July 14, 2025 • 25 mins
A study in the book of 1st Corinthians, chapter 12.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Kwave's Pastors Spotlight featuring the Bible teaching of
our local Southern California pastors. This week we're pleased to
bring you Mission Viejo's native son, Mike Mayolo, lead pastor
of Mission Viejo Christian Church. Mike has a passion for
leading people into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. To
learn more about Mission Viejo Christian Church, you're invited to
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visit MBCChome.org.
Have you ever had thoughts like, I'm just not gifted
enough to serve God? Well, the fact is everyone who
has accepted Jesus Christ has been given gifts by the
Holy Spirit. There are 3 places in the New Testament
where spiritual gifts are mentioned, but the lists in 1
Corinthians chapter 12 are specific to empower every person to
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glorify God and encourage his people. Here's Pastor Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
OK, here we go. Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding
your question about the special abilities, gifts that the spirit gives,
I don't want you to misunderstand this. So I, I
want you to know this church. I want you to
know you have been gifted, you have been empowered, and
it's important for every single one of us to know
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where we are. You know that when you were still pagans,
meaning before we accepted Jesus, right? You were led
led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols. You
guys used to worship all those false idols. You didn't
follow God. Remember you were just doing your own life.
And so I want you to know that no one
speaking by the Spirit of God will curse Jesus. Obviously,
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that's pretty clear.
And no one can say Jesus is Lord except by
the Holy Spirit. So let's be clear, there are false
gods and there is only one God. And he makes
it very clear here that you will know without the
shadow of a doubt who the one true God is,
and the follower of Christ will always profess and say, yes,
Jesus Christ is Lord, and you'll just, you'll know that.
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All right, there are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but
the same spirit is the source of them all. God
gives us, right?
By His Holy Spirit, he's given every single one of
us a gift. And so there are different kinds of service,
but we serve the same Lord. God works in different ways,
but it is the same God who does the work
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in all of us.
A spiritual gift is given to each of us so
we can help each other.
To one person, the spirit gives the ability to give
wise advice. To another, the same spirit gives a message
of special knowledge. To the same spirit also gives great
faith to another and to someone else, the one spirit
gives the gift of healing.
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He gives one person the power to perform miracles, the other,
the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability
to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of
God or from another spirit. Still, another person is given
the ability to speak in unknown languages, while others are
given the ability to interpret what is being said. Verse 11.
It is, it is the one and only.
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Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which
gift each person should have. The human body has many parts,
but many, the many parts make up the one whole body.
So it is with the body of Christ. We'll stop
right here because I wanna be really clear about each
one of these gifts. What is he talking about? First
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of all,
We want to be asking ourselves here in these next
few moments, Lord, where have you gifted me and how
can I develop that gift? Well, the first one he
mentions is the gift of having wisdom. What is wisdom?
Wisdom is the ability, the gifting of this gift, this
person has the ability to discern truth, to make wise
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and clear choices according to the word of God. That's super,
super important here. They are able to discern and make
wise choices with the knowledge that they have of the
word of God. So how does this gift, how does
this gift manifest in operation? Whenever we have a decision
to make, God says, you can ask for wisdom.
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God, what do you want me to do? What school
do you want me to go to, Lord? Who do
you want me to date? Who do you want me
to marry? Which uh all kinds of situations throughout the day,
we need wisdom, right? Don't we need wisdom? And so
God is saying in James chapter one, if any of
you lacks wisdom,
He should ask of God who is generous without finding fault.
And when that person asks, he should believe and not doubt,
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because the person who doubts is blown and tossed by
the wind, they should not think they receive anything from
the Lord. He's saying when we ask, we believe that
God is gonna answer the prayer. Not always how we want,
but we trust and.
I believe that God is gonna answer. So, these folks
have the ability to say, you know, I think the
word of God is very clear here that we should
go in this direction because of what God is saying.
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So it's a gift to be able to have the
ability to make right and wise choices every day in life.
Second is the gift of knowledge. The ability to understand
information about a situation in parallel with the word of
God to give wise counsel.
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When we have knowledge and we know about the word
of God and know the word of God, God can
use that in a specific situation in somebody's life to
help them.
it may be, um, you're just with somebody at a gathering,
maybe in life group or maybe you're just with friends,
maybe in the neighborhood or some, I don't know, some
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sports event and you just sense that the spirit of
God is starting to, to speak into your heart about
someone's situation.
And then we ask the Lord, God, do you want
me to do something about this? Do you want me
to help this specific man, this specific moment, this specific
person with the gift of knowledge, God that I believe
you've given me about the situation that's gonna help somebody
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to see truth. So knowledge is being able to see
something in the supernatural, that God gives us the word
to confirm everything he's saying. To help somebody.
Number 3 is this, the gift of healing. Does God
still operate in these gifts? Of course.
But I think it's a little bit different than maybe
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what we've seen in our culture and some of the
chaos and some of the confusion. So this one, the
gift of healing, don't we need healing?
Oh my goodness, not just physical healing, spiritual healing. We,
we need emotional healing, even psychologically healing. We just, some
of us have just been beat up by the enemy,
and we need help, and God has given this gift
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to a certain group of people, certain persons, so that
healing can come, and we have to remember when First
Corinthians was written,
The key verse is, all this comes from the same source.
