People of the Spirit lesson 12

1. Gifts of Healings,
Working of
Miracles and
Prophecy
1 Corinthians 12
People of the Spirit
Jack Hayford
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2. Big Idea
Now concerning spiritual gifts,
brethren, I do not want you to
be ignorant:
1 Corinthians 12:1 (NKJV) 2

3. The Body is Important
1 Thessalonians 5:23…Now may the God
of peace Himself sanctify you entirely;
and may your spirit and soul and body be
preserved complete, without blame at
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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4. Important to Jesus’ ministry
Matthew 8:16…When evening came,
they brought to Him many who were
demon-possessed; and He cast out
the spirits with a word, and healed
all who were ill.
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5. The Messiah
Surely our griefs He Himself bore, And our
sorrows He carried; Yet we ourselves esteemed
Him stricken, Smitten of God, and afflicted. But
He was pierced through for our transgressions, He
was crushed for our iniquities; The chastening for
our well-being fell upon Him, And by His
scourging we are healed.
Isaiah 53:4–5 5

6. What causes sickness?
Luke 13:16…And this woman, a daughter of
Abraham as she is, whom Satan has bound for
eighteen long years, should she not have been
released from this bond on the Sabbath day?
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7. What causes sickness?
John 5:14…Afterward Jesus found him in the
temple and said to him, “Behold, you have
become well; do not sin anymore, so that nothing
worse happens to you.”
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8. What causes sickness?
James 5:15…and the prayer offered in faith will
restore the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise
him up, and if he has committed sins, they will be
forgiven him.
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9. God’s will
Exodus 15:25b–26…There He made for them a
statute and regulation, and there He tested them.
And He said, “If you will give earnest heed to the
voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right
in His sight, and give ear to His commandments,
and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the
diseases on you which I have put on the
Egyptians; for I, the LORD, am your healer.”
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10. God’s will
Exodus 23:25…But you shall serve
the LORD your God, and He will bless
your bread and your water; and I will
remove sickness from your midst.
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11. God’s benefits
Psalm 103:1–3…Bless the LORD, O my soul, And
all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless
the LORD, O my soul, And forget none of His
benefits; Who pardons all your iniquities, Who
heals all your diseases;
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12. God’s view of the body
1 Corinthians 6:13…Food is for the stomach and
the stomach is for food, but God will do away
with both of them. Yet the body is not for
immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for
the body.
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13. Jack Hayford
God emphatically puts Himself on the side of
healing and has put a healing impulse in man
to fight against disease and sickness. There
are a number of reasons given in the Bible
why people aren’t healed, including a lack of
faith and possible sin in their lives; the
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14. Jack Hayford
number one reason, however, why people
are not healed is that noted above—the
kingdom is not yet consummated in terms of
experiencing healing, even though Jesus
made perfect provision for healing with His
work on the Cross.
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15. Jesus and healing
Matthew 4:23…Jesus was going throughout all
Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and
proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and
healing every kind of disease and every kind of
sickness among the people.
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16. Jesus and healing
Matthew 9:35…Jesus was going through all the
cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues
and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and
healing every kind of disease and every kind of
sickness.
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17. Summary
Acts 10:38…You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how
God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with
power, and how He went about doing good and
healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for
God was with Him.
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18. Holy Spirit and healing
Romans 8:11…But if the Spirit of Him who raised
Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised
Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to
your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells
in you.
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19. Why Gifts of Healings?
Why the plurals?
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20. Methodology of Jesus
His touch
A spoken word
A touch
Fingers in ears and saliva on tongue
Mud
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21. Instructions for the church
James 5:14–16…Is anyone among you sick?
Then he must call for the elders of the church
and they are to pray over him, anointing him
with oil in the name of the Lord; and the
prayer offered in faith will restore the one
who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up,
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22. Instructions for the church
and if he has committed sins, they will be
forgiven him. Therefore, confess your sins to
one another, and pray for one another so
that you may be healed.
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23. The Working of Miracles
Miracle, dunamis. One of four Greek words
for “power,” dunamis is also one of three
Greek words used to describe supernatural
events. Semeia (signs) and terata (wonders)
are the other two. Dunamis means energy,
power, might, great force, great ability,
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24. The Working of Miracles
strength, or miracle. When translated
“miracle,” it describes the power of the age
to come at work upon the Earth beyond the
ordinary course of natural law.
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25. The presence of the Kingdom
Mark 9:1…[Jesus], “Truly I say to you,
there are some of those who are
standing here who will not taste
death until they see the kingdom of
God after it has come with power.”
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26. Guess what Greek word
Mark 5:30…Immediately Jesus, perceiving in
Himself that the power proceeding from Him had
gone forth, turned around in the crowd and said,
“Who touched My garments?”
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27. The use of Dunamis
Conception of Jesus
His message
Authority to cast out demons and heal
Unusual miracles by Paul
Handkerchiefs ***
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28. The Church’s authority
Luke 10:19…Behold, I have given
you authority to tread on
serpents and scorpions, and over
all the power of the enemy, and
nothing will injure you.
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29. A purpose of miracles
Matthew 11:20–24 Then He began to
denounce the cities in which most of His
miracles were done, because they did not
repent. “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you,
Bethsaida! For if the miracles had occurred in
Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they
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30. A purpose of miracles
would have repented long ago in sackcloth
and ashes. “Nevertheless I say to you, it will
be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the
day of judgment than for you. And you,
Capernaum, will not be exalted to heaven,
will you? You will descend to Hades; for if the
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31. A purpose of miracles
miracles had occurred in Sodom which
occurred in you, it would have remained to
this day. Nevertheless I say to you that it will
be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in
the day of judgment, than for you.”
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32. Let’s talk about this one
John 14:12–14…Truly, truly, I say to you, he who
believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do
also; and greater works than these he will do;
because I go to the Father. Whatever you ask in
My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be
glorified in the Son. If you ask Me anything in My
name, I will do it.
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33. John 14:7-15
Oneness of Jesus and the Father
God’s words flowing through Jesus
The Works of Jesus
Ask in Jesus’ name
Love Jesus and keep his commandments
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34. Dunamis
Acts 1:8…but you will receive power when the
Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be
My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea
and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of
the earth.”
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35. Prophecy
This manifestation of the Spirit, then, “consisted
of spontaneous, Spirit-inspired, intelligible
messages, orally delivered in the gathered
assembly, intended for the edification or
encouragement of the people. Thus it is not the
delivery of a previously prepared sermon … the
implication is that it is a gift available—at least
potentially—to all.”
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36. Attitude on prophecy
1 Corinthians 14:1…Pursue
love, yet desire earnestly
spiritual gifts, but especially
that you may prophesy.
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37. Primary purpose
1 Corinthians 14:3…But one who
prophesies speaks to men for
edification and exhortation and
consolation.
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38. Public service
1 Corinthians 14:4…One who
speaks in a tongue edifies
himself; but one who prophesies
edifies the church.
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39. The sign gift
1 Corinthians 14:22…So then tongues are
for a sign, not to those who believe but
to unbelievers; but prophecy is for a sign,
not to unbelievers but to those who
believe.
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40. Control
1 Corinthians 14:32…and
the spirits of prophets are
subject to prophets;
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