As the church is acted upon by God’s supernatural power, including being granted spiritual gifts from the Holy Spirit, how would God seek to protect the church from pride in light of receiving such spectacular grace?
The reason this is a relevant question is that we are all born with a resident sinful nature, from which flows a natural and arrogant propensity to esteem ourselves instead of esteeming God and his work through us. This esteem is essentially a self-focus that seeks self-exaltation through recognition and praise or that which becomes dejected in self-pity when those things aren’t obtained.
So again, due to this pervasive, glory-stealing problem of mankind, how would God ensure he would receive all the glory for what he has graciously given? This highlights a very significant reason the letter of 1st Corinthians was written. According to what the Apostle Paul declares in ch.1 of the letter, it is undeniable that the Christians in Corinth had tremendous spiritual gifts (1:4-8), but it is also undeniable that they utilized these gifts in a prideful and factious manner (1:10-11). So self-exalting arrogance had led to factions within the body through the use of graciously-given, spiritual gifts from God. This is why a few chapters later, Paul gives these poignant questions in 1 Cor. 4:7 For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
The bottom line is that the Spirit gives gifts with the intention that God gets all the glory with regards to the usage of those gifts.