Zion Christian Mission Center

Discipleship Training School

 Lesson 1

Distinguishing
Good & Evil
Main Reference: Hebrews 5:12-14
Isaiah 55:8-9
For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways,” declares the
Lord. “As the heavens are
higher than the earth, so are
my ways higher than your
ways and my thoughts than
your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9

God's thoughts

My thoughts
 Lesson 1

Distinguishing
Good & Evil
Main Reference: Hebrews 5:12-14
Hebrews 5:12-14
In fact, though by this time you ought to
be teachers, you need someone to teach
you the elementary truths of God’s word
all over again. You need milk, not solid
food! Anyone who lives on milk, being still
an infant, is not acquainted with the
teaching about righteousness. But solid
food is for the mature, who by constant
use have trained themselves to
distinguish good from evil.
Hebrews 5:12-14
Infant Believers Mature Believers

Milk Solid food

Hebrews 5:12-14
Infant Believers Mature Believers

Milk Solid food

Elementary Teachings about

teachings righteousness
Hebrews 5:12-14
Infant Believers Mature Believers

Milk Solid food

Elementary Teachings about

teachings righteousness

Good & Evil (NO) Good & Evil

(YES)
Ice-cream truck
Hebrews 6:1-2
Therefore let us move beyond the
elementary teachings about Christ
and be taken forward to maturity,
not laying again the foundation of
repentance from acts that lead to
death, and of faith in God,
instruction about cleansing rites,
the laying on of hands, the
resurrection of the dead, and
eternal judgment.
Hebrews 5:12-14
Infant Believers Mature Believers

Belief in God Teachings about

Repentance righteousness
Laying of hands
Baptism
Resurrection
Eternal
Judgment
1 Kings 3:8-9
'Your servant is here among the
people you have chosen, a great
people, too numerous to count or
number. So give your servant a
discerning heart to govern your
people and to distinguish between
right and wrong. For who is able to
govern this great people of yours?”
King Solomon

1 Kings 3

A heart to become
a matured believer
King Solomon

1 Kings 3

Blessing of God
1 Kings 3:10-13
The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked
for this. So God said to him, “Since you have
asked for this and not for long life or wealth for
yourself, nor have asked for the death of your
enemies but for discernment in administering
justice, I will do what you have asked. I will give
you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will
never have been anyone like you, nor will there
ever be. Moreover, I will give you what you have
not asked for—both wealth and honor—so that in
your lifetime you will have no equal among kings.
Distinguishing
Good & Evil
Main Reference: Hebrews 5:12-14
Colossians 1:16
For in him all things were
created: things in heaven
and on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones
or powers or rulers or
authorities; all things
have been created
through him and for him.
Distinguishing Good & Evil

Good (God) Evil (Satan)

Spiritual Spiritual
World World

Physical Physical
World World
Colossians 1:16

Spiritual World
(invisble)

Physical World
(visible)
Thank
you