You know, there's two things that come up in religious
discussions today and I think it's very common, two things,
one are Miracles and the other is the concept of speaking in
tongues. And so, from this passage of
scripture in First Corinthians chapter 13, verses 1 and 2.
I've taken the title, the tongues of men and angels, you
know, I was looking over this very idea that it's been over
five years, is I preach? Anything like that here at this
place so I thought it might be fitting.
I think it's relevant. I think these are things that
need to be understood from the word of God.
What does the Bible say? And what did Paul actually mean
in First Corinthians 13? Beginning, there in verse 1.
Paul said though, I speak with the tongues of men and angels
but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging
cymbal and though I have the gift of Prophecy and understood
or understand all Mysteries and all knowledge and though I have
faith all Faith, so that I could remove mountains but have not
love. Paul said, I am nothing.
Let's ask our self a couple of questions though.
What is a miracle? And does God help us today?
Well, he absolutely does, but we want to ask ourselves the
question, does he do so miraculously the definition of
the word miracle? And really, this is a very
simplified definition. A simplified, definition of a
miracle is a supernatural act, that's done by God.
Without means As a supernatural act done by God without means.
All right. So what's Providence Providence
by the way? And I have to say, there's
nothing about God. That is not Supernatural.
You can't say that. God is Not Supernatural,
everything. God is is Supernatural.
In John chapter 4, the Bible says that God is a spirit and
they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in
truth. So God everything about God is
Supernatural. So, what's the difference
between a miracle and God's Divine Providence?
Here's the difference. God being Supernatural.
Accomplishes. His will through memes, through
physical means. Let me give you a quick example.
Bob prayed for Terry just a moment ago.
Okay. Terry had triple bypass surgery
on Tuesday. We prayed for Terry.
We prayed for Terror, we prayed that God would be over that that
God would oversee that we prayed that God would keep Terry safe.
We also prayed for those that would administer care and to
him, we prayed for the doctors. We pray that the doctors would
even have wisdom beyond their years and experience to do the
right things for him. Medically, we prayed for the
anesthesiologist, we prayed for the nurses, that would be in his
care. Terry made it through the
surgery and he made it through very well.
So, who gets the credit? God gets the credit he gets all
the credit because God did that through natural means.
God uses me as he uses medicine. He uses doctors, he uses those
things but God who is Supernatural gets all the
credit. That is Providence.
That's not a miracle. What's a miracle?
A supernatural event by God done through Supernatural means or
without natural means now. Miracles that existed in the
Bible existed for a reason. Number one, all four of these
things are attached to the Miracles that are found in the
Bible. They were always for a purpose,
they were always for a reason. Number one, it was always for
the purpose of introducing a new era of Revelation.
What do I mean by that? It was talking about a time
which God would speak Miracles existed during those times
number two, Two Miracles were for the purpose of
authenticating, the messenger giving credibility to the
messenger number three. It was to authenticate.
The message that the message was right?
And the message was true and the message came from God and number
four and please get this It was always to repair a response.
You can't find one miracle in the Bible.
That was done for a personal private benefit.
A personal private benefit to a miracle.
It was always the show. The glory of God, it was always
to show the glory of Jesus Christ.
It was always for the purpose of bringing in things that we that
God wanted man to accept. So all four of these things are
attached to all the Miracles that are found in the Bible.
Now interestingly interestingly and again we're talking about
miracles supernatural act without natural means.
Okay. Of all of the years that the
world has stood miracles in that capacity, only existed in three
brief periods of time. It was in the days of Moses and
Joshua. It was in the Days of Elijah and
Elisha and in the days of Christ and the apostles.
Okay? So Moses and Joshua, God
introduced a new era of Revelation.
It was called the law and God brought in the law therefore
Miracles existed to Confirm that law.
It was in the Days of Elijah and Elijah.
That was the period of the prophets.
