| Article number: | R2R56 |
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This message covers the Tower of God’s Will, which includes: (I) The Diversities of Spiritual Gifts (First Corinthians 12:4-10, 28, (II) The Differences of Administrations (First Corinthians 12:28; Ephesians 4:4,12), and (III) The Diversities of Operations (First Corinthians, chapter 13). The eleven spiritual gifts are: (1) Word of Wisdom, (2) Word of Knowledge, (3) Faith, (4) Gifts of Healing, (5) Working of Miracles, (6) Prophecy, (7) Discerning of Spirits, (8) Divers Kinds of Tongues, (9) Interpretation of Tongues, (10) Helps, and (11) Governments. There are seven kinds of Tongues: (1) Praise, (2) Intercession, (3) Travail, (4) Rebuke, (5) Messages, (6) Songs, and (7) Witness. Spiritual gifts are given to the Body of Christ to help us to grow up in the LORD Jesus Christ’s Spiritual Stature. The eleven spiritual gifts were pictured in the type and shadow by the eleven curtains that were sewn together in the Mosaic Tabernacle. The curtains were joined together, and there were loops on each curtain that were doubled one over the other and fifty brass taches. The curtains were joined together so that they would be one covering. Brass speaks of Judgment, the Judgment of the Holy Ghost. God wants the gifts to operate so that the whole church might be one, and we will not do it without the taches of Judgment of God’s Spirit.
Under the different Administrations, there are five ministry gifts: Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, Teachers, and Evangelists. Then, the last category in God’s Tower that takes us into perfect union with Jesus and into the Stature of His Cross at the top of the Tower is Love. The Apostle Paul said, “But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:” (Ephesians 4:15). He also said that although we may have all the spiritual gifts and administrations, if we do not have Love, we become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Without Love, we are nothing and profit nothing. Love is that invisible thing that moves from one heart to another that brings Unity. God’s Wisdom is pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy (James 3:17). Spiritual gifts are the first things to be poured out to the Body of Christ. Above them is the ministry of the Word, and at the top is Love, into which we cannot grow without God’s Spirit and His Word.