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Gifts of the spirit intro - week 02
1. Gifts Of The Spirit
St Mark Missionary Baptist Church
Tampa FL
Pastor Darryl M. Matthews
2014 August 12
2. Gifts Of The Spirit - Introduction
• Benefits Of Knowing & Using Your Spiritual Gifts
• You Grow In Your Walk With Christ
• The Whole Body of Christ Grows
• God Is Glorified
4. Four Things The Gifts Are Not
• Natural Talents
• Being made in the image of God, all human beings have natural talents
• Atheists have natural talents
• Spiritual gifts are reserved for believers of Jesus Christ
5. Four Things The Gifts Are Not
• Fruits Of The Spirit
• Galatians 5:22-23
• Fruits are for all believers
• Fruits help in the effective exercising of spiritual gifts
6. Four Things The Gifts Are Not
• Christian Roles
• Roles are qualities that every believer is expected to have
• May not have the gift of faith but we all are expected to have faith
(Ephesians 2:8-9; Hebrews 11:6)
• May not have the gift of hospitality but we are expected to entertain
strangers (Hebrews 13:2)
7. Four Things The Gifts Are Not
• Counterfeit Gifts
• The job of Satan is to imitate the works of Jesus Christ
• Some counterfeits we see today: clairvoyance
9. Gifts Identified – 1 Corinthians 12:8-10
• Word of Wisdom
• Word of Knowledge
• Faith
• Gifts of Healing
• Miracles
• Prophecy
• Distinguishing of spirits/
Discernment
• Speaking in tongues
• Interpretation of tongues
Grow: You know your spiritual job description; you spiritual self esteem is higher because you know where and how God is using you
Body: Ephesian 4 says that when the gifts mature and are in operation, the whole Body matures.
Glorified: 1 Peter 4:10–11,10 Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms. 11 If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
Galatians 5:22–23,22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Exercising: Corinth had a good gift-mix in the congregation but poor fruit prompted Paul to write 1 Corinthians 13. Similar passages on love in Romans 12:9-10 and Ephesians 5:2
Imitate:
Matthew 24:24,24 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible.
Matthew 7:22–23,22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’