Romans 12. We're talking about spiritual gifts today. The Bible indicates that everyone who is born again has been given by the Holy Spirit a special gift to serve Him. You might have been given more than one. You've got at least one. Maybe you've got a primary one and some secondary ones. Now some of you might not know what your gift is. That's either if you're a brand new Christian, you might not have figured it out, or maybe you just haven't thought much about it. It probably will come supernaturally naturally to you. You'll just do whatever this thing is God's given you to do. But if you don't know what it is, imagine last Christmas you were given a present, a Christmas present, all wrapped up, and you never have opened it. Wouldn't you wonder what was in it? Well, it'd probably be good to find out what your gift is, because we should serve God according to our gift Not according to something that's not our gift. Because that's just going to frustrate you and everybody else, too. Worse yet, it'll frustrate everybody else. So, it's good to know what your gift is. And I say gift singular. Remember, I do mean you might have more than one. It's been observed there's different categories of gifts. Commonly, people say there's three categories. One category is what I call very quiet service gifts. A quiet gift. These people, a lot of times, they work one-on-one, ministering to other people. There's not a lot of fanfare. They're behind the scenes doing things. You don't notice it unless they don't do their gift, and then everybody hurts because a service gift is support gift, so to speak. And then there are public leadership gifts, maybe the gift of pastor-teacher. That's an out front, loud mouth gift. Those more public gifts are what Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians 14, and he regulates these people getting up in front of everybody else. And another type of gift is more we think about as the charismatic gifts, that's the miracle gifts. Maybe like speaking in tongues, healing, things like that. So those are the three categories. Paul starts off this section though with kind of a caution, a very important warning about spiritual gifts and something we should remember as we use our gifts. The whole paragraph is 3 through 8. Before he gets into the gifts, he's going to give us a warning about them. Let's start and see what that warning is in verses 3 through 8. For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as in one body we have many members, and the members do not all have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them. If prophecy in proportion to our faith, if service in our serving, the one who teaches in his teaching, the one who exhorts in his exhortation, the one who contributes in generosity, the one who leaves with zeal, and the one who does acts of mercy with cheerfulness. What's the warning? Don't think of yourself more highly than you are. I can see a big mouth like me. You could get a big head, couldn't you? A lot of pastors get big heads, and they think they're big shots, they're big cheeses, and they think more highly of themselves than they ought to. That's what immediately came to mind, but the more I thought about it, that's true for everybody in the church. Let's say you've got the gift of helps. You're quiet, you're behind the scenes beavering away. Sometimes people that don't have the more public gifts get kind of resentful of leadership. I've dealt with a lot of union guys in my career. A lot of union guys think all managers are fools and knaves. And so sometimes people who aren't gifted in leadership resent those who are. They don't appreciate the leadership gifts. An overseer's job is to oversee everything, and if he sees something not right, he starts asking questions in your life. People resent that. It's kind of like, you know, the people that murder their children have this saying, get your laws off my body. People who don't have the more public gifts, if they get prideful, if they think more of their gift than they ought to, it's, get your laws off my body. That's the way they feel toward leadership. They resent leadership. See, so it doesn't just apply to big mouths like me. This applies to all of us, no matter what your gift is. The tendency is to poo-poo the other gifts. Oh, that's not important. My gift's the one that really matters. But they're all important working together. So knowing human nature as he does, Paul warns us If a guy has a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And so whatever your gift is, man, you think that's the end. This is it. I'll say no. We all have different gifts according to the manifestation and the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, because you don't determine what gift you get. The Holy Spirit determines it. And so it's all a matter of grace. And we need to remember it's a matter of grace, no matter what your gift is, and not look down on other people who don't have your gift. And not resent other people using what is their gift. I've noticed like a lot of people with the gift of mercy, they're almost anti-teaching. They don't want teaching. See, it just goes around all the way around like that. So coming back to this, notice how Paul starts this off in verse 12. He says, well, by the grace given to me, I say to everyone, why did he start it off that way? By the grace given to me, I say, why did he start off that way? His gift, obviously, is one of being in leadership in some capacity. A