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The Spiritual Struggle



If it is of the Holy Spirit, it will glorify Jesus and build up others.


Ask, who does it call attention too?  Jesus or the person speaking.  



Things that are wrong glorify the person speaking. 



If it is off the Holy Spirit, there will be good results.  


However, having a manifestation of the Holy Spirit does not indicate Spiritual maturity.

  


1 Corinthians 3:1-3 (ESV)

 But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 

2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready,

3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?







A person who is maturing is walking in divine love, and is not easily offended, getting mad, or getting into strife. 



Spiritual maturity does not come with the passage of time. 
  


You can't control anybody, but you can control your reaction to them.  



If the enemy can get you off centered, he will keep you from growing up.



Look past the offense, but perceive the spiritual struggle.  



Walk in love.




1 Corinthians 14:1  (ESV)

Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.  






1 Corinthians 12 (ESV)


4 Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit;
5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord;
6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone.
7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.


Any believer can have a manifestation of the Holy Spirit.  


8 For to one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,



This is knowing something that you did not learn by natural means.  It's not the whole knowledge of something, but a part. It's like a glimpse.


  


9 to another (a great) faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spirit,
  
10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues. 

11 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as he wills.




We have the gifts of the Holy Spirit.  Not all of them by ourselves, but when we are together. 
Keith Moore, Faith Life Church  
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