We don't have a memory verse today, but next Sunday, Genesis 4.4 is what we'll be talking about. Okay, as you get the handout, and I think everybody has one now, let's take a look at it just a second. This is a new section. The previous section, entitled The Gift of the Spirit. This one's been upgraded to The Gifts of the Spirit. So yeah, so it's like, but actually there's quite a bit more to it than that. What we're gonna do is, by way of introduction into this section on The Gifts of the Spirit, we're gonna do a compare and contrast with what we have talked about for the last few weeks, couple months, several months. the gift of the spirit and the gifts. And then we're going to get into some of the qualities of the gifts of the spirit. And finally, we're going to get to the topic on identifying your gifts. And I hope that through this, just like it's been my hope from the beginning, that you learn something. I know I've learned a lot just doing the study about, you know, my preconceived notions about the gift of the Spirit and the gift of the Spirit. I didn't even differentiate between those two. I didn't have an understanding of what all this meant in the kind of details that are available to us. So I hope that we learn, and by the time we get to that question, that you're prepared to actually answer, you know, how do you identify your gifts? Because it may not be the way you think. And I've been taught, I know the way I've been taught, heard, how to identify your gifts. Okay, so first, let's talk about the gift of the spirit and the gifts of the spirit. And so this is both a review and as we look forward, some of the things we're gonna be talking about. And so over here, we'll say the gift of the spirit. I need it smaller now. Okay, so first of all, when we talk about the gift of the Spirit, what are we talking about? What's that? So it's the Spirit coming at Pentecost. And how is that applied to us? So the Spirit came and was poured out on the apostles of Pentecost. We weren't there. So do we have no part of that gift of the Spirit? How is it given to us? Since we weren't there, how do we receive the gift of the Spirit? Okay. Right. Do you remember? That's good. Remember 1 Corinthians 12, 13? We talked about that we are... Right. By one spirit, we are baptized into one body. So, we talked about the, what is it? It's salvation. coming to faith, regeneration, all of that, right? Okay, so we've talked about that, and that's 1 Corinthians 12, 13. All right. Okay, what? Who receives the gifts of the Spirit? Who receives the gift of the Spirit? I'm gonna have to be careful not to get the S's in there. All right, so all believers, right? So this is, remember that my study guide is Gaffin. And Gaffin is a mathematician. So I like some of his universal applications. Okay, and what does that mean? What does universal application has two meaning, two parts to the meaning. Troy. Right, universally applied to all believers. That's one aspect. So it's the scope of it, right? Who all receives it? But it's also, it has another aspect to it. Are there differences in the way Diane has been baptized by the Spirit and the way I've been baptized or Zach? When we're talking about salvation, we're all equal. So it's equally all believers. Okay, so now let's talk about the gifts of the Spirit. There's more on the gift of the Spirit. So what are we talking about in general? And we're going to get into more detail later as far as the gifts of the Spirit. So the gift of the Spirit is salvation. We're baptized at that moment of coming to faith by the Holy Spirit. What about the gifts, plural, of the Spirit? And don't worry because, again, we're going to go into more detail. This is just kind of a check on where we all are before we start in this study. Another, well, that's down here. So that's the who. And this is differentially is another mathematical term, differentially. Distribution. What does that mean? There's two aspects to that as well. There you go. So it could be different gifts for different people in different amounts. That's a big difference between universal application of the gift of salvation. So if that comes at salvation, when do these gifts come? Sanctification. Okay, and just a couple of, and some of these verses we've looked at. Ephesians 5.18, when we talked about be filled with the Holy Spirit, and then we saw that list of what that meant to be filled with the Holy Spirit. And that, you know, that's, if you're talking about filled with the Holy Spirit, That's a quantity, right? So there's a measurement in quantity that the spirit can work in your life in terms of the gifts of the spirit. Okay. So now, what is the gift of the spirit applying to us? Talk about the gift of the Spirit. It's salvation. It's universally applied. What is actually applied to us? Right. Very good. In fact, we could say, we could take it even further and say union with Christ. That's Colossians 3.27, which that's the verse we read last week. Christ in you, the hope of glory. And then in terms of this union with Christ, what are the gifts of the spirit doing in our lives? Okay, that gets a little bit further down the list, but that's a good point, Diane. If this is applying to us, union with Christ, the resurrected Christ, is that a one-time thing? It's salvation and then we're just like, I've already been joined to Christ. Do we need a continual joining with Christ? Okay, how do we get that? Applying Christ, continuously but by, how is Christ applied to us? Huh? I can't hear you. Well, no, that's part of it, but. Right. Diane, that's