READ: 1 CORINTHIANS 12:1-10
There are gifts and there are gifts. However, the greatest of all gifts comes from God. Material gifts lose their value or worth with time. Let me ask you: where are those gifts you received twenty years ago? Perhaps they are no-where to be found. Maybe most of them now litter the junkyard. That is the ephemeral nature of physical or material gifts. Today, I shall share the word of God with you on what I call ‘eternal gifts’. God loved us and He gave us a Gift. This gift is the gift of life. In fact, Jesus Christ also said in JOHN 10:10 that He came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. What then is life? It is easy to define life as the opposite of death. Death is permanent separation from things, people and places. Jesus Christ was given to us so that we would not die, physically. He said in JOHN 11:25 “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.” Jesus Christ was given to us so that we would not die financially. Jesus will raise you up. He became poor so that we might become rich. PSALM 23:1 says; because He is our Shepherd, we shall not want. He was also given to us so that we might not die mentally. A man who is dead mentally is crazy. The Bible in 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 that the Almighty God has given sound mind. In JOHN 14:27, Jesus Christ says He has given us peace. In JOHN 15:11 He says we must ask till our joy be full. He was given to us so that we would be dead spiritually. Spiritual death means separation from God. When we sinned, we were separated from God. Adam used to have fellowship with God before sin came and they became separated. Jesus Christ came that we might be re-united with God and never again be separated from Him.
MEMORIZE: 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 –For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of sound mind.