It's not the person, it's never to lift up anyone.
It's always about God giving the gift so that the
person may be moving closer to God, and he simply
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uses a person as a vessel to bring forth truth
so they can make a wise choice. So this one here,
the gift of healing is the ability to pray.
And believe. These people have the ability to believe in
any situation, God can heal anyone of anything. God can
restore anything, God can reconcile anything. He can bring healing
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to the mind. He can bring healing to the soul,
to our emotions. He can bring physical healing. God can,
not always that God always will.
But these people have this, this gift to be able
to see, come on, God can heal you, God can
do this, and they were just gonna pray and believe
that God can. So it's the ability to have faith
that God can bring healing to someone either physically, emotionally,
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spiritually or psychologically.
We were in prayer meeting. This was a few years ago,
and there was a woman who was uh sitting in
the front row, and she had uh come up and
give testimony about something that happened to her weeks before
when we had another prayer meeting that one of her
ears was stopped and clogged up she couldn't hear, so
she went to the doctor, got some medicine, and uh
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she happened to come to the prayer meeting. There were
some women that surrounded her and just prayed, and one
of those women that prayed just had a simple childlike faith.
This is where this gift would be an operation.
God, we know that, and I overheard the prayer, God,
we know that you can heal. We believe God that
you can. We're asking in faith, God, believing, trusting in
you that you're the great physician. It was this kind
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of warrior kind of prayer. God, we believe that you
can heal this person, and so they prayed and left
that moment. She came back and gave testimony the next
prayer meeting, said, you're not gonna believe this when I
turned around and went out of the prayer meeting down Geronimo,
my ear opened up.
And so she went back to the doctor and the
doctor just a follow up appointment. The doctor says, oh good,
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you took your medicine. She said, no, no, I didn't
take the medicine. I went to a prayer meeting and
Jesus opened my ear. So I, I guess what I'm
saying is we don't wanna, yeah, I mean, that's great.
God can do anything. We don't want to say don't
take the medicine. We're not saying that don't follow doctor's orders,
but sometimes God can break through the supernatural and do
something so supernatural that nobody can deny it. And every
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single one of these gifts.
Always, always points to the gospel. It always points to
the cross. It always leads to Jesus. It's never, I
don't remember the ladies that prayed. I remember there was
some of them, but I don't remember all of them.
And that doesn't matter. It's about God who can do
the immeasurably more than we could even ask or think. OK,
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this person who has the gift of being able to
see miracles happen. I do not believe, only because in scripture,
I do not believe in faith healers.
I, I don't see that as a biblical practice, that
someone has a gift and they have an arena filled
and tickets and it just becomes this big show, but
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I see Jesus moving through the streets and doing miracles
in people's lives without looking for the show.
It's never about us, but these are the people who
have the ability to pray. Here we go. It's always
rooted in prayer, talking to God, asking God, believing that
God can. Pray in faith that God can change someone
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or a circumstance in somebody's life.
They just, they just have this gifting, not to, not
to make that happen, but they have the gift to
see it happen that God can do it. Does that
make sense? And so they have the ability to say,
when we're down in the dumps and we can't see
a way out of the situation, they're able to move
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into the situation and say, come on, let's believe that
God can. God can do a.
miracle. If God can, if God can conceal the storm, if, if,
if God can part the Red Sea for the million
people walking through the Red Sea with the Egyptians coming
behind them, God can certainly fix this little problem. I,
I gotta be honest with you, there are some situations
in my life.
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I don't know what it is, but sometimes I get
into a mode when there are certain things that are
feel like crashing down into my life. I can get
back into a mode of the old mic and seeing
things and circumstances, just the way that a person sees
them without God. I don't know why that is. I
feel bad about that. I know, I'm, I'm working on that.
That's why we need the body.
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That's why we need other people, cause I'm not always
on the mountain top with Jesus. Sometimes I need someone
to say, Pastor Mike, what's the matter? Well, this, this
and this. Someone coming into our life saying, but we
believe that God can. Come on, Lord, let's pray on this.
Let's believe that God can do something here. That's how
the giftings work. If we
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If everyone had all the gifts, we wouldn't need one another.
We need one another.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You're listening to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring Mike Mayolo, lead
pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church. For information about Mike's church,
visit MVCChome.org. Once again, here's Pastor Mike Mayolo.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Can you imagine a football team going out on the field?
And all of a sudden, the, uh, the running back says,
you know what, I, I, I, I don't, I'm tired
of running the ball and and in the huddle, he says,
I want to play quarterback.
And the quarterback says, yeah, no big deal. Why don't
you step into my position? And the punter says, you
know what, I'm tired of punting the ball. I wanna
be running back. And it's, what would happen? It would
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be mass chaos, right? Every single one of those players
directed by the head coach knows they're gifting, they know
their position, and everybody respects one another's position.
Even if there's maybe a moment of it, man, I
wish I made that touchdown. We're just glad that the
team made the touchdown. I guess that's where the church
is at its best. Man, you have an incredible gift.
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I'm not as smart as you are. I don't have
that gift of knowledge, but you do. So what do
you think about this situation? And I need some wisdom here.
Can you pray over this that God would just really
show me what am I supposed to do? That's where
the giftings.
