1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:01,440 Thank you. 2 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:04,480 Uh how do you like doing responsive readings? 3 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:07,680 Uh 4 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:10,560 Uh six of you like it. 5 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:13,200 Some of you aren't so sure about it, huh? 6 00:00:13,680 --> 00:00:20,320 Uh someone told me you haven't done responsive readings in a while, so I said, Oh, we'll start with uh some responsive readings and 7 00:00:20,300 --> 00:00:26,220 And uh hopefully I won't forget as the year goes on, uh alternate some things. 8 00:00:26,460 --> 00:00:30,300 But uh we had uh several here at the beginning of the year. 9 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:35,280 Um how many of you remember what we talked about two weeks ago? 10 00:00:36,079 --> 00:00:38,400 Yeah, I'm testing your memory here. 11 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:43,840 I saw one hand, I did not hear anything, but uh 12 00:00:44,899 --> 00:00:46,899 Yeah, God's role. 13 00:00:47,219 --> 00:00:50,660 God's part, the part that God plays. 14 00:00:50,820 --> 00:00:54,100 There are some things that God does. 15 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:56,660 Only God can do them. 16 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:04,400 Last week we talked about the role of the church 17 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:09,800 And as we looked at the role of church, we found out that we are a priesthood of all believers. 18 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:18,200 And as the priesthood of all believers, the church is supposed to be the gathering place for those individuals that are being saved. 19 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:20,840 Who's doing the saving? 20 00:01:21,960 --> 00:01:28,040 God's doing the saving, but the church is his gathering place for those that are being saved. 21 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:33,200 And so today I want us to look at, so what is my role? 22 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,120 What is our responsibility? 23 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:39,920 Now the deacons are handing out a piece of paper to you right now. 24 00:01:40,060 --> 00:01:44,460 That's going to be kind of a thing that we work through in just a few minutes. 25 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:48,140 Before we get to that, I'm going to continue on with my introduction. 26 00:01:48,460 --> 00:01:51,900 Do you have a role that you play in life? 27 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:55,600 How many of you have parents? 28 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:00,080 Well, not every hand went up. 29 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,920 How'd you get here if your hand's not up? 30 00:02:04,940 --> 00:02:07,100 So we we have parents, right? 31 00:02:07,260 --> 00:02:17,900 So for all of us at one time or another, now maybe our parents have passed away or something, but we have had parents, we know what it's like to have the role of that as a child. 32 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:20,840 Now, how many of you have children? 33 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:28,360 So you know what the role is, those of you that have children, you know what the role is of being a parent. 34 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:31,320 How many of you are married? 35 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,520 You guys are doing pretty good here. 36 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:37,400 Or maybe I'm on a roll asking the right questions. 37 00:02:37,620 --> 00:02:43,700 So you know what the role is of having a spouse, of being a spouse. 38 00:02:45,220 --> 00:02:47,060 Those are different roles. 39 00:02:47,220 --> 00:02:52,420 Now, your role of a child is very different than your role of a parent. 40 00:02:54,019 --> 00:02:57,140 Now, maybe you are also have siblings. 41 00:02:57,620 --> 00:03:01,700 Being a sibling is a different role than being a parent. 42 00:03:02,580 --> 00:03:06,100 Maybe your spouse has siblings and 43 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:11,879 Then they are married and things, and that makes you a brother-in-law or a sister-in-law. 44 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:16,920 And that is a very different role to being a parent. 45 00:03:17,319 --> 00:03:19,640 I mean, think about it for just a moment. 46 00:03:20,640 --> 00:03:22,480 You have small children. 47 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:28,480 Your wife says to you, please watch the children as they go down to the park to play. 48 00:03:30,519 --> 00:03:33,879 That's a role that you would play. 49 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:41,799 Now, would someone ever say to you, please watch your spouse as she goes to the park to play? 50 00:03:44,060 --> 00:03:46,220 You probably don't want that role. 51 00:03:47,180 --> 00:03:49,260 That's a different one. 52 00:03:52,060 --> 00:03:55,100 We understand what it means to have roles. 53 00:03:55,180 --> 00:03:57,820 In business, we understand what it means to have a role. 54 00:03:57,980 --> 00:04:01,340 We have things like CEO, CFO, and COO. 55 00:04:02,900 --> 00:04:04,980 Yeah, I had to write that out as well. 56 00:04:05,300 --> 00:04:09,620 Chief Executive Officer, Chief Finance Officer, Chief Operating Officer. 57 00:04:09,780 --> 00:04:10,900 Do they have different roles? 58 00:04:12,140 --> 00:04:13,740 Very different things they do. 59 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:21,660 There are people that work in sales, they are people that work in distribution, there are people that work in installation, there are people that work in HR, there are people that work in delivery. 60 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:28,560 There are people that work in in creator, there are people that are writers, editors, publishers, assembly lines, manufacturing. 