Seeking the Holy Spirit and the Word for Truth

Seeking the Holy Spirit and the Word for Truth

Perhaps there is a reason God has shut down the church gatherings in our country. Yes, I said that it was GOD Who shut them down using the unsaved to do it. There are many things the church does today that are based not on God's word but rather on human ideas to control the people.

1. Forgiveness without repentance...wrong

2. One man pastor...wrong

3. Women pastors...wrong

4. Becoming a Christian without sorrow over

sinfulness...wrong

5. Divorce accepted as a right...wrong

6. Remarriage normal and common...wrong

7. Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Birthday

Celebrations,...wrong

8. Worship of human beings as heroes...wrong

9. Seminaries to Train preachers...wrong

10. Rejection of the head covering for women...wrong

11. Encouraging believers to bring unbelievers to

12. worship...wrong

13. Altar call after preaching in worship...wrong

14. Paying a salary to pastors...wrong

15. Entertainment bands in the gathering...wrong

16. Elevation of paid pastors above other in the

gathering...wrong

17. Choosing leaders outside the gathering who are

unknown to

the congregation based on their credentials and talents for

speaking...wrong

18. Leaders who control the congregations...wrong

19. Prosperity preaching...wrong

20. Name it and claim gospel that guilts people into

thinking they do not have enough faith if they can't

just make things appear by the word of their own

mouth the way God did with the universe...wrong

21. Infighting over the nature and timing of the

rapture...wrong

22. Dismissing prophesy as unimportant...wrong

23. Leaders intimidating rather than leading by

example...wrong

24. Older folks leaving the teaching to paid hirelings

rather than obeying scripture to teach the

younger ones...wrong

25. Young folks refusing to listen to the older

folks...wrong

26. Joking and flippancy in the believer's

gatherings...wrong

27. Allowing the "leaders" in the church to speak

anything they wish without challenge as though

they are the authority over the people...wrong

28. Leaders who lead by intimidation rather than by

example...wrong Lack of discipline and

countability for sin and error...wrong

The mentality that only the "preachers" can

know the truth...wrong

The idea that those who bring the gospel

to the unsaved must only be trained

missionaries...wrong

Our church gatherings have so much wrong with the way they worship, the reason they meet, and those who lead them that they no longer resemble the model of the gathering as described in the first-century church that God gave for born-again believers.

Many people have the erroneous idea that we should not correct one another, that we should accept sin in the body, and that the only ones who should teach, preach and rebuke are trained pastors...all of this is wrong according to God's Word.

Having been raised with the "cultural" Christianity and having my eyes opened by the Lord about it, I can say that most people who have been raised in this false system or who became born again and entered them after salvation have these ideas so firmly planted in their minds that it sounds very normal to them. If anyone will ask God and search the scriptures without reading other books for the answers, God will open their eyes.

The problem is that so many teachers have been indoctrinated themselves by seminaries and bible schools that have brought their own bent to the teaching, using outside the bible writings and psychology in addition to the scriptures that they have not had "the pure milk of the word", it has been mixed with human traditions and sociological thinking of our time.

May the Lord be the focus and the Holy Spirit be the teacher of those who would desire to know the truth as each one seeks Him and His Word for themselves. Let no man be the hall monitor as you study, let no man influence what God has told you unless that man brings more scripture.

Consequences, circumstances, and life experiences do not determine truth, only the "pure milk of the Word" along with the tutelage of the Holy Spirit brings unadulterated truth.

1 Peter 2:1-3 "1 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. 2 Like newborn infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.…"

Shed the idol worship of educated teachers who have been trained by schools rather than the Holy Spirit. If it was not the Holy Spirit Who taught then it must be questioned according to the Scriptures as well as the promptings of the Holy Spirit.

An idea or thought entering your head does not constitute the prompting of the Holy Spirit, when you hear from Him you will know it and it will do two things, it will match perfectly with the Bible and it will glorify God.

John 16:13-14 "13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"

What Friendship Looks Like!

We find out what true friendship looks like when we can disagree with a friend and they still show respect and love.

Those who cannot love you if you do not think the way they think do not love at all. Their love is conditional to you being just like them.

Proverbs 17:17 "17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity."

Proverbs 18:24 "A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who stays closer than a brother."

There are not very many people who love you so deeply that they would love you through everything. When we fall into sin the true friend tells us the truth and grieves over us. A true friend feels great joy when good things happen to us.

When we love a friend as deeply as Christ loves us we will rejoice in the good things with our friend, and we will weep over the hard things, the sinful things, and the disappointments.

A friend never feels superiority, never rejoices in the fall of their friend, and always attempts to guide their friend back to God.

A good friend allows us to be ourselves, express our opinions freely without demeaning or haughty language to diminish us as a person.

Proverbs 18:24 "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."

A true friend will remove themselves when their companion will not repent in order to help them learn the seriousness of their sin. A friend who loves this much grieves that they must do it, but prays for their friend to repent and return to obedience to God.

The spiritual well-being of a friend is far more important to us than even their companionship.

Matthew 24:12 "And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold."

Those who love Christ more than anything or anyone else will find themselves at times without friends. Friends will come and go as we resolve to obey Christ when most "Christians" will not love Him as we do.

Mark 13:12-13 "And brother will deliver brother over to death, and the father his child, and children will rise against parents and have them put to death. And you will be hated by all for my name's sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved."

We live in an apostate world now, as the end times progress toward the tribulation we will find ourselves being mocked, betrayed, and cursed for our resolve to trust Christ.

May we be so in love with Jesus Christ that losing friends over it has little impact on us. We grieve for a time and then we move on to carry out the work of the Lord, whatever He has given us to do.

Micah 7:6 "For the son treats the father with contempt, the daughter rises up against her mother, the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law; a man's enemies are the men of his own house."

Matthew 10:36 "And a person's enemies will be those of his own household."

We can expect to be maligned and hated by those who love the world and the things of the world, even in the church gatherings.

The 2 Timothy 3 mentality is everywhere, and is a description of the end times church, "having a form of religion but denying God."

Timothy 3:1-5

3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away."

Be happy and blessed to be alone with Christ, when the time is right He will send someone to come alongside to encourage us to keep seeking Him.

Hallelujah!!!!!