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… Whatever gift you have, it's been given to you by God. It's a gift. Romans 12 verse 5. We being many are one body in Christ, having gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us. So let us use them. Listen to this. If God has given you a gift or gifts, and more likely it's a few gifts. Most people I know have multiple gifts of the Spirit. And I'm only going to touch on the topic in this message. But in future messages we'll go a little more in depth than some of these other gifts. But if you've been given these gifts, it's irresponsible to not use them. Let me take it a step further. It could even be sinful to not use the gifts that God has given to you. Because we're told over in the book of James, chapter four, verse 17, to him that knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin. So you gotta use that gift that God has given you. …
… You must be fitted in connection. Romans chapter 12, verse 5 says, so it is with Christ's body, we are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other. Did you catch that? We all belong to each other. In other words, watch this connection brings belonging. God designed you to be a part of something bigger than yourself. You don't just attend church. You belong to God's family. We all need a place to call home in God's family. Psalm 68 6 says this. God sets the lonely in families. God said, I never meant for you to be lonely. I never meant for you to feel abandoned. I never meant for you to just be out there trying to do life by yourself. He said, I take the lonely and I set them in a family. And that family is the family of God. God doesn't want you lonely. God don't want you to be a lone ranger. God don't want you to just wander in life. …
… the hand does one thing, the eye does something else. So we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members one of another. That is, the whole church, the body of Christ. He's not talking about denominations, but talking about the whole body of Christ. We each individually have our particular part. And so he says in verse 6, Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise that gift accordingly, if prophecy according to the proportion of his faith, if service in his serving, or he who teaches in his teaching, he who exhorts in his exhortation, He who gives with liberality, he who leads with diligence, he who shows mercy with cheerfulness. And so all of us are going to have one of those underlying motivational drives or gifts that God has given us as believers in order to serve him and in order to live out the godly life that he has for us to give. …
… So look if you will in verse five. So, we who are many are one body in Christ and individually members one of another. We all relate to each other. Since we have gifts that differ. Now, what makes them differ? According to the grace given to us. That is, God in His grace has chosen to give you these gifts. Then He says, for example, since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, each of us is to exercise them accordingly. For example, if prophecy, which does not mean foretelling the future here but proclaiming the truth, according to the proportion of his faith, if service in his serving, or he who teaches in his teaching, he who exhorts in his exhortation, he who gives with liberality, and he who leads with diligence, he who shows mercy with cheerfulness. Now, I want to give you an example so it'll better clarify what we mean by motivational gifts. And then we'll deal with each one of these in the next message. …
… For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ and individually members of one another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them. If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith, or ministry, let us use it in our ministering. He who teaches in teaching, he who exhorts in exhortation, he who gives with liberality, he who leads with diligence, he who shows mercy with cheerfulness. The Word of God for the people of God. Thanks be to God. Please be seated. Let us pray. Again, our Father, as we undertake the task of interpreting this text that You have given to us through Your Apostle by the supervision of the Holy Ghost, we ask for Your aid to illumine the meaning of it to our minds and to open our hearts to embrace it in its fullness. for we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. …