61 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:33,840 I mean, each of those things is a different role, and they don't really overlap well. 62 00:04:35,380 --> 00:04:37,220 And we understand that. 63 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:44,020 Today I want us to look at spiritual gifts. 64 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:51,560 Now I was told that uh the Mesa Palms Church has already studied about spiritual gifts. 65 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:58,760 And I said, that's okay, I want to cover it again, but not as deep as what I heard you did last time. 66 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,479 unless you want me to go as deep. 67 00:05:00,639 --> 00:05:07,360 And if you want me to go as deep, uh it's gonna have to be if some of you come and say, hey, I want more information. 68 00:05:07,460 --> 00:05:13,220 Well then I'll start a spiritual gifts class and we'll get the more information because spiritual gifts are important. 69 00:05:13,780 --> 00:05:18,500 So today we're just kind of cover the surface a little bit. 70 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:20,120 Spiritual gifts. 71 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:25,640 I'm going to start with who's responsible for assigning the spiritual gifts. 72 00:05:26,840 --> 00:05:27,480 All right. 73 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:29,880 Holy Spirit is what was answered. 74 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:31,880 Do we know where that is found? 75 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:36,479 In the Bible, I love it. 76 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:37,360 Thank you. 77 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:38,000 Thank you. 78 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:38,400 Thank you. 79 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:40,800 First Corinthians chapter twelve. 80 00:05:42,540 --> 00:05:46,940 Our scripture reading that we read today, 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 81 00:05:48,060 --> 00:05:49,420 We'll go there. 82 00:05:50,380 --> 00:05:53,580 If you'll open your Bible, 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 83 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:57,599 Start with verse 1 here. 84 00:05:57,759 --> 00:06:05,039 It says, now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant. 85 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:15,040 Paul is saying here there are some things about spiritual gifts that that you, the the Church of Corinth, you are not understanding correctly. 86 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:20,800 In fact, if you read this, there must have been many things that the Corinthian church did not understand correctly. 87 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,280 But one of those things was about spiritual gifts. 88 00:06:25,160 --> 00:06:29,400 In fact, if you read, he's going to talk about it for several chapters here. 89 00:06:29,639 --> 00:06:33,320 2 Corinthians chapter 12, 13 and 14. 90 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:35,720 He talks about spiritual gifts. 91 00:06:37,820 --> 00:06:42,780 In this talking about spiritual gifts, he wants them to make sure they get it right. 92 00:06:43,260 --> 00:06:49,420 And there must have been a big problem on spiritual gifts about that gift of speaking in tongues. 93 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:54,640 Because the whole chapter 14 he talks about the gift of speaking in tongues. 94 00:06:54,880 --> 00:07:02,400 Because he wants to make sure that there is a true understanding of what the spiritual gift of speaking in tongues is. 95 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,080 Okay, did you make it to 1 Corinthians chapter 12? 96 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:07,599 I gave you time? 97 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:09,520 Okay, we read verse 1. 98 00:07:09,599 --> 00:07:13,039 Now I want us to come down to verse 11 to answer our question here. 99 00:07:14,780 --> 00:07:24,620 It says, but one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as he wills. 100 00:07:25,220 --> 00:07:27,699 Who gives out the spiritual gifts? 101 00:07:28,180 --> 00:07:29,699 The Holy Spirit. 102 00:07:30,340 --> 00:07:32,180 Does he give you the one you want? 103 00:07:34,900 --> 00:07:36,340 Not usually. 104 00:07:37,860 --> 00:07:40,580 Sometimes, yes, but not usually. 105 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:47,220 Sometimes we are doing life and we look at other people and we say, wow. 106 00:07:47,940 --> 00:07:50,419 I'd like to have a gift like that. 107 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:52,979 I wish I could do that. 108 00:07:54,819 --> 00:07:55,780 Guess what? 109 00:07:56,740 --> 00:07:58,740 He didn't give you that gift. 110 00:08:00,919 --> 00:08:02,680 You have another gift. 111 00:08:02,919 --> 00:08:05,639 And you're thinking, but I don't like my gift. 112 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:06,280 Ah 113 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:12,240 Sometimes we think that, and if you're thinking that, that means you know your gift. 114 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,560 And that means I can stop talking now. 115 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:18,640 Yeah, that's what I figured. 116 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:24,920 What is the specific purpose for the spiritual gifts? 117 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,360 Ah, somebody has the answers here. 118 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:33,960 He he's the one that was at the class last time it was taught. 119 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,440 And he remembers the answers, yes. 120 00:08:36,599 --> 00:08:38,839 And that is found in Ephesians chapter four. 121 00:08:38,919 --> 00:08:42,039 If you're turning your Bible over to Ephesians chapter four. 122 00:08:43,980 --> 00:08:46,700 We'll read that in Ephesians chapter four. 123 00:08:52,020 --> 00:08:53,940 Come down to verse eleven. 124 00:08:54,660 --> 00:08:56,740 Ephesians chapter four. 125 00:08:58,100 --> 00:08:59,860 We'll start with verse eleven. 126 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:15,520 It says, and he gave and he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. 