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Told you, if something's weird, 
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to it. 
We have to make sure we 

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understand it, right? 
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Some of you have been here for a
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You know, any time a sermon 
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talk about some interesting 
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Did you all know there's things 
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I just throw that out there. 
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sorts of stuff. 
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There's things you don't know 
about yourself in the world? 

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Did you know that it's 
interesting, you know, the 

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scripture talks a lot about like
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The heart is desperately wicked 
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This is only loosely connected, 
but please hear me on this 

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because this is something I 
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last week. 
About six days after returning 

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from Scotland, which which was 
Cassie and and my second trip to

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Scotland, you know, partnering 
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I decided I wanted to do this 
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I wanted to chase down my 
grandparents and their 

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grandparents. 
I want to see how far back I can

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go just to see because as far as
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Swedish, you know, I've got some
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I've got like a, a good dose of,
of Irish and then a bunch of all

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of the other white issues from 
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I don't know if you can tell, 
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white. 
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I look at this and I've done it,
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I've done ancestry, I've done 
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You know, I've heard some people
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getting my DNA sucker. 
They already got it. 

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I spit in a tube. 
I want to know what I am. 

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So, so I'm I'm looking at this 
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Here's why about every so often 
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science, right? 
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was because of the British Isles
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this area, but it was a broad 
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a couple of years. 
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I'm about 22% Scottish now. 
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this. 
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because it has traced it to a 
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Scotland, which is up in the 
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which is where I have visited 
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So I come from, when I've talked
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things, they're like, oh, that's
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I'm like, yeah, I guess so. 
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the Donald clan. 
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It's where McDonald McDaniel 
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Same family, same clan. 
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of my visits that has my dead 
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didn't know it, didn't know it. 
So now I'm looking into kilts 

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and all that, Right? 
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All right, so I'm looking into 
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Here's the thing, there's a lot 
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family line that I just don't 
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My dad's side of the family was 
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What I want you to know is even 
for how you've been created and 

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placed on this earth, you do not
know every single good work that

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God has created you for. 
So having a good chat with a 

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good friend of mine, you know, 
text and encouragement back and 

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forth, texting is one of the 
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other nowadays. 
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careful because sometimes we can
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we can stay in a moment longer 
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But the moment that you're in 
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God wants you. 
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unsatisfied and we're like, 
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this would happen, or if I could
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hold on. 
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wants you. 
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moment, he would orchestrate it 
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And you may wish that you were 
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doesn't. 
God wants you present where you 

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are, and he wants you fully 
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In the month of November, we're 
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how to handle demonic influence 
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And for some people, they're 
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And for some people, they're 
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November. 
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Christian, there are dark powers
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equipped against them. 
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We're not going to do in a way 
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They are not more powerful than 
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So you're OK. 
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into this not unaware. 
I want you to be fully equipped.

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But I did have somebody doesn't 
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I had somebody say, why didn't 
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in in October? 
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where Halloween is. 
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And I went because I don't I 
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around holidays. 
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Thanksgiving sale, you know, or 
something, you know, But the 

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real reason is this. 
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handle demonic things, you need 
to have the best understanding 

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you can of the Holy Spirit. 
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prayer against the demonic if 
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We have one more message in this
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It's about the Holy Spirit next 
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the baptism of the Holy Spirit, 
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today and cover in depth next 
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Today is about tongues and what 
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I think I did this last week, 
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heard that tongues are something
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Anybody ever hear that? 
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tongues and it's freaked you 
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OK, how many of you don't really
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right. 
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through a lot of scripture 
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Welcome to Bible college. 
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about a name that a lot of 
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Christian author, His name is 
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We aware of Max Lucado. 
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poster child for this now. 
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he is. 
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he's written over 60 books. 
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decades. 
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widely read Christian authors in
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And he comes from a church 
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not known for speaking in 
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encountered this pretty early in
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encountered this because when he
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now call the Jesus movement. 
I'm so grateful for the Jesus 

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movement. 
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though, it's man, what a lazy 
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isn't it all supposed to be the 
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Like that's Christianity. 
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this big uptick in like spirit 
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words, All the stuff we talked 
about last week, Word of wisdom,

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word of knowledge, right? 
Having the Spirit fall upon his 

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people and creating unity that 
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own happened a lot in the 70s, 
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And he's coming up through this,
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it, he decides he's going to try
to pray in a language he's never

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learned. 
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and nothing happened. 
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But eventually, Max Lucado, he 
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God, went into ministry, became 
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serving Jesus. 
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not saying. 
He has been a faithful servant 

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to the Lord. 
As far as I know, it's a big 

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Kingdom. 
Different denominations don't 

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upset me. 
But the tradition that he came 

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from taught that these kinds of 
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tongues, had ceased, that they 
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church, but that they weren't 
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expect today. 
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about 64 years old. 
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story. 
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purpose because I want you to 
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this for a very long time. 
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preached thousands of sermons. 
He had written more books than 

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most people ever read. 
Nobody would have looked at his 

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life and thought, this guy needs
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Christianity. 
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it's an exact verse that we 
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I'm going to read it to you. 
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One, let love be your highest 
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But you should also desire the 
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gives, especially the ability to
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Max Locato said his assumption 
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became a Christian. 
God gave me the gifts he wants 

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me to have. 
So I guess I have what I'm 

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supposed to have. 
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live. 
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We have gotten saved. 
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have something, He would do it. 
We assume if He ever wanted us 

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to get up and preach or share 
our story, then He would make us

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love public speaking. 
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people who do public speaking 
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speaking. 
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the room. 
But we don't get to choose the 

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gifts that God gives us because 
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the Holy Spirit alone decides 
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So he just said, well, I don't 
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that's not for me. 
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I mean, we just read this. 
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He said, I don't know if I've 
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your translation, earnestly 
desired the spiritual, spiritual

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gifts. 
I've just accepted what he gave 

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me. 
So he started praying God, what 

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do you want me to have? 
I, I want to want what you want 

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me to want. 
Paraphrase mine. 

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He was just taking the 
scriptures that Paul authored 

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seriously and asking God if 
there was anything else he 

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wanted to give him. 
And then one morning at 64 years

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old, Max Lucado said he was 
praying. 

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And he began praying in what he 
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language. 
And he's been pretty open about 

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the fact that it surprised him 
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these languages stopped. 
But it has now become a part of 

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his private prayer life. 
And he describes that his words 

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as a very tender part of his 
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Here's something I really 
appreciate about the way that he

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tells the story. 
By the way, he goes out of his 

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way to say this, This doesn't 
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And I want you to hear that he 
does not believe it makes him a 

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super St. 
He's like levelled up. 

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He's got the plus package. 
He doesn't even display his gift

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of tongues publicly. 
That's a different category. 

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We'll get there. 
This is just something that 

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happens privately between him 
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And so I wanted to start there 
today because not that I'm 

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telling you, you need to be the 
next Max Lucado or something. 

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Max Lucado is not scripture. 
He's just a decent author. 

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But I do think his story gives 
us a good view about what we're 

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going to talk about today. 
Maybe you assume that there was 

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nothing more. 
Maybe you assume you understood 

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it. 
But I'm going to tell you the 

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day that you assume you 
understand everything about God,

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despite every scripture that 
talks about it being a mystery. 

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That's the day you become 
spiritually closed off to 

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anything new that God may want 
to do in you. 

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You think Balaam expected his 
donkey to talk in the Old 

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Testament? 
He did not, right. 

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Do you think that Moses expected
the water to part before God 

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said do this? 
He did not. 

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Do you think the disciples 
expected so much of what they 

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witnessed in the life of Jesus? 
And I'm just standing up here as

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a humble servant of the Lord, 
telling you that I refused to 

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read through the Old Testament 
and all the supernatural things.

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I refused to read through the 
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the supernatural things that 
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his death, burial and 
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His disciples, His apostles, all
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I have read enough of church 
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supernatural does happen. 
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know that some people take 
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But you do know that the fact 
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there's something real, right? 
Monopoly money only makes sense 

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because money exists, but only 
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Ask me how I know. 
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for you to agree with me on 
everything that I'm about to say

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to you. 
I'm not asking you to agree with

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everything that you've seen 
somebody do in the name of the 

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Holy Spirit. 
I am asking you to do what Max 

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Lucado did. 
Here's what I'm asking you. 

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This is my request. 
Before I really start preaching,

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I want you to become curious 
enough to open the Bible again. 

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Not just willing, not faithful, 
not obedient. 

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I'm asking you to become curious
about what God may have for you.

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In fact, I taught on this before
and when I did, I gave everybody

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these fill in notes because I 
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to me talk about tongues for 50 
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believing whatever I told you. 
I want you to be able to look 

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into it after today for 
yourself. 

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We're going to do that again 
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good point in a sermon, whether 
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then somebody that you love, 
you'll be telling them about it 

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and they'll say, well, what did 
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And you can't quite remember all
of it because there's a lot of 

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information that gets handed out
in a sermon. 

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You're now armed with the 
paperwork. 

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OK, There's a lot in the Bible 
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the reason Christians have 
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that we've taken several 
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called them tongues, and assume 
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but they don't. 
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say? 
If you're following along in the

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notes, I'm going to start giving
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There are four different 
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referred to as tongues. 2 of 
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are four different experiences 
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tongues, and the first one is 
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So let's talk about tongues at 
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This is part of tongues in in 
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If we're going to figure out 
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talks about tongues, then the 
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Pentecost. 
Jesus has told the disciples at 

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this point, he has told them to 
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And in Luke 2449, it says that 
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with power from on high. 
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them the Holy Spirit is going to
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power to be his witnesses. 
That's a, that's a big umbrella 

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to sit under though, isn't it? 
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come upon you. 
He'll empower you. 

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You'll be able to be my 
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They don't have any other 
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And we have the whole New 
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imagine that you're in that day.
You have no clue what to expect.

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They just know Jesus told them 
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So in Acts chapter 2, very first
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Pentecost, all the believers 
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place and suddenly there was a 
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roaring of a mighty windstorm, 
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they were sitting. 
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or tongues of fire appeared and 
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Ironically, that's not even the 
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everyone present was filled with
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speaking in other languages as 
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ability. 
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all get that ability at the same
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It said as the Holy Spirit gave 
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At that time there were devout 
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Jerusalem and when they heard 
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running and they were bewildered
to hear their own languages 

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being spoken by the believers. 
They were completely amazed. 

