God Calls Believers and God Teaches Believers

It always amazes me when men think they can teach men for the ministry better than Jesus Christ.

John 16:13-14 " 13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For 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.…"

Isaiah 11:2

"The Spirit of the LORD will rest on Him--the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and strength, the Spirit of knowledge and fear of the LORD."

John 14:17

"the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you."

Notice that when it is the Holy Spirit Who teaches men, it is God Who is glorified not man.

Love People but Depend on Christ Alone

The only One we ought to be dependent on is Christ.

Co-dependency with human beings removes our boldness to carry out God's will for us.

Anyone who depends on someone else to carry them is placing Christ in second place to a human being.

We ought to be able to lean on one another during difficult times, that's what families do, but if there is no one, we are fine because we have Christ.

John 13:34

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another."

Galatians 2:20

"I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."

1 Timothy 2:5

"For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,"

Titus 3:5

"He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,"