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I like to keep things simple.
That's why we have the bible. It is God revelation to us, the means by which we authentic ALL other revelations.

This is what your spirit will confirm, if it is from God.

I have said this several times.



You may be a very mature Christian, able to recieve direction from God, that you dispute what I've said about the bible makes me doubt this.
But let's give you the benefit of the doubt and accept your claim.

Why do you post threads that will cause weaker brethren to doubt the effectacy of the bible.
How are your post actually building up weaker brethren. You know what Jesus said about those you cause the weak to go astray, that app.ies to you and to me.
 
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That's why we have the bible. It is God revelation to us, the means by which we authentic ALL other revelations.
Who told you that my friend?
This is what your spirit will confirm, if it is from God.
Who told you this?
I have said this several times.
No disrespect but what you say doesn't resonate with me. But what does God say?
You may be a very mature Christian, able to recieve direction from God, that you dispute what I've said about the bible makes me doubt this.
How did you come to this conclusion?
But let's give you the benefit of the doubt and accept your claim.

Why do you post threads that will cause weaker brethren to doubt the effectacy of the bible.
Our (the Spirit and I) role is for God's chosen ones to follow Jesus and hear what His Spirit is communicating with them.

The bible isn’t a kind of foundation or cornerstone, Jesus is. And He speaks directly to those who are led by His Spirit. We follow Him and His instruction in real time, live.
How are your post actually building up weaker brethren. You know what Jesus said about those you cause the weak to go astray, that app.ies to you and to me.
I, along with those who receive revelation from God since God created the first human, point others to the Creators. Like Adam, the Creators are communicating directly with us. They have never stopped. We encourage the creatures to relate directly with their Creators from the moment God puts His Aoitit into them. The Spirit uses whatever means from beginning to end.
 
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Who told you that my friend?

Who told you this?

No disrespect but what you say doesn't resonate with me. But what does God say?

How did you come to this conclusion?

Our (the Spirit and I) role is for God's chosen ones to follow Jesus and hear what His Spirit is communicating with them.

The bible isn’t a kind of foundation or cornerstone, Jesus is. And He speaks directly to those who are led by His Spirit. We follow Him and His instruction in real time, live.

I, along with those who receive revelation from God since God created the first human, point others to the Creators. Like Adam, the Creators are communicating directly with us. They have never stopped. We encourage the creatures to relate directly with their Creators from the moment God puts His Aoitit into them. The Spirit uses whatever means from beginning to end.
You are unfamiliar with 2 Tim 2 8÷9 ALl scripture is useful for teaching, rebuking and traing in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully equip3d for every good deed prepared for him.

Hebrews 4:12. For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

To verses that show the importance and power of scripture.
It is what taught us as unbelievers, it taught us as young believers and it continues to teach us today.

For you to promote the unimportant of scripture, to teach that other forms of revelation are of greater worth is dangerous for young Christians and dangerous for yourself.

Have you received a message that actually says don't pay attention to the bible?

If you have how did you validate that message?
 

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You are unfamiliar with 2 Tim 2 8÷9 ALl scripture is useful for teaching, rebuking and traing in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully equip3d for every good deed prepared for him.
If the Spirit wants to use what He's revealed to others in the past then that's up to Him. And if He doesn't then that's fine. Are His past revelations useful, beneficial, profitable? If He uses them then they certainly are.

Are they all He uses? Of course not. What He reveals to us today is still the expression of the Lord's truth to His people. Jesus, the Word of God hasn't stopped communicating new truths to His followers.
Hebrews 4:12. For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
The Spirit takes the words of God, makes them alive and active. He uses them in many ways including penetrating, divides, judges the thoughts and attitudes of humans hearts.
To verses that show the importance and power of scripture.
It is what taught us as unbelievers, it taught us as young believers and it continues to teach us today.
Again, the emphasis is the Person, not the thing He uses. It's the Person's who is important. It's His power. It's He, not it, Who teaches all believers. It's Him Who convicts and convinces the unbeliever.

