Number 5 Flashcards
What is the definition of spiritual gift
a supernatural ability given by Christ through the Holy Spirit to the believer at the moment of his salvation.
Background of false Spiritual Gifts…the Corinthians, who were once led away by these false experiences, were now bringing them into the church and mistaking them for the work of the Holy Spirit
The temple of Aphrodite (a fertility goddess) at Corinth, with its 1000 ritual priestesses or prostitutes, was dedicated to the Greek form of Semerimus.
Two key rituals practiced by the Corinthian mystery religions was Ecstasy and Enthusiasm
What is Ecstasy?
A false Spiritual gift, the worshipper experienced an exhilarating feeling of closeness, union, and oneness with their god and a practice called “glossei” or speaking in false tongues, an estatic babel which they felt was a heavenly prayer language, the language of gods, above mere human speech.
What is Enthusiasm?
A false Spiritual Gift which included mantric formulas (the repetition of a word, phrase, or song) which worked adherents into a hypnotic trancelike state where they experienced supposed visitations from their false deity (or demon), including revelatory and prophetic visions and dreams.
Paul’s message to the Corinthians was obviously not that all religious experiences, tongues, revelations. or visions were false.
TRUE
Paul’s message was that the simple fact that a person has had any of the experiences of tongues, revelations, etc does not automatically guarantee that the experience was from God, even if the person is a Christian. We are commanded to ___ ___ ___
Try the Spirits
____, not ____ is the test of truth.
Scripture, Experience
All the different Spiritual gifts have one source, which is ?
The Holy Spirit
Paul corrects the Corinthians misconception that the possession of certain spiritual gifts, especially the more showy supernatural ones and in particular tongues, made you more spiritual than those possessing Lesser service gifts.
TRUE
The Holy Spirit gives ____________ believer spiritual gifts
every
The reason God gives Spiritual gifts is for the _____ profit or ______ of the church as the Body of Christ and thereby to ______God.
corporate, edification, glorify
The Holy Spirit gives different gifts to ____________ believers.
different
There is no gift that _____ believers should seek and no Christian will receive ____ the Spiritual gifts.
All, All
The ________ _________, not the believer, determines which gifts will be given to each Christian.
Holy Spirit
We are also to serve together in ________ as one body, loving and caring for one another.
Unity
Each believer must use our gift or out entire ______ will suffer.
Church
No believer should _____ the gifts of others for every one has vital role in the church.
envy
No believer should think their gift is the ____ or ____ important.
most, least
We are to use our gift in ______ to edify others, not edify or exalt ourselves
love
We are not to seek a ______ more ______ gift.
single, prominent
We are not to serve the Lord and others ___________ in the area of our gift, but should rather have a caring concern for others.
only
Spiritual Gifts fall into _____ categories
three
1st category - Certain gifts were given to convey new ____________ and divine information in order to complete the New Testament
Revelation
2nd category - Certain gifts were given to be miraculous ____gifts to confirm the ______gifts and reveal the ______ and authority of the Apostles and leaders of the early church as the true spokesmen of God and authors of Scripture
sign, Revelatory, identity
3rd category - Certain gifts were given as __________________Gifts
Service
The supernatural enablement to heal anyone of any ailment, illness, or injury at will (including death), in response to a word or touch, with or without faith on the part of the one being healed.
Healings
The gift of __________ was temporary, but the miracle of ______ in answer to prayer was not.
healing, healing
God’s method for healing today is _______
Prayer
The teaching that the gift of healings passed in no way denies God’s _________to heal today. it simply means that you must no more go through a faith healer for healing than you must go through a priest for confession and forgiveness.
power
There are _____ views on the nature of the gift of Tongues
two
The first view on the gift of Tongues. The Heavenly ___________Language view.
Prayer,
this view see tongues as ecstatic, angelic, heavenly utterances, rather than human language.
The second view on the gift of Tongues, The _______ _______Languages view
Unknown Human -which our instructor holds this view. It teaches that Bible Tongue were the supernatural ability to suddenly be able to speak the message of God in a human language of which the speaker had no prior understanding.
The primary purpose of Tongues was therefore to be a Sign of (what?)____________ upon (Who?)_______ Israel, which judgement took place in (When?) AD_____
Judgement, Unbelieving Israel, AD 70.
_____ gifts are to be used to edify others
ALL
No more than ____ or at the most _____ are to speak in tongues in a service
2, 3
No two people are to speak in tongues or prophecy at the same _____
time
No one is to speak in tongues without an ____________
Interpreter
Gifts are to be _______ and ___________ by Scripture, not accepted without discernment.
judged and examined
Gifts are to be under _______________
control
Gifts are not to cause _______ or _______ in the Church Services
confusion, chaos
__________ are not to speak in the church in tongues or prophecy or in teaching or preaching
Women
Those claiming to be spiritual must _____ their gifts by _______ and submit themselves to these limits.
test, Scripture
1 Corinthians 13:8 indicates that the __________ and __________gifts would cease with the coming of that which is perfect and that the instructor’s view of that which is perfect is the ________
Revelatory and sign gifts, Bible
