"Spiritual Gifts" Cont'd

"Spiritual Gifts" Cont'd

1 Cor 12 10 speaks on the gift of prophecy. This deeper then just telling someone what God said to tell someone else. In the old testament, prophets would foretell events in the New Testaments. Foretelling is not needed any more now that Revelations has been made. Now it is called forthtelling. Forthtelling is explaining was has already been said. Revelations has already revealed what is going to happen.

Hebrews 1 tells that God would speak to prophets in diverse ways to give messages to His people. And verse 2 states that once His Son came, he stopped using the prophets. Prophets were used to speak of the coming of Jesus. Once Jesus came, God spoke through His Son. There is no reason for us to be looking toward false prophets to see where you will end up.

John 1 states in the beginning was the Word, the Word was God and the Word was with God. Which explains in the beginning of eternity, Verse 2 states the Word was with God also in the beginning of time. So verse 1 was the beginning of eternity and verse 2 was the beginning of time (gen 1 1). This shows that Jesus was always with God, from the beginning of eternity, even before time. Jesus is the Word. Hebrews 10 7 speaks of Jesus saying that anything you need to know about me will be found in the Book (the Word, the Bible). Knowing this, we shouldn't believe NOTHING unless its in the book. We need to not believe all the false prophets going around saying things that are NOT of the Word. If someone tells you someone, ask them to back it up by the Word. Never believe something that can't be backed up by the Word.

2 Peter 1 20 states that no one can make their own interpretation of the Word, verse 21 states that the Word was given by the Spirit of God. Acts 16 16 states of a young girls who was gettin paid for soothsaying, she follow Paul and Silas around for a few days telling everyone in the city that "These men have the power of Salvation".. After a few days Paul gets tired of her, and speaks to the spirit in her and tells her "in the spirit of God, I command you to leave this girl" and the spirit left and she no longer could tell the future. If someone is carrying a spirit not of God, God will make a way to show you the false prophets... IE Miss Cleo. Paul had the gift of discernment. That is the gift of knowing what is being said is actually of the word. The gift of discernment will allow you to know someone's spirit. You will be able to know that someone is of God. You will be able to read someone's spirit. We can easily be fool by praise, the girl who had the evil spirit of soothsaying was praising Paul and Silas just so she could fool others into thinking that she was with them. She was tryna make it seem as if she was walking and speaking with the Word. Paul who had the gfit to know that she was not of God, told that spirit to leave. He wouldn't allow Gods people to be fooled no longer. "We don't know what the future holds, but we know who holds our future".