He, He, He and Him, Him, Him, the Person. Not it, the inanimate thing Who is the Teacher.
For you to promote the unimportant of scripture, to teach that other forms of revelation are of greater worth is dangerous for young Christians and dangerous for yourself.
If it were possible, I would endeavour to overemphasis God's Spirit, but since its not possible then I will promote the Creators over over what They created.

Have you received a message that actually says don't pay attention to the bible?
The Spirit revealed to me that I had made the bible an idol and that I needed to repent of this practice. I did and haven't looked back.
If you have how did you validate that message?
I have gotten to know the Spirit over the past 4 decades. I know when He's communicating with me. He repeats and builds on any revelation He gives. I love Him. I love the truths and revelations He shares with me. I say, bring them on!
 

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You are unfamiliar with 2 Tim 2 8÷9 ALl scripture is useful for teaching, rebuking and traing in righteousness, that the man of God may be fully equip3d for every good deed prepared for him.

Have you not read how we have One Teacher???

You are trying to make His textbook into Him! So you are making an idol out of the Bible, replacing the Teacher with the Book.

But understanding comes from His mouth - not His book! Or have you not read:

Prov 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

So with your reading you still have not come to understand that it is not about the Scriptures but about Him who speaks!

Why did you not actually consider what One 2 Question asked you?

Who told you this?

We are looing to a person - a Who - and not a book - a what.

He did not ask you 'What told you this?', but asked you "Who told you this?" and for a reason. He was asking you to consider if you are hearing from Jesus Christ, via His Holy Spirit, or not?

It is like this question:

Gen 3:11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”

If you are calling the Bible you Teacher, your instructor, even 'The Word of God' which is His name, are you not now substituting your Teacher with your understanding of the textbook? And who told you to do that? Did you not read what Jesus told the Jews?

Jn 5:39 -41 You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
“I do not receive glory from men;

He had men write the Scriptures and the for a reason. But the reason was to use them to "for teaching, rebuking and traing in righteousness," but that does not mean that your reading the textbook is your being taught by Him! You actually have to turn to Him, listen to Him, know Him, and does a Teacher, a good Teacher, only use the His textbook to teach with?

He once told me:

WHAT TEACHER DOESN’T PUT A BOOK IN FRONT OF HIS STUDENTS TODAY; YET NOT JUST A BOOK BUT OVERHEAD TRANSPARENCIES, VISUALS, AND OTHER MATERIAL? FOR I TELL YOU TRULY, IF THEY ARE NOT LISTENING TO ME THEY ARE NOT MY PUPIL, THEY ARE NOT MY STUDENT; I TELL YOU TRULY, THEY ARE NOT MY DISCIPLE UNLESS THEY ARE HEARING FROM ME. SO DON’T TELL THEM TO READ THE BOOK, THEM TO TAKE THE CLASS!”

So why did you not understand that it is not about the textbook (the Bible) but about Him!! Is it not because you didn't attend His class, spiritually speaking. You don't seek Him, listen to Him, and know Him otherwise would He not have explained the obvious to you. The above saying is obvious, is it not? And it matches up with what is written in the Bible! Yet even in the above statement He told me, it is also obvious that Today is an important factor. He did not put the textbook (the Scriptures) in front of Abraham, but He was still the Teacher then. And from what He told the Jews about searching the Scripture instead of coming to Him, is it not obvious that they were making an idol out of their Bible? Of course it was, even you refuse to admit that problem. And if a person is starting to replace the Lord with His book, should not Jesus tell them to put aside the Bible for a time else the relationship they have with Him get ruined? Do you not listen to Wisdom, which is a name for the Holy Spirit.

And so it was the Lord spoke to One 2 question and told him to put aside the Bible because he was making an idol out of it, just like the Jews then and many posting on the Christian forum are doing now. It is the relationship with Jesus Christ, via His Holy Spirit, which is important! Of did you not read:

Gal 3:22 But the Scripture has shut up everyone under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

So it is that the Bible Thumper, says 'Bible, Bible, Bible' but they are shut up under sin and have not yet received the promise by faith in Jesus Christ, because they don't believe in Him who said He would never leave us!