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They said how can this be? 
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Galilee, but we hear them 
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languages. 
It goes on to list a whole bunch

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of them and it says in verse 11,
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Judaism, were there Cretans and 
Arabs? 

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And it says, and we all hear 
these people speaking in our own

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languages about the wonderful 
things that God has done. 

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So it's not just the ability to 
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It is specifically praising God 
and speaking about the wonderful

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things he's done there. 
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amazed and perplexed and said, 
what can this mean? 

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Just like we would have. 
I don't have time to really dive

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into it, But I do think it's 
funny too, when people are like,

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well, maybe they're drunk. 
Every preacher has always said a

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sentence every now and then that
they were like, I never thought 

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I'd have to say that. 
But you know, Peter comes in, 

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he's like 9:00 AM is much too 
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That's his answer to them. 
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people immediately think about 
when they hear the phrase 

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speaking in tongues. 
But there's something very 

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specific happening at Pentecost 
that I don't want us to miss. 

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These are actual earth languages
that the people around them 

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recognize. 
So these are people in Jerusalem

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that are they're from all over 
the known world, and they're 

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amazed because they're hearing 
Galileans speaking in their own 

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native languages. 
I mean, if I start suddenly 

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preaching in fluent in Mandarin 
this morning, something has 

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happened, right? 
Nobody's going to say Pastor 

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Blake must have had a really 
productive Duolingo week, right?

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But, but as far as we know, and 
I want to be clear on this, this

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is the only time in Scripture 
that this has ever happened. 

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I'm not willing to tell you that
it's never happened on the earth

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outside of this, but I am 
willing to tell you in Scripture

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this is the only time this has 
ever happened. 

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And this is important. 
You don't have to turn there 

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yet, but I'm going to read this 
to you first Corinthians 14. 

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Two, this is as Paul is talking 
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Listen to what he says about 
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If you have the ability to speak
in tongues, you will be talking 

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only to God. 
Only to God. 

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Does that sound like what we 
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No, you'll be talking only to 
God. 

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He says since people won't be 
able to understand you, you'll 

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be speaking by the power of the 
Holy Spirit. 

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But it will all be mysterious. 
So already you can see the split

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in at least 2 because you heard 
this time where they've got 

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tongues happening and everybody 
hears them in their own 

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language. 
But now you've got to hear where

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he says you're only talking to 
God. 

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Nobody's going to understand 
what you're saying. 

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Two different things. 
So at Pentecost, you hear people

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listening and saying I 
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but Paul says they're not going 
to. 

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And there are actually two other
places in the book of Acts where

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tongue shows up spontaneously. 
So before we move on to that, 

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let me give you a couple of your
blanks right under Luke 2449 in 

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your notes. 
If you're following along and if

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you're not, you won't hurt my 
feelings. 

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What happened with this wave of 
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It happened due to three things,
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obedience. 
And I'm just standing up here 

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telling you that it is very rare
for a church to be unified with 

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all of this, to be unified with 
one another, unified in prayer, 

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unified in obedience. 
Most of us, honestly, we are 

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semi obedient Christians in 
America. 

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We will do the things that we 
know God wants us to do and we 

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will do the things that make us 
feel like good Christians. 

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And then when He tells us to do 
something difficult, we count on

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the fact that He's so forgiving 
and He'll understand if we drag 

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our feet. 
But if we would get unified in 

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prayer and obedience, it would 
change everything. 

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The next word in your blanks 
there is unique. 

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This is unique. 
Just like I told you everyone 

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understood them. 
This is the only time that 

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happens in scripture. 
Your blank under Acts 2 is that 

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this never happens again in the 
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And your last blank before we 
move on to #2 is that they could

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understand them in the story 
from Acts 2. 

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So clearly, this is not the gift
of tongues. 

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It is a supernatural experience 
that can be appropriately 

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described as tongues, but it is 
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OK, All right #2 everybody good.
If you're not, cheat off of your

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neighbor #2 this is what we 
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This happens in three places. 
The first one, we've just read 

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through the day of Pentecost. 
We can see some sort of 

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miraculous thing happened on the
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Then in Acts chapter 10, this is
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Pentecost. 
Who are we? 

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I don't know, That's just what 
somebody told me. 

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Acts 10, starting in verse 44, 
it says this. 

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Even as Peter was saying these 
things, the Holy Spirit fell 

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upon all who were listening to 
the message. 

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The Jewish believers who came 
with Peter were amazed at the 

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gift of the Holy Spirit had been
poured out on the Gentiles too, 

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for they heard them speaking in 
other tongues and praising God. 

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And then Peter asked, Well, can 
anyone object to their being 

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baptized now that they have 
received the Holy Spirit just as

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we did? 
So he gave orders for them to be

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baptized in the name of Jesus 
Christ. 

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Afterwards, Cornelius asked them
to stay with him for several 

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days. 
We get to Acts 19 after that, 

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and Acts 19 is actually our 
foundational scripture for next 

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week. 
So I won't spend a lot of time 

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on this, but this is Paul on the
road to Ephesus. 

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This is where he approaches some
believers and they say, what 

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baptism did you receive? 
And they look at Paul and they 

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said, well, John's baptism. 
And they, you know, Paul says, 

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listen, John, John had a baptism
that was for repentance, but the

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baptism, the Holy Spirit will 
baptize you in power. 

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They look at him and they say, 
we haven't even heard that 

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there's a Holy Spirit, which 
unfortunately would be like a 

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lot of modern Christians too, 
because the Holy Spirit doesn't 

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get the same attention that the 
Father and the Son do. 

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And so at that point, he lays 
hands on them and prays for them

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and baptizes them in the name of
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the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
And they start speaking in 

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tongues. 
So you can see four places here 

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that happened spontaneously. 
Why do I want you to know this? 

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Because it is not the norm for 
it to happen spontaneously. 

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This is something I did not know
before I started attending this 

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church well over 20 years ago. 
I got my information about 

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tongues from TV and we didn't 
even have streaming back then, 

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right? 
So, So what I saw was, was 

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normally not even made as 
Christian media. 

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It was normally like a little 
kid scared looking through his 

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window at some preacher or some 
church service. 

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And it looked like somebody was 
having a spiritual seizure, 

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yelling out Shamala Hamala, 
right. 

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And the kid didn't know what was
happening. 

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And so I just assumed, well, if 
that ever happens to me, then 

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God's going to have to force it 
to happen. 

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I remember when we were first 
teaching on the Holy Spirit, we 

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had a student who flung himself 
over into a chair and then he 

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said the Holy Spirit hit him so 
hard that he bruised his 

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forehead. 
And the youth pastor at the time

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that I was serving under, he 
said, I've never known the Holy 

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Spirit to harm somebody. 
So here's what I want you to 

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know. 
It can be easy to get swept up 

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in what you think it looks like 
and try to get moved by emotion.

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That's not what you do. 
You cannot be pursuing these. 

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You can desire them, but you 
can't try to force them to 

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happen. 
Like we've been saying through 

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this whole series, here's what I
want you to really understand in

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Acts 19. 
Here's your blanks here. 

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Paul's introducing the disciples
to the baptism of the Holy 

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Spirit, and it says tongues and 
prophecy followed. 

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Here's what's so important. 
None of these moments had 

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00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:46,480
someone asking for tongues. 
None of them were even seeking 

450
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:49,960
the gift of tongues. 
All they were seeking was more 

451
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:55,280
of God. 
If we would genuinely seek God 

452
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:58,720
and everything that He desires 
for us, He will equip us with 

453
00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:04,560
what we need. 
Now the next section, which I'll

454
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,800
get to in just a moment, is the 
public display of tongues, 

455
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,240
church services. 
And this is where we'll spend 

456
00:22:11,240 --> 00:22:12,920
most of today because this is 
where almost all of the 

457
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:19,880
confusion comes from. 
I don't want people sitting here

458
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:22,200
saying I don't want tongues and 
I'm not going to pursue it. 

459
00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:24,200
I also don't want people here 
thinking that they're less than 

460
00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:26,720
if they don't have it. 
I just want you to know that all

461
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,720
throughout the book of Acts, it 
shows us pretty clearly tongues 

462
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,080
are real. 
They showed up in really 

463
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,360
significant moments as the 
gospel began moving beyond 

464
00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:35,000
Jerusalem. 
And this is where Paul begins to

465
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:37,520
give us some boundaries on it. 
So here's what you need to know 

466
00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,120
before we start working through 
what Paul says about tongues in 

467
00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:42,520
First Corinthians. 
There's something about this 

468
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:44,000
letter that is really important 
to understand. 

469
00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:45,520
And you may say, well, Pastor 
Blake already know. 

470
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:46,960
Well, cool. 
Not everybody does. 

471
00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:50,480
This is not the first letter can
be confusing, right, because 

472
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,040
it's called First Corinthians. 
The first letter was sent to 

473
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:55,320
Paul. 
So he helped establish this 

474
00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,840
church in Corinth. 
Corinth had questions. 

475
00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:00,640
They had a lot of issues. 
As a matter of fact, I've often 

476
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:03,880
thought about how fun it would 
be to just do a study and go 

477
00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,760
through 1st and 2nd Corinthians.
And I thought, like, I want to 

478
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:09,360
call it, you know, we've got 
issues, right? 

479
00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:12,400
Because it's literally they sent
him a letter and oh, how I wish 

480
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,640
we had it where they said, here 
are all the problems happening 

481
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,840
in our church. 
For the love of God, Paul, 

482
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,720
please help us. 
And so he writes back with what 

483
00:23:19,720 --> 00:23:23,480
we now know as First Corinthians
with answers and suggestions and

484
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,560
methods. 
And this is all sorts of things 

485
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:30,120
from like gender roles in church
to sexuality issues to sin that 

486
00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:34,640
was running rampant to tongues. 
So you need to understand, even 

487
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:36,640
if you don't know what you 
believe right now, for what 

488
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:40,800
we're going to read in these 
next few chapters, I want you to

489
00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,800
read it through the filter that 
Paul believed tongues was normal

490
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:46,840
and he was answering problems 
and he was trying to help them. 

491
00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,120
OK, We know that from First 
Corinthians 7/1, by the way, 

492
00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:52,200
that they had already written to
him. 

