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  COMMENTARY ON 1 CORINTHIANS 12
  by Chuck Smith
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Now concerning the spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you be
ignorant (1Cr 12:1).

An interesting statement of Paul, because I think that in the church one
of the areas where the greatest ignorance does exist today is in the
area of spiritual gifts, and their operation within the church. And this
ignorance is on both sides of the fence.

Within the Pentecostal churches there is a lot of abuse of the gifts of
the Spirit, because people are ignorant of their true operation within
the church. On the other side of the fence, among some of the
fundamental churches there is a lot of ignorance of the gifts of the
Spirit as they dismiss them to another age and do not see any validity
for them today. So where Paul says, "I would not have you to be
ignorant," sad but true, there is a great deal of ignorance today.

Now you know that you were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols,
even as you were led. So I give you to understand that no man speaking
by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that
Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit (1Cr 12:2-3).

Evidently there was a rumor in Paul\

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