1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,600 Hello and welcome to the Church. Newtown Square podcast. 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,400 If we can serve you in any way or if you'd like to learn more 3 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:15,400 about our church family or the x29 network, please visit us at 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:23,300 church NS Q dot org. That c h VR c h NS Q dot org. 5 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:26,300 And now let's listen in to today's teaching. 6 00:00:26,300 --> 00:00:30,300 If you are joining with us for the first time, Time this 7 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:34,400 morning, we've been working through this letter of 8 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:36,900 Corinthians, the Paul's letter to the Corinthians versus 9 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,900 chapters 12 through 14. And as we've been studying First 10 00:00:40,900 --> 00:00:43,900 Corinthians 12 through 14, we've taken some time to understand 11 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:47,100 Paul's larger flow, of thought, and of, try to take some time to 12 00:00:47,100 --> 00:00:50,000 Define some terms for us. We're going to take a look this 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,600 morning at the gifts of the Holy Spirit. 14 00:00:53,100 --> 00:00:56,900 And as I've mentioned before, Paul's primary, point is for us 15 00:00:56,900 --> 00:01:01,400 to understand, not each gift in Nuclear, although the we will 16 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:04,200 understand and seek to understand that the larger 17 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:06,800 understanding is what does it look like when the church 18 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,800 gathers together? Like, we are doing this morning 19 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,600 in corporate worship and how do we exercise these gifts of the 20 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,400 Spirit and in particular in particular, the Corinthian 21 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:18,700 Church, excuse me, the Corinthian Church was struggling 22 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:22,900 with, how do they do such things in a mature way in chapter 12, 23 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:25,300 verses 1 through 30, if we're going to kind of look at the 24 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,300 flow of thought, again, Paul speaks the unity of the body. 25 00:01:28,300 --> 00:01:31,800 And then he points to the E of gifts that are given to them and 26 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,800 then he goes on to speak about the most excellent way that we 27 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,500 can present ourselves and worship which is in love to one 28 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:41,200 another in love for Christ. And love for one another, it is 29 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,700 for the common good that we exercise, these spiritual gifts, 30 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,200 then in chapter 14, what Paul will do is it will encourage us 31 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,400 encourage the church in Corinth to pursue that, which is 32 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,500 building up for the church. In fact, the point is Paul is 33 00:01:54,500 --> 00:01:57,400 trying to instruct them on how to use to particular spiritual 34 00:01:57,400 --> 00:02:00,400 gifts to gift of Prophecy and to get the tongues, And pick that 35 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,100 up in the flow. He is arguing that the thing 36 00:02:04,100 --> 00:02:06,400 that is best for the church is that thing that is most 37 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,600 understood and we're going to work through that in a few 38 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,200 weeks. Next week, most likely or the 39 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:15,400 week after then finally what Paul does he give some order and 40 00:02:15,400 --> 00:02:17,800 instruction to the Church of a, how they should order themselves 41 00:02:17,800 --> 00:02:20,000 during public? Corporate worship. 42 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,800 The reason I say that is because we can, we can get stuck and 43 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,900 bogged down into the gifts of the Holy Spirit. 44 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:28,900 And in the context of the passage we want, understand that 45 00:02:28,900 --> 00:02:32,300 the end goal is for us to worship, well, to Worship in 46 00:02:32,300 --> 00:02:35,000 such a way that is not only building up for the church, but 47 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,500 also a witness to the world around us, and for those who 48 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:40,800 would join us in seeing how Christ manifest himself in his 49 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,500 people. And so we talked about that. 50 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,300 The fact that every believer is gifted by God. 51 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,900 And now we're talking about the gifts that are used by God and 52 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:52,900 Paul points us to be open to the Holy Spirit and to be others 53 00:02:52,900 --> 00:02:54,900 centered. And to remember that the 54 00:02:54,900 --> 00:02:57,400 objective is love for Christ and that our worship should be 55 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,300 orderly. Spiritual gifts are The common 56 00:03:00,300 --> 00:03:03,500 good of the church which are to be done in love for Jesus and 57 00:03:03,500 --> 00:03:09,100 for one another now, in First Corinthians chapter 12, he opens 58 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:12,500 by saying that there are multiple gifts but the same 59 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:15,800 spirit and then what we ask is what are those spiritual gifts 60 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,300 that were being using being used in the context of local church? 61 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:23,200 So I gave some context last week as to the reasons why the topic 62 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:26,500 of spiritual gifts is somewhat confusing and it's, sometimes 63 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,300 unnecessarily divisive against Christians, I'm Not going to 64 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:32,500 repeat myself this week. You can listen to that for 65 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:36,000 yourself and if you need a refresher you can go onto our 66 00:03:36,008 --> 00:03:38,900 website and listen to that. I will remind us one thing that 67 00:03:38,900 --> 00:03:42,400 Pentecost, the reason why Pentecost happened in the 68 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:46,000 Redemptive story of God is one to point us to the reality that 69 00:03:46,100 --> 00:03:50,700 the promised holy spirit is given to us permanently, and it 70 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:53,200 is not just given to one people's given to all people, 71 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,200 which is the foundation with which Paul says that we can have 72 00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:59,500 the spirit poured out on us. That all are gifted by the Holy 73 00:03:59,500 --> 00:04:01,800 Spirit. This means that the spirit is as 74 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:06,100 much present with us today. Whoever we are, wherever we are 75 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:09,700 wherever we come from or whoever were descended from. 76 00:04:09,700 --> 00:04:13,400 The spirit is, as much alive in us today as he was present in 77 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:18,800 those in the first century. So we have been given the Holy 78 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:22,900 Spirit as a gift and that gift that is given to us, is not the 79 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:25,900 thing that comes and goes. But the gifts that the Holy 80 00:04:25,900 --> 00:04:29,900 Spirit present in US manifest themselves for the building up 81 00:04:29,900 --> 00:04:33,800 of the body. And so, in verse 8, Paul begins 82 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:37,500 to list the things that are manifesting in the Corinthian 83 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:40,300 Church in verse 7. He says that a manifestation of 84 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:43,500 the spirit is given to each person for the common good and 85 00:04:43,500 --> 00:04:47,300 then what he will do is he will go and he lists the Fruits of 86 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:49,600 the spirit. Not the manifestations of the 87 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:53,500 spirit in verse 8. Last week we focused on the fact 88 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:56,900 that to one is given a message of wisdom, through the spirit to 89 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:00,800 another message of knowledge by The Same Spirit pointed out that 90 00:05:00,900 --> 00:05:04,000 the emphasis here is on the law, God's, the message that is 91 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,700 producing wisdom and knowledge, that it is not a distinct gift 92 00:05:08,700 --> 00:05:11,700 of wisdom or gift of knowledge. But in fact, it is the 93 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:13,500 knowledge. And the wisdom that is produced, 94 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:17,600 by those who have the gift of teaching that To teaching 95 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,000 produces in us, a wisdom and discernment and a knowledge of 96 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:27,600 Jesus Christ and of his gospel and of the story of God, wisdom 97 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:32,500 and knowledge are paired here. Together that serves as a result 98 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:36,700 of someone who is teaching teaching and preaching from 99 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:40,800 which a person will gain wisdom in life, and knowledge of God in 100 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:45,200 the context of worship. As we move on to verse 9, Paul 101 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:48,900 says that to another Faith by The Same Spirit. 102 00:05:49,300 --> 00:05:52,400 Now, this this Faith hear. This word is not saving Faith. 103 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,100 The reason why we laid the foundation of say, you cannot be 104 00:05:55,100 --> 00:05:57,400 spiritual apart from the holy spirit. 