Day 336 (1 Corinthians 12-14) - Year 6
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Hey, bible readers, i'm tardy couple and i'm your host for the bible recap.

Today, paul continues to address problems the church at current is experiencing in their regular worship meetings. It's never fund to have to resolve issues. But fortunately, paul isn't afraid of conflict.

He's head on some touchy topics so far, and today is no different. He opens by addressing the gifts that god has given each of them for building up the church. There are lots of perspectives on spiritual gifts, so i'll try to address the main viewpoints briefly as we move to the text.

One of the common misunderstandings about spiritual gifts is that their personality adjacent, but since these gifts are given by the spirit, they only show up when we get the spirit, when we enter into a relationship with our way. Since most of the spiritual inventories or tests are more of a personality test or a natural gift assessment, they aren't necessarily the best way to determine what spiritual gifts we have. There's nothing wrong with using these test to discover natural gifts.

Those can benefit the church too. But the test aren't necessarily helpful in figuring out our supernatural gifts. Here's what I mean if moses, who wasn't good with words, had taken a spiritual gifts test, he probably wouldn't have tested as a profit teacher or leader.

But those are the ways god spirit equipped and used him. So there's not always a correlation. If you wanted know what your spiritual gift are.

One way to tell is by asking other people have a church is currently being built up by your presence. You may have the natural gift of administration, but as far as churches concerned, god might have given you the given knowledge. Paul levin says we can ask god to give a spiritual gift that we don't have.

That means our gifts can change over time. They are given by god, and as always, the giver is the one who chooses what to give. As far as the gift that are signs of the spirits in dwelling, some people believe that those were only used in the first century to give validity for god's work in the early church.

This belief is usually referred to as sensational ism, meaning those gifts have seized. Others believe these gifts are alive and well today, though there are still no as beliefs in that camp about how certain gifts should be used. This belief is usually referred to as continuation ism, meaning those gifts continue.

We've linked to two articles with more info on this in the shower notes. The list power gives in chapter twelve isn't exhaustive. We see other gifts listed in romans twelve than evasions for, and first Peter for. However, in the final verses, he does seem to give a ranking because he refers to the higher gifts.

The currencies were fixed on one gift, primarily speaking in tongues, which paul mentions the last in his apparent hierarchy, he emphasizes the need for diversity in the gift of the body of Christian, because the spirit uses each neat gift for one unified purpose. Regardless of whether you believe the gift of tongues is just the gift of being bilingual or if it's something more IT has obvious benefits for building up a unifying a church that is beginning to cross lots of language barriers. Paul says he will show the currencies a more excEllent way.

Then he'd, i've straighten to talking about not just using our gifts, but using our gifts with love as our motivator. He says, if love is in our motivating factor, all our good deals are multiplied by zero or or worse yet, they can even be harmful to the body. He tells us what love looks like and how live act, and says, ultimately, love will outlets everything, even faith, hope, what? How will that? At least faith and hope.

When our faith is made manifest, faith won't need to exist. IT will be proven. And when our hopes are fulfilled, we don't have to hope for those things anymore.

They'll be realities. I can't wait to be faithful and hopeless, but love will remain always in chapter or fourteen. Patel, then they should all desire to profit. Y, which at the very least means to speak truth. Then he talks more about speaking in tongues.

And some people believe that what he's saying about tongue here is a reference to a prayer language, because this type of tongue seems to be different than what happened in next to this, seems to be more directed toward god than toward others. And IT seems to be unintelligible, wherein acts to the languages were clearly understood, possible. He wants them all the speaking tongues, but not as much as he wants them to prove that, because that holds greater value for the church at large.

And he says that they speak in tongues in public. They should always have an interpreter. Those who believe tongues are another human language usually believe the interpreter is another person who knows that foreign language and can verify what the person is saying.

Those who believe tongs are not a human language usually believe the interpreter is someone god has revealed a message to. And paul says its best if you can serve as your own interpreter. He says he speaks in tones more than anyone.

Which mayor may not just mean he knows more languages than other people, but then he circles back around to say that propac's is his preference. Most is said something similar to this. In numbers eleven, he says he wishes that all the lords people were profits that the lord would put his spirit on them.

Inverse three, paul says god uses provinces for a building, for encouragement and for consultations. In inverse nineteen, we see that god uses IT for instructing others. Paw closes out today with a few helpful guidelines.

Foreign orderly worship service, hab diversity in the service, put a two to three person cap on tongues, and there should always be an interpreter. Put IT two to three person cap on propac's, then let people weight against the truth. There's a lot of debate over what the final version of this chapter mean.

Some say that means women shouldn't able to speak in tongues or profile in the services. But earlier in chapter eleven, paul said women are allowed to profit and prayin the church. So he can't be saying women are allowed to speaking in church at all.

And remember, prophecy is one of the gifts he holds in highest regard. To further complicate matters, some say his words, he replied to all churches, and others say he's addressing specific problems. The currency churis having possibly related to their greek roman background.

For instance, it's possible that the women may only be allowed outside the main meeting area and may be calling into their husband's inside. Just see what's being said. If that is what's happening, you can see how that would be super disruptive.

So well is like just ask them when you get home today. IT might be like asking people to silence their cells, ones in the service, so that things can function in an orderly manner without chaos and distraction. IT also seems like the women in court had a problem treating their husbands with honor, respect, which is something god calls them to do and calls both parties to do.

So paul addresses IT. Will we take everything he said in this letter about women in the church? Overall, his words seem to be more about creating peace and unity in order than about prohibit ted women from using their gifts.

ings. Elsewhere in scripture, paul firms the gift of women serving in the early church. After all, brazil a is one of the founders of this particular church.

And paul describes her as his co labor in roman sixteen three, if you're a woman, is easy to read these verses and be disburdened by paul's words here, and maybe even make you wanna dismiss him altogether. But as with anything chAllenging we read, let me encourage to hang in there as we see the big picture unfold. This actually connects to my god chat today.

I'm so grateful for god's great lover, diversity and how he works in and through all of us to display more angles and textures and colors of his glory. And because he's efficient and not only glorifies him, but IT benefits us too, through god's work in us, we actually enhance each other's existence. He isn't building a one dimensional kingdom where we all look at the same. He gives his diverse body, unique gifts, offer back to him, and connect them all in an orderly fashion like only he can do. He is where the joy is.

Okay, bible readers, it's time for our weekly check in today. We have our first, first being thirteen maka. The love chapter for some of you this season can feel extra full of love and marines, and for others, I can feel extra lonely or even extra of both.

Regardless, we want to encourage you to stay in the word don't lose sight of jesus while your busy celebrating his birthday. Don't overlook his deep love for the father and for us that he would come to earth to save his people. Let me zoom out on the entire story.

We can see how that love saturate every page of scripture. So we'll see you back here tomorrow, whether your drinking pepper coco sitting by your publically accurate activity or not. And we ll look for more of his love, even in the chapters that aren't no for IT.