 All right, so this is continue from where we stopped So we're looking at how what happens what we are proclaiming when we are partaking in the Lord's table and so one drop the blood of Jesus destroys everything Satan can do The cup we drink is a cup that brings blessings into our life The bread we eat is us sharing the finished work of Christ made available to us So we can expect the Holy Spirit to administer this full blessings of the finished work of the cross into our lives so now This is the importance. This is what we are supposed to be proclaiming While partaking in the Lord's table but probably the Corinthian believers were more like Discussing to each other discussing with each other or talking about things that happened over the week And they were not taking it in an unworthy manner Right now what happens when we are dishonoring the Lord's table? We look at one You know There's sickness Paul himself says there are many among you who are sick and who are dying prematurely because of this right now when we blatantly dishonor what is sacred and And making it a time of feasting with no focus on Examining our own life or what the Lord Jesus did for us We fail to receive the intended blessings that God has Through this through the Lord's table Right, so we must understand God's dealing of judgment as both withdrawal of divine protection God permitting You know the enemy to work in our lives And and and you know now I'm not saying that every sickness is because now maybe some of us You know, we may have some kind of a sickness in our body I'm not saying that all sicknesses because we didn't partake in the Lord's table in the right honorable way No, we may have partaken but what we're doing is when we don't partake in the wrong way. We are In the right way, we are stepping outside the divine protection of God Again, we're making ourselves vulnerable for the enemy Right because it's just like eating food But we're not partaking of it in the right way until we are loving the enemy To engage with his work in our lives so he can bring weakness Weakness in the mind suicidal thoughts depression fear doubt when he can bring sickness he can bring premature death and He can do it, you know the enemy can now God is loving all this. He's permitting it, right? now when we Understand that certain things are going not right. We must understand that hey, maybe I'm Outside the will of God outside the protection of God, right? Now, maybe I'm not in God's will I'm not walking in obedience. There's some things that is why I mean partake in the Lord's table. There needs to be that own self We need to look into our own life God these are the things That I'm doing and I pray that you will lead me so so if we judge ourselves And we walk in obedience. We can avoid these things The Corinthian church was completely out of order first was disobedience What was intended for blessings turned into a curse to them? God permitted these things only so that he Disciplines them and make sure that you know they get back on the right path and do it the right way And we thank God for the Apostle Paul, right? He didn't say, you know Okay partake in the Lord's table. I thought you how to do it do it. No But he brought correction He tried to make the believers understand when we look at the second letter He talks about how, you know He how as believers they were obedient to the instructions that he had given them Right. So he's he's giving them instructions and he's also encouraging them saying Don't when you started off well, you started off good. Why do you want to put yourself outside of? God's protection outside of God's will Doing it is good, but do it in the right way Right and so Paul is bringing discipline that right so as leaders as pastors, especially pastors in a church If you feel that there are people in your church who who are taking it in an unworthy manner Right sit with them talk to them. Have them to understand what it is right Now what you can do is just teach them right something that we do an APC is if somebody wants to partake in What a baptism we teach them. Why is it important? It's just a small Half an hour just just a simple teaching Right and we also very importantly we teach about the Lord's table as well Right. So as believers today, we don't have to feel weakness sickness premature that because of wrongly participating in the Lord's table simply because You and I have learned it You know learn to partake in the Lord's table in the right way Right it is not that God is waiting for the smallest mistake, you know to pour out his judgment on us But rather when we celebrate the Lord's table, we must say God I thank you that you have forgiven my sins now. I'm redeemed. I'm have a right standing before God You know, sometimes I've spoken to many believers where they say, you know, pastor. I've done some of the most Terrible sins. How can I partake of this? How can I partake in the Lord's table? I feel unworthy Yes, that feeling may come because we've just been living in sin, but it's just that opportunity where we can say Because of my unworthiness Christ took up the price for me So when we're partaking, we can take it in confidence Proclaiming those few points right that we talked about so Sin must not cause us to run away from God, but it must cause us to run through God Now all of us, you know, we are weak in the flesh. We will commit sin, right? But