105 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:01,600 So, this is not a saving Faith. This word faith here is not one. 106 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,800 That means that to one is giving Faith to believe, but it is a 107 00:06:05,900 --> 00:06:09,500 faith to have an extraordinary trust in God. 108 00:06:10,100 --> 00:06:13,900 In other words, this gift is not the tendency of The Optimist to 109 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:16,600 be positive about everything saying that. 110 00:06:16,700 --> 00:06:19,200 That man, Everything is awesome. Everything is going to be 111 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,500 awesome. That faith is not the the power 112 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:25,100 to just see with everything Rose, The Rose Colored Glasses, 113 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:26,600 right? Someone quoted it like this, The 114 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:30,000 Optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible 115 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:32,400 worlds. And the pessimist fears, that 116 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:38,100 this is true. Did you catch that some of you 117 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:40,500 live with people who are optimists? 118 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:45,900 And some of you are pessimist by Nature, it's your temperament. 119 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:48,400 You just? I don't know, but that's not 120 00:06:48,400 --> 00:06:51,500 what this is. Faith is not just just it just 121 00:06:51,500 --> 00:06:54,200 being positive about everything, d.a. 122 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:56,100 Carson defines it. Well, he says this special 123 00:06:56,100 --> 00:06:58,800 Faith, enables a Believer to trust. 124 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,200 God to bring about certain things for which he, or she 125 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:06,400 cannot claim some Divine promise recorded in Scripture or some 126 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,400 State of Affairs grounded in the very structure of the Gospel. 127 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:12,400 This is a faith that is not claiming things like. 128 00:07:12,500 --> 00:07:15,600 Jesus Christ has said that he would save us because of his 129 00:07:15,700 --> 00:07:19,100 resurrecting power. That's a promise that's given to 130 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:22,000 us in the gospel. This type of faith is one that 131 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:26,500 looks at God's character and stands firmly on his promises 132 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,900 seen in Hebrews chapter 11. If you're familiar chapter 11 is 133 00:07:30,900 --> 00:07:34,200 known as the Hall of Faith, people, that looked ahead they 134 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:38,000 didn't see Actually, what was to come, but they trusted that God 135 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,400 promised that it was there. Modern examples of extraordinary 136 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,300 Faith might be someone like Amy Beatrice Carmichael. 137 00:07:45,300 --> 00:07:47,800 If you're familiar with her, she lived between the eight-time of 138 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,000 1867 and 1951 and she was an Irish Christian Missionary in 139 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:57,200 India, who had 28 at 28, trusted God and believed God for opening 140 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,700 an orphanage and founded a mission in India where she 141 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:05,400 served there for 55 years, trusting that God would meet her 142 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:07,700 in that Act of Faith. Or perhaps you might be familiar 143 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:10,500 with Hudson Taylor who was a British Christian. 144 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:12,600 To China. Who founded the China inland 145 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:16,700 mission spending 51 years there in China establishing schools 146 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:20,800 and churches there for those who have never heard the gospel or 147 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,500 perhaps you might think of Bill bright, who founded campus 148 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:26,700 Crusade for Christ, as a Ministry for University, 149 00:08:26,700 --> 00:08:29,900 students trusting that God wanted people to hear the 150 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:31,500 gospel. And so he stepped out in faith 151 00:08:31,500 --> 00:08:35,200 and trust in God for Ministries across the globe, he wrote a 152 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,700 book called the four spiritual laws, he trusted God to raise up 153 00:08:38,700 --> 00:08:42,100 people to produce a film called the This film, he had great 154 00:08:42,100 --> 00:08:43,799 faith. He trusted that God would meet 155 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:47,700 him if he moves forward in Faith Church Planters, people that 156 00:08:47,700 --> 00:08:52,100 start Ministries, people that respond to something that is on 157 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:54,500 their heart that they believe God for. 158 00:08:54,500 --> 00:08:59,200 This is the faith, the faith to believe God for his promises. 159 00:09:00,100 --> 00:09:02,100 But we need not only look to these stories of a. 160 00:09:02,100 --> 00:09:05,100 So what we tend to do is we tend to take these men and women and 161 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:08,100 we Elevate them, I just just kind of put that all before you. 162 00:09:08,100 --> 00:09:11,000 But the one thing that we need to Understand. 163 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,400 Is that this faith is not a scenario for those who are just 164 00:09:14,400 --> 00:09:16,500 super spiritual. Again, this is we tend to do 165 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:18,200 this. We tend to hyper spiritual eyes, 166 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:22,000 people who do great things but Faith, exercising, Faith as is 167 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,400 here. The gift of faith. 168 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:27,200 It means that in every scenario and perhaps, even this local 169 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,500 church and every small local church, some scenario requires 170 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:33,800 the gift of someone who has the gift of faith. 171 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,400 The gift of faith is distributed by the spirit as he chooses to 172 00:09:37,700 --> 00:09:39,600 boost. Perhaps may be flagging murder, 173 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,000 all the more. Of his people, someone that says 174 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:44,500 that. No, we're going to stay here. 175 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:46,000 We're going to stay here and continue on. 176 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,200 We're going to, we're going to persevere in small things or 177 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,100 trusting God for things that seemingly look small to the 178 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:55,000 outside world. Perhaps the local church 179 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,000 pursuing an upward call of God, where they believe that. 180 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:02,200 Perhaps, maybe we need to trust God for our budget failures or 181 00:10:02,300 --> 00:10:05,000 perhaps the provision for a youth group leader, or even the 182 00:10:05,000 --> 00:10:08,500 calling of a new pastor or even a decision that needs to be made 183 00:10:08,500 --> 00:10:10,400 regarding facilities or missions or meat. 184 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:13,600 And need in the local church. What faith does this gift of 185 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,600 faith that it. Underwrites are obedient to 186 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:16,700 Jesus. Lord. 187 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:20,600 And even the most seemingly insignificant member, which we 188 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,300 will get to in the illustration of the diversity in the body and 189 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:27,400 the need for one another. Even the most insignificant 190 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:32,700 member seemingly May well be used to impart such faith for 191 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:35,000 the whole body at a crucial moment of decision making. 192 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,900 Have you ever experienced that or some little old lady in the 193 00:10:38,900 --> 00:10:40,400 back? Who are some little old man? 194 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:44,300 Or some unassuming person stands up and says why I believe that 195 00:10:44,300 --> 00:10:47,400 we can trust God for this and we should move forward and 196 00:10:47,400 --> 00:10:49,600 everybody rallies to it and says that's true. 197 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,600 And then it happens. And these are the things that we 198 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:57,300 have been given in the body of Christ, where we do not need 199 00:10:57,300 --> 00:11:00,100 great vision, casting and leaders and strength. 200 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:03,400 But rather it is any member in the church who might have this 201 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:08,700 gift given of Faith. Extraordinary faith, Now, Paul 202 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:15,300 moves on in chapter 10 verse 10, he says to another Gifts of 203 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:18,000 healing, by the one Spirit to another the Performing of 204 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,000 Miracles to another prophecy. What we're beginning to enter 205 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:23,600 into is what's known as the miraculous gifts in the 206 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:28,900 revelatory gifts there, / things that are miraculous being that 207 00:11:28,900 --> 00:11:32,700 there are Supernatural, they do not happen in the natural and 208 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:35,800 then the revelatory things that reveal, what is on God's heart 209 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,800 and then come directly from God, In the gifts of healing here. 210 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,100 It's plural. The, the word, the Greek here is 211 00:11:43,100 --> 00:11:45,700 its plural. Its Gifts of charismatic. 212 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:48,800 It is a pluralized world of charismatic. 213 00:11:48,800 --> 00:11:52,800 It's another gift. And these plural gifts are given 214 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:57,600 by the one Spirit, the gifts of healing seem to be something 215 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:00,900 that is for the various illnesses in various ways. 216 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:06,000 If the verses in chapter in verses eight, if we think about 217 00:12:06,100 --> 00:12:08,600 eight overlapping with wisdom and knowledge of wisdom and 218 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:13,400 knowledge, Or overlapping Paul might be overlapping these gifts 219 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:16,400 here as well where he's trying to point to the fact that some 220 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:19,000 are given Gifts of various healing. 221 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:22,600 Is that perhaps in the early church, there were multiple ways 222 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:27,100 in which people needed healing. They needed a miraculous healing 223 00:12:27,500 --> 00:12:31,900 and miracles as opposed to just healing Miracles. 