Discernment Defined

Charles Spurgeon said about discernment:

Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong.
It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.

Men go after novel and false doctrines because they do not really know the truth.

Satan knows very well that if he comes in black he will be discovered, but if he puts on the garb of an angel of light, then men will think he comes from God, and so will be deceived. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” If they give you not the gospel, if they exalt not Christ, if they bear not witness to salvation through the precious blood, if they do not lift up Jesus Christ as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, have nothing to do with them, speak as they may.

Definition:
the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure
DISCERNMENT stresses accuracy (as in reading character or motives or appreciating art). (Merriam-Webster)

Aspects of discernment in GOD’S Word:

Hebrews 5:11–14 
11  Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 
12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 
13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 
14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. 

Ezra 7:10
For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances in Israel. 

1 Corinthians 12:10
10 and to another the effecting of miracles, and to another prophecy, and to another the distinguishing of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, and to another the interpretation of tongues. 

Luke 12:54–57
54  And He was also saying to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it turns out. 
55 “And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, ‘It will be a hot day,’ and it turns out that way. 
56 “You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but  why do you not analyze this present time? 
57  “And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right? 

Matthew 16:2–4
2 But He replied to them, “ When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ 
3 “And in the morning, ‘There will be a storm today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Do you know how to discern the  appearance of the sky, but cannot discern the signs of the times? 
4 “An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a  sign; and a  sign will not be given it, except the sign of Jonah.”

Proverbs 1:1–7
1  The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 
2 To know wisdom and instruction, 
To discern the sayings of understanding, 
3 To receive instruction in wise behavior, 
Righteousness, justice and equity; 
4 To give prudence to the naive, 
To the youth knowledge and discretion, 
5 A wise man will hear and increase in learning, 
And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel, 
6 To understand a proverb and a figure, 
The words of the wise and their riddles. 
7  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; 
Fools despise wisdom and instruction. 


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