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1 Corinthians 12. And what I noticed is I was looking at it and I paused and I thought about the

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fact that it's right before 1 Corinthians 13. And of course, when people know of 1 Corinthians 13,

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what does that usually make you think of? Weddings, weddings. So before coming to Christ

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Memorial Lutheran, I would do weddings from time to time, but I actually don't know that I ever

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actually did a wedding in a church until I actually came over here to Christ Memorial Lutheran. I had

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done a wedding on a mountain, I had done a wedding in a bar, I did a wedding on a ranch, I did a,

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and in a church, I was like, how does that work? I don't even understand. It was interesting. So yeah,

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but with all of this is the constant though is 99 times out of 100. You almost always have

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the bride and the groom agreeing that one of the readings should be 1 Corinthians 13.

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Like love is patient, love is kind, does not envy, it does not boast, it keeps no record of wrongs,

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and already many of the couples are like, I think we need to revisit that a little bit there. Might be

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a good idea. And the thing with this is that I always found it interesting because 1 Corinthians 13

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has nothing to do with weddings at all. It has absolutely, it is completely different context

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whatsoever. And whenever you look at 1 Corinthians 12, that you actually have a better understanding

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of what 1 Corinthians 13 is meant to be. So, you know, for those who are getting married

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sometime soon, just to let you know is 1 Corinthians 13 has nothing to do with weddings at all. So,

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clearly now, now, of course, nobody wants to be the pastor who's, you know, terrible and tells

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people you can't use that passage at all. So, but in looking at it, there are a lot of parts to that

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passage that make a lot more sense when you understand the context with chapter 12. For example,

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it says, if I speak with the tongues of angels and of men but have not love, I'm just a clanging

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gong and a begging symbol. And it's like, what does that have to do with weddings? I don't know.

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And except for that one crazy cousin who always comes in at the last minute. But when we're

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thinking about it is to realize is that Paul is trying to put in context that if you think you're

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speaking in the tongue of an angel or like a heavenly language, is to be asking, how is it

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that you are loving the people around you by doing so? Or are you just making a bunch of noise that

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doesn't really help out with anything? And there's more to the chapter two. It says, if I have the

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gift of prophecy, it could fathom all mysteries. And it's because in chapter 12, it is speaking and

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talking about having the gift of knowledge and the gift of wisdom. Or it also says, you know,

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if I have faith that can move mountains, because 1 Corinthians 12 is talking about having the gift

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of faith, the idea of being able to do miraculous things with the faith that God has given you.

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Or even to look at the idea of love, not dishonoring others. Because oftentimes what had happened in

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the church is that people's view of what they were meant to do, it was like they were trying to lift

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up their own agendas, or even trying to make themselves seem special in church, and almost by

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dishonoring other people in order to lift themselves up. And even the last part, when I was a child,

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I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child, you know, but when I grew

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up and I matured, and then I put away childish things. Because Paul is trying to let them know that

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much of what they had been doing was almost childish. It was immature in much of what they were doing.

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And so we want to make sure that we understand then the idea of what's happening in chapter 12

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is to try to help people see, as you are together worshiping each other, what you are doing is meant

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to build each other up, not try to make a spectacle of you or anybody else. Now there's a lot that's

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actually in here that it goes into, and there are a couple different pieces I wanted to make sure

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to explain a little bit here. For example, it says on there, nobody who follows Jesus, who has

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the Spirit of God would say Jesus is cursed. Can Christians say Jesus be cursed? Now it's not that

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often that we find ourselves in a situation where we might be considering saying that Jesus is cursed.

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It does not happen all the time. You're not standing at Starbucks asking for Frappuccino,

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and they're like, would you like whipped cream with that? Yes, absolutely. Do you want whole

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milk or 2%? Do I look like I need 2% that's very insulting? Or would you like to say Jesus is cursed?

