| Article number: | R2R57 |
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This message continues the study of the Tower of God’s Will and reviews the eighth spiritual gift—Divers Kinds of Tongues. It also focuses on the 7th Tongue—the Tongue of Witness—and gives examples from the Scriptures for the Witness for Idolatry (Deuteronomy 17:6,7), the Witness for Sin (Deuteronomy 19:15), the Witness for Trespasses (Matthew 18:15-19), the Witness for Elders (First Timothy 5:19), the Witness in Heaven (First John 5:7), the Witness in Earth (First John 5:8), the Witness to Believers (Matthew 18:19), the Witness to Israel (Hebrews 2:4), the Threefold Witness of Jesus by the Word (John 1:6,7; 5:33), by the Holy Ghost (Matthew 3:16, 17), and by His Works (John 5:36), the Witness of Righteousness (Romans 3:21,22), and the Witness of the Father and the Son (John 8:12-18).
The gifts of the Spirit are the first things to be poured out in the Body of Christ. They are to prepare the way for God’s Word in the service. Above them are the Administrations of the five ministry gifts of Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, and Teachers for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, and for the edifying of the Body of Christ until we all come in the Unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the Stature of the Fulness of Christ: that we be no more children, but speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the Head, even Christ.
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. Spiritual gifts and the Differences of Administrations are steppingstones to full spiritual growth. If we will use the gifts to reach the Diversities of Operations of Love, God will continue to pour out His Spirit and to let us grow in spiritual gifts. If we do not use them for this purpose, God will strip them from us. Spiritual growth and spiritual gifts are two different things. Yet, there are spiritual gifts into which we can grow. Some gifts are given to us as we grow spiritually and as God can trust us with them. Others are given to us as babies to help us to grow. This is why we cannot compare ourselves among ourselves, as the Apostle Paul said in Second Corinthians 10:12.