WWUTT 1820 Q&A Kissing Before Marriage, Gifts vs. Fruit of the Spirit, Explaining Joel 2:28-32

Thanksgiving Week, Illness, and the Show Schedule

Is kissing okay before marriage? What's the difference between gifts of the Spirit and fruit of the Spirit? And is the Holy Spirit still doing miraculous signs today? The answers to these questions and others when we understand the text.

This is when we understand the text, a daily Bible commentary to help encourage your time in the Word that we may grow in the likeness of our Savior. Tell your friends about our ministry at www .wutt .com.

And once again, it's Pastor Gabe.

Thank you, Becky. You're welcome. This episode this week is brought to you by illness. Yay! So fun. We would not even be able to sit down and do this if it wasn't for the fact that we all got sick. Well, not everybody yet.

No. I'm hoping not everybody. This is the second, I think third consecutive illness that I haven't caught. So far. Everybody else. It's not out of the house yet though. Yeah, it's not. Yeah. We'll see.

Lingering. And this is the kind of stuff I usually get, the cold flu like stuff.

Yeah, that lasts forever. Right. Yeah, it does.

It's gonna cling on to me for a week or two. Yeah. Because Becky and some of the kids got sick, vacation plans or Thanksgiving plans rather were canceled. We were not gonna be able to do this show together this week.

No. But since travel was canceled, then Becky's able to be on with me here. Blessing in disguise. That's right. And I don't have a class to teach like 30 minutes from now. Right. So do you think we can put in a full hour here?

I don't know. The kids are by themselves. It's depending on the kids. We'll see. They're in the gym of the church here playing. At nap time. Yep, and it just depends on how well they're able to do without injury.

Yes. As to whether or not we'll still be able to put a full hour in. I've got quite a few emails here. Oh yeah?

Well, let's see how many we can knock out. That's right. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday is New Testament study on the podcast. And Thursday is the Old Testament study.

Starting on Isaiah this coming Thursday. Woo-hoo.

And Friday is your Q &A.

You can send questions to the broadcast by emailing us at whenweunderstandthetext at gmail .com. One of the messages that I have here, I think comes via the website. So you can also submit a question through the webpage.

Yes. And it gets to us on the email as well. But it's also through the webpage, I get a bunch of spam. Yeah. So. So we have to kind of filter through it. Yeah, if you've emailed me that way through the website and you didn't hear from me, it could have been lost in the spam.

But I did catch this one. If we've got enough time, I'll tack it on to the end here. Awesome. This, first of all, I want to say congratulations to Zachary from Weatherford, Texas for coming up with the Gabe and Babe Show.

He's going to receive a book. Yay! And the rest of you that won books like a week and a half ago, two weeks ago, they haven't been mailed out yet. Yeah. I did the contest as early as I did so I could get them mailed out and I still haven't gotten them mailed out.

It's all right, we'll get on that. That's terrible of me, terrible. Terrible. But Friday is still like an actual working day for people. Only Thursday businesses are shut down and stuff. I don't know, we live in a small town.

Well, what they consider to be a small town.

I can still go down to the mail house and mail something. You think it'll be open? Oh yeah, on Friday? We'll see. Yeah, yeah. I can get it mailed out. You're pretty confident about this. The bank is still working regular hours today.

Black Friday is not a holiday. It's not, but there's a lot of people that just go ahead and take a four day weekend. That's true. Because everybody's out of town anyway, or have family. Four day, that's right.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Yeah, I was thinking like Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. No.

I got Thursday off too. Well, it is, if you haven't been able to tell already, Thanksgiving week.

Yes. The day after Thanksgiving. We're recording this the day before Thanksgiving though. Now, since all of our Thanksgiving plans were changed, we've had to come up with, now what are we gonna eat? Yes.

Because we were gonna go to everybody else's house and eat. We were, yes.

And here we are. And now we can't even join anybody because we're sick.

Yeah, we can't go to anybody else's house because we're ill. We're now those people that are doing Thanksgiving shopping the day before Thanksgiving. Attempting. That's all right, we can have a meal. Now, I didn't want to spend 70 bucks on a turkey.

$70. I know, just to feed us. And I've never made one before anyway.