493
00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:53,840
So you can write that down if 
you want to look at it. 

494
00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,520
But on top of all their 
questions, Paul had received 

495
00:23:56,520 --> 00:23:59,400
reports about problems in the 
congregation from other people. 

496
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,120
So we are getting his responses 
to their questions and his 

497
00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:05,200
corrections about things that he
has heard. 

498
00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:08,400
For the Corinthians, you need to
know that speaking in tongues 

499
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,040
was a normal part of church 
life, and you don't find a 

500
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:15,360
single verse where Paul tries to
convince them that tongues is 

501
00:24:15,360 --> 00:24:17,360
real. 
He's just talking to them like 

502
00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:18,760
it is. 
OK. 

503
00:24:19,360 --> 00:24:21,360
So whatever disagreements 
Christians have about the gifts 

504
00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:23,560
today, we need to recognize that
the controversy Paul's 

505
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,560
addressing isn't whether these 
things should exist, it is how 

506
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,320
they are handled. 
Apparently the Corinthians had 

507
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:32,480
turned their church services 
into something of a free for 

508
00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,640
all. 
Paul was trying to get everybody

509
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,200
back on the same page. 
Normally I like to do an 

510
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,120
illustration where I have a 
drummer do this, but I didn't 

511
00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:43,480
set it up today. 
We had a ghost drummer today. 

512
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,200
Our team is so good. 
They can do whatever, but I'll 

513
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:48,000
have the drummer come up and 
start drumming while I'm in the 

514
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:51,160
middle of preaching and just 
show you how distracting it is 

515
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,720
when something happens where 
it's not supposed to. 

516
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,320
Drums are extremely helpful 
during the worship portion, 

517
00:24:56,320 --> 00:24:58,760
aren't they? 
I'm so grateful for the people 

518
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:00,440
who practice their vocals and 
they sing. 

519
00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:03,720
I'm so grateful for the people 
who run sound so well. 

520
00:25:04,760 --> 00:25:06,800
But if they start playing around
with all those things at one 

521
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:10,840
time, it's discordant, it's 
chaos, it's out of order, right?

522
00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,440
This is what Paul's going to 
tell them. 

523
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:16,200
So let's go and start in First 
Corinthians chapter 12. 

524
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:18,120
Look at this long list of 
scriptures you got there. 

525
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:23,840
Isn't that beautiful? 
All right, this will sound 

526
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,080
familiar. 
There are different kinds of 

527
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,200
spiritual gifts, but the same 
Spirit is the source of them. 

528
00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:30,160
All. 
This is in the context of a 

529
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:32,840
church service back in the day. 
OK, there's different kinds of 

530
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,200
service, but we serve the same 
Lord. 

531
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:37,480
God works in different ways, but
is the same God who does the 

532
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:40,440
work in all of us. 
Spiritual gift is given to each 

533
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:43,080
of us so that we can help each 
other. 

534
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,080
Once again. 
Every gift you'll ever get from 

535
00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:50,960
the Lord is for somebody else. 
To one person, the Spirit gives 

536
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:54,080
the ability to give wise advice.
To another, the same Spirit 

537
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:55,720
gives a message of special 
knowledge. 

538
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,560
The same spirit gives great 
faith to another and to someone 

539
00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,040
else. 
The one spirit gives the gift of

540
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,560
healing. 
He gives one person the power to

541
00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:05,240
perform miracles and another the
ability to prophecy. 

542
00:26:05,360 --> 00:26:09,240
He gives someone else the 
ability to discern whether a 

543
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,600
message is from the Spirit of 
God or from another spirit. 

544
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,400
That's where we ended last week.
We covered those 7 gifts. 

545
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,760
And he goes on to say still 
another person is given the 

546
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:20,840
ability to speak in unknown 
languages or tongues, while 

547
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,360
another is given the ability to 
interpret what is being said. 

548
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,480
It is the one and only Spirit 
who distributes all these gifts.

549
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:30,000
He alone decides which gift each
person should have. 

550
00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:33,480
This is a huge list of things 
that were happening in the 

551
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,360
church. 
People were getting words of 

552
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,160
wisdom, words of knowledge. 
People were seeing miracles, 

553
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,120
right? 
People were experiencing great 

554
00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:42,640
faith for one another. 
And yes, messages were being 

555
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:44,720
delivered in tongues and there 
were being interpretations. 

556
00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:47,120
He's just trying to emphasize 
this. 

557
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:48,880
Everybody's getting a different 
gift. 

558
00:26:50,080 --> 00:26:52,560
So there is room for everybody 
in this, yes. 

559
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,600
So we already started a lot of 
those gifts last week. 

560
00:26:56,680 --> 00:26:58,760
But I want you to remember that 
these gifts are so we can help 

561
00:26:58,760 --> 00:26:59,920
each other. 
So if you've got a gift of 

562
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,040
tongues, it's not because you 
got a little special extra 

563
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,400
something, something from the 
Father. 

564
00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,560
It is because you are supposed 
to be praying things that you 

565
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:09,560
need to be praying, which we'll 
cover more in a moment. 

566
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:14,280
OK, Fast forward First 
Corinthians 12/27. 

567
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:19,280
It says all of you together are 
Christ's body and each of you is

568
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:22,640
a part of it. 
Here are some, not even all. 

569
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,040
Here are some of the parts God 
has appointed for the church. 

570
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:28,480
First, our apostles. 
Second, our prophets. 

571
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,680
Third, our teachers. 
Then those who do miracles. 

572
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,280
He just gave up on the 
numbering, didn't He? 

573
00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:35,480
Those who have the gift of 
healing. 

574
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:38,400
Those who can help others. 
Did you know helping others as a

575
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,600
gift. 
Those who have the gift of 

576
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,320
leadership. 
Those who speak in unknown 

577
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:49,200
languages or tongues. 
He was on to say, Are we all 

578
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:50,640
apostles? 
Are we all prophets? 

579
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,680
Are we all teachers? 
Do we all have the power to do 

580
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:54,680
miracles? 
Do we all have the gift of 

581
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,240
healing? 
Do we all have the ability to 

582
00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,680
speak in unknown languages? 
Do we all have the ability to 

583
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,440
interpret unknown languages? 
Of course not. 

584
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,080
So you should earnestly desire 
the most helpful gifts. 

585
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:07,800
Well, there's that idea again, 
isn't it? 

586
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,680
How do you know what the most 
helpful gift for you is? 

587
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,000
You probably don't, but I know 
someone who does. 

588
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,920
He says this. 
Now let me show you a way of 

589
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,560
life that is best of all. 
All right, on your notes here, 

590
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:26,080
this is addressed exclusively in
First Corinthians 12/13 and 14. 

591
00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:30,480
All right, Paul is addressing 
issues that were written to him.

592
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,560
He calls it a gift. 
That's your next blank there. 

593
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:36,760
Paul calls it a gift. 
So whatever you think of it, 

594
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:41,800
remember, it's a gift. 
Paul asks this giant run on 

595
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,840
rhetorical question, and the 
assumed answer is no. 

596
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,880
Do we all have these abilities? 
Paul never discredits it. 

597
00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:53,600
What's your next blank? 
Paul never discredits it. 

598
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:57,200
He regulates it for order in a 
church service and even 

599
00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:59,800
encourages it. 
Get ready. 

600
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,480
Your next blank, by the way, is 
that Paul will call it the 

601
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,280
language of angels. 
So when we're talking about a 

602
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,680
public gift of tongues, we're 
talking about something that's 

603
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,080
intended to function in a 
gathering of believers for the 

604
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:15,040
benefit of the congregation. 
Paul is pretty clear that not 

605
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,280
everybody's going to have this 
gift in a church service. 

606
00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:19,520
And so we're going to come back 
to that in just a little while. 

607
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,960
I think there's a a big 
difference between the public 

608
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,320
gift Paul is talking and what he
describes as praying in tongues 

609
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,640
privately. 
But before he tells them how to 

610
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,640
handle these gifts, he does 
something that's interesting. 

611
00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,120
I don't want you to miss this. 
He stops and he spends an entire

612
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,120
chapter talking about love. 
Now, this is a chapter that's 

613
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,760
worked into weddings a lot of 
times. 

614
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,320
I think sometimes we read First 
Corinthians 13, a wedding so 

615
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:44,920
often we forget why Paul wrote 
it, but it's wedged right in the

616
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,680
middle of him talking about 
these gifts and these ways that 

617
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:50,480
we're supposed to uplift one 
another and edify one another in

618
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,960
a church service. 
And I'm not saying it's bad to 

619
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,000
have it in a wedding, but I just
want you to understand that 

620
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,240
being spiritually gifted doesn't
automatically make you 

621
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:01,920
spiritually mature. 
So he's saying, I want you to 

622
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:05,120
desire these gifts, but not as 
much as I want you to have love 

623
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:07,120
for one another. 
And we've heard this before. 

624
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,720
It's been in that song for for 
king and country saying and all 

625
00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:12,200
of that. 
But if I possess all of this, 

626
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,560
all knowledge, all of this, and 
I can speak languages of the 

627
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,200
angels, but I don't have love. 
I'm nothing. 

628
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:20,240
He says love is what really does
matter the most. 

629
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:21,880
You must genuinely love one 
another. 

630
00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:24,080
If you want tongues because you 
feel like you're missing out, 

631
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,240
wrong motive. 
If you want tongues because you 

632
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,560
want to feel better than you are
right now, you're missing out. 

633
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,120
If you want tongues because you 
think you might be able to 

634
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:33,440
benefit another believer and you
don't know what else to do, and 

635
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,120
you will start eagerly desiring 
the gifts that the Spirit has. 

636
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,400
Bingo. 
All right, so listen to this. 

637
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,000
The beginning of 13 First 
Corinthians 13. 

638
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:45,520
He says it. 
If I could speak all the 

639
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,320
languages of earth and of 
angels, but didn't have love for

640
00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,280
others, I would only be a noisy 
gong or a clanging cymbal. 

641
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:52,520
You ever known somebody like 
that? 

642
00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:58,080
That's OK if you do, just don't 
look at them, he says in verse 

643
00:30:58,080 --> 00:30:59,760
2. 
If I had the gift of prophecy 

644
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,640
and if I understood all of God's
secret plans and possessed all 

645
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,320
knowledge, and if I had such 
faith that I could move 

646
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:09,360
mountains but didn't love 
others, I would be nothing. 

