One Spirit, a Variety of Gifts

Sunday, May 10, 2015
1 Corinthians 12:1-11 KJV 

1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I would not have you ignorant. 2 Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. 3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and [that] no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost. 4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. 7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. 8 For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; 9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; 10 To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) Why did the Apostle Paul write about spiritual gifts in this epistle? (v.1)
2) What does Paul write about the past of his Gentile readers? (v.2)
3) Who, or what, makes it possible for believers to say that Jesus is Lord? (v.3)
4) What does the apostle write concerning the various spiritual gifts that believers have? (v.4-6)
5) Why is the Holy Spirit manifested in the lives of every believer? (v.7)
6) What specific spiritual gifts does the Apostle Paul write about and who, or what, determines what gifts every believer receives? (v.8-11)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
7) What did you do to receive the spiritual gifts that you have received?

LIFE LESSONS
8) Different spiritual gifts are given to every believer by the Holy Spirit, according to His will.