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Spiritual perception and discernment involves stopping to consider carefully and judge every new doctrine and every new philosophy of life that arises in the church. The devil likes to excite by that which is new and different. He likes to convince God's people that old and tried doctrines are borin
Let us conclude here by stating, young people, exercise the power of discernment. Utilize to the fullest advantage your catechetical training, your societies, your personal study of the Word of God in the days of your youth and in the light of the truth of the Word, evaluate what you hear and read i
2:15), including their own thoughts and feelings. Paul prayed that the Philippians might abound more and more in knowledge and discernment (Phil 1:9 ASV). Webster defines discernment as “keenness of insight, stressing accuracy especially in reading character or motives.” Applied here, that means spi
The reason for this is “because they are spiritually discerned.” The word translated ‘discerned’ here refers to shifting process to get at the truth by investigation as a judge. A judge when he tries a case weighs all the evidence interrogates all the witnesses as well as the one being tried to get
All this is involved in discerning the Lord’s body. And it is a personal matter. Discerning the Lord’s body is a matter of personal discernment. It is precisely for this reason that in the same text in which he calls us to discern the Lord’s body before we come to the Lord’s Supper that the Apostle
They lack spiritual discernment. We must learn to know the Word of God, and how to judge all things according to it. Learn to discriminate. Do not set yourself up as a sermon-critic, nor as a self-styled expert in theological matters. But learn to think your way through Scripture. To hear well you m
An intrinsic part of this awareness must be the ability to discriminate – between good and evil, of course, and between habit and belief. Discrimination implies the ability to change when necessary, but to change habit, never belief. Being armed with courage also required a functioning sense of valu
This examination and criticism takes place according to the measure of the gift of analysis and spiritual discernment that is in us. We cannot expect the child to read so critically and discerningly as the one who has long studied the deceitful form sin which error (immorality) is often couched. Do
We must have a firm grasp of the truth that has been revealed to us in the word of God, and we must use this truth to test continually the concepts and thinking that we encounter through the media, our co-workers, and college textbooks and instructors. In this way we will be discerning saints who in