Study Desk

The parts that can be seen do not need as much care. God has made the body so more care is given to the parts that need it most.

God has chosen different ones in the church to do His work. First, there are missionaries. Second, there are preachers or those who speak for God. And third, there are teachers. He has also chosen those who do powerful works and those who have the gifts of healing. And He has chosen those who help others who are in need and those who are able to lead others in work and those who speak in special sounds.

Are they all missionaries? No. Are they all preachers or those who speak for God? No. Do they all do powerful works? No.

Now that which we see is as if we were looking in a broken mirror. But then we will see everything. Now I know only a part. But then I will know everything in a perfect way. That is how God knows me right now.

The man who speaks in special sounds speaks to God. He is not speaking to men. No one understands. He is speaking secret things through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Christian brothers, if I come to you speaking in special sounds, what good is it to you? But if I tell you something God has shown me or something I have learned or what God's Word says will happen in the future or teach you God's Word, it will be for your good.

If you honor and give thanks to God with your spirit in sounds nobody understands, how can others honor and give thanks also if they do not know what you are saying?

You are honoring and giving thanks to God, but it is not helping other people.

I thank God that I speak in special sounds more than all of you.

God says in the Holy Writings, "I will speak to My people. I will speak through men from other lands in other languages. Even then My people will not listen to Me."

The secrets of his heart will be brought into the open. He will get on his knees and worship God. He will say, "For sure, God is here with you!"

What am I saying, Christian brothers? When you meet together for worship, some of you have a song to sing. Some of you want to teach and some have special words from God. Some of you speak in special sounds and some of you tell what they mean. Everything should be done to help those who are meeting together to grow strong as Christians.

If no one is there who can tell the meaning of the special sounds, he should not speak in the church. He should speak only to himself and to God.

If someone sitting in the meeting gets some special word from God, the one who is speaking should stop.

God does not want everyone speaking at the same time in church meetings. He wants peace. All the churches of God's people worship this way.

Did the Word of God come from you Christians in the city of Corinth? Or are you the only people who received it?

Some of you may think you have the gift of speaking God's Word or some other gift from the Holy Spirit. If you do, you should know that what I am writing to you is what God has told us we must obey.

I am different now. It is all because of what God did for me by His loving-favor. His loving-favor was not wasted. I worked harder than all the other missionaries. But it was not I who worked. It was God's loving-favor working through me.

That makes us all liars because we said that God raised Christ from the dead. But God did not raise Christ from the dead if the dead do not come to life again.

Next, at the end of the world, Christ will give His holy nation over to God the Father. Christ will have destroyed every nation and power.