“Pointing Others To Jesus”

This past Sunday we spent time considering how Jesus has transformed our lives with His forgiveness, love, and grace. The Lord brought people into our lives who pointed us to Jesus, and our lives were changed forever. That person could have been a parent or another family member. It could have been a youth worker or a Sunday School teacher. It could have been a neighbor or a coworker or a pastor or an evangelist. The Holy Spirit enabled someone in our lives to point us to Jesus. We also we can point others to Jesus, so that the Lord can transform their lives.

Jesus has given each of His followers the Holy Spirit who builds us up and encourages us. The Holy Spirit also gives us the gifts or abilities we need to point others to the Lord.

Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. Therefore, I want you to know that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus be cursed,” and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.

Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.

I Corinthians 12:1-11

Some have been given the gift of healing by the Holy Spirit. You can point others to Jesus by using your gift as the first followers of Jesus did when they healed others. Some have been given the gifts of mercy and service by the Holy Spirit. You can point others to Jesus by using your gifts to care for the poor and others in need.

Maybe the Holy Spirit will enable you to teach a child or a student in middle school or high school about Jesus with the gift of teaching you have been given. Or maybe the Holy Spirit will enable you to love someone or be merciful to someone in Jesus’s name.

All of us can point others to Jesus with the help of the Holy Spirit. So, don’t hesitate to ask the Holy Spirit for help.

In Christ,

Pastor David

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