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How Effective you are is not up to God, but up to You! 11 For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased. 12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it . 11 For by me your days will be many, and years will be added…

1. We are all given a measure of faith. 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. 4 For as we have many members in one body, but all the members…

8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit, Introduction: we said last week: word of Knowledge proves that God is real. word of knowledge is an “in the moment” gift” the word of Knowledge does not replace the logos. 1. Even when…

12 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant: 2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led. 3 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…

16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever— 3 For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of…

25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.…

The Body of Christ Paul wanted the church to know, to be informed, not to be ignorant (1Cor12:1) about the unity of the body that comes from the diversity of gifts within the body. Today we will look at his analogy and take a look at some of the gifts and set up for the bond that holds the gifts together.…

Intro & Recap Exegetical Point: Jesus’ saved body is equipped with varying gifts for varying service. Application point: Find your gifts and use them! Kids, What do you think is your most important body part? Eyes? Ears? Legs? Let me tell you a story... Liv. 2.32 - Paraphrase Menenius Agrippa from about…

Ministry of the Holy Spirit As we grow in Christ we learn to mature through knowledge and appreciation of our God. We grow when we understand the body of Christ (the church) and it’s function personally but more importantly as a unified body through the Holy Spirit. Question: When you think of transformed,…

9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such…

Excellent! Paul speaks of an excellent way (1Cor12:31); We have looked at what that way is, and what that way looks like, in other words described it. Tonight may we continue to see how the excellent way was placed right here addressing the unity problem in the Corinthian church. Paul desired the church…

What are your gifts and how should you use them?

Turn with me to Romans 12:1-2 I challenged you to take time and start reading Romans 12-15 over the next several weeks and let God start working on your thinking. I sure hope you have taken up that challenge! If you haven’t yet, it’s not too late. This week, dive in and take time to ask the Holy Spirit…

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess…

Family of God By now I’m sure you have gotten the point of this series. To know who we are in Christ personally so we may know who we are in Christ collectively, a family. From identification to fellowship now to working beside one another as our passages today will cover. As a family we live in two…

Gifts to the Church From spiritual gifts to the church (Eph4:7-10) Paul gets into describing some of the gifts for the church (v.11) and then the reason why (v.12-13) and the results (v.14) when applied (v.15-16). Tonight we are going to briefly look at the gifts for the church to start with. 11 And…

Did You Say Sacrifice? Sacrifice is a word that is pretty far from most of our minds. That doesn’t mean we haven’t had to sacrifice from time to time. Maybe especially in this time, where we have sacrificed a part of our beloved freedom, if we are responsible to others. To protect those around us we…

Purpose of the church Super glue, bond-o, guerrilla tape, they are known to hold things together. In our passage this morning we are looking at something much stronger. (insert High priest robes picture here) Let me start this morning with an illustration if I may. But first a scripture then the illustration…

Supernatural Gifts in Post-Biblical Church If there is evidence of supernatural gifts in the post-biblical church we need to see them, and if one of the primary arguments of the cessationist position is found to be fraudulent; we should approach this topic in a Presbyterian Church Now concerning spiritual…

Our blessings are many, our victories are few.

We are in John 9 this morning. I encourage you to open your bibles and look at this passage with me. We read through this whole passage last week, and started by looking at verses 1-3. Today we are going to focus on verses 3-5. “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened…

Spiritual people are known for the love of God at work through them. This love governs how they treat theri brothers and sisters in Christ and compels them to use their spiritual gifts for the building up of the church.

7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: 10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these…

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and all were made to drink of one Spirit. For the body does not consist of one member…

However, he has given each one of us a special gift through the generosity of Christ. That is why the Scriptures say, “When he ascended to the heights, he led a crowd of captives and gave gifts to his people.” Notice that it says “he ascended.” This clearly means that Christ also descended to our lowly…