INTRODUCTION Please read I Corinthians 12:1-11 We are going to begin to move into THE REALM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT’S GIFTS OF KNOWING that He desires to give to SPIRIT-FILLED BELIEVERS, so that they will operate in the ministry of the church inside and out. They are: a. THE GIFT OF DISCERNMENT/DISTINGUISHING OF SPIRITS! (I […]
I cannot overstate the need of the Holy Spirit in our lives and in the church of Jesus Christ. After the Holy Spirit came upon the believers in the upper room, it was a far better place than the highest spired church is without the Holy Spirit. And there are churches without the Holy Spirit […]
Last time we were introduced to the Person of the Trinity Who has been given a minor role in much of the church throughout the ages. It can be said of many well-known persons when they are introduced to an audience, “The man I am about to introduce to you really needs no introduction.” Tragic […]
I would very much like all of you to meet a very close and dear friend of mind. I was personally introduced to Him by some brothers and sisters in Christ way back in 1972. He has been with me ever since! You might say that we are best friends and inseparable. We read of […]
It could be put in many other ways – Untying The Tragically Tied – Untwisting The Tightly Twisted – Undoing The Dreadfully Done – Disengaging The Wrongfully Engaged – Untangling The Terribly Tangled. What then has happened that words such as those above have to be spoken or written? Simply put, they are the exact […]
God is the ultimate and the quintessential Giver. He is “The Giving God.” It is the nature of God to give. Nobody comes close to giving like God gives! Nobody comes close to giving as much as God gives. Nobody comes close to the continuance of giving as God continues to give. He is the […]
9. THE SCAFFOLDING THEORY (Continued From November, 2008 Whole Truth Help) The third reason that my boyhood background gave for the contention that the gifts of the Holy Spirit no longer exist today is that they were temporary scaffolding. That is about as accurately as I can state it. It wasn’t expressed that literally, but […]
13. HOLY SPIRIT’S GIFTS – ESSENTIAL BUILDING TOOLS The “Scaffolding Theory” is bogus for another reason. Secondly, because the Divine Builder and His fellow laborers are still busy building Christ’s Church, the supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit are not now and never have been temporary scaffolding, but rather are the ongoing essential tools of […]
It is bad enough that the Holy Spirit in church history was characterized as a “Ghost” – as in the “Holy Ghost.” I remember hearing as a boy the preacher referring to Him as the “Holy Ghost,” and I came down with a terminal case of the “Unholy Spooks” about the third person of the […]
I do not have the space to illustrate all of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit. Just a few examples are in order. I hope and pray that you will find them as inspirational and helpful as I do. Biblical Christianity has, is and always will be made up of Divine truth and miracle. If […]