1 Corinthians 12:1-8 - Part B

When it comes to your walk with God. I hope you are growing in your walk with all of us. I love to discover new things and experiences and I never say yes I know all things. I've had enough good Christians spirit sometimes confuses belief sure you today on connect with Skip Skip unwraps the mystery of how the Holy Spirit works in your life to tell you about a resource that will inspiring shine God's love.

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What is more perfect. The full canon of Scripture the gifts of the Spirit were there sort of as a stopgap sort of as a goodwill measure to carry the church over during that very volatile transitional period until they would have the full canon of all all the New Testament books that that constitute constitute that which is perfect.

That is a very irresponsible interpretation. It's presupposing that Paul and his mind is thinking that he's writing Scripture and one date is it's going to be fulfilled, but it isn't yet fulfilled, keep in mind Paul the apostle at this time that he was writing this would quote from Old Testament Scripture and he's writing real letters in real time to people and by the way, to say that that which is perfect refers to the Scripture.

Good scholars will disagree goods fundamentalist scholars will disagree good dispensational scholars will disagree, for instance, Charles Reiber of the Riley study Bible who taught theology at Dallas theological seminary would be considered a strict dispensational is not somebody who would revel in these gifts of the spirit says that which is perfect does not refer to the canon of Scripture can only refer to the second coming of Christ and that's why it could be translated says right rate when he who is perfect comes than that which is in part will be done away with. So if that is indeed the case. Like these scholars, including Riley, say then the gifts of the spirit should be intact in their use until the coming of Christ throughout the whole church age so we prophesy in part, we know in part when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part will be done away with. So these are not gifts. The gifts of chapter 12 in chapter 14 are not just gifts to be used during the apostolic age only. Do you remember when Peter was preaching on Pentecost, and after his message they support, which we do and he said repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of the Lord Jesus for the remission of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promise is for you, for your children and for as many as are of far off as many that call on the Lord so every saved person is immediately indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and I believe the power of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of the spirit are for every generation which you see one of the reasons people want to be cessation.

This is because it is convenient and you want to get in the weeds and get messy with all the weird people who want to say and do weird things and and and have to mop the mess up in the church when people abuse the gifts of just say doesn't exist is not for today. It's much easier it's all nice and clean and antiseptic and honestly many people who are in this camp to be truthful with you are just afraid of what might happen if they were to open themselves up that you know you and I've even heard people so I've heard stories of people who open themselves up supposedly to the Holy Spirit and Qaeda friend. He was like a lion and the banker at the grocery so she started jabbering in a weird language of not so not up there led by the spirit not of it's a legitimate work and move of the Holy Spirit, not can happen. So that's one extreme, the second extreme that I told you about his sensationalism. Thus the opposite end of the spectrum, whereas the cessation is says these things don't exist is only for the apostolic era. Those things don't happen anymore. This sensationalist isn't happy until people just go crazy and get weird they want to see sensational stuff and there on the opposite end of the spectrum. They don't believe the Holy Spirit is moving unless there's chaos and tongues and prophecy and the problem with sensationalist is when they talk about the gifts of the spirit are not talking about all of the gifts of the spirit are only talking about a few they want to see the fireworks of tongues and interpretation and prophecy, and words of knowledge and miracles in dealing with great but there's a lot of other gifts to balance it out that you've left out.

But when you make a movement out of that and that is why the charismatic movement has done a lot for the church in highlighting the importance of and need for the legitimate work of the spirit. I do not identify with the charismatic movement.

I believe largely, they have abused the gifts of the spirit and encourage the abusive gifts in the spirit when it comes to public assemblies, so that's why Santa fund a magic, care's mental list. When I was a kid, my dad had a couple of really cool toys we saw them as toys are one of the things he had was his cool brass can and it had red wheels but it was just really detailed and if I'm if memory serves, it may not. But if memory serves, I think it even came with little balls, little metal balls that went into the canon and little wick so you could put in that exploded and shot the ball not far but as a kid, I was just so cool. But he also had something else. Have a little plug-in steam engine.

This I remember well and what you would do is you put water in it. It was made out of metal at little wick metal wheels on it and you plug it in and the water would heat up and create steam and it would actually move the steam engine on the table wherever it was plug-in wouldn't go far because the court wasn't very long, can only go about as long as is this little court so it would kinda chug along we thought was cool to see the steam engine being propelled but it could do something else. You could pull a little spring and it would blow a little whistle on top, which is all that so cool Lucinda to now it only had a reservoir for just enough water to create just enough steam that would pretty propellant a little ways or blow the whistle so you kinda had a choice you wanted to move or you wanted to make a lot of noise when it comes to the movement of the Holy Spirit.

