The Gift of Tongues - Spiritual Gifts 6

 

A deep dive into the spiritual gift of tongues.

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Outline:

• Introduction
• Finding Your Purpose in Life Series
• Review: Your Spiritual Gifts 1-5
• Speaking In Tongues
• Interpretation of Tongues
• The Gift of Writing
• The Gift of Administration
• Don’t depend on miracles
• Conclusion: The Joy of the Holy Spirit

Scriptures:

• 1 Peter 4:10-11
• 1 Corinthians 12:7-12
• 1 Corinthians 14:2
• 1 Corinthians 14:27-28
• Acts 2:1-12

Introduction

1 Peter 4:10-11

10 As each one has received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of the multifaceted grace of God. 11 Whoever speaks is to do so as one who is speaking actual words of God; whoever serves is to do so as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies; so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

We have all been given some gifts, talents and abilities.

Are you using your gifts to glorify God?

Could you be serving more?

Use your gift – Dela Toro.

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Today we are talking about supernatural gifts, but we all have some gifts that we should be using for the kingdom

Finding Your Purpose in Life Series

The two greatest days in your life are:

1. the day you were born
2. the day you figure out why you were born

– – Mark twain

The Bible tells us that everything was created by God, the Designer, for a reason

If you want to find your purpose… You have to start with God

Your calling is the purpose that God created you for

• It's the end goal of your assignment on earth
• It is how you serve his purposes in the world

A Christian’s Callings

Christians have

1. General callings
2. A Unique calling

General Christian Callings

All Christians are called to:

1. To Love God
2. Love your neighbor
3. Make disciples
4. Be conformed to the image of Christ – sanctification

Unique Calling

Additionally, you were given unique

• Natural ability
• Acquired skills
• Spiritual Gifts
• Personality
• Desires and preferences
• Life experiences

All of this makes uniquely qualified to serve others, and to glorify God

Your gifts and talents are owned by God… Not you

Success is Measured by Faithfulness, Not Impact

In this series we will discover:

• What a purpose is and why it matters
• What are your unique attributes
• What life experiences have prepared you for your calling
• What is your unique purpose
• How to overcome the barriers preventing you from pursuing your purpose

Throughout this next year, I will walk alongside you and help guide you to finding your purpose

Review: Your Spiritual Gifts

Gifts, Ministries, Effects

1 Corinthians 12:4-7^

Gifts

The raw spiritual "tool" or talent (e.g., the gift of teaching, prophecy, or healing).

This is the internal enablement from the Holy Spirit

Examples 

• Prophecy
• discernment of spirits
• Speaking in tongues

Ministries / Functions

The specific office, role or sphere of service where you use your gift.

Example:

• Pastor
• Choir director
• School teacher

Gift vs Ministry

You might have the gift of teaching, but that gift can be expressed in many different ways.

Example: Gift of teaching

• Pastor
• Jail ministry
• Classroom

You can have the gift of prophecy, but not serve in the office of a prophet

• You might be in the parking lot Ministries

Effects

The supernatural impact or outcome of the gift being used.

Example

• You can “feel the anointing” when someone is singing

Manifestations vs. Permanent Gifts

Manifestations

The Holy Spirit can give any gift to any believer at a specific moment to meet a specific need.

Referred to as:

• "manifestation of the Spirit"
• “Spirit coming upon you”
• “ Being filled with the Holy Spirit”

Permanent Gifts

What people call "having the gift" is a consistent history of God choosing to work through someone.

3 Lists of Gifts

In this series, we are going to discuss three different classifications of gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Bible

1. Motivational gifts. Romans 12:6-8
2. Manifestation gifts 1 Corinthians 12:7-12
3. Ministries/function/offices Ephesians 4:11-12

Manifestation Gifts

Gifts of the Spirit

1 Corinthians 12:7-12

7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. 8 For to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, and to another the word of knowledge according to the same Spirit; 9 to another faith by the same Spirit, and to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit, 10 and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. 11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually just as He wills. 12 For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.

1. Word of Wisdom
2. Word of Knowledge
3. Faith
4. Healing
5. Miracles
6. Prophecy
7. Discerning of Spirits
8. Tongues
9. Interpreting tongues

Not all Christians “have these” gifts

• the Spirit distributes them "as He wills" (v. 11)
• The spirit can manifest any of these gifts on any Christians at any given time

The Gift of Wisdom    

AKA the “word of wisdom” or “utterance of wisdom.”  

It is the ability to receive insight into how given knowledge may best be applied to specific needs

• A solution to a problem

The Word of Knowledge

The unique ability to receive knowledge which could only be revealed supernaturally

• Information

Faith

The gift of faith is the unique ability to trust God against all circumstances.

Having a supernatural peace or assurance about some situation

1. Supernatural certainty
2. Unshakable faith during persecution or suffering

Healing

The ability to initiate supernatural intervention of God that cures a physical ailment, disease, or injury without the aid of natural medical means.

