"The Purpose Of The Gifts" - Pastor John W. Brown - Calvary Chapel Central

http://www.calvarycentral.org/nt/2009/act/02b.htm
"Dr. A. B. Simpson used an illustration which was about as good as any I ever heard. He said, `Being filled with the fullness of God is like a bottle in the ocean. You take the cork out of the bottle and sink it in the ocean, and you have the bottle completely full of ocean, but the bottle contains only a little bit of the ocean. So it is with the Christian.' We are filled unto the fullness of God, but of course, we cannot contain all of God because God contains us; but we can have all of God that we can contain. If we only knew it, we could enlarge our vessel. The vessel gets bigger as we go on with God." --A. W. Tozer (The Counselor) Lord has no use for “smoke and mirrors”. If “signs and wonders” or the use of our gifts do not bring glory to Him and salvation to others – what is the point? The point would be that if Jesus is not glorified, and others are not coming to Christ, we were most likely not using those gifts in the Biblical context we see given here in Acts 2.

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