Speaking in tongues vs prophesy. Confusion verses edification. Testimony of Christ as guidance in how to challenge. Walking the straight and narrow. Resurrection.
[00:00:15] Jason: Welcome to the Weekly Deep Dive podcast on the Add On Education Network. The podcast where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussion and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, here in the studio with our friend, this show’s producer, Nate Pyfer. What’s up, Nate? I’m glad you’re here with me. I wish you were feeling a little.
[00:00:36] Nate: Better, but dude, exhaustion’s finally catching up to me a little bit, but I’m ready. Got some caffeine in me.
[00:00:44] Jason: Yeah.
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[00:00:57] Jason: You’re going to open that can of worms to start us?
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[00:01:08] Jason: Hey. Thanks for listening. We’re glad to have you guys here on the journey as we kind of explore these scriptures. And hopefully it is a little bit of a journey, something that you don’t readily see or think of and give you something to kind of think about and mull over and reflect. We do appreciate your perspectives on this and there’s a lot of room for perspectives as we get into Paul. Sometimes Paul is not the easiest to understand. This week we’re talking about Paul. It’s going to be chapters 14 through 16 of one. Corinthians a little bit more of a manageable read for us this week for you guys out there at home reading along and verse one we really covered well last week. And all I’ll say is, prophecy and charity go hand in hand, much like a marriage. Next, Paul’s going to talk about the gift of tongues.
All right. When he talks about the gift of tongues, he says it’s amazing to speak in tongues. And let’s be clear, not too long before we have Paul, we have the Pentecost. And what happened at the Pentecost, you had Jews from all over the world coming to Jerusalem to worship. And while they’re there, a group of the apostles, a group of the disciples begin to speak in the various languages of all the people that had come to Edify and to teach them. And this was a gift of tongues. They were speaking in languages they didn’t know. But the end to which they were speaking of these languages that they didn’t know was not to impress the world and wow them and say, wow, they’re speaking in a tongue they don’t know. It was to Edify, the people in their own language. And I think that’s something that’s important that God keeps stating when he talks about the Gospel going to the world, he says to every nation tongue and people he talks about, even in their language, are they going to be able to hear it. And there’s something about hearing the Gospel in your own language that makes it more plain for you or easy for you to understand.
And God speaks to us in symbols, symbols that aren’t always perfect, but they mean something to us, and we understand it the names that God uses, right? Today we say God, but anciently in the Greeks, it’s something different, right?
In Latin, it’s a different word. You go back to the old Hebrew, it’s Elohim. We don’t continue calling him Elohim because that doesn’t mean the same as what God means to us today.
It’s an imperfect symbol used to communicate with us, something that means something to us that might not mean something to anyone else. In fact, it might be confusing. And so when crossing these symbols and trying to teach people, it can create confusion.
Paul is dealing with people that are so impressed with the miracle at the Pentec...