It seems like there are movements of people who just want to make a lot of noise. They don't really want to move forward and use the Holy Spirit to make a dynamic that moves them ahead and forward in their Christian walk.

So there are really growing.

It's not really equipping them to grow but there make it a whole lot of noise their content to let all the power go out there was that sensationalism so concerning spiritual gifts, I don't want you ignorant so we've covered a verse I told you Bible from 3 feet you okay with that. Okay verse two. You know that you were Gentiles and by Gentiles means non-Jewish, but in the sense that your unbelieving Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols dumb here meaning lifeless in adamant, insensate, not stupidly named but that would fit dumb idols. You know that you were Gentiles cared whether these dumb idols, however you were led. Now get this in the Gentile pagan worship system and many of the temples and I've been in some of these temples throughout Asia minor and had the guides explain part of the worship in these pagan temples of the Gentiles. Paul has in mind he's referring to was the belief that the spirit of the God or God asked that the idle itself would come in and inhabit the worshiper and the evidence of that would be ecstatic speech kind of out-of-control speech kind of on non-intelligent, emotional, ecstatic experience pulses that used to be you. You were carried away with the stupid dumb idols insensate on empowering idols, however you were led. Now he's going to talk about the Holy Spirit and you know the Bible does talk about being led by the Holy Spirit and he's trying to segue to them as a look, I know your background, I know how you were led. I know what you were into now were talking about gifts used in the church. Some of them will be verbal gifts. Some of them will be gifts of utterance but I want you to be led and filled in controlled, that's the idea by the Holy Spirit.

Okay the New Testament talks about three different phases. Let's say that three different stages of how the Holy Spirit works in a saved person Jesus said in the Gospels, the Holy Spirit will be with you and the Holy Spirit will be in you, than in the book of acts chapter 1 he said stay in Jerusalem to the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the uttermost parts of your so we have three words with and upon all prepositions that tell how the noun functions. The Holy Spirit will be par in Greek with you. What is that happen that happens before your site Holy Spirit is with you comes alongside of you convicts you of sin, righteousness, and judgment. But you know your empty your creep you need help and when you go yeah I do and you repent great. He's done his job.

He's been with you to get you there.

Then we move into stage II. He said in the Holy Spirit will be in you, the Greek preposition and he'll come inside of you helped indwell you kill inhabit you right now if you're a Christian. The Holy Spirit is occupying your physical body.

How help. What good news is news is that is so good, so he'll be with you will be in you. So that happens when you're saved before your say when you're safe. But then in acceptor one.

He said wait stay in Jerusalem, saying this to save disciples of the Holy Spirit come par on that that's him that's with FP upon you and then you will be witnesses in Jerusalem today.

Samaria, etc. that's a start of the third phase. These save disciples are told to wait until the Holy Spirit fills them and empowers them comes upon them so that they could be witnesses in Jerusalem, so those three are are very important and let me encourage you on a personal note when it comes to your walk with God. I hope you're growing in your walk with the Lord. I hope all of us are growing and I love to discover new things in the word and I love new experiences with the Lord and I never was a yes I know all things.

I've had enough good Christian stuff I don't need anymore. Are you kidding I wanted. I want everything I can get a hold of and not so much as I want more of the Holy Spirit is I want the Holy Spirit more of me.

I wonder control my life and move so I can move ahead on one just blow the whistle on a move in so in John chapter 7, Jesus made a promise you remember the promise he stood up on the last day of the feast of Tabernacles and he said whoever believes in me, as the Scripture said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water in John at the footnotes at this Jesus spoke of the Holy Spirit who is not yet given. No. Would you agree that is one thing to have water in a reservoir kind of nicely kept it's always there if you need it you can tap into a take a break when you want. It's in the cistern is in the reservoir. It's quite another thing to have water. The gushes out of you a river or stream of living water, so that not only do you have something if you needed whenever you choose at your discretion.

But there's so much of it. Not only are you refreshed, but everybody was around you gets a splash. This he spoke of his Holy Spirit.

That's the kind of relationship I want with God. So Seligman is my drizzly burnout as a matter you can. If if it's living water. It keeps flowing to me and I wanted to flow through me to everybody else so that's the kind of experience I think that Paul is is fleshing out for the church bringing all the Scriptures gatherings. He's explaining to them how these things work in the context of Christian community.

