God's View of Spiritual Gifts | 1 Corinthians 12-14 | Gary Hamrick

[@dionm1860]

Dr. Gary's message is so edifying and full of spiritual wisdom that it prompts me to leave a comment to say, Thank you Brother Gary for taking the time and passion to bring the good bread of heaven to my ears.

[@98michellesanders]

Thank you Pastor Gary! You are a brilliant teacher!

[@LMK61041]

Praise God for this clear explanation of the Spiritual Gifts, especially the gift of tongues. Thank you, Pastor Gary!

[@klhp22]

BEST teaching I’ve heard on the Gifts in 50 years. I thank you and praise GOD. (Following in Pittsburgh.) 🙏🏻

[@Kathleen253]

Absolutely 💯

[@krystal6612]

I LOVE YOU PASTOR G AND THANK GOD FOR YOU AND YOUR AMAZING GIFT HE GAVE YOU❤

[@NevaFitzgerald]

For the love a God ,you Pastor G. Have it !! Thank you for teaching's🙏😘🎄

[@alistairmckenna5769]

Best exposition on the subject of Spiritual Gifts that I have heard. I am 70 years old and been a Christian for 45 years.

[@mustardseedfaith11]

Excellent teaching and pastoral leadership!

[@laurewhite9858]

Pursue LOVE ❤️ Desire spiritual gifts…📖

[@lettyiyog4921]

Thank you Pastor Gary, God bless your church and ministry.

[@marthaduvall1056]

I’m Pentecostal, I totally believe every word Pastor Gary preached! Thank you you’re my favorite Bible teacher 😊

[@Kathleen253]

Amen sister, so do I! Been a Pentecostal for 52 years now Glory to God!

[@faithbenedicto2294]

Wow, what a nice, wonderful explanation. I believe that's what Paul also mean. Love will rule in our hearts whatever God has given to us. Long live Ptr. Gary. God bless you more knowledge and wisdom from God.

[@LyndaCarnes]

Thank you for refreshing my memory of these teachings.

[@LyndaCarnes]

Maybe, instead of "teachings", I should have said "scriptures." Or maybe both. I know I've heard sermons on these topics, but it has been a while. I needed a refreshing.

[@jackiewilliams4298]

Wonderful sermon Pastor Gary.❤❤❤

[@carolworden1]

I want to thank God for using you on the topic of differentiating the difference of pray language speaking in tongues and prayer language out loud with an interpretation. 😊Praise God!!!

[@davidkhim8250]

AMEN ALELUYAH, GLORY TOO GOD, ALELUYAH 🙏 ALELUYAH, Thanks you my Lord, ALELUYAH AMEN GOD BLESS YOU ALL, SHLOM EVERYONE ❤

[@madeleineboleslawski1884]

Pastor Gary, as you were reading the verses on Love, I saw Jesus' spirit displayed in those Words. If each one of His creations displayed His Spirit , WOW, what a different world we would have! ❤️. I have a sweet Christian who believes that if you don't speak in tongues, you aren't saved. Love to send her this. Thank you.

[@randypick1]

Amazing that the Pentecostals put Tongues at the top in Salvation, but the Bible list Tongues as the LEAST of the Gifts.

[@Kathleen253]

Depends on the denomination where it falls. Even Pentecostals all don't agree

[@randypick1]

@@Kathleen253 United Pentecostal believe that Tongues is the evidence of Holy Spirit, and if you have never spoke in tongues you are not saved which is a False Doctrine.

[@Sergiu-]

I have understood verse 28 also as a list in order of importance at first but after more studying I understood it is not by order of importance as in Ephesians 4:11 you have another list in a different order so a specific importance by order is not what Paul meant when he wrote the list. Also the pastor does say one gift is not more important than another as all are from the Holy Spirit and are received through faith. The gift of salvation (Ephesians 2:8) is the one gift that everyone needs to be saved and from there comes a new life with Jesus and one builds from there. Spiritual gifts have the purpose to edify the Church. Tongues is a gift that edifies the one that has the gift but can also work for edification of another when interpretation is also given. What I am trying to say is that all gifts should be viewed the same - as gifts from the Holy Spirit- and all gifts are good for us because they connect us with God on a more personal level so they can influence our relationship with Christ more (in a positive way). God bless you!

