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God’s Imprint on Our Lives
Fearfully &
Wonderfully Made
“For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and
wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.”
Psalm 139:13-14
“Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good….All these are
empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as He wills. ”
1 Corinthians 12:7,11
…we were made for God’s glory, pleasure & purpose
Review
 We have taken a closer look at the
following spiritual gifts
Healing
Knowledge
Mercy
Service/Helps
The Gift of Teaching
 The gift of teaching is the God-given ability to understand and
communicate biblical truth in a clear and relevant manner so that
there is understanding and application. The gift of teaching carries
a heavy responsibility in the church to be stewards of God’s Word.
 The Greek word for those
with the spiritual gift of
teaching is “didaskalos”.
From the root of this word
we get our English word,
“didactic.” The word
“didasko” means to teach,
instruct, instill doctrine,
explain, and expound.
Knowing God & Revealing Him
 Those with the spiritual gift of teaching love to study the Word of
God for extended periods of time.
 They consume the Scriptures as food for
their hearts, souls and minds with the
expressed purpose of knowing Him and
then making Him known to others.
 They want to know what God has
revealed of Himself and what He
requires of us as people created in His
image.
 They take great joy and satisfaction in
seeing others learn and apply the
truth of God’s Word to their lives.
Upholding God’s Word in Truth
 The Holy Spirit gives certain people the spiritual gift of teaching so
that they would help the church fulfill her ministry as “a pillar and
buttress of the truth” (1 Timothy 3:15).
 Without this gift, the church would
quickly fall into error and
sin. Teachers are there to make sure
that doesn’t happen. They are upset
when Scripture is abused and used
out of context or with ill intent.
 They love the truth and speak
the truth in love. They will never
hide or withhold it.
 The effect of their ministry is the upholding of God’s Word and the
growth and maturity of His Bride until the day of His return.
Do you have the gift of Teaching?
Do you enjoy studying and researching?
Do you enjoy imparting biblical truth to others?
Do others come to you for insight into Scripture?
When you teach, do people "get it"?
When you see someone confused in their understanding of the Bible
do you feel a responsibility to speak to them about it?
Do you enjoy speaking to various sizes of groups about biblical issues
you have strong convictions about?
Those in Scripture gifted with Giving:
 Aquila and Priscilla (Acts 18:26)
 Paul
 Elders/Pastors (1 Tim. 3:2; 5:17)
 Timothy (1 Tim. 4:11,13; 6:2)
 The Godly women (Titus 2:2-4)
The Gift of Pastoring/Shepherding
 The gift of pastoring is God’s calling and equipping to be responsible
for spiritually caring for, protecting, guiding, and feeding a group of
believers entrusted to one's care. In another sense, there is a pastoral
gift also commonly known as shepherding or biblical counseling.
 These people protect, guide, counsel, and
disciple other people. Like the gift of teaching,
pastoring carries a heavy responsibility in the
church to provide watch-care and spiritual
leading of God’s children.
 The Greek word for pastor
is “Poimen” and simply
means shepherd,
herdsman or overseer.
Servants to God’s Bride
 The person with a pastoral gifting has a love for people that compels
them to meet with people to care for them and to guide them with
biblical instruction. People with this gift find great joy in seeing
people mature in their faith and overcome besetting sin and
discouragement.
 They are responsible for the
spiritual development and
personal nurturing of their flock.
 Pastors are first and foremost
servants. They are servants of
God and servants of His bride,
the church.
 A person with the gift of Pastor will express that gift differently based
upon their God-given personality. You may find that your pastor may
be one or more of the following expressions of the pastoral gift.
Different “Flavors” of Pastors
 Different “Flavors” of Pastors
 Administrative Pastor: Called to focus their service upon the systems &
structures of ministry; possessing strong administrative & planning abilities
 Discipleship Pastor: Concerned about the Spiritual Formation of the
people within their lives. They value working with people at every
stage of spiritual development from Seeker to Leader.
 Evangelistic Pastor: Has the gift of Evangelism
as well as Pastor. The Evangelism Pastor is
passionate about ministry to spiritual Seekers.
 Nurturing Pastor: Typically, Nurturing Pastors
prefer a one-on-one ministry. Visiting the sick,
shut-ins, caring for a small group, or
comforting those who suffer are all classic
functions of a Nurturing Pastor.
 Teaching Pastor: Prefer to study the Word of
God and expound it for others within the body.
Pastor-Teacher
 The goal of the pastor is to reveal the glory of God in Christ by the
power of the Holy Spirit to a people who need God’s grace for
life. The primary way the pastor will do this is by teaching the Word
of God to the church.
 The gift of pastor is
directly linked to the gift
of teaching in Ephesians
4:11 and elsewhere. In
fact, this gift could be
called the gift of pastorteacher.
 The ability to teach the Scriptures is also one of the many requirements
of being an overseer (1 Timothy 3:1-7; Titus 1:6-9). By teaching the
Scriptures to the church, the pastor feeds the “sheep” of God.
Do you have the gift of Pastoring?
 Do you have a deep love for people; compelling you to care for
them?
 Do you enjoy meeting with people, listening to their life story and
provide them biblical counsel?
 When you hear that someone is hurting is your first instinct to try
and meet with them to be of help?
 Are you able to point out sin and folly in someone's life in a loving
way that they receive as helpful?
 Do you enjoy meeting helping Believers to mature in their faith?
 Do people pursue you for counsel and instruction?
Those in Scripture gifted with Giving:
 Timothy
 Paul
 James
 Silas
The Gift of Prophesy
 The gift of prophesy is given to those for whom the Holy Spirit Spirit
empowers to receive revelations and speak forth God’s message to
His people.