lot of people resent leadership. A lot of people are driven to house church, because they don't want. They're like the French revolutionaries, Liberté, Equality, Fraternité. They don't want leadership. Off with his head. And he says, now, look, I'm a leader. I know some of you are going to resent this. You're going to say, well, when did God die and leave you in charge, Paul? Well, look, by the grace given to me, I'm going to say something to you. Don't think more highly of yourself than you ought to. I mean, we resent. I'm doing OK until you came along. It's like a thorn in the side. That's what people with other gifts, especially these intrusive gifts, do. And so he said, look, God give me grace to say this to you. Whatever your grace gift is, you need to use it and be humble toward other people and not get too puffed up. He's exhibiting the very thing he's calling us to do. So he says, by the grace given to me, I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think. because of these spiritual gifts. But to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. What comparison did Paul make in verses 4 and 5? He compares the body of Christ to our physical body. So how does that comparison work, Adam? Follow through with that. What is the comparison? The comparison is that you've got lots of different parts of your body that each have different functions. Thank you, that's right. That's right. About 20 years ago, there was this baseball player, he was a pitcher, and this batter hit the ball, and it went straight and hit this pitcher on his foot, and I guess it broke his little toe. Well, he couldn't pitch anymore until that toe healed. You don't think about your little toe being important, but all of a sudden, when it was broken, he couldn't pitch. all the body parts are important. 1st Corinthians 12 12 just as the body is one and has many members and all the members of the body though many are one body so it is with Christ so he says in verse 5 we are individually members one of another so we are in it together we're interdependent as we reread 6 through 8 I'm looking for an overall command here so look at that he says Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them. The prophecy in proportion to our faith. If service, let us serve him. The one who teaches, let us teach him. The one who exhorts, let us exhortation. The one who contributes, let us generosity. The one who leads, let us zeal. The one who does acts of mercy, let us cheerfulness. Now we step back and look at the big picture. What is the overall command that he's giving there about these gifts? Use it. Don't sit soaking sour. Use it. It will come supernaturally naturally to you, actually. The Bible says a man's gift will make room for him. So, some of you know exactly what your gift is, others not so sure. But as you pray about it and you seek to serve Jesus, the Holy Spirit's gonna motivate you to go toward that area where your gift is, and you're gonna be good at that. Other things, you're not so good at. So, it's not like you have to lose a lot of sleep over this, but over time, It should be obvious what it is. If your gift is not here though, if one of these things we've read today is not your gift, well you need to pray about the fact that probably you're not a Christian. No. This is not an exhaustive listing of gifts. If we go to 1 Corinthians 12, it lists these and other gifts. And other gifts over there are not here, and gifts here are not there. And in Ephesians 4, it mentions some gifts. I think in Peter, there's a few gifts listed. Paul's not trying to be exhaustive. He's just throwing out stuff. So there are probably even gifts that are not even mentioned in the Bible. I met this one girl back a long time ago, and she said her gift was meeting people. And I thought that was ridiculous when I heard it, but over the years, well, maybe that was her gift. Just because it doesn't say it in the Bible doesn't mean you don't have it. But anyhow, let's look at this list, if we can, and take these apart. First gift is what? Prophecy. Who here thinks they have that gift? I'm serious. Good. Got one. I'm wondering if Keith maybe doesn't have that. He didn't raise his hand, maybe he does, but I kind of thought maybe Keith had it. Dwayne might have it. Let's talk about what it is, and what it isn't. This remains an untranslated word in the Bible. How helpful. Why do they do that? Prophetes is the Greek, letter for letter, right into English. The Greek word pro, like protrude, means what? Or project. It means before, out in the sense of sticking out in front of. It means before. And phates is a Greek word for speak. So classically, a prophet is a future teller. He speaks about events before they happen. He's predicting the future. So if we did translate that word, give me what would be a good Anglo-Saxon translation. A foreteller? A seeker, a soothsayer, those words will do. Some of them have kind of shady connotations with us, but if you're going to translate it, clairvoyant. That's French, probably. So a prophet is an inspired spokesman for God. And we read the Old Testament prophecies, like Isaiah, Daniel. OK, let's talk about Daniel. A lot of predictions of the future. That carries into the New Testament. Give me a New Testament prophet who gave a New Testament prophecy. Agabus. Agabus, what did he predict? He predicted Paul's imprisonment. He also predicted a famine that would happen, remember? That's not the only thing it means, though, because