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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.

¹² For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

¹³ For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

¹⁴ For the body is not one member, but many.

¹⁵ If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁶ And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

¹⁷ If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

¹⁸ But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

¹⁹ And if they were all one member, where were the body?

²⁰ But now are they many members, yet but one body.

²¹ And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

²² Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

²³ And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

²⁴ For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

²⁵ That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

²⁶ And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

²⁷ Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

²⁸ And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.

²⁹ Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

³⁰ Have all the gifts of healing? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

³¹ But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

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Alex N's 1 Corinthians Chapter 12 comment about verse 7 on 6/28/2022, 4:49pm...

Hiya Jesse Gbu...But Jesse the book in the right hand of the Father has not been opened yet which contains the living words of God...The book contains living words which are living Spirits which are the Children of PROMISE..The H.G. Plural which is the multiplication of very God...An Israel of God...Thats what Jesus was talking bout when he said that which is born of the spirit is spirit...The words of that book are not paper and ink but Spirits and life...Living beings that are gona be born in us that hear his Words his seeds,..As Jesus is the bridegroom and the sower of that living word/ seeds Thus a baby Christ....Thus the woman in Rev 12 is the world and her Children ..baby Gods

....In the volume of the book it is written of me i delight to do thy will O God...What is Gods will, that Christ might be multiplied as the stars of heaven and putting the very kingdom of God in the hearts of humanity...But this requires seed living seeds. the very seeds of God...Thus the contents of the book ( the volume of the book ) are the living WORDS/seeds as Jesus said the good seeds are the Words of God.

.....We have not heard all the words of God ( Prophesy ) yet..Simply b/c the book has not been opened yet..Remember what God told DANIEL go thy way Daniel these Words are closed up and sealed till the time of the END....The Book has not been unsealed just yet...Thus the words of wonder that God spoke of are not here just yet. They All sang a new song after the book was opened....The Kingdom is not here just yet...When the woman births the Children ( the manchild that is gonna rule all nations ) of the kingdom then we can say the Kingdom is here....But 1 thing for sure is the Kingdom does not come till the woman births the Children of Promise,..The Prophetic living words of the Book,..Revelations 12 : 10 kjv...That Israel of God. y are they the Israel of God b/c they are the contents of the BOOK in the Fathers right hand....In the volume of the book it is written of me . GBU

Jesse's 1 Corinthians Chapter 12 comment about verse 7 on 6/27/2022, 2:58pm...

David,

I assume you are responding to something I posted a while back, so I'll respond. My focus will be on Hebrews 1:1-2, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son, whom He hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also He made the worlds;"

In the OT, God worked through progressive revelation. God manifested certain truths about Himself through certain stages of history, and through different people. And not just people, but different things, like the burning bush, or some of these other epiphanies where God revealed Himself through circumstances, and even animals, as far as that's concerned.

In Hebrews 1:1, the literal translation is not by the prophets, but in the prophets. The Greek text indicates that He wasn't just speaking through them. He was in the prophets. So He was in the prophets, speaking at various times, and in various ways, but has upon the last of the last days, spoken to us in Son. There is no word "his" in the original language.

What this is saying is that in the last days, the instrument that God uses is not the prophets, not various other ways like a burning bush, but He has upon the last segment of these last days spoken to us in a Son. So God has spoken to us. His last spokesperson, the last instrument that God used to minister to us, is His Son.



It's important to see the contrast between the superiority of Jesus Christ in comparison to the prophets. Those days are over. There are no more messages to various people.

Is it okay to prophecy today? I would say yes. But a NT prophet is someone who is a spokesperson for God, someone who takes the already written word of God and speaks His written word to others, nothing added to, or nothing taken away. There are no new prophecies today. God does not reveal "new prophecy" to anyone today. We already have the complete word of God and all prophecy has been given to us in His word.

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