I love turkey. I make all kinds of stuff. I've never done a turkey and didn't, it wasn't really. I've done a turkey a time or two. Like a full turkey. Yeah. Put it in the oven and make a turkey in the oven.

In a bag. Have we done that at home?

Once. We did do that at home once. Yeah, and then another time was at your brother's house. That was a long time ago. Well, yeah, but that's not at home. Oh, you made it at there.

Okay, I got you. I helped her. Yeah, I remember that now. So I wanted to do something I could put in a Crock-Pot. And I thought a duck would be a great idea because a duck would fit in the Crock-Pot.

And we haven't had duck before. We've never had duck.

So I bought this duck. It even came with like an orange glaze sauce with it. Sounds yummy. I was excited about this. And we're gonna make a duck in the Crock-Pot. We're gonna start our own Thanksgiving tradition of having duck for Thanksgiving.

Going a little old school. And I get it home and I'm washing off the outside of the wrapper because it's been in this bin with all these other turkeys and ducks. So I'm rinsing it off and I notice on the label it expired three days ago.

Ah, yep.

So I had to take it back to the store. And by the time I did that, which was Wednesday, all these other late shoppers have come and claimed the rest of the ducks. So I couldn't exchange it out for another duck.

That's all right. We'll figure out something. One of these days though, I'm gonna get a duck.

And by the time this airs. We're gonna have a Crock-Pot duck. We'll just have to, we'll be able to tell everybody what we did.

Right now it's a mystery. Yeah, by this time we've already eaten and had fun. I've got enough repertoire of my other dishes.

That I think we'll make this work. Yeah, and I don't wanna spend all day cooking either because we have so many projects that need done.

Yeah, which it's gonna rain Thursday and Friday. Is it really? I was going to do construction projects at home, Thanksgiving and Friday.

I have a honey-do list that is ever growing. So you're welcome to knock out some of that.

Well, I was specifically talking about the deck and working on the office.

Yeah, suck out. I know what you were talking about. All right.

Anyway, we're eating up all kinds of intro time here. Let's get to some questions. This one is from Ethan, dear Gabe, what gives? I've been watching Twitter to see if you're gonna get your Twitter account back.

The Babylon Bee is back on. Adam Ford is back on. Someone told me Phil Johnson was back, but it doesn't look like he's updated, but your account is still suspended. Have you appealed your suspension? Did Elon deny your appeal?

All right, what's the scoop? I loved your stuff that you posted and I didn't realize how much I missed it until you weren't there anymore. Keep cranking out such great content. I don't know what's going on.

I mean, there's just bigger people out there that Twitter has to free. So, like Jordan Peterson got his account back and all the other guys that ended up getting booted off because they were exposing the whole COVID thing that was going on and they weren't allowed to talk about conspiracies, so they got permanently suspended.

They're all getting their accounts back. Freedom of speech, hurrah. I'm the pastor that got blocked because I quoted what the Bible said. I'm really not on Elon's list of priorities. So somewhere down the list, I'm sure they'll get to mine, but yeah, it is what it is for right now.

But you have appealed it again. I did, I appealed it. When Elon took over. And it was shortly after I made my most recent appeal that he came out online and said, look, we've got a lot of changes we got to make.

We have to get policy in place for what counts as a banned account and who was blocked because of free speech, a violation of the first amendment or something like that. And so they're kind of working through that, creating new policy and systematically freeing those people who were wrongly caged.

Trying to keep it like the Twitter metaphor, the birds that were caged. Anyway, I'm just not a priority. There was somebody at Walmart the other day. I was at Walmart. I did not even know who this was, but they just stopped me and just went, hey, Pastor Gabe, are you free on Twitter again yet?

What's taking Elon so long? I don't know.

He has no idea who I am. But one of his Is he in Texas though? Yes, he is. So you can just hop on over. Oh yeah, sure, down to Houston.

The Tesla headquarters has moved here, but Twitter's still in San Francisco. Yeah, maybe soon. Someday. We'll see. They'll fly out of California and come down here, migrate down to Texas. Yeah. What was I saying?

What was I doing? Oh, anyway, that was Ethan's email. Okay, continuing on here. This is from Chris in Iowa. Hey, Gabe and babe. I've learned a lot from your study through the Song of Solomon. It's a very obscure book to me and you've broken it down in a way that I can understand.

