697, mine eyes have seen the glory of
the coming of the Lord, 6 9 70.
For the past 8 weeks, because this is
number 9 this evening, for the past 8
weeks we have been looking at this matter
of depression.
And we have looked at the cause, or
the causes of depression.
Some people are depressed continually because of the
fear of death.
And we went into this very carefully one
evening, and let this class see that our
Lord was sovereign, even over death, and over
everything and everyone in connection with death.
And then some people are upset, in fact
they are tormented in mind, and oppressed, and
depressed, and distracted, than just grievously that, because
of one particular sin that they had committed.
I had a lady in with me this
morning, and she said the other day, well
you just said one sin, that one sin.
Another lady in the meeting said to me,
that terrid, haunting sin that I committed.
So many, you know, lie and talk, and
wish that they had, they had never committed
it.
And we saw the cure for that here
one evening.
Because we are not only looking at the
causes, we are finding the cure every time.
Some people are depressed because other people speak
evil of them.
And on the grapevine you hear what somebody
has said about you, behind your back, and
some people can't take it.
And we have gone through that in this
class.
And then one evening I dealt with the
storms of life.
And there are satanical storms in life, tyrannical
storms in life, where terrorists try to upset
them.
And we have gone through all this.
And now we are to the spot in
the class, where we are looking up the
mummiful testimony.
Because Peter said, when he talked about God's
so great salvation, he said, when he gratefully
rejoiced, and then he uttered quickly, draw now
for us even if need be.
We are in heaviness through mummiful testings.
And we are going into these mummiful testings,
and the first avenue of these mummiful testings
that we are looking at is false teaching.
Because I know that so many people have
been upset and confused.
In fact, some have ended in mental homes
because of false teaching.
And so we are going into it.
And you remember last week, let's go back
and recap just one minute.
We have Galatians, chapter 1.
Letter to the Galatians, chapter 1.
And Paul starts the chapter just like this.
Paul.
And I like that bit.
Because he just calls himself Paul.
And this is the gift that they had,
an apostle.
Not of men, neither by man, but by
Jesus Christ.
And God the Father who raised them from
the dead.
And all the brethren which are with me
on to the statues of Galatia.
Because there were quite a number of statues
formed, right throughout the region of Galatia.
And he's writing to all these statues, saying,
Great be to you and peace from God
the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
who giveth himself for our sins that he
might deliver us from this present evil world,
according to the will of God and our
Father, to whom be glory for ever and
ever.
Amen.
Now, when he got the salutation over to
them, and he did it very quickly in
this letter, then he really starts talking to
them.
And he talks sharply.
He says, I marvel that ye are so
soon removed from him that called you into
the grace of Christ on to another gospel.
You know, he knew that they were shifting,
and shifting away from Christ.
And it was Paul's teachers that was doing
this, as we shall see.
He says that all thee, or an angel
from heaven, preached any other gospel on to
you other than that which we have preached
on to you, let him be accursed.
And then we come to this chapter in
chapter 2, Galatians 2.
Then 14 years after, I went up to
Jerusalem with Barnabas.
He took Titus with me also.
And I went on my revelation.
The Lord sent them, and communicated on to
them that gospel which I preached among the
Gentiles, but privately to them, which were of
reputation, lest by any means I should run
or have run and fain.
But neither Titus, who was with me being
evil, was compelled to be circumcised.
You see, this is what the trouble was
here.
There were people coming to the church of
Angelusia.
And they were preaching another gospel.
They were preaching, except thee be circumcised, you
cannot be saved.
Now, just to make the young ones sure
of that, let me look at the Acts
of the Apostles, chapter 15.
The Acts of the Apostles, chapter 15.
And if you like to look through 13
and 14 sometime, you will find that it
was there that Paul went to the cities
of Galatia, and the churches were formed.
And when Paul had moved on, in chapter
15, it says, On certain men which came
down from Judea, taught the brethren and said,
except thee be circumcised, after the manner of
mortals, you cannot be saved.
And that must be another gospel.
And I think, you know, we are living
in such an enlightened age, that if I
got up here and said to you, All
you believers, you men, folks, except ye be
circumcised, you cannot be saved.
I think you would throw me out.
And I think you would be perfectly right.
You see, this is arguing a little bit
to this glorious gospel.
And this was Judaism.
And they did come down, you know, and
they did teach these people at Galatia, and
they upset them.
