The Saints Build Up!
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The saints build up through prophecy 1-5
Paul’s thesis—the one who prophecies is better
What is prophecy?
Deut 18:22=Foretelling
when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.
Forth-telling=wake up, turn to God, comfort
Prophecy
Upbuilding/Strengthening=Speaking truth in love so we grow up and into who we are in Christ Eph 4:15-16
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Encouragement/Exhortation=Spur one another on and correct one another. Heb 10:25, Heb 3: 13
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
3. Consolation/Comfort=There is no greater comfort than being found in Christ
Paul is calling all believers to do this not just the preacher in the local gathering
Tongues
Context of what was happening in Corinth
Pagan Graeco-Roman—connecting with the divine
Kundolini worship and what is practiced today
1 John 4:1
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
2. History of tongues and their cessation
1 Cor 13:8 and the epistles and other Apostles —Acts 19:6
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Clement of Rome letter to Corinth in 95AD, Justin Martyr, Origen, Chrysostom ceased and can’t be accurately defined, Augustine said its time has passed. One exception is Montanus
1800 years until a couple small groups and then the rise of them in 20th century—especially 1960—rise of independence
3. The purpose of tongues
1 Cor 14:22, Acts 2:4-6, singular verses plural language 6 of each
The babbling language has no benefit for building up
Prayer language and the technical side of verse 2 and Jesus didn’t pray this way or teach it
Desire gifts, to grow in them, to use them to build up your church family and practice prophecy
The saints build up through being faithful instruments 6-12
Corinth’s love for music—20K music hall
Flute, harp and bugle
Order, structure, meaning, purpose and language is the same
Fish red seven dog yesterday brown eight quail golf you track yellow dr pepper us Snoop dawg floral
I don’t know how to play or play well. Just show up, and trust not in the instrument
String quartet—2 violins, 2 violas, 1 cello and the performance the instruments
The saints build up through trusting in the one who holds them, through being faithful, and showing up
The saints build up through sound and simple truths
The Corinthians weren’t content with the simple but wanted to complex, sophisticated, mystical, and mysterious. God makes His mystery known to us through Christ.
Pray they can understand the true tongues
Either the speaker or translator interprets
This is an argument against the prayer language and it is to a church gathering
We build up others through pray and teach others to pray truths about God
Rom 12:1-2, Matt 22:37, our minds are engaged in worship
I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.
A seminary course on the doctrine of God in tongues and the church is the more important place we teach sound and simple truths
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ... Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God.” —Tozer
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. ... Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God.” —Tozer
Perspicuity “clarity”
The Lord’s prayer are truthful reminders for us and our brothers and sisters
Sarcastic or not Paul point is clear the person is not being built up so it is all about you: selfish, showy, wordy, flashy, silence
Paul is not jealous because he has this gift but knows what is more important.
The Gospel
1 Cor 13:4-5, Phil 2:3, 1 Cor 10:24, Jam 3:16
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
Selfishness is the opposite of grace
We need death—Christ death
Think of the pain one person has caused us and then think of what Jesus went through
1 Cor 2:1-2, God sees us as selfless so live this way
And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
We don’t have to submit to the god of self service that will lead to death. What do our phones say?
The most miserable people I know are selfish because God didn’t wire us that way
What can I get or what can I give!