Class Outline:
Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Wednesday,
July 6, 2011
Spiritual Gifts Part 139: The Lord Jesus Christ sends men with communication gifts to feed the Church.
At the moment of salvation, God the Holy Spirit, in one of His seven ministries to the new believer at salvation, bestowed on you a spiritual gift.
The Doctrine of Spiritual Gifts
Point 3: What is a “Spiritual Gift”?
1. All three members of the Trinity are involved in the spiritual gifts, from start to finish.
2. If there is one thing the Holy Spirit is telling us about spiritual gifts, it is that they are marked by VARIETY!!!
3. Spiritual gifts come to us from the Holy Spirit, and are supernatural in character.
All three members of the Trinity are involved in the giving of spiritual gifts.
a. God the Father as the source is documented in .
God also bearing witness with them, both by signs and wonders and by various miracles [which means works of divine power] and by gifts of the Holy Spirit according to His [God the Father's] own will.
but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth."
Distribution of spiritual gifts are made as a witness to the strategic victory of our Lord Jesus Christ during the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union.
b. There is also the ministry of God the Son in the distribution of spiritual gifts, .
In Ephesians 4 we learn that our Lord Jesus Christ - the ascended Christ - gave gifts to men.
Christ’s ascension is the unique occasion that called for giving gifts.
The ascension is that doctrine of Christology pertaining to the transfer of our Lord's true humanity from planet earth to the third heaven in a resurrection body.
Once arriving in heaven, Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of the Father. This is called the session of Christ.
The focus here is on the Lord Jesus Christ sending men with communication gifts to serve - feed - the church.