127 00:09:15,740 --> 00:09:17,740 What is the purpose of the gifts? 128 00:09:19,580 --> 00:09:21,100 Did you catch that there? 129 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:29,880 Verse 12 says, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry. 130 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:33,960 Now, some of you are still reading the King James Version. 131 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:39,040 And if you're reading the King James Version, that's a really good version to read. 132 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:44,640 But in this instance, it has an extra comma where it does not belong. 133 00:09:45,140 --> 00:09:57,540 The same as that, when Jesus was on the cross and he talked to the thief, and Jesus said to the thief, Verily I say unto you today, or Verily I say unto you today. 134 00:09:59,040 --> 00:09:59,520 Comma. 135 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:01,520 Where's the comma go? 136 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:04,320 Yeah, after today in that instance. 137 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,000 Here they have an extra comma. 138 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,400 In fact, in the King James it says, for the equipping of the saints, comma. 139 00:10:11,460 --> 00:10:16,580 For the work of the ministry, comma, for the edifying of the body of Christ. 140 00:10:16,900 --> 00:10:24,980 But the spiritual gifts really should be without the comma, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry. 141 00:10:25,980 --> 00:10:32,620 The spiritual gifts are supposed to be so that you and I can do works of ministry. 142 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,680 And it goes a little bit further for the edifying of the body of Christ. 143 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:43,080 Those that ministry that we perform is supposed to do what? 144 00:10:44,780 --> 00:10:45,980 Edify the Bible. 145 00:10:46,060 --> 00:10:47,660 What does edify mean? 146 00:10:49,180 --> 00:10:56,620 To build up, to encourage, to strengthen, to educate, to edify, to make better. 147 00:10:58,280 --> 00:11:04,120 That's what our spiritual gift is supposed to do, according to the scripture. 148 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:09,640 If it's not doing that, maybe we're using it wrong. 149 00:11:11,740 --> 00:11:15,420 Or we're using the wrong gift. 150 00:11:18,300 --> 00:11:23,100 So for the next several minutes we're going to kind of work through the piece of paper that you have been given. 151 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:29,920 And will I start with asking the question: what are these gifts given out by the Holy Spirit? 152 00:11:30,160 --> 00:11:34,000 We're going to start in the book of Romans, Romans chapter 12. 153 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,000 You'll go over to Romans chapter twelve. 154 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:52,040 Romans chapter twelve, we'll begin reading with verse six. 155 00:11:56,660 --> 00:12:07,780 Romans chapter twelve verse six says, having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them. 156 00:12:08,420 --> 00:12:13,139 If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith. 157 00:12:13,459 --> 00:12:16,899 Or ministry, let us use it in our ministering. 158 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:28,840 He who teaches in teaching, he who exhorts in exhortation, he who gives with liberality, he who leads with diligence, he who shows mercy with cheerfulness. 159 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:35,200 There is a starting of a list of what the spiritual gifts are. 160 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,519 You see the gift of prophecy that is mentioned. 161 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:41,360 Now I'm going to tell you the gift of prophecy is mentioned several times 162 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:47,320 In each of the lists that are given in Scripture, the gift of prophecy seems to be always present. 163 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:49,640 The gift of prophecy is that 164 00:12:51,260 --> 00:12:53,180 What is written there on your notes there? 165 00:12:53,340 --> 00:12:58,060 The special ability to cause the authoritative word of God's truth to shine. 166 00:12:58,940 --> 00:13:08,220 It includes congregational preaching and lay utterances which explain and apply God's revelation for correction and edification. 167 00:13:08,940 --> 00:13:13,260 Sometimes we think the gift of prophecy means I know what's going to happen tomorrow. 168 00:13:14,620 --> 00:13:18,139 And that's can be part of the gift of prophecy. 169 00:13:19,100 --> 00:13:21,579 Or if I know what's going to happen in the future. 170 00:13:21,660 --> 00:13:25,420 That's part of the gift of prophecy, but that's often the part that we focus on. 171 00:13:25,580 --> 00:13:28,540 But that's not what the gift of prophecy is necessarily for. 172 00:13:29,660 --> 00:13:34,140 The gift of prophecy is much larger than just foretelling the future. 173 00:13:35,399 --> 00:13:44,199 The next one that is there, teaching, is a special ability to give detailed understanding of biblical truths to those willing to learn. 174 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,840 Now there are some people that ha that say, I have the gift of teaching, I have the gift of teaching. 175 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,440 And so we put them in as a Sabbath school teacher. 176 00:13:54,440 --> 00:14:01,000 In with the early teen department, youth department. 177 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:06,920 And within six weeks they come out and say, I don't have the gift of teaching any longer. 178 00:14:11,340 --> 00:14:13,740 How do you know you don't have the gift of teaching? 179 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:15,980 You may still have the gift of teaching. 180 00:14:16,140 --> 00:14:18,220 You just need to apply it in the right place. 181 00:14:18,460 --> 00:14:21,100 Maybe you have the gift of teaching. 182 00:14:22,100 --> 00:14:22,899 Adults. 183 00:14:23,060 --> 00:14:25,300 And we put you in with an adult class. 