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Foundations for Every Member Minstry
One of the reasons why the Church is so out of tune with the culture is that the culture affirms self-fullfilment and chasing your own dream being you own self and the church runs against the grain of that Spirit.
You don't exist for your own self fulfillment, but you exist for the mutual benefit of the whole.
Our text begins with Christ giving gifts to his people and ends with the purpose for which Christ gives those gifts.
The purpose is the mutual growth of the whole body.
In order to sustain and nourish his Church, Christ enables her every part with gifts and sends her specially gifted men to help make this possible.
Whole Passage
Who is the Giver/ Christ the Giver of Gifts
What is the Gift/ Ministers the enabler of Gifts
Why are they given/ The mature Church/ the purpose of the gifts
Gifted for Ministry
Christ Blesses His People With Gifts
1.
All Have These Gifts
Every Christian has been gifted for Ministry
2. They are sovereignly given by grace God
He determines our Spiritual Gifts and he he determines the amount.
Each believer has a gift for ministry, and God determines the amount.
We are gifted according to His plan, His purpose, and His measure.
We have no more to do with determining our gift than we did with determining what color of skin, hair, or eyes we would be born with.
God is the source of electing grace, equipping grace, and enabling grace.
Rom.
12:3
3.
There is Diversity in Gifts (Each is different)
There is Diversity in Gifts (Each is different)
Christians are not assembly-line productions, with every unit being exactly like every other unit.
Consequently, no Christian can replace another in God’s plan.
He has His own individualized plan for each of us and has individually gifted us accordingly.
We are not interchangeable parts in Christ’s Body, but “individually members one of another” (Rom.
12:5).
“One and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills” (1 Cor.
12:11, emphasis added).
When a believer does not minister his gift properly as God’s steward (1 Pet.
4:10), God’s work suffers to that degree—because God has not called or gifted another Christian in exactly the same way or for exactly the same work.
That is why no Christian is to be a spectator.
Every believer is on the team and is strategic in God’s plan, with his own unique skills, position, and responsibilities
4. Each has a responsibility to use their gifts for the benefit of the Local Church
(It’s not for Self-fullfillment)/ For the Benefit of the Local Church
This is the definition of Love vs.16
We find our gifting when we adopt this purpose.
Not the other way around.
Gifts that are the spoils of War
The Foreshadow in
Read verse 7-18, verse 35
The image of a king victorious and bringing back the spoils of war, gifting them to his faithful soldiers.
A Victorious Death and a Glorious Ascension
Jesus’s death was a war and he succeeded.
His death was a triumph over all his enemies.
His ascension to heaven was his exaltation and appointment to the highest place in the universe.
fill all things- his perogative and majesty and glory and power to dispense gifts to his people
Illustration: Joseph, Executive in Command
Our gifting are the spoils of war.
The rewards of Jesus’ victory through death and his right as the Exalted King of all things.
The Spirit’s Coming the result of His Victory
This was in a context of warnings of apostasy and difficulty, plus the sorrow that Jesus will go away.
The Spirit’s coming enables the Church to endure these difficulties.
Conclusion
Christ’s victory and ascension establish his right to bless his Church and he gives gifts to her.
In order to sustain and nourish his Church, Christ enables her every part with gifts and sends her specially gifted men to help make this possible.
If Christ is this concerned with His Church, how should our attitude be about the Church.
1. Do you order your life around the local Church?
Taking care to not miss too many worship services?
2. Do you actively seek oppotunities to use your resources for the benefit of others?
3. Do you see yourself as having gifts for the benefits of others?
4. When’s the last time you asked your small group leader, or pastor, what kind of work needs to be done?
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