The apostle now begins to list the different types of miraculous gifts, repeatedly reminding the Corinthians that whichever power each of them “individually” had was “given” to them “through,” “according to,” and “by” no one except “the Spirit,” and according to his own will rather than their own desires (12:8-11).… Read More 1 Corinthians: The Different Kinds of Spiritual Gifts
Anyone truly speaking on behalf of the Lord would not teach anything that would in any way blaspheme Christ or try to sway the listener from giving their full allegiance to him.… Read More 1 Corinthians: “Speaking in the Spirit of God”
This passage is actually part of Paul’s explanation to Corinth that his message was given to him via Spirit inspiration and thus originated not in his mind but in God’s. … Read More 1 Corinthians: The Natural Person and the Spiritual Person
Many are not aware that the New Testament teaches that miracles would cease.… Read More “…When That Which Is Perfect Has Come…”
Stephen and Philip, along with the others on whom the apostles laid their hands in Acts 6, were already “filled with the Spirit” (6:3). Yet they did not perform miracles until after the apostles had laid their hands on them (6:6, 8; 8:6-7). They had to have received “the gift of the Holy Spirit” at their conversion (Acts 2:38-39), only to later receive miraculous spiritual gifts when the apostles laid their hands on them. This shows a difference between the two. … Read More The Gift of the Holy Spirit and the Laying On of the Apostles’ Hands
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