647
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,840
If I gave everything I have to 
the poor and even sacrifice to 

648
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:19,320
my body, I could boast about it,
but if I didn't love others, I 

649
00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:21,280
would have gained nothing. 
This is heavy. 

650
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,760
This is very serious to Paul, 
and we trivialize them. 

651
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,800
We put it on some sort of like 
Hobby Lobby decor. 

652
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,160
We do. 
But Paul even mentioned speaking

653
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:36,280
in tongues of men and angels. 
And people have spent a lot of 

654
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,920
time talking about if he's 
describing an actual angelic 

655
00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:40,520
language. 
I had a chat with somebody 

656
00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:43,720
yesterday who said that if it's 
the language of angels, then 

657
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,760
when you speak in tongues and 
somebody else speaks in tongues,

658
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,800
it should sound identical. 
And I went, no, that's that's 

659
00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,000
the way we understand it. 
But we actually have lips and a 

660
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:54,560
tongue and all of that. 
These spiritual beings, they're 

661
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,080
made of something different than
we are. 

662
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:01,320
We'll get to it. 
This is also where people 

663
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:03,640
sometimes point to Paul saying 
that tongues and prophecy will 

664
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,240
eventually cease. 
Listen to this First Corinthians

665
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,200
13/8. 
Prophecy and tongues and special

666
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,600
knowledge will become useless, 
but love will last forever. 

667
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,280
Now our knowledge is partial and
incomplete, and even the gift of

668
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,320
prophecy reveals only part of 
the whole picture. 

669
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:21,160
But when the time of perfection 
comes, these partial things will

670
00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:25,560
become useless, he says. 
When I was a child, I spoke and 

671
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:28,840
thought and reasoned as a child,
but when I grew up I put away 

672
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,200
childish things. 
That's its own sermon. 

673
00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:36,000
Now we see things imperfectly, 
like puzzling reflections in a 

674
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,200
mirror. 
But then we will see everything 

675
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:41,760
with perfect clarity. 
And he says, All that I know now

676
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,720
is partial and incomplete. 
But then I will know everything 

677
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,280
completely, just as God now 
knows me completely. 

678
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:49,200
And then of course, we know this
one. 

679
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,000
Three things will last forever. 
Faith, hope, and love. 

680
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,640
And the greatest of these is 
love. 

681
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:56,080
So he says that tongues will 
cease. 

682
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,440
But he also says prophecy and 
special knowledge will become 

683
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,400
useless. 
And he connects some of that to 

684
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,680
the time when what's partial 
gives way to what is complete. 

685
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,640
Think about this. 
When we step into glory one day,

686
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,880
who's going to have to give a 
word in tongues and get an 

687
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,440
interpretation? 
Or are you going to be OK 

688
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,600
because you're right there 
sitting in front of the Father, 

689
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,360
not going to need it? 
Would it not be weird if you're 

690
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,760
sitting right in front of the 
Father and then somebody comes 

691
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,520
to you and says, I have a word 
from the Father for you. 

692
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,520
He would go, Father does he, 
right? 

693
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,440
So a lot of these gifts that 
he's talking about, he says one 

694
00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:28,400
day you won't need these. 
They'll be complete and you'll 

695
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,720
understand so much more. 
Right now, you only understand 

696
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,280
part of it. 
He's even saying he only 

697
00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:36,280
understands part of it. 
Now, some people use this 

698
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:40,120
scripture to say that the 
perfect has come, that the time 

699
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,840
of the perfect has come, and 
what they're talking about is 

700
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,200
the Scripture, and I understand 
where they're coming from with 

701
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,800
it. 
But he does also say that words 

702
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:49,400
of knowledge and prophesying 
will also cease. 

703
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,720
And in that same school of 
thought, which is primarily put 

704
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,640
in like the Matthew Scofield 
expository, like commentary and 

705
00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:58,560
all of this, it talks about how 
prophesying is the same as 

706
00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,440
preaching. 
Those words are interchangeable 

707
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,240
to them. 
And unless you find a church 

708
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,840
that says preaching is no longer
necessary, it's a weird church. 

709
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:10,239
I don't know what it looks like.
It hasn't all ceased, OK? 

710
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,480
We can't just pick one gift that
we're uncomfortable with and 

711
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,560
declare that it's finished. 
How would you like to look God 

712
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,280
in the face one day and say, I 
limited what you could do on 

713
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,719
this earth because I told people
you don't do that anymore. 

714
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:25,920
So I would just be very hesitant
before you declare that it's 

715
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:28,320
over. 
But Paul also wants you to 

716
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,880
remember love is the thing that 
has to govern everything that 

717
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:33,679
you do with what God gives us. 
Any word of knowledge, any word 

718
00:34:33,679 --> 00:34:37,159
of wisdom, any miracle, any 
laying on of the hands, any sort

719
00:34:37,159 --> 00:34:39,719
of debate, any apologetics, 
anything that you do for the 

720
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:42,040
Lord should be fueled by love. 
If it's not, throw it away. 

721
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,480
All right, First Corinthians 14,
let's go to the first verse. 

722
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,600
All right, says in verse one 
he's continuing this. 

723
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,159
So let love be your highest 
goal. 

724
00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:57,080
Does this sound familiar? 
We said the first verse earlier,

725
00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,000
but you should also desire the 
special abilities the Spirit 

726
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,080
gives, especially the ability to
prophecy, which again is 

727
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,160
interchangeable in some 
denominations as preaching. 

728
00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:09,120
Now he says, if I have the 
ability to speak in tongues, 

729
00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:13,960
listen to this so carefully. 
If you have the ability to speak

730
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,120
in tongues, you will be talking 
only to God since people won't 

731
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:21,560
be able to understand you. 
So tongues is a thing and who 

732
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,600
are you talking to? 
God. 

733
00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:28,000
He says you will be speaking by 
the power of the Spirit, but it 

734
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,360
will all be mysterious. 
So the one who prophesized 

735
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,240
strengthens others, encourages 
them, and comforts them. 

736
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:39,800
A person who speaks in tongues 
is strengthened personally, but 

737
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,000
the one who speaks a word of 
prophecy strengthens the entire 

738
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,000
church. 
So in other words, if I get up 

739
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,160
here and it's just because of a 
funny video I saw online, I'll 

740
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:48,560
just use Shamala Hamala as the 
placeholder. 

741
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:53,280
If I stand up here and preach 
Shamala Hamala and it's genuine,

742
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,320
not the weird video I saw. 
It says right here what we read 

743
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,800
is that I am personally 
strengthened and y'all are 

744
00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,360
sitting there like what is 
happening? 

745
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,840
So again, he's talking about a 
public church service and he's 

746
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,000
saying if you're going to do 
this, I'd rather you prophecy if

747
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,880
you're going to get a gift 
because you know what, if I've 

748
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,120
got a prophecy, then I can say, 
hey, you know what Ahava, this 

749
00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:16,320
is what is going to happen. 
The Lord says this to you. 

750
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,680
Fill in the blank. 
I don't know what it is, right? 

751
00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:21,200
But that's what prophecy is that
benefits you. 

752
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,040
But Shamala, Hamala strengthens 
me. 

753
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,480
He's like, guys, you're 
gathering together. 

754
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,080
Why are you making it all about 
you? 

755
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:34,400
Now let's go on verse 5. 
Listen to what Paul says. 

756
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:39,640
I wish you could all speak in 
tongues, but even more I wish 

757
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,200
you could all prophecy for 
prophecies greater than speaking

758
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,880
in tongues, unless someone 
interprets what you are saying 

759
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:48,600
so that the whole church will be
strengthened. 

760
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,000
So I just picked on Ahava, but 
if I were to Shamala, Hamala 

761
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,680
right here, right? 
And then Ethel stands up and is 

762
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:58,440
like the Lord said, that what 
that means is that Ahava is 

763
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,560
going to win an Emmy or whatever
it is. 

764
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:03,240
OK, well that's funny. 
You're sitting next to Emmy 

765
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:05,840
anyway. 
I didn't even think about that 

766
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:09,680
when I said it. 
Now, not only has there been a 

767
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,440
prophecy for the whole 
congregation, but for people 

768
00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,760
that are new, that are curious 
about the Spirit, they've just 

769
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,600
witnessed a miracle. 
That's going to be important to 

770
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:18,800
understand. 
We'll get there. 

771
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,760
Paul doesn't discourage speaking
in tongues. 

772
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:25,560
He says, I wish you could all do
it, but in a church gathering, 

773
00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:27,800
I'd rather you prophecy because 
it'll strengthen everybody. 

774
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,040
He's saying I want you to have 
the best possible church 

775
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:32,520
gathering you can have. 
I want the most people to be 

776
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,080
impacted. 
I want the most people to 

777
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,560
receive something from the Lord 
that is possible. 

778
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:39,360
So tongues without 
interpretation does not 

779
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,080
accomplish that for a 
congregation. 

780
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,960
Somebody could stand up and 
deliver the most incredible 

781
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,880
message you've ever heard and 
you wouldn't know it because it 

782
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,720
was all in tongues. 
And they would be strengthened. 

783
00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:49,680
And they'd go home and say, I've
been great. 

784
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:51,760
And you'd be like, that guy's 
crazy. 

785
00:37:52,240 --> 00:37:54,840
I'm never coming back here. 
So it's not enough for somebody 

786
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,480
to stand up and say something 
that nobody understands and then

787
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,160
have everybody agree. 
It was a really spiritual 

788
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,520
moment. 
That would be weird, wouldn't 

789
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:02,840
it? 
What was church like today, man?

790
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,360
Somebody got up and prayed in 
tongues for 35 minutes. 

791
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,760
Oh my goodness. 
What was the interpretation? 

792
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:09,680
What did they say? 
Oh, I don't know what it meant, 

793
00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:11,480
but it was God. 
You could tell he was in the 

794
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,720
room. 
What does that do to equip you 

795
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:16,320
for your faith? 
It's not the purpose when we 

796
00:38:16,320 --> 00:38:19,800
gather together in the ecclesia,
in the gathering, OK, in the 

797
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,040
assembly. 
And that's why Paul includes 

798
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:25,600
interpretation as another gift 
of the Holy Spirit when in 

799
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:28,800
public, when in a church 
service, because the purpose is 

800
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,320
not for you to impress everybody
with something supernatural. 

