Spiritual Gifts


                       Today’s message is coming from 1 Corinthians 12 & 13


     In this chapter God talks about our spiritual gifts and pretty much how the gifts we’re given are for everyone’s purpose (not just for you). Together we are his body. We all have gifts right? Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith, Healing, Prophecy, Discernment, Speaking in tongues, Interpreting tongues, and LOVE with love being the greatest of all (13:13)…  But we are all a part of ONE BODY! He uses our body as an example saying (12:12) Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body… He goes on to say “your body has many parts (organs, limbs, cells and so on) but it’s one body”. It’s exactly the same way with Christ! When it comes to our spiritual gifts; each person is given something to do that shows exactly who God is! Just as with our body’s we can’t say to the ear I’m tired of you, you are fired! If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell? God tells us in 1 Corinthians 13:2 “If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing”.
      It really all makes perfect sense and comes together when you hear people say we all have a purpose, because we actually do! Yes we are all unique with different gifts, but WE as a whole make up the body of Christ. We entered into a large and integrated life, in which he has the final say in everything; which is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized. Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body! The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church (the church is the people (aka us)). For no matter how significant you are, it is only, because of what you are a part of; one body, with many parts. Only as you accept your part of that body does your “part” mean anything; because you are Christ’s body, and that is who you are!




P.S.: If you go on to read this for yourself again this is coming from 1 Corinthians chapter 12 & 13 both the NIV & MSG versions!

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