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Episode 126 - Tongues In The Church · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: The handle is at one v W. Amen. We are
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  Speaker 1: a man, as John the Baptist, a voice in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: a man declaring to all men to prepare the way
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. He is coming again soon, the second
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  Speaker 1: coming of Jesus Christ. It's imminent. We are living in
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  Speaker 1: the last of the last days, and we are called
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  Speaker 1: to a man cry out and spare not lift up
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  Speaker 1: our voice like a trumpet in Zion. Amen, show my people.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord says to the prophet their transgressions in the
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  Speaker 1: house of Israel, their sins. And we are simply crying
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  Speaker 1: to all men everywhere that all men are to repent. Amen, repent, repent.
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  Speaker 1: You do not want to die in your sins and
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  Speaker 1: wake up on the other side of eternity where a
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  Speaker 1: man there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, as
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  Speaker 1: Jesus himself said on several occasions. And so we are
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  Speaker 1: here to a man warn men, persuade man to flee
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  Speaker 1: from the wrath, that is to calme. God is saving
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  Speaker 1: you from himself. Amen, when he saves us. He's saving
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  Speaker 1: us from himself from his wrath by tells us that
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  Speaker 1: we are saved. We are delivered from the wrath to colme. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, for those of you who've been following along
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  Speaker 1: with us, we're in the first letter of the Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul to the Carinthian Church, and today we are continuing
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  Speaker 1: in chapter number fourteen. And before we begin, let's just
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  Speaker 1: take just a quick moment to invoke the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Father again. We thank you for this beautiful, glorious,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful day that you've made, this beautiful approaching of the
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  Speaker 1: fall season. Where amen, we relish in all of the
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  Speaker 1: beauty of your creation. And we just want to thank
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  Speaker 1: you for life, health and strength and supplying every one
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  Speaker 1: of our needs according to your Richidon glory. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for peace, joy, hope, deliverance. Amen, thank you for victory
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  Speaker 1: We overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by
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  Speaker 1: the word of our testimony. God would give you the praise.
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  Speaker 1: Today we asked that you would open blinded eyes, death
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  Speaker 1: ears and change the hearts as only you can do
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  Speaker 1: by the power of your Holy Spirit. It's in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ we pray your thanks, Amen and Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, tongues in the church. That is what we
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  Speaker 1: are going to be focusing on in our discussion today.
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  Speaker 1: Tongues in the church. Tongues, the use of tongues, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, Amen in the Church of Jesus Christ. In
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  Speaker 1: this fourteenth chapter, by the way of this first letter
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  Speaker 1: of the Apostle to the Carinthians, it closes as it were,
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  Speaker 1: the previous two chapters, chapters twelve and thirteen, kind of
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  Speaker 1: puts a closing stamp, if you will, on those two chapters,
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  Speaker 1: as he instructs the church, Amen on the proper use
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  Speaker 1: of tongues in the church. Again, so that there is
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  Speaker 1: no and he went through great pains with this in
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  Speaker 1: chapter of A twelve schism in the body, disunity in
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  Speaker 1: the body, dysfunction in the body. Amen, But rather a man. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We are to be a people of order, a man.
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  Speaker 1: And if we again, if we were just to walk
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  Speaker 1: in what the Lord has given to us and be
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  Speaker 1: obedient in hearing the voice of the Spirit and a
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  Speaker 1: man again, obedient to the word of God that has
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  Speaker 1: been given to us, a man, we would not have
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  Speaker 1: dysfunction and disunity and schism in the body of Christ. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: we understand that there is an adversary. Nevertheless, we understand
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  Speaker 1: that we are still a man in the flesh, in
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  Speaker 1: the sense that we are in this carnal in this
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  Speaker 1: in these carnal bodies, and these earthly temples, and a man.
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  Speaker 1: The old man is to be crucified daily. The old
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  Speaker 1: old man is to be put to death daily. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I besit you there, for a brother in Paul rights
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  Speaker 1: to the Roman Church, am in the Church of Saints.