801
00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:32,960
It is for the church to be 
strengthened. 

802
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,480
First Corinthians chapter 14. 
Now we're in verse 6. 

803
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,880
Listen, dear brothers and 
sisters, if I should come to you

804
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:43,080
speaking in an unknown language,
how would that help you? 

805
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:47,480
But if I bring you a revelation 
or some special knowledge or 

806
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,480
prophecy or teaching, that will 
be helpful. 

807
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,920
Even lifeless instruments like 
the flute or the harp must play 

808
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:55,840
the notes clearly or no one will
recognize the melody. 

809
00:38:55,840 --> 00:39:04,140
If you've ever been to a middle 
school band concert, it wasn't. 

810
00:39:04,180 --> 00:39:06,260
It wasn't anybody you know that 
was playing it that way. 

811
00:39:06,260 --> 00:39:10,080
It was the other kids. 
But all I'm saying is I remember

812
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:13,000
getting my recorder in the 4th 
grade and said, mom, listen to 

813
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:18,600
me play hot cross buns. 
Thanks, mom. 

814
00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:25,400
All right, Verse 8, if a bugler 
doesn't sound a clear call, how 

815
00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:27,200
will the soldiers know they're 
being called the battle? 

816
00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:29,440
And he says in verse 9, it is 
the same for you. 

817
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:32,480
If you speak to people in words 
they don't understand, how will 

818
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,640
they know what you're saying? 
You might as well be talking in 

819
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,320
the empty space. 
By the way, I know this is not 

820
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:38,480
exactly what he's talking about 
there. 

821
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:41,400
I also think about that when we 
use what I call Christianese, we

822
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,480
get so inundated into church 
culture and then we talk to 

823
00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:47,120
somebody who's not in a church 
and we start using all these 

824
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,760
church terms and they're like, 
you're, you're covered in wet 

825
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,160
blood. 
Like, I mean, explain it to 

826
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:54,720
them, understand, like help 
them. 

827
00:39:54,720 --> 00:39:57,200
OK. 
So listen, verse 10. 

828
00:39:57,200 --> 00:39:59,280
There's many different languages
in the world and every language 

829
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:00,840
has meaning. 
But if I don't understand a 

830
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,200
language, I'll be a foreigner to
someone who speaks it. 

831
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:05,880
And the one who speaks it will 
be a foreigner to me. 

832
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,560
And the same is true for you. 
Since you're so eager to have 

833
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,400
the special abilities the Spirit
gives, seek those that will 

834
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:14,760
strengthen the whole church. 
That is such a practical 

835
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,200
argument, isn't? 
It's hard to argue that I want 

836
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,400
you to have some cool stuff from
God, but I really want it to be 

837
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,640
the stuff that's going to 
benefit the whole church because

838
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,480
he's not interested in just 
raising up one and two people. 

839
00:40:24,600 --> 00:40:27,600
He wants to raise up a whole 
church that's on fire for the 

840
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,560
Lord, wants to know what their 
gift is, wants to discover their

841
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,240
purpose, wants to make a 
difference. 

842
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:35,040
And how do you do that unless 
you are lifting one another up? 

843
00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:37,760
Paul takes it even further and 
he starts talking about those 

844
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:40,960
people that might visit like we 
were talking about in verse 20 

845
00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:44,240
of the same chapter. 
He says don't be childish in 

846
00:40:44,240 --> 00:40:45,840
your understanding of these 
things. 

847
00:40:46,080 --> 00:40:48,800
Be innocent as babies when it 
comes to evil, but be mature in 

848
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:50,400
understanding matters of this 
kind. 

849
00:40:51,720 --> 00:40:54,480
It's written in the Scriptures 
and he gives, he gives some 

850
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,440
scriptures here. 
And then in verse 22, he says, 

851
00:40:56,960 --> 00:41:00,120
you see that speaking in tongues
is a sign not for believers, but

852
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:01,960
for unbelievers. 
Doesn't mean there's no purpose 

853
00:41:01,960 --> 00:41:04,120
for believers, but it's not a 
sign for believers. 

854
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:08,800
We're already believers. 
Even so, unbelievers or people 

855
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,480
who don't understand these 
things may come into your church

856
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:13,680
meeting and hear everyone 
speaking in an unknown language.

857
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:18,000
They will think you are crazy. 
Have you ever dealt with that 

858
00:41:18,000 --> 00:41:20,160
before? 
This is the first church I ever 

859
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,360
heard people pray in tongues, 
and it is far from the only 

860
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,880
church where they do it. 
But when I first got here, I was

861
00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:31,760
like, what is that? 
But if all of you are 

862
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,120
prophesying and unbelievers or 
people who don't understand 

863
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:35,920
these things come into your 
meeting, they'll be convicted of

864
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:39,560
sin and judged by what you say. 
As they listen, their secret 

865
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,360
thoughts will be exposed in the 
fall to their knees. 

866
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,680
Didn't worship God, declaring 
God is truly here among you. 

867
00:41:43,680 --> 00:41:46,240
In other words, if somebody 
comes in, they don't know God 

868
00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:48,600
and you say Shamala Hamal, 
they're like, oh cool, I found a

869
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:52,920
cult. 
But but if they walk in here and

870
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,120
they meet somebody and they're 
like word of knowledge, word of 

871
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:58,760
wisdom, one of these things pops
up, right? 

872
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,760
Some sort of prophecy moment. 
You're really hurting. 

873
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:05,520
You have a family member that is
far from you and the Lord wants 

874
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:06,760
you to know their story's not 
over. 

875
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,560
What happens when they walk into
a church and that hits and they 

876
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:11,120
haven't told anybody there. 
Is she right? 

877
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:14,280
So he's saying that this is 
extremely valuable for somebody 

878
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,080
who does not understand these 
things. 

879
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:20,480
Now in verse 26, well, we'll do 
verse 26. 

880
00:42:20,480 --> 00:42:23,120
Let me give you some some blanks
here first, OK? 

881
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,000
They speak not to men, but they 
speak to God. 

882
00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:28,280
I think that's at the top of one
of your sheets for those of you 

883
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:31,080
who are doing the notes right. 
Although this alone is not 

884
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:35,160
enough to verify tongues, the 
next one is no one understands 

885
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:36,480
him. 
The person praying in tongues, 

886
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:41,360
nobody understands him. 
His spirit is speaking mysteries

887
00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:47,400
to God. 
Mysteries to God. 

888
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,720
Paul goes on to say tongues in 
public edify nobody. 

889
00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,280
That's your blank Nobody, unless
accompanied by an 

890
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:58,360
interpretation. 
OK. 

891
00:42:58,400 --> 00:43:01,640
Paul wishes that everyone spoke 
in tongues with the caveat that 

892
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:06,120
there is an interpretation. 
Interpretation so that the 

893
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:11,880
church will be built up. 
And we're about to read this 

894
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,240
part coming up shortly. 
But he instructs the orderly 

895
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,560
display in public while still 
encouraging it. 

896
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,040
Orderly. 
And Paul explicitly forbids 

897
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:24,080
anybody. 
Nobody forbids. 

898
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,800
He forbids the forbidding of 
speaking in tongues. 

899
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:33,200
We'll get there. 
Here's what he says in First 

900
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,960
Corinthians 1426. 
He says, Let's summarize. 

901
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:41,040
When you meet together, one will
sing, one will teach, some will 

902
00:43:41,040 --> 00:43:42,720
give a special revelation God 
has given. 

903
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,400
Another will speak in tongues. 
Another will interpret what is 

904
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,400
said. 
But everything that is done must

905
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:50,560
strengthen all of you. 
Somebody's teaching something 

906
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:52,280
and there's no application. 
It's not going to apply to your 

907
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:53,160
life. 
Shouldn't be teaching. 

908
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:55,120
If somebody's going to sing and 
they want to sing, it's a small 

909
00:43:55,120 --> 00:43:58,040
world after all, instead of 
worship, music shouldn't be up 

910
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:02,480
here singing, OK? 
It has to strengthen everybody. 

911
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,840
And he says no more than two or 
three should speak in tongues. 

912
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:07,320
Even there, he's like, let's not
get crazy. 

913
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:08,640
You need to have room for 
everything else. 

914
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,640
And he says they must speak one 
at a time and someone must 

915
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,880
interpret what they say. 
Isn't that interesting? 

916
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:16,160
So if there is a spiritual 
seizure that takes over a 

917
00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:21,200
believer, which there isn't, how
could they go one at a time? 

918
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,000
You have control over when you 
start in tongues and when you 

919
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:30,320
stop praying in tongues all 
throughout worship. 

920
00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,080
When I'm over here, I can 
alternate 5050. 

921
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:37,400
I pray in tongues. 
I pray with my understanding and

922
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:39,120
listen to this. 
This is an interesting statement

923
00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:41,800
in verse 28. 
But if no one is present who can

924
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,280
interpret, they must be silent 
in your church meeting. 

925
00:44:44,640 --> 00:44:47,840
Some people wish that's where 
that sentence ends because it 

926
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:49,880
says and speak in tongues to God
privately. 

927
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:52,920
So I've also spoken to people 
who say, well, I believe that 

928
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:55,040
it's a miracle that happens 
sometimes in a church service, 

929
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,600
but there's no such thing as a 
prayer language. 

930
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,360
Well, I understand that the term
prayer language isn't in the 

931
00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,520
Scripture, but neither is the 
word Trinity and most people 

932
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:04,000
don't have a problem with that. 
Also, another word that's not in

933
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:10,920
the Bible is Bible. 
So it says if they're speaking 

934
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:12,880
in tongues, but there's no one 
present who can interpret, they 

935
00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:15,080
have to be silent in the church 
meeting and speak in tongues to 

936
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:17,880
God privately. 
There must be a benefit to doing

937
00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,280
it in private. 
Let two or three people 

938
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,480
prophecy, let others evaluate 
what is said. 

939
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:25,640
But if someone's prophesying and
another receives A revelation 

940
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:27,560
from the Lord, the one who's 
speaking must stop. 

941
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:31,480
And this way all who prophecy or
preach will have a turn to speak

942
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:33,600
one after another so that 
everyone will learn and be 

943
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,560
encouraged. 
Remember that those who prophecy

944
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:38,920
are in control of their Spirit 
and can take turns. 