Again, God was speaking again through prophets and miracles
accompanied that and finally Christ and the apostles, and
that was from, when Jesus was living, He was talking about the
kingdom of the church being established and it was done in
the days of the Apostles. Now, interestingly of all those
time periods, Was less than a hundred years.
Moses and Joshua less than a hundred years, Elijah and Elisha
less than 100 years Christ, and the apostles less than 100
years. And by the way, there's going to
be one more time when Miracles are going to happen, one more.
It's at the end of time. When the Lord comes back,
everything that will be done, then we'll be done super
naturally. When we are raised to walk as if
from the grave and we are those that are going to go to heaven,
those are going to be redeemed on that day.
All of those things are going to be a supernatural event, but
that's the only other time that these Miracles have existed.
All right, let's back up. Let's talk about spiritual
gifts. What about spiritual gifts in
the early church during the days of the Apostles?
Okay. Do you remember in Acts chapter
8, when Philip was a preacher and he was in Samaria and he's
preaching to those Samaritans. And there was a man, there by
the name of Simon, the Sorcerer, the gospel was preached, they
believe the gospel, they believed in Jesus, they obeyed
the gospel by being baptized for the remission of their sins,
including Simon the Sorcerer. But you know what happened?
There was a time this was in a Time.
Of spiritual gifts to confirm the word of God and authenticate
the message. So spiritual gifts were left
behind but Philip was an evangelist.
He didn't have that kind of power.
It had to come from the laying on of the Apostles hands.
So they called Peter and John, here, comes Peter and John, and
they laid their hands on them, and they received a spiritual
gift. All right, one of those gifts
was the speaking in tongues. Another one of those gifts was
the interpretation Ocean of tongues.
Another one of those gifts was the gift of Prophecy, the gift
of healing and we're talking about miraculous things,
miraculous knowledge That was a spiritual gift.
And, you know, without the word of God being present, without
the word of God being completed, there had to be something, they
had to leave behind something to authenticate the message and the
messenger, didn't they? That was spiritual gifts.
Okay, let's talk about the church in Corinth, the church in
Corinth. And First Corinthians chapter
12, Paul deals with spiritual gifts and there were those that
were coveting spiritual gifts. And finally, in First
Corinthians 12, and, One it says, but earnestly desire, the
best gifts and yet I show you a more excellent way.
You know, it's interesting about that.
It makes it sound that he's saying, I want you to earnestly
desire, the best gifts and you know what, that's what they were
doing, they were looking for the Shoah gift.
In other words, you can just imagine human nature.
This guy over here, he wanted to have speaking in tongues but no,
this guy over here had it. This guy really wanted it.
This guy was jealous of this guy.
He wanted to have the tongue. He wanted to have a show, a
gift, this guy over here, he was puffed up and he and he was
arrogant about the fact that he had a better gift than the other
guy over there. So it makes it sound when you
look at this verse that, he's saying, I want you to desire the
best gifts, but in the original, it doesn't say that.
In fact, it literally says this in the Greek, it says, you are
continuing to covet the showy gift.
In other words, he's saying what you're doing, but then he's
going to say that there's an excellent way.
I'm more excellent way and its first Corinthians, 13 and 13.
And now abideth faith, hope and I love these three, but the
greatest of these is love. What kind of love?
Obviously, it's agape, love, and agape.
Love is the highest form of love you could ever have.
It's the Love, by the way, that is always connected to God, it
is a love of service and sacrifice.
So in John 3:16 a passage, we all know that God, so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten son.
In other words, he loved the world.
It was demonstrated Agape, Love in the giving of his son service
and Advice for others. That's agape love, okay?
Talk about some things that love isn't, I'll be very brief about
this. If you ever stopped to consider
and Ephesians chapter 5, when Paul says, love your wives, when
Paul says, love your wives, Now, I'm not talking about the Love
Languages because I believe in all that to not talking about
that kind of love not talking about romantic love.
In fact, did you know that? That's another Greek word
entirely the word for romantic love and it exists romantic love
exists but it's not found in the New Testament at all.
