1 Cor 12:3b-13. Over the years, we focus more on us serving God with the gifts of the Spirit rather than gathering together as one body under the same one spirit

1. The gifts
of the
Spirit or
the Spirit
of the
gifts?
Day of Pentecost: 28th May 2023

2. We want to serve God…. But…

3. Today…
What does God’s Word have to say to us today?
1 Corinthians 12: 3b-13

4. 12:3b No one can say "Jesus is Lord"
except by the Holy Spirit.
12:4 Now there are varieties of gifts,
but the same Spirit;
12:5 and there are varieties of
services, but the same Lord;
12:6 and there are varieties of
activities, but it is the same God who
activates all of them in everyone.
12:7 To each is given the
manifestation of the Spirit for the
common good.

5. What is the message for TODAY?
The question of gifts
Who:
What:
When:
How:
Why: For the common good
PROBLEM?
When we focus on the wrong questions
We can miss God’s plan

6. 12:8 To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and
to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
12:9 to another faith by the same Spirit,
to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
12:10 to another the working of miracles,
to another prophecy,
to another the discernment of spirits,
to another various kinds of tongues,
to another the interpretation of tongues.

7. What is the message for TODAY?
Focusing on Giver rather than the gifts
“I think I have…”; “I want to have…”;
“Why that guy has …?”
We can be caught up in the gifts that we forget the Giver
PROBLEM?
The Source being the same unites us…
Focusing on the different gifts alone divides us

8. 12:11 All these are activated by
one and the same Spirit, who
allots to each one individually just
as the Spirit chooses.
12:12 For just as the body is one
and has many members, and all
the members of the body, though
many, are one body, so it is with
Christ.
12:13 For in the one Spirit we
were all baptized into one body--
Jews or Greeks, slaves or free--and
we were all made to drink of one
Spirit.

9. What is the message for TODAY?
The focus on the gifts
GIVER of the

10. So... How does Holy Spirit remind us that He is with us?

11. Father of life draw me closer
Lord my heart is set on you,
Let me run the race of time,
With your life enfolding mine,
And let the peace of God,
Let it reign.
Father of Life, draw me closer

12. CHORUS
Oh Lord I hunger, for more of you.
Rise up within me, let me know your truth.
Oh Holy Spirit, saturate my soul.
And let the life of God, fill me now,
Let your healing power,
Bring life and make me whole.
And let the peace of God, let it reign.
Father of Life, draw me closer… (cont)

13. Oh Holy spirit, Lord my comfort
Strengthen me, hold my head up high
And I'll stand upon your truth,
Bringing glory unto you,
And let the peace of God,
Let it reign.
Father of Life, draw me closer…(cont)

14. CHORUS
Oh Lord I hunger, for more of you.
Rise up within me, let me know your truth.
Oh Holy Spirit, saturate my soul.
And let the life of God, fill me now,
Let your healing power,
Bring life and make me whole.
And let the peace of God, let it reign.
Father of Life, draw me closer… (cont)