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Week 1: The Spirit-Empowered Life

Week 1: The Spirit-Empowered Life 2 Cor 1:22 - “…He set His seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come”

Week 1: The Spirit-Empowered Life 2 Cor 1:22 - “…He set His seal of ownership on us, and put His Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come” Acts 1:8 - “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

Week 1: The Spirit-Empowered Life We cannot hope to see a dying world come alive through a lifeless, powerless Gospel of our own interpretation or preference.

1 Cor 12:1, 4-6 - “…about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant…

1 Cor 12:1, 4-6 - “…about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant… there are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.”

Week 2: Gifts From the Father // GRACE GIFTS

Week 2: Gifts From the Father // GRACE GIFTS Romans 12:6 - “We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.” 1 Peter 4:10 - “Each one should use whatever gift He has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.”

Week 2: Gifts From the Father // GRACE GIFTS Grace gifts are gifts given by God the Father as a means of demonstrating His goodness and grace through supernatural yet practical abilities

Week 3: Gifts From the Son // MINISTRY GIFTS

Week 3: Gifts From the Son // MINISTRY GIFTS Skilled servants and leaders whose function is to equip and to prepare the Church for Jesus’ return

Week 3: Gifts From the Son // MINISTRY GIFTS Skilled servants and leaders whose function is to equip and to prepare the Church for Jesus’ return Eph 4:11-13 - “It was He (Jesus) who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God’s people for works of service, so that the Body of Christ may be built up (a bride made beautiful and complete), until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.”

Week 3: Gifts From the Son // MINISTRY GIFTS Maturity is knowing Jesus and trusting Him completely

Week 4: Gifts From the Holy Spirit // MANIFESTATION GIFTS

Week 4: Gifts From the Holy Spirit // MANIFESTATION GIFTS Displays of God’s power, given by the Holy Spirit, to make His nature and will known

Week 4: Gifts From the Holy Spirit // MANIFESTATION GIFTS Are the Manifestation Gifts still available for today? 1 Cor 12:7 - “Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good.”

Week 4: Gifts From the Holy Spirit // MANIFESTATION GIFTS Are the Manifestation Gifts available to all of us? 1 Cor 12:11 - “All these are the work of the same Spirit, and He gives them to each one, just as He determines.”

The Body of Christ…

The Body of Christ… ONE

The Body of Christ… ONE Romans 12:4-6 - “For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.”

The Body of Christ… ONE 1 Cor 12:12-14 - “Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form on body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.”

God’s Partnership With Us…

God’s Partnership With Us… …His glory to be made known

God’s Partnership With Us… …His glory to be made known …His commands to be followed

God’s Partnership With Us… …His glory to be made known …His commands to be followed …the lost to be saved

God’s Partnership With Us… …His glory to be made known …His commands to be followed …the lost to be saved …His people to share in His work

The “grown up” (maturing) church can have but one fitting, Biblical response: FAITH.

The “grown up” (maturing) church can have but one fitting, Biblical response: FAITH. …the humble, confident expectation that God will do what He’s more than able to do, according to His character, His commands and His purposes

We expect God’s glory to be shown in the way He has designed His gifts for us

We expect God’s glory to be shown in the way He has designed His gifts for us We expect to share the Gospel in power, and that salvation will accompany God revealing Himself