Essay about Discussion of the Spiritual Gifts of the Romans, Chapter 12

The Exegetical Task: Some parts of the Bible call for time and patient revision to understand. Some people find help in Bible dictionaries, commentaries and Bible handbooks (Fee/Stuart p189). Fee and Stuart feels that everyone needs to understand both the prophets’ era and the context of a single oracle (Fee/Stuart p190). The words spoken by the prophets at a variety of times and places are written down without any indication as to where one oracle ends and another begins (Fee/Stuart p193). The prophets employed an assortment of literary forms. 3 of the most common are: “The lawsuit”, God is portrayed as the plaintiff, prosecuting attorney and judge against the defendant, Israel (Fee/Stuart p194). The Woe, Woe oracles implicitly or explicitly contain an announcement of distress, the reason for distress and a prediction of doom. “The promise”, This contains an allusion to the future, a mention of radical change and blessing (Fee/Stuart p195). Hermeneutical Suggestions: What is God’s word to us through these inspired oracles, spoken in another time to God’s people? Once we understand what God said to them then, we will hear it again in our own surroundings (Fee/Stuart p199). The prophets’ messages were concentrated on the near rather than the distant future (Fee/Stuart p200). Sometimes the New Testament makes reference to Old Testament passages that don’t seem to refer to what the New Testament says they do

First, what must be looked at is who is a prophet and what is a prophet’s message. A prophet is an Israelite called on by God to express in poetic form the vision of God, His kingdom, the messianic age of peace, the work of the Holy Spirit, a new community of people, and the transformation of creation and humanity (VanGemeren 16). One example of a prophet is Amos, where the feeling of prophetic sense of an inner compulsion, “Surly the Lord God does nothing unless He reveals His secret counsel to His servants the prophets. A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord God has spoken! Who can but prophesy?” (Amos 3:7-8).

Spiritual Gifts, talents, and skills: Christ gave you a spiritual gift so you could be more effective in ministry, as you and the body of Christ uses their spiritual gifts, He can minister to the universe through

To fully understand the meaning behind his sermons and predictions we must first look at what a prophet is and what he holds true.

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C. Peter Wagner (2012) defines a spiritual gift as attribute given to each member of the body of Christ, according to God’s grace to be used for the church. Every believer possesses unique God given spiritual gifts. These gifts are given to us to further His kingdom and to bring Him glory. The Biblical reference to Spiritual gifts are found in four passages: Romans 12:6-8, 1 Corinthians 12:8-10; 28-30, Peter 4:9-11, and Ephesians 4:11. They are Leadership, Administration, Knowledge, Teaching, Exhortation, Faith, Wisdom, Prophecy, Discernment, Shepherding, Evangelism, Faith, Serving, Pastoring, Apostleship, Hospitality, Mercy, and Interpretation of Tongues. And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healing, helping, administrating, and various kinds of tongues (1 Corinthians 12:28, ESV).

Testament are relatively scarce. Their existence is never proven; it is simply assumed. The Old

After reading One Thousand Gifts, Ruth E. Holleran writes the article “Five Ways to Give Thanks for One Thousand Gifts.” Holleran’s article relates to One Thousand Gifts because it is about fives thing people should know about giving thanks, and One Thousand Gifts is about Ann Voskamp’s challenge to write a list of one thousand gifts. Holleran states, “As we practice the discipline of returning thanks to God, we find our sight improves and we see His handiwork in finer detail” (Holleran). In other words, Holleran is saying be specific and see the small things when giving thanks to God. Holleran says, “Now I look for blessings and record them throughout the day; I am training my mind to give thanks in all things” (Holleran). She is explaining

Fulfillment and typology are two major methods that New Testament writers use to connect the Hebrew Bible with the Christian New Testament. Fulfillment deals with the very words of the prophets who, according to New Testament writers, verbally predicted events that the Messiah would accomplish. Typology is similar, yet it is not a prediction, nor does it directly correlate to future events in the manner that fulfillment does. Rather, it is simply an event from the Hebrew Bible that is said to foreshadow another event in the Christian New Testament.

This paper will analyze the "Divine Purpose" as it appears in the various "highways of prophecy" in the New Testament, and show how those "highways" may be followed to a deeper and fuller appreciation of God's message.

The New Testament and the Old Testament are similar in that they both speak of fulfillment for God’s

2. JEREMIAH - Called by God to proclaim the news of judgement to Judah, which

In the last section of the Bible there are two parts. The two parts are the Major and Minor Prophets. The Major prophets are in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. The minor Prophets are in the books of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, these books form that last segment of the Old Testament cannon. The authors of these books were the Hebrew prophets, which makes sense because a Hebrew prophet is a spokesperson for God. The twofold aspect of the prophet's ministry included declaring God's message for people of their day and foretelling God's actions in the future (Hindson). Thus, the prophet was also called a "seer" because he could see future events before

As God’s final revelation, the New Testament records the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy,

It was Ali Muhammad As-Sallaabee who posed on his book “The Noble life of a prophet” that a prophet is someone called by God and filled with God's Spirit, a prophet spoke God's word to people who had in one way or another distanced themselves from God. The prophet has for its task not only to deliver the message from God to the people but also to predict the future. For the bible informs us that surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he reveals his secret unto his servants the prophets.