Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Thursday,
September 6, 2012
Spiritual Gifts Part 305:
Examine everything carefully.
The Doctrine of Spiritual Gifts
Point 4.
Developing the capacity you need to function effectively in your spiritual gift.
He is training us to see with spiritual eyes instead of fleshly eyes.
The major passages in the New Testament on the spiritual gifts all talk about how vital it is to develop capacity to exercise your gift effectively: Rom 12, 1Cor 12-14, Eph 4, 1 Pet 4.
1Co 14:20
Brethren, do not be children in your thinking; yet in evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
All of the major New Testament passages on spiritual gifts speak of the importance of discernment and mature thinking.
Spiritual discernment is the ability to be able to consistently see or read a situation accurately according to the standards of the word of God.
δοκιμάςω
dokimazo
to test (literally or figuratively); by implication, to approve:
dokimazo refers to something being tested to determine whether it is genuine or not. It is sometimes used of testing metals.
1Th 5: 21
But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; 22 abstain from every form of evil.