Spiritual Gifts I [Part 2]

Pastor, author and Bible teacher Alan Wright, one of the joys I have in life is playing the piano.

I have my own piano.

Now I didn't back then was a few places that play the piano was at my in-laws over Ann's parents Bonnie. Her mother was a fantastic PNS and almost every time we go over would be better than were over there a lot. I do sit out that upright piano place on maybe a price. All you him during this time 99 plan because it was the great sadness that's pastor a surge of good news that will help you see your life in a whole new light on the New Britain excited for you to hear the teaching today. In the series higher power as presented, rebuild the church in North Carolina. If you're not able to stay with us throughout our entire program today I want to make sure you know how to get our special resource right now. It can be yours for your donation this month to Alan Wright Ministries so as you listen to today's message go deeper as we send you today's special offer. Contact us@pastor.org that's pastor@an.org or call 877-544-4860 877-544-4860. More on this later in the program but right now let's get started with today's teaching here is Alan Wright you were disconnected from God and then you're reconnected with God you restored is your life. Spiritual thing of this white psyche. So there is there is you can think of the body which could experience pleasure.

Maybe a warm sunshine day and and and and and your you taste delicious milkshake your your your riding along in your convertible.

The Winslow blowing through your hair and it's like that for your body is experiencing and maybe circumstances are really good in your life and you got a whole lot of things going well and you're just happy your soul is happy but don't you know that there is a thing that can happen that even if your body is not experiencing pleasure in your soul is not that happy.

There is a thing called joy that you can have anyway. There's a thing likewise is called peace that passes understanding where we talk about with Thomas spiritual things went. When Jesus said that we are to worship in spirit and in truth what you talking about what you are is a born-again Christian, you are regenerated spirit you to live with God forever and so the part of you that was separate from God that was like dad before.

Now you're alive to God. And here's a way it hears way that why this is important when you're talking about spiritual gifts you're talking about that which is spiritual.

It is not natural. There are more ways to apprehend knowledge then just what the five senses physically can tell you what the intellect can tell you is really talking about is is that there are ways to apprehend truths that bypass even what your mind could rationally think up and this is where the spiritual gifts come up like so spiritual gifts are spiritual because the Holy Spirit communes with your spirit.

We spent a lot of time in our culture, train, and bodies at least some people to and you can train your body you get faster you get stronger. You can train your mind to spend tons of time and that we educate kids start early on a fat I love and like train your mind, you can get. You get mentally more sharp. What I'm saying to you is that the spiritual development of of of walking in and becoming aware of the spirituals. As Paul calls that's less common in our society right for Zora so were talking about. And so it's spiritual but also notices in verse four varieties of gifts, but the same spirit that word gifts is the word in Greek, Harris, Motta, which is the plural form of a word. You probably know, this brought over from the Greek Harris I talk about a lot because Karis means grace, so the gifts of the spirit are the current smart the graces of God.

So in the same way that your salvation comes by grace through faith alone. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are just that they are the Congress Motta.

They are gifts that come by grace their grace so they come not by your works, but but received by faith alone. So, he's your sword, spirituals, and these were scar is Monta and then in verse seven he says to each is given the manifestation of the spirit for the common good will to manifestation this this this word just means the unveiling or the showing forth of the Holy Spirit.

The reason that's important is that the gifts of the spirit are not like ASAP.

Brad thing that's that's why my power wash illustration done work because that's just a tool that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are actually an expression of the Holy Spirit himself at work in you there's no such thing as the gifts of the spirit being separate from the presence of the Holy Spirit. He is the one doing it. Okay, at all times literally that since Paul says when you see a gift of the Holy Spirit is not like something. Oh, this is a theme that just resides in this person and they just turn it on. Know the Holy Spirit is manifesting his loving presence talk about some of the gifts I'm a star, one that you know you don't hear much about the gift of giving. Romans 12 a to the one who contributes or gives to do so in generosity. All Christians are called to excel and giving you all the spiritual gift of generosity brings a supernatural delight to a person's heart to be able to get out of and they have a capacity to release and to keep slowing and such a warrant for what we had a guy at our church said so.

Some some people here today and so you and AS you do and that was King Brown and King Brown was.

It was a marvelous little man that was powerfully the spirit and first-ever Mdm. 25 years ago would come near the church.