we can always go back learn from our mistakes When we partake in the Lord's table Believe and accept and receive the blessings of the cross upon your life Right. So any questions about the Lord's table? Okay, so I'm glad that all of us Are partaking in the right way. So Wherever maybe in your church in a small group, maybe your family when you partake or the partake of it It's just probably just five minutes, right? You can five or ten minutes. You just partake in a worthy manner Self-examine yourself. It's remember what Jesus did and those just as five minutes is so powerful You're just opening your life to the blessings of the cross to just pour out in our lives, right? So praise God we thank God for the cross, right? Let's move into chapter 12 now is interesting This is a wonderful chapter because here we talk about the gifts of the Holy Spirit Right and so pastor has also written a book gifts of the Holy Spirit so you can also read that book and You know learn more and understand more now Paul is going from The Lord's table after correcting them now we see that he's Probably a cool down a bit and he's trying to You know help them to understand the gifts of the Spirit, right? So he's just moving from there because he was quite stern and I you can just make out in his letter It's so beautiful. He it's quite stern now. He's saying, okay We will be weak, but here's what the Holy Spirit has for you, right? And he's just bringing it in a continuation here. So verse 12 Now concerning spiritual gifts brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant You know that you were Gentiles carried away to those dumb idols However, you were led therefore I make known to you that no one speaking of the Spirit of God Calls Jesus a cursed and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord and there are diversities of activities But the same God who works all in all But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one For the prophet of all, right? So let's stop there and we'll and we'll see those gifts of the Spirit After this, right? So the the Greek word spiritual means pneumatic cause Which means non carnal or which means supernatural? So now We're talking about spiritual gifts, right? So there is natural gifts which God has given us And then there's the spiritual gifts Now maybe some of us You know all of us in each each and every person in this world have certain gifts It could be singing dancing music writing speaking Um anything, right? These are all gifts that are naturally Where we have it with us, right? It's inborn leadership is another wonderful gift, right? But now Paul is saying There are spiritual gifts Paul reminds in verse two Paul is reminding the Corinthian believers of their background Right you people used to go behind those idols Right the word dumb here is not what we use, you know, it's not an offensive way But meaning he's just saying they're voiceless. They don't they can't speak Right those idols who don't know how to speak don't know how to express themselves. They can't hear They don't have anything. They don't have eyes. They don't have a mouth nothing Right and you used to worship that but now in contrast we are worshiping a living God who speaks Who reveals himself who demonstrates himself through through nature and through the gifts of the Holy Spirit So When you used to go to the to the worship the idols We used to go worship and come back But they were dumb they had no voice They could not speak. There was not there was no two-way communication, but now When you worship God the father When you worship the living God, he's a God who speaks He's a God who demonstrates Right now, how does he do that through the gifts of this Holy Spirit? right And now verse three the Holy Spirit expresses himself through people As through us as believers We know that the Holy Spirit is at work because when a person speaks by the Holy Spirit He or she will always glorify God Right no one can speak of the Holy Spirit or through the anointing of the Holy Spirit and glorify somebody else If that does happen, then they are not speaking of the Spirit right so the first Guideline in recognizing the gift or the expression of the Holy Spirit is to see whether it glorifies God Right now many many many times. We've heard of prophecies word of knowledge Right and sometimes we see that it's glorifying the person Right uh, and and that's wrong Right first guideline does it glorify God? Does it glorify The Lord Jesus Right and and that which glorifies God Is the work of the Holy Spirit Right now he goes on verse four. There are diversities of the gifts for the same Spirit The word gifts again is charisma Uh chariots, which is which means grace There are varieties of gifts But it's the same Holy Spirit who gives it to us And he gives it to us Because of his grace. It's not because of any work that we have done We don't earn the gifts right now It does not mean that we don't exercise or we don't Or you know, we be ignorant and we don't and we say, okay. No, I'm not a Prophet so I don't want to prophesy. No right We can't say that okay. God has only given me the gift of worship. So I will be a worship leader If God has given you that gift wonderful But we must pursue to exercise All the gifts of the Holy Spirit as we serve people Right because God gives it to us his grace Imagine this if you're asking if a if a child asks his spiritual