Good morning. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others
pass judgment. This has been used to say that like the “messages in tongues“
you should have at most two or three prophecies in the service. There are a
couple of things to note. First of all, it says prophets. Just because you give
a prophecy, does not mean that you are a prophet. You are just operating in
that gift. If I remember correctly, Kenneth Hagan used to say that to be a
prophet you had to operate in two or three other gifts of the Spirit also. I
personally do not know what differentiates between someone who regularly
operates in the gift of prophecy and one who is a prophet. What I do know is
that like I’ve said before, too many people are going around proclaiming that they
are a prophet. The second thing is that it says to let them speak; it does not
say to let them prophesy. They are two different Greek words. In the book of
Acts it talks about Judas and Silas, also being prophets encouraged and
strengthened the brethren with a lengthy message. The word message also is not
the word for prophecy. Because people think that it means two or three
prophecies, they believe the “others passing judgment” is passing judgment upon
the prophecies. But since it says let two or three prophets speak, I disagree
with them, and I will explain why tomorrow. Father continue to give wisdom and
direction to the reader.
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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