Tag: discernment
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Those Difficult Relationships
1 Samuel 25:1-3 “Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran. And there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel. Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife…
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Spiritual Maturity
Hebrews 5:12-14 “You need milk, not solid food,for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” It is a wonderful thing to be born of the Spirit.…
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True or False?
Titus 1:10 “For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers. . .” One of the warnings that Paul gave Titus in his guidance in the appointment of elders (i.e., pastors) in Crete was that these leaders had to have discernment regarding false teachers. He warned Titus that there were many such people who…
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The Gullible
2 Corinthians 11:4 “For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.” Are you gullible? Surely, no one wants to think that…
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Separation
2 Corinthians 6:17-18 “Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.” Have you ever found yourself in a situation…
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A Holy Discernment
Acts 17:10-11 “The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.” One of the things that has proliferated…
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Holy Recognition
John 20:15-16 “Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking?’ Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, ‘Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I will take him away.’ Jesus said to her, ‘Mary.’ She turned and said to…
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How’s your sense of smell?
Ephesians 5:10 “find out what pleases the Lord.” Have you heard of the “smellicopter”? I hadn’t either. A “smellicopter” is a recent invention based on the science of biomimetics (https://creation.com/smellicopter). Biomimetics is a field that studies ways to mimic the incredible designs found in nature in ways that are beneficial to us. In this case,…
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Tragic neglect
John 16:1-2 “I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away.They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.” There is a reason that Jesus said the things He said. This pertains not just to the…
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