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Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Hiyoh! How can this happen one?
21 comments:
Simple !
For Penang - Ask Dr. Koh !
For Selangor - Ask Khir Toyo !
For Rakyat - No answers or Dubious answers like it sounds like me, looks like me but it wasn't me !
1Hee-Haw !
- 5:21 pm
I am sure all the BN loudmouths, even the rempits will come out and tell us that PR is lying if it is not true! That's the check and balance mechanism!
- 9:14 pm
Mr. Teoh, If you can get The Star/NST/Berita Harian/Utusan/etc to publish this on the front page, I will do for you anything you want.
- 10:12 pm
thank you for bringing out this report which was never reported by the MSM.
this can clearly show one thing-that the BN govt is hopeless!No wonder we are so far behind our neighbour countries who used to be at par or below us economically in the past. Change we Must!
- 10:17 pm
Dear Patrick,
Comment by anon@10:12
Perhaps you could post the link to the official source of the reports for confirmation. For sure the MSM would not publish these reports.
anon@10:12 should then help to spread the news to all of his friends.
I, for sure will gladly convey the news to all that I know.
- 12:07 am
Pat... Pls forward this to that jala fler. Hopefully he can digest the info, as to why our nation, full of natural resources is heading towards bankcruptcy.
- 1:09 am
- Hidup Melayu said...
- 9:45 am
Must Kick OUT spineless and shameless M Corrupt A in coming General Election!!!
- 9:47 am
Dear Patrick,
True, what some other commentator said; had it been untrue, the BN numbnuts would be out loudly proclaiming that its one big lie and PR spin.
That they kept a sheepish silence and try to divert our attention with lame brained issues is proof enuff for moi that this bunch of jerks have really overstayed and are asleep at the switch!
Unca Pete
- 11:48 am
Good player indeed in figures, well we Rakyat are dumbo in calculating kan? *middle finger up*
- 12:08 pm
Not a spin patrick, but soon.... all the woods, lands, and sands in the country will be gone... that is exactly what is going on in selangor... all the sands being exported to singapore, woods cut off is that what you want?
- 12:33 pm
Only bloggers like nkkhoo cannot understand this simple fact.
- 5:06 pm
This is not to counter spin but the indication are simple and even my 2 years old daughter can understand it. she's not even enrolled to taska but she know number well. so i dont think that the number given on the picture are too complicated to understand. what? u want to tell me that UMNO/BN didnt get that much bcoz they are protecting the environment? oh common.... unless u re blind and deaf combined together. my argument to you is 50yrs+ versus less than 5 years in office. tell me more about it.... ?
(p/s: don't tell me that the kedah, selanggor, kelantan dan penang PR gov trying to grab as much properties & money as they can b4 the BN taking over once again and that, by that, the 4 PR state environment was badly destructed by themselves at less than 5 years in power).
- 6:05 pm
Anonymous 12.33pm, are you sure less sand or less trees were fell during the BN administration? It is the leak in the system and corruptions in the BN government.
PR has shown efficiency and clean governance.
You are missing the point. Wake up or open you bloody eyes....
Or maybe you are paid to write the shit you wrote.....
- 6:34 pm
No report on the timber income from Sarawak of White Hair a.k.a. ATM?
- 12:47 pm
Anon 6:34 PM
You have the time to read every single comments here do you? how hillarious, because nobody is even talking to you.
For your info, PR state government has been digging tonnes of sand to be sold to Singapore, and some other state, and these companies involved are Khalid cronies, along with Anwar cronies.
In Perak during PAS stay, Nizar gave his own cronies woods, lands, and one of them happened to be my own uncle who was former PAS Adun.
But he did not take it after receiving advise from his mother which is my grandma, telling him it is a sin to do that and it is against Islamic principles that the very reason he is with PAS.
In Selangor, PKR has been offering people with chinese prostitutes to lure vote, but sadly MCA resorts to the same tactic..
Dude, I tell you something.. there is no one who is honest in politics.. 16 september, 2008 manifestos, and alot others did you even see them fulfilling their promises?
Anwar is willing to even get rid of his own loyal supporters from 1998 just because of Azmin, and for your information the sex video involving Anwar was not from UMNO, but from those inside PKR who wanted to rid of Anwar because they were angry of him, (corruptions, high-handed) tactic to rid of his political opponents inside PKR to make Azmin win.Dato Saleh for example did not even do anything wrong, but Anwar along with Dzul of PAS ridicule him calling him fat-Saleh, and names.
Anwar wants to be PM, Lim Kit Siang wants to be PM, Khalid wants to be PM, Husam wants to be PM, Azmin wants to be PM, who will be the cabinet?
They called him that because they think he is unfit to lead, unfortunate for someone who was with Anwar since reformation day of 1998.
Anwar lied so many times, and he is even willing to sell this country as long as he is the PM.
A vote for DAP is a vote for PAS's agenda, and have you seen the latest cabinet draft from Azmin?
Think carefully about the future of this country.
- 1:07 pm
I think there is an error of ommission. The chart missed out a column for the BN years. For Selangor the should be a Khir 'Toyol' column which states Untung 40 million each for sand and forest.
- 4:48 pm
India's great moral leader Mohandas Gandhi famously said that there is enough on Earth for everybody's need, but not enough for everybody's greed.
- 4:29 pm
YIP KUM FOOK (MCA GOMBAK CHAIRMAN) MAKES BUDDHIST & MCA SHAMEFUL! one of crushing shame and exploitation for Buddhist World.
敬爱的马来亚佛总理事先生Buddhist Maha Vihara, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia佛寺理事先生以及佛教信徒.
自从Yip Kum Fook (MCA Gombak Chairman)当任主席, 有预谋的迫走本地和尚(吉兰丹), 而遠聘缅甸和尚, 当任主持之后Samnak Sambodhi Thai Buddhist Temple No: 19 Jalan 38 Taman Desa Jaya, Kepong 52100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia(暹廟)就一直发生种种的是是非非, 以引起方民間議論纷纷.
其因是Yip Kum Fook (MCA Gombak Chairman)所领导的理事会, 勾结外耒的缅甸和尚, 以啇業経营, 不依佛法的精神办事, 只借宗教之名捞取权和私利所引起………. 最近又自行一套商业手法, 规定任和人, 若想出家当和尚修道者, 必先供给RM400大元, 否则免谈. 這种啇業手法, 已引起广大的信徒愤怒而不满.
Samnak Sambodhi Thai Buddhist Temple (暹廟)是佛总之联会, 而身佛堂之主席Yip Kum Fook (MCA Gombak Chairman)不以佛陀的教誨, 修心養性, 却反其道而行, 接着权势, 无悪不做, 三妻四妾, 骗财骗色, 破坏別人的家庭.....现在他的排聞满天飞, 不但给佛寺帶耒不好的名声, 也間接的耻辱佛教信仰者.
所从我们祈望马来亚佛总与Buddhist Maha Vihara, Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia理事同仁, 给以关注, 共創義举, 维护佛法
此致, 并
祝安康, 工作愉快.
Please translate in Bahasa Malaysia and English, and send to everyone, Thanks.