the word prophetase, not only it means to speak beforehand, it also can mean to speak forth. Let's go back to the Old Testament prophecies. There's actually very little prediction in Old Testament prophetical books. Most of it is sermons. calling people to action. Usually they're sermons of judgment, but that's Old Testament. Calling people to action. So a prophet is a spokesman for God. His sermons are a lot of times extemporaneous. He gets direct revelation spontaneously from the Holy Spirit about something that needs to be said to the church. And he says it. We have examples in the New Testament of this. Like in 1 Corinthians 14, he talks about people who prophesy. He says, so that all can learn and all can be exhorted. Prophecy results in learning. So it kind of overlaps teaching like that. Prophecy results in people being exhorted and motivated, right? It says in Acts about these two guys, it says, being prophets, they encouraged the brethren with a lengthy message. So some pastors, preachers, these heads of churches that speak every week, whatever you want to call that guy, some of those guys probably are gifted as prophets. They just got something to say. They might not be too tied to the Bible, loosely, but they got something to say. And when I say they're not tied to the Bible, that doesn't mean it's wrong. What I mean is the Bible to them is like a diving board. You know, they jump on it a few times, and pew, they're off into the pool. And so it's the launching point for whatever this passion message is that God has for them to give. People find them very relevant and fresh because, wow, that's where I live. Now, you'll never learn the Bible from a prophet, but you will be motivated. So I wondered if maybe Charles Stanley might be operating as a prophet because he's a motivator. I went there for years and thought I knew the Bible until I went somewhere else and found out I didn't know anything about the Bible. But it was motivating. I don't know what it said, but I was going to do it. See, that's the way prophets do. So I think that gift is probably still around today. I'm an exegetical charismatic. I'm not associated with the mainstream charismania, which is a lot of foolishness, but I think these gifts all are still operative, and we need a lot of room for them. And, of course, Paul says, "...desire you can all prophesy." So, I think all of us have the capacity to be a temporary prophet, but some people are so consistently moved by the Spirit, they're called prophets. They're known for that. So, that's a good gift. We need it. Probably, especially before the Bible was completed, and you didn't have Scripture, like we do today, these guys were much more prevalent. It says the Bible is built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. So there you go. Adam. Would it be correct to basically say that you would apply it to current events, by the Spirit, and what God would have to say about current events? As far as you said it, yes. That's not to say teachers shouldn't apply it too, but a teacher gets his inspiration from the written Word of God. A prophet gets his inspiration directly from the Holy Spirit on the moment, and obviously it's going to be Let me just say, you remember the woman at the well? And Jesus tells her, you've had five husbands. And what does she say to him? Your prophet, he wasn't telling the future. He had insight into her life. And Paul talks about a lost person coming to a church meeting and said, if you all prophesy, the secrets of his heart will be revealed, and he'll be convicted and fall on his face and worship God and declare God's among you. Why? Prophets have supernatural insight into people's lives and what's wrong with them. And they can zing right in on them. So that's kind of unnerving. But to Adam's point, it's really fresh and relevant in that sense. I'm interested in the, as did New Testament prophets. I think you've answered your own thing. And back to what Adam said, a prophet is calling people to obedience. he's pointing out sin, or he's suggesting something like him that needs to be done, and he's motivating people. So you see that best in the Old Testament prophets because they do all those things. It seems that there is a very direct connection. That is, most of us live in a fantasy world, but a prophet burns right through the fog. I almost listed you as a maybe prophet because you do that a lot in your realm of looking at the situation in America, you see. And we're going to come back to the dangers of that in just a minute, but you feel that urgency. You're always calling, look, look, look out, look out, look out. I don't know if it's related to what Al is saying, but they weren't part of the covenant. They were pagan nations, Egypt, Edom, places like that. So one of the prophetic roles in our country was to our leaders, whoever they may be. That's a prophetic role that we can have. So you see Noah playing that role. Jonah played that role. Reluctantly, but see the gift of prophecy is such that almost like it's war of me If I don't speak a prophets got this burning and it's gonna come out if he tries to suppress his gift He's gonna be as miserable as Jonah was these prophets got something to say now I've known a lot of guys They got radio shows a lot and I know they just got something to say and I just talked to this friend of mine It's got ready to show it and I said, I mean, I don't know how you do it What do you come up with all the material? He's just got