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No, I'd like to decline the Jesus is cursed. Absolutely, that'll be seven bucks. And you don't

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typically come across that very often. And even to a point though, where we might even wonder,

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what were they even talking about? The thing is, is that there are times where we might actually

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see this, and we don't even realize it. For example, we find out, and this was from Emperor Trajan.

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So this was actually after when Paul was writing, but it's reflecting what they had already been

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doing for some time, is that if the government wanted to find out if you're a Christian,

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they would put, bring you in front and tell you, curse Jesus. It was literally a test. If you wanted

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to prove that you were a good Roman citizen, and you weren't part of this Jesus movement the way,

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then you would sit there and say, Jesus is cursed, you would curse Jesus, and then make a sacrifice

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to some of the local gods. And then you were completely free to go. Why? Because they knew

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that no Christian could ever curse Jesus. And if you could not pass that test, then you could be

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killed. And this idea of continuing to testify to who Christ was, is one aspect of what we may

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be looking at here, but there's another. Is it oftentimes, especially in places like Corinth,

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you might find temples or different places that had different cults that were there. And they would

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have these spiritual experiences where they might come up with all sorts of things that they might

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say, and they might say, we are filled with the spirit of God. But if somebody's filled with the

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spirit of God, and says something that completely contradicts who God is, especially in his son,

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that's not the spirit of God. Because you might have places like, for example, the cult of Dionysus,

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and the idea of vachkas, and the revelry, and drinking so much that they would be in these times

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of ecstasy, and moments and all. And they might say all sorts of random things. And if somebody might

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be thinking, well, I'm Christian, but I'm sure I could participate in that. And they might say

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anything, including cursing Jesus' name. And the idea that you want to be in this experience,

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but if it's not something from God and blessing Jesus' name, then it is not from God.

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But even more than that, is what do you do to the least of these? Is to remember that when we say,

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and Jesus says, whatever you've done to the least of these, you have done unto me. Because let's be

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honest, we may not always be thinking, well, is Jesus cursed? But do we feel the same way about

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the people in the world around us? It's to realize that we oftentimes have to make difficult

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decisions in life. We have to deal with difficult issues that happen. But as we do so, are we doing

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so with as much compassion, and love, and understanding as we can? Are we doing so asking,

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are we doing so asking, how is it that I am blessing the people around me, instead of just

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leaving them to be cursed? How many times do we make the decisions with family, friends, business,

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home, or even the world around us? And we don't ask the question, can I do so,

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still loving the people in the world around me? Even to a point where I still remember somebody

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looking me in the eye and saying, does it really have to be about Jesus? And isn't it one of those

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things where sometimes we think, well, someone's a good person, and they're really nice? I guess that

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that, and at that moment, is that even when I knew I would lose so much, is to still pause and

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say, yeah, it does. Because at the end of the day, he is the only one that has actually demonstrated

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what love and hope are truly about, because of giving up his own life for us. But with that is

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to realize that in that spirit, each of us has different giftings. Now, in looking at that,

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having different gifts of God's spirit is that we see a list here. And it's looking at this,

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and there are a couple different places that we might see in Scripture that show us a list of the

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gifts of God's spirit. So, for example, in 1 Corinthians 12, it says to one, there is given

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the spirit of a message of wisdom, another a message of knowledge by means of the spirit, another has

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faith, another gifts of healing to another miraculous powers, another prophecy, another

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distinguishing between the spirits, and to another speaking in different kinds of tongues,

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and to still another the interpretation of tongues. Notice they put the tongues part at the end.

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But there are different places in Scripture that talk about the gifts of the spirit. For example,

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Romans 12. If prophecy, may they have grace in proportion to our faith, if serving, then in our

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serving, the one who teaches in his teaching, the one who exhorts, or if you're calling people to

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do something, you're exhorting them, then in their exhortation, in the one who contributes,

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in the one who contributes, God's grace is in their generosity. And the one who leads God's

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grace is in their zeal, the one who does acts of mercy, God's grace is in the cheerfulness.

