(Depressed Disciples) the Gift of Tounges — Willie Mullan

Depression, False Teaching, and the Testing of Believers

697. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. 6 9 7 G. Eight weeks. This is number nine this evening. For the past eight 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 and just grievously that because of one particular thing that they have committed. I had a lady in with me this morning and she said the other day, well you just said one thing that one thing.

Another lady in the meeting said to me, that very haunting sin that I committed. So many you know lie and talk and wish that 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. I've 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 us.

And we've gone through all this. And now we are to the spot in the class where we are looking at the manifold testing. Because Peter said, when he talked about God's so great salvation, he said wherein ye gratefully rejoice.

And then he added quickly, for now for a season if need be, we are in heaviness through manifold testing. And we are going into these manifold testings. And the first avenue of these manifold 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. You remember last week, let's go back and recap just one minute.

The Gospel of Grace in Galatians

We are at Galatians chapter one, letter to the Galatians, chapter one, 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, Grace be to you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who give 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 unto another God. You know, he knew that they were shifting, and shifting away from Christ.

And it was false teachers that was doing this, as we shall see. He says, But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

And then we come to this chapter in chapter 2, Galatians 2. And fourteen years after, I went up to Jerusalem with Barnabas. He took Titus with me also. And I went on my revelation. The Lord sent him, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately for 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 a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised. You see, this is what the trouble was here. There were people coming to the churches in Galatia, and they were preaching another gospel.

They were preaching except the 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'd like to look through 13 and 14 sometime, you'll 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,.

And certain men which came down from Judea talked to brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the man of the apostles, ye cannot be saved. Now, that must be another gospel. And I think, you know, we're 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 arding a little bit to this glorious gospel. And this was Judaizers, 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. See verse 6, I marvel that the apostles were removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ onto another gospel, which is not another.

But there have been 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 perversive, booty 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 or eight 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 lost the blessedness. There was once upon a time when they were gloriously saved, had embraced Christ, that they were so happy.

They've lost the joy, they've lost the peace, they've 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 thorn in the flesh, this critical 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.

False Teachers Who Deny or Add to the Gospel

I was going into the royal one day when Sir Ian Fraser was coming out. And he knows me. He says, hello Larry, how are you doing? I want to ask you about transplant. Well, 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 thorn 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 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, 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.

And, 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 preserve 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 Mormon say one of these nights, 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 motion of self-peddling anything for anyone. Oh, damnable heresies, and they need to be checked. 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 resurrection 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 they're always questioning these things. 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, blessed 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, crap we hear about this too.

Ah, 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, you know. A fellow 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 show you through the door, and he just starts talking tricks about me.

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. Mullen up in a knot.

He's a liar. Some holiness above that, isn't it? You want to get his name? And where he goes to? There's Don Cushman. 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 and talk to me afterwards.

The Variety of Spiritual Gifts

And watch it carefully. I'll pause speaking through the chapter 10. And at chapter 12, and Joshua is saying, Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, he thought all this, 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! Oh, other 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 F. 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'm always a guest 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 of faith.

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.

So they collapse halfway through. Because you haven't got the gift of faith, and don't belong to now, see, because I'm afraid you're going to get into tight corners, and you're not going to get out of them.

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 line, 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 time, it was lame, but he perceived that he had faith to be healed.

Of course, this is one of the gifts of healing. You can perceive it as a service of faith. But we're not going into this now, because I'll last for subject. Because when you come to medicals, if a man's dead, like Lazarus, he can't have faith, can he?

You'll have got to see him, faith in 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, diverse kinds of languages.

To another, the interpretation of these languages. Now, you see, these are the gifts. Now, look at verse 28. There'll be time to save time all the time, because I've got us going away about seven 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 creep into this class. They are, they are, they are millennialists. 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 round and tell me, if the church was in the Old Testament, how the apostles got first?

It's an easy one for you. That's sure to say more when you come round. How did they get first? That's the thing. Further, the church began at Pentecost, and God put the apostles first. Sure, 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 hath set some in the church first, the apostles. Second, early 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.

They were only there until the New Testament would be completed with God. You see, God hath set some in the church first, the apostles. Second, early prophets. Totally picturesque. And if I'm right that the apostles and prophets are God, then the picture is very important.

That's why I think you hear, titles of bombers, of barriers, and everything else. Yes. That's why we've kept this going for twenty-five years. Because God one day, when he says, may be the creature like me, the gift of teaching in this book.

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 two hours and ten minutes.

So you see what I can do when it's right. And when I said to the folks, I said, he died. Everybody just, just on the set of him. Not a 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, God helped me to do it.

And that's that. Now God has set some in the church. First, apostles. Second, early prophets. Thirdly, after that, medicals. Fancy putting medicals behind pictures. Then gifts. Ask again please, of healing, health, government, diversities of tongues.

Tongues as a Sign Gift

The last, you know, led to a lot of raving about it. And the false priests have 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 of it.

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 Christians who go round doing this.

I'll tell you this. They want every believer to talk in tongues. Talk the way they want them. Now, just sit up tight now and answer the question, friends, that 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'll be careful 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 not. Are all prophets? Do you know the answer? Lots of folks here would never dare to give up and say they're prophets. The answer is no. Are all teachers? You like to take this class over for the next two years?

Are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing? Do all seekers come to your answer? No. What are you running after the young believers for? You're going to put them in the attic, aren't you?

