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Palette of Gifts
Please open your Bibles to .
Read I Peter 4:10-11
Since the start of this year we have been going through the gifts.
And this text is called by some, the best definition and best explanation of spiritual gifts in the New Testament.
Please open your Bibles to .
A couple years ago, Amanda and I went to a painting store.
And this text is called by some, the best definition and best explanation of spiritual gifts in the New Testament.
The two of us, worked together on a picture of the Eiffel Tower.
She had one side of it, and I had the other side of it.
We each painted our own canvas, and when they are combined they make this nice picture of a Paris landscape with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
Husbands, this is a neat thing to do with your wives if you are ever looking for an idea for a date night.
It doesn’t mean it was easy though.
I’m not a very good artist.
I still have a hard time coloring between the lines.
And when we painted this, we had to mix our own colors.
So you put little dollops of paint on your palette, then you have to mix them together to get your desired color.
So for example, if you want grey:
You get some white.
Mix in just a dash of black, and it now becomes grey.
Need it darker?
Put more black in it.
What made this challenging is the two of us were painting a picture that had to be combined to look continuous.
Her grey had to match my grey.
So in order to get our colors the same, we had to do some experimenting.
Each color was a unique combination of multiple and varied colors to get the preferred color.
We’ve seen that the Lord is building the church.
And in His building of the church, the Lord has a palette of colors, or a palette of gifts in His hand.
At the end of verse 10, it says that we are stewards of God’s varied grace.
So in regards to the local church, each church is different, each church has different strengths, and different make ups.
And the way God designs the church is to have a palette of gifts.
Each of you are a color in His palette.
He brings you to the church for a purpose.
You are here, because God is making a picture out of you, or to use the language of , you are His Workmanship that He has planned beforehand..
He takes a dab of:
Preaching
Helps
Serving
Encouragement
Resulting in each local church being unique.
Applies them to the canvas called Southwest Christian Church and makes this beautiful picture.
But then even the individual colors are unique.
The individual members, the individual Christians in the church are unique.
You are unique.
It’s helpful to know what color you are on His palette.
It’s helpful to know what makes up your color.
Or to be more specific, what your gifts are.
Verse 10 begins by saying, “As each has received a gift ...”
As a Christian, the moment you become a Christian, the Holy Spirit enters into you.
Your heart is changed.
Your love for God is changed.
And the Spirit uniquely gifts you.
But here’s what’s really neat, you are a unique color on His palette.
Your gift is unique.
In order to get the color grey, you mix black and white.
In order to get the color green, you mix blue and yellow.
You may be a green.
So you’ve got some blue and yellow in you.
You may be an orange.
So you’ve got some yellow and red in you.
And when it comes to your gifts there is a unique combination of gifts that make you … you.
This past week, the Elders were at the Shepherd’s Conference at Grace Community Church, up in LA.
We heard great preaching all week.
And it was exhausting.
We got to hear John MacArthur preach.
Then Steve Lawson.
Then Al Mohler.
Art Azurdia
Mark Devers.
All these great preachers.
Gifted in preaching.
But unique.
MacArthur is not Mohler who is not Lawson who is not Devers.
They are unique colors on the Lord’s palette.
Your unique experiences, coupled with your gifts make you a unique shade that this church needs.
God has created you, God has directed you, God has gifted you so that you are the exact color that He desires for the painting that He calls Southwest Christian Church.
says, “But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.”
As I say all this.
I talk about your uniqueness, and how the Holy Spirit has gifted you, some of you may think I’m talking about someone else.
Resist the urge of humble pride.
Humble pride is where you pretend to be humble.
“Oh I’m not good at anything.”
“Oh, I’m useless.”
Or, “The Lord has no need of me.”
That’s not humility, especially when it comes to the Lord’s church.
You are on His palette.
He has a reason for you being on it.
It’s not humility, it’s humble pride, because you are saying God was wrong when He chose you, gifted you, or decided to use you.
Who are you to question God’s intentions or purposes?
says, “Can I not, O house of Israel, deal with you as this potter does?” declares the Lord.
“Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel.”
So if God wants to use a sinful piece of clay like you for His noble purposes, He can do that.
Because He’s God.
Instead rejoice that he has taken a color that might have been deemed useless, outdated and ugly, and has a purpose to use you in His beautiful church.
Knowing that you have been gifted, then we need to become Bold Stewards.
Over the summer, when we go cook for the youth at youth camp we have to hire house sitters.
We hire a couple of people to stay in our house and babysit our animals.
They come over before we leave and we show them around.
We show them how the TV works.
We carefully lay out 4-5 remote controls and say you have to push this button on this remote.
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