- 10:00 pm
Dear everyone,
Careful of YIP KUM FOOK (MCA GOMBAK) because this man is cheating and disturbing of many people's wives, and also cheating of Buddhist Temple (SAMNAK SAMBODHI)'s money.
Recently, many people know in what he"yip" did, please stay far from him. He is lawyer, Datuk, MCA Chairman and etc. or everyone can research at Website "YIP KUM FOOK"
Loh Guan Lye
Taman Desa Jaya, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur
- 6:56 pm
To all Malaysians respected,
respectfully here, we wish to inform that YIP KUM FOOK (YIP KUM FOOK & ASSOCIATES) and YIP JIUN HANN job as a lawyer who runs at: NO. 2A & 2B, 2ND FLOOR ROAD 53, DESA JAYA, KEPONG 52100 KUALA LUMPUR
We are all Malaysians to take notice and far from people mentioned above because do not hit plot
They are very nasty and black hearts (cruel), able to cheat women money, destroy families and himself consuming of Temple money, SAMNAK SAMBODHI BUDDHIST TEMPLE, NO: 19 JALAN 38 TAMAN DESA JAYA, KEPONG, KUALA LUMPUR, and pretend to report police lost receipts ......... please note
Thank you,
- 9:11 pm


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The majority of Americans have now filed their taxes. And the majority of Americans have done so incorrectly.
There is one mistake, in particular, that lots of people made: They bought tax-free things online or in another state — and they failed to pay tax on their purchase in their home state.
It's called a use tax. As far as I can tell, accountants and tax lawyers are some of the only people who pay it.
Forty-five states have a use tax. About 1.6 percent of the taxpayers in those 45 states actually pay the use tax. So I figured I'd ask a representative of that particular 1.6 percent to explain this thing most of us are supposed to be doing every year.
"Its a lot of fun," Daniel Gottfried, a lawyer at Rogin Nassau in Connecticut, told me. "I go through my credit card receipts ... page by page."
He finds something he bought from Amazon last May for $22.98. He didn't get charged sales tax on the purchase, which means he owes the state of Connecticut $1.40 for that purchase.
Gottfried spends hours adding up all these charges in a spreadsheet. He not only has to find all his online purchases; he has to figure out which online sellers already charged him sales tax, and which didn't.
He owes the use tax for the online retailers that didn't already charge him. But, this being the tax code, there are exceptions for everything from college textbooks to firearm safety devices.
He started buying diapers from Diapers.com last year. Are diapers exempt from the tax?
"Medical goods like disposable pads for incontinence are exempt," he says, "but I don't think my baby is incontinent. I think he's just a baby who needs diapers."
There's a rumor floating around among Connecticut tax professionals that the state's tax department would love to nail a tax lawyer or CPA on use taxes — someone they could easily prove was aware of the use tax and did not pay it.
But when I brought up the idea with Kevin Sullivan, the commissioner of Connecticut's Department of Revenue, he laughed it off.
"I don't think we have any particular plan to single out any class or caste of taxpayers," he said.
Like most states, Connecticut rarely goes after anyone for use tax violation, Sullivan told me. But, he said, the expectation that taxpayers would voluntarily go through all the trouble of calculating what they owe is completely reasonable. In fact, he says, figuring out what you owe and paying your debt is the foundation of the US tax system.
But states seem to be abandoning the idea that people will pay the use tax. Instead, states are trying to force online retailers to collect sales tax. If they can do it, they could bring in an extra $11.4 billion a year.
The IRS, by the way, says it's going to grant Boston-area taxpayers extensions on filing, since yesterday was tax day. But even an extension is not going to save them, and most Americans who file this year, from making a specific mistake. If you bought something online and did not pay your state's sales tax, you broke the rules. Same thing if you bought a book in New Hampshire, where there's no sales tax; but you live in Massachusetts, where there is. You're supposed to pay Massachusetts tax on that book anyway; it's called a use tax. Chana Joffe-Walt, of our Planet Money team, has been wondering who actually pays that tax.
CHANA JOFFE-WALT, BYLINE: Tax lawyers and accountants - I believe that's the answer. Forty-five states have instituted a use tax, and about 1.6 percent of those taxpayers actually pay it. So I figured I'd ask a representative of that particular 1.6 percent to show us what this thing we're all supposed to be doing every year, actually looks like.
DANIEL GOTTFRIED: Well, it's a lot of fun. Um - I go through all my credit card receipts...
JOFFE-WALT: Daniel Gottfried is a lawyer at Rogin Nassau in Connecticut. And Daniel's use-tax obligation is mostly thanks to online purchases. Some online vendors collect sales tax; some don't. If they don't, Daniel himself has to figure out what he owes, and then pay it when he files his return.
GOTTFRIED: And I would look, and I'll see my charges from Amazon. Right now, for example, here's one from May, where I bought something for $22.98. So my purchase that was $22.98, I have to pay, you know, an additional $1.40 to the state.
JOFFE-WALT: This process can take hours, partly because Daniel often has to go back and check if the vendor actually did charge him sales tax. He knows Amazon did not. Best Buy did. But there's a bunch he doesn't know.
GOTTFRIED: Oh, I'll need to figure out a new one this year. There's Diapers.com. We have a baby, and we discovered Diapers.com recently. I have no idea if they assess sales tax or not, when they sell me things.
JOFFE-WALT: So Daniel says he'll have to go back and find the email receipt from Diapers.com; at which point Daniel's colleague David Buckley, sitting there with him, points out it's possible there is a use-tax exemption on diapers. Oh, yeah - then David turns to me and says, did you know there's a long list of things that are exempt?
DAVID BUCKLEY: Bicycle helmets, child car seats, college textbooks, firearm safety devices...
GOTTFRIED: I don't think there's an exemption for the diapers. I have no idea. I'm looking here - it says medical goods like disposable pads for incontinency, are exempt. But I don't think my baby is incontinent. I think he's just a baby who needs diapers.
JOFFE-WALT: And those are things that the average person in Connecticut is supposed to know?
GOTTFRIED: Yeah. Yeah.
JOFFE-WALT: This is what the use tax asks of millions of taxpayers every year. And every year, Daniel and David oblige because they know the rules. Plus, there's a rumor floating around the tax professionals community in Connecticut, that the Department of Revenue would love to nail a tax lawyer or a CPA on use taxes - someone they could easily prove was aware of the use tax and did not pay it, to make an example of him or her.
This is a notion I heard from multiple tax lawyers, and one that the Department of Revenue's own commissioner, Kevin Sullivan, seemed to find hilarious.
KEVIN SULLIVAN: I don't think we have any particular plans to single out any class or caste of taxpayers.
JOFFE-WALT: Sullivan says the state basically never goes after someone for use-tax violation. Most states don't. Think about how expensive it is to audit someone versus the 60 bucks or so the state could potentially collect. But Commissioner Sullivan says the expectation that taxpayers would voluntarily go through what Daniel and David do every year, is completely reasonable. In fact, he says, volunteering to figure out what you owe, and then paying, is the foundation of the U.S. tax system.