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  Speaker 1: Brother Rome, I beseech you that you, a man, present
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  Speaker 1: your bodies a living se sacrifice wholly acceptable unto God,
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  Speaker 1: which is your reasonable service. We are not to be
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  Speaker 1: conformed to this world. But there has to be a transformation.
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  Speaker 1: And this is one of the problems that certainly the
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  Speaker 1: Corinthian Church faced, the conformation. Conformation to the world, rather
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  Speaker 1: than transforming a man, that is to take place. We
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  Speaker 1: are to be changed. If any man be in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: I believe the Apostle wrote this also to the Corinthians.
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  Speaker 1: If any man be in Christ, he's a new creation,
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  Speaker 1: a new creature. The old has passed away. And behold,
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  Speaker 1: all things come new. We cannot synchronize, we cannot bring
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  Speaker 1: into the church. We cannot a man mesh and merge
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  Speaker 1: all of our old ways and behaviors and ideas and
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  Speaker 1: practices into the Church of Jesus Christ. The Church of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is a unique, the most distinctive, a man
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  Speaker 1: body entity that is existing in our world. A man,
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  Speaker 1: ever actually a man, because it is set apart. It
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  Speaker 1: is the bride of Christ. It is the body of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And he has set forth the doctrine amen, the rules
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  Speaker 1: as it were, the commands as it were. Amen. He
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  Speaker 1: said it upon this rock, I will build my church,
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  Speaker 1: and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
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  Speaker 1: We win. We overcome a man. And certainly it is
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  Speaker 1: all within our a man obedience to the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: that we are in compliance a man and in order
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  Speaker 1: a man, as the Lord has a man designed for
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  Speaker 1: us to do and to be. First Corinthians, chapter number fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: If you have your Bibles, I'm going to began reading
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  Speaker 1: at verse number one. Pursue love and desire spiritual geifts,
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  Speaker 1: but especially that you may prophesy. For he who speaks
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  Speaker 1: in a tongue does not speak to men, but to God,
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  Speaker 1: for no one understands him. However, in the spirit he
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  Speaker 1: speaks mysteries. But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation
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  Speaker 1: and comfort to men. Three things happen when we are prophesying,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll get to that in just a moment. Edification.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget that exhortation and comfort. Verse four. He who
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  Speaker 1: speaks in a tongue edifies himself, But he who prophesies
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  Speaker 1: edifies the church. I wish you all spoke with tongues,
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  Speaker 1: but even more that you prophesied. For he who prophesies
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  Speaker 1: is great later than he who speaks with tongs, unless,
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  Speaker 1: indeed he interprets that the church may receive edification. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: First and foremost. The apostle Paul, again carrying over from
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirteen, continuing along that line of thought about love
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  Speaker 1: a man love charity, which is love and action being
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  Speaker 1: the greatest Amen, He says, the pursuit of love, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The pursuit of love is to be prioritized, Amen, over
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  Speaker 1: the pursuit of the gifts. Amen. Love Love, love, love God,
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  Speaker 1: Love your neighbor, your fellow man. On these two, Jesus says.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says. The Bible teaches, Amen, these are the
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  Speaker 1: greatest commands, and they a man are the fulfilling of
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  Speaker 1: the law. If we love God and love our neighbor, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we will not be engaged in disobedience and rebellion against God.
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  Speaker 1: And if we love our nabs whereas we ought to,
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  Speaker 1: there would be none of the other a man violations
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  Speaker 1: of the law of God that we see so prevalent
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  Speaker 1: in our world today. A man, so love Love is
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  Speaker 1: the greatest, and we must pursue love a man over
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  Speaker 1: and above the gifts. But the Apostle Paul here is
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  Speaker 1: going to make more classifications, if you will, concerning the gifts,
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  Speaker 1: especially and particularly in the Corinthian Church, where there was
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  Speaker 1: an abuse of the gift of the tongues a man.
