Beholding His Glory

Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (2nd Tim. 2.15)
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. (Mark 7.9)
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2nd Cor. 3.18)

Monday, August 14, 2006

The Abiding Supernatural Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 13:13 ASV (13) But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

That is, they abide, while the believer abides, in the present world.

Later, sight replaces faith, hope is fulfilled, but the greatest of the three abides forever.

The lesser supernatural spiritual gifts have ceased. (Together with the special spiritual offices (Ephesians 4:11) and the special spiritual supernatural signs or miracles of the apostolic age.)

1 Corinthians 13:8 ASV Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall be done away; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall be done away.

From the most favored, prophecy, to the least favored, tongues, the special gifts of the apostolic age have ceased.

But they have been replaced by much better things:

1 Corinthians 13:9-12 ASV (9) For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; (10) but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away. (11) When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things. (12) For now we see in a mirror, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know fully even as also I was fully known.

And the three great gifts abide.

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