SULLIVAN: The system works because people pay their taxes. By and large, in America, people don't have to be, you know, rousted out of bed at gunpoint in order to file their income tax. Most people do it.
JOFFE-WALT: But this is like, the most extreme version of..
SULLIVAN: That's correct.
JOFFE-WALT: ...of voluntary obligation.
SULLIVAN: This is the ultimate honor - code of honor, right? And...
JOFFE-WALT: Right. And it seems like we're failing the test of the ultimate code of honor.
SULLIVAN: I think people are to be somewhat forgiven for simply not knowing. And is it easy to beat this tax? Sure. You just don't do it.
JOFFE-WALT: Enough people just don't do it that states seem ready to abandon the honor code - at least, in part. Right now, states are on the path to forcing online retailers to collect sales tax - through the courts, or through a bill in Congress. If they can do it, estimates show they could bring an extra $11.4 billion a year.
Chana Joffe-Walt, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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With Google+ now allowing users to customise their user profiles many are flocking to get their custom vanity URL.
However, how many have read the "payment" section of the new terms of use?
You're now eligible for a unique Google+ custom URL that lets you easily point people to your profile (no more long URLs!).
That message is now going out to all Google+ users whose profile has a photo and at least 10 followers, and whose account is at least 30 days old.
This is the news that, in addition to the slew of Google+ updates this week, Google has started inviting all users of its social network to grab a custom URL, changing what is currently a long list of letters and numbers to something more memorable.
For those who don't know what custom URLs (also called vanity URLs) are, here's quick example. Currently, my Google+ profile is located at https://plus.google.com/113460065390054689377.
Now with my new custom URL it's possible to access my user profile from http://plus.google.com/+AndrewIsidoro, swapping out the string of numbers for something that trips much easier off the tongue and is easier to share.
The price of doing business on Google+
Usually I'm not one to write about news, after all a number of leading outlets have already written extensively about how to claim your new vanity URL but all seem to have missed out the terms of use that have accompanied the new feature; most notably the phrase about payment:
Custom URLs are free for now, but we may start charging a fee for them.
The new terms of use, which can be found here, clearly state that Google may look to monetise the URL scheme.
This would be a major shift in the business model of the platform, given that Google+'s user experience has always been geared towards being a 'no ads!' service (fuelled by the Google+ leadership that have, on numerous occasions, spoken ill of having ads on a social network).
Virante's Director of Digital Outreach, Mark Traphagen wrote in a blog post a few months ago:
Even if they (ads) come, they will be in some creative and well-integrated form that adds to the user's experience, rather than interrupting it.
Are premium features on the way?
This begs the question: Is it premium features and not advertising though that will be Google's plan of attack in monetising their service?
Certainly, with the large amount of businesses using Google+ features and the current integration with other Google products such as + Local pages, there could be a market for premium services to help these organisations (and power users) 'optimise' their profiles with advanced features and customisation.
However, with what seems like the entire digital marketing industry clamouring to personalise profiles for themselves and their clients, the news that the feature may become paid might leave a sour taste.
On the other hand, the platform is still underdeveloped, and still seen as an echo chamber for early adopters and web hipsters.
To take a quote from Econsultancy's Matt Owen:
How much revenue or awareness do we really think Ford Europe generated by running a brand promotion on G+ (a slightly uninspiring image-sharing competition), barring a bit of PR bumph because they were there first?
I'm yet to see a convincing campaign from the platform (though I'm happy to be proved wrong here).
Whatever Google's motive is, it's important to understand that you don't own your nice new shiny custom URL and that, one day, Google may come calling for payment in one way or another.
Are you advising your clients to claim thier custom URL? How do you see advancements in this area going? Let me know in the comments...
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Hi Andrew,
Is that available to all now? I had a look and it wasn't obvious....
Whilst I haven't seen any interesting G+ campaigns I do think one of the interesting things that this will bring is content marketing in general, especially for more prolific publishers, in increased authority for authorship https://plus.google.com/authorship - This will benefit all content, not just that on G+ would be my hypothesis..
Presumably a good, active, vanity URLed profile with industry connections and comments will enhance visibility of content to which you are associated as author elsewhere. Google have hinted at as much at recent publishing events - Matt Cutts all but confirming it last week http://bit.ly/1aqfjte
Not necessarily a standalone campaign in iteself, but certainly worth considering as part of the content marketing strategy as a whole over a long time-scale.
I can't think immediately of any additional premium features, but if it were known to enhance content visibility that in itself has a value tat people wouldn't want to lose when they have invested in their profile.....
just a thought in passing...!
@Angus if you meet the criteria, and most people do, it should be available now or very soon. I don't have it yet, but apparently you'll see a banner on your G+ page.
thanks Graham, not seeing it yet...
Hmmm, that's interesting about monetizing urls. Maybe they are just putting that in the T &C's as a "just in case" measure. It does not make sense to me for them to do it in the near future since they are not anywhere near the volume of users to make it profitable.
I agree Eunice. I don't think they will be making anything paid in the near future but it does highlight how they could do so in the future once the user base begins to grow further.
I've got mine google.com/+andykinsey
decent for business cards and branding in general
I'm certainly advising clients to take them if offered, it won't do any harm and if one day they do charge it will be clear whether it's worth it to that client. The other thing that strikes me about this is that it would appear premium features, inc this url, maybe offset or zero if you let them use your +1's etc in adverts... just a thought no solid grounding for it but its possible.
Many people asked me why they haven't got custom URL for their account yet. You will have to prepare for it. Here is the detailed guide, hopefully it will be useful for readers here
Nice post. I think this is a huge sign that Google plan to charge for more features in the future. How long before GA and GWT become paid?
GWT will be next! I think the free GA version has its days numbered too!
Thanks for the insights, Andrew.
Google is copying Facebook with this custom URL, but to be honest I preferred the changes and the numbers. But I'm not sure about the 'paid service' - It would be interesting to see how much they will charge for it.
thanks for such a lovely post... stats are great..
I think for those worrying thinking 'signing up now - worry about payment later', the problem with this has been nailed by Andy Kinsey's comment that the URL is great for business cards and promotional material. If users add the Google+ URL to any printed literature, and Google turn around and ask you for payment, you are more inclined to then stump up rather than let your URL go, which could then be claimed by another user who you are still happily promoting in your printed material which is already out in the world. I think the personalised URL needed to happen, but to charge for it is absurd. I can imagine Google will start charging more for its apps and services which, although it will cause outrage to many who have enjoyed the services for free for so long, is a lot more plausible.
I think before Google even consider charging for custom URLs (or other services) then it first needs to find a way of increasing its active users.
I think the design and user experience of Google+ makes it potentially one of the strongest social media networks, however there is a clear lack of regular users within the UK.
Finding out an accurate figure on current UK active users from Google is impossible, which makes it harder to justify to people as to why they should use it.
I do hope it's not one of these upgrades that turns into a cul-de-sac which you cannot un-upgrade from later.
However as I am the worlds only "Neale Gilhooley", should I wish to not pay for https://www.google.com/+NealeGilhooley WHO else in the world will buy it?
