Gifts of the Holy Ghost: To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. 1 Corinthians 12:8
As Lord Jesus taught when he preached on earth among men, the Kingdom of God does not consist in the fulfillment of a set of imperatives or rigid orders, but rather the invitation to a new lifestyle, life in the grace of God, the righteous life, or expressed in other words: "Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect" Matthew 5:48.
And the apostle Paul, as a genuine preacher of this spiritual Kingdom, of this dominion or empire of divine perfections, continued with this thought in his First Epistle to the Corinthians. The church of Corinth had been founded by the apostle of the Gentiles on his second missionary journey and Paul taught the gospel in that city for more than a year. After his departure, Paul addressed two letters to them so that they would not fall into heresies and remain faithful to the true faith of the gospel, and that is why Paul in his first letter wrote to them about the importance of living the gifts inherited from the Holy Ghost.
The apostle wrote beginning with the change that the true faith in Lord Jesus produced in the first believers of the Church: "Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding your question about the special abilities the Spirit gives us. I don't want you to misunderstand this. You know that when you were still pagans, you were led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols" 1 Corinthians 12:1-2.
The gifts of the Spirit, as Paul himself proved with his first conversions, were a reality that transformed the so-called "sect of the Nazarenes" into the first world religion in history. And so Paul continued with his exhortation and affirmed how these mysterious gifts were manifested in believers: "To one person the Spirit gives the ability to give wise advice; to another the same Spirit gives a message of special knowledge. The same Spirit gives great faith to another, and to someone else the one Spirit gives the gift of healing" 1 Corinthians 12:8-9.
And all these divine qualities, gifts, or perfections from above mentioned by Paul have as their goal the building up of that common body which is the Church with Christ as its head, that is to say, although the gifts are many, the end of these is unity, because there is only one spirit that gives them.
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