Let's go back again to Galatians, chapter 1,
and see now what he is saying.
You see, verse 6, I marvel that the
Apostles should remove from him the call to
enter the grace of Christ onto another gospel,
which is not another.
But there be some that trouble you and
would pervert the gospel of Christ.
Now, these are the boys that I'm tackling
these nights, the boys that trouble the young
believers, and the boys that pervert the gospel.
And I'm determined to do it, with all
the might and fury and force that the
Lord will give me, because this goes on
still today, you know.
You see, if you turn over to chapter
3 of Galatians, you'll find this, that he
has to say to them, O foolish Galatians,
who have bewitched you.
Oh, that's what these troublers and perversers do
to young believers.
They come along and say, you know, it's
true that you're saved and blessed and you've
got Christ, but there's something more that you
need, or you'll not be right at all.
And sometimes they bewitch young believers, and they
lead them up an alley looking for perfect
holiness, or something like that.
And then the young fellow goes up it
for a week or two, and finds out
he's still the same six and eightsons that
he was before he started.
And then he's confused.
And then he doesn't know whether he's saved
or not now.
And he loses all the joy and peace
that God gave him.
And I'm against this.
So I'm real against this.
You see, if you go into the fourth
chapter of Galatians, this is what Paul said
to these Galatians.
See, verse 15, because I'm only taking a
little bit, because we mustn't waste time here.
Where is then the blessedness he is speaking
of?
They'd lost the blessing.
There was once upon a time when they
were gloriously saved, had embraced Christ, that they
were so happy.
They'd lost the joy.
They'd lost the peace.
They'd lost the thrill.
It is where is then the blessedness that
you speak of?
For I bear you record that if it
had been possible, you would have crossed out
your own eyes and given them to me.
You see, I think that Paul had this
thought in the flesh, this cynical affliction.
He was nearly blind.
And these Galatians were so happy of being
saved that they would have plucked out their
eyes and given them to him.
I was going into the royal one day
when Sir Ian Fraser was coming up.
And he knows me.
He says, hello Willie, how are you doing?
I want to ask you about transplant.
I fancy Sir Ian Fraser wanting to know
about transplant from me.
I would think he knows a lot about
it.
He said, do you agree with it?
Well, I said, you know, if you could
give a fellow a kidney or a heart
that would give him a day or two
longer that he might be saved, I have
no problem.
I'm not so sure about the believers, Sir.
What makes you not so sure?
I said, well, you see, Paul was sort
of blind.
And this was his thought in the flesh.
And he prayed to the Lord, Lord, take
this thing away and give me sight and
let me loose as it were.
Oh, but it wasn't the Lord's mind at
all.
See where I'm getting around to?
You know, if you've got eyes and the
Lord didn't want you to get them, you'd
be in a fix, wouldn't you?
He says, don't talk to me anymore.
On your way.
I said, you just do your job and
I'll just do mine.
Well, be careful now.
Yes, you know, you might get a leg
off and get another one on.
You might have a redeemed leg on one
side and a non-redeemed one on the
other side.
Oh, we must not go into this deceitfully
here.
Oh, no.
It's what we're really after is that false
teachers come sometimes and by false teaching they
pervert the gospel, first of all, and they
trouble the believers and they delude them and
they make fools out of them and they
take away their peace and love.
And there are so many avenues that we
can take and we will take them.
We'll have to look at what the Mormons
say and what some of this damnable heresies
of the Roman Catholic Church say and you
Romans will come and bring your Bibles, won't
you?
Because we have no notion of self-pebbling
anything for anyone.
Oh, damnable heresies, many.
And I have found out that false teachers
go along two lines.
First of all, they deny certain things.
I can find in some of the modernists
and they deny the deity of our Lord
Jesus and they deny the sinless presumption of
Christ and they deny the atoning death of
Christ and they deny the bodily resurrection of
Christ and we can get all that brought
in and all this crap.
But false teachers don't only go along that
line, a line of denying things.
The other line is that they come declaring
things.
They declare, you know.
Oh, yes, you are saved.
Bless you.
That's great.
You've got the Lord.
I can see it in your face.
But, what do you need?
And we're talking about these tongues tonight.
And what a lot of crap we hear
about this too.
If you're mixed up in it, sit still
and look at the book for once.
Because I can tell you some stories about
it.