father, you know, sorry, uh, just their father uh for a gift Or something that he needs the father will most probably give it to him or her Right, how much more if we ask our Heavenly Father God, I want to flow in the gifts of the Spirit. Will the father say no Uh, you only work in this gift No, he wants us to flow in all the gifts Right. So he's saying there are diversities of gifts That is the same Holy Spirit It's not one gift for one Holy Spirit If you have this Holy Spirit, you'll have prophecy. If you have this Holy Spirit, you'll have word of knowledge That's not how it works same one spirit With all the nine gifts right Now there are differences in ministries, but the same Lord Now the word ministries is Diconia meaning services or offices Right now we must understand Ephesians 4 Paul talks about the five-fold ministry. So there are ministry gifts Right, which is the five-fold ministry and there are You know, uh, the spiritual gifts The ministry gift is for used usually for that ministry Right. So for example What is the first thing that comes to your mind when I say Billy Graham Reverend Billy Graham? I'm sure most of us would have had this picture of the evangelist And the thousands and thousands of people that he ministered to So we know that he had the ministry gift the office of the evangelist right So now are you and I called to evangelize? Yes Why because Jesus says go and make disciples He's called all of us To go reach out and be evangelist Right. So that's the gift And then there's a ministry gift Right where some people are called for that Because there's a difference between Billy Graham And there's a difference when we minister maybe go as an evangelist right just reaching out to people both are important but there's a greater grace on this person because it's a gift. It's a ministry gift The apostle Paul was an apostle right But why is it that Barnabas didn't do as much as apostle Paul Why isn't that peter didn't do as much as apostle Paul peter also was flowing in the gifts of the spirit and he was a leader an apostle in the church We could see that there was this Additional grace of this ministry gift just so working so powerfully In the person of apostle Paul as an apostle, right? So there's ministry gifts and there are Uh ministry functions, right? So there's two things ministry gifts ministry functions, right? So All of us can flow in the five-fold ministry But there will be people who will be really called to do one specific Uh, you know with one specific office And there are diversities of activities, but the same god who works in all Right the same spirit of the source of all the different gifts So the same Lord Jesus the same father And we also can Ask God to minister these gifts to us, right now Gifts ministries operations, right? Uh, so there's this wonderful example here, right? An electrician a plumber a carpenter and an auto mechanic right These are different administrators Now each of them Has a toolbox Right Now in the toolbox There is those, you know, you uh, if you see in an electrician, they usually have that box when It has the screwdrivers the hammers the stanners and all the things that are needed The the stunt gun and everything that is needed for the for the work to be done Right, so the the carpenter uses the screw and he gets the screws into the screwdriver He gets the screws into the wood the electrician may use it to tighten electrical parts Uh, and maybe the uh, uh, uh mechanic can will use it to tighten the screws in the engine Now the screwdriver is the same Right It's the same screwdriver same toolbox But is used for three by three different people for three different purposes Right now the electrician uses it to probably tighten or to test the flow of current or whatever And you've got a carpenter. He's Using that screwdriver to push the nail into the wood And you've got a mechanic auto mechanic He's looking at the parts of the engine and of a car or a vehicle And he's tightening the screws and doing all that same screwdriver three different people using it in three different ways the gifts of the spirit can be expressed in different ways at the body of christ But it is the same holy spirit. It is the same god Some people can prophesy in a certain way. Some people can prophesy in a different way Right, some people get visions. Some people get words Some people can minister healing by laying on of hands. Some people just say it out so It's not how it's done but Through whom it's done That's what matters Meaning is it done through god has god really touched their lives has there been the working of the holy spirit Right, so that is more important Same tool three different operations three different ways of using it right But the manifestation of the spirit is given to each one for the profit of all Every believer can have the gifts of the spirit released through us Okay, now let's look at that list verse eight onwards brings out the whole list For one is given the word of wisdom through the spirit first one word of wisdom second one word of knowledge through the same spirit third one faith by the same spirit Four to another gifts of healing by the same spirit Five to another the working of miracles Six to another prophecy Seven to another discerning of spirits Eight to another the gifts of tongues and nine the interpretation of tongues All nine given by once one Holy spirit and I