The only thing I'm concerned about is if this will affect the authorship codes we need for our sites. I have just released a new website and want to get authorship enabled for my blogging. Will there be a new system if we get a custom URL, or will we still be able to use the original code (and if so, where will we be able to get the code from after we create the custom URL)?
I hadn't noticed that, but wonder if Google means to start charging for new personalised URLs after a specified date? At least I hope that would be the case, or that we'll be able to revert back. It's also a great exercise in data capture, given your phone number is required, and flushing out duplicate/fake accounts as you'd need a new phone number for each URL.
David - I agree with you. Google have some way to go before they can begin to charge for any premium features but this might be a sign that they have a few more tricks up the sleeve. Unlike Buzz, they might even have a strategy for growing the network. #ShockHorror
Neale - Isidoro...I think I'm safe too :)
Nicole - That's a point I had thought about talking more about. They are effectively linking mobile devices to G+ accounts. For Android, who knows what that connection could open up.
John- In response to your query about getting your original code, it struck me that I should pre-emptively take a record of my old Google+ url. I had already starting using Google+ rel=author links on the blog I write for, so I took a copy of the old style url from the source code of one of those pages.


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*Rant Running*Cookie La Rue wrote:I can tell you what, i hate i-, smart- or what do i know-phones and all these shit what comes around.
Instead of talking to people around and building up some real social connections, everybody is busy with this evil thing most of the time.
I don't have it and i don't need a mobile internet connection. You know the times when nobody even had a mobile phone and it went without too. Damn modern society which's killing itself.
Here hear, haven't had a cell in years, Dad had the first car/mobile phone so I was really geeky about it. Then about 16 years ago the first truly portable one hits the market. I'm going with a bud to a Jays game and he spends almost the whole time on the thing talking to his fiancé. I thought it was guys night out.
I'm a/was a big Mac whore. I admit it, I jumped on the whole iThing. From 1992 on I made my living convincing Apple wasn't dead and was a great OS and there would be a seconding coming of Steve 'The One & Only Prophet' Jobs.
I had OS X before anyone else, I used eWorld Had the first iPod in the City iThink
Now? What a fucking slave to rhytm we've all become.
I can't stand texters....you having a conversation with me? You better not check your faggoty phone I will walk away from you like you are the insinificunt gunt you are.
Talking on the cell while driving? I have XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX cells stamped on my bicycle from running you off the road
The world of shitheads that we have created is one thing. Then I learned about the cost as our resident GeoGopher so kindly pointed out above (Thanks TopTop ).
It's not iCrap, it's all mobile electronics in general, even the Android. We are mining rare earth for the privilege of annoyingly being available every second of every day.
Watch TV or play a game while you could be interacting with a cute young immigrant chick?!
Consumers are like a rabid pig. You throw out a 3 year phone for a new one and the pile gets deeper and deeper. Not much of the mobile phone industry is recyclable or Green. My studies in Sustainability taught me that.
I loved the whole iPhone convergence thing but Apple is fucked now as are all the big cell companies.
I have looked for a Eco-phone but they haven't come up with one yet. Call me when they do.
For now I have one mobile laptop that I can text/type anyone, call them via Skype or Google Hangout and surf porn on a big screen!
So have fun paying exuberant prices for a stoopud lifestyle. I'll be the guy on the beer patio enjoying the great sun and microsuds that isn't getting a call every two minutes from his wife reminding him it's his turn to bend over.
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We've been discussing 1 Corinthians chapter 12. And I feel like a guy trying to run the 100-yard dash in sand. I can't seem to get going. Usually I take the liberties of preaching, as opposed to teaching. A little more directed at application than information. But as we've done this series I find myself pressed into the mode of wanting to teach you explicitly what the Scripture is saying. And that's very important, I think, for us, in this subject.
Here is a subject where there is a lot of experience going on, a lot of emotion, a lot of variation. And it is my commitment that we have to come back to the Word of God and look closely verse-by-verse, word-by-word, to define this entire dimension of Spiritual gifts. It's a very vital dimension. And so I want you to notice that we'll be looking, this morning, at verses 4 through 7 and then jumping to verse 11. And we'll be discussing the second point in our outline: the source of Spiritual gifts. And that's a very broad term for what will become some very specific things.
Now let me start out in the widest possible circle, so that I can kind of encompass everybody in this. We as Christians believe in the God. We believe that God manifests His personality in three persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Now those three persons work in total agreement and, yet, God diversifies Himself in that sense. He is one, and yet three. Now of those three persons we want to concentrate, for just a minute, on the ministry of the Holy Spirit, one of the persons of the Godhead.
What is it that the Holy Spirit does? Well basically, looking at it from the New Testament standpoint, the Holy Spirit ministers to two categories of people, the only two categories there are: the saints and the aint's; the people who know God and the people who don't. Now the Holy Spirit ministers to those two categories of people: to the people who do not know Christ, who do not know God, who are not, what we would term, "born again," the Spirit of God is involved in convicting them. John 16, "The Spirit of God convicts them of sin, of righteousness and judgment." His ministry is to bring them to God.
In terms of believers, his ministry becomes much more complex. Once we have come to know Jesus Christ, once we have received Him as Savior, been born into the family of God, the Spirit of God then begins to work, in multiplicities of way, in our lives.
Now let me just draw two categories out of that. In what two categories does the Spirit of God minister to believers? One, individually. Two, collectively. What does the Spirit of God do for you as a single individual? We could go through a list of many things. Let me review some of them. First of all, the Holy Spirit regenerates. It is the Spirit of God that caused you to be saved or brought you into the family. Jesus said in John 3, "You must be born of the Spirit." It is the Spirit of God that works the transformation of salvation, and it is the Spirit of God that, having worked that saving work, then continues to transform you...2 Corinthians 3:18...into the image of Jesus Christ." So His is a regenerating, transforming work on an individual. What else does He do? He assures us.
First John 4:13, John says that it's, "By this we know that we dwell in Him, because He has given us His Spirit." "The Spirit of God witnesses with our Spirit...Romans 8...that we are the children of God." So there is an assuring ministry that the Spirit of God gives us. And when you see someone who doesn't whether they know God, who has no confidence of whether they're redeemed, who has no security about the future, it may be that they are, in fact, not a Christian and that's why they have no testimony, as such, in their heart, from the Holy Spirit.
Third thing, the Spirit of God adopts us as sons. He gives us a sense, not only a reality of sonship, but a sense of it. In Galatians chapter 4 verses 5 and 6, it says, "The Spirit comes in our hearts and causes us to cry...what?...Abba Father," which is a term for daddy or a term of endearment. So the Spirit of God individually gives me a sense of being a son or a child of God.
Fourthly, the Spirit of God seals us. You know when a king sends out a letter or a decree in ancient times he'd pour some wax on it, takes his seal that says king on it, or whatever, and stamps the wax. He stamps the wax and when anybody gets that, they say, "That's official." And you and I have been given a stamp by God the Father and it's the Holy Spirit. And by giving us the Spirit He puts His stamp of authentication on us and says, "This is a bona fide child that belongs to Me." The Spirit of God does that. The Spirit of God also indwells us. First Corinthians 12:13, "We all possess the same Spirit." Romans 8:9, "If any man have not the Holy Spirit, he's none of His." So he indwells and lives in us. He frees us.
