The Word of Knowledge
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I. THE MANIFESTATIONS OF THE WORD OF KNOWLEDGE.
A. The Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts to us according to His will. Though He may give two people the same gift, the gift may operate differently in them (diversities of operations -
1 Corinthians 12:6).
B. Jesus often manifested the gift of the word of knowledge (Colossians 2:3).
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1. When Nathaniel was brought to Jesus, the Lord told him what he had been doing earlier (John 1:45-51).
2. Jesus sent His disciples into town and told them how it would be when they were there (Mark 11:1-7, Luke 22:7-13).
3. Jesus told Peter to catch a fish, open its mouth and remove a coin, and pay the tax man (Matthew 17:24-27).
C. Elisha exercised the word of knowledge more fully than most of the Old Testament prophets.
4. He warned the king of Israel of the Syrian king's plans (2 Kings 6:8-12).
2 He told Naaman he would be healed if he would wash in the Jordan River seven times
(2 Kings 5:19).
5. He told his servant Gehazi what was in Gehazi's mind (2 Kings 5:20-27).
6. He told the Shunammite woman that she would have a son the next year (2 Kings 4:16-17).
7. When the Shunammite woman's son died, the Lord did not reveal it to Elisha, and Elisha was surprised because he was so accustomed to knowing what was happening
(2 Kings 4:27).
a. We know from this that the gifts of God are totally His to control and not something we can operate of our own volition.
D. Paul the apostle exercised the gift of knowledge.
8. When Paul went to Rome by ship, he warned the men on board that they would lose the
ship (Acts 27:10).
9. Later, Paul told them that no one on board would die (Acts 27:23-26) but that they would
be cast up on an island.
E. We need to have times for meditation when we consciously seek to hear God's voice to have the word of knowledge, though sometimes God gives it to us when we are in the midst of other things.