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  Speaker 1: And so he wants us the church to understand a
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  Speaker 1: man the value and the usage of the gifts in
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  Speaker 1: the church, so that there will be decency and order
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  Speaker 1: in the church. And because again the Corinthians had play
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  Speaker 1: so much emphasis on these ecstatic utterances of tongues in
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  Speaker 1: the church, they failed to realize a man that there
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  Speaker 1: was little to no edification, exhortation and comfort a man
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  Speaker 1: to the congregation of the church as a whole. An
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul here is not minimizing the gift of tongues.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you read through the text, read through
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  Speaker 1: this fourteenth chapter in its entirety, we're going to get
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  Speaker 1: to some of it, about half of it on today.
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  Speaker 1: But he is not minimizing the gift of tongues or
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  Speaker 1: the use of tongues. He's already said, I would would
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  Speaker 1: to God that all of you would a man speak
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  Speaker 1: with tongues a man. But rather he is emphasizing and
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  Speaker 1: encouraging the church a man, that the use must be
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  Speaker 1: to the benefit, must be for the whole of the body,
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  Speaker 1: not for just one person or the individual or group
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  Speaker 1: of individuals. Or again he said, the one who speaks
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  Speaker 1: in tongues is speaking to the Lord and edifying himself
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  Speaker 1: a man. So when he speaks the Bible, says Postle
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  Speaker 1: Paul here speaking of prophesying brother a man over the
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  Speaker 1: use of tongues, he's not referring to the kind of
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  Speaker 1: prophecy or fourth telling, as it were, a man that
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  Speaker 1: God used foretelling, brother, foretelling, which is the prophesying of
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  Speaker 1: future events, that God used a man in times past
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  Speaker 1: when he spoke to the Jews and when he spoke
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  Speaker 1: to the nations, a man about things that he would
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  Speaker 1: bring the past events future events particularly they will bring
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  Speaker 1: the past. But rather what the apostle Paul is speaking
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  Speaker 1: about when he speaks about prophesying in the church, it
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  Speaker 1: is about forth telling. Again the test Prophesying in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament was for the most part referencing or about
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  Speaker 1: a man foretelling, a man, that is, God speaking a
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  Speaker 1: man through chosen vessels to re feel things that would
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  Speaker 1: come to pass. Forth Telling. Prophesying in the Church today
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  Speaker 1: is about forth telling the truth of God that has
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  Speaker 1: already been revealed a man. God has spoken to us.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible makes it clear he Brews a man that
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  Speaker 1: God has spoken to us, a man by his son.
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  Speaker 1: In times past he spoke to the fathers by the prophets.
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  Speaker 1: But in these days he has spoken to us by
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  Speaker 1: his son, Jesus. Christ came a man to fulfill all
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  Speaker 1: of the law and the prophets, and he did so
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  Speaker 1: a man. Jesus, a man, is the fulfilling of the
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  Speaker 1: law and the prophets. And he has spoken to us.
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  Speaker 1: And he has certainly, if you have not read the Gospels,
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  Speaker 1: clarified if you will, a man. Because of course the
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees and many others, it took upon themselves to add
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  Speaker 1: to the word of God, which is a very dangerous
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  Speaker 1: thing to do, very very dang thing to do. And
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  Speaker 1: a man exalted their traditions above the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: And so Jesus came to a man, speak a man
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  Speaker 1: the word of God, Speak the truth of God a man,
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  Speaker 1: and to clarify, And to a man said, at naught
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  Speaker 1: those erroneous a man doctrines and teachings of the hypocritical
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  Speaker 1: Pharisees and scribes and Sadducees, and so forth and so on.
