Galatians 5: 5-18 Using Multiple Translations

[JD731]

1 Cor. 14:9 So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air. 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance. 11 Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.

Easy, wasn't it?

I'm beginning to wonder if you've ever read a Bible completely, or paid attention to what you've read. Then, of course, there's the school of COMMON SENSE. If I want to witness to a Japanese who knows no English, how can I, who knows no Japanese, present the Gospel to him?

In the Apostolic age and in the primitive church, of which the Corinthian church was one, there was an apostolic gift of tongues. All 5 of those special gifts are mentioned in the last two or three verses of Mark 16, if your particular train wreck even contains those verses. Some train wrecks don’t.

The point of addressing tongues in this church is to early on affirm and confirm that the exercise of this gift was only when Jews were present and then only by an apostle or a prophet. Why? Because tongues was a sign to them. A sign that they as a people was under the chastening hand of God and he was not speaking to them in their own language. Paul quoted a passage from Isaiah in chapter 14 to make the point.

1 Corinthians 14:22
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, (Gentiles) but to them that believe not (Jew’s): but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.

So, you have conveniently taken that argument out of context as your custom is.

This is a gentile church, BTW, so don’t require much tongue speaking although they were getting a lot it seems.


I have told you this over and over. One does not need a bible to witness and to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ but the preacher must have a personal testimony of salvation. This is the reaso it is called witnessing. Your own words will do just fine if you have that.

 

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[RipponRedeaux]

I have told you this over and over. One does not need a bible to witness and to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ but the preacher must have a personal testimony of salvation. This is the reason it is called witnessing. Your own words will do just fine if you have that.

But a lot of what you say should be full of scriptural content. It should not be a Me, Me, me thing.