfect has come, then that, which is in 616 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:26,600 part will be done away. All we got to do is figure out 617 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,100 that which is perfect. We go to James 1:25. 618 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:33,800 And James says, but whoso looketh into the perfect law of 619 00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:39,100 Liberty and continues therein. He being not a forgetful hearer. 620 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:42,600 A doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. 621 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:43,500 You know what? That is. 622 00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,200 That's the word of God, the perfect law of Liberty. 623 00:38:48,500 --> 00:38:53,100 So when were they done away with when the word of God was 624 00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:55,600 revealed, when the word of God was completed? 625 00:38:56,100 --> 00:38:57,800 And guess what? One final thing. 626 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,100 And I'm finished been a wonderful audience. 627 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:08,000 One final thing, If spiritual gifts like tongues had to be 628 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:13,700 passed on by the hands of the Apostles so much. 629 00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:16,400 So that even, even an evangelist, Philip that was 630 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:20,500 working for the Lord and guided by the holy spirit so much, so 631 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:23,900 that he even had to go get Peter and John to come and lay their 632 00:39:23,900 --> 00:39:26,800 hands on them. You know what that means folks, 633 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:30,900 that means when John died on the Isle of Patmos, the last 634 00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:37,600 Apostle. So did miraculous gifts Just God 635 00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:39,900 help us. Yes, don't misunderstand me is 636 00:39:39,900 --> 00:39:42,200 God working in our lives. Yes, don't misunderstand me. 637 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,700 Absolutely just God answer our prayers. 638 00:39:44,700 --> 00:39:46,600 Yes, absolutely. Does. 639 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,100 God through his providential care. 640 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,100 Take care of us. Yes. 641 00:39:50,300 --> 00:39:52,500 Last time we talked about what is God's will. 642 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,700 Absolutely God is not just set this this world off somewhere 643 00:39:57,700 --> 00:40:01,400 this universe, just to run by itself, he's involved and 644 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,500 whatever God's will is, we submit to it. 645 00:40:03,500 --> 00:40:06,100 And that's a matter of me. Bending my will toward God, 646 00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:09,000 whatever God chooses he takes care of us. 647 00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:13,000 I'm just saying, I'm not limiting God, he has limited 648 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:17,700 himself where Miracles don't exist today, which are a 649 00:40:17,900 --> 00:40:20,100 supernatural event done without means. 650 00:40:20,100 --> 00:40:23,400 Now God being Supernatural does so through. 651 00:40:23,500 --> 00:40:27,900 Through means today. We thank you for listening to 652 00:40:27,900 --> 00:40:32,700 our podcast, put on by the Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. 653 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:36,300 Road in Bakersfield, if you would like any additional 654 00:40:36,300 --> 00:40:39,600 information or you would like to receive a free Bible 655 00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:45,000 correspondence, course by mail. 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