1 Coríntios 12

1 Coríntios 12

1 CORINTHIANS - PROBLEMS OF A LOCAL CHURCH Charts from Jensen's Survey of the NT - used by permission FROM CHART: Note 2 major divisions: FIRST DIVISION - Chapters 1-6 = Problems of Congregation - Divisions & Depravities SECOND DIVISION - Chapters 7-16 = Personal Problems, Worship Problems 1 Corinthians 12:1 Now concerning spiritual [gifts], brethren, I do not want you to be unaware. spiritual: 1Co 12:4-11 14:1-18,37 Eph 4:11 I do not want you to be unaware 1Co 10:1 2Co 1:8 1Th 4:13 2Pe 3:8 1 Corinthians 12 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Related Passages: 1 Cor 1:4-5 I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge, Romans 1:11 For I long to see you so that I may impart some spiritual gift to you, that you may be established; IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS IN REGARD TO SPIRITUAL GIFTS! To help understand what prompted ("inspired") Paul to give more "space" (more verses) to the issue of spiritual gifts than any other problem in the Corinthian church, I would suggest you take a moment to listen to Dr John MacArthur's introduction to a multi-part sermon series on spiritual gifts. As you may know Dr MacArthur is a cessationist but in this message that viewpoint does not come up, as he focuses on setting the context for this controversial topic. The last part of the sermon is more historical (extra-biblical for the most part) but will help you better understand what Paul is writing in chapters 10-12. MacArthur quotes extensively from a 1924 work by Samuel Angus entitled "The Mystery-Religions," (available online), in order to give us a sense of the religious background from which many of the Corinthian saints had been supernaturally "extracted." In short, MacArthur's introductory sermon would be a great preface before you studied 1 Cor 10-12 and I do not think it would significantly bias your own objective reading and study of these chapters. Here is the link to the sermon - 1 Corinthians 12:1 Concerning Spiritual Gifts, Part 1 (May 23, 1976). Now concerning - Paul uses this phrase 5 times to begin a new subject - 1 Cor 7:1 1 Cor 7:25 1 Cor 8:1 1 Cor 12:1 1 Cor 16:1 Spiritual gifts, brethren, I (present tense) do not want you to (present tense - continually) be unaware - While brethren does not always refer to fellow believers, it does appear that in this letter Paul is using brethren to refer to those individuals in the church at Corinth who were genuine believers and that fit the context here for only believers possess spiritual gifts (note "gifts" is added by the translators because that fits the context - see 1 Cor 12:4). The word spiritual is pneumatikos which is almost always "used in relation to the work of the Holy Spirit and thus refers to a Christian pattern of life which is controlled or directed by the Spirit. In this context it specifically refers to the gifts the Spirit gives believers to be used for the building up of the body to the glory of God. I do not want you to be unaware is another way of saying "I want you to know about spiritual gifts and have an intimate, experiential knowledge of them." Unaware is agnoeo which gives us "agnostic" so Paul is saying he does not want them to be "functional agnostics" regarding spiritual gifts.Someone has quipped that when Paul begins a sentence with "do you not know" (or a similar phraseology as in this passage) concerning the saints, it often turns out that they were ignorant! Spiritual (4152) pneumatikos from pneuma = wind, spirit <> in turn from pneo = to blow) is an adjective which means pertaining to the wind and then relating to the realm of the spirit referring to the inner, invisible sphere of a human being. Note that whenever you see an "-ikos", "-ika" or "-ikon" ending on a Greek word, it means characterized or controlled by. And so pneumatikōs means to be controlled by or characterized by the Spirit. Almost 50% of the uses are in 1 Corinthians. As