So thank you for that. After going through the SOS, what are your thoughts on premarital kissing between couples? What does the Bible have to say on this topic? Have a blessed Thanksgiving. Well, Becky and I kind of did, so.

Yeah. We can't exactly oppose it.

Well, I mean, to be honest, thinking about my girls growing up, I wouldn't mind if they saved their first kiss for when they're married. In fact, I might actually encourage that. Just because there's so much temptation.

There is, there's a lot of temptation.

And consider 1 Corinthians 7, 1, Paul says, now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman, but because of sexual immoralities, each man is to have his own wife and each woman is to have her own husband.

The husband must fulfill his duty to his wife and likewise also the wife to her husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. And likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

So your body does not belong to anybody before you are married. And so therefore you really need to be careful with physical displays of affection until you get to marriage. Right, I agree. Holding hands, likely okay.

Although it's probably better for you even to not do that. Now I'm not gonna be legalistic here. I'm not gonna say that.

No, not legalistic about it. But at the same time, I mean, it's just, there's so much, even on billboards you see too much and know too much about a person. There's just, there's a lot of temptation. There is, and it's everywhere.

And it's in basically every show or commercial.

And I mean, it's everywhere. We're desensitized to sex. We think that having sex before marriage is just kind of a normal thing, so you should just accept it. The Bible says that it's sin. God created sex to be enjoyed between a husband and wife in marriage.

Exactly. That's where it is supposed to be enjoyed and nowhere else. And if you desire it outside the marriage covenant, you're doing something wrong. Now, I did say when we were in Song of Songs, when I started out, that there is a desire that we see that the woman has for her husband or for this man.

The woman has for this man that she is going to marry. The man has for this woman whom he is going to marry. They're already committed to one another and they're in a courtship. And there's nothing wrong with having those physical desires for each other as long as they're not awakening love until the proper time.

That's a theme that we've seen come up in Song of Songs. Yeah. As long as those desires are for each other and they're healthy and they're done in honor of the Lord. Right. They do desire each other. That's a perfectly natural desire.

That's what's supposed to happen. That's what's supposed to happen, yeah. If you didn't have that desire, you wouldn't want to get married. Right. It's not wrong for her to desire her man as long as she has in her mind that we're not consummating this until we get married, until we've made our vows before God and before witnesses.

You know yourself better than anyone else. Yes. And other than the Lord. And so you will know what is too much temptation, what puts more temptation in front of you. Yeah. Be like, okay, I know my limit and my limit is here.

Now, if you feel guilty,.

Then you have done something sinful because you've sinned against your own conscience. Remember as we talk about like liberty of conscience issues in 1 Corinthians 8 through 10 or in Romans chapter 14.

So if you've gone against your conscience, you have sinned. Yes. If you feel guilty about it, then don't do it. Right.

And I think the guilty feeling means that you took it a step too far. Yeah. And so that means back it up.

Becky and I, I think we've talked about this before. When we were dating, we felt like we were going too far. And there was at one point in our relationship that I had to put the brakes on, but I had to communicate that well with Becky.

So she did not feel like she was getting rejected. Right. Oh, there's something I've done wrong. Gabe's pulling away. Right. So I had to tell her, we've been going a little too far. That's on me because I'm the guy in this relationship.

So let's back up a little bit. Put the brakes on. Yeah. We'll have plenty of time for this later. Right. That was before we even got engaged though. And then getting engaged, we saved ourselves until marriage.

Yep. And so it was a good thing. But of course, like I said, we didn't save the kissing part until marriage. There was some of that in there. Yeah.

Anyway. But that's why I was saying about, you know when you've gone too far because the guilt will set in.

But do all things in honor of the Lord. Oh yes. Honor one another, honor the Lord. Don't be in the relationship for what can, what am I getting out of this? Am I feeling satisfied? Yeah. How far can I go?

Yeah, yeah. Definitely don't get into the serial dating. No. It's like you're trying on one another to see which one fits. Commit to a relationship and don't enter into something where you're exchanging I love you's and stuff like that unless you know that you're gonna marry this person.

Right. And listen, guilty as charged. I did the serial dating thing. I broke a lot of hearts and it's terrible. Yeah. To think about what I had done to these girls. I mean, there wasn't even a serious physical element attached to it.

