Spiritual Gifts part 291: Through many tribulations we enter the kingdom of God.

Spiritual Gifts Part 291:

“Through many tribulations we [disciples] must enter the kingdom of God.”

The Doctrine of Spiritual Gifts

Point 1.
Setting the scene for Paul’s teaching on the Spiritual Gifts.

Point 2.
The Giver of the Gifts: The Person and Work of God the Holy Spirit

Point 3.
What is a “Spiritual Gift”?

Point 4.
Developing the capacity you need to function effectively in your spiritual gift.

The major passages in the New Testament on the spiritual gifts all talk about how vital it is to develop capacity to exercise your gift effectively: Rom 12, 1Co 12-14, Eph 4, 1 Pet 4.

ROM 12:3b
“but think in terms of sanity for the purpose of being rational without illusion, as the God has assigned to each one a standard of thinking from doctrine.”

1CO 14:20

Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.

All of the major New Testament passages on spiritual gifts speak of the importance of discernment and mature thinking.

So consider the eternal weight of glory not so much as a trophy that we will get …

 Rather, it is the fullness of the extent to which we are being made into the image and likeness of Christ.