So recover to versus therefore therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. And I think all this is referring to the ask the experience of Gentiles unsaved Gentiles being controlled by demons in their worship system.

Speaking things under the influence of a demon power that are blatantly wrong.

I think that's the reference in the first part of the verse I make known to you. No one speaking by the spirit of God calls Jesus accursed. Only somebody in a pagan worship system under the influence of the demon would say that and no one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit is something you need to know about the gifts of the spirit especially the vocal gifts, tongues, interpretation, prophecy, words of wisdom. Words of knowledge. These are these are verbal gifts that are speaking gifts are there are I guess you could divided up into three categories.

We looked at all the gifts of the spirit in you want will how many are there Wahlberg get all out of touch that in a minute you could divide them up into speaking gifts, serving gifts and signifying gifts sign gifts like miracles, faith, etc. when it comes to the speaking gifts. A Christian is never out of control.

So if you ever worried about gotcha like myself up to this and go to an afterglow which by the way, a Kevin is going to be leaving in a few weeks willing to do that for the church at believers meetings to experience these things in the context of assembly if you ever wonder. Gosh and I would just be afraid to open myself as I think that something might happen or I lose control is a weird stuff not going to happen. As I mentioned, you're always in control now want to show that to you. I think you need to see it because again I don't want you to be your brother concerning New Mexico and spiritualist rights of turnover, turn right to chapter 14 because I want you to see this. This is also the introductory I promise you in weeks ahead will move a little faster, but I want you to see it important to get this under your spiritual belt chapter 14 verse 27 if anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three each in turn and let one interpret all of those instructions. Implied control, you can count okay.

There's been three stop now.

We need interpretation. All of this implies control of the user of the gift, but if there is no interpretation let them keep silent in the church and let him speak to himself and to God. I will explain that as we get to let two or three prophets speak and let the others judge.

But if anything is revealed to another who sits by but the first keep silent for you can all prophesy one by one that all May learn and all may be encouraged to watch this and the spirit of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

In other words, you never lose control any manifestation of God's supposed manifestation of God where a person loses control is not of God, the spirit of the prophets is subject to the prophets, for God is not the author of confusion, but of peace as in all the churches of the saints. How do I know this to be true. I know this because not only of these verses and the others that were studying but I know this because Galatians tells me the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering goodness, kindness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control, that's a manifestation of the spirit in the fruit of the spirit, so the gifts of the spirit. Don't ever operate independently from the fruit of the spirit. Seligman allegedly lost control and fell backwards and hit somebody as I did, but I couldn't help whatever. Now look at the second part of verse three. No one can say Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.

That's also a very key idea that anybody who is under the influence of the Holy Spirit in any kind of manifestation is going to glorify Jesus Christ because that's what the Holy Spirit is he's gonna make a lot. He's going to make much of Jesus can all be about Jesus a memo myself an exercise bike trip. You know I am real Carol you are because none of us are as important as Jesus is. We make much of him. And Jesus said when the Holy Spirit comes when the helper comes, whom I will send to you from the father, even the spirit of truth that proceeds from the father.

He, the Holy Spirit will testify of me.

The Holy Spirit to make it all about me. So that's why Paul includes that so three verses now concerning spiritual gifts, brother, and I don't want you ignorant. You know you were Gentiles carried away those dumb idols, however you were led. Therefore, I make known to you that no one speaking by the spirit of God calls Jesus accursed and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit. Now delegates in the gifts. Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same spirit, there are differences of ministries, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all, but the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one that is, each member of the body of Christ. Each Christian individual to each one for the profit of all we learn a few things about spiritual gifts before he even names them. He's summarizing their use what we learned for so first of all, we learned their varied their varied judges. One gift is only not just one manifestation or several, so there varied or not monotone. They're not monolithic, and so what I love about God. He loves variety. He loves variety and is pretty obvious. Look around our country go in one direction you go past Mounds, you see the sort of flat prairie go the other direction long enough, you see a lot of water, ocean get you there is just the world is filled with such Friday and then people are different row different role you need. Our faces are unique its wife. You can have that security device on your little phone the looks of your face and said all that, you okay I'll open up you can get somebody that looks like you it won't open up because there's facial recognition software that's pretty accurate that can detect the subtleties you are unique and so there are there's a variety not only in creation not only in indifferent people. But there also in the church there are diversities of gifts, there are differences of ministries. There's diverse in these activities Skip the message from the series expound first few Skip to share how you can help keep this broadcast going strong connecting you others around the world with God's word.

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