SPIRITUAL GIFTS
CHRISTIANITY OASIS HAS PROVIDED YOU WITH THIS SPIRITUAL GIFTS STUDY. MOST HAVE HEARD OF THE PHRASE SPIRITUAL GIFTS ... BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT YOU TOO CAN AND EVEN MAY POSSESS SPIRITUAL GIFTS? LET US SEEK AND FIND THE TRUTH OF SPIRITUAL GIFTS TOGETHER, SHALL WE?

 

          Aha! There you are! Glad to have you back again for today’s Daily Bread. Today you’re in for a special treat, because this part of Paul’s letter talks about spiritual gifts. What are your spiritual gifts? That’s a question that you can answer by asking yourself, What can I do to best serve the Lord? What opportunities and talents has He given to me that I can use to glorify Him?

          No matter what your own personal spiritual gift(s) are, they’re important to God. Let me give you something to think about. Let’s say you take the ingredient salt out of all your food. Blahhhhh! It’s only salt. Most of the time it dissolves and you can’t even see it, but it sure does make a difference. Think of your spiritual gifts as an important ingredient, no matter how small or how extensive they may be.

          This is a wonderful explanation by Paul, of how we’re all united in Christ and how we all should depend on and appreciate one another. Let’s take a look.

Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I have information for you.

You know that you were Gentiles,

carried away into believing in these dumb idols,

just as you were led.

So I want you to understand,

that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed:

and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord,

unless he is speaking by the Holy Ghost.

Now there are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.

And there are differences of administrations (ministries), but the same Lord.

And there are different operations,

but it is the same God which works all in all.

giving gifts to every man individually as He wishes.

Just as the body is one, and has many members,

and all the members of that one body,

being many,

are one body:

so also is Christ.

By one Spirit we are all baptized into one body,

whether we be Jewish or Gentiles,

whether we be bond or free;

and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

For the body is not one member, but many.

If the foot shall say,

Because I am not the hand,

I am not part of the body;

is it therefore not part of the body?

And if the ear shall say,

Because I am not the eye,

I am not part of the body;

is it therefore not part of the body?

If the whole body were an eye,

how would it hear?

If the whole body were hearing,

where would be the smelling?

But now has God set the members every one of them in the body,

as it has pleased Him.

And if they were all one part,

how could it be a body?

But now they are many members,

yet still, they are but one body.

And the eye cannot say to the hand,

I have no need of you:

Also, the head cannot say to the feet,

I have no need of you.

No, but even more,

those members of the body which seem to be more feeble,

are necessary:

And those members of the body, which we think to be less honorable,

on these we bestow more abundant honor;

and our unattractive parts have more abundant beauty.

For our handsome parts have no need: but God has arranged the body together,

 having given more abundant honor to that part which lacked,

so that there should be no division in the body;

but that the members should have the same care for one another.

And if one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it;

or if one part is honored, all the parts rejoice with it.

Now you are the body of Christ, and each is a particular part.

And God has set some to serve in the church,

Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers?

Are all workers of miracles? Have all the gifts of healing?

Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?

But earnestly desire the best gifts:

And still, I’ll show you a better way.