Lesson 9

Theme- Gifts:
Healing
Miracles
Discerning of spirits

Goals:
• To learn about these gifts
• To determine if you have these gifts
• To serve using these gifts

1. Review:
• What gifts have we studied?
• Which gift do I have?
• How do I serve using these gifts for the building up of the church? Or have I buried [not put it to use] this gift?
• When God asks me to give an account of this gift, is my desire to give the gift to the Lord?

2. Motivation:
With which gifts does Satan manipulate, so believers will fall into the snares (nets) or lies of the devil? Today we will be speaking about these exact things:
• Healing- Psychics, Witches and Fortunetellers
• Miracles
• Discerning of spirits
(Satan also has (uses) these gifts.)

Do we have these gifts today?

• They are necessary for unbelievers.
• Miracles- Speculation about faith in the time of Jesus Christ, miracles only happened in Palestine. Today they take place all over the world.
• All are tempted- Even those who do have the Spirit of God, but Satan especially works to use these gifts among believers.

3. Tablet:

Gift of Healing
Results and actions:
The reason for the disease- From where?
• From hostility toward God
• The consequence of sin, disobedience
Who heals?
• Jesus Christ took on our infirmities.
• He suffered our illnesses.
• He was wounded for our sins.
• He was tormented for our unlawful deeds and by His wounds we are healed from our sins.
What [who] was healed? (Matthew 8:17; 10:1,8)
• All disease
• Cast out demons
• The lame, the blind
Is there healing today? (James 5:14-16)
• Call upon (go to) the elders of the church
• Pray over
• Anoint with oil
• All done in the name of Jesus Christ
• Only the faith of the sick

Gift of miracles-
A work that is an unexplained phenomenon
Who performed miracles?
Jesus Christ:
• Turned the water into wine- John 2:11
• At Easter (the Passover Feast) - John 2:23; 7:31
• Miracles in which no one else could do- John 3:2
• Paul and Barnabas among the Gentiles- Acts 15:12
• Stephen- Acts 6:8
• Philip- Acts 8:6-13
For unbelievers many believed

Source? God
Are all miracles from God?
• False prophets- Matthew 7:15-23
• False Christ- Matthew 24:24
• Wicked- 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
• Beast- Revelation 13:14
• Dragon- Revelation 16:13-14
If possible leads believers astray

Why are miracles needed? John 20:30-31; 21:25

Discerning of spirits
Legal assessment, recognizable evil spirits according to their
phenomena

Who sets them apart?
• Jesus Christ
• Paul
How do they manifest themselves?
• Acts 5:9-11
Ananias and Sapphira decided to tempt the Spirit of the Lord
(Peter)
• Acts 13:8-12
Elymas fulfilled every insidiousness and evil deed; son of the devil- Paul brought upon him blindness
• Acts 16:16-18
servant- soothsayer
Paul ordered in the name of Jesus Christ that the spirit come out of her.
Are there spirits today?
• Acts 20:29-30
Grievous wolves enter the church to carry away disciples to themselves
• 2 Timothy 4:1-3
There will come a time when sound teaching will not be understood
• 2 Corinthians 11:4,13-15
-Can preach about another Jesus
-Can receive another spirit or another gospel

Our Responsibility:
• Acts 17:11- daily search the scriptures
• 1 Peter 2:2; Hebrews 5:12-14- accustom yourself to distinguish good from evil
• 1 John 4:1- do not believe every spirit, test (try) them

4. Conclusion:
• Healing- an additional way to witness about Jesus Christ
• If you believe, what guarantees your health?
• Is this gift used today?
• Does healing take place in those with faith?
• Miracles- another way to witness about Christ
• Are miracles performed today? Where? (for unbelievers)
• Will miracles be shown?
• Discerning of spirits- Is this needed? Why?
• Among true believers are there other spirits? And in the church? What do we do?
• Have you met these types of people?

5. Application:
• Do I possess these gifts alone?
• If I cannot heal, how can I help?
6. Motivation for the next lesson:
• Up until now there has been debate about the gift of speaking in tongues. In order to fully understanding the gift of speaking in tongues, you should learn everything there is to know about this subject from God’s Word. In Acts the Holy Spirit came upon the Apostles and they spoke in different dialects (languages).
• If you do not speak (in tongues), does that mean you do not have the Holy Spirit?