Pentecost: The Spirit’s Gifts

The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Jesus and it’s up to the same stuff that Jesus was up to: spiritually saving, physically healing, and demonically delivering. This last Sunday Alex taught on the gifts of the Spirit, as primarily mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12. In this passage Paul describes the many gifts that come from the Holy Spirit. These gifts will always lead to Jesus and His lordship, while the manifestations of other spirits will always lead to the worship of self and lesser things. If the Bible is true and livable, we should encourage and foster a place for all the gifts. We should have intelligibility publicly. The Sunday gathering is a place we come to be used by the Spirit for unity, and to build up others. Your identity does not come from the gifts, but from the Spirit. We do not need people with power who do not love, and we will not chase the gifts. We will follow God wherever He may be going. If you want to move in the Holy Spirit’s power, then receive first, because love is what motivates all the gifts.