Intro to Manifestations of the Holy Spirit

Spiritual Gifts

Who is the Holy Spirit?

some people say he’s an angel on a power trip JK

The Holy Spirit is God's personal spirit

The Holy Spirit IS God

God is one Being who is so big and so complex and vastly superior to us

most people don’t understand him because he doesn’t fit into one tiny idea of a person.

There are three distinct person’s of the trinity or the godhead

Some people say we have God the Father, God the Son, and God the Bible jk

The Holy SPirit seems to always be the one who seems to be left out

that’s probably OK to him because he doesn’t have an ego

his favorite thing to do is to give Jesus Glory and push the mission of Jesus

but when you under appreciate, underestimate, under welcome, and undervalue the Holy Spirit

you miss out on the majority of the incredible and fun stuff in the kingdom of God

not just fun, but effective

Our passage describes the gifts of the Holy spirit that details the supernatural, everyday things that the Holy Spirit is doing through Christians

1 Corinthians 12:1–3 NASB95

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be unaware. You know that when you were pagans, you were led astray to the mute idols, however you were led. Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except 1aby the Holy Spirit.

You Can’t Manipulate God

Elijah and the prophets of Baal

Pagans manipulating their gods

We try to manipulate God with Transaction based Prayers

Mosquitoes

1 Corinthians 12:4–6 (NASB95)

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And there are varieties of ministries, and the same Lord.

There are varieties of effects, but the same God who works all things in all persons.

Rhetoric that the people of Paul’s time would appreciate. Repeating the same point in three different ways.

Lexham Theological Wordbook (χάρισμα)

χάρισμα (charisma). n. neut. something graciously given; a gift. Something that is freely given on account of favor and kindness.This noun is related to χάρις (charis, “grace, favor”) and refers specifically to the result of gracious giving or action.

Romans 11:29 (NASB95): 29 for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Lexham Theological Wordbook (διακονία)

διακονία (diakonia). n. fem. ministry, service. Refers to a ministry or service; either waiting on others or a ministry in the church.This word is used to describe several different actions. In its most basic form, the word can refer to the simple servitude that a person would provide when someone was visiting his or her house.

people visiting our house on Friday (17 people in our home)

1 Corinthians 12:7 NASB95

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

Manifestation Definition

an event, action, or object that clearly shows or embodies something, especially a theory or an abstract idea.

"the first obvious manifestations of global warming"

the action or fact of showing an abstract idea.

"the manifestation of anxiety over the upcoming exams"

a symptom or sign of an ailment.

"a characteristic manifestation of Lyme disease"

Synonyms

materialization

demonstration

exhibition

indication

evidence

expression

profession

superpower team

bataman, superman, wonderwoman, aquaman

iron man, captain america, spiderman, antman, black widow,

jean grey, cyclopse, wolverine, storm, iceman, professor X

The Holy Spirit is the source of these 9 powers and he delegates out each specific power as they are needed

Paul describes it like a person may be used in a specific gift or manifestation of the Holy Spirit commonly, but you can be used in whatever the Holy Spirit wants you to be used in.

Every Christian has a kind of Swiss army knife of the Holy Spirit available to them, not to do what you want to do, but to do whatever the Holy Spirit wants to accomplish

True power in the kingdom of god comes from submitting

Doesn’t come from mutant factor, accident of birth, some readioactive spider or goo, or super human syrum.

These powers come from submitting to God

1 Corinthians 12:8–11 NASB95

For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills.

Three Categories of the gifts of the Holy Spirit

1. Revelation Gifts (Think God’s Thoughts)

2. Demonstration Gifts (Do God’s Deeds)

3. Communication Gifts (Speak God’s Words)

its like three toolboxes you can reach for, but you can’t operate in them whenever you want to, you can only operate in them as the Holy Spirit hands you the wrench or whatever

Revelation Gifts/ Gifts of Knowledge (know something from God) Word of Knowledge Word of Wisdom Discerning of Spirits

God giving you the ability to know things you couldn’t know normally

Word of knowledge

God gives you data information

more people are used in this than they think

sudden impulses to pray for a specific person or situation

sudden nuggets of information that you need to act upon

Acts 9, someone is going to knock on your door

1 Samuel when Samuel meets Saul for the first time and tells him what’s going to happen and where your goats are etc...

They typically start out vague because you are learning how to hear and distinguish God’s voice. As you walk with God, they become more specific

