The Gifts of the Spirit Part 4
The Gift of Discerning of Spirits
July 13, 2022
I.The Gifts of the Spirit
A.The Gifts of the Spirit
1. (1 Cor. 12:7-11) 9 Manifestation gifts
a. Word of wisdom, word of knowledge, faith, gifts of healings, working of miracles, prophecy, discerning of spirits, tongues & interpretation of tongues.
2. The nine gifts categorized:
a. Three revelation gifts reveal something:
~Word of wisdom
~Word of knowledge
~The discerning of spirits
b. The three power gifts do something:
~The gift of faith
~The working of miracles
~The gifts of healings
c. The three utterance gifts say something:
~Prophesy
~Divers kinds of tongues
~Interpretation of tongues
B. The Discerning of Spirits – gives supernatural insight (seeing or hearing) in the spirit realm.
1. What the gift of discerning of spirits IS NOT.
a. It is not the gift of discernment. There is no such gift mentioned in the Bible.
b. It is not a spiritual mind reading, psychological insight nor the power to discern the faults of others.
c. It is not just the discerning of demon spirits. Some believers attribute too much to the demons when it is actually a work of the flesh.
~(Gal. 5:19-21 NLT) works of the flesh
~(Rom. 8:12-14 NLT)
~(Col. 3:5-10 NLT)
2. Biblical examples of the discerning of spirits:
a. Elisha’s servant (2 Kings 6:15-17)
b. Isaiah (Isa. 6:1-7)
c. Daniel (Dan. 10:5-11)
d. Mary (Luke 1:26-30)
e. John the Baptist (John 1:32-34)
f. Stephen (Acts 7:54-56)
g. Paul (Acts 16:16-18)
3. The inward witness
a. (Acts 27:10, 23-25) Paul’s Rome voyage.
b. (Rom. 8:14, 16; Prov. 20:27)
c. (Col. 3:15 AMP)
[Pastor Lee Stokes]