 The ability to communicate
divine messages may take the
form of Pastoral Preaching,
Word of Knowledge, or
Pronouncing God’s Plans &
Purposes. The words of a
Prophet will always be
supported by the principles
and teachings of Scripture
already given to us.
 The Greek word for prophesy is “prophetes” - the forth-telling of the
will of God; 'pro‘ = forth; 'phemi‘ = to speak.
Prophets – Purveyors of Truth, Critics of
Sin, Pronouncers of God’s Actions
 Depending upon the personality type and unique gift mix,
the gift of Prophecy may be exhibited as follows:
 Pronouncing God’s Actions With the completion of the New Testament
canon, prophesying changed from declaring new revelation to declaring
the completed revelation God has already given.
 Pastoral Preaching: Teaching Pastors prefer to study and expound
the Word of God for correcting and reproving others within the
body in accordance with Scripture. 2 Timothy 4:2-3
 Word of Knowledge: The gift of Knowledge is a special insight given by
God regarding God’s will applied to a particular circumstance; Standing
firm on God’s truths; able to discern character, motivation, & hypocrisy.
 Exposing Sin: Prophets might be considered the “trumpets” of the Body
of Christ who sound the alarm in the face of sin and compromise.
Sola Scriptura
 Christians are to be very wary of those who claim to have a “new”
message from God. It is one thing to say, “I had an interesting dream
last night.” However, it is quite another matter to say, “God gave me
a dream last night, and you must obey it.” No utterance of man
should be considered equal to or above the written Word. We must
hold to the Word that God has already given and commit ourselves
to sola scriptura — Scripture alone.
 Sola scriptura (Latin) means that Scripture
Alone is authoritative for the faith and
practice of the Christian. The Bible is
complete, authoritative, and true. “All
Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for
teaching, rebuking, correcting and training
in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16). Sola
scriptura was the rallying cry of the
Protestant Reformation.
The Gift of Tongues
 The gift of tongues is given by the Holy Spirit to those who are called
to speak in a language not previously learned so that believers may
be encouraged or unbelievers can hear God's message in their own
language for the edification of the body of Christ.
 The gift of Tongues has three purposes within the assembly of
Christ Followers:
1. To be used during periods of prayer, allowing the holy Spirit to pray
through the Christ Follower when he/she does not know how to pray
(Romans 6:26, 27);
2. To receive divine messages from God for the benefit of the assembly of
Christ Followers understanding that someone with the gift of
Interpretation of Tongues must be present to interpret (1 Corinthians
12:10, 28 and 1 Corinthians 14:13-19);
3. The final purpose of tongues is to enable a person to speak an
unlearned language for the purposes of evangelism (Acts 2:1-13).
Un-Learned Languages to Edify & Glorify
 The first occurrence of speaking in tongues occurred on the day of
Pentecost in Acts 2:1-4. The apostles went out and shared the gospel
with the crowds, speaking to them in their own languages: “We hear
them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” (Acts 2:11).
 The Greek word translated
tongues literally means
“languages.” Therefore, the gift
of tongues is speaking in a
language a person does not
know in order to minister to
someone who does speak or can
interpret that language.
 Tongues is still a viable Gift of the Holy Spirit. Scripture does not
conclusively assert that the gift of speaking in tongues has ceased.
A Message from God
 In 1 Corinthians chapters 12–14, Paul discusses miraculous gifts,
saying, “Now, brothers, if I come to you and speak in tongues, what
good will I be to you, unless I bring you some revelation or
knowledge or prophecy or word of instruction?” (1 Corinthians 14:6).
 According to the apostle Paul,
and in agreement with the
tongues described in Acts,
speaking in tongues is valuable
to the one hearing God’s
message in his or her own
language, but in the context of
the assembled body of Christ, it
must be interpreted/translated
to edify (build up, encourage,
instruct) the Church.
Intelligible Communication
with Order & Purpose
 Tongues is a real and intelligible language (1 Corinthians 14:10). It
would be for the purpose of communicating God's Word with a
person of another language (Acts 2:6-12).
 It would be in agreement with the
command God gave through the
apostle Paul, “If anyone speaks in a
tongue, two—or at the most three—
should speak, one at a time, and
someone must interpret. If there is
no interpreter, the speaker should
keep quiet in the church and speak
to himself and God” (1 Corinthians
14:27-28).
 It would also be in accordance with 1 Corinthians 14:33, “For God is not
the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.”
The Gift of Interpretation of Tongues
 Along with the gift of speaking in tongues, another spiritual gift
mentioned in the list found in 1 Corinthians 12:10 is the gift of
interpreting tongues. The gift of interpretation of tongues is given by
the Holy Spirit to translate the message of someone who has spoken in
tongues.
 The gift of interpreting tongues is
always alongside the gift of speaking
in tongues. It is a separate gift, but it
is always used in conjunction with the
gift of speaking in tongues.
 1 Corinthians 14:
Everyone should not be speaking in tongues at one time.
Speaking in tongues must be for edification.
If tongues are exercised there must be two to three interpreters.
Interpret that All May Understand
 A person with the gift of interpreting tongues could understand
what a tongues-speaker was saying even though he did not know
the language that was being spoken. This is what distinguishes the
spiritual gift from the natural gift of being able to understand and
speak a variety of languages.
 The tongues interpreter would then communicate the message of
the tongues speaker to everyone else, so all could understand and
benefit from the truth being spoken.
What is greater? 1 Cor. 13
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a
resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom
all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do
not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body
to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It
does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no
record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always
protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will
be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we
prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I
was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I
became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a
reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I
shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.