If anyone speaks, he should speak as one conveying the words of God. If anyone serves, he should serve with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.If anyone speaks, let it be as it were the very words of God. If anyone serves, let it be as of the strength which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.if any man speaketh, speaking as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
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… You need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. And in the third instance, besides Romans, is in 1 Peter 4.11. Whoever speaks, let him do so as one who speaks the oracles of God. So, these four passages, and at least in three of them, it's likely that the referent are to the written down Scriptures. There's a famous scholarly article over a hundred years ago written by the great theologian B.B. Warfield. You can get it in the book Inspiration and Authority. It includes it there. he has a famous article called The Oracles of God, where he talks about this very phrase, and he traces it in Greco-Roman literature and Jewish literature, and he concludes that this phrase refers to the Old Testament Scriptures. He says in Romans 3.2, it certainly refers to that. In Hebrews 5.12, it probably refers to that. In Acts 7.38, it likely refers to that. And in 1 Peter, it may not refer to that, but three of the four, and he says, certainly in Romans 3.2. …
… By his grace, through your faith, for his glory. And I didn't make that up, so we're going to go to 1 Peter chapter 4, verses 10 to 11. And I think it'll be on the screen up here, or if you have your phone that you want to open up, that's great. 1 Peter 4, 10 and 11. You look for those three aims in this passage, and it won't be a mystery. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's varied grace. Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God, whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies. In order that, in everything, God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Now, I suppose that text is, I mean, I know it is very precious to me. and it is largely because in my 33 years of preaching in my pastorate, no text was more frequently prayed over me in the 30 minutes before I walked into the pulpit than those verses. …
… as one who is serving by the strength which God supplies so that in all things God may be glorified. And he says, through Jesus Christ, to whom belongs the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen. Now, God has equipped you with a gift that suits and fits his purpose for your life. There's no such thing as a giftless child of God. And so as you listen to this, I want to encourage you to examine your own heart. Ask yourself the question, do these things sound like me, the way I feel in my relationships? because when you discover what your spiritual gift is or whether you do not discover it, the knowledge of it or absence of it affects all of your relationships, people you work with, your children, your husband, your wife, your friends, because we all have one of those gifts that, listen, that determine how we respond, react, relate, accomplish, achieve, or fail to do so in our life. So today the gift is the gift of service. …