Working of Miracles

This describes when the Holy Spirit chooses to "over-ride" the laws of nature, working in or through an available person.

Examples:

• Raising the dead
• Turning water to wine

The Gift of Prophecy

The ability to deliver a message from God to a group or individual

• Sometimes this is foretelling the future

Prophecy is also taken the timeless word of God and teaching it in a timely way

The gift is separate from the office

• Your Spiritual Gifts - Part 3 (Tbe Gift of Prophecy)
• Your Spiritual Gifts - Part 4 (False Prophets)

The Discerning of Spirits

The spiritual gift of discernment is also known as the gift of "discernment of spirits" or "distinguishing between spirits."  The Holy Spirit gives the gift of discernment to enable certain Christians to clearly recognize and distinguish between the influence of God, Satan, the world, and the flesh in a given situation.

A person with this gift can identify the source of a behavior, teaching, or spiritual manifestation.

There are generally four "spirits" they distinguish between:  

• The Holy Spirit: Recognizing when God is truly moving or speaking.  
• The Human Spirit: Sensing when something is just human emotion, ego, or "performance" rather than divine.  
• Demonic Spirits: Identifying the presence of evil, deception, or oppression.  
• The Spirit of Error: Spotting false doctrines or "half-truths" that sound biblical but aren't .  

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Your Spiritual Gifts - Part 5 (The Gift of Discernment)

Speaking In Tongues

To “speak in tongues” means to supernaturally speak in a language that you have never learned

Three Effects/Types of Tongues

The Personal Prayer Language

1 Corinthians 14:2

For the one who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people, but to God; for no one understands, but in his spirit he speaks mysteries.

• No one understands
• In his spirit he speaks mysteries

Private prayer language

The Ministry/Prophetic Gift:

1 Corinthians 14:27-28

27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, it must be by two or at the most three, and each one in turn, and one is to interpret; 28 but if there is no interpreter, he is to keep silent in church; and have him speak to himself and to God.

This is a message meant for a congregation that requires an interpreter.

The fact that Paul tells people not to speak in tongues at certain time implies that they have the ability to do it at will

This is God speaking to Christians

The Universal Tongue (Xenoglossia)

Acts 2:1-12 

1 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. 2 And suddenly a noise like a violent rushing wind came from heaven, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. 3 And tongues that looked like fire appeared to them, distributing themselves, and a tongue rested on each one of them. 4 And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with different tongues, as the Spirit was giving them the ability to speak out. 5 Now there were Jews residing in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven. 6 And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together and they were bewildered, because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language. 7 They were amazed and astonished, saying, “Why, are not all these who are speaking Galileans? 8 “And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born? 9 “Parthians, Medes, and Elamites, and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea, and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, 10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya around Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes, 11 Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our own tongues of the mighty deeds of God.” 12 And they all continued in amazement and great perplexity, saying to one another, “What does this mean?”

• A tongue landed on each of them
• We each hear them in our own language
• More languages than disciples

This is the miraculous ability to speak in a manner that everyone who hears it understands it in their own dialect

1 Corinthians 13:1

If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Perhaps the tongue of angels is the universal tongue. The word “Angel” means “messenger”. The assignment of angels is to communicate with humans of all nations. So it would make sense that instead of switching languages for each nation that they have one supernatural language that all humans can understand.

References

Previous Lessons:

• Your Skills and Talents
• Your Spiritual Gifts
• Your Spiritual Gifts - Part 2
• Your Spiritual Gifts - Part 3 (Tbe Gift of Prophecy)
• Your Spiritual Gifts - Part 4 (False Prophets)
• Your Spiritual Gifts - Part 5 (The Gift of Discernment)
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spiritual gifts, #4: Discovering your spiritual gifts: sign gifts

Mark Driscoll ministries

Extra

Tongues

1 Corinthians 14:21-22^

21 In the Law it is written: “BY MEN OF STRANGE TONGUES AND BY THE LIPS OF STRANGERS I WILL SPEAK TO THIS PEOPLE, AND EVEN SO THEY WILL NOT LISTEN TO ME,” says the Lord. 22 So then, tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe but to unbelievers; but prophecy is not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

Mark 16:15-18

15And He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16The one who has believed and has been baptized will be saved; but the one who has not believed will be condemned. 17These signs will accompany those who have believed: in My name they will cast out demons, they will speak with new tongues; 18they will pick up serpents, and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not harm them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Acts 8:14-24

Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, 15 who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. 16 For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

18 And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, 19 saying, "Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit."

20 But Peter said to him, "Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! 21 You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. 22 Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. 23 For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity."

• What was wrong with Simon wanting to attain the ability to infuse the Holy Spirit into someone

• Because it was for his own benefit

• When did people receive the Holy Spirit at the time?

• either immediately when they were baptised or when someone prayed for them

Some people receive their gifts when they accept Christ.  Some receive when they get prayed over.