We talk about liberation today, and I think that's a very important subject. I just finished a book...it came out a week ago...You haven't seen it yet, but you will soon...called, Liberated for Life. And it talks about the Book of Galatians. And one of the things Galatians talks about is the freedom that comes in Christ. In 2 Corinthians 3:17 it says, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty." Freedom from law, freedom from having to please God by self effort, freedom from the works righteousness system that bind us, freedom from sin, and flesh, and Satan, and all of those things. He free us, He empowers us. Acts 1:8 talks about after you receive the Spirit you receive power. He makes us Holy. First Thessalonians 4, "He's given us His Spirit to make us Holy," Paul says, in effect there. He reveals truth to us. "I hath not seen." Right? That's man's looking for truth. "Ear hath not heard," that's empiricism. "Neither has it entered into the heart of man," that's philosophy. "Neither empirical experience or philosophy." Neither of those things can show us the things that God has prepared for them that love Him. In other words, man, by empiricism and philosophy can't discover God.
But the next verse says, "But he has revealed them unto us by His...what?...Spirit." So the Spirit of God in us teaches us, reveals truth to us. The Spirit of God guides us. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," Romans 8 says. So there is this manifold ministry of the Spirit. It tells us in Romans 8 that the Spirit of God prays for us with intercessions that cannot be uttered humanely. Now all of that the Spirit of God does for you as an individual. Now you realize how important it is to have Him. Don't you? I mean, you'd be limping badly, spiritually, without the Holy Spirit. I'd be impossible. And God give us this fullness of the Spirit.
Now what about the second category? "I see, you say, what the Spirit does for me as an individual. What is he doing for the church collectively? What is the Spirit of God doing in a collective sense, in the midst of His church? Well he indwells His total church. Right? Ephesians 2, it says, "The church is the habitation of the Spirit." So He's moving in His church. Doing what? I'll give you several thoughts quickly. One, He creates fellowship. The Spirit of God is a catalyst that stimulates interaction and fellowship. Second Corinthians 13 talks about the fellowship of the Spirit. The Spirit of God generates fellowship. For example, in Acts 2, "The Spirit of God comes, descends." Right? People begin to speak in amazing languages. "Peter preaches, 3,000 people are saved...the first thing it says...and they continued in the apostles doctrine and...what?...fellowship." Spirit of God came and created fellowship. And that's what we enjoy. That's the love we enjoy.
Second thing, He assists us in worship. I believe that when we come together like this the Spirit of God somehow pulls all the pieces of your life...and everybody's different...and He pulls it all together in a collective expression of worship. For example, when John goes to worship in Revelation 1 and in Revelation 4 he says, "I was in the Spirit." There's a cinch that the Spirit works in the act of worship. When believers come before God the Spirit somehow draws out of us that worship toward God. So He creates fellowship, He assists worship, He inspires Scripture whenever I open the Bible and teach it to you, whenever I teach you the truths that are in the Word of God, whenever we talk about them, whenever you read them. "These things did not come by the will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by...what?...the Holy Spirit." So he teaches us from Scripture. He guides us. The Holy Spirit, in Acts 13, took the collective body of people at Antioch and he said, "Pick out Paul and Barnabus and send them off as missionaries." And so the Spirit of God directs the corporate life of the church.
One other thing the Spirit of God does is to generate unity in the church. Remember in Ephesians 4:3, it says, "We are to endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit." The Spirit of God generates unity, He works for unity. Now let me say something important, we do not need to create unity in the church. You say, "Well we have to get unity in our church. We have to create...no, you do not need to create unity; you just need to stop creating division. Unity already is there in the common life.
Take our house, for an example. We have a basic corporate unity in our house. My wife and I and our four kids, we are one. We are one genetically. We're all out of the same basic, common life stem. We share together a common life. My wife and I have become one in our children. Our children are one with us. And so there is a genetic unity. But there's more than that. In our family, for example, there's an intellectual unity. That doesn't mean we're all the same intelligent. It simply means we all talk about the same things, so we all sort of come up together on the same intellectual plane. And you'll find my kids will make value judgments on things based upon what I think. It's terrific. Wouldn't have it any other way. It keeps them, you know, where they ought to be. And your kids will do the same thing. But, you see, there's also an emotional thing. I can watch our family, and all of us pretty well respond emotionally the same way, because we've learned how to work together on those. There is a volitional unity, that is, we would make similar choices.
Now that's true in the church, as it is in the family. We were at the family camp and Pastor Swendall, who really does a lot of teaching on the family, and everything...and you've got to watch those kinds of people, because as soon as you get around they start analyzing you. See, we were having dinner with him last night, he's checking out my kids, you know? And I'm saying, "Lord, help the kids to, you know...got to have a two hour pre-dinner session, you know, we're gonna do this right kids. Don't throw the potatoes and all that." He's analyzing, you know, and asking these loaded questions to Mark. And it was a good time, but he came up with an interesting comment, he said, "You know, of all the families I've ever met I think your family looks more alike than any I've ever seen." We look alike. Well, you know, that...people say as they live together they begin to look like each other. Maybe it's because they've made faces back and forth so long that they begin to adapt each other's features. I don't know.
But, anyway, there is a commonness. Well it's just there...it's just there. And the Spirit of God has created that commonness in the church. It isn't up to us to create it. It's up to us to stop interrupting. So you don't need to run around and create unity, you just need to stop creating division. You understand? And the unity will take care of itself. That's a lot easier.
Now how does the Holy Spirit get at this? Well the way the Holy Spirit stimulates that unity, the way He generates that unity, is by giving everybody a mutual ministry to everybody else, so that we begin to talk, so that we begin to think together, so that we begin to feel together, so that we begin to choose together, so that we go out and actually have recreation together, so that we begin to socialize together. All of these dimensions of interaction, you see, create a basic unity generated from our common eternal life. Now it's critical, Beloved, it is critical...and I want you to pay attention to me, and think about this as I talk to you now...it's critical that we minister to each other because that is the guarding of unity. As soon as somebody closes up and doesn't interact or share or minister, then it becomes an isolation point and there's a gap, you see, between here and here. But when the flow is going there's going to be that unity. There's going to be the keeping of that unity of the Spirit.
Now listen, the way in which we minister to each other is via our spiritual gifts. Okay? The way in which we minister is through our spiritual gift. You say, "What is a spiritual gift?" A spiritual gift is a God given capacity through which the Holy Spirit supernaturally ministers to the body. For example, I have a spiritual gift of teaching or preaching. I get up here and I minister to you as the Spirit of God energizes me. This is something I can't do humanely. This is something the Spirit of God must do through me. Your spiritual gift is not cooking. It's terrific, but there are good cooks who don't even know God. That's a human ability. Your spiritual gift is not being a violin virtuoso. That's terrific, but that is not a spiritual gift. That is not something energized by the Holy Spirit. That's something that people can whether they have the Holy Spirit or not. Your spiritual gift is a unique capacity to minister to the body of Christ through a vehicle or a channel, by which the Spirit of God supernaturally touches the lives of other people. Now that is critical.
