So many people will not seek Christ for themselves, they would rather just hear a short sermonnette Sunday morning, believe what is said without cracking their Bibles and go home satisfied.
When someone comes along who challenges them to look into the word on any particular matter, they become hostile and mocking, their response might be "what makes you know, you didn't go to Bible school."
You see this mentality places the teaching of men above the teaching of the Holy Spirit. It creates idols in the form of men and women who say they know but are often wrong about their teachings while truly ignorant of much of what is in the Bible.
The Bible never teaches for one man to be the leader of a gathering. God teaches in His word that there should be a plurality of leadership, with every man preaching and teaching as led by the Holy Spirit.
The services most people attend today are not Biblical, they are man's traditions.
John 16:13 "But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
God placed the Holy Spirit in every believer, therefore every believer has everything they need to speak about the Lord, obey the Lord and make decisions based on His Word.
No man should be following man made rules, every decision should be based on the Word of God and the guidance of the Holy Spirit and these two must agree.
The Holy Spirit will never tell us anything that is not already written in God's Word. There is a principle for every situation that comes upon us, no situation is new and no situation is without an answer or principle.
If you want to know God's Will, know His Word! If you want to be led by the Holy Spirit, then ask Him and question everything any man will say to you, running to get your Bible when what a man says does not sound familiar from the Word.
1 Thessalonians 5:21-22 "21 but test all things. Hold fast to what is good. 22 Abstain from every form of evil.…"
Proverbs 3:5
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding."
Trust the Lord in all things, not in man.
Proverbs 3:6
"In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."
Psalm 9:10
"And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you."
Philippians 4:12-14 "…12 I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need. 13 I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength. 14 Nevertheless, you have done well to share in my affliction.…"
I see no verses in the Bible that tell us to trust in any man.
Psalm 146:2-4 "…2 I will praise the LORD while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. 4 His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.…
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