right. By the word. In fact, we had a companion verse to that. that Ephesians 5.18 passage, and it was, I wanna say Titus 3, Titus 3.1, which was a parallel passage, and it talked about, instead of being filled with the spirit, it said, dwell on the word of Christ, and the rest flowed very similarly out of being filled with the spirit, dwelling on the word of Christ. Okay. All right. Now I'm going to put this up here. So first fruits. Or down payment. All right, so this is kind of one. And what is the gift of the spirit, a first fruit or a down payment for? What's the end goal? What's our hope? Eternal life. In fact, resurrected life is what we're told, Romans 8.23. You can turn there. Romans 8, 23. And this kind of is a good follow on to this morning's sermon. We could back it up, I'm not gonna back it up, but, and not only creation, this is the creation groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now, but, and not only creation, but we ourselves who have the first fruits of the spirit grown inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. So, the redemption of our bodies, meaning the resurrection in the end. So that's, it's, it's a down payment. We have the Holy Spirit with us as a down payment as we look forward to that thing that's in the future that we have, you know, very difficult time grasping that our bodies, which are going to return to dust as we found this morning, are going to be resurrected and we'll have new bodies. However, miraculously that happens, but the Holy Spirit is our, our down payment. our first fruit of that in our lives. Okay, so that has a definite point in time purpose for us. The gifts of the Spirit, what is their, what's their life span? The gifts of the Spirit. The gift of the Spirit, the lifespan of that is eternity, right? We're looking forward to that eternity. What about these gifts of the Spirit? What's that? Okay. Right, so they are transient. temporary, provisional. There's different words that we could put there, right? Okay. And this is the last one I'm gonna put over here. And this one, the gift of the Spirit is a fulfillment of the Father's promise Does anybody think of a verse for that? You've been given the Spirit as promised by the Father. What about at Pentecost? Peter, so let's look at Acts 2. Yeah, well, I think it's it's after Peter reminds them of that prophecy of Joel 2 32 at the end of that. So he's explaining to the Jews that were there. What just happened? And in 2 32 this Jesus God raised up and of that. We're all witnesses. Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He has poured out this that you yourselves are seeing and hearing. So it's a fulfillment of the promise of the Father. And that fulfillment, the gifts of the Spirit are an expression or expressions of that promise. And so I think another way for us to think about it is, it's the gift that keeps on giving. Think about it. I mean, it's not, we say it's a one-time, epical event, but we want to be careful to say it doesn't It doesn't just stand there in time, stand alone in time. It actually has lasting effects in our lives, or it should. So the gifts of the spirit, you can see, are closely tied to the gift of the spirit as was poured out at Pentecost and as we have all received in our salvation. Yes, Troy. These over here? You know, as a matter of fact, last week I had a chart up here that had the Old Testament and New Testament. This could be, we could do a similar thing here And this would be New Testament, and we could put Old Testament over here. And we could talk about what the differences are. There are similarities, but we talked about the fact that union with Christ was not, again, it was provisional. It was looking forward to the future. This is union, and it wasn't union with a resurrected Christ. Now it's union with a resurrected, glorified Christ. So that's a difference. It's more, and Herman talked about, he used the term, they had more information. I mean, they had less information. So that kind of goes hand in hand with the provisional aspect of the gift of the Spirit in the Old Testament versus the reality of the gift in the New Testament. There's so much, I mean, it's the reality that it has happened. Back here, it's pointing forward to something that has not yet happened, and yet, Likewise, because the Holy Spirit was active in the lives of believers in the Old Testament, there were still outworkings, expressions of that presence of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament in the lives of Old Testament believers as well. But it will be different expressions because that promise hasn't been fulfilled. We have the fulfillment of the promise. the expressions should be different to some degree. And that's what we're gonna get into, I think, is talk about that. Something, oh, and the other thing, where we ended last week, which I think is a good point, is though this is a completed, you know, the gift, the fulfillment of the promise of the Father, this, We're in the same boat with the Old Testament, aren't we? It's a reality, but it's not ultimate. Right? So the gifts of the Spirit for us are in many ways, again, pointing forward to that future hope that we have in eternity with resurrected bodies, so that as Hebrews 11 the end of the chapter we talked about, we have something better than the Hall of Faith Old Testament believers. But it also says that they might not be perfected without us, meaning we're not perfected. We all end up in that state of perfection together. And that's, you know, so that's to the right