material, and it's all the things y'all said about being fresh and relevant. He's got this passion, and he sees relationships and problems, and he sees himself as prophetic voice shouting. Do you have a hand, Rusty? Yeah. And he didn't realize he was doing it, but he was prophesying. It was like he would say something leading my mind. And this went on for a few minutes. And he was prophesying. I think so. I had no idea he was doing it. And it was for you. Yeah, it was for me. Great insight. You're talking about the prophet not being able to talk. Jeremiah's a good example. And so, in that sense, any of us could spontaneously have that gift, evidently, because Paul talks about it. I wish you all prophesied. You should all desire to prophesy. But that doesn't make you a prophet, unless it just is your M.O. for all the time. It says in Corinthians that two or three prophets should speak. I think he's probably putting a cap on it, because he does tongues that same way. But, if two or three prophets are going to speak in a church meeting, and there's going to be a teaching, That suggests that even though a prophet can give a lengthy message, like those two guys in Acts, all the prophets shouldn't give a lengthy message. There shouldn't be two, three, or four lengthy messages every Sunday. The spirits of the prophets are subject to the control of the prophets, and they ought to rein it in and try to keep it short in a participatory meeting if there's multiple prophets and teaching there, too. All right. Now, Peter says if anyone speaks, he should speak as though it were the very words of God. But prophets always feel like they got the words of God. There are prophecy cautions given in the Bible. Now, Paul doesn't give it here, but in your mind, go over to 1 Corinthians 14. What's the caution about prophecy there that he gives? Did the two or three prophets speak? What does everybody else need to do? He said check it against Scripture. I think You've got to pass judgment, I think the NIV says. You've got to pass judgment. ESV might say, you've got to weigh carefully what's said. Because prophets are liable to be wrong. I guess it's subjective enough that sometimes when they're moved, they're moved to the Lord. Other times when they're moved, well, maybe it was last night's pizza. As Scrooge said, an undigested piece of meat. So you've got to pass judgment. Just because a guy prophesies doesn't mean it's from God. But it doesn't necessarily mean it's a false prophet. In the Old Testament, if you got one prophecy wrong, what happens? Stone to death. And Old Testament prophets wrote scripture. Who wrote the New Testament? Not prophets. Apostles. So here's an Old Testament prophet. He's equal in authority to a New Testament Apostle. But a New Testament prophet, he's down several notches from an Old Testament prophet. It's a different thing. So that if a New Testament prophet is wrong, it doesn't say to stone him, it doesn't say to throw him out of the church. It just said, judge it, and you weigh that by Scripture. And if he's wrong, you say so, and you go on. Isn't that interesting? So, the nature of this dynamic of prophecy is it God couldn't miss it. 1 Thessalonians 5 says, do not despise prophecies, but test everything. Why would you despise prophecy? Well, yeah, it might not agree with what you think, but the fact that he says test everything and then adds, hold fast what is good, says to me it's messy. You could get tired of, oh, not him again. You judge it. You get tired, oh, no, there he goes again. I know what he's going to say. You despise it. No, test it. Judge it. keep what's good and so in our church if one of you prophets get up says something really wrong we're gonna judge it and you might be embarrassed we're gonna have to call you out that alone knowing it's gonna be publicly judged if it's wrong will stop a lot of silly prophecy that ought not go on and so he says you should prophesy according to how does he say that look back at our verse no whose faith It doesn't say your faith, what does it say? Our faith. You read the commentaries on that, and there's a lot of ways to interpret that. My understanding is, one of the options is, the body of faith delivered by the apostles to the church, our faith. So prophecy is judged by scripture. If he gets up and teaches his four persons in the Trinity, we're going to judge that. That's wrong. He teaches Jesus is not God. We're going to judge that. That's wrong. So you judge it according to our faith, the received body of truth that the church has. That's your standard. Now, I saw a hand. One of the responsibilities that the elders could do is if someone comes up and keeps... And I agree with that. If somebody among us is known as a prophet, and he's always doing it, and most of the time it's fine, and every now and then he has a bad one, and we judge it so, it doesn't mean we tell him to forever shut up and kick him out. But if a guy is One-on-one, we know him to be flaky, and he's unstable, and he's doing and saying just crazy stuff. Man, it's the elder's job on the front end to say, I'm sorry, brother. Not you. Not today. Not until later. I'm thinking of a guy who disrupted our church meeting one time. And he's known for going around disrupting church meetings. I imagine he fancies himself to be a prophet. But you look at his life. You look at his relationships with people in other churches. He can't get along with anybody. He's not in a church. He's just a firebrand. He's