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  Speaker 1: And so he has spoken to us. The Bible makes
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  Speaker 1: clear God has spoken to us by his son. So
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  Speaker 1: we have the full revelation of God, all that we need,
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  Speaker 1: more than what we can handle. We have the full
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  Speaker 1: revelation of God. And so when Jesus, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: you remember at his baptism, when he came to John
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  Speaker 1: to be baptized a man, there was a voice from
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  Speaker 1: heaven that said, this is my beloved son, in whom
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  Speaker 1: I am well pleased. This is what the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: He says, here ye him, hear what Jesus said a man.
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  Speaker 1: Take heed to what he said a man. He said,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, the most infamous, perhaps Sermon on the Mount.
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  Speaker 1: When he closes out that sermon recorded in the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Matthew, he says, a man, the one who hears
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  Speaker 1: these sayings of mind and does them, I liken him
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  Speaker 1: to a wise man who builds his house a man
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  Speaker 1: up on the rock. The one who does not, who
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  Speaker 1: is a man rebelling, as it were, who was ignoring,
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  Speaker 1: who was setting at naught these things of mind, I
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  Speaker 1: will liken him to a foolish man who builds his
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  Speaker 1: house upon the sand. A man destructure will come to
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  Speaker 1: that house. So, now, a man and prophesying in the church,
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  Speaker 1: we are simply to forth tell a man to speak
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  Speaker 1: the truth of God, a man to make him known,
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  Speaker 1: a man not only in our hearts, but to declare
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  Speaker 1: his salvation to a lost and dying world. Let's pick
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  Speaker 1: up at verse number six, First Corinthian Shepherd. But now, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: if I come to you speaking in tongues, Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: what shall I profit you unless I speak to you,
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  Speaker 1: either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching
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  Speaker 1: even things without life, whether flute or heart, those musical
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  Speaker 1: instruments as they were. A man when they make a
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  Speaker 1: sound unless they make a distinction in the sounds. And
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  Speaker 1: we know how horrible that can be when you hear
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  Speaker 1: someone who is unskilled a man on a musical instrument,
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  Speaker 1: Unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will
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  Speaker 1: it be known what is piped or played? For if
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  Speaker 1: the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?
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  Speaker 1: So likewise, you, unless you utter by the tongue words
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  Speaker 1: easy to understand, see how he makes the distinction, and
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  Speaker 1: he's making if you will the argument for the proper
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  Speaker 1: use of tongues a man in the church. Unless we
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  Speaker 1: utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will
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  Speaker 1: it be known what is spoken? For you will be
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  Speaker 1: speaking into the air. There are, it may be, so
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  Speaker 1: many kinds of languages in the world, and none of
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  Speaker 1: them is without significance. Therefore, if I do not know
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  Speaker 1: the meaning of the language, if I don't understand what
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  Speaker 1: is being spoken, if I don't understand the dialect, if
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand the words, amen, the Bible says Paul says, here,
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  Speaker 1: I will be a foreigner to him who speaks, and
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  Speaker 1: he who speaks will be a foreigner to me. We
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  Speaker 1: are very familiar with that of course, we understand there
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  Speaker 1: are people who are born in native countries regions that
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  Speaker 1: have a language that is a man native to them,
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  Speaker 1: but foreign to us. And unless we learn that foreign language,
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  Speaker 1: and unless or unless they learn our foreign language, we
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  Speaker 1: cannot properly communicate. We cannot understand each other, Amen, by
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  Speaker 1: the words that we use. And of course, there's absolutely
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  Speaker 1: nothing wrong with the saints having a zeal for spiritual gifts.