Men are just manifest when we are in the spirit
with one another, and we respect and honor the differences
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that God gave us. Now, this person knows the gift
of faith. I love this one.
This one is the ability to see a situation that
seems absolutely hopeless.
In a person's or man's eyes, but can believe that
God can bring breakthrough victory in any situation.
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The these people have the gift to say, well, I
know we're going into surgery, but I just believe that
God can. Let's pray in faith, let's trust God. Let's
trust God and see what God can do.
That this is a person like Caleb from Capel High
School that sees all these students. Caleb gave his life
to Jesus Christ. He's a sophomore at Capel High School,
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and something within him said, you know what, I wanna
start a Christian club. This is the gift, he has
the gift of faith to believe that God can. Over
50 kids are coming at lunchtime. Lunchtime, Capel High School
gathering in a room for Christian Christianity.
He has the gift of faith to see it. Is
he the one to be able to gonna be able
to organize and do all the work? Maybe not, maybe so.
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That's why we need one another.
To see the reality that God wants to see. I, I, I,
I guess where I wanted just to communicate is you
have been gifted, you have been given the word of God,
and I believe that God wants you to know you're
gifting and he wants you to start moving in that gift,
and that's what we'll talk about here to wrap this up. Now,
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this gift of prophecy, this is a really cool one.
In the Old Testament there were specific prophets that God
used to speak forth a message for the people of Israel.
Most of those messages were about Israel getting right with
God again. Repent, get right with God, get on your faces,
get right with God now or else. And that was
a warning, kind of a message. It was also to
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encourage the people of God, to let them know that
God is faithful.
That God is true, that God will never leave us.
He will never forsake us. So a specific prophetic word
would come in the Old Testament, because they didn't carry
around back in the day, their Bible in their hand.
So God would give a specific word, but it was
always in parallel with the word of God, the Old Testament,
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the first five books. Genesis, Exodus, Soliticus, numbers, and Deuteronomy.
Anytime anyone ever gives an encouraging word or some type
of word, it always has to be in parallel with
the word. So what are, what is the New Testament
understanding of prophet? The ability to see a situation or
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future events, this is the key in the word of God,
to bring forth truth so that people can get right
with God. So how do we know if somebody's giving
a false prophecy?
It won't line up with the word of God. When
my wife and I lived in Hawaii, we went to
the first, the first ever so excited the harvest crusade
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there in Hawaii. Greg Laurie was coming. It was at
the Waikiki Shell. Everyone was so excited. I remember we
were walking and the place was packed, music was playing,
and as we're walking in there were just cars lined
up everywhere around Waikiki, the zoo, right, right in the
heart of Honolulu. And I remember seeing these flyers on
every single windshield, and I said Jesus is coming October,
I think it was like 14th, 1998.
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Well, we know that Jesus isn't coming on October 14th,
1998 because Jesus said no one knows the day of
the hour. So you see, we have to be very
careful when someone says, I have a word from the
Lord for you, brother. Oh, that's cool. What is it?
And we want to check it out with the word.
There was a lady that came in. This was years
and years ago. She said, Pastor, I need to talk
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to you for a moment and thank God there were
some of, you know, my, uh, our staff right, happened
to be just adjacent to where I was, and she said, um,
can I talk to you in the office? I said, no,
we cannot go into the office, but I'll talk to
you right here. She says, I'm sorry, but you're not
gonna make it.
I said, oh, tell me more about that. She says,
tonight you're gonna die. No, I'm serious, and she was
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coming from a word from the Lord. The reason I
bring this up is to not make fun of, but
we have to be very aware. What does the word
of God say, right? So I said, thank you so
much for telling me that.
I went home and told my wife, she said, lock
the doors. No, she didn't say that. Don't leave the house.
Obviously, it was a false prophecy. We have to be careful,
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first of all, what we are saying and what we
are listening to. Everything must come in parallel with the Bible,
with God's word. That's why I'm so convinced that every
Christian needs an apostle Paul. We need a Barnabas and
we need a Timothy. Apostle Paul.
As someone who's walked longer with the Lord, they're more mature.
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We need to couple up with somebody who I can
go to with some of these things. You know, I
think God is speaking to me about this. What do
you think about this in light of what God's word says?
Then we need a Barnabas, someone who puts their arm
around us and says, hey, bro, let's walk with Jesus together.
We're kind of in the same place. And then we
need a Timothy, someone that we're pouring our life into.
Someone that we care about, we want them to know
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what it means to really walk with Jesus. And so
the people with the gift of prophecy are able to
see right through things. They have the ability to be
able to see right and wrong judgment, they're able to
see truth. These folks sometimes have um the bent, they
don't always say it nicely, but the truth is most important. Yeah, that's.
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When you're married to a prophet,
You need to be aware that they're going to always
want the family to be on the right track. And
so we have to remind these folks, can you say
it in love, right?
What's the next one? Discernment. The ability to see truth
in any given situation, in light of the word of God.
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To help people make things right with God. So the
discernment gift is being able to see, you know, I
see so clearly what's going on.
If, if you don't have the gift of discernment or
feel like, you know, I don't, not sure I have
the gift of the prophetic, being able to proclaim the
word of God boldly, then we want to have somebody
in our life who has discernment. They can see through things.
