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I. Welcome
A. Dustin
II.
Opening Prayer
A. Grace S.
III.
Worship - 4 Songs
A. Song b4 Offering: All Things are Possible
B. Offering
IV.
Announcements
A. Prayer & Praise: Aug 18 6pm @ Missionary Alliance
B. Youth Taking Break through Aug.
a.
New & Exciting things on horizon
C. 1st Friday Celebration & Next Month (Sept 6th)
V. Sermon
VI.
Baptism
-SERMON
I. INTRO
A. Where We’ve Been
B. Where We’re Going
C. Main Text
D. Pray
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BODY
A. Spiritual gift of discerning spirits
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What discerning spirits is not
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Discerning spirits is not judging people
i.
That is, it is not “discerning” the faults of others
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It’s not the spiritual gift of uncovering human failure
iii.
In fact, Jesus said, do not judge or you’ll be judged
-If u r going to judge some1…Paul says judge urself in...
Ro 12:3
-That is, rather than thinking of ourselves self-righteously, like we have it 2gether & so, can judge others
*lets judge ourselves clearly (what he means by sober judgement)
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Some folks
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Discerning spirits is not psychological insight
i. sometimes people know things by the Spirit of God, but that doesn’t mean it’s really discernment.
-The Gospels r full of ex.
where Jesus was recorded to have known the heart of a person.
Hagin, Kenneth E. The Holy Spirit And His Gifts Study Course .
Faith Library Publications.
Kindle Edition.
*The ability 2 understand a situation/person’s motives so as to make a wise decision might be called spiritual discernment…but that’s not discerning of spirits
*discernment is a good thing when we use it 2 help us make decisions
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What discerning spirits is
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Discerning spirits is the supernatural gift from the Holy Spirit to see or hear into the spiritual realm.
Hagin, Kenneth E. The Holy Spirit And His Gifts Study Course .
Faith Library Publications.
Kindle Edition.
2. It’s a supernatural gift given by God’s Spirit
i.
This is a gift given by the H.S. 2 folks whom he choses...
-That means we don’t all have this gift, but in ea.
Jesus centered church some1 should be operating w/this gift
2. Discerning spirits is testing spirits
i.
The Apostle John encourages in...
-all kinds o folks w/critters attached saying all kinds o flowery things
*So let one’s w/the gift o discerning o spirits test what’s said!
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Just cause u don’t like what is said, doesn’t mean it’s from an evil spirit
-Paul wrote to the Thessalonians in...
B. Elisha had the gift of discerning spirits
Discerning of spirits
Elijah had the gift of discerning spirits
(Tell the story o Elisha & his servant 2 kings 6:8-23)
-Syrian King sends out an army surrounding the city where Elisha & servant was
-like if army sent to surround Bennington, how would u feel?
: When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was all around the city.
And the servant said, “Alas, my master!
What shall we do?”
-Servant saw it, woke up Elisha & said “ah, we goin’ 2 die”
-Servant saw it, woke up Elisha & said “ah, we goin’ 2 die”
-Elisha said Don’t fear, our army is bigger than their army
-Servant looked around like, “um, what army?!”
2 kings:
-Elisha prayed God would open the servants eyes
He said, “Do not be afraid, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.”
-Elisha prayed God would open the servants eyes
-Look @ what happened next in...
-God did & servant saw...
2 kings 6: 17-18:
the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
18 And when the Syrians came down against him, Elisha prayed to the Lord and said, “Please strike this people with blindness.”
So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Elisha
a. Discerning spirits is seeing into the spirit realm revealing what God is up to
1. Sometimes we think of discerning of spirits as insight only into the demonic workings
i. but a lot of times it’s seeing God, Jesus, / angels working
-Consider Stephen in acts 7 (describe scene)
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