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What does true unity look like?
The Super Bowl is next week.
Suppose a reporter gets into the locker room before the game, and asks Tom Brady if the team is prepared, if they are united.
Suppose, Tom Brady said, “We’ve never been more united before.
We’ve been practicing hard all week.
And to show our unity, the entire team is going to play quarterback this week.”
Then pretend they did that.
There’d be no one to kick the ball.
There’d be no one to hike the ball.
There’d be no one to catch the ball.
There’d be no one to defend the other team.
Because they’re all quarterbacks.
That kind of unity would fail.
It would be a disaster.
Unity doesn’t mean everyone plays the same position and does the same thing.
Sometimes when we talk about unity in the church, we talk like that terrible football analogy.
We talk about unity and say that we all need to be doing the same thing in the exact same way.
We act as if we want to field an entire team of quarterbacks.
When if you think about it, there’s no way that would work.
We are continuing in talking about what God is doing with the church.
And how God is building the church.
And how God is equipping the church.
And if you are a part of the church, then this sermon is for you.
One brief word of caution.
Throughout these sermons, I’m going to say things and say words that we don’t talk about much, or enough.
I will say words like spiritual gifts, and being filled with the Holy Spirit.
Some you might cringe when I say these words.
The reason for that is because there is a lot of terrible teaching on the Holy Spirit and on the gifts.
In fact, some of you instantly have nightmares of Benny Hinn, or some crazy shenanigan that you’ve seen on TBN.
Don’t let false teaching about the Holy Spirit rob you from the joy of truth and the promises of God.
Don’t let these false teachers stop you from thinking about them properly.
If anything, I’d like to take these doctrines back.
Among many in reformed circles, rather than teach correct doctrine about the Holy Spirit and the gifts; instead they hide from them because the don’t want to be associated with the craziness of the charismatic movement.
When that happens a vacuum is created and the false teachings fill the void.
When that happens, all we do is allow false teaching to multiply.
We don’t do that with anything else.
For example, there is bad teaching about Jesus out there.
Mormons say that He is the brother of Lucifer and a created being.
Their false teaching doesn’t silence us.
Instead, we proclaim Jesus as eternal, uncreated, distinct from the Angels, and part of the blessed Trinity.
So if you get uncomfortable about this … don’t.
Let’s start taking back good doctrine and frankly, these blessings.
Let’s open our Bibles to
Before I read this let me tell you a little bit about the Corinthian church.
They were a strange church.
I don’t think they could be classified as a healthy church.
They had people who lived more like the unsaved.
They had a man who was having an affair with his stepmom and they were proud of it.
Communion was chaotic.
The service was chaotic with everyone shouting over each other.
And then there were the spiritual gifts.
They were competing with each other.
They would rank the spiritual gifts and think that they were better than each other.
And it’s coming out of these things that Paul then says these words.
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“4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord; 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.”
Our first point is that there are a variety of gifts.
The Football team is in the locker room.
And they are arguing with each other saying how each position is better than the other position.
You’ve got the quarterbacks arguing that the whole team should become quarterbacks.
You’ve got all the kickers trying to persuade the whole team to become kickers - I guess that’d be called a soccer team.
You have the offensive line arguing among themselves saying that everyone should become a center.
Then the coach comes in yells at the team, “Knock it off!
You all can’t be quarterbacks, linemen or kickers.”
And the same thing applies for the church.
Each Christian is gifted by the Spirit, and we are all gifted differently.
We are not all preachers.
We are not all leaders.
We are not all helpers.
Some gifts are more public and some gifts are more behind the scenes.
A baseball team has 9 players, but not all 9 players can stand on first base and be first basemen.
They have to spread out across the field, and take up different positions and different responsibilities.
And when the Holy Spirit is building the church, He knows this.
And He gifts us differently.
You can’t have a tool box full of phillips screwdrivers.
There’s times you need a flat head.
Times you need a hammer.
Times you need a crowbar because neither of those worked and now you just need to break something.
, “10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.”
God is using you for His purpose and for specific purposes.
Some of you are a hammer, others are screwdrivers, some of you are just screwy.
But God has you for a reason, and has gifted you for a purpose.
Now your challenge, is if you are a believer, to find out what that gift it is.
It’s to find out what kind of tool are you in the Lord’s toolbox.
A spiritual gift is not a talent, or ability.
Sometimes they can be similar, there might be overlap.
Playing a guitar is not a spiritual gift.
Singing is not a spiritual gift.
If that were the case then you have atheists who have spiritual gifts.
But a spiritual gift is something uniquely given to you by the Holy Spirit.
Why do I say it’s different?
Because an atheist could be a highly skilled musician but that’s not a spiritual gift.
That’s a talent.
A spiritual gift is tied to conversion.
When you were converted you received the Holy Spirit.
And when you received the Holy Spirit He gifted.
A spiritual gift is something that God gives you for a purpose.
A spiritual gift is something that God gives you for a purpose.
You don’t get to make these up either.
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