A fella came here to tackle me once
and I took him aside in there and
said, put your Bible on the table and
I'll put mine.
And we'll look at every phrase in this
book in connection with it.
And when I started to explain, he said,
I'm not going to talk to you anymore.
You listen to my experience.
I'll shoot you through the door and you'll
start talking tricks louder.
I'm to put my Bible away and listen
to his experience, am I?
What would you like me to do?
And I'll tell you what he did.
He went to his own church the next
morning and said, I put my Bible down
and tied Mr. Mooren up in a knot.
He's a liar.
Some holiness above that, isn't there?
You want to get his name?
And where he goes to?
There's Don Fushman.
Yes, we're going to have a look at
this thing this evening.
This so-called gift of tongues bringing confusion
and recession.
The unbelievers want to forget.
Well, we're just about to start now.
Let's go over to 1 Corinthians and we're
at chapter 12, please.
1 Corinthians Chapter 12 Just
watch the book and if I make any
mistakes you're at liberty to come talk to
me afterwards and watch it carefully Paul's speaking
through the chapter 10 and at chapter 12
and verse 1 he's saying now concerning spiritual
gifts Brethren it's not always injected that word
just to keep him on the level so
that he knew he wasn't talking to enemies
talking to God's children now concerning spiritual gifts,
Brethren I would not have you ignorant you
know that you were Gentiles carried away oh,
there's a phrase I should preach on some
Sunday morning carried away a lot of folk
get carried away at times carried away onto
these dumb idols even as you were led
and so because in the Gentile days because
they were carried away to bow down to
sticks and stones he was afraid of them
getting carried away again that's why he's talking
to them wherefore I give you to understand
that no man speaking by the Spirit of
God calls Jesus a Christian you would know
that and that no man can say that
Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy
Ghost now there are diversities of gifts a
whole lot of gifts, you know they all
come from the same Spirit Holy Spirit, capital
S it says, verse 7 but the manifestation
of the Spirit is given to every man
to profit withal for to one is given
by the Spirit the word of wisdom to
another the word of knowledge by the same
Spirit to another faith by the same Spirit
and we're not talking about the faith that
you believe with just now I know it's
a gift from God we're talking about the
gift of faith now we're talking about spiritual
gifts and you know there is the gift
of hope you see Hudson Taylor had the
gift of hope he founded the China Inland
Mission and he learned from God just to
trust God properly and he had this gift
he walked out in faith and just trusted
God and God did mighty things for him
and George Mueller had the gift of faith
you know he founded the Orphan's Home and
he never asked anyone for a penny in
his life nor made an appeal nor sent
out a letter and he got over six
million pounds just by faith now I know
that there are some folks who try to
copy this and go to do it and
want to do it and get into it
but they haven't got the gift of faith
or they collapse halfway through because you haven't
got the gift of faith and don't belong
to now see because I'm afraid we're going
to get into tight corners and you're not
going to get out of it remember there
is faith which is a gift from God
remember there is the gift of faith which
is different altogether we're talking about the gift
now first time to another faith by the
same spirit to another the gift there's an
aspect of healing one of these nights I'll
go into that for you and do it
properly won't let anybody talk to you about
the gift of healing because it is not
here the gift of healing and I'll tell
you why one night it's very wonderful to
another the working of medicals and you can
see the gifts of healing and the working
of medicals are quite different they are indeed
you know you see when Paul came to
a certain man who was lame he perceived
that he had faith to be healed of
course this is one of the gifts of
healing you can perceive it yourself as good
faith but we're not going into this tonight
because there are lots of subjects because when
you come to medicals if the man's dead
like Lazarus he can't have faith can he
you'll have borrowed faith from him won't you
now you've got to raise him it's a
mighty miracle oh we'll do all this for
you because I think all these things upset
people to another the working of medicals to
another prophecy to another discerning of spirits to
another remember another diverse kinds of tongues and
the word tongues there is the old word
for languages diverse kinds of languages to another
the interpretation of these languages now you see
these are the gifts now look at verse
28 as we're trying to save time all
the time because our brother's gone away about
7 o'clock in the morning and I
wouldn't like to keep this reading till the
quarter to seven verse 28 now watch this
carefully and God hath set some in the
church first apostles also some folks treatment of