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  Speaker 1: Paul said, I desire that you have a zeal for
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  Speaker 1: these spiritual gifts. But again, the emphasis here is on
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  Speaker 1: edification of the church, and not for self gratification, self exaltation,
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  Speaker 1: self promotion, praises of men, showing yourself to be spiritual,
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  Speaker 1: showing yourself to a man to be more than you
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  Speaker 1: ought to think of yourself. Amen. Certainly we don't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that a man because and again what we
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  Speaker 1: saw of what we see rather in the Corinthian Church, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: is so repeating itself in many of our churches, even
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  Speaker 1: to this very day. A man an over emphasis on
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  Speaker 1: a man self self period self. It's an over emphasis
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  Speaker 1: on self, a man speaking a man and prophesying without
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  Speaker 1: again the use of an interpreter, and we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that as well, and with and and really in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of instances, and if I may be so bold,
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  Speaker 1: if I may be so bold, and again I'm not
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  Speaker 1: judging anyone, But as it was in the Corinthian Church,
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  Speaker 1: so it is today. Many of these utterances are not
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  Speaker 1: under the unction of the Holy Spirit, because again the
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  Speaker 1: Bible is going to make clear here that the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of prophets is subject to the prophets. And if there
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  Speaker 1: is no interpretation of the tongues, which is again for
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  Speaker 1: the edification, for the exhortation, for the comfort of the
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  Speaker 1: whole church, and not just about you. Amen. The Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit is not the author of confusion. He is not
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  Speaker 1: God is not the author of confusion, but of peace.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what again the apostle, keep the focus,
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  Speaker 1: keep the focus. This is about unity in the body.
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  Speaker 1: This is about edification for the whole church. That's the
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  Speaker 1: whole focus of why the Apostle from chapter twelve into
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirteen and now in chapter fourteen is emphasizing a man,
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  Speaker 1: this abuse, as it were, of the gifts in the church,
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  Speaker 1: a man, so that there could be no a man
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  Speaker 1: schism in the body, so that there will be no
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  Speaker 1: disunity dysfunction in the church. Therefore, verse thirteen, let him
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  Speaker 1: who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
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  Speaker 1: For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays.
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  Speaker 1: Listen what Paul says, But my understanding is unfruitful. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even understand what I'm saying in these tongues. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So I must pray also that I would get the interpretation,
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  Speaker 1: that I would get the understanding. What is the conclusion, then,
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  Speaker 1: verse fifteen, I will pray with the spirit, and I
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  Speaker 1: will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with
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  Speaker 1: the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 1: if you bless with the spirit, how will he who
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  Speaker 1: occupies the place of the uninformed? Say? Amen? At your
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  Speaker 1: giving of thanks? Since he doesn't understand what you're saying,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't understand it. Amen, for you indeed give things well,
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  Speaker 1: But the other is not edified. Paul says, listen again,
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  Speaker 1: watch what he says. Watch it he says, I thank
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  Speaker 1: my God, I speak with tongues more than you all.
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  Speaker 1: Paul is not again, he is not a man minimizing
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  Speaker 1: in any way. He's not encouraging in any way. The
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  Speaker 1: abandonment of tongues, but rather the proper use of tongues
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  Speaker 1: in the church. He says, I speak with tongues more
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  Speaker 1: than all of you do. I pray in tongues. I
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  Speaker 1: speak with tongues. Amen. But in the church, look at
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  Speaker 1: verse nineteen. But if I'm in the church, when I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the church, when I'm in the body, around the body,
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  Speaker 1: with the people of God, I would rather speak this
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  Speaker 1: is what he says. Listen carefully. I would rather speak
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  Speaker 1: five words with my understanding that I may teach others
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  Speaker 1: also than ten thousand words in a tongue. Again, he's reiterating,
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  Speaker 1: reiterating the preference that the church is edified even by
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  Speaker 1: a few words that are understood, rather than thousands, thousands
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  Speaker 1: of words in a tongue that is not understood. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to verse twenty, brother, because I think this is
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  Speaker 1: I think this is crystal clear, don't I don't see
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  Speaker 1: that there's a whole lot of deciphering, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: for lack of a better word, of the texts when
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  Speaker 1: it is so plain, it is so clear, And I
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  Speaker 1: think we just need to take heed and be obedient
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  Speaker 1: and be willing a man to a man abide by
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  Speaker 1: what the Spirit is doing in the church, rather than
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  Speaker 1: trying to do our own thing a man Verse twenty. Brethren,
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  Speaker 1: do not be children and understanding, however, in malice be based,
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  Speaker 1: but in understanding be mature. And the Lord is written
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  Speaker 1: with men of other tongues and other lips, other lips.