and I think you you may have heard this example, right if you're going to Uh the hospital to pray for somebody who is sick. What is it that we will do? What's the first thing we must do we'll say holy spirit I'm going to pray for this person in the hospital So what is the gift you're going to ask for? You're not going to ask for discerning of the spirit or interpretation of tongues It's not going to work. You don't need that. You don't need interpretation of tongues when you're going to pray for a sick person What do you need need the working of miracles? I Yes, I think there's a question Oh, yeah, okay. Thank you Uh So yes healing I think I'll have to Sorry, I'll just have to send it just keeps going blank when I Yeah So for example somebody is You know a friend or a family member is very distraught is going through a troubled time or is going through a difficult time What is what is the gift you're going to ask for you? No point of asking for gift of healing at that time Or interpretation of tongues. It's not going to help Say god as I'm going to minister to this person. Give me a word of wisdom or a word of knowledge What should I say to him or give me a prophetic word? Right now it could be a combination of those three also The holy spirit can say, you know, this is what happened in his life But you tell that is a word of knowledge and then you tell him this Right a word of wisdom or you tell him this is what's going to happen to him or her in the future That's what a prophecy. So you see there This is a combination the gifts are being used as a combination Right, so we must use the right tool in the right place. I can't take a screwdriver And where there is, you know A place where you have to use the spanner. I can't use the screwdriver and say, oh, it's not working It's not going to work because I have the wrong tool Right, I need to take the spanner and use it to open the the bolts Right, so as believers understand that We can ask the holy spirit Right and it happens over seasons, right? There's training. There's equipping You you and I need to continue to speak to the holy spirit continue to have fellowship with the holy spirit hear from him hear from god's word and You know, just begin to make it a lifestyle Right and then we'll begin to see that. Hey, yes, the holy spirit is really speaking to me I'm really able to give a word of knowledge Uh, sometimes we feel it's our own feeling and we may not release it Right. So the mistake I made many times is I wouldn't release the word because I felt oh, this is what I feel Then I learned that I need to release it And many times I've released a word of knowledge and I and they've come back to me and said hey, that is for me And I realized hey, it is the holy spirit working in me. He's just giving me that Nudge that word or that picture I better be obedient to it. If I don't I'm suppressing the gift and then I can't say god. Why am I not working in this? So it all comes by exercising and a good place to exercise These gifts of the spirit is in smaller settings, right? Life groups small groups bible studies with your friends. You're praying for you know one on one Just begin to exercise, right? Uh, it's not like the gifts of the holy spirit will work only when there are hundreds of people or thousands No, if you're ministering to one person also the holy spirit will minister the gifts through us right verse 11 But one and same spirit works all these things Distributing to each one individually as he wills right now Distributing to each one individually implies that All of these nine gifts can be released to each one of us And this whole thing of as he wills Is something that has been very debatable, right? The holy spirit releases these gifts as he chooses Right, but later on he paul goes on to say you desire for it Our part is to desire And when we correctly when we earnestly desire The the gifts and know how to correctly express the gifts We will work with the holy spirit to manifest the gifts. He will he wills Meaning he's willing to Give us but we must be willing cooperating this survey desiring We must have faith In releasing those gifts properly, right? Many a times I have For example, I've I've received a prophetic word, but I've released it the wrong way Right, I have say I've got the prophetic word. I knew it's from God, but I released it the wrong way Right, so We must also understand that as he gives us He gives us as he wills and and we must release those gifts Right the prophetic word is from God, but when it comes out of our mouth, we know we need not have to add those extra Well, you know that Indian word, which is masalas Right for it to sound Or taste very good. We don't need to do that, right? This is what the Lord is saying, you know, this is you don't have to do all that You get a prophetic word Just say hey, this is what I sense is Some things that we learn is use the right words that you know is very important This is what I sense the Lord is speaking to me This is what I believe this word, you know, so avoid giving date and time Unless you're 100% sure that this is what God has said Right because we know that God for God date and time is it's all up to him Like of course there are times when God will say okay six months from now. So But if that you need to be certain Right, uh, otherwise just say, you know, I sense this is If they say no, it's all right, right? You're