Do you have the right attitude to use your Spiritual gifts
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9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.
Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good
Having the right attitude to use your spiritual gifts
Having the right attitude to use your spiritual gifts
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Intro:
Love is the circulatory system of the spiritual body, which enables all the members to function in a healthy, harmonious way[1]
Christians are to use their Spiritual gifts in Love.
The Love that the Holy Spirit put in you at your salvation.
the list of gifts
These grace gifts are given to the believer to build up the body of Christ.
Why does God give believers these gifts?
11 And He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as evangelists, and some as pastors and teachers,
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;
12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ;[2]
Paul lays out the right attitudes needed to use your gifts in the Church.
Paul lays out the right attitudes needed to use your gifts in the Church.
How to use your gifts with the right attitude
I. Love must be without Hypocrisy
I. Love must be without Hypocrisy
9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.
6 in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in genuine love,
Love is to be real
How are our grace gifts shown?
a. By Loving without being two-faced
a. By Loving without being two-faced
Stop faking it my friend. If you have a gift from God and you are using it to one up a person or using it to make you look more important.
You are action like the Church at Corinth that Paul was dealing with in
1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Stop wearing two different masks. One at home and a different mask at church.
How to love without hypocrisy.
b. By pushing away from evil
b. By pushing away from evil
“cling and jerk” these are weightlifting term.
Push out and cling to.
Love doesn’t not hold on to evil it pushes it out
Love holds on to what is good. Love clings to good.
The believer should always be identified with good things rather than shady or questionable practices.[4]
‘Love is not genuine when it leads a person to do something evil or to avoid doing what is right—as defined by God in his Word’.31[5]
c. By clinging to what is good
c. By clinging to what is good
What is it like to cling to something?
Today in the football world we see players wearing sticky gloves. These gloves allow the receiver to catch the football with one hand.
In the Lord Jesus uses it in relation to a man’s leaving his father and mother and being joined to his wife.[6]
For Paul, the ‘good’ is essentially what is pleasing to God (cf. 12:2) but includes doing what is right in the in the eyes of the authorities (13:3; ), doing good to one’s neighbors and to all people (15:2; ; ), and returning good for evil (12:21). Believers, he says also, are to be given to good works (; ; ; ; ).[7]
d. Many Christian lack love and patience
d. Many Christian lack love and patience
e. They become offensive using their gifts
Unfortunately, some believers have enemies because they lack love and patience, and not because they are faithful in their witness. There is a difference between sharing in “the offense of the cross” (; ) and being an offensive Christian![8]
f. When you get offended,STOP don’t return evil for evil.
f. When you get offended,STOP don’t return evil for evil.
g. The Christian is to return good for evil.
g. The Christian is to return good for evil.
“BUT IF YOUR ENEMY IS HUNGRY, FEED HIM, AND IF HE IS THIRSTY, GIVE HIM A DRINK; FOR IN SO DOING YOU WILL HEAP BURNING COALS ON HIS HEAD.”
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20 “But if your enemy is hungry, feed him, and if he is thirsty, give him a drink; for in so doing you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Look at Christs words on the matter of loving your enemies in
44 “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,
45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
46 “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
47 “If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?
48 “Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
As children of God, we must live on the highest level—returning good for evil. Anyone can return good for good and evil for evil. The only way to overcome evil is with good. If we return evil for evil, we only add fuel to the fire. And even if our enemy is not converted, we have still experienced the love of God in our own hearts and have grown in grace.[9]
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.
16 Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.
17 Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.
18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with all men.
Using you gift from God will not always be accepted.
There could be some people that bounce of you because of you are growing closer to God by using your gift.
Jesus and gave you the answers. Here in
How to use your gifts with the right attitude
II. Being devoted to one another in love.
II. Being devoted to one another in love.
10 Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor;
11 not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord;
‘Love’ here translates philadelphia[10]
How are Christians to be Devoted:
How are Christians to be Devoted:
φιλόστοργος philóstorgos; gen. philostórgou, masc.–fem., neut. philóstorgon, adj. from phílos (5384), a friend, and storgḗ (n.f.), a natural family love or tender affection. [11]
φιλόστοργος philóstorgos; gen. philostórgou, masc.–fem., neut. philóstorgon, adj. from phílos (5384), a friend, and storgḗ (n.f.), a natural family love or tender affection. [11]
How are we to be devoted to one another?
a. By loving people like you would love your family.
a. By loving people like you would love your family.
This could be a problem for some of you to get into today. If you hate your family.
Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations 2951 The Clerk of Waldorf-Astoria
2951 The Clerk of Waldorf-Astoria
In the city of Philadelphia there was a little third-class hotel. Into it one night there came two tired elderly people. They went up to the night clerk and the husband pleadingly said, “Mister, please don’t tell us you don’t have a room. My wife and I have been all over the city looking for a place to stay. We did not know about the big conventions that are here. The hotels at which we usually stay are all full. We’re dead tired and it’s after mid night. Please don’t tell us you don’t have a place where we can sleep.”
The clerk looked at them a long moment and then answered, “Well, I don’t have a single room except my own. I work at night and sleep in the daytime. It’s not as nice as the other rooms, but it’s clean, and I’ll be happy for you to be my guests for tonight.”
The wife said, “God bless you, young man.”
The next morning at the breakfast table, the couple sent the waiter to tell the night clerk they wanted to see him on very important business. The night clerk went in, recognized the two people, sat down at the table and said he hoped they had had a good night’s sleep. They thanked him most sincerely. Then the husband astounded the clerk with this statement, “You are too fine a hotel man to stay in a hotel like this. How would you like for me to build a big, beautiful, luxurious hotel in the city of New York and make you general manager?”
The clerk didn’t know what to say. He thought there might be something wrong with their minds. He finally stammered, “It sounds wonderful.” His guest then introduced himself. “I’m John Jacob Astor.” So, the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was built, and the night clerk became, in the years to follow, the best-known hotel man in the world.
In 1976, the 47-story Waldorf-Astoria in New York City served three-quarters of a million guests in its 1,900 rooms.
b. By giving preference to one another
b. By giving preference to one another
c. By honoring those you are serving
c. By honoring those you are serving
People are very important. Stop treating people like they are second class unworthy of your love.
[1] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 555.
[2] New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), .
[3] New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), .
[4] J. Vernon McGee, Thru the Bible Commentary, electronic ed., vol. 4 (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1997), 732.
31 Moo, Romans, 776.
[5] Colin G. Kruse, Paul’s Letter to the Romans, ed. D. A. Carson, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Cambridge, U.K.; Nottingham, England; Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Apollos, 2012), 475.
[6] Colin G. Kruse, Paul’s Letter to the Romans, ed. D. A. Carson, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Cambridge, U.K.; Nottingham, England; Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Apollos, 2012), 475.
[7] Colin G. Kruse, Paul’s Letter to the Romans, ed. D. A. Carson, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Cambridge, U.K.; Nottingham, England; Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Apollos, 2012), 475.
[8] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 556.
[9] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 556.
[10] Colin G. Kruse, Paul’s Letter to the Romans, ed. D. A. Carson, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Cambridge, U.K.; Nottingham, England; Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Apollos, 2012), 475.
gen (genitive)
[11] Spiros Zodhiates, The Complete Word Study Dictionary: New Testament (Chattanooga, TN: AMG Publishers, 2000).