Aug. 09, 2020

How Much More!

Primary Text:  Luke 11:9-13                                                                       August 8 & 9, 2020

Last Week’s Teaching: Good Gifts

1)  Different Kinds

1 Corinthians 12:1-6:   Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant.  You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols.  Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.  There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit.  There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.  There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.

DQ 1) Define “spiritual gifts.”  Make sure your definition is not too narrow.

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2)  The Common Good

1 Corinthians 12:7-11:   Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.  To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues.  All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.

DQ 2) What is the “common good” referred to into 1 Corinthians 12:7?

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This Week’s Teaching

1)  One Body

1 Corinthians 12:12-14:   The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body.  So it is with Christ.  For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body--whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free--and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.  Now the body is not made up of one part but of many.

DQ 1) What does it mean that “we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body”?

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2)  Eagerly Desire

1 Corinthians 12:27-31:   Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it.  And in the church God has appointed first of all apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then workers of miracles, also those having gifts of healing, those able to help others, those with gifts of administration, and those speaking in different kinds of tongues.  Are all apostles?  Are all prophets?  Are all teachers?  Do all work miracles?  Do all have gifts of healing?  Do all speak in tongues?  Do all interpret?  But eagerly desire the greater gifts.  

1 Corinthians 14:1:  Follow the way of love and eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy.

DQ 2) Why should we eagerly desire spiritual gifts?

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3)  Good Gifts

Luke 11:9-13:  "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.  Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?  Or if he asks for an egg, will give him a scorpion?  If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!"

DQ 3) What are the greatest gifts given by God to humanity?

DQ 4) Are you regularly asking God to fill you with the Holy Spirit?

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