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I
I just think we need people around us who have
different gifts, so that we can hear correctly from God. OK,
the gift of tongues. This is the ability to speak
to God in another unknown language that enhances the depth
of knowing Him.
So that others may hear and respond to the gospel.
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So in the book of Acts, the gift of tongues
is translated languages. There were thousands of people standing in Jerusalem.
The apostles come out of the upper room. Peter gets
up and it says the apostles began to speak in
other tongues.
That means that everybody from different parts of the world
who were gathered together at the Passover feast, they were Jewish,
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but they had different languages, and some were Gentile. Everybody
got to hear the simple gospel in their own language. So,
I don't know exactly how that worked out, but God
wanted everyone to have an opportunity to hear the love of.
Christ. And so he spoke in a tongue through the apostles,
so everybody could hear the gospel. And that's why there
were 3000 people who got saved, man. 3000 people got
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saved and baptized right on the spot, because God used
a gift of somebody to speak the gospel so everyone
can hear. Now, in 1 Corinthians 12 and other places
in Corinthians, God also speaks.
About the other use of the gift of tongues. This
is a prayer language between you and the Lord. Not
everybody has this gift, but this is something that just
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comes from the heart, the Holy Spirit. There's a prayer
language that comes, and the use of this gift is
not to show off, it's not to impress anybody. That's
a very private gift between you and God.
I believe that with all my heart, and this is
where some of, unfortunately, the abuses of these gifts have
come because it throws people into chaos and confusion.
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God has given a gift to be able to pray
to him, where sometimes the words in the human language
just don't come out, but God, in, in, in my
heart of hearts, I'm groaning for this, but I don't
know how to get the words out, and the Holy
Spirit will help and and for the only reason of
enhancing the intimacy that we have with God.
There are some folks that have that gift, and so
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we ask that in an assembly like this in a
gathering that we're respectful and humble. Paul says there has
to be order in worship services. We can't have everybody
standing up and saying things because Paul even said people
walk in who visit and who are guests, I think
you people are nuts. I'm out of here. We don't
want to ever do anything that brings a distraction to
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the gospel.
And so we want to be in alignment with what
God is using.
I have found this. I'm, I'm convinced as we kind
of wind this down.
That God did not give these gifts necessarily for the
service or the order of service only.
You may be standing in line at the grocery store,
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at the bank, you may be standing with your kids
at the soccer field, you may be walking your dog,
and God can use any one of these gifts in
any situation. And in fact, what gets my motor going
even more is being able to use the gift that
God's given us out there with non-believers so that they
can see and hear the gospel.
So the last one is the interpretation of tongues. If
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there is a person who has a message, a gift
of tongues that's being spoken out loud, there has to
be understanding. There has to be order. And so this
person is the ability to be able to interpret what
God is saying, always, always, always in parallel with the
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word of God.
God would never be contrary to the word. I that's
where the the crux of all of this is with
all these gifts. Well, God just, you know, told me
to steal from the rich and give to the poor. No,
cause God said don't steal. We can twist things and
be careful. We have to be very, very careful of
what we think we're hearing from God. So those gifts
in operation are for the one reason of building up
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the body and why is it
important that we're built up because we want to be
built up so the world will see that Jesus is alive.
We want people to see the gospel, we want everyone
to have an opportunity to experience the gospel and receive
Jesus Christ. And when we're in that either speaking gift
or that serving gift, that is the best way for
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somebody to see God.
I want you to be able to develop this gift
that you have. So, here's what I'm gonna ask. Number
one is this. I want everybody here just to really
just join with me in seeking, number one, seeking God
to know you're gifting. Ask Him, God, where am I gifted?
Show me, God. And I just believe earnest and heartfelt
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and passionate prayer and earnest and just honesty with God,
He will answer those prayers.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
That's Pastor Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo Christian
Church here on K Waves Pastor Spotlight. Pastor Mike will
be back tomorrow at the same time with a message
called The Heart of every gift as he teaches from
1 Corinthians chapter 13. Mike Mayolo serves as the lead
pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church, where he's been pastoring
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for the last 23 years, 3 years as a youth
pastor and lead pastor for the last 20. MVCC is a.
Church in Mission Viejo, where real discipleship happens. Love is
on display and lives are released on mission for Christ.
Their vision is to reach people with the good news
of Jesus Christ, to make disciples who make disciples. Again,
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Mission Viejo Christian Church is located at 27192 Geronimo Road
in Mission Viejo. Sunday worship times are at 9 a.m.
and 11 a.m. MVCC is best known in the community
for assisting the city with service to children.
And their families through preschool to junior high education, they
also provide after school outreaches for public school children and
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service projects throughout the city of Mission Viejo. Their purpose
in providing these is to bring the good news of
Jesus Christ to their city in hopes that God will
transform their community through prayer, wanting everyone to have a
personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Some upcoming events that you
and your family are invited to include their Christmas Eve
services at 12:30.
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And 4 p.m. and their worship night with circuit riders
on January 13th at 6 p.m. For more information about
Mission Viejo Christian Church, visit MBCChome.org. Be here again tomorrow
at the same time on Kwave's Pastor Spotlight for another
message from Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church.
