Receive The Gifts Of Healing Part 2

Look at this with me.

1 Corinthians chapter 12.

And in particular, verse 28.

And God has set some in the church.

First, apostles.

Secondarily, prophets.

Thirdly, teachers.

After that, miracles.

Then...

Gifts of healings helps governments diversity of tongues.

Now let's take a moment and examine this.

There are nine ministry gifts which are taught in Ephesians chapter 4.

First there's the apostle.

Then there's the prophet.

Then there's the evangelists, then pastors and teachers.

Five-fold ministry gifts as revealed in Ephesians chapter 4.

In 1 Corinthians that I've just read to you, chapter 12, in this verse, it breaks it down now into functions.

what it does, how they operate.

So this is not a list of the five-fold ministry gifts, but rather it is a recognition to the gifts that lead up to the working of miracles and the gifts of healings, plural.

Those gifts that lead up to it or the operation of are the apostle, the prophet, and the teacher, which is the threefold presentation of how the gospel went forth as we read about it in the New Testament.

There were different apostles mentioned in your Bible.

These were men that Jesus called to carry the gospel forward.

But the first 12 are referred to sometimes as the apostles of the Lamb, those that Christ called unto himself to function in that category of the apostle.

But later, you had other apostles that would be added.

They're not the apostles of the Lamb.

Look at this with me.

1 Corinthians chapter 12.

And in particular, verse 28.

And God has set some in the church.

First, apostles.

Secondarily, prophets.

Thirdly, teachers.

After that, miracles.

Then...

Gifts of healings helps governments diversity of tongues.

Now let's take a moment and examine this.

There are nine ministry gifts which are taught in Ephesians chapter 4.

First there's the apostle.

Then there's the prophet.

Then there's the evangelists, then pastors and teachers.

Five-fold ministry gifts as revealed in Ephesians chapter 4.

In 1 Corinthians that I've just read to you, chapter 12, in this verse, it breaks it down now into functions.

what it does, how they operate.

So this is not a list of the five-fold ministry gifts, but rather it is a recognition to the gifts that lead up to the working of miracles and the gifts of healings, plural.

Those gifts that lead up to it or the operation of are the apostle, the prophet, and the teacher, which is the threefold presentation of how the gospel went forth as we read about it in the New Testament.

There were different apostles mentioned in your Bible.

These were men that Jesus called to carry the gospel forward.

But the first 12 are referred to sometimes as the apostles of the Lamb, those that Christ called unto himself to function in that category of the apostle.

But later, you had other apostles that would be added.

They're not the apostles of the Lamb.