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  Speaker 1: I will speak to this people. And yet for all
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  Speaker 1: that they will not hear me, says the Lord. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: we must grow grow, grow up, as it were, from childhood. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and understanding, and and and and we are to be
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  Speaker 1: mature men and women in God, in the church, a
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  Speaker 1: man in how we conduct ourselves. Amen. In the House
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  Speaker 1: of God, especially in the house of God, Amen, because
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  Speaker 1: we are in the presence of God. We're in the
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  Speaker 1: presence of His people. We're also in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Angels, the Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is there in the midst of us. Amen. And we
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  Speaker 1: are to be of people of decency and order in
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  Speaker 1: the house of God. It is not your place of showmanship.
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  Speaker 1: It is not your place of self exaltation. It's not
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  Speaker 1: your place of promotion. It is not your place of
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  Speaker 1: again of carnality fleshly Amen, displays so that you can
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  Speaker 1: again be seen of men and have the praises of man.
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  Speaker 1: This is out of Pharise, He's work. This is Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. Matthew chapter twenty three Old excoriated them, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: for their hypocrisy. Amen. We have to be very careful
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  Speaker 1: in our churches today, Amen, that we don't replicate their behavior.
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  Speaker 1: We don't replicate the behavior of the Corinthian Church and these.
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  Speaker 1: This is why a man these things are written. They're
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  Speaker 1: written for us. They are a man written to us,
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  Speaker 1: a man, so that we can again beware of how we,
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  Speaker 1: as the people of God, ought to behave ourselves in
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  Speaker 1: the house of the Living God, in the Church of
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  Speaker 1: the Living God. Paul wrote the timpody, which is the
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  Speaker 1: pillar and ground of the truth. Amen, we don't sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we just don't want your We want emotions, we want
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  Speaker 1: our feelings, we want what we think is the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Amen to just you know, people, all the time, the
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  Speaker 1: spirit told me, the Spirit said to me, the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Bible says very clearly here that the spirit of the
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  Speaker 1: prophets is subject to the prophets. Amen. God is not
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  Speaker 1: making you, Oh God, that's what this is. What's so
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  Speaker 1: amazing to me. People, And sometimes we know we're so
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  Speaker 1: spiritual in church, and the Holy Spirit has just got
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  Speaker 1: so much control over us, and we just can't help ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We just can't hep it, I got the kappens. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta say it, I got do it. I gotta, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta because I'm under the unction of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: We are so under the unction of the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: at church in that moment. But yet we got a hunt.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, we have one hundred and sixty eight
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  Speaker 1: hours in a week, and most of us can only
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  Speaker 1: stand maybe an hour, no more than two perhaps in church.
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  Speaker 1: So even if you give us, give us the church, give, give,
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  Speaker 1: give the Lord two hours of church, you mean to
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  Speaker 1: tell me that in that moment, which by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is not the whole two hours, but in that moment
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  Speaker 1: when you are so under the unction of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: that when you depart and live the the other one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty six hours that's in the week. Why
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  Speaker 1: is it that some of them, and I'm not paying
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  Speaker 1: with a braw brush, why is it that some of
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  Speaker 1: these people can't be under the unction of the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit when it comes to their disciplined in their life,
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  Speaker 1: Hello yah, Hello, and their obedience to the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: You're under the option of the Holy You, under you,
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  Speaker 1: under the all the spirit is moving upon me. But
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  Speaker 1: as soon as you are provoked provoked, where is the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit? Then? Where is the Holy Spirit? When you
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  Speaker 1: are provoked? Where are the tongues about? Oh? What other
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  Speaker 1: tongues come out of your mouth? Then when somebody provoke you, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we got to grow up, we got to be mature.