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Welcome to Kwave's Pastors Spotlight featuring the Bible teaching of
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visit MBCChome.org.
Have you ever had thoughts like, I'm just not gifted
enough to serve God? Well, the fact is everyone who
has accepted Jesus Christ has been given gifts by the
Holy Spirit. There are 3 places in the New Testament
where spiritual gifts are mentioned, but the lists in 1
Corinthians chapter 12 are specific to empower every person to
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glorify God and encourage his people. Here's Pastor Mike.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
OK, here we go. Now, dear brothers and sisters, regarding
your question about the special abilities, gifts that the spirit gives,
I don't want you to misunderstand this. So I, I
want you to know this church. I want you to
know you have been gifted, you have been empowered, and
it's important for every single one of us to know
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where we are. You know that when you were still pagans,
meaning before we accepted Jesus, right? You were led
led astray and swept along in worshiping speechless idols. You
guys used to worship all those false idols. You didn't
follow God. Remember you were just doing your own life.
And so I want you to know that no one
speaking by the Spirit of God will curse Jesus. Obviously,
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that's pretty clear.
And no one can say Jesus is Lord except by
the Holy Spirit. So let's be clear, there are false
gods and there is only one God. And he makes
it very clear here that you will know without the
shadow of a doubt who the one true God is,
and the follower of Christ will always profess and say, yes,
Jesus Christ is Lord, and you'll just, you'll know that.
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All right, there are different kinds of spiritual gifts, but
the same spirit is the source of them all. God
gives us, right?
By His Holy Spirit, he's given every single one of
us a gift. And so there are different kinds of service,
but we serve the same Lord. God works in different ways,
but it is the same God who does the work
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in all of us.
A spiritual gift is given to each of us so
we can help each other.
To one person, the spirit gives the ability to give
wise advice. To another, the same spirit gives a message
of special knowledge. To the same spirit also gives great
faith to another and to someone else, the one spirit
gives the gift of healing.
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He gives one person the power to perform miracles, the other,
the ability to prophesy. He gives someone else the ability
to discern whether a message is from the Spirit of
God or from another spirit. Still, another person is given
the ability to speak in unknown languages, while others are
given the ability to interpret what is being said. Verse 11.
It is, it is the one and only.
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Spirit who distributes all these gifts. He alone decides which
gift each person should have. The human body has many parts,
but many, the many parts make up the one whole body.
So it is with the body of Christ. We'll stop
right here because I wanna be really clear about each
one of these gifts. What is he talking about? First
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of all,
We want to be asking ourselves here in these next
few moments, Lord, where have you gifted me and how
can I develop that gift? Well, the first one he
mentions is the gift of having wisdom. What is wisdom?
Wisdom is the ability, the gifting of this gift, this
person has the ability to discern truth, to make wise
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and clear choices according to the word of God. That's super,
super important here. They are able to discern and make
wise choices with the knowledge that they have of the
word of God. So how does this gift, how does
this gift manifest in operation? Whenever we have a decision
to make, God says, you can ask for wisdom.
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God, what do you want me to do? What school
do you want me to go to, Lord? Who do
you want me to date? Who do you want me
to marry? Which uh all kinds of situations throughout the day,
we need wisdom, right? Don't we need wisdom? And so
God is saying in James chapter one, if any of
you lacks wisdom,
He should ask of God who is generous without finding fault.
And when that person asks, he should believe and not doubt,
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because the person who doubts is blown and tossed by
the wind, they should not think they receive anything from
the Lord. He's saying when we ask, we believe that
God is gonna answer the prayer. Not always how we want,
but we trust and.
I believe that God is gonna answer. So, these folks
have the ability to say, you know, I think the
word of God is very clear here that we should
go in this direction because of what God is saying.
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So it's a gift to be able to have the
ability to make right and wise choices every day in life.
Second is the gift of knowledge. The ability to understand
information about a situation in parallel with the word of
God to give wise counsel.
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When we have knowledge and we know about the word
of God and know the word of God, God can
use that in a specific situation in somebody's life to
help them.
it may be, um, you're just with somebody at a gathering,
maybe in life group or maybe you're just with friends,
maybe in the neighborhood or some, I don't know, some
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sports event and you just sense that the spirit of
God is starting to, to speak into your heart about
someone's situation.
And then we ask the Lord, God, do you want
me to do something about this? Do you want me
to help this specific man, this specific moment, this specific
person with the gift of knowledge, God that I believe
you've given me about the situation that's gonna help somebody
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to see truth. So knowledge is being able to see
something in the supernatural, that God gives us the word
to confirm everything he's saying. To help somebody.
Number 3 is this, the gift of healing. Does God
still operate in these gifts? Of course.
But I think it's a little bit different than maybe
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what we've seen in our culture and some of the
chaos and some of the confusion. So this one, the
gift of healing, don't we need healing?
Oh my goodness, not just physical healing, spiritual healing. We,
we need emotional healing, even psychologically healing. We just, some
of us have just been beat up by the enemy,
and we need help, and God has given this gift
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to a certain group of people, certain persons, so that
healing can come, and we have to remember when First
Corinthians was written,
The key verse is, all this comes from the same source.
It's not the person, it's never to lift up anyone.