184 00:14:25,540 --> 00:14:29,940 And you sit there with the adult class and you read to them. 185 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:38,720 And as you read to them, they tell you you don't have the gift of teaching. 186 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:44,160 But you're always so excited and so enthusiastic. 187 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:46,880 So we put you in with the three and four-year-olds. 188 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:52,720 And with the three and four-year-olds, oh man, you fall in love with the three and four-year-olds. 189 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:55,800 You enjoy the three and four-year-olds. 190 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,519 Suddenly you say, I do have the gift of teaching. 191 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:07,400 Do you see sometimes you can have a gift, but you have to apply it at the right place. 192 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:10,200 How do you know? 193 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:13,160 Experiment. 194 00:15:16,100 --> 00:15:23,460 The church should be a safe place for us to experiment, to find out. 195 00:15:23,620 --> 00:15:25,060 I know some of you 196 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:35,800 Last year, or maybe it was the year before, you took the test, you found out your spiritual gift, the test told you you had the gift of teaching, but you haven't experimented to find the right place yet. 197 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:47,720 I'm going to tell you, we need to try some experimentation to see how you can apply that gift that you have. 198 00:15:48,040 --> 00:16:01,800 The next one there in the list in Romans was the gift of exhortation, the special ability to come along alongside another in the need of encouragement, challenge, and earnest advice. 199 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,600 That gift of exhortation is that gift of encouragement. 200 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:09,000 Now, my brother and I laugh. 201 00:16:09,399 --> 00:16:12,040 My father had the gift of exhortation. 202 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:13,959 You can do it! 203 00:16:16,899 --> 00:16:20,500 And he would exhort us, and sure enough, we could do it. 204 00:16:20,820 --> 00:16:25,380 And my brother and I still talk about it when we're watching the football players on the on the TV. 205 00:16:25,540 --> 00:16:28,980 They just need somebody to encourage them to do better. 206 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:30,520 They could do it. 207 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,440 That's not the kind of encouragement we're talking about. 208 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:39,080 Exhortation. 209 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:51,400 To encourage, to uplift, to to strengthen, to motivate someone, to walk with them in the in the process of 210 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,680 Accomplishing it. 211 00:16:54,079 --> 00:17:04,000 Ministry helps is a special ability to provide timely assistance that releases other Christian workers for direct spiritual ministry. 212 00:17:04,819 --> 00:17:15,620 That gift of helps is the person that is there behind the scenes that makes sure everything gets done. 213 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:24,040 You know, sometimes the the evangelist he he'll come to town and he has that big idea he wants to share Jesus Christ, but he's got 214 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:27,100 Slides, powerpoints that need to be run. 215 00:17:27,180 --> 00:17:29,660 He's got cables that need to go all over the place. 216 00:17:29,820 --> 00:17:31,980 He's got things that need to happen. 217 00:17:32,380 --> 00:17:36,620 There needs to be somebody with the gift of helps to make sure everything 218 00:17:37,140 --> 00:17:39,060 Is laid out properly. 219 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:42,820 That's the person with the gift of helps. 220 00:17:43,140 --> 00:17:48,740 The next one is that gift of giving, the special ability to earn money, manage it well. 221 00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:53,280 And wisely and give for the Lord's work. 222 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:59,200 Now some of you are are thinking, I don't have the gift of giving. 223 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,360 That means I don't have to tithe and offering anymore. 224 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:05,360 That's not what it means. 225 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:12,559 The person with the gift of giving is that person who is going to give you the coat off their back. 226 00:18:13,340 --> 00:18:18,539 Or when it's cold outside, they're going to give you the shoes off their feet. 227 00:18:20,220 --> 00:18:25,659 They have that gift, that love that they are willing to give. 228 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:32,120 anything and everything that that's the person with the the gift of giving. 229 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:35,320 See some of these these these these gifts 230 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:40,880 People are gifted in it, but all of us need to have a little bit of it. 231 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:49,039 So faithfulness in tithes and offerings is the little bit that we're supposed to have. 232 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:57,720 Those of us that are gifted in giving, we may end up giving 90% of our income back. 233 00:18:58,040 --> 00:18:59,480 Or 95%. 234 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,080 Or you get the idea. 235 00:19:03,740 --> 00:19:07,500 Go and sell all that you have and give it to the poor. 236 00:19:07,980 --> 00:19:10,460 And come and follow me, Jesus said. 237 00:19:11,700 --> 00:19:24,740 The gift of leadership is that special ability to picture a preferred future for a local ministry with biblical values and direction and motivate followers toward that accomplishment. 