149 God Gives Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 12, TBC Book Two, Chapter 149
One of the issues raised by the Corinthian church related to spiritual gifts. While all people are born with various traits and talents, there is another kind of ability God bestows when people are born into God’s spiritual body and baptized by his Spirit. These are “spiritual gifts.” Some spiritual gifts were so startling—so dramatic in nature—that they raised a lot of questions at Corinth. Were all these unusual manifestations really from God? And if they were, why didn’t everyone display the same abilities? Paul explained it this way. . . .

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts and different functions they provide, but they are all coming from one source—God’s Holy Spirit. So God is working through all of it.

God gives to individuals different manifestations (workings) of the Spirit, but one goal should guide the use of those gifts—the common good of all. One person may be given a message of wisdom, to another a word of knowledge (supernatural discernment). Another person may be given a great measure of faith, while yet another may have gifts related to healing. . . .

(See THE BIBLE CLICKS, Book Two, Chapter 149, for the rest of the story.)
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Today’s Takeaways
     A proverb to guide you: The Holy Spirit imparts to each one born of the Spirit supernatural ability . . . to build up the body of Christ, the church.
     A promise to cling to: “Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. . . . There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. . . . Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.” 1 Corinthians 12:1,4,7      NIV
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