Pastor David McGee's teaching references for 05/08/2011

1 Corinthians 14:10-15 - Be Careful What Voices You Listen To

Life Lesson (verse 1 Corinthians 14:10)

Be careful what 'voices' you listen to. Find some that speak to you spiritually and hold on for dear life.

Life Lesson (verse 1 Corinthians 14:11)

A major part of life is determining what voices to listen to and applying or doing what they say.

Life Lesson (verse 1 Corinthians 14:12)

Your faith walk is not just about your winning but about helping others to win and excel.

Life Lesson (verse 1 Corinthians 14:14)

Spiritual gifts that encourage the body of Christ are the most valuable gifts.

Life Lesson (verse 1 Corinthians 14:15)

Do not selfishly waste your gifts.

1 Cor 14:10 NLT

There are many different languages in the world, and every language has meaning.

Matt 13:23 NKJV

But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty."

1 Cor 14:11 NLT

11 But if I don't understand a language, I will be a foreigner to someone who speaks it, and the one who speaks it will be a foreigner to me.

Rev 3:20 NKJV

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

Gen 3:10 NKJV

So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."

Matt 3:3 NKJV

For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: "The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
'Prepare the way of the Lord;
Make His paths straight.'"

Matt 3:17 NKJV

And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."

Gen 26:4-5 NKJV

And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws."

Ex 15:25b-26 NKJV

There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them, 26 and said, "If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in His sight, give ear to His commandments and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the Lord who heals you."

John 5:28-29 NKJV

28 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29 and come forth - those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

Isa 6:8-9a NKJV

8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:
"Whom shall I send,
And who will go for Us?"
Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."
9 And He said, "Go, and tell this people:

John 10:3-5 NKJV

3 To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers."

1 Cor 14:12 NLT

And the same is true for you. Since you are so eager to have the special abilities the Spirit gives, seek those that will strengthen the whole church.

1 Cor 14:12 KJV

Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

Gen 3:10 NKJV

So he said, "I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself."

Rev 3:20 NKJV

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.

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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.