this class they are they millenialists one of
them tried to tell me the other day
you know that the church began right back
in Eden's garden I just don't know how
you make it out at all and that
the church was in the Old Testament would
you like to come around and tell me
if the church was in the Old Testament
how the apostles got set it's an easy
one that church is more when you come
around how did they get set that's the
thing oh no the church began at Pentecost
and God put the apostles first so the
church was built on the foundation of the
apostles when our Lord Jesus went home to
heaven he became the head of the church
if the church is in the Old Testament
it must have been there without a head
or a foundation either oh you know I
can drop so many lines here but look
at this God had set some in the
church first apostles second only prophets because there
were prophets in the early church you know
there was a long time before they had
a New Testament and they met in homes
and they met in meeting houses but they
had no New Testament and they had no
hymn books yeah but the prophets were there
and they stood up in the morning meeting
and they directed the believers with New Testament
truths before the New Testament even came it
was only there until the New Testament was
written you see God had set some in
the church first apostles second only prophets clearly
teachers and if I'm right that the apostles
and prophets have gone then the teachers very
important that's why I think you're here spite
of the bombings, the barriers and everything else
that's why we've kept this going for 25
years because God one day when he saves
me be the creature like me the gift
of teaching is booked and it's very important
because it's the gift that's most needed I
can go to any part of the world
and gather a crowd who want to hear
God's word last week in London I preached
for 2 hours and 10 minutes so you
see what I can do when I try
and when I said to the folks I
said are you tired everybody just on the
set not a thought go on go on
you know when he cooks me to go
on you're asking for trouble no I don't
think it's anything about me or anything like
that I think it's just the word of
God being explained and you can see it
and you can follow it and that's it
and God helped me to do it and
that's that now God has sent some in
the church, first apostles second only prophets, thirdly
teachers after that medicals and we put medicals
by and teachers then gifts ask again please
of any help government diversity of the tongue
the last you know led to a lot
of raving about it and the false preachers
come round now we're starting on them and
they say you know it's good you're saved
and bless God you look saved and all
the rest but unless you get this baptism
of the spirit and you're able to speak
in tongues you'll never enjoy the thing, it's
false I shall prove it's false you see
these Trump preachers that go round doing this,
I'll tell you this they want every believer
to talk in tongues talk but only they
want them now just sit now tight now
and answer the question friends, though I know
some of you are here I'll butter the
life out of you before you leave here
tonight with the word of God of course
and unless you're the person then I think
you're a fool here are a few questions
for you to answer are all apostles?
you think that everybody in the church of
Jesus Christ are all apostles and you would
know the answer is no are all prophets?
do you know the answer lots of folks
here would never dare to get up and
say it, the answer is no are all
teachers?
you like to take this class over for
the next two years are all workers of
medicals?
have all gifts of healing do all seekers
come to know the answer no what are
you running after the young believers for you're
going to put them into a fix aren't
you you're going to trouble them you're going
to disturb them you're going to progress this
gospel aren't you you're going to be victims
you're doing the devil's work that's what you're
doing that's how you learn from this book
isn't it as far as you can see
that's all right yes let's be absolutely clear
that this gift was in the early church
must never deny it was in the early
church let's turn to the Acts of the
Apostles chapter 2 Acts of the Apostles and
we're at the second chapter are you watching
and I'll do the little bit of ingesting
and we'll get on fine Acts chapter 2
and when the day of Pentecost was fully
come they were all with one accord in
one place and we're talking about all the
followers of Christ who were in Jerusalem just
then and suddenly there came a sound from
heaven as of a rushing mighty wind now
mind you it was not a rushing mighty
wind this is the only way that Luke
can describe it this sound came as of
a rushing mighty wind that's all he can
say it wasn't a rushing mighty wind it
was as of a rushing mighty wind and
suddenly there came a sound from heaven as
of a rushing mighty wind and it filled
all the house where they were sitting this
sound went right through this house where they
were sitting not rolling on the floor did
you get it?
