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failing to avail ourselves of the deeper riches of grace that lie in the purposes of God for us.
where and when I felt my hearers could receive them.
divide themselves into three groups.
First, there are those who magnify the gifts of the Spirit until they can see little else. Second, there are those who deny that the gifts of the Spirit are intended for the Church in this period of her history. Third, there are those who appear to be thoroughly bored with the whole thing and do not care to discuss it.
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those who want to know the truth about the Spirit's gifts and to experience whatever God has for them within the cont...
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a spiritual philosophy,
A proper understanding of the gifts of the Spirit in the Church must depend upon a right concept of the nature of the Church.
The true Church is a spiritual phenomenon appearing in human society and intermingling with it to some degree but differing from it sharply in certain vital characteristics. It is composed of regenerated persons who differ from other human beings in that they have a superior kind of life imparted to them at the time of their inward renewal.
They are children of God in a sense not true of any other created beings. Their origin is divine and their citizenship is in heaven. They worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Jesus Christ and have no confidence in the flesh. They constitute a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people.
To adopt or support.
the Church is a spiritual body, an organic entity united by the life that dwells within it.
sobriety of tone and fullness of detail
As a normal man consists of a body with various obedient members with a head to direct them, so the true Church is a body, individual Christians being the members and Christ the Head. The mind works through the members of the body, using them to fulfill its intelligent purposes.
each with its proper but limited function;
all the varied members which are the instruments by means of which the mind moves into the external world to carry out its plans.
set in the body certain members with abilities specifically created to act as media through which the Spirit can flow toward ordained ends.
these are not natural talents merely, but gifts imparted by the Holy Spirit to fit the believer for his place in the body of Christ.
like pipes on a great organ,
more than talents. They are spiritual gifts.
Religious work can be done by natural men without the gifts of the Spirit, and it can be done well and skillfully. But work designed for eternity can only be done by the eternal Spirit. No work has eternity in it unless it is done by the Spirit through gifts He has Himself implanted in the souls of redeemed men.
certain evangelical teachers have told us that the gifts of the Spirit ceased at the death of the apostles or at the completion of the New Testament.
doctrine without a syllable of biblical autho...
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manipulating the Wor...
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God may set us aside as so-called evangelicals and raise up another movement to keep New Testament Christianity alive in the earth.
Paul urges that we both "covet" and "desire" spiritual gifts (1 Cor. 12:31, 1 Cor. 14:1). It does not appear to be an optional matter with us but rather a scriptural mandate
a word of caution.
shameless exhibitionism, a tendency to depend upon experiences instead of upon Christ and often a lack of ability to distinguish the works of the flesh from the operations of the Spirit.
Those who deny that the gifts are for us today and those who insist upon making a hobby of one gift are both wrong,
the spiritual gifts which He has never in fact taken away from us, but which we are failing to receive only because of our error or unbelief.