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Now, notice that list. There's a lot of similarity with 1 Corinthians 12. But let's add one more to

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it. Ephesians 4. And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds, and the

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teachers to equip the saints for the work of ministry for building up the body of Christ.

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So, trying to simplify those things. Those who are leading, those who are speaking truth when it

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needs to be heard, those who are sharing the gospel, those who are caring for one another,

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and those who are teaching. Because let's be honest, the gift of wisdom and the gift of knowledge,

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not always the same. There are a lot of times where somebody may be very knowledgeable,

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but they may make very poor decisions. Or even someone who typically makes good decisions,

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but they just don't have all the information that they need. And so being able to see that

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distinction and that understanding, then we might pause and say, if there are only subtle differences,

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but there are similar purposes, why did the other ones not talk about the gift of tongues?

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And we need to then ask that question of speaking in tongues, huh? I mean,

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when we look at what that means, we may even pause and even try to understand what is it even about.

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And let's just be honest. We are here in a typical Lutheran church. If someone were to be coming in

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here and start speaking in some random noises and sounds that nobody understood right in the middle

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here, we'd probably check to make sure the security guard is outside and make sure that we knew how

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to dial 911. It is not something that we would typically see, but also in many ways it's something

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that we'd probably be uncomfortable with. And something we might want to even ask is,

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what is it even in the first place? So just to clarify a little bit here,

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there are two big passages that reference this, one being Acts chapter two and the other one

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being our passage, 1 Corinthians 12. Now, in Acts chapter two, we see that the apostles are there

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and they're speaking to people around them in languages that they understand. Now, just remember

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people, the common language back then was Aramaic, kind of like how a lot of people in today's world

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speak English, but back then they typically spoke Aramaic. Now, for business, you might speak Greek

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and for religion, you might speak Hebrew, but everybody generally spoke similar language.

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However, you're there in Jerusalem where a lot of people may be coming through from different lands

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and different places where they all had their local languages. And now instead of the people

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standing there speaking only in Aramaic, they start speaking in other languages that people

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can understand. Now, I'm not that great at being bilingual. I'm working on it a little bit at a

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time. Now, I had been learning some Spanish when I was younger, but I went to China for a year and

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thought, you know, I should learn some Chinese. And so I started getting some basics down and I

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learned Wo Yao Sang Min Zhe, which means I want a sandwich. And then I realized Sang Min Zhe is

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sandwich, all right? I swear. And I realized though when I came back, I don't know the Spanish word

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for sandwich. I have no idea. Even now, I have no idea what the Spanish word is for

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sandwich. But the problem is, is that I'm trying to speak Spanish and I keep coming out with

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Yokeiro Wo Sang Min Zhe. And then the poor ladies at the Takaria have no idea what I'm asking for

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and are very, very confused. And so I'm over there trying my best to say what I think I'm supposed

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to say in Spanish. But all of a sudden it comes out in Mandarin. My brain and my mouth are doing

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two very different things. Now, I do know that there are times where somebody may be bilingual,

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trilingual, and they may start speaking a language that they know, but it comes out in a different

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way. But imagine the same thing is that you're standing there trying to share the gospel.

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You know what you're trying to say, but out of your mouth comes a language you don't know.

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Now, is that the same thing as what was happening in 1 Corinthians 12? Now, there's a lot of debate

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to that. And cessationists, in other words, those who believe that the gifts of the Spirit from those

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days stopped completely and they do not and should not happen again today. They would say

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that much of what we see today, when we think about tongues, for example,

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Pentecostal movement and the like, really did not start until the 18th or 19th century.

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So what they would say is that commentaries in the past never really brought it up until the 19th

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century because they were just trying to keep up with the way that people were changing this idea

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of tongues. Because then it was this idea of there is an angel language, a heavenly language.

