<TITLE>30. Par -</TITLE>L-556-295 Now, they--these people that speak, they are Spirit-filled, there's no doubt. Now, here's a man, maybe he's speaking in here in the meeting, and he gives... Now, he's right before the interpreter (See?), and yet nobody gets the interpretation; there's just something wrong. The interpreter can't help that. See? He--he has to interpret by inspiration the same as the one speaking that. And he might have a real gift of speaking in tongues, but he hasn't got the gift of tongues, a language. See, he...
And then the thing for him to do is, when he uses this tongue, then he sees... Now, what he--he ain't trying... If he's trying to stuff hisself out again, he's a stuffed shirt. He ain't... He--he's--he's wrong to begin with (You see?); he'll never go nowhere. See, you think, "Well, bless God, that guy just don't want to interpret my tongues. That's all there is to it." Now, see, he's wrong to begin with. Right there he's got--he's got the wrong motive, the wrong objective. See?

L-557-297 But if he's sweet and humble with, say, "Well, maybe the Lord didn't want to use me in His service. But yet I... He just blesses my soul. He wants to edify me, to know that I'm close to Him when I speak in tongues. So I'll walk out in the apple orchard, 'O God.' And the power begins to fall on me, and I start speaking in tongues. I come in refreshed. You see?" "Oh, you see, You're speaking to me, Lord; You're just keeping me lined up by speaking in tongues." See? "And, Lord, today I ought to have spoke to that man. Forgive me for it, Lord. I--I--I passed over something I oughtn't to. Father, please forgive me." And directly, away it goes speaking in tongues. "Ah, whew, feel better about it now."
You see, that's all right. See, your--your gift is not to be used in the church, but it's to edify you. "He that speaketh in an unknown--unknown tongue edifies himself." See? Now, if there's no interpreter, then... See what I mean? See, that's it. So he wouldn't know himself. He just... But he'll know when he's wrong. Now, now you just have to let it go together (You see?); that's the only thing you can do till you get it separated. That's the reason I think it...

L-557-Q-116  116. Explains I Corinthians 14:5.
Who's got it right quick? One of you got it?
[Blank.spot.on.tape. A brother reads I Corinthians 14:5:
 ... all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying--Ed.]
All right. "I would rather... I would that all of you spoke with tongues." Paul's trying to say... Like the church, you--you be my church. Some of Paul's churches wasn't as big as many the members as what I got right here. That's right, sometimes ten or twelve. See, see? Now, now he said, "I would that you all spoke with tongues." That stunt you?
See, when the--the--the church that the--in Acts 19, I believe it had about a dozen members in it (See?), just very little, missions. You see? So it's always been in the minority. See? And I think it said and there was about so many, a dozen men and women (You see?) in it.


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