238 00:19:25,540 --> 00:19:28,020 The gift of leadership is encouraging people. 239 00:19:28,180 --> 00:19:32,820 Hey, it's possible for us to do this task. 240 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,280 And a lot of times you'll say, No, I don't think we can do that. 241 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:37,320 Yeah, it's possible. 242 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,040 I think we can. 243 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,200 I I I see the steps that we need to do. 244 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:45,960 We need to do this and then we need to do this and then we need to accomplish that, and then we will accomplish this huge goal. 245 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:47,560 I think we can. 246 00:19:48,500 --> 00:19:50,820 That's the idea of a leader. 247 00:19:52,340 --> 00:19:56,580 To encourage, to give us the biblical values to motivate us for the 248 00:19:57,100 --> 00:20:09,260 The gift of mercy is that special ability to identify needs, to aid the suffering, the undeserving, and to spare them from punishment or penalties justly deserved. 249 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:14,560 I am sure glad Jesus had mercy on us. 250 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:19,920 We need to show mercy to 251 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:24,360 This is that person that is always forgiving. 252 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:31,400 We're talking that person that is forgiving the 70 times seven times, not just the seven times. 253 00:20:33,380 --> 00:20:44,500 The one that is showing mercy over and over, the kindness over and over, even though it may seem to be undeserved, that's the person with the gift of mercy. 254 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:50,440 We're going to turn in our Bibles to 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 255 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:53,080 1 Corinthians chapter 12. 256 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:58,680 Now, when you go to study spiritual gifts, remember it's Romans 12 and then 1 Corinthians 12. 257 00:20:58,860 --> 00:21:00,380 So they're both in chapter 12. 258 00:21:00,539 --> 00:21:02,620 First Corinthians chapter 12. 259 00:21:05,659 --> 00:21:07,500 Come down to verse 8. 260 00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:12,860 We'll start with seven. 261 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:15,660 Seven through ten here we'll read. 262 00:21:15,820 --> 00:21:20,539 It says, but the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all. 263 00:21:21,019 --> 00:21:33,659 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge, through the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the same Spirit. 264 00:21:33,660 --> 00:21:43,420 To another the work of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another interpretation of tongues 265 00:21:43,519 --> 00:21:51,679 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as he wills. 266 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,680 You notice in that list prophecy was there again. 267 00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,040 But here we see some new ones, the gift of wisdom. 268 00:22:00,580 --> 00:22:09,299 Wisdom is that that ability to apply knowledge effectively for the honor and glory of God. 269 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:14,480 Oh, it's so much joy to be around someone with the gift of wisdom. 270 00:22:15,679 --> 00:22:16,640 As a shared. 271 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:20,160 Now, some of us think that just gray hair means wisdom. 272 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:29,160 I like to say that, but sometimes gray hair just means you're old. 273 00:22:32,420 --> 00:22:36,260 Or sometimes it says means you had bad heredity. 274 00:22:37,540 --> 00:22:39,860 Started grain when I was in my twenties. 275 00:22:40,220 --> 00:22:48,300 So that's why last night Jamie George said I hadn't changed any because my hair has been gray for a long time. 276 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:59,480 Wisdom is that ability to use knowledge effectively with a reverential awe 277 00:22:59,540 --> 00:22:59,860 of God. 278 00:23:00,100 --> 00:23:05,380 Knowledge is special ability to master God's revealed truth in Scripture. 279 00:23:05,540 --> 00:23:07,940 Knowledge is those those student type. 280 00:23:08,019 --> 00:23:20,260 people, the ones that are always studying God's Word, that are finding something new in Scripture, that are digging deep, that are trying to to understand what God's Word has for us. 281 00:23:20,260 --> 00:23:22,580 And they are wanting to to share. 282 00:23:22,740 --> 00:23:29,460 And sometimes when they share, they uh don't have the gift of teaching to go along with their knowledge. 283 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:34,740 And so it's hard for us to understand what they're trying to communicate. 284 00:23:35,460 --> 00:23:40,340 We need someone with the gift of wisdom that understands their knowledge to begin to help 285 00:23:40,620 --> 00:23:47,020 us apply it so that somebody with the gift of teaching can communicate it so that people have understanding. 286 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:56,840 The gift of faith, the unusual ability to trust in the presence and power of God, and to act on this trust. 287 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:02,360 This is another one of those where I say: everybody has to have faith. 288 00:24:02,860 --> 00:24:03,500 Right? 289 00:24:04,140 --> 00:24:08,300 Because you're saved by faith. 290 00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:14,860 So I'm praying that each of us have at least saving faith. 291 00:24:16,260 --> 00:24:19,140 But you may not have mustard seed faith. 292 00:24:19,620 --> 00:24:25,780 Because mustard seed faith is the faith kind of faith that can move mountains. 293 00:24:27,159 --> 00:24:32,200 Mustard seed faith is the kind of faith that individuals like George Mueller had. 294 00:24:32,519 --> 00:24:37,080 Boy, you read the stories about George Mueller and the things that he accomplished. 295 00:24:39,299 --> 00:24:40,580 He had faith. 