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LESSON 3 * PART 2 * BOOK 28
I CORINTHIANS 14:4 - 15:19 - PART 2
Now verse 14, and to me this is so plain, where Paul, now speaking in the first person says:
I Corinthians 14:14
"For if I pray in an unknown tongue, (there's that singular again, that sound that can't be reduced to a phonetic sound or to writing) my spirit ( small "s"- his own personality) prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful."
Even for the individual, what good does it do, Paul says, to speak in a language that you don't know what you're talking about, and I know their answer, "Well, God does." We know that God being Omnipotent, He certainly can if He wants to, but there is nothing in here that indicates that this is what God expects people to do.
I Corinthians 14:15
I will pray with the spirit, (Paul is saying, `I will pray from my innermost being. Even if God is able to discern it, what if you can't? Whatever you do while communicating with God, do it in understanding.) I Corinthians 14:16
Verse 17:
I Corinthians 14:17,18
I thank my God, I speak with tongues (Plural - Languages) more than ye all:"
What's Paul saying? So here in verse 18 Paul is speaking of languages with which he could communicate the Gospel. Now verse 19:
I Corinthians 14:19,20
"Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice (And that's not a very nice word) be ye children, but in understanding (grow up and) be men." Now verse 21:
I Corinthians 14:21
"In the law it is written, `With men of other tongues (Languages) and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.'"
Deuteronomy 28:49
"The LORD shall bring a nation (of foreign people) against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand:"
Now here the tongue refers to their language. Now it wasn't an unknown tongue, but it was a language that the Jews wouldn't be able to understand. I Corinthians 14:21,22
Wherefore tongues (This ability to speak in languages) are for a sign,..."
I Corinthians 1:22
"For the Jews require a sign,..."
Now stop and think, how long has Israel been demanding signs? What was God trying to show Moses? To prove to those two men that God was going to do the supernatural. Why did Jesus perform miracle, after miracle? It was signs. I Corinthians 1:22,23a
I Corinthians 14:22a
Preaching the Word! This is what people need to hear today, people have to hear the Gospel (Ref. I Corinthians 15:1-4). I know God can heal miraculously, and I do not deny that. Now finishing verse 22:
I Corinthians 14:22b
Now what's Paul talking about? Well let's just sort of skim through these next few verses, and then I've got to deal with another hot potato in this day and time: "What about the women's activity in the local Church?" I Corinthians 14:23
Maniac. That's where the word maniac came from. Now verse 24.
I Corinthians 14:24-26
"But if all prophesy, (or speak forth the Word) and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: (Because he's hearing the Word of God, see the difference?) And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth. when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. If you're wondering what he's driving at, verse 40 puts the cap on it.
I Corinthians 14:40
Now let's come all the way up to verse 34.
I Corinthians 14:34a
"Let your women keep silence in the churches:..."
Now here is where the women have come down on the Apostle Paul. Paul says, "Then you have to be careful."
No one dare touch a veiled women. Now reading on in verse 34.
I Corinthians 14:34
I had to point out to someone here the other day, you have to remember that under the law, even under God's law to Israel, the woman had almost no rights. Christianity brought women out of that place of being downtrodden, not permitted to be educated, not permitted to read. But Christianity brought the women up on almost an equal level with men. But what have present day women done with that? I Corinthians 14:35
Let's go back and look at it in Genesis Chapter 3, and we'll begin in verse 16. Genesis 3:16a
"Unto the woman he said, `I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children;...'"
I Corinthians 14:36,37
"What? came the word of God out from you? Now reading on in verse 38.
I Corinthians 14:38-40
"But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. Wherefore, brethren, covet(or desire) to prophesy, (to speak forth the Word) and forbid not to speak with tongues.

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