945
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:42,880
For God is not a God of 
disorder, but of peace, as in 

946
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:44,360
all meetings of God's holy 
people. 

947
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,520
So nobody gets to use the Holy 
Spirit as an excuse for 

948
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,080
interrupting everybody, refusing
correction, or taking over the 

949
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,200
service. 
I've seen it happen in a public 

950
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:54,840
church service here maybe three 
times or so in the last five 

951
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:56,720
years that I've been leading the
church as a lead pastor. 

952
00:45:56,720 --> 00:45:59,280
But I'll never forget Pastor 
Anna, who was our worship pastor

953
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:02,080
for many years. 
She was up here and, and I 

954
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,040
remember during worship one 
morning because Miss Judy right 

955
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,080
there had a word from the Lord 
and she was proclaiming 

956
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:09,160
something in tongues and had the
interpretation. 

957
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,880
And I watched Pastor Anna 
immediately go, you remember it,

958
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:13,200
Sarah, do you remember this 
morning? 

959
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,280
Like she goes, she goes like 
this and everybody just kept 

960
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:17,600
doing what they're doing because
she was like, we're making room 

961
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,360
for this moment. 
And you had the word and you had

962
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,960
the interpretation. 
And then Pastor Anna very wisely

963
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,640
said what you guys just saw was 
biblical. 

964
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:29,600
It was a manifestation of 
tongues and an interpretation. 

965
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:32,040
She explained what it was. 
Now, the next day at staff 

966
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,320
meeting, I said, what would you 
have done if that was a stranger

967
00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:38,280
that we didn't know to be 
somebody who who is a a man or 

968
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:39,960
woman of God? 
She goes, oh, I'm pretty sure 

969
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:42,200
Jed would have turned up the 
sound a little bit more, right. 

970
00:46:42,240 --> 00:46:46,240
So so we're not somewhere where 
we're just going to let whoever 

971
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:48,520
do whatever they want. 
Everything needs to be done in 

972
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:50,600
order. 
So if you can tell if the Lord's

973
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,160
Spirit is speaking to your 
spirit that tongues is 

974
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,720
happening, or if it's somebody 
that you recognize with a gift 

975
00:46:54,720 --> 00:46:56,960
that that has been proven true, 
it's a whole different ball 

976
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,320
game, right? 
Nobody gets to use the Holy 

977
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:02,040
Spirit as an excuse for 
interrupting everybody or for 

978
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,640
refusing correction or for 
taking over service. 

979
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,040
It will not happen in this 
house. 

980
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,080
The rest of the chapter talks 
about instructions about women 

981
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,000
speaking in the gathering, and 
that's a separate discussion and

982
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:14,080
a separate sermon that we don't 
have time to settle this 

983
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:15,480
morning, but I'm happy to talk 
about it. 

984
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:18,560
But then he finishes with two 
verses that I really wish 

985
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,240
Christians on both sides of the 
tongues discussion would take 

986
00:47:21,240 --> 00:47:25,160
seriously. 
Listen to this in 39 and 40, my 

987
00:47:25,160 --> 00:47:30,160
dear brothers and sisters, be 
eager to prophecy and don't 

988
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:34,080
forbid speaking in tongues, but 
be sure that everything is done 

989
00:47:34,080 --> 00:47:37,760
properly and in order. 
You should never forbid speaking

990
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,280
in tongues, but you also can't 
let people do whatever they want

991
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,720
at any time. 
It's a both end and and there 

992
00:47:43,720 --> 00:47:46,160
are church traditions that say 
that you are not saved unless 

993
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:47,920
you speak in tongues. 
It's false. 

994
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,240
There are also church traditions
that say you go to hell if you 

995
00:47:51,240 --> 00:47:52,600
speak in tongues because it's 
demonic. 

996
00:47:52,600 --> 00:47:55,720
That's false. 
Paul says don't forbid it. 

997
00:47:56,640 --> 00:47:59,040
He just gives them boundaries 
while continuing to encourage 

998
00:47:59,040 --> 00:48:00,920
the gift. 
How can you exercise boundaries 

999
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,040
and have it be orderly if you're
not in control of it? 

1000
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,920
So I just think some churches 
have allowed so much disorder 

1001
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,240
that they've ignored practically
everything else Paul said about 

1002
00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:11,320
it. 
Neither of those ideas seems 

1003
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,240
like a particularly good way to 
handle the Scripture. 

1004
00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:15,320
So here's what I want you to 
understand about tongues in the 

1005
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,120
church. 
Paul says it's a genuine gift of

1006
00:48:17,120 --> 00:48:19,360
the Holy Spirit. 
Not everybody receives that 

1007
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,280
public gift. 
He teaches that it needs 

1008
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,760
interpretation if it's going to 
benefit the congregation. 

1009
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,360
And then he says speak in 
tongues to God privately. 

1010
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,440
So not everybody has the public 
gift. 

1011
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:32,200
And one of the reasons, you 
know, you're not supposed to do 

1012
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,120
it in public, as if there's not 
an interpretation, but I really 

1013
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,760
believe that we have access to 
it in private. 

1014
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,680
So let me go ahead and lay that 
out for you before we go home 

1015
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:44,160
today. 
Private tongues #4 in your 

1016
00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,600
notes, private tongues or a 
prayer language? 

1017
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,080
Prayer language is a better way 
to call it that. 

1018
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:51,520
If you want to talk about 
freaking out people that aren't 

1019
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:53,800
in the church, tell them that 
you learned about private 

1020
00:48:53,800 --> 00:48:55,800
tongues and see what they think 
about that sentence. 

1021
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:58,120
So we're going to say prayer 
language. 

1022
00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:00,600
All right. 
Now this is where the 

1023
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:02,760
conversation gets really 
interesting because most of the 

1024
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,040
arguments I've heard with people
that say tongues don't happen 

1025
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,240
today. 
They focus almost exclusively on

1026
00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:08,560
what happens in a church 
service. 

1027
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,960
And people will point to Paul 
saying not everybody speaks in 

1028
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,760
tongues and there has to be an 
interpretation, but they're 

1029
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:15,880
correct in a public sense. 
But he does say, if you don't 

1030
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:18,600
have an interpretation, go home 
and pray to God in tongues in 

1031
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,240
private. 
Listen to this. 

1032
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:25,920
Let love be your high school, 
right? 

1033
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:28,760
If you have the ability to speak
in tongues, you will be speaking

1034
00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:31,440
only to God since people won't 
be able to understand you. 

1035
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:33,200
You will be speaking by the 
power of the Spirit. 

1036
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:36,680
It'll all be mysterious. 
You are speaking to God when you

1037
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,560
speak in tongues. 
But you notice how Paul says it?

1038
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:42,440
He says you're only speaking to 
God, not other people. 

1039
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,760
So sometimes people will say 
like, I didn't get anything out 

1040
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:45,960
of that. 
That's not genuine. 

1041
00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:49,200
No, it lines up with Scripture. 
If you got up here and prayed in

1042
00:49:49,200 --> 00:49:51,600
tongues right in front of me, 
unless the Lord wanted to do 

1043
00:49:51,600 --> 00:49:53,440
something for the whole church, 
I would have no clue what you're

1044
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,880
saying, nor should I. 
Why? 

1045
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,680
Why would I, right? 
But there's clearly a personal 

1046
00:49:58,680 --> 00:50:00,040
benefit that's being described 
here. 

1047
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:02,680
Paul isn't saying that personal 
strengthening is bad. 

1048
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:04,720
He's just saying if you get up 
in front of everybody and try to

1049
00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:07,480
strengthen yourself instead of 
everybody, that's bad. 

1050
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:14,720
So he goes on even further. 1st 
Corinthians 1413. 

1051
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,120
Here's what Paul says, his 
personal experience with 

1052
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:20,360
tongues. 
Lord, would you please just set 

1053
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:23,120
some people free today? 
Says in verse 13, anyone who 

1054
00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,200
speaks in tongues should pray 
also for the ability to 

1055
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:27,560
interpret what has been said. 
I've had people tell me you 

1056
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,120
can't pray for your own 
interpretation. 

1057
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:33,440
What does that mean? 
Then anybody who speaks in 

1058
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,600
tongues should pray also for the
ability to interpret what has 

1059
00:50:36,600 --> 00:50:39,000
been said. 
OK, verse 14, for if I pray in 

1060
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,920
tongues, my spirit is praying, 
but I don't understand what I'm 

1061
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,800
saying. 
Sometimes people have tried to 

1062
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:45,680
pray in tongues and they said, 
Pastor Blake, I tried it, I just

1063
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:47,720
didn't really understand it. 
Good. 

1064
00:50:47,720 --> 00:50:51,440
You're on the right track. 
OK, well then what shall I do? 

1065
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,120
Here's what Paul says. 
Here's what Paul does. 

1066
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:55,840
You can do what you want. 
He says I'll pray in the Spirit 

1067
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,280
and I'll also pray in words that
I understand. 

1068
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:03,560
He says I'll do both. 
He says I'll sing in the Spirit,

1069
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:05,200
but I'll also sing in words I 
understand. 

1070
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:06,560
Guys, I've never sang in the 
Spirit. 

1071
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:08,240
I've heard it. 
I've never done it. 

1072
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,000
I try not to sing publicly to 
begin with. 

1073
00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,760
So, but listen to him in verse 
16. 

1074
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:16,800
He says, if you praise God only 
in the Spirit, how can those who

1075
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:18,720
don't understand you praise God 
along with you? 

1076
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,240
How can they join with you and 
giving thanks if they don't 

1077
00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:23,480
understand what you're saying? 
And here's what he says about 

1078
00:51:23,480 --> 00:51:26,320
praying in the Spirit, verse 17.
You will be giving thanks very 

1079
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:28,960
well, but it won't strengthen 
the people who hear you. 

1080
00:51:29,560 --> 00:51:32,120
So even in praying in tongues, 
you can be giving thanks to the 

1081
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:34,520
Lord very well and not 
understand what you're saying. 

1082
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:36,920
He just says nobody else is 
going to get it. 

1083
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:39,680
And then you know Paul, he's a 
little bit of a knucklehead. 

1084
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:42,520
Listen to him in verse 18. 
I thank God that I speak in 

1085
00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:47,080
tongues more than any of you. 
All right, Paul. 

