When That Which Is Perfect Has Come

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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come

• 1 Corinthians 138-13

The Purpose of Miracles
To show that GOD is the one behind the events
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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come

• Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• How were they given?
• Direct laying on of the apostles hands
• Then they laid hands on them, and they received
  the Holy Spirit. And when Simon saw that through
  the laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy
  Spirit was given Acts 817,18

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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come

• Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• How were they given?
• Direct laying on of the apostles hands
• And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy
  Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with
  tongues and prophesied. Acts 196

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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come

• Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• How were they given?
• Direct laying on of the apostles hands
• For I long to see you, that I may impart to you
  some spiritual gift, so that you may be
  established. Romans 111

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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come

• Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• How were they given?
• What was their purpose?
• To cause people to have faith in Christ
• And my speech and my preaching were not with
  persuasive words of human wisdom, but in
  demonstration of the Spirit and of power, that
  your faith should not be in the wisdom of men but
  in the power of God. 1 Corinthians 24,5

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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come

• Gifts of the Holy Spirit
• How were they given?
• What was their purpose?
• To edify the church
• Even so you, since you are zealous for spiritual
  gifts, let it be for the edification of the
  church that you seek to excel... How is it then,
  brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you
  has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a
  revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things
  be done for edification. 1 Corinthians 1412,26

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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come

• Miraculous gifts will cease.
• There will be a time when they will
• Fail
• Cease
• Vanish
• Love never fails. But whether there are
  prophecies, they will fail whether there are
  tongues, they will cease whether there is
  knowledge, it will vanish away.
  
  1 Corinthians 138

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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come

• When that which is perfect has come
• For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But
  when that which is perfect has come, then that
  which is in part will be done away. 1
  Corinthians 139,10
• Perfect (teleios)that which grows to
  completeness or wholeness.

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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come
1 Corinthians 138-13
In Part (Verse 10)
Prophecy
Tongues
when that which is perfect has come
John 1613 2 Pet 12-3 2 Tim 316-17
Knowledge
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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come

• Pauls analogy of a child to a man
• When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I
  understood as a child, I thought as a child but
  when I became a man, I put away childish things.
  1 Corinthians 1311As children grow, they
  need help. God has given us help so we can
  grow!Ephesians 411-16

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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come
The Mirror (Verse 12)

• Dim outline of Gods will
• But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty
  and continues in it, and is not a forgetful
  hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be
  blessed in what he does. James 125

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face
to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall
know just as I also am known.
1 Corinthians 1312
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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come
The Mirror (Verse 12)

• Perfect law tells us all we need to know
• As His divine power has given to us all things
  that pertain to life and godliness, through the
  knowledge of Him who called us by glory and
  virtue. 2 Peter 13

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face
to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall
know just as I also am known.
1 Corinthians 1312
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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come
The Mirror (Verse 12)

• Ultimate purpose summed up by John
• But these are written that you may believe that
  Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that
  believing you may have life in His name.
  John 2031

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face
to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall
know just as I also am known.
1 Corinthians 1312
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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come
1 Corinthians 138-13
What will abide (Verse 13)
And now abide faith, hope, love, these
three but the greatest of these is love.
Faith will one day be realized
Hope will one day be realized
Love will abide forever!
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When That Which Is Perfect Has Come
1 Corinthians 138-13
When that which is perfect has come