Not one time. So what is he talking about in
Ephesians chapter 5? When I can read that?
And Paul saying, you need to love your wives.
What kind of love is that romantic?
Love know a good feeling inside now.
It's talking about agape love. And Paul says it like this, you
love your wives as Christ. Loved the church.
What did he do? And he gave himself for it.
Little side note here. All the men that have wives.
If that's how you. Imparted your leadership in the
home. I have never yet met a woman
that would fail to want to desire to submit to such
leadership. If a man loved his wife like
Jesus Christ, does the church and gave himself for it in
service and sacrifice what woman, what wife would not want
to be a part of that would not want to submit to that.
All right. What else is it not?
This kind of love is not defeat of feeling of emotion, you know,
there's things in life sometimes, we feel them, and we
love somebody because it feels like that.
And we feel that naturally, we have natural affection and all
that. That's not this word either and
thirdly and finally, it is not ecumenical, big word, big word
and looking spend much time on it.
But here's what it means. Extra ecumenical love is a
feeling of Tolerance and acceptance for someone else from
a spiritual perspective. Regardless of what they believe,
regardless of what they practice and regardless of what they
teach that is ecumenical of, that's not in the Bible, some of
the Bible at all. What's in the Bible?
Commanded, love is agape, love it.
Is the highest form of love? You can have.
What is Paul saying? Paul is simply saying this, he
is saying if you don't have the right kind of love, it doesn't
matter what you do. Agape love.
Another example, John 13 and one, I love this passage.
In John 13, verse 1. Now, before the Feast of the
Passover, when Jesus knew that, his hour had come, that he
should depart from this world to the father, having loved his
own, who were in the world. He loved them to the end.
It makes it sound like this. Jesus loved them to the end of
his life. Now is that true?
Yes he loved them till the end of this life.
Yes, that's not what this passage is talking about.
It literally means this in the original.
It says this, he literally love them to the very limits or as
far as love could go. That's a guppy love.
You love someone to the limits agape.
Love is just that Paul is dealing with speaking in
tongues. He's dealing with all of these
spiritual gifts and it has to be a god, they love where you have
the right motive of service and sacrifice and humility in all
those things or it is meaningless.
Okay, so let's talk about this. Let's talk about the tongues of
men, we're going to talk about two things, the tongues of men
and the Tongues of angels. And what does the bible actually
talking about? When it says that when we find
out the tongues of men, Paul said, he said though, I speak
with the tongues of men and angels is what he said, remember
that, I just mentioned a moment ago that speaking in tongues was
the showy gift. That's the one that everybody
wanted a half. And and Paul said, you continue
to covet this show a gift, but I'm going to show you a more
excellent way and that was the motivation being loved right.
All right, so they had the showa gift.
Let's talk about speaking in tongues, though.
It's a very misunderstood Concept in the world today.
Let's just notice what the Bible says in Acts chapter 2, this is
the first time when the gospel was preached, with man, having
the opportunity to respond. It's the first time that the
gospel was preached and man, having the opportunity to
respond to the gospel. Notice while this sermon is
being preached. This is what happened.
Jesus told his disciples. Wait, in Jerusalem until they
got power from on high notice. What happens when the day of
Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one Accord in one
place. And suddenly there came a sound
from Heaven as of Of a rushing, Mighty Wind, and it filled the
whole house where they were sitting.
And then there appeared to them divided, tongues as of fire and
one sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the
Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the
spirit, gave them utterance, okay?
So what is it? What's the tongues?
It's very simple. All we got to do is look at the
word, look at the original word and what it means.
Tongues come from the word glossa.
It's found here in this passage and it means human language.
That's what they spoke. But there's so much more, they
spoke human language. I'm going to prove that to you
in just a minute. It is normative human language.
It is not a private speech and it was never a private speech
between an individual, and God, and you know what else?
And I'm not making fun. I'm not doing that at all, but
it wasn't some gibberish that nobody could understand.