296 00:24:42,740 --> 00:24:46,900 He I think of Danny Shelton when I think of individuals with faith. 297 00:24:47,740 --> 00:24:57,740 One who started 3 ABN, he's another person that had great faith in order to uh accomplish what he thought God was telling him to do. 298 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:10,960 The next one on the list was that gift of miracles, the ability to do something supernatural, such as bring forth water from a rock, cause wind and waves to cease, or move a mountain. 299 00:25:13,420 --> 00:25:19,740 I I just read a story this this last week about uh individuals that were with Cher Ham. 300 00:25:19,820 --> 00:25:21,660 You know Sher Ham is is a 301 00:25:22,679 --> 00:25:34,120 Taking evangelism to the world, getting individuals l that normally sit in the pew to stand up and preach, and they go to a third world country so that they can preach with a translator. 302 00:25:34,700 --> 00:25:37,100 Not knowing what the translator's saying. 303 00:25:37,340 --> 00:25:44,380 And so it it it helps us to feel better about ourselves when we work through translator, because the translator makes us sound better. 304 00:25:47,140 --> 00:25:57,140 Someone went with Share Him to the country of India so that they could could share, and afterwards they called for people that had prayer requests to come up and they would pray for them. 305 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:01,520 They weren't expecting the mob of people that came forward. 306 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:08,240 But there was one man that that came forward that hit the right side of his body just wasn't functioning. 307 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:13,240 He limped as he came forward, his hand was all shriveled up. 308 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,960 The man tells the story how he began to 309 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,520 Pray for this man. 310 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:25,520 And as he prayed, it was like the man just seemed to blossom like a flower. 311 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:39,840 And by the time he quit praying, the man's leg, his whole side, his arm, his hand had opened up, and he was able to jump up and down for joy. 312 00:26:41,460 --> 00:26:49,300 In his words, he says, it was just like something that happened that we read about in the New Testament. 313 00:26:51,380 --> 00:26:55,220 That's the kind of person with the gift of of of healing. 314 00:26:56,820 --> 00:26:58,980 Supernatural thing that occurs. 315 00:26:59,220 --> 00:27:01,780 Something out of the ordinary that that we don't 316 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:12,080 Expect the gift of discernment, the special ability to distinguish between truth and error, good and evil, the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Antichrist. 317 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,920 Oh, sometimes I wish I had the gift of discernment. 318 00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:22,919 People knock on the door, they come into the church, they give me a sob story. 319 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:28,600 They can tell me pretty much anything, and I want to help them. 320 00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:34,600 And it's okay for me to help them because they need help. 321 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,640 I go home, I begin to tell my wife the story. 322 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:41,640 And she said, Did you ask this question? 323 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:42,600 Did you ask this question? 324 00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:42,920 Did you 325 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:55,000 asked this question no I didn't ask those questions she says I think they're lying to you I said from now on you have to sit with me when they when they talk with me 326 00:27:55,120 --> 00:27:57,440 She's got the gift of discernment. 327 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,200 I've seen it. 328 00:27:59,920 --> 00:28:06,560 The gift of discernment is that special ability to distinguish between truth and error. 329 00:28:07,540 --> 00:28:09,060 Good and evil. 330 00:28:09,620 --> 00:28:16,580 Tongues and the interpretation of tongues, the ability to spread the gospel in a language that you do not know. 331 00:28:16,980 --> 00:28:20,660 Now some of us might say, hey, that's the gift of hearing. 332 00:28:20,980 --> 00:28:29,380 Because sometimes we read Acts chapter 2, it says they had the gift of tongues, but it seemed like the people were hearing what Peter said in their own language. 333 00:28:29,460 --> 00:28:31,300 And so maybe it was the gift of hearing. 334 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:38,320 I'm not sure how it works, but what I know is the people are hearing in their heart language. 335 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,080 And they are understanding the gospel. 336 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,360 We're there in 1 Corinthians 12. 337 00:28:46,440 --> 00:28:52,280 Come down to verse 28, because in verse 28 he reiterates some things and then adds a new one, verse 28. 338 00:28:53,179 --> 00:29:06,380 It says, And God has appointed these to the church, first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, administrations, varieties of tongues. 339 00:29:06,860 --> 00:29:14,940 Are all apostles or all prophets, or all teachers, or all workers of miracles, do all have gifts of healing, do all speak with tongues, do all interpret? 340 00:29:20,919 --> 00:29:22,440 More excellent way. 341 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,080 We haven't seen before. 342 00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:36,960 There in verse 28, we see the gift of administration. 343 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:40,799 That's the special ability of planning. 344 00:29:41,580 --> 00:29:48,700 Of working with and through followers toward achieving biblical goals and organizational objectives. 