I think some of you can't read this
just sitting not rolling on the floor son
and there appeared unto them cloven tongues like
ours of fire it wasn't fire I hear
all about the fire falling the only way
that he could describe this was this thing
came it was like ours of fire for
God changed it not allowed to change it
oh we get so many sermons about fire
like ours of wasn't it that's right and
it sat upon each of them and they
were all filled with the Holy Ghost there
is no problem of abundance yes this is
the day the Holy Ghost came this is
one of the great features of Pentecost that
all the individual followers of the Lord Jesus
and they were all sizes and shapes and
ages all the individual followers of Jesus were
baptised into one body at that moment and
the church and at the moment that they
were baptised into the body they were all
filled with I want you to hear this
bit very carefully and they were all filled
with the Holy Ghost and began to speak
with our tongues I think we've got to
get this word tongues again you know it
is the old Greek word the it's the
word languages Greek language began to speak with
other languages now I want you to get
this bit as the spirit gave their muttering
and we must hold tight for this phrase
as the spirit gave the muttering so they
were speaking in foreign languages and who were
speaking in foreign languages spirit filled gallantly into
the trust of Christ how were they speaking
by the power of the Holy Ghost oh
this was wonderful they were able to speak
in foreign languages now I want you to
get this and they were all filled with
the Holy Ghost and began to speak with
other tongues or languages as the spirit gave
the mutterings and they were dwelling at Jerusalem
I want you to get this word very
carefully now Jews, the whole city was full
of Jews, of course it was Pentecost wasn't
it you see the Jews came from every
land under the sun at that time they
always come, they do even yet at Pentecost
they come now the city was full they
were dwelling at Jerusalem, devout men out of
every nation under heaven, they were all different
nationalities but they were Jews just to say,
because you know that there are French Jews,
there are German Jews, there are Russian Jews
you know about that don't you well this
was much the same and here they were
and when it was noise the multitude came
together and were confounded because that every man
heard them, that is these Galileans speak in
his own, oh we've got the word now
haven't we language you like to mix up
tongues and language now?
you know what was happening don't you that
all these Jews came from different lands and
here they were all gathered together and these
men are able to speak to them in
their own language without ever having learned the
language it was bound to make Jews pick
up and take notice you know yes I
want you to get a little bit more
of this and they were there seven and
they were all amazed and marvelled saying one
to another, behold are not all these which
speak Galilean, well they knew they were just
Galilean poor Galilean fishermen and oh there was
no education at all in fact it does
say about Peter and John all learned ignorant
men, like me can hardly speak English but
able to speak a lot of languages these
boys, it was wonderful really thrilling and it
says here and they and when this was
noise the broad the multitude came together and
were confounded because that every man heard them
speak in his own language and they were
all amazed and marvelled saying one to another,
behold are not all these which speak Galilean
how here we man every man in our
own tongue in our own tongue, our own
language for then we were born, they were
born they were scattered away from Palestine and
then it gives the names of all the
nationalities Carthians and Medes and Elamites the dwellers
of Mesopotamia and in Judea and Cappadocia and
Pontus and Asia, Persia, Pamphylia and Egypt and
in the parts of Libya, Bartholomew and strangers
of Rome Jews and Protozoans, men who turned
over to the Jews, Cretes and Arabians and
there are sixteen, I've counted them closely sixteen
different nationalities we do hear them speak in
our tongues the wonderful works of God I
want you to get this you know now
who were speaking don't you, the Galileans you
know they were speaking in languages every man
had then speak in his own language yes
they were speaking by the power of the
Holy Ghost, it must have been the Holy
Ghost they were speaking the wonderful works of
God remember you see when people would stand
out and speak to some of these people
from Mesopotamia in the Mesopotamia dialect or language
and tell them about the wonderful works of
God through Christ this fellow over here must
be amazed if he stands over there and
says I know right well he doesn't know
the language but look he's doing it and
when somebody else stands out and he speaks
to some other fellow let me point this
out to you and to a few other
boys around that there was no interpreter here
funny isn't it you never noticed it before
you wouldn't know about it no interpreter sir
this fellow stands up here he talks just
the language that that was the gift appendix
that was it I'm exposed to say that
there's nobody in the world can do it
tonight nobody at all so if you think
there is I'm prepared to challenge them because
I go to Queen and Irene she she's
a big nod to Queen she nearly when
she was coming in late tonight they were
singing glory glory hallelujah must have been glad
to see you yes I'll tell you this
we can easily get 16 nationalities we can
