Seeking the Holy Spirit not People!

I can't count the number of times people told me something was biblical, and I corrected them because what they said was not biblical, but they resisted and refused to listen. This is the problem with the modern church: they create their own doctrine using some scripture, and since everyone else is doing the same, they think it is alright to believe.

 
When something is taught by "educated and respected scholars," it doesn't matter how true it is if the ones with the degree say it is so everyone believes it.

 
Sadly, popularity among the people is now the measure of truth, not accuracy, according to the Bible.

 
Once someone has heard a doctrine from those they consider to be the experts, they will never hear from the Holy Spirit or anyone led by the Holy Spirit.

 
The god of this culture is "education", and many have counted themselves educated if they have spent hours on the internet researching things they count themselves as having wisdom. Very few people who see themselves as knowledgeable actually seek the Holy Spirit and wait on His answer.

 
Proverbs 26:12 “Do you see a person wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for them.”

When we read and depend on our own mindset to interpret scripture, we will get it wrong because we are viewing it in our Western mindset, not in the mindset of the Jews of the day it was written, the way God meant for us to see it.

 
So many things we have been raised with in churches were wrong, and yet those who have been raised on the error cannot or will not wrap their minds around God's meaning. To see the truth, we must consult continually with the Holy Spirit; He will warn us if something is off or bless us if it is true.

 
When I began to ask the Holy Spirit willing to reject the error and only see the truth, He began to open my eyes in ways I never expected. He would place in my head a question, I would ask for clarification, and He would answer with Scripture as I read and studied. Then He would bring to me others who discovered the same thing and even further explained what God had told me.

 
No one has to be ignorant; those who are willingly ignorant by refusing to pray about a matter and choose to believe the traditions of men will remain untrained by God. God said they will choose teachers who say what they like and reject the truth.

 
2 Timothy 4:3-4 "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables."

There are many false doctrines and fables being taught in the church today that negate the power of the Holy Spirit while adhering to the popularity of men.

 
Matthew 15:8-9 "…8‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
We are living in the last days of intense and continual false doctrine and intimidation to adhere to these doctrines. We must remain vigilant in prayer as we seek Christ for the truth, ready to leave behind every false way and every false person to follow Christ.

 
When we do this, we are not lonely even when we are without human companions because Christ lives in us and fulfills our every desire of our heart that is inclined toward Him.