you're still continuing to hear from the Holy Spirit Nobody's going to tag you as a false believer in all of those things. I said don't worry about it Begin to manifest in the gifts Right so verse 12 onwards. He talks about the functions Of the body right first well sorry For as the body is one and has many members But all the members of that one body being many are one body So also is Christ For by one spirit, we are all baptized into one body whether we are Jews Greeks slaves or free All have made made to drink into that one spirit For in fact the body Is not one member but many If the foot now Paul is bringing this you see how beautifully he's bringing this But the moment we start reading it it becomes a picture in our mind If the foot should say because I'm not a hand. I'm not of the body. It is therefore not of the body Is it therefore not of the body saying you the foot should say Hey, I'm not a hand. So I'm not part of the body. No, it is part of the body And if the year should say because I'm not an I am not of the body Is it not of the body? It is also body If the whole body were an I Where would you be hearing if the whole body was hearing? What would you be smelling? But now God has set members each one of them In the body just as he pleased And if they they were all one member Where would the body be but now indeed there are many members yet one body And the I cannot say to the hand I have no need of you nor again the head to the feet I have no need of you No much rather those members of the body would seem to be weaker are necessary And those members of the body which we think to be less honorable On these we bestow greater honor And our unpresentable parts have greater modesty But our presentable parts have no need but God composed the body Having given greater honor to that part which lacks it That there should be no schisms in the body But that the members should have the same care for one another And if one member suffers all the members suffer with it Or if one member is honored all the members rejoice with it Now you are the body of Christ and members individually So beautifully he writes this right He says listen we all are one body But in this one body we are different members Some can be pastors teachers apostles prophets worship leaders You know children's church leaders All you know audio team setup team whatever you're doing Your different parts of the body And all of you are equally important to the body Because all of you have different roles and functions in the body Now the moment I say okay, I don't need a this this Sound and setup team example, right If I don't need sound and setup team in the church Now we know that it's needed Especially here in Bangalore in our church we need The sound and setup team right without that the whole service is not going to happen Right, okay. I don't need a graphics team. I can preach. I can do everything on my own No, that is equally important as preparing and you know Doing the preparing for the sermon or preparing for the the worship leader Everything is important What if we prepared everything and nobody comes to church? Then it's it's I mean, it's just there's no unity remember to understand that This body Is one But we all have different roles and we are not to look down upon any of those All of us must learn to appreciate and celebrate One another's gifts and functioning So if I'm a pastor I must appreciate others but I really Enjoy watching the you know in our team. We have graphics designers and the way they make the graphics I really enjoy the way they do it. It's so wonderful. It looks so nice. There's so much of effort that goes in It may not be something very spiritual It's needed What about the media team? It's needed Right. It's not something very spiritual Right, but they needed where you need to appreciate celebrate each other. Hey god, we thank you for them Because because of them they were getting the audio so good and the the video is so good The media is doing well the graphics is going out Reaching out to different parts of the world and so they're doing such a wonderful job and people are seeing our banners and seeing these posters and They they're liking it. Thank god for them We are doing the part of the ministry meaning ministering of the word of god or preaching and teaching But they are equally important. They may not be on stage every Sunday They may just be in the background, but they are equally important as those who are in the stage Right, so The problem now is, you know, those who go on the stage think that they are in the higher space higher, you know We are higher than everyone else. No Paul is bringing this understanding and he's saying understand the body is not complete without all of us The smallest part also needs to be given order So Right just like how in you know one part of the body, you know, for example, if you get a headache Why why is it that you want to sleep? Why is your whole body painting? Why does the whole body pain we got a headache and you feel Head is aching then slowly your eyes pain You know your you feel nauseous. You feel like you just want to lie down Then you know, you just feel so uneasy your whole body is Just because of a headache Or what if we have a small pain on your knees? Right or on your legs and the whole body is affected But it's a small knee. No, I can't say. Okay, forget. I don't want this knee