get Pakistanis we can get Indians we can
get Chinese we can get Japanese we can
get Thailanders I can govern you up to
16 anytime and it will be a great
joy for me to bring them in here
and put them in these front seats if
you can get anybody around anywhere at anytime
from any place who can come and talk
to them in their own language and you
know as well as where you're sitting there's
nobody can do it what we here for
supposed to be tongues is baloney you see
it right with you you know they say
I can do that at any time it
doesn't take the Holy Ghost to do that
you need to be a monk to do
that this is tripe I tell you but
it is upshot and unbelievable and we're going
to cook it once and for all yes
it's tripe what tripe I don't think we
need to go on with that look let's
get this there's 12 and they were all
amazed and went and judged saying one to
another what magnificent others mocking said these men
are full of new wine and that's something
about wine you would need to know but
you can't get drunk on new wine they
were only mocking they were saying they have
been drinking new wine it's only mocking won't
get drunk on new wine but Peter standing
up with the eleven lifted up his voice
ye men of Judea you see let's put
it that they were talking to Jews oh
that's a thing that really should get the
hold of you see this gift that was
given at Pentecost it's what is called a
fine gift it's one of the fine gifts
there's a whole lot of fine gifts but
it was a fine to the Jews oh
yes what's the proof therefore you know I'll
tell you the standard blathering on Sunday morning
from the place where not a Jew next
nor near it not at all it's all
wrong you see let's go back to 1st
Corinthians chapter 14 1st Corinthians chapter 14 now
I want to try to do this for
you in a way that you always get
it so we'll we'll just take it in
bits let's read verse 23 1st Corinthians 14
23 if therefore Paul is talking to them
if therefore the whole church become together into
one place and you must know that he's
talking about the whole local church he can't
be talking about the whole church worldwide because
he's talking about the whole church become together
into one place you see they hadn't the
chaotic state in those days that we have
of so many denominations and all the believers
were gathering together on the first day of
feast now the place and the people are
two different things you see this building is
not the church I'm all about to call
it the church actually it should be called
the meeting house and in many places across
the country you'll find this old word on
the front, the meeting house this is the
place where the church meets you can see
this phrase look at it again if therefore
the whole church become together into one place
to differentiate between the gathering and the place
where they were gathered and I think that's
something we ought always to do now if
therefore the whole church become together into one
place and all speak with tongues that is
everybody that comes in all speak with tongues
and there come in those that are on
end or unbelievers will they not say that
you're mad I say that they're alright you
see we've got to get the whole church
let's get all the believers into the place
sort of first of all and then there
come in those that are on land or
unbelievers and that's not just the same crowd
you know God's not just using two words
for the same thing you see the Jews
were usually called unbelievers that's the answer you
do he wouldn't believe certain things about Christ
the pipes and the shadows and the parallels
and the pictures that he knew so well
he didn't believe that Christ is the end
of the lawful righteousness he was an unbeliever
but the Gentiles came into these meetings too
and they were called the on land you
can easily see this you can see the
church sitting there can't you the whole church
you can see the unbelieving Jew coming in
to just see what's going on and you
can see the on land Gentile coming and
Paul is saying now the whole church should
come together and these unbelieving Jews come in
and sit round you and these on land
Gentiles come in and you all start babbling
at the same time will they not say
you're mad well I've heard this very phrase
from some on land Gentile people who have
attended these kind of meetings the man in
this meeting asked him if he could stand
up and the first meeting he ever went
to was one like this and he says
I was sure they were mad and I'm
sure they're mad too now I want you
to hear that you've got the setting now
let's go back a little bit he has
got the whole church in and he's got
the unbelieving Jew and the on land Gentile
now look at verse 22 wherefore tongues or
languages are for a sign are for a
sign not to them that believe oh no
no no no I hope you've got this
not a mistake of anything not for believers
at all this gift that was given to
the early church was a sign gift not
to them that believe are you reading but
to them that believe not it was a
sign for the Jews are you reading well
take a time to have another look at
it yeah you know I was way up
in Derbyshire and I was a doctor there
with a big meeting in his own house
oh they tell me it was terrible he'd
got about 60 there on a Sunday morning
and if you couldn't play the bagpipes you
brought the bagpipes and if you could play
a melody you brought the melody and if
you could play a flute you brought the
flute and if you could play a trumpet
you brought the trumpet and if you couldn't
play any of those things you brought a
bin lid and just make a noise a