The TT took my wife and I out to dinner at a nice steak restaurant here near near the church and and and somewhere in the military. He said brother pastor is what he call me brother pastor, I like that brother Pam is brother Ammons back brother pastor. He said I was at Sukkoth beware and I said I told him I so what, why, why, you ask peace. It would usually like this when I got all my cilia. That is nice get you to guess what I got it good will for $2.02 dollars. These a while and I spent $200 on a Sukkoth when I can spend two dollars and send under other hundred and and $98 to missionary SOS fantastic and I know my wife was in the next visit you and go get your Sukkoth of the goodwill. There is no way that you know and then he said, and he held up his foot and he said you liked these shoes.

I said yeah he's gone for a dollar. Is that why would a buy spent $70 on a pair shoes. I said I was a kid my whiteness at $70 not that bad for you. I know that I was in here that and not an ending. Same story got it goodwill. Why would you add it and so I was like this and I'm at one time he was elder tournament what time he told the session the elders he was like we were we were going to discontinue some giving to a particular international missionary agency and he said he said he said it is a lie, brother, sister, if we stop giving Simon have to diverge. Some of my mission given over to give to that.

This is too important. Well I will King do do it again and I was taught until later in our thinking you do all this missionary giving.

I said I just will have secured an ask you to do.

Do you do you also give me know generously to the church's general fund to meet you gift, you get to present their first and then give beyond yelp and the policy said the well brother pastor said the weather. CM given little over 20% to the general fund. Before I do my missionary And I got to talking to him and he finally met his said the first segment of his life.

He gave 50% of everything he made a way and I came to realize that this retired mailman was one of biggest givers in the church in his lip. He does live to get some you're going of a more effective phone because I might. God might make me start given what if you feel that way you don't understand it at all because the Bible says that you reap in the measure in which you so. And God love to pursue provide seed to the sower is a giant secret that Allen Wright will have more teaching in a moment from today's important series better marriage.

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We are happy to send this to you as I thanked him. Allen Wright ministries, 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website pastor and got a work these teaching now you once again is just a how that's different. God calls us all to be generous, but that's a gift right that is a supernatural and a look at you King of why I can understand why am I with well, let's talk about it was talk about another another gift serving or are or sometimes is called health. Romans 12 seven if service in serving first rate is 1228 got appointed in the church first apostle prophets and teachers.

The miracles guess the healing help helping sometimes a skull that so I want to highlight this because this is supernatural.

Every single Christian is called to be part of serving in some way in their lives like looking for.

That's what we offer service right but boy it's a beautiful thing.

When somebody has the gift of serving as a gift just love it.

I think you might archers got to some of you know Butch Mozer.

He tells me of the village. He's always it tells me whatever in the you know you run around Sunday morning. All you know you gives the water. We gotta get this all were going away we go. Run is a week that we need a stool over here so my visit.

He just run around and I remember a few years ago.

We are at the village campus and was fall Festival night in the village campus. What we did before coke we would set up hayride with we serve free hot dogs to the community. We have trucker treats there and I think we serve about 2000 hot dogs is wild is chaotic. It takes all hands on deck. It's it's it's so labor-intensive and I'm down there, you know, kind of visiting with people and I was like I'm look. Think about all the potential problems you know the police cars are out there escorting triggered directing traffic, thereby scum it and Butch is over there and he's run around his care and hotdogs easier. This is in table 7 becomes or maybe said fantastic. Look at all these people sagacity and but is it in this incredible yet, as is Bev and he looked amazed that is my favorite day of the year lesson ago like I can think of some things that might be a little bit better in this suggests that the gift gift had time to talk about all these gifts was talk a bit about the prophetic gifts or what I might would call them revelatory gifts and they sort of a whole package of these that I think fit together first rent is 12 821 is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom to another hundreds of knowledge when in the same spirit. 1210 to another prophecy, to another bill to distinguish between spirits, and other various kinds of tongues another the interpretation of tongues, prophecy is more the fourth telling that it is the, the, the future telling of the word I got it it is it is it is in the new covenant in the New Testament the way prophecy works in the body of Christ is not like it was in the Old Testament where the prophets were expected to be infallible, because if they if they missed it at all than they were to be condemned as a false prophet. That's not the way that the New Testament speaks about the functioning of prophecy prophecy in the New Testament is for encouragement and is for edification and every single one of us. Paul says we should be equally desiring to learn to prophesy. This isn't about some thunderous Jeremiah or Isaiah like using this is like ordinary stuff in the crib in the Christian life, and some people think will you know it we need to we need be perfect in this subway New Testament read first Thessalonians 520 also do not despise prophecy, but test everything why she's a test everything because he saying you need way. Words do not do not show to be perfect.

