![]() In verse 3 Paul laid out the mission of the whole church. In verse 3 Paul has just finished saying, “No one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord’, except in the Holy Spirit.” That verse three, really this statement about confessing Jesus as Lord, is the key context that helps us to understand what Paul is saying. Now before we can look at verse four, we have to actually go one verse up and look at the context of what Paul is talking about. Well let’s start in verse four, “there the Spirit distributes varieties of gifts”, that’s what Paul writes in verse four. The Spirit Distributes Varieties of Gifts There are Many Manifestations of the Spirit, but One Mission The Father Empowers Varieties of ActivitiesĤ. The Lord Jesus Commission’s Varieties of Serviceģ. The Spirit Distributes Varieties of GiftsĢ. We have four points today, but I promise you they’re for short points as we look at each individual verse.ġ. Now that may not sound right away as a Trinitarian sort of a big idea but let me walk through our points for the day and you’re going to see that each of these pieces lines up with a person of the Trinity. So, our big idea today is this, The Holy Spirit gives gifts to empower our common mission. It’s one of the clearest texts that talks about the works of each person of the Trinity and the one work of the one to bring about the redemption of the church. Now we’re not organizing what we’re doing to align with that, but this morning our passage deals with it. It’s where we are, or where many Christians, are celebrating and teaching sermons on the doctrine of the Trinity from some passage of Scripture. If you know anything about the church calendar, today is Trinity Sunday. ![]() Sometimes however there’s a little bit of providential overlap between the broader church calendar and what we end up coming upon in a particular given week. and let the chips fall within God’s Word according to God’s timing. So, we study verse by verse, chapter by chapter. We want on each Lord’s Day to celebrate the fullness of the message of the gospel, week by week by week. We want all of the truths of Scripture to come to us and be laid before us. Through all the other times we are primarily focusing on what we have in each passage of Scripture that we come to. When we do this, we give special attention sometimes to the Lord’s birth around Christmas, to his death on Good Friday, to the resurrection on Easter. We have tried to stick to what the Bible reveals about the biblical church calendar where we gather a week-by-week, Lord’s Day by Lord’s Day to worship together. Harvest is not a church, as you’ve probably come to realize if you’ve been here any length of time, that observes the fullness of what some Christians celebrate in the liturgical calendar, where there are a variety of days where we are supposed to remember certain things. This is the word of the Lord that we will be considering this morning. 7 To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. Sardis narrowly avoids joining Laodicea in receiving only words of criticism from Christ.Hear now the word of the Lord from 1 Corinthians 12:4-7.Ĥ Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit 5 and there are varieties of service, but the same Lord 6 and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone. Since reputation is a good thing, this statement technically is considered a praise from Jesus. Its reputation alleged it was alive, but really it was spiritually dead. As the all-wise Head of the Church, Jesus knew the church in Sardis had a reputation that didn't match reality. Jesus identifies himself to the church in Sardis as having the seven spirits of God, likely a reference to His wisdom, and also having the seven stars, a reference to the messengers or pastors of the seven churches. Later, the Romans built a new town below the hill and left the original Sardis deserted. In AD 17 an earthquake completely destroyed Sardis. The soldier successfully sneaked into Sardis and opened its gates to Antiochus and His army. ![]() However, Antiochus the Great, a Syrian king, conquered Sardis by sending a soldier through a crack in the city's northern wall. ![]() This limited access made it easy for only a few men to defend the city. The city commanded a prominent military position atop a 1,500-foot high hill and was accessible only by a steep path on its southern side. Sardis was located about 30 miles southeast of Thyatira and 50 miles east of Smyrna. The fifth of seven letters from Jesus is addressed to the church in Sardis.
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