It was just leading, I'm basically leading them on. Yeah. Thinking that there's something romantic happening here, something permanent. Yeah. They're probably hearing something more affectionate than I intend.

And it's just not, it's not kind. Yeah. It's not considerate of somebody else's feelings. So you need to consider that also even when it comes to a kiss that that might be communicating something deeper to the other person than maybe you even intend with it.

So it's better to abstain from any of those things until you get married. But again, those physical things tend to open other doors. They do. I think we covered that one. Yep. I don't have to talk about kissing anymore.

Gifts of the Spirit, the Fruit of the Spirit, and the Holy Spirit

All right. Mwah. On to this question from Tash. That's a great name. Pastor Gabe, three like-minded questions. I often hear people say gifts of the spirit as opposed to the gift of the spirit. Love, joy, peace, et cetera.

Okay, that must be fruit of the spirit. So I hear people say gifts of the spirit as opposed to the fruit of the spirit. Maybe that's what Tash means there. Okay. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

That's the fruit of the spirit in Galatians 5. Tash also says revelations as opposed to revelation. Right. Hearing people say revelations. Yes. Now you look it up, it's just revelation, no S at the end of it.

And lastly, I've heard people say Holy Spirit instead of the Holy Spirit when referring to the Holy Spirit. Almost as if they are saying holy, first name, spirit, last name. For example, holy spirit told me or holy spirit convicted me.

Which are correct, the correct saying of each of these and does it really matter? I know the answer for the first two, but the last one just gets on my nerves and I wanna be corrected if I'm actually an error in saying the Holy Spirit.

If it doesn't really matter, I wanna have it stop getting on my nerves when I hear people do this. I understand that, yeah. Okay, so the first one, there's gifts of the spirit and there's the gifting of the spirit, there's the fruit of the spirit.

So there's different terminology for that. Yeah, it's worded differently. Yeah. In different places. Gifts of the spirit you read about in places like 1 Corinthians 12 and 14, in Romans 12, in Ephesians four.

So giftings of the spirit or the gifts of the spirit would be like in Romans 12, six, having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, whether prophecy in agreement with the faith or service in his serving, or he who teaches in his teaching or he who exhorts in his exhortation, he who gives with generosity and he who leads with diligence, he who shows mercy with cheerfulness.

Probably would have been better to start with verse five. So we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members of one another. So as being part of the body of Christ and being different members, we have different gifts that have been given by the Holy Spirit.

And each of these gifts is to be used for the benefit in the building up of the church. Paul is more explicit about that in 1 Corinthians 12 and 14. Right. But these are the gifts of the spirit. So these gifts are gonna differ from person to person.

And as I've said before about the lists that you find in the New Testament about the gifts of the spirit, they're not exhaustive. So there may be some other kind of gifting that you receive from the spirit that may not be explicitly listed in one of those lists.

Right. And the reason why I know that is because the lists differ. They're never exactly the same or else Paul would always be ticking off. These are the gifts of the spirit and you can't have any other gifts than these.

So we know that there are various ways in which the spirit may gift us for the work of service to the church. And if you don't know what your spiritual gift is, have somebody help you with that. Yeah.

Talk to the elders of the church, talk to your Sunday school class, another teacher or something like that. And the brothers and sisters in the Lord who are around you will help you find out or understand what your gifting is so that you can help serve the church.

Right. Outside looking in is a little easier than inside looking out. Sometimes. So, and also if you really are new and you have no idea, try volunteering in a few different areas and see where it flourishes.

And as I've heard one pastor say, if you don't know if you're supposed to be a leader, then lead something. And if no one follows you, then you're not supposed to be a leader. I hated leading. Revelations as opposed to revelation.

Revelation. It's revelation. Yeah. And one way to remember that is that it's John's revelation. The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his slaves the things which must soon happen.

And he indicated this by sending it through his angel to his slave, John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the witness of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. So if you think of it as being the revelation or John's revelation, that helps keep in your mind that it's singular.

Yeah, just one. It's just revelation, not revelations. And then the last question that you had with regard to the Holy Spirit. So everywhere we see this in scripture, it's the Holy Spirit. There's the definite article there.

So as we think of it as what the scripture says, if you wanna follow what scripture says about the Holy Spirit, I don't think there's anything wrong.

