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[254.58 --> 259.36] holy spirit to every believer do you hear that not just some but every believer according to god's |
[259.36 --> 266.34] design and grace for the common good of the body of christ now the spirit when it moves in the church |
[266.34 --> 272.42] gives many different gifts to many different people for very diverse purposes we are such different |
[272.42 --> 278.38] people personality wise and we have such different gifts and as we take hold of those gifts i think it |
[278.38 --> 282.16] does at least three things and this comes from our spiritual gift seminar a few weeks ago number one |
[282.16 --> 291.26] it brings delight to the disciple when you do the thing you are wired to do you feel joy and it's |
[291.26 --> 295.30] worth looking back on your life and you kind of discover vocational strengths we discover relational |
[295.30 --> 299.38] strengths also you're like now i'm working in my lane i'm not going against the grain that's how i'm |
[299.38 --> 305.32] gifted secondly it's in this passage it leads to the blessing and the common good of those who are |
[305.32 --> 310.20] around you when you use your gifts others receive the benefit of those gifts are not just for you |
[310.20 --> 317.28] and thirdly of great importance when we use our gifts and serve with them god is glorified |
[317.28 --> 324.82] he's honored by us picking up these gifts receiving them and using them for others in fact i picture god |
[324.82 --> 329.86] like a loving father who you know watches a child grow and that child discovers their gifts and your |
[329.86 --> 336.64] heart as a father swells with pride as you see that child grow and use and employ the specific gifts |
[336.64 --> 338.58] that they were created to use |
[338.58 --> 347.78] very few churches experience the richness of these gifts or perhaps struggle to understand how to use |
[347.78 --> 352.50] them like corinth but before i get into the passage i just want to name that spiritual gifts are named |
[352.50 --> 358.26] in first corinthians as well as romans 12 as well as ephesians 4 and there's no exhaustive list some |
[358.26 --> 362.50] people suggest that paul just named the gifts that were in that community but i want to put up on the |
[362.50 --> 366.26] screen how one writer puts them all together in groupings i think it's helpful to think of the |
[366.26 --> 371.06] different gifts in groupings and i'll just share with you one way of structuring them there are number |
[371.06 --> 378.02] one the love gifts the power gifts the word gifts and the leadership gifts and this is not exhaustive but the |
[378.02 --> 387.46] love gifts would include mercy generosity hospitality encouragement power gifts miracles faith speaking |
[387.46 --> 395.22] in tongues healing word gifts exhortation wisdom discernment words of knowledge and leadership gifts |
[395.22 --> 402.10] this is ephesians 4 the giving of the apostles the evangelists the pastors the teachers and uh just to |
[402.10 --> 406.98] be clear it's important not to sort of try to pick one out and say okay that's me i'm hospitality |
[406.98 --> 412.34] which is probably true for many people but usually we've got a bunch of gifts god is a generous |
[412.34 --> 418.74] giver most people have generosity and healing exhortation or evangelism wisdom and mercy we've got |
[418.74 --> 425.70] a cluster of them to use and serve with because that's how generous god is in the church if there |
[425.70 --> 430.66] was ever a church that sort of received and sort of flexed and leaned into these gifts especially the |
[430.66 --> 436.26] power gifts it was the church of corinth and uh i i have such an interest in how these different |
[436.26 --> 441.06] churches live because you've got some churches uh that don't speak much of spiritual gifts and then |
[441.06 --> 446.26] you've got corinth this young immature believing community that was just like filled with the spirit |
[446.26 --> 452.34] and we're exercising the gifts of the spirit and it was absolute chaos you know and just just marvel |
[452.34 --> 456.50] with me you know you've got this church in galatia and they're having major division with like |
[456.50 --> 462.10] judaizers and false teaching then you've got the church in thessalonians and they are like twiddling their |
[462.10 --> 466.10] thumbs doing nothing waiting for jesus to come back and then you've got the corinthian church |
[466.10 --> 471.06] and it's just chaos all these gifts being used very immature leaders and paul's got to reign them |
[471.06 --> 478.58] in he's got his work cut out for them but if you are a person who really likes orderly structured quiet |
[478.58 --> 484.90] worship you would not fit in the corinthian church you wouldn't like that one uh you would find that |
[484.90 --> 489.22] there's people speaking prophetic words there's tongues being spoken different languages that you |
[489.22 --> 494.42] couldn't understand and people speaking all these different words at the same time it was a cacophony |
[494.42 --> 500.50] of gifts and paul comes in and says there needs to be some order here there needs to be some structure |
[500.50 --> 504.98] and as like you know somebody who likes order and structure as a dutch person i was like yeah paul |
[504.98 --> 510.58] give it to him he's got some other stuff for us today don't you worry but i appreciate paul coming |
[510.58 --> 515.78] in and saying these are important gifts god's given them let's let's like steward these gifts with love |
[515.78 --> 521.86] and care now to understand what paul is saying in this passage we do need to step back and say |
[521.86 --> 527.94] what's going on in the culture many of the believers in the corinthian church grew up in a corinthian |
[527.94 --> 532.34] culture and you should know that there are many cults many religious groups many little groupings of |
[532.34 --> 537.14] people that had spiritual experiences just like today in our city if you want a spiritual experience |
