“Sign” Gifts

LIFE IN THE THIRD PERSON

“Sign” Gifts

“Sign” gifts evidence the power of God in a time and manner of choosing.

The Jewish expectation: Messiah would immediately inaugurate a completed Kingdom…

THIS AGE ____________________|_________________________AGE TO COME

Jesus’ teaching was a modification of this…

                                                       The “Age to Come” realized in principle _________________________AGE TO COME

                The First Coming of Jesus | 

                                               |           The period in which we now live              |

                                                                                                                                    | The Second Coming of Jesus

THIS AGE_____________________________________________

WORKING OF MIRACLES (II Cor. 12:12; Acts 2:22, 43; 6:8; 19:11; Lk. 11:29; Jn. 4:48)

Function: Miraculously demonstrate God’s as greater than Satan’s.

• energemata dynameon – “workings of powers”

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HEALING (I Cor. 12:9; II Cor. 12:7-9)

Function: Miraculously demonstrate God’s .

• charismata iamaton – “gifts of healings”

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DELIVERANCE (Matt. 10:8; Mark 5:1-13; 16:17; James 4:7; II Tim. 2:24-26)

Function: from demonic bondage

• ekballō– “drive out” daimonion – “evil spirits”

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PHYSICAL PROTECTION (Mark 16:18; Acts 28:1-6)

Function: Miraculously picture our in Christ

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TONGUES (I Cor. 13:8-12; 14:2, 4, 5, 19, 39-40)

Function: or .

• gene glossa – “kinds of languages”

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INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES (I Cor. 12:10; 14:9-11, 26-28, 33)

Function: Miraculously the unknown to others.

• hermēneia glossa – “interpret languages”

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