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Now, in this idea is that supposedly nobody gave this mumbling or whatever this extra language

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might be where only supposedly angels would understand it until about the 19th century.

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Now, the difficulty with that, there are several with it. They try to say that the word is the

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same between the two passages. So therefore, 1 Corinthians 12 is just talking about speaking

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languages that people understand. But if you go back to the passage, it says the tongues of angels.

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But more than that also is that there were various church fathers that wrote about this idea

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of an angelic language, something that people don't typically understand. The idea of Irenaeus,

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Tritulean, even Augustine. But it even was such a major part that there was even a major heresy

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called Montanism that had to deal with it. Because what would happen is somebody would say that they

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were speaking in the spirit and come up with all sorts of things in an angel language.

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And they might be teaching things that the church had never agreed to. But even more than that,

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this idea of ecstatic speech, of having an experience, something transcendent from God,

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doesn't that sound like a wonderful thing to see and feel that God's presence can be right there

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inside of you, moving you? And I do have to point out something. They actually did do a study on

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the brain when somebody was speaking in tongues. They actually did go in and look at what parts

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of the brain are activating when a person is speaking in one of these angel languages and

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speaking tongues. And it turns out the part of the brain that you use when you're normally talking

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to people is not the part of the brain that people are using when they're speaking in tongues.

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Which means that if somebody is over there speaking in what feels like an angelic language

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or speaking in tongues, they genuinely do feel it is not their own words that are coming from their

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mouth. They are not actually trying to pull one over on you. So then here's the thing. Does that

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mean that we should truly be using tongues in our worship service as Lutherans? And here's the point

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that we need to get back to though, is to ask what is the purpose of the gifts that we've been given?

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Because the purpose of every gift is to proclaim Christ. And that's the thing about why Paul listed

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it last. He needed people to understand if you're doing something, is it genuinely proclaiming the

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gospel of God? Because there are lots of stories of people who want to speak in tongues and they may

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be told, start mumbling and the spirit of God will take over from there. Just start making sounds

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and it'll take off from there. They may not be trying to do something that is deceitful,

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but that doesn't necessarily mean that God is using them to say something special or different.

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But even more than that is Paul himself said in chapter 14, tongues for unbelievers and prophecy

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is for believers. In other words, the reason why the tongues were there was two main times to show

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that Christ Jesus was reaching the Gentiles was to get the gospel to people who hadn't

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heard it before in their language. But when you are with people who already believe,

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they don't need tongues. They need you to speak truth. They need prophecy. And that's the thing

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that we have to ask is whether or not the gifts that we are using are genuinely building us up in

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Christ Jesus because I do not doubt the authenticity or the spirit of those who do so.

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But I also say if it is not helping us to know Christ Jesus and to proclaim his word,

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then let's go back to what does. With this is to realize we all have different gifts. And each

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of us is unique with all of that. But all of those gifts are supposed to come from the same fruits

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of the Spirit. So while we may be looking at the idea that we may come with different ways of doing

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things, if whatever we're doing does not show love, peace, joy, patience, kindness, goodness,

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faithfulness, generalist, self control, if we are not living out the fruits of the Spirit and what we

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do, then is that really something that we want to have as part of what we have? Because we as the

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people of God, we're of one Spirit, one Lord. So everything that we are saying and doing,

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if it does not bring us back to who Christ truly is and to have that same spirit of understanding

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and knowledge and to live out what God has called us to do, then we don't need that.

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But rather is each of you is gifted in ways that does build up the body. So as we learn and as we

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grow, we may come across parts of Scripture where it may take us down various rabbit holes. And we

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may wonder, how does this make any sense? And that's part of why we're meant to learn together

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and to grow as one body, but also to remember that whatever you come across in Scripture,

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you never have to worry that it should ever take away from the true message that the Father

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sent his son for you and that he now lives in you and proclaims his truth now and always.

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May God continue to live in and through us as we proclaim the gospel,

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to the world that needs to hear it. Thanks be to God.