Gift

Gift

By Apostle Aje Pelser, preached at Harvester Reformational Church, Cape Town

Gifts that contribute to the growth of the church.

A gift can be something you give, like a precious present, or it can be part of your life that you impart to others. It can be a spiritual endowment and it can also be a special skill that you have sharpened and matured over time to apply for the completion of a building or in a given task.

What we realize is that Jesus is building His Church by adding specific members that contribute and supply a unique gift to the greater church.

Eph 4:16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

Supplies G2024 epichorēgia [ep-ee-khor-ayg-ee’-ah]

From G2023; contribution: – supply.

epichorēgeō [ep-ee-khor-ayg-eh’-o] From G1909 and G5524; to furnish besides, that is, fully supply, (figuratively) aid or contribute: – add, minister (nourishment, unto).

Pro 18:16 A man’s gift makes room for him, And brings him before great men.

John 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

Act_2:38 Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Gift G1431 dōrea [do-reh-ah’] From G1435; a gratuity: – gift.

G1435 dōron [do’-ron] A present; specifically a sacrifice: – gift, offering.

Rom 1:11 For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, so that you may be established—

Spiritual Gift G5486 charisma [char’-is-mah]

From G5483; a (divine) gratuity, that is, deliverance (from danger or passion); (specifically) a (spiritual) endowment, that is, (subjectively) religious qualification, or (objectively) miraculous faculty: – (free) gift.

2Ti 1:6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

From Apostle Andre Pelser’s book abouthte apostolic reformation of an accurate church that Jesus builds:

“It is time that the Church at large embraces the full five-fold ministry, the five allotments of the anointing of Christ after he departed from this earth and gave gifts to men to equip the saints and bring them to maturity and unity of faith, where they will no longer be tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine according to Ephesians 4:11-16”

He ‘gave’ some to be… G1325 didōmi

Thayer Definition:

1. to give
2. to give something to someone

2a) of one’s own accord to give one something, to his advantage

2a1) to bestow a gift

2b) to grant, give to one asking, let have

2c) to supply, furnish, necessary things

2d) to give over, deliver

2d1) to reach out, extend, present

2d2) of a writing

2d3) to give over to one’s care, intrust, commit

2d3a) something to be administered

2d3b) to give or commit to some one something to be religiously observed

2e) to give what is due or obligatory, to pay: wages or reward

2f) to furnish, endue

3) to give

3a) to cause, profuse, give forth from one’s self

3a1) to give, hand out lots

3b) to appoint to an office

3c) to cause to come forth, i.e. as the sea, death and Hell are said to give up the dead who have been engulfed or received by them

3c) to give one to someone as his own

3c1) as an object of his saving care

3c2) to give one to someone, to follow him as a leader and master

3c3) to give one to someone to care for his interests

3c4) to give one to someone to whom he already belonged, to return

4) to grant or permit one

4a) to commission

Part of Speech: verb

Jas 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.

Good Gift Good G18 agathos [ag-ath-os’]

A primary word; “good” (in any sense, often as noun): – benefit, good (-s, things), well.

Gift G1394 dosis [dos’-is]

From the base of G1325; a giving; by implication (concretely) a gift: – gift, giving.

Perfect G5046 teleios

Thayer Definition:

1. brought to its end, finished
2. wanting nothing necessary to completeness
3. perfect
4. that which is perfect

4a) consummate human integrity and virtue

4b) of men

4b1) full grown, adult, of full age, mature

Gift G1434 dōrēma [do’-ray-mah]

From G1433; a bestowment: – gift.

1Pe 4:10 As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1Pe 4:11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Building the Tabernacle of Moses:

Exo 36:1 “And Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whom the LORD has put wisdom and understanding, to know how to do all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, shall do according to all that the LORD has commanded.”

Exo 36:2 Then Moses called Bezalel and Aholiab, and every gifted artisan in whose heart the LORD had put wisdom, everyone whose heart was stirred, to come and do the work.

Exo 36:3 And they received from Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of making the sanctuary. So they continued bringing to him freewill offerings every morning.

Exo 36:4 Then all the craftsmen who were doing all the work of the sanctuary came, each from the work he was doing,

Exo 36:5 and they spoke to Moses, saying, “The people bring much more than enough for the service of the work which the LORD commanded us to do.”

To work H6213 ‛âśâh BDB Definition:

1) to do, fashion, accomplish, make

1a1) to do, work, make, produce

1a1a) to do

1a1b) to work

1a1c) to deal (with)

1a1d) to act, act with effect, effect

1a2) to make

1a2a) to make

1a2b) to produce

1a2c) to prepare

1a2d) to make (an offering)

1a2e) to attend to, put in order

1a2f) to observe, celebrate

1a2g) to acquire (property)

1a2h) to appoint, ordain, institute

1a2i) to bring about

1a2j) to use

1a2k) to spend, pass

1b1) to be done

1b2) to be made

1b3) to be produced

1b4) to be offered

1b5) to be observed

1b6) to be used

1c) (Pual) to be made

2) (Piel) to press, squeeze

Part of Speech: verb

This gives us a wider spectrum of gifting in the church. Which gift do you supply?