[@philipmasse6099]

Most people who embrace tongues as the gift it was intended to be, see it as an empowerment of the believer.

[@user-_56710]

Me and the church I congregate are pentecostal, and that’s not our belief.

[@ThanhLipke]

Thank you Pastor Hamrick ❤

[@keekac3119]

Thank you Pastor Gary. I listen weekly from CO. Such a “right on” message. Love the reference of Pastor Chuck. His book Living Water is a must. 😊

[@megand4916]

Great message

[@natureadora]

Thank You Jesus

[@tonyreynolds493]

Yes! I have taught these chapters exactly as per Gary, but not as well. I consider the gifts of the spirit to be like a shed full of power tools. The workman needs to know they are there and how to use them. However, you cannot use them whenever you want to, Jesus works them through us. I see this as mainly God-incidences. You cannot turn them on or make them happen. Jesus does it. The false teaching that everyone should speak in tongues seems to come from the fact that God gave that gift to the twelve, and then to the Gentiles, in Acts. But this was only to convince the Jews, in Acts 11:15, that "the Holy Spirit came on them as he had come on us at the beginning." Acts is history, it is mainly descriptive, not prescriptive. In 1 Cor, Romans and Ephesians we learn that there are many other and greater gifts. And Jesus "gives them to each one, just as HE determines" 1 Cor 12:11. Many pastors are leaving their flocks ignorant of those three vital areas: End Times, Israel and the Gifts of the Spirit. Thank you, Gary. Tony England

[@LionsOfHope-23]

Your explanation is better than Hamrick's in this setting. Though I believe that those practicing 'tongues' today (which wasn't 'gibberish' in the 1st Century, but actual foreign languages) are not doing it of God, nor in Christ. What's so challenging for Christians to admit/confess that Tongues Ceased after the complete Canon of Sacred Writ is given to us??? Life is much sweeter if we all agree on that truth - no harm done AND we're spared the garbage of the false teaching of people's mere 'feelings' (rather than sound doctrine, and sound minds).

[@oztheberean]

The fact that this topic causes division amongst us proves the lack of maturity amongst us.

[@Crazypapa95]

Just like the pre mid and post trib argument.

[@oztheberean]

@@Crazypapa95 Or Niners vs Cowboys.....Lol. I'm a SF faithful as well. ;)

[@chosen.02]

Bless be the Lord Almighty

[@ybc817]

Thank you.

[@philipmasse6099]

There are 3 distinctly different manifestations of the gift of tongues identified in scripture. 1) As a message to the church accompanied by interpretation (not translation) 2) Prayer language, (tongues of angels). 3) foreign language to communicate with another culture.

[@Crazypapa95]

I love John MacArthur. He’s a great Bible teacher.

[@LionsOfHope-23]

It would've been better had he not tried to drag the highly esteemed Pastor MacArthur's name into his sermon. The things he says about him aren't true. What insecurities he must be suffering that he thinks to try to drag down MacArthur. Shame.

[@Crazypapa95]

@@LionsOfHope-23 I agree the more I think about it. It’s disheartening when they do this.

[@LionsOfHope-23]

@@Crazypapa95 It is. But - not a one of us is completely perfect (yet : ) It's a forgivable offense on Hamrick's part 🙏🏼 Pastor John MacArthur's great Biblical teaching has helped to keep me well-nourished over the four-plus decades that I've walked with The Lord Jesus Christ. May you have a blessed day filled with the Love and Grace of The Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior.

[@wayfaringoverlander]

@@LionsOfHope-23please 🤦‍♂️ John is just a man, calm down.

[@wayfaringoverlander]

@@Crazypapa95he’s not dragging him down, he’s pointing out that John teaches one way and he teaches another. He did it in a decent way. John is just a man, and doesn’t know everything.

[@KBMSoto]

Amen

[@angelagabhart4188]

Amen!

[@WayneChurchill-zd3pm]

Jesus said greater things we will do in is name is that gifts

[@Regularguy1798]

Drafted by the Father himself - John 4:23 Jesus explains it all about praying in the spirit and truth for the Father seeksth such to worship him.