1086
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:50,280
But then he brings it back home,
verse 19. 

1087
00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:53,360
But in a church meeting, I would
rather speak five understandable

1088
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,960
words to help others than 10,000
words in an unknown language in 

1089
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,440
a church meeting. 
OK, lots of things are going on 

1090
00:51:59,440 --> 00:52:01,080
there, right? 
So his understanding is not 

1091
00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:02,720
involved. 
That's disengaged here. 

1092
00:52:02,840 --> 00:52:05,520
He's saying in a church meeting,
it's better to say words that 

1093
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:08,640
edify other people. 
But here's where my own 

1094
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:10,480
conviction comes in, and I want 
you to understand this. 

1095
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:12,760
I believe that while the public 
gift of tongues is distributed 

1096
00:52:12,760 --> 00:52:15,840
by the Holy Spirit according to 
His will, I fully believe that a

1097
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,640
private prayer language is 
something every believer can 

1098
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,400
earnestly desire and ask God 
for. 

1099
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,720
But you're going to feel weird 
if you've never done it before. 

1100
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:25,440
It's going to be weird. 
As a matter of fact, if you've 

1101
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:27,040
done it before, it still might 
feel weird to you. 

1102
00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:30,240
But I also don't believe that 
receiving the Holy Spirit means 

1103
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:32,640
you've automatically experienced
everything that God wants you 

1104
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:34,680
to. 
He is constantly revealing 

1105
00:52:34,680 --> 00:52:37,440
Himself. 
Let me go ahead and say this 

1106
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:39,400
real quick. 
We'll be in Romans 8 in just a 

1107
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,080
moment. 
If I say the words red frog to 

1108
00:52:42,080 --> 00:52:45,520
you, what did you just picture a
red frog? 

1109
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:47,240
OK, good. 
It was not a trick question. 

1110
00:52:47,440 --> 00:52:51,280
I am surprised nobody went. 
Jesus, give me the VBS answer. 

1111
00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:53,120
You picture a red frog. 
You know why? 

1112
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,520
Because you know what red means 
and you know what frog means. 

1113
00:52:56,320 --> 00:53:01,680
OK, listen to this in Romans 
chapter 8, verse 26 through 28. 

1114
00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:04,360
Everybody loves verse 28, but 
we'll get there in a couple 

1115
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,960
verses. 
The Holy Spirit helps us in our 

1116
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,120
weakness. 
For example, we don't know what 

1117
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,640
God wants us to pray for, but 
the Holy Spirit prays for us 

1118
00:53:12,640 --> 00:53:14,840
with groanings that cannot be 
expressed in words. 

1119
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:18,360
And the Father who knows all 
hearts knows that what the 

1120
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:22,280
Spirit is saying for the Spirit 
capital S Spirit pleads for us 

1121
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:24,720
believers in harmony with God's 
own will. 

1122
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:29,160
And we know here we are in verse
28 that God causes everything to

1123
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,760
work together for the good of 
those who love God and are 

1124
00:53:31,760 --> 00:53:33,800
called according to His purpose 
for them. 

1125
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,800
Now, I love this because I think
he acknowledges something that 

1126
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:39,400
every Christian can relate to. 
Sometimes we don't really know 

1127
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,800
what to pray for. 
First of all, I love that If 

1128
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,560
Paul got a little baffled when 
he got in the prayer closet, I 

1129
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:46,920
feel a little bit better about 
myself. 

1130
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:52,000
But he says this, He says that 
the Holy Spirit helps us in our 

1131
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,440
weakness. 
And I don't think that praying 

1132
00:53:54,440 --> 00:53:57,000
in tongues is the only thing 
he's talking about in Romans 8. 

1133
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,360
I don't want you to think like, 
oh, just out of nowhere, he's 

1134
00:53:59,360 --> 00:54:01,520
got this random spot where he's 
just talking about tongues. 

1135
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,280
What I want you to know is what 
he's speaking about there is the

1136
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:07,480
Holy Spirit and how sometimes we
just don't know how to pray. 

1137
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:09,520
We don't know exactly what God's
will is. 

1138
00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:13,560
So what does the Holy Spirit do?
He intercedes for us in power, 

1139
00:54:13,600 --> 00:54:17,120
in our weakness, and he 
intercedes in groans that words 

1140
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:19,560
can't understand. 
Now, does that mean the shamala 

1141
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,160
hamala that comes out? 
Or is that just spiritual talk? 

1142
00:54:22,520 --> 00:54:24,640
Doesn't matter. 
What we know is this. 

1143
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,520
The Holy Spirit can pray in line
with his own will. 

1144
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:31,000
And here's why this matters. 
When I pray for you, I've prayed

1145
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,200
for most people that I can see 
here that if I know you by name,

1146
00:54:33,200 --> 00:54:34,320
I've prayed for you at some 
point. 

1147
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:38,320
I pray my will. 
I pray with my understanding. 

1148
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:42,480
I pray my will to God's ears. 
I also pray in tongues. 

1149
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:46,360
So I don't know what I've prayed
about you there, but I hope that

1150
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:48,960
I've prayed God's will on me and
God's will on you. 

1151
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:52,800
A lot of times we are filling up
our prayer time asking God for 

1152
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:56,040
things that we know to ask for. 
But the tongues will end up 

1153
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,880
asking him for things that we 
don't know to ask for. 

1154
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,720
And we'll be giving him thanks 
in different ways too, because 

1155
00:55:01,720 --> 00:55:04,480
his own spirit prays in 
conjunction with our spirit to 

1156
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:07,120
pray God's will. 
We don't always pray God's will,

1157
00:55:07,400 --> 00:55:09,080
we pray our will. 
Does that make sense? 

1158
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:12,440
So that being said, under 
private tongues and prayer 

1159
00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:15,520
language, I believe that a 
prayer language is for every 

1160
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:19,640
spirit filled Christian. 
This is a relevant topic for 

1161
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:23,200
today to address why Christians 
seem to lack power in their 

1162
00:55:23,200 --> 00:55:26,440
prayer life. 
And I'm not here to make anybody

1163
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:28,480
feel bad, but if there's 
conviction, that's between you 

1164
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,640
and the Lord. 
I think that being able to pray 

1165
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,000
in tongues adds power to your 
prayer life. 

1166
00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:36,000
We can only pray our will with 
our understanding. 

1167
00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:39,000
I can't pray His will. 
If I asked you to pray for me, 

1168
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,040
you would pray the things that 
you want for me and you would 

1169
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:43,960
pray the things you think I want
for me, but you would have no 

1170
00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:47,960
guarantee of praying everything 
that God wants for me unless you

1171
00:55:47,960 --> 00:55:49,800
pray in conjunction with his own
Spirit. 

1172
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:55,080
OK, now the Holy Spirit knows 
the will of God, even we we 

1173
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:58,520
don't. 
So the last blank right there is

1174
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:00,960
that most critics focus on the 
public display and never get to 

1175
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,200
the private benefits. 
And I've got a lot of context 

1176
00:56:03,200 --> 00:56:05,760
verses for you there, but I've 
got one more that I want to 

1177
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:09,280
cover after these these blanks 
that are there with Romans 8. 

1178
00:56:11,040 --> 00:56:13,040
Here's what it tells us. 
First of all, we don't know how 

1179
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,560
to pray. 
We don't know how to pray. 

1180
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,120
Secondly, the Spirit helps us in
our weakness. 

1181
00:56:24,000 --> 00:56:28,240
Third of all, the Spirit within 
us prays according to God's 

1182
00:56:28,240 --> 00:56:30,480
will. 
That's according to God's will. 

1183
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:33,680
And by the way, this is in 
contrast to our own will. 

1184
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:36,400
I know, I know. 
It may shock some of us to hear 

1185
00:56:36,400 --> 00:56:44,160
that our will is not His will. 
But OK, you don't have to turn, 

1186
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:48,640
but I've got it listed there. 
First, John chapter 5, verses 14

1187
00:56:48,640 --> 00:56:51,400
and 15. 
Listen to what we hear about the

1188
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:55,200
nature of this God we serve. 
We are confident that He hears 

1189
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,320
us whenever we ask for anything 
that pleases Him. 

1190
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,480
And since we know He hears us 
when we make our requests, we 

1191
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:02,480
also know that He'll give us 
what we asked for. 

1192
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,600
Sometimes we don't get what we 
asked for because we don't ask 

1193
00:57:05,600 --> 00:57:08,280
in accordance with His will. 
But you know, it has a 100% 

1194
00:57:08,280 --> 00:57:11,880
accuracy rate. 
Tongues praying in the Spirit. 

1195
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:15,440
OK, John says we're confident 
that God hears us when we ask 

1196
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:18,400
for things that please him. 
And I'll be the first one to 

1197
00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,840
tell you I've prayed prayers 
that I know didn't please him. 

1198
00:57:20,840 --> 00:57:23,000
They weren't even bad prayers. 
They just weren't in line with 

1199
00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:26,760
his will. 
And then the last thing that 

1200
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:29,080
I'll read in this section is 
Ephesians chapter 6. 

1201
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:32,960
It's just one verse, verse 18. 
How many of y'all have done 

1202
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:36,320
Iwana Bible studies before 
anybody, right? 

1203
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:37,640
I'm not bashing Iwana, by the 
way. 

1204
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:40,200
You don't have to, like, hold 
your head in shame, right. 

1205
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,960
You know, one of the things that
I want to love covering, really 

1206
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,880
just churches in general love 
covering of those. 

1207
00:57:44,880 --> 00:57:47,680
The armor of faith. 
Isn't it great what you got? 

1208
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:51,280
You got the helmet of salvation.
You just remember this, The 

1209
00:57:51,280 --> 00:57:53,680
breastplate of righteousness. 
Yeah. 

1210
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:57,760
The belt of which implies that 
there's pants, even though 

1211
00:57:57,760 --> 00:58:00,360
that's not covered, right. 
So we got the belt of truth, 

1212
00:58:00,360 --> 00:58:02,360
right. 
How about those shoes, The shoes

1213
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:05,280
of the shoes of peace, Right. 
Like, I know So. 

1214
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:08,560
So you've got this, all right. 
And at the very end, it's it's 

1215
00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,320
talking about all the pieces of 
the armor of faith. 

1216
00:58:10,720 --> 00:58:12,200
And then it says this in verse 
18. 