345 00:29:50,740 --> 00:29:54,340 We know the person that has the gift of administration, don't we? 346 00:29:55,539 --> 00:30:03,380 I remember I was at a ministers' meeting, all the ministers were together, our families were there, the person had just gotten through speaking. 347 00:30:04,940 --> 00:30:13,100 Our five-year-old daughter was walking around with a group, and she was had a group of friends that were with her, and she was giving orders. 348 00:30:14,140 --> 00:30:19,980 She was instructing the children what to do and how to do it and where to go and what their place was to be. 349 00:30:20,220 --> 00:30:26,860 And the speaker came to us and it says, It seems like at least one family around here needed the gift of administration. 350 00:30:27,940 --> 00:30:29,860 So God gave it to you. 351 00:30:30,580 --> 00:30:38,500 And sure enough, our daughter seems to demonstrate at the age of three or four that gift of administration. 352 00:30:40,460 --> 00:30:43,020 We need the gift of administration. 353 00:30:43,179 --> 00:30:50,460 The gift of apostleship is that New Testament role represented today by the Spirit given ability to minister cross-culturally. 354 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,400 With a goal of planting churches. 355 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,000 The desire to spread the gospel as apostleship. 356 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,640 The word apostle simply means one cent. 357 00:31:04,220 --> 00:31:09,820 So if the church sins you, that means you are an apostle. 358 00:31:10,540 --> 00:31:14,780 We'll continue on with our study by turning to Ephesians chapter 4. 359 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,679 So where do we find the spiritual gifts recorded? 360 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:27,200 Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12, and Ephesians 4. 361 00:31:29,580 --> 00:31:41,580 Ephesians 4, again, verse 11, says, and he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers. 362 00:31:43,059 --> 00:31:46,419 We have the apostle again, we have prophet again. 363 00:31:47,620 --> 00:31:49,780 We have the gift of evangelism 364 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:57,200 The gift of evangelism is that special ability to act as a productive instrument of God in soul winning. 365 00:31:59,820 --> 00:32:02,620 That's the person that that seems to be very aggressive. 366 00:32:02,860 --> 00:32:06,700 The one that wants to share Jesus all the time. 367 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,880 When I think of evangelists, my dad comes to my to mind. 368 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:19,520 He has that special gift for doing evangelism, wanting to call people to Jesus Christ. 369 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:32,260 I remember when we lived in Tennessee, he came to visit us there, and our neighbor was walking down the road, and my dad went out to meet him. 370 00:32:33,780 --> 00:32:36,740 And my dad asked him, What do you do? 371 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:38,260 He says, I'm retired. 372 00:32:38,580 --> 00:32:40,100 What'd you retire from? 373 00:32:40,340 --> 00:32:41,620 Selling insurance. 374 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:45,539 In the conversation, the man asked my dad, and what do you do? 375 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:48,340 My dad says, I sell insurance. 376 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:51,760 The guy says, really? 377 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,680 What kind of insurance do you sell? 378 00:32:53,840 --> 00:32:56,240 My dad says, I sell fire insurance 379 00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:02,260 The guy had sold insurance. 380 00:33:02,340 --> 00:33:04,980 He'd never hurt any somebody that just sold fire insurance. 381 00:33:05,140 --> 00:33:07,620 Well, what do you mean you sell fire insurance? 382 00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:11,060 And my dad started to share the gospel. 383 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:19,639 In a manner that that man understood about fire insurance. 384 00:33:21,600 --> 00:33:29,280 This is the person that's willing to go to the mall and sit down and talk to people and say, if you were to die tonight, would you have eternal life? 385 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,280 What a way to start a conversation, huh? 386 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:36,600 That's the person that that wants to share about Jesus Christ. 387 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:40,680 Has a desire to share the good news of who Jesus is. 388 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,800 The next one that was in the list there is that of shepherding. 389 00:33:43,820 --> 00:33:50,940 I know it's the use of the word pastor, and it uses the word pastor teacher, but that pastor teacher word really should be shepherding. 390 00:33:51,180 --> 00:33:58,060 It's that special ability to effectively guide, feed, and protect a flock of followers in Christ. 391 00:33:57,940 --> 00:34:01,460 Christ, also known as pastoring. 392 00:34:02,179 --> 00:34:06,340 That's where Jesus said to Peter, Feed my sheep. 393 00:34:07,799 --> 00:34:13,000 Take care of my sheep, the gift of shepherding or pasturing. 394 00:34:15,580 --> 00:34:24,940 There's another one on the list there that isn't in those three spots, and it is not written by Paul. 395 00:34:25,340 --> 00:34:27,260 1 Peter chapter 4 also 396 00:34:27,799 --> 00:34:33,720 has spiritual gifts listed as Peter lists them in 1 Peter chapter 4. 397 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,400 First Peter chapter four. 398 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,280 Uh, we'll just read the whole paragraph there. 399 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,880 We'll start with verse seven. 400 00:34:50,720 --> 00:34:56,000 First Peter four verse seven says, But the end of all things is at hand. 401 00:34:56,639 --> 00:34:58,080 Boy, is that true now? 402 00:34:59,020 --> 00:34:59,580 Yeah. 403 00:34:59,820 --> 00:35:01,340 The end of all things is at hand. 404 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:04,620 Therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. 