[@vtaide]

Syntax of 1 Corinthians 13:12b The two clauses - “I will know fully” and “I have been fully known” - both focus on the believer as the subject. The object of the second clause, “I have been fully known” is also the believer. Then the question arises, Could the object of the first clause be the same - the believer? In other words, I will know [myself] fully. The second clause emphasizes that the believer is fully known by God. The first clause could indicate the believer will fully know themselves, mirroring God’s perfect knowledge of them. As mentioned previously, the complete revelation of God that is the Scripture serves as a mirror of our true selves!

[@Amandajones06]

How do we know what our gifts are?

[@rpw612willi4]

Pastor Geoffrey Grider from Now The End Begins in St. Augustine Florida preaches that there are no healing gifts (I assume from us living now, obviously God can heal at anytime) in the Church Age. which is the age we are in at this time. I’m not dogmatic about this, but just how I understand it….. 🙏

[@anupamaperli4179]

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@vtaide]

1 Corinthians 13:12 states: “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.” In Paul’s time, polished metal mirrors produced dim, distorted reflections, symbolizing incomplete understanding. Proverbs 27:19 states, “As in water face reflects face.” Literally, it means “in water, the face [is] to face. Therefore, it is best to interpret “face to face” figuratively to mean clarity and completeness. Then the believer has the means to see himself clearly through the perfect … the complete revelation serving as a clear mirror. What do you see when you look into a mirror? A reflection of yourself! Verse 12 refers to self-knowledge: “Then I will know [myself] fully, just as I also have been fully known [by God].” “I will know myself fully” aligns with James 1:23-24, where God’s word acts as a mirror, revealing our true selves. In v25, James used the same adjective (teleios) to describe the God’s word … the perfect law. Hebrews 4:12-13 underscores the penetrating and revealing power of God’s word. God knows everything about us inherently, apart from His Word. The Word's role is to make us aware of what God already knows by exposing the inner workings of our hearts. The Word of God operates as a mirror that reveals truths about ourselves - our thoughts and motives. We will be able to see ourselves just as we are in the sight of God! If the partial gift of prophecy can reveal hearts (1 Cor. 14:24-25), how much more will the perfect reveal? These passages in James and Hebrews do not argue for the identity of the perfect as complete revelation rather that the Word of God can reveal the thoughts and intentions of our heart if only we would read it. The penetrating and revealing power of Scripture align with the result of the arrival of the perfect. I will know fully … not only our true selves but who we are in Christ … the many blessings that He had bestowed on us as children of God. We also know God as He has revealed Himself in Scripture.

[@RockstarT224]

Trying to have an open mind. I have never known anyone with the gift of healing or speaking in tongues. How can this be so? If someone could really heal, wouldn’t everyone know about them and seek them out?

[@genesisolaes5923]

Hi Pastor G, do you have a pdf version of this teaching?

[@alvasey4426]

I agree with MacArthur, that once the gospel message of Christ was authenticated through the Apostles ministry and authority, the purpose of the miraculous gifts was accomplished. Just as Gary admitted, God knew to continue the gifts would cause division and conflict amongst His children.

[@AshhoUSA]

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[@vtaide]

1 Cor. 13:9 states that the prophecy and knowledge are partial to be superseded by the perfect (v.10). The use of perfect as an adjective suggests that Paul is emphasizing the perfect’s quality of completeness in contrast to what is partial. The gifts of prophecy, knowledge, and tongues are also revelatory: Prophecy declares God’s truth, will and guidance. Knowledge provides insight and understanding. With interpretation, tongues convey messages. If we understand the partial as a subset of the complete and the partial are revelatory in nature, then the complete perfect should share the same revelatory nature of these gifts. “That which is complete” should logically be of the same kind as “that which is partial”. Taken together, the partial and revelatory natures of these gifts suggest the perfect is complete revelation.

[@bearforce187]

There are a lot of false pastors like: Kenneth Copeland, Paula White, Sid Roth and many others that claim they are speaking in tongues, but it is nothing more than gibberish, it is not a known language. These people that do that stuff are just looking for attention.

[@vtaide]

The eschatological argument that face to face means seeing God face to face seems foreign in the context of 1 Cor. 13:8-12 especially within the illustration of the mirror. Moreover, although the face-to-face motif is sometimes used in the Old Testament to refer to fellowship with God, it is also used of revelation from God (Num. 12:6-8).An alternative interpretation is that we will know God fully just as we have been fully known by God. But our knowledge cannot be full knowledge of God as He is limitless. It also cannot mean that we will omniscient; we cannot be lower case “g” gods for we are but His creation.