The Spirit of God has created corporate unity. To keep that unity we have to mutually minister. And there is the interchange of thoughts, and feelings, and choices, and all of those dimensions of life. That's necessary. Now that's why people...that's why Paul is so upset in 1 Corinthians 12. And in verse 1 he says, "Concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant." Why? Because if they don't function then there is not going to be that beautiful unity that is necessary, as we saw a few weeks ago, so that the church would be a corporate manifestation of whom?...Christ. It's got to happen. There's got to be that ministry of spiritual gifts going on. There has to be that mutuality. And he says...look at verse 8...and we're not going to study this section till next time...we'll begin it...but he says, "To one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith; to another gifts of healing; to another working of miracles; to another prophecy; another discerning of spirits; another various kinds of languages; to another interpreting languages." And you go over to verse 28, "And he set some apostles and prophets, third teacher, and after that miracles, gifts of healing, helps, governments, diversities of languages." You can go to Romans 12; you'll find another list of them.
Now these things are given to the individual believer as capacities through which the Spirit of God can minister to His church. They are very, very important. Now I don't want to ask you how many of you know where your spiritual gifts are or what they are. I want you to think about that. And I don't want to ask you publicly to respond by telling me whether you're using them or not. I just want you to think about that. Because that's not something between you and me, that's something between you and whom? And God. You're a steward. Do you know what a steward is? You don't own your spiritual gift, you manage it for Him, and it's either a case of good management or mismanagement. But if there's going to be that unity maintained, there's going to be that ministry of gift that's absolutely necessary.
But in Corinth, what have we learned? They had corrupted the whole system. They were not content with the gifts that God had given them. They wanted different ones, and they were perverting the ones they had. It became points of pride. "Well what gift do you have?" "Well I only have the gift of helps." "Sorry, too bad. I have the gift of prophecy." See? And the eye was lording it over the foot and the foot was saying, "I want to be an eye." See? "I don't like being a foot. I want to be one of the more cumlee parts." And it was becoming problematic. Now they were a richly endowed church, but they had perverted everything.
Now notice this, they lived as art...I'm going to review for just a moment...they lived in a society that was engulfed in the mystery religions. Remember? And the society expressed the highest level of religion as ecstasy. In other words, the more frenzied you were, the more you were in contact with the Gods. I think when you really flipped out you were really cranking it on a religious level. You had connected up with God when you had gotten hysterical. Now that came into the church. And so they took the gift of languages, the ability to speak in the language you had not learned, and they made that the best gift. In the Greek culture this kind of ecstatic confusion was a sign of their religion. When they got together in their festivals they went into a frenzy, orgies resulted and wild, bizarre things, demonic possession, as we studied in some detail the last couple of weeks.
But take, for example, a great intellectual like Plato. Now Plato is known as an intellectual. Listen to what he said, and I quote...Plato in the Phaedrus...this is what he said. "It is through mania, which is ecstasy due to divine possession, that the greatest blessings come to us," end quote. Plato, the intellectual, says, "It is through mania that the greatest blessings come to us." That's incredible. The more hysterical you are, the more spiritual blessing you're going to get." Now if you think that was an isolated statement, I'll draw you to another.
In Timaeus, Plato also said this, quote, "No one...listen to this...no one in possession of his rational mind...that's the Greek word nous...no one in possession of his rational mind has reached divine and true exaltation. You can't ever touch deity until you're out of your mind." That's Plato. The more non rational, the more it was a mark of divine inspiration. You might put it this way: the more pneuma, the less nous. The more you are out of the Spirit, the more you are really flying, the less of your mind was in it, the more you were touching God.
Michael Green puts it this way, and this is helpful, the Corinthians would have rated in ascending order of value: the teacher, the prophet, and the man who spoke in languages. That's how the Corinthians would have rated it. Why? Number one, they would have put the teacher on the bottom level because he speaks relying on the rational. The next in the ascending scale would have been the prophet because he speaks under divine inspiration intelligibly. But the highest level would have been the one with ecstatic speech because he spoke inspiration unintelligibly. And that was the farthest out, and so he was connecting up with the divine mind. Well that's exactly what was going on in Corinth.
Let me read you a further statement by Michael Green that'll help you to see this. Michael Greens says, "To suppose that the more a man loses self possession, the more inspired by God he must be, is to deny God His place in the rational. To suppose the non-personal eruptions of ruock, or spirit, are the mark of inspiration, is to forget that it is the Spirit of Jesus with whom we are dealing." Implied there is that Jesus is not irrational. "Any such depersonalization of the Spirit is also disparagement of the ethical, as if it doesn't matter how you behave, so long as you have this mark of divine inspiration on you." If I may interject something, that's why somebody could get up, and in a wild frenzy, say, "Jesus is accursed," and they would say, "Oh, it's of the Holy Spirit." Why? Because they equated the experience with the Holy Spirit rather than the content. And that's what Paul corrects in verses 2 and 3, as we saw last week. "Further, he says, if this particular gift is prized above all others, it easily leads to a cult of experience, to excessive individualism, jealousy in those who have not the gift, pride in those who have it, and in the midst of all of this, Christian love can disappear," end quote. And may I add, so will Christian unity.
So they had corrupted the gifts. So Paul has to write chapter 12, chapter 13, chapter 14 of this letter, to straighten them out on the proper information and use of gifts.
Now let's go to our second point in the outline...hurriedly, in the time that we have...and recall that we looked last time at point number one, the importance of spiritual gifts. We saw that they are vitally important. And they are not to be confused with the work of demons, or the work of Satan, or the work of some frenzied pagans. Not to be confused with that at all, but that they are divine marks of the Holy Spirit. Lucian, in the Dialogues of the Dead, said...describing their ecstatic activity...a sort of God or demon carries us away, wherever and whenever he wills, and it is impossible to resist him," end quote. Now that was their pagan-kind of religion. But what does Paul say in verse 2, "You used to be carried away." Not anymore. You've got to know the difference between the true and the counterfeit.
Now having discussed the importance, he secondly moves to the source. Let's look at verses 4 to 7, the source of spiritual gifts, and this is very, very important. Stay with me now because we're going to reason through this, and you're going to have to make the application because we don't have time. I just want you to understand the passage. Verse 4, "There are diversities of gifts but the same Spirit. There are differences of administrations but the same Lord. There are diversities of operations but it is the same God who works all in all." Stop right there. Now you will see there a contrast. The same Spirit, the same Lord, the same God. But, on the other hand, there are varieties...there are varieties...there are varieties. One God, one Christ, one Spirit, which means He has how many wills? One will. He has built into His church unity. But that unity will only happen, it'll only be maintained, when there is a diversity of ministry. Do you understand now?