It's always about God giving the gift so that the
person may be moving closer to God, and he simply
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uses a person as a vessel to bring forth truth
so they can make a wise choice. So this one here,
the gift of healing is the ability to pray.
And believe. These people have the ability to believe in
any situation, God can heal anyone of anything. God can
restore anything, God can reconcile anything. He can bring healing
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to the mind. He can bring healing to the soul,
to our emotions. He can bring physical healing. God can,
not always that God always will.
But these people have this, this gift to be able
to see, come on, God can heal you, God can
do this, and they were just gonna pray and believe
that God can. So it's the ability to have faith
that God can bring healing to someone either physically, emotionally,
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spiritually or psychologically.
We were in prayer meeting. This was a few years ago,
and there was a woman who was uh sitting in
the front row, and she had uh come up and
give testimony about something that happened to her weeks before
when we had another prayer meeting that one of her
ears was stopped and clogged up she couldn't hear, so
she went to the doctor, got some medicine, and uh
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she happened to come to the prayer meeting. There were
some women that surrounded her and just prayed, and one
of those women that prayed just had a simple childlike faith.
This is where this gift would be an operation.
God, we know that, and I overheard the prayer, God,
we know that you can heal. We believe God that
you can. We're asking in faith, God, believing, trusting in
you that you're the great physician. It was this kind
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of warrior kind of prayer. God, we believe that you
can heal this person, and so they prayed and left
that moment. She came back and gave testimony the next
prayer meeting, said, you're not gonna believe this when I
turned around and went out of the prayer meeting down Geronimo,
my ear opened up.
And so she went back to the doctor and the
doctor just a follow up appointment. The doctor says, oh good,
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you took your medicine. She said, no, no, I didn't
take the medicine. I went to a prayer meeting and
Jesus opened my ear. So I, I guess what I'm
saying is we don't wanna, yeah, I mean, that's great.
God can do anything. We don't want to say don't
take the medicine. We're not saying that don't follow doctor's orders,
but sometimes God can break through the supernatural and do
something so supernatural that nobody can deny it. And every
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single one of these gifts.
Always, always points to the gospel. It always points to
the cross. It always leads to Jesus. It's never, I
don't remember the ladies that prayed. I remember there was
some of them, but I don't remember all of them.
And that doesn't matter. It's about God who can do
the immeasurably more than we could even ask or think. OK,
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this person who has the gift of being able to
see miracles happen. I do not believe, only because in scripture,
I do not believe in faith healers.
I, I don't see that as a biblical practice, that
someone has a gift and they have an arena filled
and tickets and it just becomes this big show, but
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I see Jesus moving through the streets and doing miracles
in people's lives without looking for the show.
It's never about us, but these are the people who
have the ability to pray. Here we go. It's always
rooted in prayer, talking to God, asking God, believing that
God can. Pray in faith that God can change someone
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or a circumstance in somebody's life.
They just, they just have this gifting, not to, not
to make that happen, but they have the gift to
see it happen that God can do it. Does that
make sense? And so they have the ability to say,
when we're down in the dumps and we can't see
a way out of the situation, they're able to move
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into the situation and say, come on, let's believe that
God can. God can do a.
miracle. If God can, if God can conceal the storm, if, if,
if God can part the Red Sea for the million
people walking through the Red Sea with the Egyptians coming
behind them, God can certainly fix this little problem. I,
I gotta be honest with you, there are some situations
in my life.
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I don't know what it is, but sometimes I get
into a mode when there are certain things that are
feel like crashing down into my life. I can get
back into a mode of the old mic and seeing
things and circumstances, just the way that a person sees
them without God. I don't know why that is. I
feel bad about that. I know, I'm, I'm working on that.
That's why we need the body.
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That's why we need other people, cause I'm not always
on the mountain top with Jesus. Sometimes I need someone
to say, Pastor Mike, what's the matter? Well, this, this
and this. Someone coming into our life saying, but we
believe that God can. Come on, Lord, let's pray on this.
Let's believe that God can do something here. That's how
the giftings work. If we
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If everyone had all the gifts, we wouldn't need one another.
We need one another.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You're listening to Kwave's Pastor Spotlight featuring Mike Mayolo, lead
pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church. For information about Mike's church,
visit MVCChome.org. Once again, here's Pastor Mike Mayolo.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Can you imagine a football team going out on the field?
And all of a sudden, the, uh, the running back says,
you know what, I, I, I, I don't, I'm tired
of running the ball and and in the huddle, he says,
I want to play quarterback.
And the quarterback says, yeah, no big deal. Why don't
you step into my position? And the punter says, you
know what, I'm tired of punting the ball. I wanna
be running back. And it's, what would happen? It would
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be mass chaos, right? Every single one of those players
directed by the head coach knows they're gifting, they know
their position, and everybody respects one another's position.
Even if there's maybe a moment of it, man, I
wish I made that touchdown. We're just glad that the
team made the touchdown. I guess that's where the church
is at its best. Man, you have an incredible gift.
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I'm not as smart as you are. I don't have
that gift of knowledge, but you do. So what do
you think about this situation? And I need some wisdom here.
Can you pray over this that God would just really
show me what am I supposed to do? That's where
the giftings.
Men are just manifest when we are in the spirit
with one another, and we respect and honor the differences
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that God gave us. Now, this person knows the gift
of faith. I love this one.