joyful noise and they tell me they marched
round this room for hours and everybody doing
their own thing as we say what a
noise it was he saw I was given
lectures in the little Methodist church up there
came along and said to me you have
written a book about tongues about the truth
I'd like to talk to you I said
I'd be willing to talk to you at
any time he said would you make this
tonight so she had all the kids in
there down there and I said let's put
a little table in the middle of this
room now you put your Bible there and
I'll put my Bible here and we'll look
at a few phrases together he's certainly a
clever doctor through the university and I began
with this verse verse 22 wherefore tongues are
for a sign it's a sign gift not
for them that believe but for them that
believe not I said you agree with this
doctor I don't think honestly he'd ever seen
his life before because he stared at me
as if somebody hit him with a hammer
I said doctor look we have an all
night you just sit up and take notice
I'm asking you a question do you believe
this he said look I'd like to talk
I said you're like to talk what you're
answering the question no getting away from it
do you believe that this gift that was
in the early church it was a sign
gift it was not for the evil it's
a sign not for them that believe so
after sort of nearly going across the table
for him he sort of said yes yes
yes yes it's all over I said how
many have you down in this room on
Sunday morning six people are they all saved
yes he said they're all saved I said
there's nobody else here then no I said
how could the gift of tongues be working
if it was a sign not for them
that believe but for them that believe not
you'd have to have unbelief or see otherwise
the Holy Ghost is upsetting his own people
now he thought just had enough trouble to
think so the only thing he can do
is lost his temper and he's a fool
to lost his temper with me because I
could manage any day ever lived I felt
like lifting him and throwing him through the
window so what's the use of losing your
temper when the truth is being told for
God's sake learn you need to bow to
me you need to bow to this book
and if this is a sign not for
them that believe but for them that believe
not then you'll need to bow to that
friend if you go where there's only believers
and they talk all wriggles all Sunday morning
then I'm afraid it's not of God at
all it can't be can it oh but
it goes further than that you see because
this will go back to verse 21 in
the law it is written now when it
says in the law it is written we're
going back to the book of Moses called
the law sometimes first five books of the
bible it is written which name of other
languages and other lips will I speak unto
this people God had already said that in
the law that he would speak to the
Jews with name of other languages oh yes
and then he gave the gifts and it
was so convinced you see if a Jew
from some foreign land was sitting here tonight
I don't think you get the fear now
but supposing it was and he could only
talk Arabian then all of a sudden God
would speak to him in Arabian the wonderful
works of God he would need to know
that this was of God this was a
sign to convince these Judaizers who would never
bow and it was something that was needed
for the early church because here's a small
number of people going out against not only
the power the mighty power of imperial Rome
but going against the mighty power of Judaism
and it was this fine gift that destroyed
Judaism because when men get up and speak
to Jews in the long language they had
to sit up and take notes this wasn't
full nonsense you see there are little lads
and there are little places where they think
this is a wonderful way of putting in
a night and they have a whole goal
to it and then they blame everybody else
for not being spirit for Robert Angus Woolby
was a man who founded Scotland Yard and
when he founded Scotland Yard you would know
he was no fool he could speak 14
languages fluently and he was interested in this
supposed to be gift of time and he
went round every little meeting in London to
try to find out if anybody ever speak
in languages and he couldn't find anybody speaking
in languages it is no language it is
belonging, it is nonsense but he wandered into
a little back street in the east end
of London where there was a little church
and across me got up and speak in
fluent Chinese but the things he said about
Christ and the blood of Christ and the
cough of Christ and the oath he used
against Christ couldn't be repeated anywhere but Sir
Robert Anderson got the pencil out and in
short time put it down and it's in
a book today printed by Sir Robert Anderson
was this the spirit of God you know
right now what it was it was the
devil now we come a bit closer home
and there's a professor of languages at Queen's
at this moment and it's only a few
weeks back that he went into a little
place in Belfast and there's a fellow talking
in tongues and he's cursing and blaspheming the
Lord and all the other boys are yelling
hallelujah at the same time oh one day
you would lose your blessed mind you see
I was sitting at home one evening the
knock came to the door and the man
out of his town I should tell you
his name maybe it wouldn't be fair to
him now but never mind would like to
come in to speak to you right bring
him in says I had a dream about
you that amuses me is that enough most
of me meat and cheese except I'm persuaded
that if you could only get the gift
of tongues you'd be the greatest man in
the world I'm nearly the greatest man in
