Spiritual gifts

The facts:

1. Now concerning the spiritual

2. , brethren,

3. I do not want you to be not knowing.

What is Paul's topic? To whom is he speaking? What strange possibility does he introduce regarding his topic?

1. You know that when you were pagans you were led astray to mute idols, however you were led.

1. According to Paul what inevitably happens to pagans?

2. Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God can say, "Jesus is accursed";

2. What does Paul insist is impossible if one is speaking by the Spirit of God?

3. and no one can (has the power to) say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

3. What does He say is it is impossible to do except by the Holy Spirit?

Are we talking pronunciation of words here?

Find three sets of contrasts.

Spiritual gifts

Ignorance	Knowledge
paganism	belief
led astray to mute idols	God who speaks through people
call Jesus cursed	Jesus is Lord

When you're a pagan you find yourself involved in what sort of worship?

But if you're a believer, what kind of worship do you engage in? Just what is it about the functioning of the Spirit that is so different from that of idols? list differences: One God speaks through many people in different ways vs. many idols who don't speak.

How does the knowledge of spiritual gifts bring about the Lordship of Jesus Christ?

How does ignorance of spiritual gifts end in Jesus being cursed by your life? --allow cursed to come out. anywhere in NT (Gal 3:13) If we call ourselves Christians, and believe in Christ but do not manifest spiritual gifts [speak by the Spirit] we are declaring that our God is mute. He has become as useless to us as an idol. In fact, we imply that Jesus not only is not Lord, but we deny the fact that he became a curse for us and imply that He got what He deserved?--cursed is anyone who is hung on a tree)

Why is it that no one speaking by the Spirit of God can say, "Jesus is accursed"? That person is not speaking, God is speaking through them by His Spirit. God does not curse Himself. Therefore since Jesus became a curse for us, only because we were ignorant of spiritual gifts was that ever necessary! If we had always been speaking by the Spirit of God, no curse would ever have come on Jesus.

What did pagans do to Jesus Christ? They hung him on a tree. The pronounced their curse on him. They by their actions declare that the way of loving cooperation is weak and unfit for a God. Here's the beautiful part. He accepted our curse. We are the ones who are really cursed, but He accepted our curse for us

If we are ignorant of sp gifts we are claiming that Jesus was not obedient to the law? He lives in us now, and we act like pagans, we are testifying that the one who lives in us is mute and unable to speak thru us?

If we are ignorant of the spiritual we are starting the process all over that led to the cursing of God's own Son?

Before Jesus can be declared Lord, He must have a people over whom He is Lord. When we understand sp gifts and become a body of believers having the characteristics of unity thru diversity we declare that Jesus is our Lord. There's no other way to do it. We give evidence that way that there is One Spirit in all of us, for we all agree, though we have different functions. The head isn't head of anything unless the parts of the body function as one body. Therefore the Lordship of Christ depends on our functioning together as united people with different gifts. Unless Jesus has this, He is not Lord of anyone. Therefore if we are ignorant of spiritual gifts we prevent Him from being Lord.

Is preventing him from being Lord the same as cursing Him?