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The gifts are of strengthening and of benefit for the life of the Church

Dr. Roberto Miranda

(Audio: Spanish)

SUMMARY: The 14th chapter of First Corinthians emphasizes the importance of balancing the use of gifts of the Holy Spirit in a Church. Paul highlights the importance of prophecy, which includes speaking under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, exhorting, confronting, and proclaiming biblical teachings. Prophecy serves to edify, exhort, and console people in an understandable language, which makes it more important than speaking in tongues that may not be understood. Paul's concern is for what benefits the Church and produces results, not just sensational and supernatural manifestations. The Church must prioritize spiritual growth, effective evangelism, organization, discipling, and growth in the character of Jesus Christ, along with supernatural manifestations.

The entire 14th chapter of First Corinthians is a detailed elaboration of the importance of balancing also the different considerations that a Church must take into account when it is moving in the effusiveness and explosive character of the gifts of the Holy Spirit. --break -> We see that that effusiveness of which we have spoken is in manifestation at the beginning of chapter 14 where Paul says: "Follow love" and there he is connecting with the previous chapter, chapter 13 where he talks about the preminence of love: "Follow love and seek spiritual gifts." There is chapter 12 right? "I don't want you to ignore the spiritual gifts. Then Paul says:" But above all, that you prophesy "and there we go directly into chapter 14.

Why does Paul say this that above all, apart from the gifts and the importance of love, that we, if we are going to use some gift or some of the things that can be used in the Christian life, this that it is rather prophesy? And there we have to understand the complexity of that concept of prophecy.

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