This one is the ability to see a situation that
seems absolutely hopeless.
In a person's or man's eyes, but can believe that
God can bring breakthrough victory in any situation.
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The these people have the gift to say, well, I
know we're going into surgery, but I just believe that
God can. Let's pray in faith, let's trust God. Let's
trust God and see what God can do.
That this is a person like Caleb from Capel High
School that sees all these students. Caleb gave his life
to Jesus Christ. He's a sophomore at Capel High School,
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and something within him said, you know what, I wanna
start a Christian club. This is the gift, he has
the gift of faith to believe that God can. Over
50 kids are coming at lunchtime. Lunchtime, Capel High School
gathering in a room for Christian Christianity.
He has the gift of faith to see it. Is
he the one to be able to gonna be able
to organize and do all the work? Maybe not, maybe so.
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That's why we need one another.
To see the reality that God wants to see. I, I, I,
I guess where I wanted just to communicate is you
have been gifted, you have been given the word of God,
and I believe that God wants you to know you're
gifting and he wants you to start moving in that gift,
and that's what we'll talk about here to wrap this up. Now,
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this gift of prophecy, this is a really cool one.
In the Old Testament there were specific prophets that God
used to speak forth a message for the people of Israel.
Most of those messages were about Israel getting right with
God again. Repent, get right with God, get on your faces,
get right with God now or else. And that was
a warning, kind of a message. It was also to
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encourage the people of God, to let them know that
God is faithful.
That God is true, that God will never leave us.
He will never forsake us. So a specific prophetic word
would come in the Old Testament, because they didn't carry
around back in the day, their Bible in their hand.
So God would give a specific word, but it was
always in parallel with the word of God, the Old Testament,
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the first five books. Genesis, Exodus, Soliticus, numbers, and Deuteronomy.
Anytime anyone ever gives an encouraging word or some type
of word, it always has to be in parallel with
the word. So what are, what is the New Testament
understanding of prophet? The ability to see a situation or
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future events, this is the key in the word of God,
to bring forth truth so that people can get right
with God. So how do we know if somebody's giving
a false prophecy?
It won't line up with the word of God. When
my wife and I lived in Hawaii, we went to
the first, the first ever so excited the harvest crusade
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there in Hawaii. Greg Laurie was coming. It was at
the Waikiki Shell. Everyone was so excited. I remember we
were walking and the place was packed, music was playing,
and as we're walking in there were just cars lined
up everywhere around Waikiki, the zoo, right, right in the
heart of Honolulu. And I remember seeing these flyers on
every single windshield, and I said Jesus is coming October,
I think it was like 14th, 1998.
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Well, we know that Jesus isn't coming on October 14th,
1998 because Jesus said no one knows the day of
the hour. So you see, we have to be very
careful when someone says, I have a word from the
Lord for you, brother. Oh, that's cool. What is it?
And we want to check it out with the word.
There was a lady that came in. This was years
and years ago. She said, Pastor, I need to talk
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to you for a moment and thank God there were
some of, you know, my, uh, our staff right, happened
to be just adjacent to where I was, and she said, um,
can I talk to you in the office? I said, no,
we cannot go into the office, but I'll talk to
you right here. She says, I'm sorry, but you're not
gonna make it.
I said, oh, tell me more about that. She says,
tonight you're gonna die. No, I'm serious, and she was
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coming from a word from the Lord. The reason I
bring this up is to not make fun of, but
we have to be very aware. What does the word
of God say, right? So I said, thank you so
much for telling me that.
I went home and told my wife, she said, lock
the doors. No, she didn't say that. Don't leave the house.
Obviously, it was a false prophecy. We have to be careful,
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first of all, what we are saying and what we
are listening to. Everything must come in parallel with the Bible,
with God's word. That's why I'm so convinced that every
Christian needs an apostle Paul. We need a Barnabas and
we need a Timothy. Apostle Paul.
As someone who's walked longer with the Lord, they're more mature.
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We need to couple up with somebody who I can
go to with some of these things. You know, I
think God is speaking to me about this. What do
you think about this in light of what God's word says?
Then we need a Barnabas, someone who puts their arm
around us and says, hey, bro, let's walk with Jesus together.
We're kind of in the same place. And then we
need a Timothy, someone that we're pouring our life into.
Someone that we care about, we want them to know
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what it means to really walk with Jesus. And so
the people with the gift of prophecy are able to
see right through things. They have the ability to be
able to see right and wrong judgment, they're able to
see truth. These folks sometimes have um the bent, they
don't always say it nicely, but the truth is most important. Yeah, that's.
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When you're married to a prophet,
You need to be aware that they're going to always
want the family to be on the right track. And
so we have to remind these folks, can you say
it in love, right?
What's the next one? Discernment. The ability to see truth
in any given situation, in light of the word of God.
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To help people make things right with God. So the
discernment gift is being able to see, you know, I
see so clearly what's going on.
If, if you don't have the gift of discernment or
feel like, you know, I don't, not sure I have
the gift of the prophetic, being able to proclaim the
word of God boldly, then we want to have somebody
in our life who has discernment. They can see through things.
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I
I just think we need people around us who have
different gifts, so that we can hear correctly from God. OK,
the gift of tongues. This is the ability to speak
to God in another unknown language that enhances the depth
of knowing Him.
