When I began to see things that didn't make sense to me, as a result of reading the Bible and praying for wisdom from the Holy Spirit after I trusted Christ, those questionable things began to enlarge so intensely that I became repulsed by them.
The confusion came when everyone I knew believed the things I was raised with and were resistant to questioning them because, "everyone else followed them so they must be right" or so church attendees expressed to me from time to time.
I was accused of arrogance because I didn't have a seminary degree so I was nobody capable of hearing from God. As I began to realize most people were not depending on the Holy Spirit, they were depending on college-educated people who themselves were unteachable by anyone but those professors at those colleges.
The traditions of men are so powerful, dominating the minds that have been trained by them, that intense guilt sets in when those traditions are challenged. There is little faith in the power of the Holy Spirit Who is called our "Teachers."
When we finally have the courage to ask God to show us truth even if it means being maligned and rejected by others, the floodgates of understanding and wisdom emerge.
Once we have seen the truth and dedicated ourselves to it and Christ, our eyes can never be closed again. There is no going back to the old ideas, they are repugnant to us because they are not truth.
When we begin to see clearly the truth it becomes like an addiction to us, we want more and all of what God has for us to learn. It is only then that God will continue exposing lies and imparting truth.
Everyone can have this wisdom but they have to ask God and they must to be willing to discard anything they have learned over the years which is false.
In removing all the false teachings we will be faced with opposition, even if we don't tell anyone else they will see our life very differently from what it was before and it will irritate them.
James 1:4-6 "…4 Allow perseverance to finish its work, so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. 6 But he must ask in faith, without doubting, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind."
Proverbs 2:6
"For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding."
Matthew 7:7-8
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. / For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
We must never settle for the opinions of others who think they know the truth. They may know some truth but most have only what they have been trained to believe and are impervious to anything different from what they were trained to believe.
It is the Holy Spirit we must trust for the truth, He is the very essence of Truth because He is the Spirit of Christ.
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, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come."
I am convinced from my personal interactions with Christians that most of them will say they believe in the Holy Spirit but will not consult with Him, they trust only their "pastors", themselves and others but not in Christ.
John 14:26
"But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you."
John 15:26
"When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me."
When the Lord made known clearly to me the power of Christ in me through the Holy Spirit I could no longer trust a man. I listen to preachers, I enjoy those who are Biblical but I place my trust only in Christ. When a preacher speaks the truth I rejoiced, when a preacher speaks untruth I grieve and reject that message that was wrong.
Colossians 1:15-23
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation: 16 for by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions, or rulers, or authorities—all things have been created through Him and for Him.
17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
18 He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,
20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross."
18 He is also the head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything.
19 For it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him,
20 and through Him to reconcile all things to Himself, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross."
Why would anyone claim to be a Christian trust in anyone or anything else knowing Christ is the creator of the world and is called the Word AND, lives in us?!!!!!
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