圣灵的恩赐
哥林多前书十二章1至12节
1弟兄们，论到属灵的恩赐，我不愿意你们不明白。
2你们作外邦人的时候，随事被牵引，受迷惑，去服事那哑吧偶像，这是你们知道的。
3所以我告诉你们，被神的灵感动的，没有说耶稣是可咒诅的；若不是被圣灵感动的，也没有能说耶稣是主的。
4恩赐原有分别，圣灵却是一位。
5职事也有分别，主却是一位。
6功用也有分别，神却是一位，在众人里面运行一切的事。
7圣灵显在各人身上，是叫人得益处。
8这人蒙圣灵赐他智慧的言语，那人也蒙这位圣灵赐他知识的言语，
9又有一人蒙这位圣灵赐他信心，还有一人蒙这位圣灵赐他医病的恩赐，
10又叫一人能行异能，又叫一人能作先知，又叫一人能辨别诸灵，又叫一人能说方言，又叫一人能繙方言。
11这一切都是这位圣灵所运行、随己意分给各人的。
12就如身子是一个，却有许多肢体；而且肢体虽多，仍是一个身子；基督也是这样。
信息分享
神在五旬节建立了教会。祂差遣圣灵临到基督的身体──即教会──以及每个信徒的心中。此外，祂还将不同的才干给予每位信徒，让他们可以用来事奉教会；这些才干，就是圣经所言的「圣灵的恩赐」。
在今天所读的经文中，保罗指出圣灵是按照祂的心意，将不同的恩赐分给每位信徒。
恩赐虽各有不同，但圣灵赐下恩赐的目的却只有一个，就是为了荣耀基督和建立基督的身体。每个信徒至少必有一种恩赐。它们就像一种工具，为的是要帮助我们去服侍教会；但我们并非拥有它们，它们仍然是属于圣灵的，圣灵只是借着我们去运用它们。
恩赐的配搭，就像身体的不同器官配合在一起，各自发挥不同作用。每个器官都有其本身的作用；某一器官若然失去功能，身体就不再完全和健康。同样道理，教会中的信徒各有不同的恩赐，有教导的恩赐，有布道的恩赐，有怜悯人的恩赐，有信心的恩赐…当每位信徒都各尽其职，发挥本身的作用，教会就能成就神的心意和计划。
反思：
作为基督身体中的一个肢体，你有甚么恩赐呢？你是否容让圣灵借着你去运用你的恩赐，服侍基督呢？
THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT
1 Corinthians 12:1-12
1 Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I do not want you to be ignorant:
2 You know that you were Gentiles, carried away to these dumb idols, however you were led.
3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God calls Jesus accursed, and no one can say that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Spirit.
4 There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 There are differences of ministries, but the same Lord.
6 And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.
7 But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all:
8 for to one is given the word of wisdom through the Spirit, to another the word of knowledge through the same Spirit,
9 to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healings by the same Spirit,
10 to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another discerning of spirits, to another different kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.
11 But one and the same Spirit works all these things, distributing to each one individually as He wills.
12 For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.
Message
God commenced the church at Pentecost. He sent the Holy Spirit to be the power of God living in the Church. The Holy Spirit adds to the Church, the body of Christ, everyone who believes. Then he does more. He gives to every one of those believers a special ability to serve Christ within the Church. These abilities are known as the gifts of the Spirit.
In our reading today, Paul points out that it is the Holy Spirit who gives these gifts. He does it himself according to his own sovereign will.
These gifts are different, but all are to be used for the glory of Christ and for the building up of the body of Christ. Every believer has at least one gift. They are like tools which men use in (heir work, only it is not really us who use them. It is the Holy Spirit who both gives them to us and uses them through us.
This is like the parts of the body, too. Each part has its own work to do and without each part we are incomplete. Some have the gift of teaching. Some have the gift of evangelism. Others have the gift of mercy. Still others have the gift of faith. When every part of our physical body is working as it should, we are strong and healthy. When every part of the body of Christ is working, the Church is accomplishing what God has planned.
A QUESTION:
As a member of the body of Christ, what is your gift? Are you allowing the Holy Spirit to use that gift for Christ?