So that others may hear and respond to the gospel.
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So in the book of Acts, the gift of tongues
is translated languages. There were thousands of people standing in Jerusalem.
The apostles come out of the upper room. Peter gets
up and it says the apostles began to speak in
other tongues.
That means that everybody from different parts of the world
who were gathered together at the Passover feast, they were Jewish,
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but they had different languages, and some were Gentile. Everybody
got to hear the simple gospel in their own language. So,
I don't know exactly how that worked out, but God
wanted everyone to have an opportunity to hear the love of.
Christ. And so he spoke in a tongue through the apostles,
so everybody could hear the gospel. And that's why there
were 3000 people who got saved, man. 3000 people got
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saved and baptized right on the spot, because God used
a gift of somebody to speak the gospel so everyone
can hear. Now, in 1 Corinthians 12 and other places
in Corinthians, God also speaks.
About the other use of the gift of tongues. This
is a prayer language between you and the Lord. Not
everybody has this gift, but this is something that just
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comes from the heart, the Holy Spirit. There's a prayer
language that comes, and the use of this gift is
not to show off, it's not to impress anybody. That's
a very private gift between you and God.
I believe that with all my heart, and this is
where some of, unfortunately, the abuses of these gifts have
come because it throws people into chaos and confusion.
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God has given a gift to be able to pray
to him, where sometimes the words in the human language
just don't come out, but God, in, in, in my
heart of hearts, I'm groaning for this, but I don't
know how to get the words out, and the Holy
Spirit will help and and for the only reason of
enhancing the intimacy that we have with God.
There are some folks that have that gift, and so
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we ask that in an assembly like this in a
gathering that we're respectful and humble. Paul says there has
to be order in worship services. We can't have everybody
standing up and saying things because Paul even said people
walk in who visit and who are guests, I think
you people are nuts. I'm out of here. We don't
want to ever do anything that brings a distraction to
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the gospel.
And so we want to be in alignment with what
God is using.
I have found this. I'm, I'm convinced as we kind
of wind this down.
That God did not give these gifts necessarily for the
service or the order of service only.
You may be standing in line at the grocery store,
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at the bank, you may be standing with your kids
at the soccer field, you may be walking your dog,
and God can use any one of these gifts in
any situation. And in fact, what gets my motor going
even more is being able to use the gift that
God's given us out there with non-believers so that they
can see and hear the gospel.
So the last one is the interpretation of tongues. If
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there is a person who has a message, a gift
of tongues that's being spoken out loud, there has to
be understanding. There has to be order. And so this
person is the ability to be able to interpret what
God is saying, always, always, always in parallel with the
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word of God.
God would never be contrary to the word. I that's
where the the crux of all of this is with
all these gifts. Well, God just, you know, told me
to steal from the rich and give to the poor. No,
cause God said don't steal. We can twist things and
be careful. We have to be very, very careful of
what we think we're hearing from God. So those gifts
in operation are for the one reason of building up
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the body and why is it
important that we're built up because we want to be
built up so the world will see that Jesus is alive.
We want people to see the gospel, we want everyone
to have an opportunity to experience the gospel and receive
Jesus Christ. And when we're in that either speaking gift
or that serving gift, that is the best way for
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somebody to see God.
I want you to be able to develop this gift
that you have. So, here's what I'm gonna ask. Number
one is this. I want everybody here just to really
just join with me in seeking, number one, seeking God
to know you're gifting. Ask Him, God, where am I gifted?
Show me, God. And I just believe earnest and heartfelt
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and passionate prayer and earnest and just honesty with God,
He will answer those prayers.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
That's Pastor Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo Christian
Church here on K Waves Pastor Spotlight. Pastor Mike will
be back tomorrow at the same time with a message
called The Heart of every gift as he teaches from
1 Corinthians chapter 13. Mike Mayolo serves as the lead
pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church, where he's been pastoring
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for the last 23 years, 3 years as a youth
pastor and lead pastor for the last 20. MVCC is a.
Church in Mission Viejo, where real discipleship happens. Love is
on display and lives are released on mission for Christ.
Their vision is to reach people with the good news
of Jesus Christ, to make disciples who make disciples. Again,
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Mission Viejo Christian Church is located at 27192 Geronimo Road
in Mission Viejo. Sunday worship times are at 9 a.m.
and 11 a.m. MVCC is best known in the community
for assisting the city with service to children.
And their families through preschool to junior high education, they
also provide after school outreaches for public school children and
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service projects throughout the city of Mission Viejo. Their purpose
in providing these is to bring the good news of
Jesus Christ to their city in hopes that God will
transform their community through prayer, wanting everyone to have a
personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Some upcoming events that you
and your family are invited to include their Christmas Eve
services at 12:30.
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And 4 p.m. and their worship night with circuit riders
on January 13th at 6 p.m. For more information about
Mission Viejo Christian Church, visit MBCChome.org. Be here again tomorrow
at the same time on Kwave's Pastor Spotlight for another
message from Mike Mayolo, lead pastor of Mission Viejo Christian Church.
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We hope you'll join us. Pastor Spotlight is a production
of Kwave Radio, sharing life, delivering truth, giving hope.
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