224 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:35,200 Could be something where it's either healing diseases or well 225 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:38,800 or perhaps The Exorcism of demons maybe perhaps. 226 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,400 Doing something that is beyond healings, no one really knows 227 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,400 the context, doesn't tell you, but what we do is we let 228 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,100 scripture interpret scripture and so what kind of healings do 229 00:12:50,100 --> 00:12:53,000 we see in the New Testament? Well, the healings of Jesus, and 230 00:12:53,000 --> 00:12:56,000 of the Apostles, if you read through the gospels, and if you 231 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:58,900 read through the book of Acts or which I'm not going to work, 232 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:00,600 walk us through there. You can do that on your own. 233 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,600 You can read your Bible. That's why you have one, the 234 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,100 gifts of Jesus and the apostles in terms of healing, they were 235 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:10,500 direct. They were Dick and they were by 236 00:13:10,500 --> 00:13:13,400 word and they were by touch. They had an immediate impact. 237 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:16,200 And so, as we went through, the Gospel of John, there was a man 238 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:18,200 who was blind, he was born, blind. 239 00:13:18,300 --> 00:13:22,800 And one of the Miracles Jesus did was told him to see it was a 240 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:25,800 man who was blind. And now he sees a man who was 241 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,400 lame. And now he can walk a person, a 242 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:33,300 son, a daughter who was dead, and now they are alive, direct 243 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:38,300 healings. This is not kind of just a slow 244 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:41,900 retrieve retrieval to health. These are direct healings. 245 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,100 They were no different than what is proposed today in terms of 246 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:50,600 the miraculous the miraculous healing if something is 247 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,600 miraculous it should be above the supernatural I mean it 248 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:57,600 should be above the natural did something that you can't explain 249 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:00,000 other than the supernatural effect of God. 250 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,500 Now where this comes into play, in terms of the need for 251 00:14:04,500 --> 00:14:07,300 maturity is that all sorts of people can claim, all sorts of 252 00:14:07,300 --> 00:14:11,100 gifts of healing. And sometimes, what we see is we 253 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:15,800 see this healing of things that seem subjective to Nature if I 254 00:14:15,808 --> 00:14:17,900 have a headache, or, if there's something that I'm feeling, 255 00:14:17,900 --> 00:14:22,300 like, anxiety or sadness, or fear or perhaps, maybe I have an 256 00:14:22,300 --> 00:14:27,600 ache or something, that is not really a verifiable, it can be 257 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,200 subjective in nature. Sometimes people claim that they 258 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:35,300 have this Gift of healing. That seems to be kind of 259 00:14:35,300 --> 00:14:36,600 unarguable. It's like, it's like when 260 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:38,800 someone says and we'll talk a little bit about this. 261 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:42,100 Is if someone argues you that, the Lord told me, well. 262 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:47,800 Okay, sometimes we throw that argument out there and it's hard 263 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,200 to argue against that because, again, it is subjective in 264 00:14:50,200 --> 00:14:51,700 nature. So objective is truth. 265 00:14:51,700 --> 00:14:54,400 That is verifiable. It's it stated subjective is 266 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:56,200 like, well, I kind of feel this way. 267 00:14:56,200 --> 00:14:58,500 Well that's it's kind of shaky ground. 268 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:03,700 When I first, when I was first where this where this can be 269 00:15:03,700 --> 00:15:07,700 damaging is, let me share a story with you when I was campus 270 00:15:07,700 --> 00:15:09,700 director at West Chester University, we were on staff at 271 00:15:09,700 --> 00:15:13,700 Penn State for a while and we had, we had moved to West 272 00:15:13,700 --> 00:15:17,100 Chester and I was excited to be back the summer before I got 273 00:15:17,100 --> 00:15:20,000 there. The campus director had to walk 274 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,700 through something. That was significantly, trying a 275 00:15:23,708 --> 00:15:27,400 handful students. Had a friend who had was killed, 276 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,900 tragically in a car accident. In fact, I found out. 277 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:34,700 Later that this student was actually a counselor at the camp 278 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:38,600 that I worked at his name is Martin and he was a Godly kid. 279 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,900 He loved Jesus. He was tragically killed in a 280 00:15:40,908 --> 00:15:47,000 car accident and before I was the director there, one of the 281 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:51,000 groups of students decided that they wanted to exercise the gift 282 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:55,000 of healing and they wanted to trust God and have exercises of 283 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,800 faith and they wanted to trust God for something big and they 284 00:15:57,800 --> 00:15:59,900 believe that God LED them and told them. 285 00:16:00,300 --> 00:16:04,200 To raise Martin from the dead. Do you see where this is going? 286 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,500 So, what they did is they went to the funeral and They begged 287 00:16:08,500 --> 00:16:11,000 for the parents, to let them come over the coffin and pray 288 00:16:11,000 --> 00:16:14,200 for the miraculous healing of Martin from the dead. 289 00:16:14,500 --> 00:16:16,700 Because one of them believed that they had the gift of 290 00:16:16,700 --> 00:16:20,300 healing. Now, Martin did not rise from 291 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:23,600 the dead, he will one day, but he did not that day, but the 292 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,800 hurt that was caused and the the pain that was caused and the 293 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:33,000 witness for immature believing Faith. 294 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:39,500 There is is the damage was done. When we move forward without 295 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:42,200 understanding or teaching, this is why Paul is teaching his, 296 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:44,700 this is why we submit ourselves a word and think through the 297 00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:47,800 things that we have been told in Scripture. 298 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:53,900 When we subject ourselves to some false teachings or some 299 00:16:54,500 --> 00:16:58,100 immature teachings, we see the church act immaturely. 300 00:16:58,100 --> 00:17:01,800 We see people that genuinely love, Jesus, and believe Jesus. 301 00:17:01,800 --> 00:17:05,599 For great things, do things that are not warranted in scripture. 302 00:17:06,500 --> 00:17:09,900 And so, when we think about the gifts of healing, this was 303 00:17:09,900 --> 00:17:11,300 happening in the Corinthian Church. 304 00:17:11,300 --> 00:17:16,000 So in context, I want you to know that there were Believers 305 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,500 men and women that had the gifts of healing in. 306 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,400 Context. And also, like I said, the 307 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:27,099 miraculous gift of healing does occur, but a particular gift of 308 00:17:27,099 --> 00:17:32,100 healing for a particular person to have a gift of healing. 309 00:17:32,900 --> 00:17:36,200 I do not believe and will look further at why, I don't believe 310 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,200 that that there are individuals that do possess this gift of 311 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,400 healing as per the abilities of the Apostles, in the first 312 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:46,300 century or the early church. Again, this does not mean that, 313 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:49,000 I don't think that the scripture leads us to believe leave that 314 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:52,400 Miracles, have ceased. Only that specific people are 315 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:55,400 given specific gifts of healing to go around and miraculously 316 00:17:55,400 --> 00:18:00,300 heal. As we move on, Paul says that 317 00:18:00,300 --> 00:18:03,400 there is another gift in. This is the gift of Prophecy. 318 00:18:04,100 --> 00:18:06,800 There is some confusion about what prophecy is and the 319 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:10,000 questions about what prophecy was in, the first century is 320 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,300 enormous. I can give you 12 different 321 00:18:12,300 --> 00:18:15,600 books if you want to read about them all like 500 pages, thick 322 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,800 if you want to read them this afternoon I will be glad to hand 323 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:19,700 them to you. Do your study on your own, the 324 00:18:19,700 --> 00:18:23,100 questions about what and was not prophecy or what was thought 325 00:18:23,100 --> 00:18:26,300 about prophecy, or the different ways in which prophecy is talked 326 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:29,400 about in the Scriptures in the hole is is Myriad. 327 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,600 But one thing I want you to notice is that the prophecy that 328 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,200 Paul speaks about here. The gift of Prophecy is not a 329 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,400 prepared preaching, and teaching as some might argue as they do. 330 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:43,600 But it seems that it is an occasional and spontaneous word 331 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,400 from God. We might look to the words of 332 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:50,300 agabus and Acts chapter 11, when he had a prophecy for Paul or 333 00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:54,000 even when John says that Caiaphas the high priest who was 334 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,800 in the Sanhedrin prophesied that Jesus. 335 00:18:56,900 --> 00:19:01,700 Must Die for the sake of Israel. It is a spontaneous event. 