Consult the Holy Spirit First

Next time you feel a need to run to a person about a spiritual matter, bite your tongue, fall on your knees and ask Jesus Christ instead.

There are way too many false teachers, pretend believers and deceptions to trust our culture in these last days. We must trust the Holy Spirit more than ever as we move toward the end of the church age.

Romans 3:3-4 "…3 What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God’s faithfulness? 4 Certainly not! Let God be TRUE and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

If anyone thinks a man, any man, can guide them better than the Holy Spirit then they have an idol. It is not bad to consult godly Christians but before we do we should go to God first.

To Know God's Will, Read the Bible and Ask the Holy Spirit

Whenever man decides he knows better than God how things must be done you can be sure it is going to go bad. Read the Bible, ask the Holy Spirit and do what He leads according to His will.

And, the direction of the Holy Spirit will never violate His Own scripture. If the scripture does not support a teaching or an action then we must reject that teaching or action and even speak against it.

 
James 1:14-15
"But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death."

Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?"

Teaching and Guiding by Example

Pastors are elders who guide by example and teach, they are not paid people and there is never only one man in a church who is the head.

The Bible teaches a plurality of leadership. All men in the church participate in the teaching and worship as led by the Holy Spirit. The one-man-paid pastor system is not Biblical.

1 Corinthians 14:26-31 "26 What is the outcome then, brothers and sisters? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation. All things are to be done for edification.

27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, it must be by two or at the most three, and each one in turn, and one is to interpret;

28 but if there is no interpreter, he is to keep silent in church; and have him speak to himself and to God.

29 Have two or three prophets speak, and have the others pass judgment.

30 But if a revelation is made to another who is seated, then the first one is to keep silent.

31 For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all may be exhorted;

32 and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets; 33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace."

Everyone participates and the Holy Spirit is the One Who leads in the church gathering. There is no such thing as a one-man paid pastor, no one is paid, no one is above another.

This model God gave in His word of the first-century church is nearly extinct now in these days of apostasy. Those who hold to this model of the church gathering are mocked and rejected, this is just how brain-washed the cultural church has become. They do things contrary to what God commanded and glory in it as though it is Biblical.

We are living in the last days of apostasy, sin is defended, man-made ways of doing things are elevated above God's ways. In the apostate churches men are held up as the authority instead of the Holy Spirit. Men are consulted instead of the Holy Spirit and those who wish to return to God's model of the new testament church are mocked and rejected.

This is just another sign of the end of the age right before the rapture occurs.