It was never that, and it was never for private use.
It was not that at all, either tongues that were spoke in Acts
2 and verse one was human, Which, all right, let's go to
Acts 2 verses five and six and then there were dwelling in
Jerusalem Jews devout men from every nation under heaven.
And when this sound occurred, the multitude came together and
they were confused because everyone heard them speak in his
own language. They spoke languages.
What else? You know, what else that picture
this? There's about a million people
or so in Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost, 50 days following
the Lord's Passover, it was Sunday morning about 9:00 and
all of this is going to happen and the apostles are speaking in
languages. They did not study and they
would speak the words and other people would hear it in their
own language. That's what it says.
So they were confused, you know, they were confused.
Look at this. Then they were all amazed and
marveled saying to one. Another look are not all these
who speak galilaeans. Now, you know, there was more to
it than just saying these guys are From Galilee.
Way more to it. By the way, there's a term today
that's not used in a derogatory sense, but it was back, then it
would have been a word or term. Like this would have been very
derogatory, you know what that is.
It's the modern-day phrase of redneck.
I guess I'm one of those. Been a Cowboy my whole life.
Redneck. It's actually a term used today
in a positive way. In other words, I don't know in
today's vernacular is kind of cool to be a redneck.
I would say But there was a time when the word was not used in a
positive sense. But in a derogatory sense, what
did they actually mean? When they said, aren't all these
that speak galilaeans, they meant several things.
One there, From Galilee that's obvious to.
They're speaking in a tongue that they didn't study in
Galilee because there were no universities that taught
languages in Galilee three. That's where the hayseeds lived.
That's where the common folk lived over there in Galilee for.
Do you remember when it said, the idea of when Joseph of
Arimathea, when he came to get the body of Jesus, do you
remember what Arimathea means? According to Luke, it means city
of the Jews or Judean. You know what Galilee means?
City of the Gentiles. Gentiles were looked down upon
they weren't smart. Now they're sitting here,
they're standing there, they're listening, it was a million
people there. They're speaking in languages.
They have not studied their hearing language in their own
native tongue, and they were From Galilee little side, note
here. The same thing was said about
Nazareth Jesus, the greatest one that ever lived.
The greatest preacher, the world ever knew.
The only one that ever was perfect.
Remember what they said about Jesus in addition to oh he's
just a carpenter's son, remember what they said in addition to
that? They said can anything good come
out of Nazareth. It was the same kind of
phraseology, it was the same kind of derogatory phraseology.
As saying these guys are Galilean Notice verses 9 through
11, here are the people that were present and here were the
people that were hearing this sermon in their own language
parth, Ian's medes elamites, those dwelling in Mesopotamia,
Judea, and Cappadocia pontus and Asia, phrygia and pamphylia,
Egypt, and parts of Libya, Libya adjoining.
Cyrene, visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes.
It's cretans and Arabs we hear them speaking in our own
tongues, the wonderful works of God.
Okay. How did they know it was?
The wonderful works of God. Because they heard it in their
own language. That's what was spoken in X2,
folks. That's what was spoken in Acts
2. It wasn't some gibberish.
It wasn't that at all? It wasn't some stammering
wasn't, it was bona fide languages.
That's exactly what it was and what, they preached.
All right, so it is intelligent normal.
Human language in Acts 2 verses, 6 & 8 though.
There was more, and when this sound occurred, the multitude
came together and were confused because everyone heard them
speak in his own language. How is it that we hear each in
his own language? In which we were born, okay?
This word language is the word glossa, which is the word, the
general word for normal language.
Oh, but there's more this got really good.
In fact they heard them not only in that General Language?
They even heard it in a specific language.
You know what that word means? That's from the word dialect.
Oh or subgroup, that would be like this in your own dialect.
You all know I go to the Philippines every year.
I've been going there for the first time, 13 years ago and if
the Lord Wills in January, I will be going again.