I use this illustration in my book on the subject. If a reporter comes to interview a quarterback, and he says to the guy, "You got a big game tomorrow. Are you ready for it?" "Oh yeah, oh yeah, really ready." "Do you really feels there's team unity?" "Oh, we've never had such unity." "That's the most incredible unity. We can't even believe it." "Well what do you mean?" "We are so united that all 44 guys have decided to play quarterback." You don't have unity. You see, the only way unity functions in teamwork is diversity, and that's why the unity of the church is predicated on the fact that we minister to each other with our strengths, to make them strong. See? That's it.
So there is one Spirit, same Spirit, same Lord, same God, working in all of us, but through diversities of ways. The word varieties is interesting. It's just a very broad word. Distribution literally in the Greek. Good is has distributed varieties of operations within His church. There are varieties of gifts. Some might have the gift of teaching, some might have the gift of giving, some might have the gift of help, some might have the gift of administration, the gift of government, the gift of giving, whatever it is. There are multiplicities of gifts within the framework, and some of us...most of us, I'm confident, have more than one. Maybe one is stronger in manifestation than another, but I think we are in combination of gifts. And we'll get into that more in detail as we go. But we have all this variety of gifts.
This list is not necessarily exhaustive. Here's a list. There's a different one in Romans 12, there's a suggestion of one in 1 Peter chapter 4. There's no reason to assume that this is it, and that's all. And I've read a book that said there were only four gifts, I read another one that said there are nine, another one said there are 11, another one 14, another one 17, another one beyond that - 19. How many are there? I don't think that's the point. I don't think we need to write down all the gifts, take a test and say, "Well there are _____." Put it in a computer. I'm a...you know...whatever, according to the computer. There are so many varieties of ways in which they function, I'm not sure we can always catalog them in such an isolated fashion. Some of them overlap so much that you may be a mixture; you may be mongrel gifted person. Might not want to call yourself that. There are combinations, there are different categories. There may be 30 of us in this room who have the gift of teaching, and all 30 of us may be manifesting it in an entirely different way, through an entirely different style, to an entirely different group of people, with entirely different objectives. But that's the beauty of the diversity.
The word variety is in verse 4, in the Greek, the word variety is the word, in verse 5, the word variety, in verse 6, and I conclude that there are varieties. We don't need to put little boxes around everything and over define them. There are even varieties of power, verse 6, operation there is energizing. There are different manifestations of divine power. Some gifts manifested in certain ways demand a different degree of power than others.
If you read Romans chapter 12 verse 4, you will read about the measure of faith. And then if you read verse 6, you will read again about the measure of faith. God gives you gifts and measures out the exact amount of faith to make that gift operate. Can you imagine, for example, if God gave me the spiritual gift, the spiritual ability, the spiritual capacity, to minister to this church? This is a large church, there's a lot of responsibility. I can understand how a person could crack up in a situation like this. Because you have a lot of anxiety, you have a lot of different people; you have a lot of different problems. It takes a certain kind of Holy Spirit energizing to put somebody into a situation like this.
Now what happens if God gives me the capacity to teach you, and to preach to you, and to lead you, but not the faith to believe Him that it's possible? I'm going to be a wreck. I'm going to be trying to do something I don't believe I can do. So, on the other hand, if God gave me the faith to believe that I could do this, and you keep telling me, "You know something, you can't do this. We need to get somebody else." I would be very frustrated. So when God gives me the spiritual capacity, he measures out the faith to equal it, so that I don't get frustrated. Do you see? And that means that the energizing is equivalent to whatever the gifts might be. So that as the Spirit of God gifts you, He energizes you at that amount, so there is a sense of fulfillment. Now that's really important. In all those varieties and all those different things, there are different manifestations of power.
Now let's look at these terms in verses 4, 5, and 6, very quickly. They have five words in the chapter, telling us five different things, or five different facets of a diamond, about this idea of spiritual ennoblement in the church ministry. The first one is the word spiritual, pneumatika, in verse 1. And we just said that, that means its source is the Holy Spirit. Second word is in verse 4. "There are diversities of gifts." Now you've all heard the word charismatic? We say somebody is charismatic. What we mean by that is he has sort of an electrifying, captivating, charming personality.
The word charismatic is from a Greek word, charis. Charis means grace. Grace means an undeserved gift. When you look at your spiritual capacity, remember this, it is a charisma. It is a gift of God's grace. You didn't deserve it. You can't say, "Well the reason I've gotten to where I am today is because of me." No. If the reason you got where you were today in the church is because of you, then you're somewhere where you ought not to be, and everybody else is paying the consequences. What you have is a gift, purely a grace gift. That word is used 17 times in the New Testament. Eleven times it refers to spiritual gifts and the other times it refers to salvation. Is salvation a free gift? Did you deserve it? Did you earn it? No. And so spiritual gifts are free gifts, undeserved and unearned, granted by God's wonderful, loving, gracious kindness.
So first thing you learn about your capacity is, it's energized by the Holy Spirit...verse 1. Second thing, it's a gift, you didn't earn it, you didn't deserve it, it's purely on God's sovereign grace that it was ever given to you. And I'll tell you, that gives me a sense of responsibility. Does it to you? Somebody gives me a gift and says, "Would you care for this?" I'm going to care for that. I mean, I want to be a steward of that. I want to watch it, make sure it's handled properly. And so there is that one Spirit giving out graciously those grace gifts to all believers, so that each of us has to say, "What I am...like Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15 ..."I am by the...what?...by the grace of God." His grace was superabundant to me. Greatest mystery of my life, apart from God saving me, is God calling me into the ministry. Why...why? That's His choice and I thank Him for it.
Verse 5 gives another term. "There are differences of administration the old author I said. But the word administration is diakoneon, diakanas, diakanea, diakeneo, the verb. Do you know what that means? What word do we have like that? Deacon. What does the word deacon mean? Servant. What is it saying? There are different grace gifts, different spirituals, different Holy Spirit energize and ailments, and there are different services. Listen, another word for spiritual gift is services. That's another term for it. It isn't adding a different concept. It's just a different way to say the same thing. But I'll tell you one thing, it tells me the purpose of my gifts. What are my gifts for? Service. The same word exactly. The same word, the diakanasword, in one form or another, appears, for example, in this verse, "For the son of man...Mark 10:45...came not to be ministered unto, but to what?...it's the same word...to serve...to serve." What does it mean? It means to serve, to be a servant.
Now listen to me..."Spiritual gifts...Beloved...that verse says...are not designed as special privileges for the one who has them." My spiritual gift isn't for my edification. Now I could pervert that. I could go in my office and study, and learn all the things that I learn, and I can write out all the things, and I can get my little tape recorder there, and I could preach it into a tape, and then I could turn it on and listen to it. And I could say, "Amen, where's the prayer room?" You know, all by myself. But the point is that would prostitute my gift. Right? When anybody comes along and says, "Well I have this gift, which I exercise only in private. It's self edification." I say, "Well then whatever it is, it isn't the gift that the New Testament teaches because the gifts are called services, and services implies there's somebody else that's the objective of what you're doing."