of this. There's another column. Resurrected life. And then, you know, there's nothing after that. So does anybody have any questions? We're going to talk about some of these things a little bit more. If you take a look at your outline, as a matter of fact, we're going to talk about charismatic nature, the spiritual nature. Some of these things are Maybe misconceptions about the gifts of the spirit. And we're gonna talk about a little bit more what we mean by differentially distributed. Distributed, I'm not a mathematician, sorry. Ministerial aspect, we'll get into some lists of the gifts of the spirit as well. Okay, anybody else have any other thoughts or questions about this mode of introducing the gifts of the spirit? Yes, Troy. I can't think of a researcher specifically related to those students. I'm just curious about what you think about the kinds of events that, as far as the periods of permanency, like somebody having a gift at a particular time, or does somebody have all their gifts to start with and then last their whole lifetime, and then maybe using something Well, and see, where was it? Right here. Expressions of the mind. This is... Okay, so this goes right there. So, it really is, I mean the gifts are expressions of this life. I mean, there are... the effects of the fall that we all deal with, right? We deal with ups and downs. We deal with moments of clarity in our thought and moments or maybe eons of confusion, especially as you grow older. I mean, so it really is expressions of this life and the spirit uses And we'll get into it later, but how the Spirit uses the realities of our lives as gifts from Him. So, I think we'll answer your question by the time we get to the end, but if we don't, bring it back up. Okay, Troy? And then, as I'm erasing this, I'll just tell you where we're going with this. When we get into the gifts of the Spirit, we're going to lay a foundation, similar to what we put up here, of what Scripture means when it uses that term, gifts of the Spirit. And then we're going to get into some specific gifts that Scripture talks about. And I've mentioned this in the past, we're not going to shy away from, especially those controversial passages which talk about speaking in tongues and prophecy, and whether those things continue today or not. So, that's where this is going. And then we will move from there into fruit of the Spirit, which are more detailed expressions of the gifts of the Spirit. Okay, so the first point on the outline says charismatic. And I've used that term in the class in the past. And when you think of that word charismatic, what do you think of? Just the first thing that pops into your mind. What's that? Speaking in tongues? OK. Anything, just in general. Outgoing, Pentecostal, anybody else? Okay. Thomas. You garner a lot of followers. So it's somebody that people will follow. Okay. Alright. Anything else? Healing. So as charismatic, that's a sign of charismatic is healing. Okay, alright. Well, let's look at Romans 5, 15, and 16. It's a very interesting passage. Because Gaffan makes, I think, a very strong point. Did I say 5? Yes, 5, 15. That I think we should consider. Does this verse look familiar? This passage? How did it come into today? Pastor Schroeder quoted right before it and right after. So he was like, the pieces of bread, we're the ham and cheese right here. Okay. All right. So 15 and 16. But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for many. And the free gift is not like the result of the one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification. Okay, so I'm gonna ask somebody to help me. So verse 15, here's the word I'm looking for, gift and grace. Okay, so verse 15, can somebody read it for me again? Okay. The free gift. Okay. Go ahead. Okay. The grace of God. Okay. Keep going. The free gift. Okay. By the grace. By the grace. Of that one man, Jesus Christ, and the bounty of a man. Okay. That's the end of the verse. All right. And we'll stop there. We could do the same thing in verse 16 too. This word right here, these two words, okay. So in the Greek, this word, gift, is, charisma. And the interesting thing about it is, this, as far as theologians can tell, is the first time that this word, charisma, is theologized. What's that? Theologized. That it's used as an expression of theology. Paul basically, you know, used a word from the culture and brought it in and is applying it to the Romans, you know, because, you know, there's a very interesting worldly culture that they're in. But Paul is the first really to use this, not only in the Bible, but in, you know, theological texts of that time. And there's only one other place that it's used in the Bible, and we'll read it, and Peter uses it a little bit later. Okay, so, the charisma, and we can fill that in. Okay, so, grace here is translated in the Greek as this. So you can kind of see that there's kind of a play on words. Paul is saying, the charisma, the free charisma and the charis of God. So he's just kind of going back and forth. So if we read that again, the free charisma is not like the trespass for if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the charis of God and the free charisma by the charis of that one man, Jesus Christ abounded for many. He's using basically the same root word here as gift and grace. So out of this, Gaffen makes a couple of proposition statements. And the first one is, every gift is a manifestation. Of what? Grace of God. And grace, any manifestation of grace, is a gift. So it's pretty simple. A gift is a manifestation of God's