Preach the gospel. And for years, people always ask
me they just don't know any better about it.
They don't, they don't understand when they asked me
this. But they come up and they'll say
now that you've gone so many years, can you now speak
Filipino? Kate, there's no such thing.
Filipino people, speak languages.
In fact they speak Tagalog. They speak.
Ilocano that's just too. They're two of the major ones
but did you know, you can go to different provinces and you find
what different dialects which is like, for example, one of them
is that Pangasinan and you know what, it sounds totally
different than what you find in other languages out there in the
Philippines. You can go to different parts of
the entire place and you can find different Dialects, you
know what? These people got to hear.
You want to talk about a miracle, the apostles were
preaching, the gospel, and they were speaking in their language,
but everybody there heard them in their own language and
dialect. All right. sometimes people say
this, Yeah, that's acts to preacher.
I get it. But things changed after that.
I get it Frank. Yeah, you made your point that's
acts to but things changed after that.
Well, let's notice In Acts chapter 10, beginning in verse
44, while Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy
Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word and those are the
circumcision who believed were astonished as many as came with
Peter because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out
on the Gentiles. Also for they heard them speak
with tongues and magnify God this is gloss.
Elsa, this is language. Okay, now the baptism of the
Holy Spirit happened twice, it happened in Acts chapter 2 and
it happened in Acts chapter 10, okay.
And with that the baptism of the Holy Spirit came and those that
were able to speak were able to speak in tongues where others
heard in their own language with no interpretation.
There was no interpreter, that happened twice x 2 and X10.
So acts to it's still just languages X10, it's still just
languages. And also in Acts chapter 11,
it's talking about languages. And by the way, this is Peter
reporting back to Jerusalem about what happened in Acts 10
and this is what he said, then. I remembered the word of the
Lord how he said John indeed baptized with water but you
shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit.
If therefore, God gave them the same gift.
X10 X20, same gift language. They spoke languages as he gave
us when we believe in the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Who was I that I could withstand God.
All right? The same gift acts 11, 16 and 16
and 17 but also there's another one Acts 19 and 6 and when Paul
had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them and they
spoke with tongues Things and prophesied, never remember this.
There's a difference between the baptism of the Holy Spirit, only
happened. Next to next ten, right?
No interpretation needed. But remember what I said at the
very beginning, I said, spiritual gifts were given for
the purpose of the Apostles would lay their hands on people,
and it would add credibility to the message and the messenger.
Okay? In the days of spiritual gifts
in Acts 19, we're talking about spiritual gifts, and Paul an
apostle laid hands on them, but you know what happened?
They needed to have somebody interpreted.
It. So we go to the next passage
First, Corinthians 12 and 10 to another, the working of Miracles
to another prophecy, to another Discerning of spirits, to
another different kinds of tongues, to another, the
interpretation of tongues. And by the way, this word
interpretation, it comes from the Greek word Herman.
Ooh. Oh, which means translation.
And by the way, it's where we get the word, hermeneutic it is
they way of interpreting scripture as with the word,
Inuvik means, okay. Are you kind of getting the
point when languages were spoken?
And by the way, if it was a spiritual gift of be like this,
be like this If Chris, for example, had this particular
spiritual gift and he had the gift of tongues.
Here was the miracle, the apostles would lay their hands
on Chris and Chris would now have a showy gift a spiritual
gift of speaking in tongues. What does that mean?
In other words, he had the gift of being able to speak in a
language, he never studied Okay, he never studied the language
and it was all languages at all understood.
And then Gabe over here is to say he was given the gift of
interpretation. So Chris would speak, he didn't
know the language Gabe would interpret, he didn't know the
language. That was the miracle.
That was the spiritual gift and that was done through the laying
on of the Apostles hands. They were always understood
everything that was said by way of tongues now in First
Corinthians 12 and verse 10, there's more To another the
working of Miracles to another prophecy to another Discerning
of spirits to another different kinds of tongues.
What's that? Mean?
