| I. We Must Honestly Evaluate Our Gifts |
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VERSES 12:3-5 |
| A. The Exhortation: |
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| 1. Introduction: |
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| a. The Means: |
For through the grace given to me |
(3a) |
| b. The Action: |
I say to everyone among you |
(3b) |
| 2. Negatively: |
not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; |
(3c) |
| 3. Positively: |
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| a. First: |
but to think so as to have sound judgment, |
(3d) |
| b. Second: |
as God has allotted to each a measure of faith. |
(3e) |
| B. The Explanation – A Comparison: |
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| 1. The Physical Body: |
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| a. First |
For just as we have many members in one body |
(4a) |
| b. Second: |
and all the members do not have the same function, and all the members do not have the same function, |
(4b) |
| 2. The body of Christ: |
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| a. First: |
so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, |
(5a) |
| b. Second: |
and individually members one of another. |
(5b) |
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| II. We Must Exercise Our Individual Gifts |
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VERSES 12:6-8 |
| A. The Exhortation: |
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| 1. The Reason: |
Since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, |
(6a) |
| 2. The Command: |
each of us is to exercise them accordingly: |
(6b) |
| B. The Specific Examples: |
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| 1. Prophecy: |
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| a. If: |
if prophecy, |
(6c) |
| b. Then: |
according to the proportion of his faith; |
(6d) |
| 2. Service: |
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| a. If: |
if service, |
(7a) |
| b. Then: |
in his serving; |
(7b) |
| 3. Teaching: |
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| a. Who: |
or he who teaches, |
(7c) |
| b. What: |
in his teaching; |
(7d) |
| 4. Exhortation: |
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| a. Who: |
or he who exhorts, |
(8a) |
| b. What: |
in his exhortation; |
(8b) |
| 5. Giving: |
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| a. Who: |
he who gives, |
(8c) |
| b. How: |
with liberality; |
(8d) |
| 6. Leadership: |
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| a. Who: |
he who leads, |
(8e) |
| b. How: |
with diligence; |
(8f) |
| 7. Mercy: |
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| a. Who: |
he who shows mercy, |
(8g) |
| b. How: |
with cheerfulness. |
(8h) |