No, we need it Right, so I like that verse god gives greater honor to what seems to have less honor What seems weaker is actually necessary and hence very important What seems hidden actually receives greater honor and must not be treated lightly You know, one of the things we have in our church at Bangalore APC Bangalore is You know a wonderful sound and setup team the team comes at 6 a.m in the morning And they don't come, you know, they're all working professionals Right and they come at 6 a.m. And it's not to just sit and talk It's to carry speakers and cables and all these heavy things that they have to carry around From one place to another set up everything. It's a hard task So they keep everything ready And 10 o'clock the service starts 10 30 the service starts Now we are seeing the bigger picture. No, we are seeing. Okay. Wow, wonderful. The live streaming has started But what's happened previous 6 a.m You know, the steam has come set up everything Right and It's not like we're gonna, you know, appreciate them and clap for them. Everyone and every now and then no But they do receive great honor Right. We be honored them. We honor their hard work It's a it's it's they're doing it not because They have to do it but they're doing it because they love god And and and it's a wonderful right without them. It would be so difficult Right and and same way even for those who are ministering, right? We we need to flow in the gifts of the spirit So the apostle paul listed out nine gifts of the spirit And the apostle apostle paul talks about the functions that each believer has nine gifts But there are limitless membership gifts or functions Of the body right so we can serve in any kind of way If it is if you feel like god is calling you to rain's chairs Do it faithfully if you feel god is calling you to Now just be a greeter in the church. Do it faithfully It's not like the greeter is not valued he is he or she is greatly valued in the church right, so Be willing to serve in whatever function Right now just because you're a greeter don't say okay Only those who are on the pulpit those are ministering can flow in prophecy and word of knowledge and gifts No, you can be a greeter and still have prophetic words and word of knowledge right So don't limit yourself because of your of your function within the church Right the ministry gifts can work through all of us right Right, so here there's a small illustration here Right nine gifts of the holy spirit the membership gifts in romans 12 6 to 8 and then the five ministry gifts So we see here that The five fold ministries here officials 411 that's given to some of them But the membership gifts is given to all of them the nine gifts of the spirit is given to all of them right now Some of them are called to be pastors. Some of them have called to be Apostles, but all of us can flow the membership gifts and the nine gifts of the holy spirit Right, but now when we look at it, you know, sometimes we come to a place I think the church sometimes we we interpret things the wrong way We must not say, okay, only if I'm a pastor I can flow on this gifts or if I'm an evangelist or a prophet Only then I can flow. No, it's given to all of us Right all of us Oh, the membership gifts and the nine gives us for all of us. So we don't have to limit ourselves right verse 28 on words Paul is talking about the different ministry functions Right, he says and God has appointed these in church first apostles second prophets third teachers after that miracles then gifts of healing Helps administrations varieties of tongues are all apostles are all prophets are all teachers Are all workers of miracles to all have the gifts of healing do all speak with tongues to all interpret Let's see what he says after that But earnestly desire the best gifts and yet I show you a more excellent way Right. So Paul is saying there are different right now It says here Greek when when he says first it does not mean first in you know In influence meaning it's a portion Right. God has placed some people to be in that role Right apostles prophets teachers helps Again various kinds of assistance within the church administration Imagine a church without administration Right now remember in the church in Jerusalem. They all of a sudden they grew To thousands of people imagine there's no administration how to deal with the people Very important. We need to have a good administration a good rule on how to you know Function as a church as a ministry we must have Right a good administrator Who can you know still the ship so to speak right And then the apostle paul makes a list Of ministry gifts here then the ministry gifts We see miracles And gifts of healings which are representative of an evangelist And then the membership gifts are helps administration varieties of tongues now All of this Right all of this paul is saying whatever you do earnestly desire the best gift What is the best gift? Is it prophecy? Is it word of knowledge? Is it being? Is it you know working of miracles? No The best gift simply means To desire the appropriate gift at the appropriate time Right best suited for the occasion and we looked at that example right if you're praying for a sick person don't ask for a interpretation of tongues Right ask for the gift so ask for the best gift that can be used at the at that time right so That's what best is now the wrong understanding would