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Devotional Tongues Speaking. Meaning of Edification. First Mention: Acts 9:28-31: After preaching and “disputing” ( suzeteo , “examin together” the Scriptures) Believers were “edified” ( oikodomeo , “built up, block by block, established in knowledge and wisdom”
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Meaning of Edification • First Mention: Acts 9:28-31: • After preaching and “disputing” (suzeteo, “examin together” the Scriptures) • Believers were “edified” (oikodomeo, “built up, block by block, established in knowledge and wisdom” • Repeated exhortation: “edify one another” not done to self, but to each other. Rom 14:19; 15:2; 8:1; Eph 4:12; 1 Thes 5:11
General Principles • Love principle of usage of gifts (theme of 1 Cor 13) • Love edifies others 1 Cor 8:1, “seeking to benefit others” • 1 Cor 10:23, “All things are lawful for me, but all things arenot expedient; all things are lawful for me but all things edify not” Rule: only what edifies others did Paul practice. • 2 Cor 12:19, “…we do all things for your edification” • Eph 4:12, Believers are to be trained how to minister and edify one another • Eph 4:29, Everything coming out of our mouth is to be “edifying to hearers.” • 1 Thes 5:11, “Edify each other” is parallel with “Encourage each other”
Immediate Context in 1 Cor 14 • 14:3, 12, Commanded to emphasize with jealousy prophecy because it directly edifies • 14:5, Tongues is allowed with interpretation, because the interpretation edifies, “greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.” • 14:17 Tongues speaker thinks he is giving thanks (though speaker himself does not know what he is saying), but no one else is edified. • 14:26, Rule for the church: “Let all things be done for edification.” Thus