And if that does not change in their lives then a day will come in which this type of conversation takes place with Him who they should have been listening to:

Mat 7:22,23 “Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’
“And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.’

You know someone, not because you read a book they had written, but because you sit down on converse back and forth with them! That means you listen to what they have to say personally! Of have you not even read about the Good News that we have?

Rev 3:20 ‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

The Mighty God, Wonderful Counselor, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace, who is our Teacher, is just standing there speaking with His voice and if anyone (which would include "Windmill Charge" would just open up to Him and listen to His voice (which is not The Book but His voice) then He will come into them with His Holy Spirit and talk with them! He will talk to you about anything and everything, but you should know it is going to mean reproof to you, and you are going to have to repent or your ways!

Rev 3:19 ‘Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent

Yet that is a good thing for us!! It is what we need! It is how we learn! So it is how we get better! And it mean salvation to you! He is our salvation, and He is or Teacher, and He is the One we must believe in! And He is the Great I AM, so the Word of God we preach (Him) is always near us. Thus the Word of God (Him) that we preach is found in our mouth and in our hearts, and so is not the ink on pages that make up your Bible! Those were words He spoke to the hearts of those men who He had write them. You must know Him personally yourself, or you are going to hear Him correctly tell you on that dreadful day for you, "I never knew you"!

And that is all explained in the Bible which you have put your faith in instead of Him!
 

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The Spirit revealed to me that I had made the bible an idol and that I needed to repent of this practice. I did and haven't looked back.

You are trying to make His textbook into Him! So you are making an idol out of the Bible, replacing the Teacher with the Book.

You both make an accusation that is without any evidence.
You both made an idol out of the bible, that is something I and the Christians I know have not and Don do.

The bible is how I learn of about God, it is what I use to validate summons, messages and feelings.

You both by the superior tone in your post and the putting down of those who " still depend" on the bible, portray yourselves as mature Christians.

Yet you show little regard for other Christians with weaker faith.

You have both stressed how the spirit has endorsed your view of the unimportance of scripture.


For me all I get is alarm bells ring about the dangers of your views.
 

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You both make an accusation that is without any evidence.
You both made an idol out of the bible, that is something I and the Christians I know have not and Don do.

The bible is how I learn of about God, it is what I use to validate summons, messages and feelings.

You both by the superior tone in your post and the putting down of those who " still depend" on the bible, portray yourselves as mature Christians.

Yet you show little regard for other Christians with weaker faith.

You have both stressed how the spirit has endorsed your view of the unimportance of scripture.


For me all I get is alarm bells ring about the dangers of your views.
Be encouraged. If Jesus wants to teach you through the bible then through the bible you will learn.

I am encouraged that for me, He teaches me not through the bible.

I don't want to draw you away from the means through which Jesus feeds you, be it exclusively from the bible.

I ask that you encourage myself and others to accept the means by which Jesus feeds us other sheep.

Be it through pictures, parables, visions, dreams, nature, other humans, books, internet, an audible voice from an animal.....

Please don't hold us back or discourage us from advancing our relationship with Jesus through His Spirit present within us, even if it is by a different way, means, mode, process that He chooses for you, that is, besides, beyond or without the bible.

I will endeavour to respect you and to acknowledge the Spirit's work in you.
 

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You both make an accusation that is without any evidence.
You both made an idol out of the bible, that is something I and the Christians I know have not and Don do.

The bible is how I learn of about God, it is what I use to validate summons, messages and feelings.

You both by the superior tone in your post and the putting down of those who " still depend" on the bible, portray yourselves as mature Christians.

Yet you show little regard for other Christians with weaker faith.

You have both stressed how the spirit has endorsed your view of the unimportance of scripture.


For me all I get is alarm bells ring about the dangers of your views.

My view of "view of the unimportance of scripture"???????????????????????

