If we are born of the Spirit of God, we are taught by God. Most people in churches today are not taught by God. They put themselves into the churches by going forward and being baptized without having the Spirit of God ... or they joined the church by the will of man.
John 6 Jesus said:
44 No man can come to ME (The Word), except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I (The Word) will raise him up at the last day.
45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of (by) God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of (from) the Father, cometh unto me (The Word).
Man loves to "glory in the flesh" of man. Therefore the Jews in the New Testament church in the day of Paul said the believers from the Gentiles had to be circumcised. (Galatians 3-5) They wanted to glory in the flesh of that which man did.
Today they want to glory in our flesh by telling people things we did. But I've found when I tell them that God had me do that thing over which they glory, most flee from me. They don't want to glory in things God has done. They want to glory in my flesh, in things I have done.
That person who is really of God glories in that which God has done.
Jesus said: I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. (John 5:30)
Like Jesus, we can do nothing except that which we hear from God by HIS Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
And by HIS Spirit we are taught by God concerning the will of God and that which God wants us to do as we live on this present earth.
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Therefore the apostle John said:
I John 2
God gives each of us who believe HIS Spirit, the Holy Spirit of Jesus.
God teaches us by HIS Spirit.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
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John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.
The Spirit of God searches the heart of God to reveal the will of God to us in the specific issues pertaining to this life.
I Corinthians 2 Paul says:
5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
The apostle Paul explains that which the Holy Spirit does:
13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
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If we are born of God we are taught by God and have God's Spirit living in us to guide us and teach us and show us things to come.
Hebrews 8
10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people:
11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know ME, from the least to the greatest.
When we belong to God, HE gives us HIS Spirit, and we are taught by God.
When I speak things of God, you recognize them as being from God, for God has put in your heart the same information. Now you have it confirmed to you by what I say. But I don't teach you. You are taught these things by God and therefore you know truth.
And we are one Spirit because we are taught by one Spirit, the Spirit of God.
Antichrist comes among us for a season but he will leave us, often to set up his own followers.
I John 2
18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.
19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
Often we try to share things of God with relatives or church friends. They do not get excited over that which God has taught us. Usually they become very quiet and just wait until we stop talking so they can speak of something they enjoy of this worldly wisdom. They do not delight in the wisdom of God as we do.
We can speak with them once or twice but when they will hot hear the scripture and allow that scripture to rule over their lives, we must leave them along.
II Timothy 3
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
They run from church meeting to church meeting but they do not do the scriptures and they do not delight when we share revelations from God with them.
This shows us they do not have the Spirit of God in themselves.
For those who have the Spirit of God delight in that which God says and they conform their way to the information given by the Spirit of God.
Romans 8:14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
They rejoice in their own wisdom, in the wisdom of men, of the intellect of men.
We cannot follow God with them. It is like light trying to be friends with darkness. The minute you, as light, turn on light, the darkness flees. When the darkness surfaces, you, as light drive away that darkness. But you can't be in the same room at the same time.
Titus 3
10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
11 Knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
No phone calls with him. No emails. No birthday cards. Don't put yourselves in to a position where you have to hear his many problems for he will entangle you in his problems. He won't turn to God because he is not of God. Therefore he will want to cast his cares on you and make you his god. And he will be like pricks in your eyes and thrones in your sides and he will vex you continually with his words.
Walk away and live in the peace of God with other believers who come across your path.
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II John
8 Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
9 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.
10 If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:
11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
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I John 4
2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh (and lives in the believer) is of God:
3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh (and lives in the believer) is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is HE (the Holy Spirit of God) that is in you, than he that is in the world.
5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
We must not keep trying to share things of God with them when they reject what we say for they show us they are not of God and they will not do things of God, having not the Spirit of God.
Matthew 7 Jesus says:
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
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