like a Bible cop going around. He hadn't even been to our church before. First time here. Bam! He blasts us out of the water. Artemis is an abomination to God. Well, we judge that to be wrong. And I judge him to be a kook. And I invited him never to come back. And if he did come back after work things out, he would not be welcome to speak. It's participatory worship, but that's what you have leaders for, protect the flock from needless fixation. So if you got a guy that's identified himself as being a false prophet consistently, It's the elder's job to stop him and prohibit that. Yes, sir. It occurs to me that another reason why the New Testament. Yeah, we do all each have the Holy Spirit. And the Bible talks about, I think it's called the gift of discernment, or something like that, or over in Corinthians. I forgot how it says it. But one thing I remember Keith bringing out, it was good insight. We were having a theological controversy with a false teaching. And false teachers always use Bible verses. They always do. And they proof text it. And Keith mentioned, well, the spirit of the thing will come out. Just give it enough time. And despite all the Bible verses, if there's something wrong with it, the spirit of it will eventually come out. And it did. I don't know if that was a word of wisdom from Keith or prophecy or discernment, but that's what happened. So there is that gift of discerning, because you can discern the spirit of something. You say, yeah, all these words you say are right, but there's something wrong with the spirit of this. Something's wrong here. And sometimes God gives you that. Now, can women have this gift, prophecy? Yes. Somebody had four virgin daughters prophesied, didn't he? Who was that? Philip. So, for example, in the Old Testament, the king wanted to find out something, and he sent his men to talk to Huldah. Wasn't it Huldah? They went to her house where she lived. Now, she wasn't out on the street corner like Jeremiah might have been, up on a soapbox, because they probably didn't have soap back then. I don't know if they did or not. I'm sure they did. She prophesied one-on-one. What was the name of the lady in the temple when Jesus was born that prophesied? Now, again, I don't know that she was hooping and hollering. The temple courts, it was just like in a mall, just a bunch of people. Whoever would listen, it said she talked to them about the Messiah. I suspect she was one-on-one talking to people. And so, I'm thinking the lady with this gift, she can exercise it to men or women. Deborah was a prophetess. She was also a judge. But God didn't want her to be the judge. He wanted her to be the prophetess. And she went to Barak with the prophecy that he was supposed to be the judge. So the Bible says women shouldn't be in leadership over men in the church. Well, Deborah was. And it's interesting that it says, God raised up Samson, or God raised up Gideon. It doesn't say that about Deborah. It says, and Deborah became a judge. I'm not faulting her. I'm faulting the men for not being the leaders. When you see women in leadership in any society, it's a sign of a decayed society. Isaiah said, woe to you, Israel. Woe to Israel. Why? Two reasons. Children are your oppressors, and women rule over you. That's a sign of a decayed society. So anyway, they were decayed, she got into power, but God didn't raise her up to be a judge. Barak was supposed to be the judge, but she was a prophetess, and God used her for that. Moses' sister, Miriam, was a prophetess. In this case, she led the women in song. Remember that? So, ladies, you can have this gift. You can have it to men or women, but it looks like the women in the Bible who were prophets did it privately. like so many spiritual gifts are, private. In the public meetings, at least in church meetings, it looks like it's the men who are prophets who are supposed to be speaking out. Ladies are supposed to hold back. Lady prophets hold back. Now, if it's during Lord's Supper, you got a message to lay on somebody, go to it. But not in the public meeting. That's for the men. Okay, y'all see that? Now, who thinks they have a gift of prophecy? I see two hands. Alright, now you might be a poet and not know it. You might be a prophet and not know it. So anyway, you'll think about that. What's the next gift? Service! Who thinks they have the gift of service here today? Alright? Yeah, amen. The gift of service, obviously you're serving other people. Who wants to guess the Greek word here? Diakonia. Got a word? Deacon, diakonia. Now, originally, literally it referred to a table waiter. And that's a servant, somebody who's sitting at the table, bringing the food, or in that kitchen, washing the dishes, cooking the food, but it was a table waiter, so you can imagine Downton Abbey, you know, and they always show those scenes of the rich people eating, and all the waiters, the butlers, what do they call them, standing around, serving, that's the work. Luke chapter 10 verse 40 is an illustration. When Jesus went to the home of Mary and Martha, a little fuss came up. It says, Martha was distracted with much deaconing. And she went up to Jesus and said, Lord, do you not care? My sister has left me to deacon alone. Tell her to help me. And she's in the kitchen. In that case, she needed to not do that. She needed to be out there with Jesus. But that's an example of the Word. That's the same Word. And the men in Acts 6 that were chosen to oversee the distribution of food to