Good morning. If anyone speaks in a tongue, it should be by two
or at the most three, and each in turn and one must interpret; but if there is
no interpreter, he must keep silent in the church; and let him speak to himself
and to God. Not long after I began participating in a Friday night Bible study,
which later turned into that house church l spoke of before, I began giving the
tongues part of “tongues with interpretation” (we call it a “message in
tongues”, but that term does not occur in the Bible, merely tongues). I had no
teaching or training on how to do it. My heart would begin racing for no
apparent reason, and I would get the impression to speak out loud in tongues;
so I just “let her fly“. For me the next step was not interpretation of tongues
but prophecy. I did not give an interpretation of tongues until years later
after I moved here. Notice that it says by two or at the most three, and not at
the same time, which would produce confusion. One reason would be that the
whole service could get taken up by tongues with interpretation. Another reason
could be what follows about prophets, which we will talk about tomorrow.
Farther help this to be a super week for the reader and his/her family.
Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me
Good morning. Paul then gives a list of a lot of things that he has gone through as an apostle. I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children. For if you were to have countless tutors in Christ, yet you would not have many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I became your father through the gospel. There could be many people that you listen to either in church or through the Internet or other means; but there was only one person (as a general rule it was a person) that lead you to Christ. Therefore I exhort you, be imitators of me. He was saying that just like a child imitates his or her father, they were to imitate him. He says that again seven chapters later. Since it is easy to forget some things about people we have not seen in a while, Paul says that he sent Timothy to them to remind them of his ways which are in Christ, just as he taught everywhere in every church. Some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you. I shall find ou...
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