Expositions on Spiritual Endowments  The Grace of God in Truth THE tremendous growth and success of the modern charismatic movement has brought considerable respectability and acceptance to practices which nearly all deemed spurious only a few decades ago. Nonetheless, many outside the movement, perhaps out of fear of the unknown and due to their aversion…

Expositions on Spiritual Endowments The Grace of God in Truth JUST AS 1 Corinthians 14:22 is the only passage which states the purpose of the gift of languages, 1 Corinthians 13:10 is the only passage that reveals when this gift will cease. Having made mention in 1 Corinthians 12:28 of certain subordinate graces pertaining to “species of languages,”…

Expositions on Spiritual Endowments The Grace of God in Truth THE PATH “suited to transcendence” (1 Cor.12:31), is the path of truth for believers today. On this pathway, only “faith, expectation, love–these three” are “remaining” (1 Cor.13:13). The gifts of 1 Corinthians 12 as a whole were concerned only with the early period of the ecclesia’s development. In…

Expositions on Spiritual Endowments Rooted and Grounded in Love THE transcendent nature of the present outflow of God’s favor corresponds with the exaltation of Christ among the celestials. Because He is “up above all the heavens” (Eph. 4:10). We are raised to the heights supreme. It is not, indeed, as the English may suggest, that…