be okay prophecy is the best gift or healings is the best gift No Right so so that's why understanding the style of writing is also very important Right earnestly desire the spiritual gifts No, I like the word earnestly right. We are to earnestly desire for it not just for Wrong reasons right sometimes we say okay. I want to If we have reasons like you know, I want to be known. I want to become popular I want people to know my name I want to be on the stage all the time I've seen others doing it. So I would also like to do it the same way It's not about all of that Right Paul is saying earnestly Desire the best gift Right when you're earnest about something and you say okay god I wanted because I wanted to be I desire this gift so that I can flow in this gift and I can be a blessing to people around me Blessing to the body of Christ I want the prophetic gift. I want to speak a prophetic word so that I can be a blessing Not so that everyone can look at me and say oh, he's a prophet Or he god is speaking only to him not because of that But because I can be a blessing to the body of christ that I can bless people that it can end that I can encourage people So when we earnestly have with the right motives We ask god God is one who will release those gifts to us There's something that I'm personally praying for is god to help me In in terms of you know when I speak in tongues Help me to understand like like I have not always we will understand but You know the bible says that we speak paul says right we're speaking To mysteries to go on But there is also this thing of interpretation of tongues So many times we can pray and we're praying in tongues many times, you know I sense that this is what god is speaking to me. I'm not sure about it But I feel that this is what god is speaking Right, so this is some area that we can you know continue to grow in Or maybe it's a prophetic Right or a word of knowledge word of wisdom Just just continue to minister in those gifts Right and I think as bible college students the more you practice And learn and just ask the holy spirit To minister to speak to you. You know this first half you keep listening to Our sessions the word of god, so go back maybe after your sessions are over Think about what you studied ask the holy spirit to speak to you Through what you've studied Right and he begins to minister to each one of us Right, so any questions any thoughts before we close Okay, christopher Says please explain the gift of faith. Okay. Sorry christopher. I'm just seeing the chat now the gift of faith is Now there are two the ministry of faith of the the ministry of those who have this gift of faith and there's a gift of faith, right, so There are people who have extreme faith Now remember one thing faith is something that grows It can increase or decrease Well, how do we know that jesus said in three places? He said oh you of no faith Then he asked the disciples where is your faith and he says to the roman centurion you have great faith So three Right, so the gift of faith is something that increases over time Over our experience over our relationship with god now if you look at this as an example if We may have accepted christ And the first year we may not be you know Walking in that high level of faith, but 10 years down the line. We're not having the same faith Right our faith has increased And so Again the gift of faith is a gift given by the holy spirit, but you and I have to exercise it Right, we need to exercise that gift by stepping out of our you know comfort areas stepping out of our No, uh Places where we feel that okay. This is where I'm convenient. No, so faith requires us to step into the water Right, so over time faith is something that can increase and then there's faith that can also decrease Right if you're not walking in communion with god if you're not Slowly, you know people tend to lose faith and they go away from the faith itself right, so christful faith is something that is You know, oh it grows over time over experience over just uh, you know continuing to fellowship with god Right, so how is it different from the faith we need to develop as a christian? Okay so The gift of faith It's the same. So for example When god gives us the gift of faith um There is a certain kind of faith. We all have faith that okay, jesus died on the cross All right, that's simple faith jesus died on the cross, but there's also this other faith that we need to Not just the basics but to go into the greater things to walk into the greater measures of faith So like I said christopher, it is something that grows Over time. So when you look at these evangelists these great men and women of god They are people who have grown over time Right and and so we also can grow in our faith over time as well. So I hope that Briefly answers your question christopher. Yes All right, so thank you so much For joining have a great week ahead. Let's just quickly close in prayer Father, we thank you for today. We thank you for the class that we had and even as we learned to god to The benefits that we have and partaking in the lord's table and And all the blessings that you've blessed us with i pray god that you help us to walk In that blessing in each of our lives god and continue to minister to each of us We thank you and praise you in jesus name. We pray amen amen Amen. Thank you everyone. Have a great week ahead. God bless