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  Speaker 1: The apostle is saying, Amen. Therefore, verse twe So I'm
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  Speaker 1: a finish leave, I'm gonna get out of there. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna meddle long Amen, Verse twenty two. Therefore, tongues
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  Speaker 1: are for a sign, not to those who believe, but
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  Speaker 1: to unbelievers. But prophesying is not fine believers, but for
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  Speaker 1: those who believe. Therefore, if the whole church comes together
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  Speaker 1: in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there
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  Speaker 1: come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they
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  Speaker 1: not say that you are out of your mind. But
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  Speaker 1: if all prophesied and an unbeliever or an uninformed person
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  Speaker 1: comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted
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  Speaker 1: by all, and thus secret for the secrets of his heart.
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  Speaker 1: I'm revealed. And so falling down on his face, he
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  Speaker 1: will worship God and report that God is truly among you.
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  Speaker 1: Now these verses may seem to contradict each other, but
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  Speaker 1: they do not. And the apostle is a man again
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  Speaker 1: showing us. And we can use the example, certainly use
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  Speaker 1: the example of Acts chapter two, where a man the
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  Speaker 1: people who heard the saints of God as they were
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  Speaker 1: in the upper room, a man speaking in tongue as
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  Speaker 1: the spirit gave them utterance. They were speaking in the
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  Speaker 1: languages of those who were a man within earshot, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, of their a man of unctioning utterances rather
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  Speaker 1: under the aunction of the Holy Spirit. Now keep in
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  Speaker 1: mind there were those who said that these are drunk,
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  Speaker 1: these are full of new wine. But also the words
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  Speaker 1: that they were uttering were understood because they asked a question,
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  Speaker 1: how can these who are Galileans speak in our own tongues?
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  Speaker 1: And what they heard was listen, listen, listen. What they
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  Speaker 1: heard were praises. They were in the unknown tongues to them,
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  Speaker 1: speaking as it were, singing as it were, praises to God.
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  Speaker 1: And the people who heard them understood that they were
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  Speaker 1: speaking to God. So when you're speaking in tongues, you
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  Speaker 1: are speaking as it were, you are praising. And again,
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  Speaker 1: if this is under the ounction of the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: to God, Amen, and for your own self edification. That's
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  Speaker 1: why if you are speaking of tongue or speaking in tongues,
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  Speaker 1: where again, the audience of people around you, or if
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  Speaker 1: you're in the church a man and they don't understand
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  Speaker 1: the language that you're speaking in, there must be an
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  Speaker 1: interpreter otherwise when people hear you. And then, for example,
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  Speaker 1: Paul is given a hypothetical example of a church coming
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  Speaker 1: together and everybody in the church is speaking in tongues.
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  Speaker 1: There's no interpretation, there's no prophesying, there are no words
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  Speaker 1: being spoken that are understood, and they are unbelievers, are
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  Speaker 1: uninformed persons that come in. They're gonna think that this
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  Speaker 1: is madness. And that's what he means by that. Even
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  Speaker 1: though he said tongues are foresigned, the sign a man
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of the Acts of the Tongues was
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  Speaker 1: for those who did not believe a man in all
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  Speaker 1: of those cases to show them a man. And as
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  Speaker 1: it was for example, given one more quick example, when
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  Speaker 1: the gentiles receive the Holy Spirit, the sign of the
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  Speaker 1: tongues convinced the Jews, Amen, that these had received the
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  Speaker 1: Holy ghosts as well as they had because they heard
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  Speaker 1: them speak with tongues. Amen. So tongues are for a
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  Speaker 1: signed for those who are unbeliever us. But at the
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  Speaker 1: same time, a man, when you come into the church,
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  Speaker 1: or when they come into the church, if the whole
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  Speaker 1: church is speaking in tongues, they're not gonna understand. They
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  Speaker 1: can say, what what's going on here? Amen? But verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty four again, if we are prophesying in the church,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, forth telling, speaking the truth of God,
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  Speaker 1: the unbeliever, the uninformed person when he hears the convicting
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  Speaker 1: word of God. Remember on today of pentecout, if I
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  Speaker 1: may go back for just a moment, I may go back.
