1Co 12:1-11; Eph 4:7-12; Eph 2:7; Rom 12:3-6.
Class Outline:
Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Sunday,
July 10, 2011
Spiritual Gifts Part 141: Our big problem is that we try to work for what God has already given us!
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 the Father ordained the spiritual gifts as a witness to our Lord Jesus Christ’s strategic victory on the cross.
b. There is also the ministry of God the Son in the distribution of spiritual gifts, .
While our spiritual gifts operate down here on earth, they are connected with things in heaven, namely Christ in His ascension and session.
The Lord Jesus Christ gives the gift of gifted men who have certain communication and leadership gifts, and take the point in building up the Body of Christ.
My Lord Jesus Christ bought me, and I am His slave now, so He gets to give me to whomever He wishes, to serve the members of His body as He sees fit.
The ascension and session of Christ explain the uniqueness of the Church Age and the importance of having a royal family for this dispensation!
The Holy Spirit came to indwell believers after Christ was glorified at His ascension.
The Father ordained spiritual gifts as a means of glorifying His Son and celebrating His victory in the angelic conflict.
Spiritual gifts are the spoils of victory, and they proclaim and celebrate the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ in the angelic conflict.
Christ defeated satan, sin, and death at the cross.
c. God the Holy Spirit gives to each of us at salvation a spiritual gift as He wills, .
“gifts”
χάρισμα
charisma a gift of grace
the root word charis means “grace”.
a gift involving grace on the part of God as the donor; a favor which one receives without any merit of his own.
God’s endowments upon believers by the operation of the Holy Spirit in the churches, ; ; ; ; ; ; (Vine)
“extraordinary powers, …enabling Christians to serve the church of Christ, ...
“...the reception of which is due to the power of divine grace operating in their souls by the Holy Spirit” (from Thayer's Greek Lexicon)
Grace is free, limitless, unmerited blessing to helpless, undeserving sinners from the loving God who is completely satisfied by the Person and Work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
