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Originally Posted by mfblume
I've seen it scores of times from apostolic pulpits. I've been used, too.
I do know that this issue of use has something -- likely mostly -- to do with COMPASSION and love. Before Paul corrected the Corinthians about the gifts in chapter 14 after listing them in chapter 12, chapter 13 talks about LOVE/CHARITY. And look at the first verse in Chapter 14:
1 cor 14:14 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.
Imagine someone using the word of knowledge like Jesus and knowing the woman at the well had five husbands, and was living with someone else's husband, and that person had a JUDGMENTAL nature and was condemning. Condemnation ALWAYS accompanies legalism. Even Paul said that LAw was a "ministration of condemnation!" God cannot use people in the gifts who have no compassion.
Hmmmm....
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But He can use fornicators, adulterers, drunkards, sodomites, and heretics?
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