Understanding Spiritual Gifts: A Verse-by-verse Study of 1 Corinthians 12-14Robert L. Thomas This thorough study of spiritual gifts will help Christians understand their God-given gifts and how they should use those gifts in the church. Thomas explains each gift, examining them in the light of the Word. He also deals with the issues concerning the source, purpose, and nature of spiritual gifts. Understanding Spiritual Gifts will give readers new insight into how their gifts can be used for God's glory and service. |
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... specific areas of interest . Since the release of the first edition of this work , interest in the gift of prophecy has grown widely , so the first four appendixes focus especially on further elaboration on that gift . Appendix. PREFACE ...
... specific areas of interest . Since the release of the first edition of this work , interest in the gift of prophecy has grown widely , so the first four appendixes focus especially on further elaboration on that gift . Appendix. PREFACE ...
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... specific subject , that of spirituals ( the Greek expression of 12 : 1 when rendered literally ) in the realm of gifts or endowments by the Holy Spirit , Chapters 2-3 discuss " spirituals " more generally by describing broader spiritual ...
... specific subject , that of spirituals ( the Greek expression of 12 : 1 when rendered literally ) in the realm of gifts or endowments by the Holy Spirit , Chapters 2-3 discuss " spirituals " more generally by describing broader spiritual ...
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... specific gifts is about to appear ( 12 : 8-10 ) , each one having its own characteristics , but one and the same Person produces them all , none other than He who dwells within every believer in Christ ( cf. 1 Cor . 6:19 ) . Implicit in ...
... specific gifts is about to appear ( 12 : 8-10 ) , each one having its own characteristics , but one and the same Person produces them all , none other than He who dwells within every believer in Christ ( cf. 1 Cor . 6:19 ) . Implicit in ...
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... specific spiritual function of which only a certain group in the body of Christ has been capable . That specialized sense is understandable in light of 1 Corinthians 2 : 6-13.4 In this earlier section of the epistle , Paul describes ...
... specific spiritual function of which only a certain group in the body of Christ has been capable . That specialized sense is understandable in light of 1 Corinthians 2 : 6-13.4 In this earlier section of the epistle , Paul describes ...
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... specific divine channel for producing a miraculous cure for a physical problem . This is not to say that the same individual could cure every illness he confronted , for healing was not always what God wanted ( cf. 2 Cor . 12 : 8-9 ) ...
... specific divine channel for producing a miraculous cure for a physical problem . This is not to say that the same individual could cure every illness he confronted , for healing was not always what God wanted ( cf. 2 Cor . 12 : 8-9 ) ...
Contents
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3740 | 119 |
Prophecy Rediscovered? A Review of The Gift | 133 |
New Testament Canonicity | 154 |
The Eighteen Spiritual Gifts | 173 |
How to Discover and Use Your Spiritual Gifts | 205 |
Select Bibliography of Works Cited | 277 |
Subject Index | 291 |
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Page 53 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another.
Page 79 - And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, " for the equipment of the saints, for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, " until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ...
Page 67 - If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge ; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Page 50 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
Page 76 - For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
Page 42 - I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper that He may be with you forever. That Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it does not behold Him or know Him, But you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.
Page 40 - For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body : so also is Christ. 13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit. 14 For the body is not one member, but many. 15 If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 71 - Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Page 46 - Because I am not the hand, I am not the body; is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?