2. Manifestation: the act of showing or demonstrating something. An indication that something is present, real, or exists. Materialization of spirit.

4. And here the apostle Paul says that the church collectively is a habitation of the Spirit.

5. In other words, the Spirit of God not only indwells individual Christians, but indwells the collective assembly of believers.

6. The Spirit of God indwells the total church.

7. The Spirit indwells any local assembly.

10. And Paul reiterates that in 1 Corinthians 13:2 and he says, "If I have all faith so that I could remove mountains," and there is the gift beyond what anyone else could believe to be done, the gift of faith can lay hold of the promise of God.

13. This was the patrol.

14. This was the guard,

15. The lookout for the church.

16. In the early years of the church when the Bible had not been written the New Testament was not penned, people would say, God says this and God says this and I'm a prophet of God and I speak for the Holy Spirit, and it was difficult to know who did and who didn't.

18. Well somebody with the gift of discernment should have stood up and said, "That is not the Spirit of God speaking," and they should have listened to that. That's what the gift primarily was used for.

20. That sounds like good P.R. These men are the servants of the Most High God who show us the way of salvation and she did it for many days.

21. You say, "Terrific," you know it's just like the car going down the street with the PA system on announcing these men.

22. All of a sudden Paul turns around in verse 18 and says, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ come out of her, and the spirit came out the same hour."

24. It could be used to reveal false prophets and spiritual phony's.

26. I think the gift can even be used to see the intrusion of carnal elements into worship.

27. There are people who minister even from here singing and so forth and doing things all throughout the church in any ministry, in any area of worship that are doing it in a flash. And there are some people who can read that loud and clear, and some of the rest of us we don't know what is going on.

28. The gift can discern one in whom the Holy Spirit is genuinely working.

29. The same person will often say to me, "You know there's a person really energized by the Spirit of God. I can see it."

30. But perhaps the gift of discernment can be used too when you have two Christians arguing instead of going to a pagan court they are brought before some people to make a judgment.

31. 1 Corinthians 6:5, and if they both argue for their own side you maybe use somebody with the gift of discernment to determine whose right and whose wrong and who deserves what.

33. serving, support the leaders;

34. giving, supply the needy;

35. mercy, sympathize with the sick and the poor and the destitute;

36. faith, secure God's power;

37. discernment, save the saints from the counterfeit. All those dimensions sum up with the speaking gifts to make the church mature in Christ. So we see the primary colors, eleven of them on the palette of the Spirit as He paints the portrait on the canvas of the church. And it's a beautiful combination designed to reveal Christ and it only really works when you are faithful to minister in your area.<br />Father, thank you for helping us again this morning to understand your revelation. We bless your name for giving us a part in your ministry, letting us share in the gifting ness. Help us to be faithful, Lord. There's so many folks who you've given the gift to and they just don't use it, self, carnality, the flesh, laziness, ignorance, counterfeits. Lord, move all that out of the way and let us minister. Let it be said of us the Holy Spirit operates that church because there is unity and fellowship and worship and evangelism, because there is obedience, because there is submission to the lordship of Christ, because there is love and because those people there minister to each other with their gifts. May that testimony be our testimony. It can only be ours collectively when each one of us is faithful. In Jesus' name, to do what He's gifted us to do. That's our prayer. Amen.<br />