Different kinds of tongues that comes from the word by the way.
Gino's, member biology. Remember that What was a kingdom
phylum class order? Family, genus species, member
that wear that in biology. He's talking about the different
kinds of languages to now folks, listen, there's no kinds of
family gibberish but there are family languages.
There's not group gibberish or race or Nation gibberish.
But there are those things by way of languages.
Here's the point glossy. Meant tongues meant languages,
they were spoken and they understood it in their own
dialect. It was translated in the in the
days of spiritual gifts and it even broke it down.
Into their own kind and they understood it.
In the age of Miracles. now, notice this, though in First
Corinthians Chapter 14, verse 23, therefore If the whole
church comes together into one place and all speak with
tongues, okay, picture this picture.
This Paul's writing the church to Corner.
You got the whole congregation He pitches it like this.
Everybody in the congregation is speaking in tongues.
In other words, everyone is speaking in languages that they
did not study, and there's somebody that comes in a visitor
and he sits among them, you know what Paul said?
If that happens, the uninformed and unbeliever that in your
midst, will say you are out of your mind.
Don't you see? It wasn't confusion.
It was always translated to. So it was heard and understood,
and Paul said, by the way, I'd rather speak very few words than
speak in a tongue that nobody could understand.
So, when tongues were used in the assembly, it was for the
purpose of confirming, the word, it was for the purpose of
authenticating, the message. And there was always an
interpreter because everybody understood This is not chaos
folks. It was something they all under
stood not for private benefit. Either always prompted a
response. But what about this?
What about this? Sometimes folks say this, okay,
alright preacher, that's the tongues of men, I get it.
You proved your point, X2 tongues of men acts 10, tongues
of men, X11 tongues of men, acts 16, tons of man, okay?
First Corinthians tongues of men, I get it all that.
But I speak the tongues of angels because Paul said there
are such things as the tongues of angels and he said, and
though, I speak with the tongues of of men and angels.
What is that? What is Angel talk, by the way,
Angels in the Bible. And I have to tell you this, I
have to preface this. I have to say, I don't know
everything there is to know about angels.
In fact, years ago years ago, a sister asked me, would you
preach on angels? And I said, sure and then I went
to studying it and I can read very few things in the word of
God. And I have to tell you that, I
can't tell you definitively all that Angels do I don't and I in,
you know what, I really care. I know that God with his
providential care through. Whatever means he chooses gets
things done. His protective hand is over us,
is that through angels? I have no idea about any of that
and it's okay that we don't know.
All I can do is, let's talk about angels in the Bible.
Please in the Bible. They were Messengers.
That spoke human language. Do you know why?
If you didn't understand the messenger, how are you going to?
Understand the message. It was languages.
They understood. So Angels were those that came
as Messengers for God. And they spoke human language.
All right, all that being said, then what about this?
What is Paul talking about when he says though?
I speak with the tongues of men and angels and we've already
proven that if you don't have love, it's all meaningless.
We've proven that. That's what Paul says.
We're going to get to that as we wrap this up quickly.
But he says, tongues of men and angels.
What was he talking about when he says, tongues of men and
angels? Was he saying this is some sort
of special Angelic talk? Was he saying that there was
Angel talk or Angel language? What was he saying?
When he said though, I speak with tongues of men and angels,
He is speaking in hyperbole or he is speaking in a an
exaggeration, it's an extreme exaggeration.
And what he's saying is this even if I could speak the
tongues of men and even if I could speak the tongues of
angels, whatever that is, if I don't have love as the
motivating factor. It doesn't matter at all.
It's nothing. It's nothing.
But let's go back to the passage and I'm going to add verse 3.
Now showing that the whole thing is a hyperbole or an
exaggeration. Go back to this though.
I speak with the tongues of men and angels.
