Spiritual Gifts Part 8

REVIEW: Chapter 13 was exhortation by Paul of the superiority of love amongst the various spiritual gifts and the limits of gifts without love.

Thesis/Context: Love will NEVER fail, but the super gifts the Corinthians so earnestly coveted will pass away.

Super Gift Positions:

• CONTINUIST: disappointment, deceit, guilt
• CESSATIONIST: arrogance
• OPEN: ambivalent anxiety

Verse 8 :

1. Prophecy will pass away.
   • meaning = wiped away
   • speak in place of another person
   • in scripture = infallible Word of God
2. Tongues will cease.
   • meaning = cease by itself for lack of fuel
   • connected with prophecy, new revelation
   • tongue = known language
3. Knowledge will cease
   • meaning = immediate divine enlightenment
   • 1 Corinthians 12:8-10 shows tongue gifting
     different person than interpret gifting =
     checks and balances for establishing truth
     and verifying gifts.
   • When prophecy ceases, knowledge would too.