336 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:04,500 In fact, if you turn really quickly, if you just make a 337 00:19:04,508 --> 00:19:08,000 right hand turn Paul says that in the order of worship, in 338 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:14,200 chapter 14, verses 29 through 32, he gives order and says that 339 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:16,600 two or three prophets should speak in the other should 340 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:18,300 evaluate. But if something has been 341 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:20,800 revealed to another person sitting there, the first person, 342 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,600 the first prophet should be silent. 343 00:19:22,700 --> 00:19:25,600 He's giving order in the context of worship, and so it is a 344 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:29,100 spontaneous. Vent prophecy does not always 345 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:32,700 need to foretell the future. It can speak to current 346 00:19:32,700 --> 00:19:35,200 circumstances. It may also be used to bring 347 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:37,800 others to Faith since it reveals, the secrets of the 348 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,900 heart. Again, in chapter 14, we'll see 349 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:42,600 where that plays out. But what I want to see here, 350 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:46,600 just to get a definition of what these gifts are in the context 351 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:51,500 of the Corinthian Church. The gift of Prophecy is linked 352 00:19:51,500 --> 00:19:53,600 to having Mysteries and knowledge. 353 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:56,700 That is not readily accessible Tom. 354 00:19:56,900 --> 00:20:00,000 Reiner in his book on Prophecy and kind of this commentary on 355 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,600 this. He says, this at the prophet, 356 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,400 the prophetic manifestation in the New Testament is of the same 357 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:06,900 nature. Meaning it is the same 358 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:09,300 substance. It, is it operates the same way 359 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:12,600 as it did in the Old Testament? In other words that it was God 360 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:17,100 communicating typically either through a spontaneous event or a 361 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:20,600 revelation By His prophets which were authoritative and 362 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:23,800 completely true. And so it is the nature. 363 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,200 I think that we look here and we can't just come up with 364 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:29,000 different ways. which the screen around the issue, I believe the 365 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:33,100 gifts of Prophecy in the context of the Corinthian Church was 366 00:20:33,100 --> 00:20:37,700 such that God revealed to someone in this context, a word 367 00:20:37,700 --> 00:20:41,200 that was to be revealed and it was encouraging to the local 368 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,200 church and as they heard they were called to weigh it to 369 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:49,600 discern it and then the if it was indeed not necessarily true 370 00:20:50,100 --> 00:20:55,000 in terms of its specificity they were to deem it as not something 371 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,200 that was prophetic and they were A move on. 372 00:20:57,200 --> 00:21:01,900 If we go back to Pentecost, if we think about Pentecost in 373 00:21:01,900 --> 00:21:06,500 Acts, chapter 2, Peter points to Joel's prophecy in Chapter 2, 374 00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:12,900 verses 28 through 30 to in the last days, Peter says that, God 375 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:16,500 says, I will pour out my spirit on all people that your sons and 376 00:21:16,500 --> 00:21:20,200 your daughters will prophesy and your young men will see visions 377 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:23,900 and your old men will dream dreams and I will even pour out 378 00:21:23,900 --> 00:21:27,200 my spirit on my servants in those days both men and Women 379 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:31,100 and they will prophesy. When we hear this, this 380 00:21:31,100 --> 00:21:33,900 prophetic word. This, this pointing to God's 381 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:37,500 promise of the holy spirit being poured out on his people, what 382 00:21:37,500 --> 00:21:40,300 we understand is that this prophecy of Joel is to be 383 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:42,900 Universal that there is no corner on the globe that the 384 00:21:42,900 --> 00:21:46,900 spirit is not poured out onto his people and we ought to 385 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:48,700 expect. So, when Peters giving the 386 00:21:48,700 --> 00:21:52,600 sermon at Pentecost, the expectation is that, hey, 387 00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:55,100 remember the promise that God said he would pour out his 388 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,000 spirit, it's happening. It is happening. 389 00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:00,400 And here it is. In the reason why you're hearing 390 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:03,800 all of these different languages and tongues in the gospel being 391 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:06,700 proclaimed is because this was the promise of God and 392 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:09,700 therefore, it is something that we ought to expect. 393 00:22:09,700 --> 00:22:13,200 That God would manifest himself in the power of this. 394 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,200 Holy Spirit, not just in the age of the Apostles, but throughout 395 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,900 the age of the church and to come the spirit would be with 396 00:22:21,900 --> 00:22:24,800 his people. The spirit of Prophecy that was 397 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,700 recounted in the process of Prophecy of joy. 398 00:22:26,900 --> 00:22:30,900 Joel suggests that this is not something that we ought to find 399 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:33,800 absent. In any age, we ought to expect 400 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,300 God, to prophesy through his people. 401 00:22:37,100 --> 00:22:43,000 And the prophetic Ministry was okay in the Old Testament and is 402 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,300 now in the New Covenant, God's present word for God's present 403 00:22:47,300 --> 00:22:51,600 people. So, let me ask you this 404 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:57,200 question, who are God's people? Who are God's present people? 405 00:22:58,700 --> 00:23:02,100 Say it loud and say it proud. Yes, right. 406 00:23:03,300 --> 00:23:05,700 Where do we see or hear his word? 407 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:10,100 We see it in scripture, Jesus is the word in the word. 408 00:23:10,300 --> 00:23:13,500 We see God, we know God, we hear God in the beginning was the 409 00:23:13,500 --> 00:23:16,000 word and the Word was with God. And the Word was God, he came to 410 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:20,200 his own and he revealed himself. God has completed his word of 411 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,000 Revelation to us through Jesus Christ. 412 00:23:23,500 --> 00:23:28,500 And when we think of the words of God that we need for life and 413 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:31,800 living, assisting, all of the word that is necessary for all 414 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,000 time. And for all of God's people is 415 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,700 contained in the scriptures in the The scriptures. 416 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:41,800 And so, when we think in terms of the prophetic gift, now, as 417 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,200 the church was growing, God miraculously, we look at history 418 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:49,500 and we say to ourselves again, I rightly admit that there are 419 00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:53,300 those who might disagree with me, but I have to have to look 420 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:56,300 at the scriptures, and I also have to look at the process of, 421 00:23:56,300 --> 00:23:59,400 how did God work in history? What's the big story and God 422 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:02,600 shows up? And he does things, and he does 423 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:06,000 things in such a mighty way, in a powerful way in history, and 424 00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,900 then it, Compass has what he's intended to accomplish and then 425 00:24:09,100 --> 00:24:12,000 there seems to be just kind of like, it's not as it's not as 426 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:13,800 awesome anymore. You. 427 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,800 Jesus Christ comes he ascends and now we're like waiting for 428 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:19,100 him to return the Israelites were enslaved. 429 00:24:19,100 --> 00:24:21,800 He rescues that rescues down the power, and then he asks him to 430 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:24,700 live for a couple hundred years in the land, just living, quiet 431 00:24:24,700 --> 00:24:26,600 lives and waiting for him and trusting him. 432 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,400 There are ways in, which God manifests himself in moves in 433 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,300 history. And at the beginning of the 434 00:24:31,300 --> 00:24:34,200 early church, we see these things happening and the church 435 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:36,900 is exploding and then the churches established And then 436 00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:39,900 over the course of history, we should see certain things needed 437 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:41,600 and certain things that are not needed. 438 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:45,100 And when you think in terms of the prophetic gift, now we ought 439 00:24:45,100 --> 00:24:47,500 not to think of it in terms of the fact that there's an 440 00:24:47,500 --> 00:24:51,000 augmentation of truth, but rather there is an application 441 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,400 of truth. Then in other words, a prophetic 442 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,100 word. Rooted in the scriptures might 443 00:24:57,100 --> 00:25:01,500 be something that is found in the scriptures and can be 444 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:04,700 verified by the scriptures but ought to be weighed in such a 445 00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:07,600 way in which perhaps someone might be right about how they're 446 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,400 applying God's word to our lives. 447 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:12,300 They might feel a nudge the Holy Spirit to share something that's 448 00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:15,300 on their heart and if it's in line with scriptures then we 449 00:25:15,300 --> 00:25:17,700 take it and we weigh it truthfully. 