With saying Holy Spirit. Yeah. I don't know, I find it weird. I'm a little, like, it doesn't irritate me, but it's just, it's odd. Well, there are some I mentally put in a the for you. Yeah.

There are some hymns that will address the Holy Spirit and it's just addressing him as Holy Spirit. Okay. And there's nothing wrong with that. Sure. Or you think of the song Holy, Holy, Holy, God in three persons, blessed Trinity.

I don't guess you say the Holy Spirit there. No. The doxology. Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. So you're not saying the Holy Ghost there. In the Great Commission, Matthew 28, 18 to 20, go into all the world, baptizing in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Yeah. So there you have the definite article before each one of them. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. So there are occasions where you can say Holy Spirit. There's not anything really wrong with that. But most of the time in scripture when the Holy Spirit is mentioned or addressed, it's the, the definite article is there.

Even if it's just Spirit, it's not Holy Spirit, it's the Spirit, just Spirit singular. It's still the Spirit and capital S in most of your translations. Always capitalized. If it's a lowercase S and it's talking about something spiritual or it may be talking about our souls or something like that.

But where you see a capital S and the definite article, you're talking about the Holy Spirit.

Yeah. So either or, I guess on that one. But good question. Thanks, Tash.

Joel’s Prophecy, Acts 2, and the Cessation of Sign Gifts

Next email. Hello, Pastor Gabe. My name is Cheryl and I've been a long time listener of what and have been very edified by your teaching. Aw. Not only that, but it is such a joy to listen to you and your sweet wife's voices because you are so uplifting.

Aw, thanks. Thanks. You don't get to sit in on our conversations off mic where I'm complaining about stuff most of the time. And Becky gets to be my sounding board. I do. There are people I do not complain to, but I share it with my wife.

So she gets to hear the complaining that I don't share with anybody else. I have a section of scripture that I am wondering if you would be willing to help me with. I am certain your help with this challenging passage will help many of your listeners, not just myself.

That's a great idea. What question can I ask that would be helpful to several people? The passage is Acts 2, 14 to 21, which says, beginning of verse 14, but Peter, standing with the 11, lifted up his voice and addressed them, men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you and give ear to my words.

For these people are not drunk as you suppose. You remember the disciples are speaking in tongues. Oh yeah. And so some are going, they're drunk. Right. These people are not drunk as you suppose, since it is only the third hour of the day.

But this is what was uttered through the prophet Joel. And in the last days it shall be, God declares that I will pour out my spirit on all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy and your young men shall see visions.

And your old men shall dream dreams. Even on my male servants and female servants in those days, I will pour out my spirit and they shall prophesy. And I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and vapor of smoke.

The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day. And it shall come to pass that everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Cheryl goes on as a former charismatic, I know this passage is often used to validate dreams and visions that are declared to be revelation from God. Although I now hold firmly to the cessationist view, the idea that all of the sign gifts have come to an end.

Okay. They ended with the apostolic era and they don't continue to this day. So. So like miracles? Yeah, miracles. Okay. Yeah, the sign gifts being things like healing the sick, raising the dead, speaking in tongues.

Oh, check, okay. This is different than what we were speaking before about gifts of the spirit. Of course we still have gifts of the spirit. Right. But those are not miraculous sign gifts. The sign gifts as I've been talking about going through Hebrews, were there to authenticate that the message that the apostles preaching came from God.

It mentions that in Hebrews 2, 3 and 4. Yeah. And so once the message is authenticated and the people see the signs and wonders and they know that this message has come from God, then the word of God is confirmed.

There's not a reason for that to continue on. Right. We see that pattern throughout scripture. There's only a handful of people that ever performed incredible miraculous signs. Yeah. Moses, Elijah, Elisha, his successor.

So you have Moses and his successor, Joshua. You have Elijah and his successor, Elisha. And then you have Jesus and the disciples. Right. That he commissioned to go out. Their success. Now there were some others that did some miraculous things in there, but very small smattering.

There just seems to be particular times in which God pours out miracles to verify and show that this is the word of God that has been declared to this people. Right. And so once that was done, once the work of the gospel had gone out and to all the world during that apostolic era, the sign gifts ceased.

