Video Notes:

• Notice it’s the Spirit groaning, not us. There’s no indication that the person is speaking in this groan/language at all or that the Spirit is groaning through the person.
• Mark 16:15-18
  • Not in the earliest manuscripts.
  • No reason to think this is anything different than tongues in Acts.
• Matthew 6:6 – Don’t pray to get attention and impress people. (actually, this is similar to the tongues issue in 1 Corinthians where people were lifting themselves up with the gift and Paul tells them to stop.)
• Acts 2:6-8 – First instance of speaking in tongues. It was the apostles speaking in known languages that they did not know.
• 1 Corinthians 12:1-4, 10
  • So, there’s the gift of speaking in an language you don’t know and there’s a gift of interpreting a language you don’t know.
• 1 Corinthians 14:1-17
  • Corinth was a trade hub and would have had people from many nations who spoke different languages.
  • Vs 1-5 – What are the mysteries? It’s that no one understands except God…this is not good. This is still a real human language, but no one in the room understands it.
    • The one who speaks in tongues builds himself up (edifies himself) – This is not being spoken of as a good thing.
  • Vs 6-12 – It becomes even more obvious that 1 Corinthians 14 is talking about speaking real human languages.
  • Vs 13-19 – Still the same concept of tongues. This is being rebuked, not praised, both on a personal level and a congregational level.
    • It also speaks of praying in tongues, but there’s no reason to think this is different from the speaking in tongues except that speaking that was happening was a prayer.
  • Vs 20-25 – Still the same concept of tongues.
    • It’s not a sign for believers (This speaks against the teaching that speaking or praying in non-human tongues is a sign of receiving the Holy Spirit)
    • It’s a sign for non-believers, but if no one is interpreting, visitors will think you’re crazy!
  • I Corinthians specifically says they shouldn’t speak in a tongue unless it is interpreted as that is only self-gratifying.
• Acts and Mark both use the word glossais (glossa). In 1 Corinthians glosson is used but that’s a matter of grammar, describing that people were given and, thus, possess (genitive) the gift of tongues vs a description of what the people were doing (Acts), thus the indirect object (dative) of a verb. In both cases it’s morphological changes of glossa. It would be strange to use the same word to describe two completely different gifts from the Holy Spirit.
• 1 Corinthians 13:1 (1-3) – Not a prescription and not even a description. This is an intentional exaggeration to make a point, you need love.
• In the Spirit
  • Ephesians 6:18 (armor, 18-20)
  • Jude 20 (17-21)
  • Other uses…
    • Matthew 22:43
    • Acts 18:25
    • Act 20:22
    • Rom 2:29
    • Rom 8:9
    • Gal 5:25
    • Eph 3:5
    • Col 1:7a-8
    • 1 Pet 4:6