Revelatory and Normative Gifts Compared

Now, one of the reasons that I believe that the revelatory gifts have ceased is because you do not find these same gifts listed in the list of gifts which are mentioned in the book of Romans, chapter 12. We have seen that there were spiritual gifts which were revelatory, fully listed in 1st Corinthians alone, and then there were gifts mentioned by the Apostle Paul here, which were meant to be understood as being used both before and after the Scriptures were canonized. I am referring to these gifts as the “normative” gifts; the spiritual gifts which have been given to the Church which existed during the time of the revelatory gifts, but which alone would continue to exist after the revelatory gifts had ceased. You can see them listed for us if you will turn over with me to Romans 12, verses 3-16.