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.

The Light Overpowers Darkness

Thursday, December 25, 2014
John 1:1-9 KJV 

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name [was] John. 7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all [men] through him might believe. 8 He was not that Light, but [was sent] to bear witness of that Light. 9 [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) Who or what was in the beginning and who or what was He (it) with? (v.1-2)
2) What was made by Him? (v.3)
3) What was in Him and what did it give to men? (v.4)
4) What could the darkness not comprehend? (v.5)
5) Who was sent from God to bear witness to the Light? (v.6-8)
6) Who is the true Light? (v.9)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
7) Are you the light of the world or do you reflect the light? How do you know?
8) What do you do to reflect the goodness of the Lord in your own life?

LIFE LESSONS
9) The Lord Jesus Christ is the true Light in this dark world.
10) Those who do not reflect the Light live in darkness.
11) Like the moon reflects the light from the sun, Christians reflect the radiance of our Lord Jesus.