Message Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/48787245
1 Corinthians 12:1 (NLT) 1Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your question about the special abilities the Spirit gives us. I don’t want you to misunderstand this.
1 Corinthians 12:4-6 (NLT) 4There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all. 5There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord. 6God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.
1 Corinthians 12:7 (NLT) 7A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.
1 Corinthians 12:8-11 (NLT) 8To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. 9The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing. 10He gives one person the power to perform miracles, and another the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of God or from another spirit. Still another person is given the ability to speak in unknown languages, while another is given the ability to interpret what is being said. 11It is the one and only Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which gift each person should have.
The Gifts that Paul lists
1. WISE Advice
2. A Message of Special KNOWLEDGE
John 4:17-18 (NLT) 17“I don’t have a husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said, “You’re right! You don’t have a husband— 18for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the truth!”
Philippians 2:7 (NLT) 7Instead, he gave up his divine privileges; he took the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being. When he appeared in human form,
Luke 4:1 (NLT) 1Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness,
John 5:19 (NLT) 19So Jesus explained, “I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself. He does only what he sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, the Son also does.
3. A Gift of Great FAITH
4. A Gift of HEALING
Luke 5:17 (NLT) 17One day while Jesus was teaching, some Pharisees and teachers of religious law were sitting nearby. (It seemed that these men showed up from every village in all Galilee and Judea, as well as from Jerusalem.) And the Lord’s healing power was strongly with Jesus.
5. A Gift to Perform MIRACLES
6. A Gift of PROPHECY
1 Corinthians 14:3-4 (NLT) 3But one who prophesies strengthens others, encourages them, and comforts them. 4A person who speaks in tongues is strengthened personally, but one who speaks a word of prophecy strengthens the entire church.
1 Corinthians 14:1 (NLT) 1Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives—especially the ability to prophesy.
7. A Gift of DISCERNING of Spirits
Hebrews 5:14 (NLT) 14Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.
8. A Gift to Speak in Unknown LANGUAGES or Tongues
1 Corinthians 14:1 - 5 (NLT) 1Let love be your highest goal! But you should also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives—especially the ability to prophesy. 2For if you have the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking only to God, since people won’t be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit, but it will all be mysterious. 3But one who prophesies strengthens others,