[@juvwillis6551]

Do you believe in the rapture of the church?

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[@nattytwe]

NOPE, disagree Pastor Hamrick. You can have a sermon about how something is not, as John MacArthur did. I’m sure Pastor Mac in preaching about what isn’t also spoke about what is. I have heard Pastor Mac speak about the spiritual gifts, I he mostly speaks about speaking in tongues and how today people are false in that. For me, I do believe the spiritual gifts exist today, as you have said… even speaking in tongues. I do disagree with Pastor Mac. I disagree with Pastor Mac in his view of Isreal and the tribulation. I take a pre-trib view and he does not. Anyway, you are one of my go to Pastors and so is Pastor Mac. God bless 🙏🏽

[@Julie-pq9zu]

Christianity would be much better represented if the "big voice" online pastors stopped naming and shaming each other unnecessarily. There was no need to bring up John MacArthur as a talking point in this sermon. It didn't add any value to the teaching. Instead it was a distraction to the Bible and a reflection of spiritual immaturity in a world so desperate for truth and light. Do better, Pastor Gary.

[@jbriscoe8932]

Love your teaching on this. I am a cessastionist but believe we can still love as brothers. Always afraid when say gift of Apostleship is still available with the NAR movement beliefs....and I believe God still uses people to heal but not the gift of healing to a person to use anytime....or else why are those with the gift not going in the cancer hospital and healing every child? Just think if all of these gifts still available (those I would call the sign or Apistoluc gifts) not being seen in our churches? Yes, someone might say healed by a person from a backache or stomach ache, but not why someone like Justin Peters or Joni Erikkson Tada standing up and walking? Not enough faith to be healed? Lots of abuse, I agree. Not hard right or left, just different interpretation..can agree to disagree

[@GodofDisco]

The problem here is a misunderstood christology of suffering. Some people get healed of serious ailments, others do not. God is sovereign. There are two paths when not healed of a serious ailment. You have the path of Jesus Christ, the path of men like Nick Vujicic who accept that they can glorify God in the midst of their sickness without becoming bitter or denying the gifts exist or the path of men like Justin Peters who become imbittered by their personal experience of not getting healed and deny that God heals altogether. For a man like Peters to be right no one has to have ever been healed of anything serious, it's preposterous and easily disproved by church history. I personally know his stories to be false, he claims no one has ever actually gotten out of a wheelchair at one of those events over the long-term but I've actually witnessed exactly what he claims to be false over the long-run. This doesn't mean everyone gets magically healed nor does it excuse heretics who are RAMPANT in those circles (I'm a calvary chapel guy, we avoid those people) but any one of us who have ever experienced something outside the box of the cessationist belief system simply know it to be false and could never be convinced otherwise as it's not a matter of pure reason, the theology of suffering answers why some are healed and others are not, it is not related to someone's faith.

[@LionsOfHope-23]

Seems a shame that such a good Pastor/Bible preacher finds it necessary to disrespect a wonderful (best of our lifetime, bar none) brother-in-Christ, most excellent Pastor-Teacher (of 'Grace to You' and Master's Seminary and MacArthur Study Bible fame). All that shows about you, Pastor Hamrick, is that you still have some lessons to learn. You falsely state that Pastor MacArthur teaches that ALL Gifts have ceased - that's not only absurd, it's deceptive (a lie). I didn't realize that you have such a large gap in your sense of self or confidence that you have to try to insult and/or drag down another minister. MacArthur teaches that only 'tongues' and prophecy have ceased. He is correct; get with the truth.

[@skbnvacaville]

This is New Age “prosperity gospel” garbage and shameless bragging. Please stop ….go someplace else.

[@blw43]

Get real, you go somewhere else

[@KRoy-lx4xg]

Are you talking about the sermon, or are you replying to that scammy "I make $330,000 a month" person? I see those spam posts a lot, but sometimes they disappear, leaving replies floating around with no context.

[@blw43]

@@KRoy-lx4xg Love Pastor Gary's sermons, dislike the $300,000 scam stuff

[@romeolegaspi6567]

Amen