You see, in 1 Peter you have the same thing. In chapter 4 verse 10, "As every man has received the gift, even so serve the same one to another, as good stewards." Whatever your gift would you please serve somebody else with it. Verse 11, "If you speak, speak the oracles of God; if you serve, do it out of the ability which God gives." All the gifts are for somebody else. Serve one another in divine energy. They are building you up. Ephesians 4:12, "For the building of the saints, that they may do the work of the ministry, or the work of diakanas; the work of service, that the body may be built."
Listen, Beloved, your spiritual gifts, whatever they are, are not for you. Somebody says to me the other day, "Well I believe some of the gifts were for self edification." You can't find that. Later on, in 14, when they perverted the gift of languages for self-edification, that would be like me going in my office and teaching myself. It's not its intention. They could do that because they could exercise that gift at will, like any other gift, but that was a perversion of it. And that's why he says in 14:12, "Take your gift and use it for the edifying of the church." That's its intention.
Verse 6...there are not only these other terms: spirituals, gifts, services, but here's another one, there are varieties of energizings, from the Greek verb energes. "Oh, energizings." God empowers differently the believer for functioning. Now don't confuse this with natural talent. This is divine energizing. The Father is involved in energizing us, and there are differences of energizings. It's amazing. The Spirit of God, when we begin to function in that capacity that God has gifted us for, there's a flow of divine energy that's thrilling. And it comes right out, and it energizes the Word as it comes out of me and into you. And one of the things it...it does amaze me sometimes when I have...I'll go, "I can't stand to listen to myself." Once in awhile I'll listen to a tape on something I've taught years back because I can't remember what I thought about it and I want to refresh my mind, and I'll say to myself, "Boy, did I say that? That's really terrific."
And I realize the difference...for example, a fella came to me a few years ago and he said, "I want you to know...I want to help you and I have an observation to make." And I said, "What is it?" He says, "I just want you to know that you do not have the gift of counseling. Having been counseled by you on several occasions, I've come to that conclusion." And, you know, at first I thought, "Yeah, you know?" That natural human reaction. See? And then I sat back and I thought, "You know, something, that's probably true, and that's not what God has called me to do. I don't have an office as a marital counselor." You know, I'd be sitting there listening to somebody's problems week after week, thinking to myself, "Boy, I wish they'd get out of here so I can get back to the Bible, you know?" So I know the difference between when I'm doing what the Spirit of God has gifted me to do and energized me to do, and when I'm doing something else that I need to do sometimes but I don't have that same sense of spiritual energy. You see? It's just different. And there are differences in energizings.
So, you see, the Spirit of God has this fantastic variety, and we're all in there. And, listen, you're a snowflake, there're not two of you, God can't trade you for anybody. If I look at my kids and I say, "Oh, I got four nice kids but I wouldn't mind a change. Maybe I'll give away one of my kids and get somebody else." No. No child in the world would substitute for one of mine. God looks at you and he says, "Hey, if you don't do it, there isn't anybody else. You're a snowflake." The combination of gifts and energizings and services that God has given, He has given nobody else. You know, you're like a California license plate, there're not two of them. It's you. If you don't do it, do you know what happens? It doesn't get done, and you are then dividing where the Spirit is trying to get unity.
Look at verse 7; let me give you a further thought, "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit." Now here's another word for spiritual gifts, another one, manifestation. Now that is a simple word. And I'll tell, boy, this is a solid point. I want you to listen now. The word manifestation means to make clear, to make visible, to make known, to make manifest. It means the very opposite of to hide or to be private. It means to be public. What are the spiritual gifts then for? They are for the manifestation. They are...listen to this now...to be a visible, clear, manifest, public display. That's the idea. And, again, I say, when somebody says they have a private gift, you ask them how it can be a private gift, when all those gifts are for the declaration of the working of the Spirit of God. You say, "Yeah, but maybe it's only to be manifest to Him." Oh, watch.
"The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every Christian for the common good." That's what soomferoin the Greek mean. "It isn't given for His good, but the good of soomfero, all of those who have gathered together." That's what the word means. It's a compound word. It means to gather together. What's your spiritual gif for? It's to manifest the work of the Spirit to everybody that's been gathered together. Maybe there's only one other one, maybe there's two, maybe there's three, maybe there's...like in our Sunday morning...several thousand, whatever it is. See, that's the point. My gifts are not intended for private purposes. My gifts are for the common good. Whatever the gift is, it is to profit everybody. You say, "But what about the gift of languages?" Do you know something, in chapter 14 He says, "Don't ever, ever use the gift of languages unless it's what? Interpreted. Because, even though it was a sign to unbelieving Israel it had to be interpreted because that gives it another edifying element to the church. See? And no gift should be anything other than edifying to the people who are gathered together. That's assumed in all the gifts. So when somebody says they have a private one, that isn't so. It's to profit, literally, the common good, to bring everybody together, and to manifest the Spirit to all those who were brought together. And we'll see more about that as we go.
Lastly, verse 11. We'll skip the gifts in there cause we'll get to them next week. Verse 11, "All these gifts work...same word, energizing. He says, "All these work that one and very same Spirit." Boy, the Spirit's behind all the gifts. And watch this, "Dividing to whom?...to whom?...every man." How many Christians have gifts? All of them. There's not a spiritual elite. You can't say, "Oh, yes, the gifted ones are up on the podium." No, no, you're all gifted. Mine's just different, that's all. Same thing. We're all gifted. Mine's different than yours. You can do what I can't do in His energy.
Now watch...we all have them, but look at this beautiful _____ dividing to all, every man. That's universality, severally, that's individuality. The word severally, interesting word in the Greek, idious, from which we get idiot. Do you know what an idiot is? That's somebody like whom there is nobody else, only one of those kind. _____ would say, "Boy, he's an idiot." That comes from that longo, peculiar. Peculiar originally didn't mean peculiar like we think of it. Peculiar meant, he's the only one. Listen to this, "The Spirit of God gives universally the gifts, but to every individual He gives them...what?...peculiarly." Nobody's got like yours. You're a snowflake. It's not mass production, "All right 43 teachers in that section, 84 givers over here, 49 with faith." No. Like little rubber ducks all quacking together. Everybody is different, and everybody's uniqueness manifests itself in a unique way. "And so the Spirit of God divides to every man severally and as He will."
Remember this people; you can't go seek a gift. That's a gift from God in the first place, and in the second place, He's the one who wills which one He gives. Right? Well have you learned a little about it now? This is only the beginning... only the beginning. It's rich. Let's pray.
Father, we really thank you this morning for the fellowship we've enjoyed. Thank you for our friends who've come to be with us today and to share Your truth out of Your book. How rich we are because of the things that the Holy Spirit has done for us. How rich we are because of the things You've given us, these divine ennoblement.
And, Lord, we want to fulfill the ministry of the Spirit, to keep the unity of the Spirit in the church. And we know to do that we have to minister, and as we minister the church will be one, and as we're one, we'll represent Christ in the world and people will take note of Him and be brought to Him, to His glory.
Help us to be obedient, Father, to seek out in our own time a prayer, and study to know You and to know how You've gifted us, and to respond in obedience. to minister. We'll thank You for what You're going to do when we do it. In Christ name. Amen.
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