Barrd
His Humble Servant
1Co 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
I think this is my favorite of Paul's "tongues" verses.
Notice, first of all, that he never says that he does speak in the tongues of angels...but only that if he did, but he did not have love, he would be nothing more than a bunch of annoying noise...
Having been in churches where folks are speaking in gibberish, I'd have to agree with him...
1Co 14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all
I wonder that it never occurred to anyone that Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, traveling all over the known world on his mission to bring the gospel to the gentiles, would have to "speak in tongues more than ye all"....
He wouldn't have had the time to sit under a tutor to learn the languages of Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians. An amazing task had been set before him...but the Holy Spirit was up to the challenge...
I think this is my favorite of Paul's "tongues" verses.
Notice, first of all, that he never says that he does speak in the tongues of angels...but only that if he did, but he did not have love, he would be nothing more than a bunch of annoying noise...
Having been in churches where folks are speaking in gibberish, I'd have to agree with him...
1Co 14:18 I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all
I wonder that it never occurred to anyone that Paul, the Apostle to the Gentiles, traveling all over the known world on his mission to bring the gospel to the gentiles, would have to "speak in tongues more than ye all"....
He wouldn't have had the time to sit under a tutor to learn the languages of Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians. An amazing task had been set before him...but the Holy Spirit was up to the challenge...