The gifts of the Spirit were prophetic and tied to the restoration of Israel. Israel stumbled and fell, and the gentiles were saved by grace to make Israel jealous. This is so because they had to endure to the end to be saved. A remnant was saved out of it. In the kingdom on earth, there will be no more tears or suffering. The gifts of healing were a taste of things to come.
Consider that an opening statement.
Now, to get specific.....
Acts 26:16
16 But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you.
1 Corinthians 13
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
It doesn't get any more cut and dried. Besides if anybody could do what Peter did after Pentecost, James Randi would have had to pay out $1,000,000. Think about it. Are you really going to claim you can raise the dead? Are you going to let a black mamba bite you? I don't think so. If the gifts of the Spirit, like tongues, which are for unbelievers, were in effect, Billy Grahm and Jimmy Swaggart would not need translators.
Consider that an opening statement.
Now, to get specific.....
Acts 26:16
16 But rise and stand on your feet; for I have appeared to you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness both of the things which you have seen and of the things which I will yet reveal to you.
1 Corinthians 13
8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
It doesn't get any more cut and dried. Besides if anybody could do what Peter did after Pentecost, James Randi would have had to pay out $1,000,000. Think about it. Are you really going to claim you can raise the dead? Are you going to let a black mamba bite you? I don't think so. If the gifts of the Spirit, like tongues, which are for unbelievers, were in effect, Billy Grahm and Jimmy Swaggart would not need translators.