the world without them anyway I said you
know my friend you have about three seconds
to get out of that chair and through
that door and through that gate cause I
am not listening to you cause this is
neither of God nor anything pertaining to God
and I threw you out now now just
get up and get up I'm sorry to
have to say this you know I meet
him almost every night now and I'll tell
you I can meet him tonight coming out
of a pub over there and he's always
stupid drunk I actually stopped the car one
night in front of Vernon and battered him
against the wall wouldn't they second you and
they would love you to sit and listen
to the supposed to be spirituality the whole
things of the devil you know I've been
through this a time or two I had
some sort of professor of this thing he
came in to see me once I said
how long ago since you first spoke in
tongues he says 29 years ago I says
then I couldn't have known you professor so
how could I if I tell you what
day it was and where it was and
about the time will you surprise me I
said you'll be honest with me will you
I says on a Saturday afternoon says what
I says upstairs in your own back room
says what I says there was nobody with
you where were the unbelievers this
is for unbelievers I says I'll tell you
what you were doing you were going to
have a go at it for the first
time and a little meet in the next
morning and you were practising and I have
caught dozens of them out on this how
can I go in a back room with
a coddle can't you let anything now you
will notice before I finish that there were
interpreters here in Corinthians and the church didn't
you see on the day of Pentecost this
was out in the open and these fellows
are all standing around and these men who
have got this gift I like to think
at the time were speaking to these people
in their own language the wonderful works of
God that they interpreted you see when you
have a church speaking to a thing as
it was in sermons and there are unlearned
Gentiles and somebody gets up to speak to
this unbelieving Jew over there and speaks in
his own language the church now the unlearned
Gentile doesn't know what's going on so God
had to give another gift so that he
can stand up and tell the church and
the unlearned Gentile what he is saying to
him when you have a church you hear
it it's not here now ay this is
the challenge too long you can do it
come on I'll get you a few men
to talk to they're like me if I'm
talking have a look at 1 Corinthians 13
he's talking about love here he says verse
4 charity suffereth long in this time and
the word charity is the old word for
love and he says in verse 7 beareth
all things love beareth all things love love
believeth all things love hopeth all things love
endureth all things love never faileth but whether
there be prophecies these prophets that we got
in the early church they shall fail or
fade out whether there be tongues they shall
keep whether there be knowledge cause God gave
certain gifts of knowledge to the early church
before the bible came you see somebody said
to me you're talking about whether there be
tongues they shall cease he says they'll only
cease when that which is perfect is come
and I said what did you think of
it he said that's Christ coming I said
you don't think that Paul called Christ that
I should have something to say to him
Paul never called Christ that how dare anybody
call him that no it's an inanimate object
isn't it oh well there it is there
when that which is perfect is there came
a day when the food stock was put
to this and God had given everything he
was going to give and everything he had
to say and every revelation was all tied
up now we don't need the gift now
and we don't need the prophet now and
we don't need this super knowledge that God
gives about you know when Moses worked those
wonderful miracles in the land of Egypt you
will find that they ceased after that they
were never worked again you will find that
the manna in the wilderness ceased oh it
didn't go on you know and you will
find that even Elijah and Elisha whose miracles
are prophets but the other prophets that came
behind them oh Isaiah and Jeremiah Uzziah, Daniel
all the rest of them oh they didn't
work any and in these days now by
the faith and hope and love one of
these days you know our faith is going
to be turned into faith and our hopes
will be absolutely satisfied but love will go
on for a long time I hope you
don't let them upset you anymore now we
are determined to take things like this for
a magnitude just to expand and explode and
explain and I trust that God will bless
you have a look at this lovely little
hymn 1067 we'll just sing one verse 1067
God of mercy God of grace show the
brightness of our faith, shine upon us saviour's
time, fill our church with light divine and
thy help extend unto us the motive aim
1067 oh oh
oh Lord we
thank thee for thy wonderful word we thank
thee for all it's doctrines and it's truth
and the light Lord help us to hide
it in our hearts that we may not
sin against thee we thank thee that thou
hast magnified thy words above all I know
and if thou hast placed it in so
highly exalted positions help us to do the
same oh Lord just part of in thy
feet and with thy blessings and take us
to our homes in safety and bless our
friends as they leave tomorrow for London and
the far east and on the way home
and grant Lord that they'll stay with us
may they remain sacred with them and grant
that God will bless them abundantly in the
days to come so give us all thy
touch this evening for thy mercy Amen