[537.14 --> 542.66] you go to many different places and some of these groups they had really exciting things going on like |
[542.66 --> 549.22] people were doing crazy stuff there's movement dances a lot stuff happening but it wasn't oriented |
[549.22 --> 554.90] around jesus a lot of times it was about having an experience having an experience in your emotions |
[554.90 --> 559.94] of movement and paul says if it's going to be moved by the spirit it's got to look a certain way |
[560.66 --> 566.18] and what he says in verse three is no one can say jesus is lord except by the holy spirit and part of |
[566.18 --> 571.06] what's behind this he's saying you can have a lot of spiritual experiences but if it's going to be |
[571.06 --> 577.22] moved by the spirit it's going to be driven by the holy spirit it's going to lead to the exaltation of |
[577.22 --> 582.34] jesus it's not first and foremost about your emotions it's not first and foremost about some kind of |
[582.34 --> 587.22] experience it is about the exaltation and the glorification of jesus and if it's not that we |
[587.22 --> 593.46] should be worried now because we are not some like crazy charismatic church i can say the opposite and |
[593.46 --> 597.78] hopefully not hurt too many feelings you ready for this that doesn't mean you can't be expressive in |
[597.78 --> 603.46] worship and there's some really funny memes on the internet uh and if you're into that you can look |
[603.46 --> 608.98] up reformed means and it shows like a reformed person enjoying worship and it just shows a person |
[608.98 --> 616.02] like this and if you know you know like reformed churches are known for being very solemn very serious |
[616.02 --> 621.14] and sometimes we sing songs about excitement and joy i'm like our bodies betray what we're singing here |
[621.14 --> 628.42] but we can be full of joy and movement and dance and just make sure as paul says that it's exalting |
[628.42 --> 634.82] the name of jesus because that is the goal of what's happening in the church now the specific |
[634.82 --> 640.26] concern of first corinthians 12 here is actually the way in which the church of corinth is elevating |
[640.26 --> 645.86] and platforming certain gifts and devaluing and sort of putting to the side other gifts that the spirit |
[645.86 --> 650.34] gives the church and it's interesting not coincidental that the spiritual gifts they're |
[650.34 --> 655.70] elevating are the exciting ones right speaking in tongues prophetic words things that are really |
[655.70 --> 660.02] happening in the middle of the worship services and if you read more of this book you'll see that paul |
[660.02 --> 665.30] keeps coming back to like how disorderly and chaotic their worship is because they're all just like |
[665.30 --> 671.46] speaking over each other no one knows what's going on it's a mess paul says okay these gifts are real |
[671.46 --> 676.74] but they're only two of the gifts remember not to neglect all the rest just because you think they |
[676.74 --> 684.42] might be less exciting less you know moving and less of a severe experience all the gifts matter and |
[684.42 --> 689.78] i want to read for you important words from our passage in verse four to six which uh brayden i appreciate |
[689.78 --> 697.06] your reading earlier in the service we read there are different gifts but the same spirit distributes them |
[697.06 --> 703.46] there are different kinds of service but the same lord there are different kinds of working but in |
[703.46 --> 711.06] all of them and in everyone is the same god at work and that's basically paul's way of saying all the |
[711.06 --> 717.46] gifts are essential necessary and of equal value in the body of christ in fact if you read romans 12 which |
[717.46 --> 722.10] is a co-text through first corinthians 12 paul says it this way just smashes all the gifts together |
[722.10 --> 727.86] he says if your gift is prophesying prophesy if it's encouraging encourage if it's teaching then |
[727.86 --> 732.82] teach if it's giving give generously it's basically saying whatever your gift is doesn't matter what |
[732.82 --> 738.98] kind of gift it is use it to serve and i like that how it's like there's not one up here and one down |
[738.98 --> 745.46] here they're all gifts given to the church all of them are essential even the hidden gifts all are |
[745.46 --> 751.46] necessary for the building up of the body and the blessing of the city or to put it a different way more |
[751.46 --> 757.54] poignantly prophesying is not more important than encouragement the gift of healing is not more |
[757.54 --> 762.82] important than teaching preschoolers upstairs the gift of healing is not more important than that |
[762.82 --> 770.26] of hospitality do we believe this now i remember a person named david fairchild sharing a story of when |
[770.26 --> 775.22] he was growing up he got invited by someone to a charismatic conference and if you've been to these you |
[775.22 --> 779.22] know what they're like but uh he was not a christian at the time invited to this conference and they said |
[779.22 --> 784.10] come to the stage we're going to pray for you and you are going to speak in tongues david fairchild's |
[784.10 --> 788.58] like that sounds great let's do this so he goes up to the stage there's a guy praying for him nothing |
[788.58 --> 793.94] happens bit awkward he's in public a lot of people this conference the guy keeps praying for him |
[793.94 --> 797.86] nothing happens there's people around him experiencing all these things he's just standing |
[797.86 --> 802.50] there and eventually he just walks back to his seat saying i guess this stuff's not for me i guess i don't |
[802.50 --> 806.26] have the spirit i guess i'm not meant to be part of the church and it was deeply discouraging |
[806.26 --> 811.62] and it took him at least 10 years to realize as he was discipled into the way of christ learned the |
[811.62 --> 816.42] scriptures understood his own gift he's he just learned i have gifts in teaching and preaching |
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