We were going to prophesy imperfectly first rent is 1429. Similarly income out similarly let two or three prophets speak and let the others weigh what is said so someone says I think maybe the Lord is saying such and such and then let others have prophetic inclination to go. Yeah, that seems like that really is from God and and and of course this is what Paul means in first Corinthians 13 eight where he says love never ends. As for prophecies, the pathways tongues. The LCs for knowledgeable pathway for we know in part, we prophesy in part. When the perfect comes a partial pathway prophecy is this profound encouragement that comes when someone gets a word to share that expresses the love and purpose is the good purposes of God, and that you encourage because you know it is God's think back in 1999 were the hardest years of our lives and's younger sister Mary never smoked a cigarette didn't get the diagnosis of lung cancer and told it already spread to her bones prayed for for every day and our hardship for little children, our hearts will react with the pain of it all.

Difficult time in life difficult ministry.

One of the joys I have in life is playing the piano. I have my own piano.

Now I didn't back then when the few places that play the piano was at my in-laws over Ann's parents Bonnie. Her mother was a fantastic PNS and almost every time we go over would be visiting Rover the lot I go sit at that upright piano not play some may be a praise song maybe him during this time 99 I quit plan because it was the great sadness and I don't know, didn't seem unfeeling.

It so I had a friend the mentor name Gordon Dalbey and is in California.

He's written a best-selling book, healing the mass console. Consider a classic for transformation for men and he and I would talk on the phone and pray, and we were talking and I was sharing with him about our statuses were facing a second pretty furious at all of reprieve record going just talked to Laura like you talk to your father if you sit in the room with your father father he said I know you I know I know father he's on the other hand the phone. I know you have some things you want to show Alan and I know the Lord you want to help this what what it what is it that you like to show him what would you say to him, father and others on Sundays.

I just got this image can undermine is that I don't know if you play the piano or any musical action but I see you sitting that upright piano and you're not playing any set. I feel like the Lord is saying that you want to play. That means literally play or if it just means keep praising the Lord even in the sad time and I slept mental muscle Gordon message I just had an implant I started praising the Lord even though we are in a great sadness, and it carried me through is in the Lord.

Kind utterance of wisdom is to get a supernatural revelation from God that helps bring the right wise word or solution that helps someone along the word of knowledge may be a image of a word, a revelation that would help direct ministry. Think about one of our elders. That was praying after one of our services and a woman was praying about some of her anxiety wanted prayer about her anxiety. They were praying and nothing seem to be happening until the elder set I see a picture in my mind of the little girl in a tree and she looks helpless and woman burst into tears and they prayed for her and she began to experience healing for the first time and afterward she said it was an apple tree. I was six years old and I was stuck there. I kept calling out for a long time and nobody came once a word of knowledge.

Lord wants to heal and what to do this, he reveals that discernment distinguishing between spirits is a revelatory gift when you can tell what's good and what's evil and whether something is God or of its of the devil and and really when we talk about tongues we talking about three different expressions of this there is one form of the gift of tongues and which someone is praying in a known language that they do not know and I know people that's happened to them before is what have at Pentecost. The other times where there is a message prophetically that God wants to share with a group of people and it is first expressed in an unknown language in a in a in the limited no one knows but someone else there you the one who speaks for someone else receives in the same way you receive a prophetic of this is what the Lord seem to be say and then third expression of tongues is what you think about the stock private prayer language were God praise through you and all of that's part of revelatory gifts. I wish I had time to talk about all of the gifts of the spirit, but we've made available to hand out, it gives us a summary of all of the gifts and and and will make it available online as well. The spiritual gifts have this incredible gracious power to change not just the church but the world so the message of the of the New Testament about spiritual gifts is that they are for every Christian and every Christian could continue to grow and so don't try. Don't think you have to tried to do the ministry by your own power when God has given so ritually my new pressure washer is doing the trick, but I'll come back to you later if I decide to buy the 4000 PCI because after all, more power is better in a prayer for more more power the Holy Spirit in your life. Every Christian is gifted every Christian can increase in the gifts the Holy Spirit and that's the gospel Alan Wright are good news message spiritual gifts from the series higher power encourage you to stay with us because Pastor Alan is back here in the studio assuring a parting good news thought for today just a moment being filled with the Holy Spirit shutting off your mind hearing for a wonderful surprise God's word and God's spirit never meant to be separated. Word and spirit always belong together. The key to life in Christ knowing your my secret is been filled with the spirit, the answer is the spirit and send missions into sound studying Scripture, and some traditions emphasize the spirit of Christian growth in both word and spirit. Someone like Pollard spirit you dry all spirit know where both word and spirit umbrella.

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