450 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:21,500 I've had plenty of people who have given me prophetic words 451 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:25,600 friends that have given me prophetic words and on And some 452 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,500 of them have just said, hey, this is the way in which I sense 453 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:30,800 that I want. I feel like the Lord is speaking 454 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:33,100 and so I want to share this with you and they give me a prophetic 455 00:25:33,100 --> 00:25:36,800 word and I listen to them and they just they share with me how 456 00:25:37,100 --> 00:25:40,300 they believe that. The father desires for me to do 457 00:25:40,300 --> 00:25:43,800 all things that are good and too kind of like think through the 458 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,400 way in which I've been called in to live in a manner, worthy of 459 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,100 the Gospel. I'm like I think I've heard that 460 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:52,900 before your recounting to me, something that is in scripture. 461 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:56,200 And if it affirms with my Spirit, the things that I'm 462 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:57,900 like, hey, I'm wrestling with that. 463 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:00,400 Thank you for sharing that it's an encouragement, it builds me 464 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,900 up. I've also had friends that have 465 00:26:02,900 --> 00:26:06,200 given me, prophetic words that God has told them that something 466 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,100 or something is going to happen in my life and it doesn't happen 467 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:12,500 in some ways. I've had things shared to me, 468 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:16,100 that is a prophetic word and it has come to be the opposite 469 00:26:16,100 --> 00:26:18,100 thing. And it has been a painful thing 470 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:19,300 was, like, why did you share that? 471 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:21,100 That was, that was absolutely wrong. 472 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,900 Now, I want you to understand friends that the Pentecostal 473 00:26:25,900 --> 00:26:27,700 understanding I have pointed to the fact that there's a 474 00:26:27,708 --> 00:26:32,600 difference between Pentecostal views of the gifts of the Holy 475 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,400 Spirit and other particular views. 476 00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:38,200 But I want to, I want to point this out, particularly about 477 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,600 what is the Pentecostal understanding of Prophecy 478 00:26:41,500 --> 00:26:44,400 Pentecostalism believes that the gifts of the holy spirit are 479 00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:48,300 alive, and well, healing prophecy tongues, revelatory 480 00:26:48,300 --> 00:26:51,800 gifts, miraculous gifts as they were in the day. 481 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:55,600 Pentecost in an early church but it has laid dormant. 482 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,300 So the four ways in which I want you to know that Pentecostal 483 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,300 understanding of Prophecy is this. 484 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:04,200 So it is one a direct Revelation from God. 485 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:08,000 A Pentecostal understanding of Prophecy is that it is a direct 486 00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:11,400 Revelation from God. That the thoughts of God have 487 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,700 come specifically from God to a particular person gifted with 488 00:27:14,700 --> 00:27:18,400 the gift of Prophecy. That to the words of Prophecy, 489 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,800 frequently will include specific directions from God concerning. 490 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:26,200 Earning his plans for the future three that the proper verbal 491 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:30,200 form typically used, when a gift of Prophecy is given to someone. 492 00:27:30,500 --> 00:27:34,900 In a Pentecostal stream would say that it is God who says that 493 00:27:34,900 --> 00:27:39,300 I am, the one that God says, I who speaks is frequently God 494 00:27:39,300 --> 00:27:41,700 himself. So it is directly from God. 495 00:27:41,700 --> 00:27:44,700 Speaking through the gifted prophetic word about something 496 00:27:44,700 --> 00:27:46,800 in the future and it is God himself. 497 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:50,500 Who is speaking? And finally for that because the 498 00:27:50,500 --> 00:27:54,100 sign was given In the Apostolic Church, it is a sign. 499 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:58,500 So, prophetic sign that with the other signs get the sign gifts. 500 00:27:58,500 --> 00:28:01,600 They have been in kind of dormancy until recently until 501 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,000 lately again. Like I said, the history of 502 00:28:04,008 --> 00:28:07,900 Pentecostalism comes up and about the at the, the 1950s, 503 00:28:07,900 --> 00:28:10,200 there's a Resurgence. And then from that point, 504 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:13,700 there's a stream of Pentecostals and that says that the gifts of 505 00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:18,000 the holy spirit are now awakened in Alexis season in the church 506 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,900 some would call it a third wave of the Holy Rohit, I don't have 507 00:28:22,900 --> 00:28:24,100 time to get into all of that now. 508 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:27,700 But when you compare the understanding of a Pentecostal 509 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:33,000 view of Prophecy and perhaps, what is the understanding that 510 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:36,700 if God has revealed to us all that he is intended to reveal to 511 00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:38,500 us. Is if there is nothing that we 512 00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:42,000 need to add, John says that, if anything, if anyone adds to this 513 00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,900 Revelation, let him be accursed. There's, there's nothing we need 514 00:28:44,908 --> 00:28:48,900 to add Jesus as he's revealed himself to the apostles and the 515 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:51,800 prophets and he said to him, go and make disciples of all 516 00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:53,100 Nations. Nations baptizing them in the 517 00:28:53,108 --> 00:28:55,200 name of the father, and of the son of the Holy Spirit, teaching 518 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,600 them all that. I have commanded you to teach 519 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:02,900 teach them to obey this word. That the necessity for God to 520 00:29:02,900 --> 00:29:09,800 add anything to his word, seems to be void if there's no need 521 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:12,000 for God to add anything because everything that we have. 522 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:16,100 Now some might argue with me on this but I believe that the 523 00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:20,100 prophetic gift is not just something that is given to the 524 00:29:20,100 --> 00:29:24,800 church as a means by which we might just know the future. 525 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:28,200 But the prophetic gift is something that allows us to 526 00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,100 know. Clearly, what the scriptures 527 00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:35,100 say, and they ought to be weighed carefully. 528 00:29:36,700 --> 00:29:41,200 So as we move on, Paul says that there is another gift to 529 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:43,100 another. There is distinguishing between 530 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:44,700 Spears. This is plain and simple 531 00:29:44,700 --> 00:29:48,900 discernment, just discernment deciding what is true from what 532 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:52,600 is false John. And first John Chapter 4, verses 533 00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:56,600 1 through 3 says that we are to test the spirits to see if they 534 00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,700 are from God. And the reason is because he 535 00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:02,900 says many false prophets have gone out into the world at the 536 00:30:02,900 --> 00:30:06,000 time of the early church, there were many false prophets. 537 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:09,600 For many, who would come in and teach that which was not true, 538 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,300 but they were called to discern and to test the spirits Jesus 539 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:16,300 himself in Matthew chapter 7 says not everyone who says Lord 540 00:30:16,300 --> 00:30:20,200 Lord and teaches and does these things that are in my name will 541 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,100 be ones. That I know they might do things 542 00:30:23,100 --> 00:30:25,300 in the name of me but they may not be. 543 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:29,100 In fact, lie for me or with me, this is discernment. 544 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:32,200 You can see throughout the Book of Acts and all of the gospels. 545 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:35,100 If you read through the New Testament, you see that the 546 00:30:35,100 --> 00:30:39,800 apostles And the churches are exhorted to discern to teach 547 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,900 through false teaching and lying spirits that they are to 548 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:45,100 discern. Everything that is thrown at the 549 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:48,300 church, as it advances, the Gates of Hell to beat down the 550 00:30:48,300 --> 00:30:53,300 doors deception, half-truths, we are called to discern today, to 551 00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:57,300 discern, what it is, that is true and what is not and the 552 00:30:57,300 --> 00:31:00,200 only way, how do we discern? Well it's if we discern, if we 553 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,900 have the knowledge of God and the wisdom of God and the 554 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:04,700 teaching of God and we have his word with us. 555 00:31:04,700 --> 00:31:08,600 And so the more we learn Of God's word and we think his 556 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,500 thoughts after him, the more were able to discern but the 557 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:14,000 gift of discernment is Discerning. 558 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,300 Which spirit is speaking again remembered the beginning of this 559 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:22,300 chapter where someone was saying Jesus is cursed in the context 560 00:31:22,300 --> 00:31:25,800 of the corporate worship? If you look at verse 3, Paul is 561 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:27,600 saying, you can't say that if you're filled with the Holy 562 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,700 Spirit, it just doesn't work. Discerning. 