Spiritual Gifts part 321. Day by day...

Spiritual Gifts Part 321:

Day by day…

The Doctrine of Spiritual Gifts

Point 4.
Developing the capacity you need to function effectively in your spiritual gift.

What is discernment?

Why do we need to have discernment?

How do I get spiritual discernment?

The filling of the Spirit and doctrine in the soul are critical to exercising correct discernment.

All discernment is performed by the Holy Spirit, using the tools of Bible doctrine already tested and found in the soul, under the exercise of one’s priesthood.

HEB 5:14
But solid food [advanced doctrine] is for the [spiritually] mature, who because of practice [learning and obeying God’s word again and again] have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

“Senses” =
the capacities for spiritual apprehension.

“trained” = Greek
gumnazo
 
We get our English word gymnasium from this Greek word.
 

gumnazo means “to exercise naked”.

In the spiritual realm, it refers to consistently exercising our spiritual organs naked before God.

Our spiritual organs include our soul and our human spirit.

There is nothing about our soul that is hidden before God. He can see all the faults and false moves we still have in there.

Our required diet is our necessary spiritual food, namely the unadulterated word of God.

“Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.”
-Mia Hamm

Somewhere behind the Christian you've become and the hours of practice and the pastors who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the Lord and never looked back... Stay like her.

2CO 5:17

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

“senses trained” refers to the work of the Holy Spirit in guiding the believer to make the proper distinctions in applying Bible doctrine.

HEB 5:14
But solid food [advanced doctrine] is for the [spiritually] mature, who because of practice [learning and obeying God’s word again and again] have their senses [soul and human spirit] trained to discern good and evil.

“discern” is the Greek word

διάκρισις diakrisis;

judicial estimation:

the ability to evaluate and judge - ability to make judgments, ability to decide.

a distinguishing, discerning, judging