Our Statement about Doctrine:
- In our beliefs, we have .
- In our beliefs, we have .
- In our beliefs, we have .
Three Views of the Gifts:
- First, there is the position:
1 Corinthians 13:8-10 (ESV) – Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
- The position.
- Pentecostal view of the continuance position
- The charismatic view of the continuance position:
- The “open but cautious” or the “modified” position.
SO, Paul teaches the Church in Corinth (and us)…
- Prophesying is to be more than the gift of tongues. (1-12)
- Tongues…
- Are to not to mankind.
- Are in the Spirit, not by mankind.
- Only builds up the one .
- Does not benefit the .
- Must be .
- Prophecy…
- Speaks to the for their upbuilding, encouragement, and consolation.
- Builds up the .
- Brings , knowledge and teaching.
- Is preferred over tongues in the .
- Questions to Consider about Tongues (vs. 13-25)
- Are there different kinds of tongues?
- languages.
- languages
- utterances.
- What is the of tongues?
- Build up .
- Sign to .
Isaiah 28:11-12 (ESV) – For by people of strange lips and with a foreign tongue the Lord will speak to this people, to whom he has said, “This is rest; give rest to the weary; and this is repose”; yet they would not hear.
Big Thought: Pursue the gifts and serving that builds up the body of Christ.
- The Church is through an gathering.
- We accomplish the gathering through both group and groups.
- What about ?
The context is declaring truth from God to the gathering. The application is that only men are to be the pastor or preacher in the gathering.
1 Timothy 2:11-14 (ESV) – Let a woman learn quietly with all submissiveness. I do not permit a woman to teach or to exercise authority over a man; rather, she is to remain quiet. For Adam was formed first, then Eve; and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
- Desire to .