563 00:31:32,100 --> 00:31:36,200 Discerning. Here's some bonus gifts for you 564 00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:40,200 that are listed by Paul and First Corinthians 2 chapter 12. 565 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,200 The same 12. If you go forward and verse 28, 566 00:31:43,700 --> 00:31:45,600 I figured I would just throw all the gifts in here. 567 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,100 You ready? Paul says, and God has appointed 568 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:52,100 different offices in the church and he lifts other gifts that 569 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:54,100 are not listed in. This first one, there's the gift 570 00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:57,000 of helping and the gift of leading or which otherwise known 571 00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:02,100 as Administration and helping this is the the word that is 572 00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:05,400 used as a very general term for use of Of all kinds of 573 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,100 assistance. It's to lift people up and to 574 00:32:08,100 --> 00:32:11,900 Loops, this is the Greek word, it's to lift up people. 575 00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:16,300 The second word is translated leading or Administration. 576 00:32:16,700 --> 00:32:20,100 And in the plural, it indicates various leading leading 577 00:32:20,100 --> 00:32:24,700 positions of the body of Christ. It's typically used in the Greek 578 00:32:24,700 --> 00:32:29,200 for piloting or steering a ship. So you have some people that are 579 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:32,400 able to come alongside and assist and there's some people 580 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,900 that are not there's some people that Have come alongside of us 581 00:32:35,900 --> 00:32:37,400 and have tried to help and let's be honest. 582 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:42,100 You've been like you have helped me absolutely in no way and I 583 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:46,300 would appreciate if you do not offer your advice anymore but 584 00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:49,200 then there are those who do, you know, the people who help you, 585 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:51,200 you're just like man they just come into your life and they 586 00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:52,900 just like man, thank you for that. 587 00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:55,600 That's you there's no way you would have been able to do that 588 00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:58,200 and they help you and they do it with joy. 589 00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:01,000 People that just know how to steer things. 590 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,300 They know how to take things in a particular direction and they 591 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,900 Do it? Well, this gift of leading is 592 00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:09,900 not the offices of Pastor teacher Elder, but this gift of 593 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:14,000 leading means that people are able to lead in a particular way 594 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:18,500 where people will follow them and it will go well in Romans, 595 00:33:18,500 --> 00:33:22,500 chapter 12, Paul lists other gifts, he lifts the lift, the 596 00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:27,100 gift of exhortation, which is emboldening another and belief 597 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,900 or a course of action. It's to give encouragement to 598 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:33,500 make a strong request to make an appeal to lift another ones 599 00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:36,200 spirits to come. Order to consolidate the 600 00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,400 consulate. When someone exhort you to do 601 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:42,600 something, you want to do it, they have this gift with a 602 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,800 embolden you and they give you great courage. 603 00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:47,900 To another is given the gift of giving. 604 00:33:48,500 --> 00:33:53,900 This giving here is giving with generosity, he gives an 605 00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:55,700 adjective. He says, when you give give 606 00:33:55,700 --> 00:34:00,300 generously that giving, there is someone that can give resources 607 00:34:00,300 --> 00:34:03,900 to help another more than likely in the first century Church. 608 00:34:03,900 --> 00:34:06,300 There were were two types of people, the very rich and the 609 00:34:06,308 --> 00:34:09,199 very poor. There was no middle class and so 610 00:34:09,199 --> 00:34:12,900 Paul often speaks to those who are giving and to give 611 00:34:12,900 --> 00:34:16,300 generously those who have resources and even those who do 612 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:20,199 not like the Philippian Church, they give out of their love for 613 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:23,699 Paul and they give generously liberally without thought of 614 00:34:23,699 --> 00:34:25,500 their own selves for the common good. 615 00:34:25,500 --> 00:34:30,900 They give there's another word of leadership here and that is 616 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:34,699 another exercise of leadership where they do it with, with Zeal 617 00:34:34,699 --> 00:34:36,900 with diligence, with haste, with speed. 618 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:39,699 And Paul tells the Roman Church has, some are given that gift of 619 00:34:39,699 --> 00:34:43,500 leading where they do it diligently, where they want to 620 00:34:43,500 --> 00:34:46,100 lead, they want to take on a responsibility and they go with 621 00:34:46,100 --> 00:34:49,400 it or perhaps the one who has given the gift of Mercy, they 622 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,199 show Mercy with cheerfulness that cheerfulness. 623 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:56,699 Word is hilarity tests which is where we get the word hell. 624 00:34:56,900 --> 00:34:59,700 Are idiots. We do it with cheer with joy. 625 00:34:59,700 --> 00:35:03,300 We show Mercy where it is a joy to get down on our knees and to 626 00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:09,900 show Mercy to someone. In First Peter Paul lists two 627 00:35:09,900 --> 00:35:14,100 more gifts, the one who speaks in the one who serves Lalo and 628 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:19,000 DNA 0, which is again, where we get the word Deacon, a, or we 629 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,400 get Deacon one who serves one, who speaks Paul speaks to Peter, 630 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,900 speaks to two different gifts, the teacher, and the servant, 631 00:35:25,900 --> 00:35:29,200 the Deacon, the pastor, the Elder, the Deacon, they have 632 00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:33,500 been given gifts to do this. Now I'm going to, I'm going to 633 00:35:33,500 --> 00:35:38,200 burst some of your Bubbles and I'm going to show you that one 634 00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:39,800 of the things that is not a gift. 635 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,500 It's not a spiritual gift is the gift of hospitality. 636 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:45,100 How many of you believe that you have the gift of hospitality? 637 00:35:46,900 --> 00:35:49,100 Come on. Some of you are loved to be 638 00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:52,500 hospitable. But what Peter says is that the 639 00:35:52,500 --> 00:35:55,800 gift of hospitality is not necessarily, it's not listed as 640 00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:58,400 a spiritual gift. It's actually listed as 641 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,300 something that we're all to do. We're all to do. 642 00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:07,200 And what does hospitality mean hospitalities that generous and 643 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:10,000 gracious treatment of guests? It's people in need of temporary 644 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000 shelter and food because of travel or necessity. 645 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,100 Christians are generally urge to show Hospitality to everyone. 646 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,000 We don't need to wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit to for 647 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:24,300 us to take in people Hospitality in the context of the first 648 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:28,300 century church are the fact that people were poor and without a 649 00:36:28,300 --> 00:36:31,900 home and they were kicked out of their families and Hospitality 650 00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:35,000 very much meant taking in an apostle who was preaching or 651 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,700 Paul in his servants. Taking them into their homes and 652 00:36:37,700 --> 00:36:41,300 feeding them and extending Grace, and kindness to them and 653 00:36:41,300 --> 00:36:45,400 and giving them everything that they need while they were on the 654 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,600 road. And so hospitality is not a 655 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:51,600 spiritual gift but it's something that we all have to 656 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:52,200 do. Sorry. 657 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,900 Andrew your but you are, you can be hospitable. 658 00:36:57,900 --> 00:37:02,900 And so those those are the gifts of the Spirit that we come up to 659 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:07,600 an end with the tongues, and the interpretation of tongues. 660 00:37:10,300 --> 00:37:13,900 And again, what I want you to do is know what these gifts are. 661 00:37:13,900 --> 00:37:16,600 So we have people that are helping and leading their 662 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,300 Discerning, they're teaching their preaching, they're they're 663 00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:23,000 revealing words of God to the Corinthian Church, there are 664 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,100 people that are speaking in tongues and then Paul is saying 665 00:37:27,100 --> 00:37:29,400 there needs to be an interpretation of tongues. 666 00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,900 Now, I'm probably not going to satisfy you right now, but we 667 00:37:33,900 --> 00:37:37,700 will get to this eventually when we get to the point, when Paul 668 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:41,600 begins to specifically in chapter 14, he goes after the 669 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,900 gifts of tongues in the interpretation of tongues in 670 00:37:43,900 --> 00:37:46,900 their place in worship, but what I want you to do is I want you 671 00:37:46,900 --> 00:37:49,000 but I want to give to you this morning is, I want to finish 672 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,900 this list and I just want to tell you what it is that Paul is 673 00:37:51,900 --> 00:37:53,900 talking about when it comes to tongues here. 674 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:58,900 D.a., Carson asked that we need to approach a tasket at at 675 00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:04,600 approach the text and ask three questions, one in context of the 676 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,100 Corinthian Church, where they ecstatic tongues were they 677 00:38:07,100 --> 00:38:10,500 ecstatic, was it just kind of like blabbering on with 678 00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:13,100 something that they kind of got caught up in their emotions? 