1217
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:15,120
And I've never seen this in an 
Awana study that covers the 

1218
00:58:15,120 --> 00:58:18,240
armor of faith. 
Pray in the spirit capital S by 

1219
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:22,400
the way, pray in the spirit at 
all times and on every occasion.

1220
00:58:23,040 --> 00:58:25,960
Stay alert and be persistent in 
your prayers for all believers 

1221
00:58:26,000 --> 00:58:29,000
everywhere. 
So if you say praying in the 

1222
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:31,400
spirits just for church, why 
does it say at all times and on 

1223
00:58:31,400 --> 00:58:33,440
every occasion? 
That feels very inclusive, 

1224
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:37,640
right? 
Stay alert and be persistent for

1225
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:38,960
your prayers for believers 
everywhere. 

1226
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:40,600
This is included in the armor of
faith. 

1227
00:58:40,600 --> 00:58:43,280
It's power guys. 
And so it might make you feel a 

1228
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,320
little weird, but are you 
willing to feel a little weird 

1229
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:47,640
if you're going to access 
something that's going to help 

1230
00:58:47,720 --> 00:58:50,440
embolden your prayers, 
strengthen your your prayer 

1231
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,840
life? 
Again, I wouldn't argue that 

1232
00:58:52,840 --> 00:58:54,920
every time that the Bible says 
pray in the spirit, it's talking

1233
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:56,720
about praying in tongues, but 
it's talking about whatever you 

1234
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,160
have to do to pray your spirit 
in conjunction with God's 

1235
00:58:59,160 --> 00:59:02,480
Spirit. 
So one thing that I do want to 

1236
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:04,800
make clear, I have something 
that I taught three years ago 

1237
00:59:04,800 --> 00:59:06,400
when I taught on this that I've 
changed on. 

1238
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:11,560
And maybe you've heard this too,
especially if you've been here 

1239
00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:14,440
for three years. 
I have taught before that when 

1240
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:16,960
you pray in tongues, one of the 
added benefits is that the enemy

1241
00:59:16,960 --> 00:59:18,280
can't understand what you're 
saying. 

1242
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:22,080
I don't know that that's true. 
I don't know that that's true. 

1243
00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:24,960
I, I know stories of when I was 
under a demonic attack and the 

1244
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:28,120
only way I could say the name of
Jesus was in my mind and my, my 

1245
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:31,480
lips didn't move and I was in a 
paralysis moment and it broke 

1246
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:33,360
because I said the name of Jesus
with my mind. 

1247
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,280
Scripture never tells you 
whether or not I don't know how 

1248
00:59:36,280 --> 00:59:39,160
spiritual beings communicate. 
They don't have mouths like this

1249
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:40,760
is what I was talking about 
earlier with the tongues of 

1250
00:59:40,760 --> 00:59:42,440
angels. 
So I'm not here to tell you 

1251
00:59:42,440 --> 00:59:44,440
whether he can or can't hear 
your prayers. 

1252
00:59:44,920 --> 00:59:46,360
But what I will tell you is 
this. 

1253
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:49,880
I am much more concerned that I 
am praying with the backing of 

1254
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:51,840
heaven than to the confusion of 
hell. 

1255
00:59:52,680 --> 00:59:55,520
OK, so anyway, that's further 
revelation that I have. 

1256
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:57,240
I don't want to explain 
something to you like it's 

1257
00:59:57,240 --> 00:59:58,920
scriptural if it doesn't come 
from the Scripture. 

1258
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:01,040
I can't promise you that the 
enemy doesn't understand your 

1259
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:02,440
tongues. 
They're spiritual beings. 

1260
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:05,400
Maybe he does, maybe he doesn't.
I don't really care because I 

1261
01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:07,080
know who I serve. 
Does that make sense? 

1262
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:12,640
OK, so I do want you to consider
as we wrap up this morning, 

1263
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:15,200
whether or not you've ever 
actually asked God about this or

1264
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:18,200
if you've been so dogmatic and 
so convinced that it's not for 

1265
01:00:18,200 --> 01:00:21,280
you or it's not for today or 
it's not whatever, that you've 

1266
01:00:21,280 --> 01:00:24,640
never asked God for it. 
I think there's a big difference

1267
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,760
between saying God, I trust you 
with whatever you want to give 

1268
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:28,760
me, and God, I trust you. 
But I've already decided that 

1269
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:30,080
there are certain things I don't
want to do. 

1270
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:35,040
So should you pray in tongues? 
That's the last thing. 

1271
01:00:35,760 --> 01:00:38,120
If you want to, and I would 
encourage you, at least go for 

1272
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:41,200
it this week. 
OK, here's what you do. 

1273
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:42,880
The first thing you do is you 
ask for it. 

1274
01:00:44,160 --> 01:00:46,160
But I do want you to know, if 
you've never spoken in tongues, 

1275
01:00:46,160 --> 01:00:48,480
it doesn't mean that you are 
missing the Holy Spirit. 

1276
01:00:48,480 --> 01:00:51,280
It just means that maybe this is
something you've not 

1277
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:54,160
participated in before, but 
you've got to eagerly desire it.

1278
01:00:54,760 --> 01:00:57,480
And we saw some spontaneous 
moments where people started 

1279
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,000
praying in tongues, but it's not
the norm. 

1280
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:01,640
So if you want it, you're going 
to have to ask for it and you're

1281
01:01:01,640 --> 01:01:03,440
going to have to get a little 
uncomfortable. 

1282
01:01:03,440 --> 01:01:05,080
This is where the second step 
comes in. 

1283
01:01:05,080 --> 01:01:07,760
You have to desire it more than 
you desire to control or 

1284
01:01:07,760 --> 01:01:11,560
understand it. 
These are also your blanks there

1285
01:01:11,560 --> 01:01:16,640
at the end. 
You have to desire it more than 

1286
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:18,480
you desire to control or 
understand it. 

1287
01:01:21,880 --> 01:01:24,240
You know, Pastor Tom was my 
pastor for many years. 

1288
01:01:24,240 --> 01:01:27,000
And he told the story about how 
his wife prayed in tongues 

1289
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:29,480
before he did. 
And then he ended up in prayer 

1290
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:31,440
saying, Lord, why does she get 
it? 

1291
01:01:31,440 --> 01:01:32,760
And I don't get it. 
I want to pray in tongues. 

1292
01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,280
So just for hours he was trying 
to say, God, I want you to give 

1293
01:01:35,280 --> 01:01:37,960
this to me. 
And then one day, or not one 

1294
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:40,080
day, but one moment, he said 
that the Lord said, what does 

1295
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:41,560
Marsha sound like when she does 
it? 

1296
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:45,560
And he just said what he had 
heard her say, because he said 

1297
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:48,000
I'm not going to go to bed until
I speak in tongues. 

1298
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:49,960
And the Lord said, what does she
sound like? 

1299
01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:51,400
And he said what he heard her 
saying. 

1300
01:01:51,840 --> 01:01:53,600
He said the Lord said you can go
to bed now. 

1301
01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:00,960
OK, when I say red frog, you 
picture a red frog because you 

1302
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:05,120
know what these words mean. 
When you just give word vehicles

1303
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:09,200
to the Lord, you don't know what
you're saying, but He does. 

1304
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:13,120
Your spirit is praying in 
conjunction with His Spirit and 

1305
01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:15,840
you'll feel weird. 
So my advice is when you try it,

1306
01:02:16,280 --> 01:02:19,040
try it alone, OK? 
Sit on the end of your bed, lock

1307
01:02:19,040 --> 01:02:21,360
that door, put on a sound 
machine, play something from 

1308
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:23,360
your phone. 
I don't know, do it alone 

1309
01:02:23,920 --> 01:02:25,760
because otherwise you're going 
to be worried about what other 

1310
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:27,520
people think. 
I was part of an experiment one 

1311
01:02:27,520 --> 01:02:30,600
time where somebody stood people
in a circle and told them to all

1312
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:32,120
try. 
At one time it was one of the 

1313
01:02:32,120 --> 01:02:34,640
most uncomfortable spiritual 
things I've ever been a part of.

1314
01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,640
I'm around 12 people all faking 
tongues at one time. 

1315
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:41,520
My poor OCD was screaming at me.
Right. 

1316
01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:45,760
You have to desire it more than 
you desire to control it or 

1317
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:47,720
understand it. 
And so if you really want to try

1318
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:48,960
it, you've got to be asking for 
it. 

1319
01:02:49,120 --> 01:02:51,200
You've got to be trying. 
That's Part 3. 

1320
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:53,640
Just try it, God. 
Just give them some words that 

1321
01:02:53,640 --> 01:02:55,480
aren't your own and see if the 
Holy Spirit gives you peace. 

1322
01:02:55,480 --> 01:02:57,040
You don't have to do it for 
hours. 

1323
01:02:57,040 --> 01:02:59,000
You don't have to do it for 15 
minutes. 

1324
01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:00,680
Do it for 2 minutes and see what
happens. 

1325
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:02,600
And the last thing I would tell 
you is don't give up. 

1326
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:05,960
Some people believe that you 
need the baptism of the Holy 

1327
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:09,040
Spirit in order to have tongues.
I don't think that that is true,

1328
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:11,400
but I think there's a lot of 
power in the baptism, the Holy 

1329
01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:12,360
Spirit. 
And I want you to know that's 

1330
01:03:12,360 --> 01:03:16,760
where we're going next week. 
This week, here's my challenge 

1331
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:18,800
to you. 
This is what I want you to pray.

1332
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:24,480
Holy Spirit, is there anything 
you've wanted to do in my life 

1333
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:26,200
that I have been unwilling to 
receive? 

1334
01:03:27,800 --> 01:03:29,800
If you get through this week and
nothing's different, that's OK, 

1335
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:33,600
Nothing's different. 
But if there is something 

1336
01:03:33,600 --> 01:03:35,320
different, whether it's tongues,
whether it's a word of 

1337
01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:37,320
knowledge, whether it's just 
listening, whether it's him 

1338
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:39,320
talking to you about your prayer
life or how you treat your 

1339
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:42,640
spouse, is there anything you 
want me to do that I have been 

1340
01:03:42,640 --> 01:03:44,880
unwilling to receive? 
Tell him I'm willing to receive 

1341
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it today and see if he speaks to
you. 

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Amen.