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The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment (Foreword by John MacArthur) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Spiritual discernment is good for more than just making monumental decisions according to God's will. It is an essential, day-to-day activity that allows thoughtful Christians to separate the truth of God from error and to distinguish right from wrong in all kinds of settings and situations. It is also a skill-something that any person can develop and improve, especially with the guidance in this...

apply these. Proverbs 29:7 indicates as much where it says, “A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.” A person can have knowledge but still not truly understand it. He can have knowledge without discernment. Those who attain wisdom are prepared to exercise discernment, a term we will now (finally!) define. The vast majority of the Bible was written in one of two languages: Hebrew or Greek. Each of these languages