Revelation #57: What is the purpose of the spiritual gifts?

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Question: What is the purpose of the spiritual gifts?

A) To Build Up Your Personal Ego

B) To Manipulate or Control Others for Your Own Purpose or Agenda

C) To Glorify God and to Perfect the Saints for Works of Service in Building Up the Body of Christ

Answer: C) To Glorify God and to Perfect the Saints for Works of Service in Building Up the Body of Christ

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. ~1 Peter 4:10-11 (NIV)

But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit [the spiritual illumination and the enabling of the Holy Spirit] for the common good. ~1 Corinthians 12:7 (AMP)

… [and He did this] to fully equip and perfect the saints (God’s people) for works of service, to build up the body of Christ [the church]; until we all reach oneness in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God, [growing spiritually] to become a mature believer, reaching to the measure of the fullness of Christ [manifesting His spiritual completeness and exercising our spiritual gifts in unity]. ~Ephesians 4:12-13 (AMP)

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