And now we have, as Peter says in 2 Peter 1, the prophetic word more fully confirmed. Yes. So anyway, that's an understanding of cessationism. So she says, I firmly hold to the cessationist view, but I can understand why this passage can easily be interpreted, misinterpreted, and used to validate charismatic claims and practices.

If the canon is closed, and I believe it is, why does Peter quote Joel's prophecy here about the great day of the Lord, stating that those gifted with the spirit will have dreams and visions. Reading this passage on a surface level does make it seem like Peter is saying that now that the Holy Spirit has come, this is what we can expect.

Would you be willing to share with us not only what this passage does mean, as well as what it doesn't mean in respect to continuing revelation, particularly what the dreams and visions are for, as well as why we will need them in the millennial kingdom, since God's revelation has been delivered once for all to the saints.

Any clarification you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for all that you do in helping people learn the word of God, and please say hello to Becky for me. Aw, hi. Hi, Becky. So everything that we see talked about there in Joel is being fulfilled in the book of Acts.

Mm-hmm. And there's not a reason for us to have to say that it's continually being fulfilled to this day. All that matters is that this was prophesied and it was fulfilled. And Peter is speaking to the people about this and referencing Joel to show them this was prophesied.

What you're witnessing right now is the fulfillment of that prophecy. Mm-hmm. Now, there's a reference to judgment there because we become followers of Jesus Christ to escape judgment. Right. Of course, we worship God.

Of course, we know that God is worthy of our worship and that's why we worship him. Mm-hmm. But we need a savior, and without Christ, we perish under the wrath of God and we go to hell. So the call to follow the gospel always comes with a warning about the judgment that is to come.

Mm-hmm. You consider in Acts 17, a little bit later on, you know, 15 chapters later, where Paul is preaching at the Areopagus in Athens and he says to them, the times of ignorance, God is overlooked.

But now he commands all people everywhere to repent because there is a day that he is fixed on which he will judge the world and he is shown by whom he will judge the world by raising him from the dead.

Mm-hmm. There's Paul preaching. You don't even have Christ's name mentioned there. True. Nor is the gospel really articulated in such a way as though to say, Jesus died on the cross as an atoning sacrifice for sins, so repent and turn to him and you will be saved.

You know, we don't have the gospel presented there in that way as he's speaking to a Greek people. Yeah. But you do have the warning of judgment. Repent, turn to the one whom he's raised from the dead, which he was preaching about there in Athens before they had him preaching at the Areopagus.

It's the whole reason they had him up there. So some will say, because Jesus' name wasn't mentioned in that sermon, then it's not necessary to always have to mention Christ in a sermon. No, the people knew exactly what Paul was talking about because he had been preaching Christ through Athens until that day when they said, okay, let's bring you up to Mars Hill or the Areopagus and let's hear you there in the presence of the gods.

Yeah. Paul then warned them about a judgment that was to come and this is the one through whom God is gonna judge the world, the one he raised from the dead. So just like you have the warning of judgment there, Peter gives a warning of judgment here.

The declaration of the gospel for the first time there in Jerusalem, since Christ is ascended into heaven and now the Holy Spirit has been poured out on these apostles to go out and preach and fulfill what Jesus had told them to do in Matthew 28, 18 to 20, we mentioned a little bit ago and also in Acts 1, 9.

You'll be my witnesses in Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. Right. So here they are with the Holy Spirit now speaking in tongues and the people who are there know that something supernatural is happening.

This is not speaking gibberish and so no one can understand what they're talking about. Oh, well, they must be drunk because they're just speaking nonsense, you know. But the people who were saying they were speaking nonsense probably did not recognize that they were actually speaking languages that were known to all the people that were there.

In Acts 2, you have it mentioned all the people that are there for Pentecost, there are 12 different groups of people all speaking different languages. Right. How many apostles are there? 12. There's 12 and they come into Jerusalem speaking the gospel in the various languages that the people would have been able to hear.

Now they recognize these apostles are Galilean. They're like, these are not educated men. Oh yeah. How do they know all of these languages? Some of them recognize they know they're speaking languages but others don't recognize the languages and so they just say, well, they're drunk men.

But Peter points out, we're not drunk. It's not even the third hour of the day. Yep. And so he tells them the prophecy of Joel and you have an expository sermon here where he quotes a passage and then explains the passage.