The Gift of Mercy Romans 12:8 “…he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness” is the last of the spiritual gifts mentioned by Paul in this text. It has been said that Judgment is when God gives you exactly what you deserve. Mercy is when He doesn’t give you what you...
The Gift of Ruling Romans 12:8 Concerning the gift of ruling Paul said, “he that ruleth, with diligence”. We are to be diligent at whatsoever God has put us in charge of. [Rom.13:1-7] “…the powers that be are ordained of God.” So if you have authority over anything in...
The Gift of Giving Romans 12:8 The next Spiritual gift Paul mentions in our text is giving. The Lord said “it is more blessed to give than receive”, [Acts.20:35]. You will never understand this until you become a giver. Paul also said that a man shouldn’t eat unless he...
The Gifts of Teaching and Exhortation Romans 12:7-8 Teaching pertains to imparting knowledge, understanding or truth. Exhortation is encouraging action on the truth. Both of these are defined as gifts by the Apostle Paul. Both are extremely valuable to a Christian. Your Bible is sometimes hard to understand [2Pet.3:15-16]...
The Gift of “Ministry” Romans 12:7 The Gift of “Ministry” is found in a list that Paul instructs us on in the book of Romans. To this point we have studied the list of gifts found in 1 Corinthians 12, which are “sign” gifts. In Romans 12 we see...
Don’t Neglect Your Spiritual Gift (Part Seven – tongues) The Gift of “divers kinds of tongues” and “the interpretation of tongues” 1 Cor. 12: 10 In this lesson we are going to look in the Bible at “tongues”. We will look at two different ways “tongues are defined in...
The Gift of discerning of spirits 1 Cor. 12:10 The next Spiritual Gift in our passage is the “discerning of spirits”. Simply stated: the ability to know whether a thing is from the Lord or not. This is a very valuable gift in your Christian life. We all need...
The Gift of Prophecy 1 Cor. 12:10 The next gift listed in First Corinthians chapter twelve is “miracles”, which is a sign gift and not present in the church today just as “healing” was discussed in out last lesson. In this lesson we will look at the “gift of...
The Gift of Healing 1 Cor.12:9 The Spiritual gift of healing is not present in the church today. It was given as a sign to Israel to believe or trust in God. Let us look at healing in the Bible and see the reason for and the progression of....
Don’t Neglect Your Spiritual Gift (Part Three) The Gift of Faith 1 Cor. 12:9 The next Spiritual Gift mentioned in 1 Corinthians is “The Gift of Faith”. So in this lesson we will deal with what the Bible tells us about faith in general and just what this “gift of...
