In the end, love will remain alongside faith and hope and will forever outrank them in value (13:13). However, the same cannot be said for miraculous spiritual gifts.… Read More 1 Corinthians: When Miracles Would Cease
When we remember that the Corinthians’ misunderstanding of the purpose behind miraculous spiritual gifts stems from their misplaced desire to all speak in tongues, it’s significant that the apostle puts it at the very end of the list, even going to far as give higher importance to two non-miraculous ordainments within the church.… Read More 1 Corinthians: God’s Appointments
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”
At the very beginning of the church, miraculous prophecies were listed among the spiritual gifts which the apostles gave to some within the early church through the laying on of their hands (1 Cor. 12:1-11ff; 14:1ff; Acts 6:6, 8; 8:5-24; 19:6; Rom. 1:11; 2 Tim. 1:6; cf. Eph. 2:20; 2 Pet. 1:19-21). So were the working of miracles such as casting out unclean spirits or demons (1 Cor. 12:8-11; Acts 5:16; 8:7; 19:11-12; cf. Mk. 16:17). These miracles were done to confirm the Word of God which the apostles were preaching and writing (Mk. 16:20; Heb. 2:3-4). This was possibly the reason Jehovah allowed demonic possession during this time.… Read More Zechariah: A Prophecy About Idolatry and Unclean Spirits
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