It’s NOT a psychic gifting, that would be a demonic counterfeit

Pharoh’s advisors duplicating, blood and snakes

Word of Wisdom

Where you know What to DO

these gifts kind of bleed over

you don’t necessarily know the why

handstand story

Missionaries in Beirut/ Lebenon in the 1970’s

sitting at their breakfast table on a second story apartment of a wood building

Beirut was a beautiful city then and not a warzone

he tells his wife that he has the incredible, strange, bizzarre urge or feeling that we are supposed to go lay down in the bathtub

they are already up and dressed, and the bathtub is empty

she looks at him and says she would normally think he was crazy but she says that she feels the exact same thing. I’ve been feeling it for a while, and I feel like we are supposed to run to do it.

He says me too and that he won’t tell anybody if you won’t

so they jog down the hallway and got in their big cast iron bath tub and laid down

after about 30 seconds, they think they are going insane, and this is crazy

they are about ready to get out when all of a sudden, their entire apartment building starts taking machine gun fire

they could hear the rounds pinging off of the bathtub,

their entire kitchen where they were moments ago was all shot up and they would have been dead had they not listened

they didn’t know the why, they just knew that they needed to

a lot of the revelation gifts operate that way where we don’t understand the reason

discerning of spirits

some people get kind of spooky about, but it’s just kind of knowing what is motivating something

is something of the Lord or not

spiritual indigestion

confirm words of prophecy and interpretations of tongues

differentiate when a sickness is physical or spiritual (demonic affliction)

It’s not some spooky thing where I see demons or I see dead people or whatever

God is not impressed with people seeing demons

He can do that, but it’s not like a normal gift

Some of us are used in these gifts without knowing, and we think that it is just part of a normal relationship with God and you aren’t wrong

False Quote Attributed to Dead Composer

Zechariah 8:16; 1 Corinthians 12:10; Hebrews 5:14

Preaching Themes: Truth, Wisdom

When French composer Maurice Jarre died, blogs and newspaper websites around the world published a quote attributed to the composer. Jarre was quoted as referring to his life as “one long soundtrack” and of the “final waltz” that would be in his head at his death. As it turned out, they all got the quote from Wikipedia, and it wasn’t authentic. A Dublin University student, Shane Fitzgerald, made up the quote and posted it to Wikipedia. He said he did it as an experiment.

In today’s world of vast databases of information, how can anyone know the truthfulness of anything they read? Whole web sites are devoted to helping people discern truth from fiction (www.snopes.com; www.truthorfiction.com; and others). But now more than ever we need the gift of discernment.

—Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell

Demonstration Gifts (do something from God) 1. Gift of Healing 2. Working of Miracles 3. Gift of Faith

While the revelation gifts are kind of like thinking God’s thoughts, the demonstration gifts are doing God’s deeds

Gift of Healing

Working of Miracles

sun standing still

feeding the 5000

Ananias and saphirea in Acts dropping dead in church

finding lost objects (lost goats with Saul)

Gift of faith

different than the faith you have in Jesus that helps you to become a member of his family

it ‘s a real specific thing

It’s kind of revelatory on some levels

You know something before it happens and you pray differently and behave differently

there’s a certainty and confidence in that thing that can only come from the Holy Spirit

Often associated with Giving

God is telling me to promise to give $100 per month even though I don’t know where the money is going to come from, but God will provide.

When God calls us to give more than we can afford, but he makes a way and you have confidence that God is going to provide

Communication Gifts (Speaking God’s words) 1. Gift of Tongues (public) 2. Interpretation of Tongues 3. Prophecy

gift of tongues (public)

not praying in tongues,

someone would then interpret it

interpretation of tongues

Prophecy

prophecy is not predicting the future the vast majority of the time

it is simply a message from God

these gifts don’t happen alot in churches, but maybe they should

So you have thinking God’s thoughts, Doing God’s deeds, and speaking God’s words

Challenge

today before you go to bed, take three minutes

get alone with god

shut the door so nobody can year you

start praying, God I love you, you’re amazing etc

do it verbally, even if it’s whispers

after you are in prayer for a minute or a paragraph or something like that, just stop

lift your hands (no one’s around)

and pray “Holy Spirit I welcome you to fall upon me right now

and you will experience the Holy Spirit’s presence

he won’t scare you, you won’t wet your pants, forget your name

but you will be surrounded by that awe and presence of God

cause that’s what the holy spirit does

the more you welcome him, the more he shows up