679 00:38:13,100 --> 00:38:14,800 And the worship? Was it ecstatic? 680 00:38:15,100 --> 00:38:17,200 The other question is, was there content? 681 00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:20,700 Was there, actually something in their words when I say the 682 00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:22,600 Eagles are going to win the Super Bowl? 683 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:28,000 There's content there. And because you knew what I was 684 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,000 saying. It was a known human language. 685 00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,700 Was it ecstatic? Was it was their content was 686 00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:35,400 there human language on the balance. 687 00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:38,400 When we look at the text, when we look at what Paul is writing 688 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,800 here, the evidence favors the view that Paul thought that the 689 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,900 gift of tongues was a gift of real languages which were 690 00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:49,100 cognitive that is that someone other than the speaker would 691 00:38:49,100 --> 00:38:52,600 know what was being said, because the language actually 692 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,600 existed, it was real. It had In tax, it had verbs and 693 00:38:55,607 --> 00:38:58,600 nouns and everything. And the language was either a 694 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,500 known language of men or an in gelik language known only by 695 00:39:02,500 --> 00:39:06,000 God. The text is just clear that in 696 00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,100 this context it was either something that was known or 697 00:39:09,100 --> 00:39:12,600 something that was not known. In terms of the Angelic words 698 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,300 that Paul says that even he speaks and Angelic tongues. 699 00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:19,500 One of the things we need to think through is when we see in 700 00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:23,500 Acts chapter 2, verse 11. What what carries over is that 701 00:39:23,508 --> 00:39:26,700 those who speak Speak in tongues that they began to speak in 702 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:29,900 tongues to proclaim the mighty works of God and the people that 703 00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:31,800 were present there, they understood. 704 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:37,800 In Hellenistic literature the word tongue or glossa does not 705 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:42,100 mean ecstatic utterances. It is always something that is 706 00:39:42,100 --> 00:39:45,300 understood it's not meaningless Babble and so when we want to 707 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:49,300 make an argument for whether tongues was a real thing or not, 708 00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:52,300 Paul understands it to be a real language. 709 00:39:52,300 --> 00:39:54,100 The Greek is clear gloss. Mm. 710 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:57,700 And something that was understood, what is unclear, is 711 00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,700 what Paul means by Angelic tongues and that's where that's 712 00:40:00,700 --> 00:40:04,000 where we start to get. It stuck and people will take 713 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,500 one road or the other, and basically the answer is we 714 00:40:06,500 --> 00:40:11,200 cannot know for sure what exactly Paul is saying. 715 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,500 When he talks about there is a tongue that is spoken and it's 716 00:40:14,500 --> 00:40:17,500 either an Angelic tongue or it is a known language. 717 00:40:17,500 --> 00:40:21,500 We just we just weren't there is just it is not possible for us 718 00:40:21,900 --> 00:40:25,600 to know, for sure. But what we can understand is 719 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:29,400 the fact that it was something that was understood and Paul's 720 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,200 emphasis here. This is where I don't want it to 721 00:40:31,207 --> 00:40:32,200 be. It's a speed. 722 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:37,100 We don't need to linger here and try to figure out things that we 723 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:40,000 weren't meant to figure out Paul's emphasis in this, whole 724 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,000 section of the letter is a weight, upon the fact that the 725 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:46,500 Corinthians were immaturely, putting this gift above all 726 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:50,700 others, that it was so elevated. And it was so unimportant in 727 00:40:50,700 --> 00:40:53,500 Paul's mind that he needed to address, the fact that you guys 728 00:40:53,500 --> 00:40:57,000 are doing all of these gifts, you have such a gifted church, 729 00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,900 but yet you're taking this one gift and you're elevating it 730 00:40:59,900 --> 00:41:02,500 above these, all things and is starting to cause cause 731 00:41:02,500 --> 00:41:06,200 division. It is the edification of the 732 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,700 church that is of Paramount concern for Paul. 733 00:41:11,700 --> 00:41:13,100 Turn with me really quick and we'll end here. 734 00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:15,900 I want to show you in chapter, 14 will get there, but I'm 735 00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:17,700 fast-forwarding. I want you to understand this, 736 00:41:17,900 --> 00:41:22,200 the edification of the church chapter 14 verses 6 through 12, 737 00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,400 He says, so now, brothers and sisters, if I come to you 738 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,600 speaking in other tongues, how will I benefit you or edify you 739 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,600 or how will I build you up, unless I speak to you with a 740 00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:37,100 revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching something 741 00:41:37,100 --> 00:41:39,600 that is understood? And then he gives the 742 00:41:39,607 --> 00:41:44,700 illustration that if instruments don't make a distinct note or 743 00:41:44,700 --> 00:41:47,700 they don't aren't played correctly, how do we recognize 744 00:41:47,700 --> 00:41:51,500 that? And so there may be different 745 00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:55,400 languages verse 10. Languages in the world and none 746 00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:59,200 is, without meaning words, have meaning, the most important 747 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,700 thing is for you to understand what I'm saying. 748 00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:07,800 So be zealous for spiritual gifts, and seek to Excel and 749 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:13,100 building up the church. Paul links interpretation with 750 00:42:13,100 --> 00:42:17,600 tongues, Because he believes that in order to be encouraged 751 00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,400 in order to be edified in order to be built up, you need to 752 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:25,900 understand what is being said. And if you cannot understand 753 00:42:25,900 --> 00:42:28,600 what is being said, if interpretation cannot come 754 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:32,200 alongside whatever, this gift of tongues was being spoken of it 755 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:35,600 needed to be clear and it needed to help build up the church and 756 00:42:35,600 --> 00:42:38,700 that is what's most important not division. 757 00:42:38,700 --> 00:42:41,400 When we do things that divide the church, we do this with all 758 00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:44,700 things, we Elevate Republicans Or democrats, we Elevate this 759 00:42:44,700 --> 00:42:47,400 thing or the other thing. We Elevate things that cause 760 00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:50,700 division that are not supposed to be elevated. 761 00:42:51,300 --> 00:42:53,800 And the Church of all places ought to be the place where it's 762 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,300 Paul is arguing. It was scriptures argues that we 763 00:42:56,300 --> 00:43:00,100 need to do all that we can to build the church and strengthen 764 00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:06,800 the church not divided. And lest we think that, you 765 00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:11,100 know, we dismissed tongues in the context of the early church 766 00:43:11,100 --> 00:43:16,300 or even or even today in 1st Corinthians chapter 14, verses 767 00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:19,400 13 through 19. He says, therefore, the person 768 00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:21,500 who speaks in another tongue, should pray that he can 769 00:43:21,500 --> 00:43:25,300 interpret there, right there. Is that Paul links tongues with 770 00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:28,600 it is prayer. Therefore, the person who speaks 771 00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:31,800 in another tongue, should pray, it's in the context of prayer. 772 00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:35,100 It's the context of Prayer in the church or even private 773 00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:37,600 prayer. Look what Paul says for if I 774 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,400 pray in another tongue, my spirit prays but my 775 00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,400 understanding is unfruitful what. 776 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,300 Then he says, I will pray with the spirit and I will also pray 777 00:43:46,300 --> 00:43:49,400 with my understanding, I will sing praise with the spirit and 778 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:51,100 I will sing praise with my understanding. 779 00:43:51,100 --> 00:43:54,500 He can compares the the proclamation of singing of 780 00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:58,100 songs, most likely, the Psalms that the Jews Who's sang or new 781 00:43:58,100 --> 00:43:59,700 hymns? That they were creating as a 782 00:43:59,707 --> 00:44:04,100 church, he's comparing the fact that when I pray, I pray with 783 00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:06,700 understanding to myself and I pray in the spirit but when I 784 00:44:06,700 --> 00:44:09,400 sing, I sing praise with the spirit verse 16. 