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  Speaker 1: There was there was There was amazement by the people
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  Speaker 1: when they heard the one hundred and twenty speaking in
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  Speaker 1: these tongues. But now Peter, after being accused of being drunken, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: he said, no, no, no, no, no. This is that which was
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  Speaker 1: spoken by the prophet Joel. It shall come to pass
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  Speaker 1: in the last days. I will pour out of my
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  Speaker 1: spirit U find all flesh, and your sons and your
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  Speaker 1: daughters shall prophesy. Amen. And so this was the fulfilling
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  Speaker 1: of what God had foretold. Brother, and now Amen, Peter
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  Speaker 1: begins to prophesy as it were, prophesy as it were. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: By forth telling now the truth, the Gospel. He begins
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  Speaker 1: to preach the Word, and the Bible said, listen, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 1: After he finished with that magnificent, oh, beautiful, beautiful sermon.
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  Speaker 1: You know what the Bible says, when they heard these words,
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  Speaker 1: what words did they hear for Peter? They heard words
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  Speaker 1: that they could understand. They heard prophecy forth telling of
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  Speaker 1: the the truth about Jesus that they can understand. They
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  Speaker 1: heard the Gospel, and the Bible says when they heard it,
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  Speaker 1: they were pricked in their heart, and they said, men
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  Speaker 1: and brethren, what shall we do? Amen? And you know
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the story. Repent, repent. So when people
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  Speaker 1: come into the church, we need to be preaching the truth,
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  Speaker 1: preaching the truth in love. Amen. It is for the edifying,
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  Speaker 1: It is for the a man exhortation. It is for
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  Speaker 1: the comfort of the church, but also a man. The
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  Speaker 1: truth of God is what sets the captive free. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The bottom line again, the bottom line again is that
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  Speaker 1: the apostle is teaching in this letter a man unity
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  Speaker 1: and order, a man in the church over disunity and confusion.
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  Speaker 1: A man the church must always be focused on fulfilling
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  Speaker 1: the mission that Jesus Christ, founder of the Church, gave
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  Speaker 1: to it, go make disciples. And we cannot make disciples
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  Speaker 1: if we are alienating people, if we are dysfunctional, if
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  Speaker 1: we are operating in a man's schism and disunity, a
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  Speaker 1: man walking after the flesh instead of being led by
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  Speaker 1: the spirit and walking in the spirit. That's what we
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  Speaker 1: should be endeavoring to do. And this is, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to close with this passage from Ephesian chapter four.
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  Speaker 1: This is what Paul, a man, also to that church,
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  Speaker 1: to that group of believers, as it were, a man
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  Speaker 1: exhorted them, a man about this unity, a man in
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  Speaker 1: the faith. I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord. Ephesian
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  Speaker 1: chapter four, Verse one, beseech you that you walk worthy
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  Speaker 1: of the vocation wherewith you are called, with our loneliness
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  Speaker 1: and meekness, with long suffering, for bearing one another in love,
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  Speaker 1: endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the
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  Speaker 1: bond of peace. There is one body and one spirit,
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  Speaker 1: even as you are called in one hope of your calling,
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  Speaker 1: one Lord one faith, one baptism, one God and Father
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  Speaker 1: of all, who is above all and through all, and
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  Speaker 1: in you all, but unto every one of us, is
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  Speaker 1: given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: May we all hear, May we all obey, May we
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  Speaker 1: all a man walk in the grace of God that
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  Speaker 1: has been given to each and every one of us. God,
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  Speaker 1: help us today be magnified in your people, be magnified
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  Speaker 1: in this earth. Today. In Jesus name, we pray, Amen
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  Speaker 1: and Amen, God bless you. Amen.