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1 Corinthians 12:4-8 Gifts That Keep Giving - Pastor David McGee

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Pastor David McGee

Date Taught: November 21, 2010

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Life Lessons Referenced

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 11:4)

Find out your gifts and walk in them. Don't try to walk in someone else's gifts.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 11:5)

Your spiritual gifts do not come from you, they come from God.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 11:6)

God and His Spirit will work differently with someone else than He does with you. God is the same but we are all different.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 11:7)

Each child of God has a spiritual gift or gifts. Each and every child of God has a spiritual gift or gifts.

Life Lesson (1 Corinthians 11:7)

Your spiritual gifts are not just for you but also for the blessing and benefit of others.

Verses Referenced and Teaching Notes

John 14:16-18 KJV

16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

John 14:16-18 NKJV

16 And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever - 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

John 14:16-18 NLT

16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, who will never leave you. 17 He is the Holy Spirit, who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him, because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him. But you know him, because he lives with you now and later will be in you. 18 No, I will not abandon you as orphans--I will come to you.

John 14:26 NKJV

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Rom. 12:4-5 NLT

4 Just as our bodies have many parts and each part has a special function, 5 so it is with Christ's body. We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other.

Eph. 4:3-6 NKJV

3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

1 Cor. 12:4 NLT

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but the same Spirit is the source of them all.

1 Cor. 12:5 NLT

There are different kinds of service, but we serve the same Lord.

Phil. 2:13 NKJV

for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for His good pleasure.

Phil. 2:13 NLT

For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

1 Cor. 12:6 NLT

God works in different ways, but it is the same God who does the work in all of us.

Rom 12:6-9 NLT

6 In his grace, God has given us different gifts for doing certain things well. So if God has given you the ability to prophesy, speak out with as much faith as God has given you. 7 If your gift is serving others, serve them well. If you are a teacher, teach well. 8 If your gift is to encourage others, be encouraging. If it is giving, give generously. If God has given you leadership ability, take the responsibility seriously. And if you have a gift for showing kindness to others, do it gladly.9 Don't just pretend to love others. Really love them. Hate what is wrong. Hold tightly to what is good.

Eph. 4:11-13 NKJV

11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

1 Cor. 12:31 NLT

So you should earnestly desire the most helpful gifts. But now let me show you a way of life that is best of all.

Gen. 1:1-2 NKJV

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Gen. 1:26 NKJV

Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

Deut 6:4 NKJV

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one!

1 Cor. 12:7 NKJV

But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:

1 Cor. 12:7 NLT

A spiritual gift is given to each of us so we can help each other.

Acts 2:17-18 NKJV

17 'And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. 18 And on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days; And they shall prophesy.

John 1:12 NKJV

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

Rom. 12:6 NKJV

Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith;

Acts 1:8 NKJV

But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

Luke 11:13 NKJV

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

Matt. 7:7-8 NKJV

7 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.

Acts 19:2 NKJV

he said to them, "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" So they said to him, "We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit."

Luke 11:9-13 NKJV

9 "So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 11 If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish? 12 Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion? 13 If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him!"

Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

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