Concerning Spiritual Things concluded
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1 Corinthians 12 (NKJV)
1 ¶ Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:
4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit.
5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
I. Would not have you ignorant of the things of the spirit.
A. Each Person Has Been Gifted By Grace For Specific Purposes
B. Some People Are Appointed To Perform Certain Duties
C. Other People Are Assigned Positions Of Administration
D. There Are Five Tools Jesus Uses To Build The Church
E. The Holy Spirit Accomplishes Some Things Working Directly Through People In Nine Discernable Ways
II. The Manifestations Of The Spirit
A. But - deh used 2870 times, 13 times - moreover - (additionally)
B. Manifestation - Phanerosis (fan-er’-o-sis) something made visible or made known that was previously hidden or unknown.
C. Profit - sumphero (soom-fer’-o) to contribute in order to help
8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,
9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,
10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
III. The Holy Spirit Works Through People In Nine Illuminating Ways
1. Word of Wisdom - Sophia (sof-ee’-ah) “Noah build a boat”
2. Word of Knowledge gnosis (gno’sis) “Noah it’s going to rain”
3. Faith - pistis (pis’-tis) conviction of the truth
4. Gifts of Healings (curing; remedy; immediate or process)
a. Gifts - charisma (khar’-is-msh) divine grace enabled
b. Healings - iama (ee’-am-ah) healing or cure
5. Working of Miracles
a. Working - energema (en-erg’-ay-mah) operation
b. Miracles - dunamis (doo’-nam-is) virtue; power; ability
Note: dunamis is used 120 times in the NT, once for each person present in the upper room at the outpouring of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost when the world received the dunamis of God!
IV. We Pick Up Tonight With The Conclusion
6. Prophecy - propheteia (prof-ay-ti’-ah) divinely inspired speech given through a person from God to reprove, exhort, comfort, direct or correct, in efforts to guide or forewarn an individual or group concerning the future and/or God’s present will.
a. 4 ways we come with a message from God
1 Corinthians 14:6 But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching?
1. Revelation
2. Knowledge
3. Prophecy
4. Teaching (doctrine)
b. 1Co 14:22 a sign to the believer (tongues - unbelievers)
c. 1Th 5:20 despise not prophesying
d. 1Ti 1:18 remember the prophecies which went on before ... Use them to make war with
e. 1Ti 4:14 gifts (charisma) given thee by prophecy ... hands
f. 2Pe 1:20 no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation
1. Prophecy needs to be the whole counsel of God’s word and confirmed in the mouth of two or three witnesses
2. The only secure way to interpret scripture is with scripture
g. Rev 1:3 John called the book of Revelation prophecy
H. Revelation 19:10 The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
7. Discerning of Spirits
a. Discerning - diakrisis (dee-ak’-ree-sis) to judge
b. Spirits - punema (pnyoo’-mah) an efficient source of power, affection, emotion, influence and desire.
8. Different kinds of Tongues
a. Kinds - genos (ghen’-os) diverse types relating to kind
b. Tongues - glossa (gloce-sah’) the language or dialect used by a nation or people as different from other nations or peoples
1. Acts 2:3 cloven tongues of fire
2. Acts 2:11 speak in our own tongues in Jerusalem
3. Acts 10:46 spoke in tongues in Ceaserea
4. Acts 19:6 spoke in tongues at Ephesus
What language do you think you will speak in heaven?
5. Romans 14:11 every tongue shall confess
6. 1 Corinthians 12:30 do all speak in tongues?
7. 1 Corinthians 13:1 tongues of men and of angles
9. Interpretation of Tongues
a. Interpretation - hermeneia (her-may-ni’-ah) an explanation in words more understood by those listening
b. A simple reading of 1 Corinthians 14 may be in order (NKJV)
1 ¶ Pursue love, and desire spiritual gifts, but especially that you may prophesy.
2 For he who speaks in a tongue does not speak to men but to God, for no one understands him; however, in the spirit he speaks mysteries.
3 But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men.
4 He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
5 I wish you all spoke with tongues, but even more that you prophesied; for he who prophesies is greater than he who speaks with tongues, unless indeed he interprets, that the church may receive edification.
6 ¶ But now, brethren, if I come to you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you unless I speak to you either by revelation, by knowledge, by prophesying, or by teaching?
7 Even things without life, whether flute or harp, when they make a sound, unless they make a distinction in the sounds, how will it be known what is piped or played?
8 For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for battle?
9 So likewise you, unless you utter by the tongue words easy to understand, how will it be known what is spoken? For you will be speaking into the air.
10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of languages in the world, and none of them is without significance.
11 Therefore, if I do not know the meaning of the language, I shall be a foreigner to him who speaks, and he who speaks will be a foreigner to me.
12 Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel.
13 Therefore let him who speaks in a tongue pray that he may interpret.
14 For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my understanding is unfruitful.
15 ¶ What is the conclusion then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will also pray with the understanding. I will sing with the spirit, and I will also sing with the understanding.
16 Otherwise, if you bless with the spirit, how will he who occupies the place of the uninformed say "Amen" at your giving of thanks, since he does not understand what you say?
17 For you indeed give thanks well, but the other is not edified.
18 I thank my God I speak with tongues more than you all;
19 yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
20 Brethren, do not be children in understanding; however, in malice be babes, but in understanding be mature.
21 ¶ In the law it is written: "With men of other tongues and other lips I will speak to this people; And yet, for all that, they will not hear Me," says the Lord.
22 Therefore tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophesying is not for unbelievers but for those who believe.
23 Therefore if the whole church comes together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those who are uninformed or unbelievers, will they not say that you are out of your mind?
24 But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or an uninformed person comes in, he is convinced by all, he is convicted by all.
25 And thus the secrets of his heart are revealed; and so, falling down on his face, he will worship God and report that God is truly among you.
26 ¶ How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification.
27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret.
28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God.
29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge.
30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent.
31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged.
32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
* 1 Corinthians 12:11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
12 ¶ For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. …