the Hellenistic widows, the Bible doesn't call them deacons, but we do. the church of history does. Why? Well, because that's what deacons did. They were serving and it had to do with food and they call it that. But when you leave the world of the kitchen, still the word carries over. A person with his gift has a gift of helping other people, aiding other people, supporting other people. This person probably is very sensitive to needs. Now whoever has the gift of deacon, come in here today and see paper on the floor and start, all the dirt, start picking it up. Gift of deacon might say, that's not enough chairs out. Gift of deacon got here at 10 o'clock to make the coffee. Gift of deacon might Keep the books for the church, and who gave, and where the money needs to go. Gift of deacon is over at the widow's house, cleaning off the roof, and painting, and making repairs. See, gift of deacon's in the nursery, helping with little kids. Gift of deacon cleans up after church, likes doing it, looks for a chance to do it. Doesn't have to be asked. Now, the rest of us have to be kicked into it. They're just doing it. And so that's one of the more quiet gifts, isn't it? Behind-the-scene gifts. According to verse 6, how should a servant use his gift? What's qualification? By serving. Number one, that means don't just sit there. Do it. But you don't really have to tell a servant to do that. I think what he's also saying is don't try to operate outside your gift. Don't give in to the pressure if you're a servant to go be a Sunday school teacher. That's not what God called you to do. Don't give in to the pressure to be in leadership. if that's not what God called you to do. Don't give in to the pressure to go be a soloist and write music if that's not what God called you to do. You see? See, operate within your gift. Thank God for the people with the gift of service. You don't miss them until they're not there. Then everything grinds to a halt. All right, so let's step back. Let's get the big picture. What was the lead-in caution that Paul gave? Don't think too highly of yourself because of this gift that you have. Now, I can see how a prophet could get pumped up if he was a carnal prophet, if he was not walking with the Lord, if he was immature, he could get puffed up because that's kind of a public gift. And, you know, he doesn't even need to study the Bible. Teachers spend hours in study. Not a prophet, boy, he's just got something to say. He could look down on the teachers for wasting all that time in Bible study. What are you studying the Bible for? Just go and get a fresh word from the Lord. Or he could look down on the servant. What you're doing is not important. But you're out there prophesying. Now what we could learn from the prophet, I wish that you all prophesied. We should be sensitive to the Holy Spirit that every now and then he might use us as a prophet. We can learn from that. Now let's switch over to the servant. How would a servant get puffed up over what he does? What's that gonna look like? That's right, that's right. Everybody needs to be here. Why are you leaving before three? Why am I the only one in the kitchen? Where were you at 10 o'clock this morning, you waltzing here at 11? And I got here at 10 to make the coffee. Where's the coffee going to be if you show up at 11? Now, actually, we can learn from a servant. You need to be here at 10 o'clock. Why do you show up after 10.30? Who set these chairs up? Did you? Who made the coffee? Did you? Who made the list out for the cups and supplies? Did you do that? Who practiced these songs? Who drugged this thing, this boat anchor in here this morning? Did you? What, do you think this stuff just happens? Is it magic? We can learn from the servants to be a servant. When you notice, where's Linda? Oh, she's alone in the kitchen in there. What should you learn from that? Maybe I need to go in the kitchen. See what I'm saying? So we can learn from the prophet. We can learn from the servant. Don't think more highly of yourself than you ought to think. That's what he started. But by the same token, we can all learn from people with other gifts. Oh yeah, that's the reminder. I need to be looking for that piece of trash to pick up over there. I need to think about whether enough chairs are out or not. You see? Fun! Now we've got more gifts to go. What have we got left? We've got to talk about the gift of mercy. Who here thinks they have that gift? Interesting. We've got to talk about the gift of teaching, the gift of exhortation, and my favorite gift, the gift of giving. I have a gift of receiving. Oh, and there's one more, the gift of leaping. Now, there's some overlap between these, but they are different. So, if you want to find out what the rest of them are, you'll come next week. Hopefully, you'll be here at 10 o'clock. Church, by the way, starts officially at 10.15. Did you know that? So, don't try to get here at 10.30. You need to be here at 10.15. It's part of the visit time. But if you want to help, be here at 10 with the servants to help learn the humility gift of serving. All right. And you get the first cup of coffee. And you get the first cup of coffee. That's right. That's right. This message was produced by the New Testament Reformation Fellowship, ntrf.org. Performing today's church with New Testament church practice. God bless you as you seek to follow him in obedience. May your faith in the Lord Jesus be strengthened and your daily walk with him deepened. Oh.