All right now and have not love, I become as sounding brass or a
clanging cymbal, notice. The hyperbole, the exaggeration
and though I have the gift of Prophecy and I understand all
Mysteries. Is it possible for Paul to know
all Mysteries? No, only God knows that it's go
further and all knowledge. Can a man ever know, all
knowledge? Know, only God can do that and
though I have all Faith so that I can remove mountains.
And by the way, the context here is removing literal mountains.
It's not talking about things. We talked about before, where
mountains of difficulty, which was a Jewish colloquial phrase.
This means literally, Paul said if I can even have such faith
that I can literally remove. Mountains.
But have not love. I am nothing, he goes further in
verse 3, and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor.
And though I give my body to be burned, but have not love it.
Profits me. Nothing you see the point, he
wasn't saying there's an Angelic language out there that you may
be able to have. He wasn't saying there's some
sort of special thing out there that your private prayer.
Language, what have we noticed? We've noticed this We've noticed
this it was always human language.
It was spoken and understood even in dialects in the age of
spiritual gifts. It was translated and
understood. It was broken down by Family
Group, race and nation and everybody understood it first
Corinthians 13 is speaking in hyperbole but there's something
I want to share with you. You see where it says Sabelli
and Dionysus. You know, I did a little I did a
little research about that, and I thought was really interesting
because Paul inspired by the Holy Spirit to write these
things was writing, some things that they totally would have
understood. It was brilliant first.
He said, if I have all these things and it's not love, that's
the motivating factor, I am sounding brass or a clanging
cymbal, right? You know who sabelli and
Dionysus were they were, they were false gods at the time.
They existed in paganism around that time and history will tell
you as you can, look it up its historical, you know what they
were doing? You know, the worshippers of
these false gods would do, I read, they would do this, they
would come together as they would congregate to worship
their false gods and they would take symbols and clang them
together. They would beat the gum.
They would do that too. And blast the trumpets.
And you know what, it sounded like with all that going on,
there was nothing melodious. It was no choice and that's
exactly what Paul is saying is if I have all this and I can do
all this but it's not with love, I'm just noise.
I think you drove the point home.
I think they understood. Okay, so What about today?
We've proven in the New Testament, time in the age of
the Apostles we proven when tongues were given, when they
happened for what purpose, but what about today, what about
today? Well, let's talk about today in
First Corinthians 13, beginning in verse 8, Love, Never Fails.
He just talked about that. Right?
But whether there are prophecies They will fail.
And by the way, this is miraculous prophecies, okay?
Whether there are tongues, they will cease whether there are
knowledge, that's miraculous knowledge.
It will vanish away for, we know in part and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect has come, then that, which is in
part will be done away. All we got to do is figure out
that which is perfect. We go to James 1:25.
And James says, but whoso looketh into the perfect law of
Liberty and continues therein. He being not a forgetful hearer.
A doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
You know what? That is.
That's the word of God, the perfect law of Liberty.
So when were they done away with when the word of God was
revealed, when the word of God was completed?
And guess what? One final thing.
And I'm finished been a wonderful audience.
One final thing, If spiritual gifts like tongues had to be
passed on by the hands of the Apostles so much.
So that even, even an evangelist, Philip that was
working for the Lord and guided by the holy spirit so much, so
that he even had to go get Peter and John to come and lay their
hands on them. You know what that means folks,
that means when John died on the Isle of Patmos, the last
Apostle. So did miraculous gifts Just God
help us. Yes, don't misunderstand me is
God working in our lives. Yes, don't misunderstand me.
Absolutely just God answer our prayers.
Yes, absolutely. Does.
God through his providential care.
Take care of us. Yes.
Last time we talked about what is God's will.
Absolutely God is not just set this this world off somewhere
this universe, just to run by itself, he's involved and
whatever God's will is, we submit to it.
And that's a matter of me. Bending my will toward God,
whatever God chooses he takes care of us.
I'm just saying, I'm not limiting God, he has limited
himself where Miracles don't exist today, which are a
supernatural event done without means.
Now God being Supernatural does so through.
Through means today. We thank you for listening to
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