grace, and any manifestation of grace is a gift of God. And so the other thing that I think about is we use this word a lot. You don't see it in scripture, I don't think. We don't even think about it. Oh, he's gifted. But if you stop and think about it in this context, what does it mean to be gifted? I mean, gift is a noun, right? So if somebody is strong, What do they have? They have strength. So if somebody is gifted, what do they have? They have gifts. So when we talk about somebody is gifted, that's one of those words that is used for a lot of different things. So we go back to what we talked about for charismatic. He could be a gifted speaker. He could be a gifted writer. I don't know, a gifted athlete or a gifted mom or whatever, those are all manifestations of grace. Those are all gifts of the spirit. And I think, you know, when we think of gifts of the spirit in a broader sense, we don't think of there's charismatic gifts, healing, speaking in tongues, and then there's the lesser gifts, you know, administration, finance. Sorry, Ray. No, not accounting. Yes, down here. Yes, Herman. Not in the terms of what we're talking about right now. We're talking about gifts that flow from grace, from salvation. I mean, it's true, there's common grace. And people have gifts that they don't acknowledge. Right? But we're going to get to a definition of what we mean by gifts in just a minute. In fact, I think that comes next. Yes. Right. I mean, that's every and we kind of think of those, you know, there's good and perfect gifts and there are other gifts. And I think what that the way that passage should be translated is every gift is good and perfect. And it comes from the father of light. Instead of you know that there's some kind of a quality. Where's that passage? Does that talk about that being given to unbelievers? Right, right. But again, those are I think they come out of God's common grace to all men. And those aren't those aren't the gifts that we're talking about that flow from our salvation. So the gift of the spirit being expressed through those continuing gifts of the spirit in the lives of Christians. So that's kind of a distinction. As a matter of fact, so on the next point, what Gaffin says in his book is, I think it's very interesting. is what defines a gift of the spirit or the gifts of the spirit. What is that? And he says, all capacities brought under the controlling power of God and used for his service are spiritual gifts. Yeah. All capacities, even those that exist in us before we become believers, that are brought under the controlling power of God and used for His service are spiritual gifts. And here's one in that passage or that reference that's on your sheet. Somebody turn to that and tell me what it says. 1 Corinthians 7.7. It should keep going. Maybe it's following that. Well. Yeah, sorry. Let me look at this. Okay, and this is talking about celibacy. I think if we looked back in this, we'll see that what Paul is talking about, I wish that all were as I am, meaning celibate, meaning not married and celibate, but each has his own gift from God. So celibacy and being unmarried can be a gift from God. How is that possible? How can being unmarried be a gift from God? You have to stretch yourself further. It causes more reliance on Christ and less reliance on a spouse maybe. But the point here is whatever capacity that you have that's brought under the controlling power of God and used for his service. In this case, Paul used his celibacy to pour himself into ministry 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. He didn't have to worry about, OK, I'm going to go into this crowd of people that hate me. Oh, what about my wife and children? Is my insurance paid up? No, no. He just went right in. Yes, Troy. Just about that definition that you would say, applying piano and church to, getting back to Kermit's question, both sides directly, how do you evaluate that? Yeah. I mean, I don't think that necessarily means that you would play Mozart's Requiem as part of the worship service. Yeah. Right. So I think of Sam Rotman who plays Mozart's Requiem, but he does it to draw people kind of Talking about charismatic, he draws people to himself to hear this music played. And then he expresses the gospel very clearly. He uses it as an opportunity to express the gospel. And that's something that Sam, he looked at his gifts and he said, should I change the music that I'm playing? Or should I keep playing this music and use it to draw people, especially unbelievers? Because it's not church music, so unbelievers, and then they can hear this message. So yeah, I think that's an example of a charismatic gift that's being used for God's glory. Okay, so our time is up, and we'll pick up there. If anybody has any other questions, you can come up and see me, but we will continue the conversation next week. Let's pray. Father, we thank you that you have given us good gifts and that every good and perfect gift comes down from above. You did not leave us in that state of sin and misery, but through Christ, who paid the penalty for Adam's fall, for our sin, we have the hope of resurrection and we have in this life Your spirit is a down payment to lead us to glory and to turn our attention away from the trappings of this world to you, our Heavenly Father, and where our citizenship is ultimately in heaven. We thank you. We pray that you would bless the rest of this day with rest and fellowship. And continue to worship together as brothers and sisters in the Lord. And we praise you in Jesus' name. Amen.