Less Honorable (body). (1 Co 12:23). Speaking of the spiritual gifts of the individual and corporate spiritual body must also be taken as a message about what parts of the prophetic word appear less honorable or important, but are in fact all include as having a value to God: “And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal“ (1Co 12:6–7). That is, minimally, the corpus of the Prophetic Word of Jesus has many metaphorical members, such as the Proverbs, Esther, the genealogies, and many obscure passages, but they all serve their own prophetic purpose for the entire revelation which works together as one. This interpretation is never given explicitly but is strongly implied. This figure of the Word then works itself out into corresponding spiritual gifts within the body of the believer. Since this Body of Christ the body of the Prophetic Word, the gifts are not gifts for personal power, self-aggrandizement or happiness, but for the specific advancement of the power of that prophetic body as it moves through the world.
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