Bible College and Seminaries are a Distraction from Seeking the Holy Spirit

The apostles were not given the choice of man-made colleges because God didn't want them. It would have violated His Own Word.

 
I do not call Bible college an opportunity, I call it a distraction from following the Holy Spirit. It takes faith to trust in Christ Who lives in us but trust in man places our faith in man instead of 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.…"

This passage in John 16 was written to ALL born-again believers not just the apostles. If every born again believer would seek Christ they would know what their calling is and trust Christ to set it all up, they would know they were being led by Christ.

 
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."

Seek God's Way not the Way of Men

We are living in times of monstrous apostasy. These are times when much if not most of what we hear are lies. Seek discernment through the Holy Spirit, not information from man.

Romans 12:1-2

1 Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and [e]acceptable and perfect.

Spend more time seeking Christ in you than anyone else. Do not place men with special man-made degrees above Christ.

We often listen to men of God who have a proven record of sound doctrine, but they do not have the last word, it is the Holy Spirit in us Who must be consulted whenever we hear anyone speak of spiritual matters.

In these days of apostasy men will say more wrong things that they will right things.

I have been told by preachers; "don't judge", "follow your heart", "the flood was a myth", "We are no longer required to honor our parents", "Forgive even when someone is not sorry", "divorce and remarriage is acceptable in certain cases", "follow your pastor", "do not touch God's anointed", all of which are false teachings that have cause people to focus on themselves and their pastors instead of Christ.

We have been told all our lives that we should be "in church" not realizing that we "are the church" when we are born again. We became so comfortable with a lifestyle of attending services with agendas made by men that we were blind to the fact that God never told us to gather in the way we were taught. And, that two or three was enough to satisfy God to be in the midst of us.

Matthew 18:20

"20 For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.”

God never gave a number of people who should meet together, He never told us to build buildings to meet in and He never gave the command to order the proceedings the way men do it today. God never told us we must "join" the local church in a formal way. He never told us to sit under a one-man-paid-pastor system, but rather He described elders to be appointed and led by the Holy Spirit who would watch over the flock. Not dictating anything but leading by example and teaching while encouraging the brethren to obey the Word of God the elders are servants, not hierarchy to be served themselves.

There are many more of these false teachings, you may be able to think of some that you have learned. I would be interested in what you found to be a popular belief that the Bible has proven to be wrong.

When we follow Christ, seeking Him in prayer continually our eyes become so open and clear to the truth that we can never go back and believe and do the same things we did before.

Keep in mind when our heart is open to the truth we still live in a world that has been deceived and are dedicated to the lies that were told and will think we are "self-righteous" and strange to have left the modern system of the church to follow Christ.

Most people in modern church gatherings are not saved, they do not follow Christ they follow a system in which they feel comfortable. They deny much of God's Word by following the men who teach them.

We are living in the last days of apostasy, I cannot stress this enough. If we do not see it we will fall into the trap of guilt for not doing what everyone else is doing.

When we begin to follow Christ, seek the truth and obey Him, then we are free from all the cultural trappings that detract from Christ and cause division. Divisiveness is at the core of the modern teachings.

Titus 3:9-10 "9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, arguments, and quarrels about the law, because these things are pointless and worthless. 10 Reject a divisive man after a first and second admonition, 11 knowing that such a man is corrupt and sinful; he is self-condemned.…"

2 Peter 2:1

"But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

To deny God's Word in favor of man's rules and standards is to deny Christ and all of His principles.

May each of us seek Christ first in all things and follow what He says even if no one else around us understands, even if we are rejected by most because we love Christ more than anything or anyone else. If we love our brethren we lead them to the truth for their sake and for the sake of those we may influence.

Truth is more important than acceptance by men.

Romans 12:1,2

"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service…"