You're going to trouble them. You're going to disturb them. You're going to produce this gospel, aren't you? You're going to be victims. You're doing the devil's work, that's what you're doing. It's how you learn from this book, isn't it?

Yes, I think you can see that, all right. Yes. Let's be absolutely clear that this gift was in the early church. You must never deny it was in the early church. Let's turn to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter 2.

Pentecost and Miraculous Languages

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.

Do you get it? Sitting. If I think some of you can't read this, it's a book. Just sitting, not rolling on the floor, son. Sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as 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 as of fire, for God changed it. They're not allowed to change it. Oh, we get so many sermons about fire.

Like as 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 baptized into one body at that moment, and the church was formed. And at the moment that they were baptized into the body, they were all filled with the Holy Ghost.

I want you to hear this bit very carefully. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues. Oh, I think we've got to get this word tongues again, you know. It is the old Greek word.

The friend Bernard Liddell knows as well as I do. It's the word languages. Real languages. Began to speak with other languages. Now, I want you to get this bit. As the Spirit gave their mutterings, and we must hold tight to this phrase, as the Spirit gave the mutterings.

So they were speaking in foreign languages. And who was speaking in foreign languages? Spirit filled Galileans who had trusted 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 noisy abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded.

Because that every man dared 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're 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 marveled, 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, you know.

It is threatening. And it says here, and when this was lost abroad, the multitude came together and were confronted because that every man heard them speak in his own language. And they were all amazed and marveled, 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. Well, then we were born. They were born, they were scattered away from Palestine. And then it gives the names of all the nationalities.

Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers of Mesopotamia, and in Judea and Cappadocia, and Pontus, and Asia, Persia, Pansalia, and Egypt, and in the parts of Libya, Barts and Remi, and strangers of Rome, Jews and Proto-Whites, men who had turned over to the Jews, Cretes and Arabians, not lawless and illiterate.

There are sixteen, I have counted them carefully, 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 Galilean?

You know they were speaking in languages? Every man had them speak in his own language. Yes, they were speaking by the power of the Holy Ghost. It must have been the Holy Ghost, these boys didn't know the language.

They were speaking the wonderful works of God, remember? You see when Peter 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 a man. 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, well let me point this out to you and to a few other boys around, that there was no interpreter here.

Yes, funny isn't it? You never noticed it before. You didn't know about it. No interpreter sir. This fellow stands up here, he talks, just the language. That was the gift, that was the gift, appendix, that was it.

I'm as bold to say that there's nobody in the world can do it so much, nobody at all. Oh, if you think there is, I'm prepared to challenge them, because I go to Queens, and Irene, she's a big nod to Queens, she nearly owns Queens.

When she was coming in late tonight, they were singing glory, glory, hallelujah. It must have been rather serious. 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 gather you up 16 anytime, and it will be a great joy for me to bring them in here and put them in here in these front seats. If you can get anybody around anywhere at any time 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're here for supposed to be tons of baloney. You see, it's tripe we're here. You know, they say, I can do that at any time. Don't take the holy ghost to do that, you need to be a monk to do that.

This is tripe I've shown you, but it is upshot to young believers. And we're going to cook it once and for all. Yes, it's tripe. I don't think we need to go on with that. Look, let's get this. Verse 12, And they were all amazed.

He went and judged, saying one to another, what madness is this? Others mocking, said, these men are full of new wine. And that's something about wine you would need to know, that you can't get drunk on new wine.

They were only mocking. They were saying they had been drinking new wine. It's only mocking. You can't get drunk on new wine. But Peter standing up with the eleven lifted up his voice, Ye men of Judea.

Tongues, Prophecy, and the Unbeliever

You see, let's put it that they were talking to Jews. Ah, that's the thing we need to get the hold of. You see, this gift that was given at Pentecost, it's what is called a sign gift. It's one of the sign gifts.

There's a whole lot of sign gifts. But it was a sign to the Jews. What's the proof there for, you know? And I'll tell you the standard blathering on Sunday morning. Some of the places are not a Jewish area.

Not at all. It's all wrong. Let's go back to 1 Corinthians chapter 14. 1 Corinthians chapter 14. Now, I want to try to do this for you in a way that you always get it. So we'll just take it in bits. Let's read verse 23.

1 Corinthians 14, 23. If therefore, if 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 the week.

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 a 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. So differentiate between the gathering and the place where they will gather.

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 on believers. Will they not say that you're mad? I say they're all right. 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 they come in those that are on land or on believers. 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 on believers.

That's the answer he gives. 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 law for righteousness.

He was an unbeliever. But the Gentiles came into these meetings too, and they were called the on learned. You can easily see this. You can see the church sitting there, can't you? The whole church. You can see the on-believing Jew coming in to just see what's going on.

And you can see the on-learned Gentile coming. And Paul is saying, now if the whole church should come together, and these on-believing Jews come in and sit around you, and these on-learned 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-trained people who have attended this kind of meeting. The man in this meeting mask, and if you 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. You've got the whole church in, and you've got the on-believing Jew and the on-learned Gentile.

Now, look at verse 22. Wherefore tongues, or languages, are for a sign, are for signs, not to them that believe. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. I hope you've got this. It's not a mistake of any kind. It's 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 the time to have another look at it.

Yeah, you know, I was way up in Derbyshire, and there was a doctor there who had 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'd 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, your brother Ben lived, and just make a noise, a joyful noise.