Excel in Your Gifts

Saturday, May 23, 2015
1 Corinthians 14:6-12 KJV

6 Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine? 7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air. 10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them [is] without signification. 11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh [shall be] a barbarian unto me. 12 Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) What does the Apostle Paul write concerning the benefit of the gift of speaking in tongues? (v.6)
2) What does the apostle write about any sound made on this earth? (v.7-8)
3) What are the drawbacks of speaking in tongues and what utterance is most beneficial to the body of Christ? Why? (v.9-10)
4) What spiritual gifts should we seek to excel at and why? (v.12)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
5) Have you received the spiritual gift of speaking in known or unknown tongues? 
6) How are others in your local church blessed, or edified by the spiritual gift of speaking in tongues?

LIFE LESSONS
7) The Holy Spirit blesses the people of God with different spiritual gifts. The spiritual gift of speaking in tongues blesses the recipients and the Lord.
8) Every believer can ask the Lord for those spiritual gifts that will not only bless, but edify, the body of Christ.