405 00:35:04,860 --> 00:35:11,260 And above all things, have fervent love for one another, for love will cover a multitude of sins. 406 00:35:11,420 --> 00:35:21,100 Be hospitable to one another without grumbling, as each one has received a gift, minister to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. 407 00:35:21,260 --> 00:35:24,300 If any one speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. 408 00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:37,320 If any one ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. 409 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:38,720 Amen. 410 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:48,480 The last one that's there on your list is that gift of hospitality, that special ability to provide an open home for fellow believers. 411 00:35:48,740 --> 00:35:54,900 to those in need of food, lodging, of fellowship, as a refuge to the bruised individuals. 412 00:35:55,140 --> 00:35:57,940 Do you know people with the gift of hospitality? 413 00:35:58,420 --> 00:36:00,100 That can make you feel at home. 414 00:36:00,340 --> 00:36:04,100 Now, sometimes we say, oh, she's got the gift of hospitality. 415 00:36:04,260 --> 00:36:06,020 She's always got her house open. 416 00:36:06,180 --> 00:36:07,620 People are there all the time. 417 00:36:07,780 --> 00:36:10,020 I'm not talking about selling Mary Kay. 418 00:36:11,039 --> 00:36:13,119 Tupperware, Princess House. 419 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,920 That does not count as the gift of hospitality. 420 00:36:16,079 --> 00:36:21,119 The gift of hospitality is that of of nurturing the church. 421 00:36:21,279 --> 00:36:25,039 She is motivated by another m kind of motivation. 422 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,560 That's selling to Mary Kay. 423 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:34,360 Now that doesn't mean you can't sell Mary Kay with the motivation of using it for Jesus Christ. 424 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:42,520 But most of the time it is a different motivation of why we open the home for Tupperware parties. 425 00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,319 You guys know it's nominating committee time. 426 00:36:55,839 --> 00:36:58,880 Tap piece of paper you have if you'll just fold it in half there. 427 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:04,000 There's a place for you to write down your name. 428 00:37:06,060 --> 00:37:10,140 The nominating committee needs some information from you, twofold. 429 00:37:10,940 --> 00:37:14,060 One is what spiritual gifts do you have? 430 00:37:16,300 --> 00:37:22,780 Now, maybe you haven't discovered your spiritual gift yet, and if you haven't, maybe you want to leave that blank. 431 00:37:23,020 --> 00:37:27,180 Maybe you want to write there, I need a spiritual gifts class. 432 00:37:27,620 --> 00:37:33,140 I need to take the inventory to find out what spiritual gift I should start experimenting with. 433 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:34,740 That's okay to do. 434 00:37:34,900 --> 00:37:39,540 If you need that, write that down there, because maybe we need to have a spiritual gifts class. 435 00:37:40,039 --> 00:37:45,000 But the second part we need you to fill out as well. 436 00:37:45,799 --> 00:37:51,400 I have a heart, I have a passion for using my gift of teaching in 437 00:37:52,220 --> 00:37:54,700 The youth and early teen department. 438 00:37:55,260 --> 00:37:59,420 I have a passion for using my hospitality by 439 00:38:01,740 --> 00:38:03,980 And maybe you have a passion for something. 440 00:38:04,220 --> 00:38:08,700 I have a a a heart's desire for seeing that we have a 441 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:10,560 A men's ministry. 442 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:11,760 I want to make sure. 443 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:15,920 I think I can administer things correctly so that we are able to. 444 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,120 Where is your heart? 445 00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:18,240 Where is your passion? 446 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:22,080 What is something that you would like to be involved in? 447 00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:35,460 This is your opportunity to give some some feedback, some needed feedback to the nominating committee. 448 00:38:39,660 --> 00:38:44,859 I'm gonna pause for just a second while you're writing down on that writing something down on that piece of paper. 449 00:39:17,740 --> 00:39:21,180 You know, sometimes one minute of silence is hard 450 00:39:21,599 --> 00:39:22,640 For us to handle. 451 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:26,160 Just a minute is really hard for us to handle. 452 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,440 I'm going to close here by reading First Peter chapter 453 00:39:33,559 --> 00:39:36,440 Chapter four, verse eleven again 454 00:39:42,099 --> 00:39:45,220 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. 455 00:39:45,380 --> 00:39:53,619 If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified. 456 00:39:53,660 --> 00:40:01,580 Globified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. 457 00:40:02,220 --> 00:40:02,860 Amen. 458 00:40:03,980 --> 00:40:13,420 We want to use our gifts, our God-given gifts, so that God can be glorified. 459 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:19,480 And when you leave today, you can take these papers and you can just leave them there on the pew. 460 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:21,319 I will collect them later. 461 00:40:22,039 --> 00:40:22,359 Okay? 462 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:25,079 You don't have to take them out, you don't have to give them to anybody. 463 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:26,599 You can just leave them there. 464 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:28,680 And I will collect them. 465 00:40:30,120 --> 00:40:32,520 I invite you to stand at this time. 466 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:37,560 So we sing our closing hymn, hymn number three hundred and twenty-six. 467 00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:40,760 Open my eyes.