I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.I thank my God, I speak with other languages more than you all.I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all:I thank God, I speak with tongues more than you all:
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… in verse 12 he said even so since you are zealous for spiritual gifts and edification of the church that you seek to excel listen to what he says in verse 18 i this is paul i thank my god i speak with tongues more than you all now finish it the next verse says yet in the church i'd rather speak Five words with my understanding. It's not either or. You can live, you live in a real world where people need to understand the truth of God's word. But at the same time, I live in a spiritual world where you can never understand what I'm praying because you can't talk Holy Ghost and I can't talk your Holy Ghost. We have a private code. We have a hotline to heaven. yet in the church I'd rather speak five words this is not forbidding it this is not putting it down this is not belittling it this is very clearly saying five words in in your language is better than 10,000 in an unknown tongue if you're in a public assembly Wait. …
… Verse 18, Paul says, I thank God, but I speak in tongues more than all of you. All Paul is saying there is for the record, I got you all beat. When I'm not writing the Bible, I'm taking trips up to the third heaven, shaking cobras off my arm and bringing people back from the dead with my hanky. So I got all you Corinthians beat. Nevertheless, he says in church, I'd rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others than 10,000 words in a tongue. 10,000, by the way, is the highest number you can count to in Greek. At least they gave you a number for, so to invoke 10,000 was like saying infinity. Paul's saying, I'd rather speak five words that you understand than a gazillion words in a tongue you can't understand. Let me translate that for you. Paul says, you're not gonna hear me speaking in tongues in church because it doesn't do anybody any good. It doesn't really even do me any good. …
… to your thanksgiving, since they do not know what you are saying. You are giving thanks well enough, but no one else is edified. I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you, but in the church, I would rather speak five intelligible words to instruct others than 10,000 words in a tongue. Okay, I mean, first of all, just in verse 14, if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful. my mind is unfruitful. Have you ever considered praying or praising while your mind is unfruitful? Okay. Don't take this as an insult, because 100% is not. But this circle can lean towards being more heady, not a bad thing, not an insult. But because of that, this type of passage will be more of a stretch to think anything good could be accomplished with an unfruitful mind. Okay? That's all I want to say about that. Like, just understand, like, for some of us, we all have different struggles. …