785 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,900 Otherwise if you praise with the spirit, how will The Outsiders 786 00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:12,800 say? Amen. 787 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:17,100 I agree that you're giving of thanks since he does not know 788 00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:21,000 what you're saying. Verse 18. 789 00:44:21,100 --> 00:44:24,800 I thank God that I speak in other tongues more than all of 790 00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:27,100 you yet. And here's the thing, yet in the 791 00:44:27,100 --> 00:44:31,200 church, I would rather speak five words with my understanding 792 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,900 in order to teach others also than ten thousand words in 793 00:44:34,900 --> 00:44:40,200 another tongue. Paul himself one prays in 794 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:45,200 tongues. But Paul himself to says, in a 795 00:44:45,207 --> 00:44:48,600 set when he Compares, I'd rather speak five words in a than ten 796 00:44:48,600 --> 00:44:50,600 thousand words. He's basically saying you're 797 00:44:50,600 --> 00:44:53,700 never going to find me do this, what I do in private in public 798 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,100 in church, because I'd rather teach him in preaching. 799 00:44:56,100 --> 00:44:57,500 Give you something that is clear. 800 00:44:57,900 --> 00:45:01,900 Now, why does he say that? Because they had such an issue 801 00:45:01,900 --> 00:45:03,600 in the church? He was addressing them 802 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:05,800 pastorally. He's saying, you guys are 803 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:10,000 elevating this gift which I do in private and he's a sensitive 804 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:12,100 Pastor. He says, I do this as well. 805 00:45:12,300 --> 00:45:13,700 Like, I'm with you, I'm with you. 806 00:45:13,700 --> 00:45:17,600 Let's let's pray in tongues. But when you do it publicly in 807 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:21,100 such a way that no one knows what you're saying, it is better 808 00:45:21,100 --> 00:45:25,600 that you refrain from that so that there might be order and a 809 00:45:25,600 --> 00:45:32,300 building up and people would understand Paul emphasized. 810 00:45:32,300 --> 00:45:36,500 So this is a strong defense for a personal prayer language. 811 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,400 So if you have an experience of saying you have a personal 812 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:43,500 prayer language and you do speak in tongues and you have come 813 00:45:43,500 --> 00:45:47,500 from a tradition where perhaps, maybe you have been encouraged 814 00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:51,500 to pray in tongues and speak in tongues in private, which is a 815 00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:53,900 private prayer publicly. It's always connected to 816 00:45:53,900 --> 00:45:57,200 interpretation. But privately there's there's 817 00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,000 nothing pastorally that I personally can say nor anyone 818 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:01,800 can say is that you should stop that. 819 00:46:02,100 --> 00:46:06,500 It's when we practice it in the public corporate setting. 820 00:46:06,500 --> 00:46:10,700 Like this of worship, where we were to discern, how a 821 00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:15,400 particular local church, a church that is submitted to the 822 00:46:15,400 --> 00:46:18,400 leadership of the church and the teaching of the scriptures and 823 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,500 the encouragement of one another to say, how will we worship 824 00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:27,800 together and Paul is saying That he prays, but he does it in 825 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:32,000 private and then he will, he will move on and he will give 826 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,900 them instructions on how to do that orderly and he will give 827 00:46:35,900 --> 00:46:38,400 some other instructions. So there it is. 828 00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:41,800 You are smart people. You can read and you can look 829 00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:44,800 and see if anything that I've said is is not true in the 830 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,800 scriptures and you can study it for yourselves. 831 00:46:46,900 --> 00:46:50,200 I'd be glad to lend you some books that I've read on that. 832 00:46:50,500 --> 00:46:54,300 But we finished with this in verse 11, where does it all come 833 00:46:54,300 --> 00:46:55,400 from? Where do all of these? 834 00:46:55,500 --> 00:46:59,200 Spiritual gifts, come from verse 11, 1. 835 00:46:59,200 --> 00:47:03,400 In The Same Spirit. Is active in all of these things 836 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,600 distribute to each person as he Wills, there's no hierarchy of 837 00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,800 individual value. And there's there is no one that 838 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:12,700 has a corner or any right to any particular gift. 839 00:47:12,700 --> 00:47:16,900 The spirit gives as he wills and who is the Holy Spirit, giving 840 00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:22,600 the gifts for Jesus Christ, when he ascended to sit on the 841 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,600 throne, had the power to send his Spirit to give his church to 842 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:32,700 his people to his body, the gifts of the Spirit, That Jesus 843 00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:36,500 himself manifests himself to us. And through us when we exercise 844 00:47:36,500 --> 00:47:39,600 these gifts, when we submit ourselves to these gifts, it is 845 00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:43,000 Jesus himself serving us. Isn't that encouraging? 846 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:48,400 That when we serve one another, when we exercise our gifts, 847 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,300 we're not, it's not about us. It's about one another. 848 00:47:51,500 --> 00:47:54,700 And the reason why it's about one another's because Christ not 849 00:47:54,700 --> 00:48:00,200 came not to be served but to serve So whenever anybody thinks 850 00:48:00,200 --> 00:48:02,500 that they're joining a church or participating in a church, and 851 00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:05,100 is something that they kind of like, you know, it's just some 852 00:48:05,100 --> 00:48:08,500 sort of club or something that they have to do or check off the 853 00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:10,300 list. No, it's actually it's actually 854 00:48:10,300 --> 00:48:14,300 as Believers we are joining a local church so that not so much 855 00:48:14,300 --> 00:48:17,200 that we might suck all the life out of it, right? 856 00:48:17,300 --> 00:48:21,600 But that we might participate, In doing what we are called to 857 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,300 do which is be the body of Christ. 858 00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:27,000 I get to do this every week and it is a gift of God. 859 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,900 I hope that I do it with Clarity relative Clarity. 860 00:48:30,900 --> 00:48:38,100 I hope I hope that it's helpful for you, but we all have gifts 861 00:48:38,100 --> 00:48:43,100 to give one another and we give those gifts, because Jesus loves 862 00:48:43,100 --> 00:48:45,300 us and wants us to love one another. 863 00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:50,700 And so, as we as we move forward in this study, See, I hope that 864 00:48:50,700 --> 00:48:54,700 that's the thing that I want us to understand is that, you know, 865 00:48:54,700 --> 00:48:56,500 and I've taken quite a bit of time. 866 00:48:56,500 --> 00:48:58,200 I wanted to get through the list because I didn't want to be a 867 00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:02,000 part part 12. You know it's just spend a few 868 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:04,300 extra minutes but how will you respond to this? 869 00:49:04,300 --> 00:49:08,300 This is what I want to ask you. Will you you pray like if you 870 00:49:08,300 --> 00:49:10,700 are a member of this local church, if you've taken the time 871 00:49:10,700 --> 00:49:14,200 to go through the membership process and as you're thinking 872 00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,900 about your own gifting, would you pray that the Lord would 873 00:49:16,900 --> 00:49:19,500 lead you? And show you give you patience 874 00:49:19,500 --> 00:49:22,000 and Bring it out. We need you. 875 00:49:22,600 --> 00:49:25,700 This local church needs. You, would you have the courage 876 00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:28,700 to step out and serve in whatever way? 877 00:49:28,700 --> 00:49:32,400 You may not know exactly what your gift is, maybe you do, but 878 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:35,200 it takes time and patience for the Lord to lead you. 879 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:39,000 We know what our gifts, our when we step out and face a I'm just 880 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,200 going to do. This is the the Holy Spirit my 881 00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:42,700 nudge you, there might be an opportunity. 882 00:49:42,900 --> 00:49:45,200 It might be something that the Lord would have for you to do 883 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:48,300 long-term, maybe not, but the way that we evaluate the gifts 884 00:49:48,300 --> 00:49:51,300 of the holy spirit as we We allow ourselves to be open to, 885 00:49:51,300 --> 00:49:55,100 however, the Lord leads us. And as we step out in faith and 886 00:49:55,100 --> 00:49:58,400 we use our gifts, what will happen is other people will say, 887 00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,300 you know what, you you're a great encourager. 888 00:50:01,700 --> 00:50:04,100 I love being around, thank you for your encouragement. 889 00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,500 The more you hear some of that stuff you move like I might have 890 00:50:06,500 --> 00:50:10,300 the gift of encouragement. Some of you are generous givers 891 00:50:10,300 --> 00:50:13,200 you give behind the scenes and you help people you hear need. 892 00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,500 And you like, you cut a check without even thinking. 893 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:17,600 Nobody knows that you cut the check. 894 00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:21,000 Just a need is met some of you. I have the gift of teaching, 895 00:50:21,100 --> 00:50:24,000 some of you can teach really well and there might be 896 00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:25,700 opportunities for you to make the scriptures. 897 00:50:25,700 --> 00:50:29,700 Clear. And so I want us to have hearts. 898 00:50:29,700 --> 00:50:33,300 That would be open to that to know that the gifts of the holy 899 00:50:33,300 --> 00:50:37,200 spirit are alive and well in our lives, but to also evaluate the 900 00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,800 way in which we use those gifts and look forward to how those 901 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,500 gifts might be manifested, which gifts ought to be manifested 902 00:50:44,500 --> 00:50:47,500 publicly in which met gifts, ought to be manifested in our 903 00:50:47,500 --> 00:50:51,600 own private time and how together with grace and 904 00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,700 patience. 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