administers the gifts—they are under His direction; the Father God supplies the power, and He energizes the gifts. All of this is for the one purpose of exalting and glorifying the lordship of Jesus Christ. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal [1 Cor. 12:7]. First of all, let’s define a gift. What is a gift of the Spirit? It is acapacity for service. It is a function. This is Dr. Lewis Sperry Chafer’s definition: “A gift in the spiritual sense means the Holy
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