This document provides an introduction to spiritual gifts, including their definition, who receives them, when they are received, categories of gifts, the importance of knowing one's gift, and how to discover one's gift. It discusses that every believer receives one spiritual gift at the time of salvation to help minister to the body of Christ. The document also addresses the "temporary gifts" like speaking in tongues and provides a cessationist view that such miraculous sign gifts ceased with the first generation of Christians.

1. Introduction
To Spiritual
Gifts

2. DEFINITION:
A spiritual gift is
a supernatural ability,
given to a believer
at the time of salvation,
enabling him to minister
to the Body of Christ
in the area of that gift.

3. SPIRITUAL GIFTS…The Basics:
Who has one? Every Believer!!
When did you receive your gift?
• At the time of salvation, I Cor
12:11-13
How many gifts do I have?
Just ONE!!

4. Why did God give spiritual gifts?
• That God might be glorified
through Jesus Christ, I Peter
4:10-11.
• That the saints might be
equipped, Eph. 4:11-12
• That the work of service/ministry
might be accomplished, Eph.
4:11-12.

5. Why did God give spiritual gifts?
• That the Body of Christ might be
built up, Eph. 4:11-12.
• That the Body of Christ might be
brought to maturity, Eph. 4:13-16.
• To foster unity in the Body of
Christ! Eph. 4:13-16; I Cor.
12:24b-25.

6. Why did God give spiritual gifts?
• To promote love in the Body of
Christ, Eph. 4:15-16.
• So that the needs of the Body
would be met by members caring
for one another, I Cor. 12:7, 25

7. “Categories” of Gifts...
• “Authenticating” gifts, Hebrews
2:3-4.
• “Foundational” Gifts, Ephesians
2:20-21
• “Temporary” Gifts, I Cor. 13:8-10

8. “Categories” of Gifts...
• “Equipping” Gifts, Ephesians 4:11-
12.
• “Speaking” Gifts and “Serving”
Gifts, I Peter 4:11.
• “Permanent” Gifts...

9. The Importance of Knowing
Your Gift…
• Give you direction in your ministry
• Give you confidence in your
ministry
BUT…if you are serving…
you will likely be SERVING in the
area of your gift…
even if you don’t know its name.

10. How To Discover Your Gift…
1. Dedication Romans 12:1-2.
2. Description (Know what gifts are
available and how they act.)
3. Desire (What do you want to
do? Philippians 2:13)

11. How To Discover Your Gift…
4. Doing (Get some experience in
different areas. You will be able
to eliminate some and narrow it
down to a few.)
5. Delight (What do you enjoy
doing?)

12. How To Discover Your Gift…
6. Discernment by others (How
do others tell you that you have
blessed them?)
7. Development (Allow time for
growth of your ability to use your
gift.)

13. Spiritual Gifts…and Love

14. What about the
“Temporary Gifts”…
especially
‘Speaking in Tongues’?

15. CESSATIONIST:
This is the view that the
miraculous sign gifts of the
apostolic age “ceased”
with the passing of the
first generation of
Christians.

16. SPEAKING IN TONGUES:
The God-given ability to speak in
an existing, foreign language,
which the speaker has not
previously known or learned,
as a sign of God’s confirmation
on the speaker,
and God’s judgment
on the nation of Israel.

17. SPEAKING IN TONGUES:
• Existing, foreign languages
γλῶσσα = “glōssa,” vv. 3, 4, 11; later
in Acts; and I Corinthians.
διάλεκτος = “dialektos,” vv. 6, 8

18. Date of events, and
the reporting of those events!
Day of Pentecost Ephesus
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I Corinthians written Acts written

19. In fact, you can divide the languages in the list into 11:
1. Parthians,
2. and (καὶ ) Medes,
3. and (καὶ ) Elamites,
4. and (καὶ ) Residents of Mesopotamia
(both [ te ] Judea and Cappadocia),
5. Pontus,
6. and (καὶ ) Asia
(both [ te ] Phyrgia and Pamphylia),
7. Egypt,
8. and (καὶ ) The districts of Libya around Cyrene,
9. and (καὶ ) Visitors from Rome
(both [ te ] Jews and proselytes),
10. Cretans,
11. and (καὶ ) Arabs.

20. SPEAKING IN TONGUES:
Confirmation on the speaker...
•Samaritans, Acts 8:14-17
(implied)
•Gentiles, Acts 10:44-46; Cf. also
11:15-17 and 15:6-11.
•Disciples of John, Acts 19:1-7.

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