Gifted
Notes
Transcript
Handout
What does it mean to serve?
to attend to or to wait upon
10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:
He Gives the Gift
He Gives the Gift
EXP:
6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
God gives various gifts
Everyone has been gifted
7 For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
What do you have that you didn’t receive
Giftings - No one had a dialogue with God and chose their gifts
ILLUS: “John Power Ranger”
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.
Gifts:
Administration
Discernment
Serving
Exhortation
Leadership
Teaching
(Found in 1 Corinthians 12 & Romans 12)
6 Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith;
APPL: Let us use them “…use it”
Whatever gift you have God gave for you to use it
Potential - great when you’re young, terrible when your older
10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:
We Are Stewards of the Gift
We Are Stewards of the Gift
EXP: Parable of the Talents
-Master gives 5, 2, and 1 talent
20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
Not using what God gives you is exceedingly dangerous
30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
ILLUS: “Alfred Pennyworth”
APPL: “we are NOT ASKING”
to follow God means we serve God
Use the gifts He has given you
THE GOSPEL!!!
45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