Just count the number of scriptures I use to prove what I am saying verses what you use!!!!

Indeed, the very first words He told me were, "Read Your Bible", and so that was the very first command that I heard from His voice and I did it. But if anyone is being taught by God then they get commands from His voice!!! Or have you not read:

Jn 10:27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me
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Jn 10:3 “To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.
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Jn 10:4 “When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

So the danger is that you don't hear His voice - according to the very Scriptures you are putting your trust in! And the question that 'One 2 question' still remains - "Who told you that? Did you not also read in that same chapter Jn 10

Jn 10:20 Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and is insane. Why do you listen to Him?”

Indeed, who were those many that were saying that? Were they not the Jews, even those religious Pharisees and Sadducees?

So there are His sheep who hear His voice and also the religious who think those hearing His voice and testifying to the voice of God means that person has a demon. Yet Jesus does and says only what His Father tells Him to this very day - which is why He is called the Word of God, and why His sheep hear His voice, via the Holy Spirit - but like those religious Pharisees and Sadducees you think the danger is in hearing form the Lord our God, Jesus Christ, who has the very words of God for us. And His Holy Spirit brings them to our spirit, or did you not even read:

Jn 6:63 “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Yet it is right after that written:

Jn 6:64 “But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.

And that is what you should fear; that you indeed betray Him, even by telling people that knowing the Bible exceeds knowing Jesus Christ personally!!

And I have already pointed out John 5:39,40 -

"You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life."

And as far as maturity in Jesus Christ, did you not read:

Heb 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

If you are one who does not practice using your spiritual senses, then you are not the mature Christian, and you are not yet trained to discern good and evil. But rather you are "dull of hearing" are you not - which is discussed right before the above verse?

Heb 5: 11-14 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant.

This simple fact that we "Christians" need to seek the Lord and listen to the words that come from His voice should be the easiest of things to preach, but to the person who does not believe Jesus Christ is there with His Holy Spirit to talk to them it is almost impossible to get thru to them.

Did you not also read the first recorded words that snake said in the garden? They were "“Indeed, has God said,"

Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Indeed, has God said, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

It is still the first way the devil deceives a person Today! The snake say "“Indeed, has God said" and so a person falling into that trap and trick turns from hearing the Lord by faith, to read the Bible by their own understanding!

But it is still written:

2 Tim 3:16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;

And that is why I use the very Scriptures that you are putting your faith in to prove that you need to put your faith in Jesus Christ, that He as the Great I Am is there for you to hear from personally!!1 But you find that as "alarm bells" ringing in you. So, who put those alarm bells there? Who told you, "“Indeed, has God said,"???

We all need to hear His voice and His words that come to us via His Holy Spirit, just like it is written!! And that is done by faith in Jesus Christ, that He is there to be heard from, and it does not come from searching the Scripture and thinking in them you have eternal life!!

But there is GOOD NEWS for anyone!! He is still standing there and if ANYONE hears His voice and opens up to Him He will come into them so that the two of you can talk back and forth! But who will believe that? Who will accept the reproof that we tend not to seek Him and listen to Him? Who will become an actual disciple of His by listening to Him? Who will repent of leaning on their own understanding? Who will actually be zealous for Him, as opposed to their own religious understanding? It is the ones who actually seek Him and listen to Him!! But it could be ANYONE, if they turn from their ways to His voice!

Rev 3:19,20 ‘Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.
Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

It is those who listen to Him who are taught of God!!






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Be encouraged. If Jesus wants to teach you through the bible then through the bible you will learn.

It is easy to see by what One 2 question" writes that He knows the Lord and hears from Him. The more I read of what He writes the easier it is to see that. And while there is a time in a Christians walk to read and be learning from the Bible, and we might even want to encourage people to read their Bible, still it is not what God really wants. He wants to teach us through His Son and His Holy Spirit who takes the words of God the Son has and gives them to us.

That is to say the 'Christians' will all be taught of God. But that actually means listening to what He personally has to say to us.

Let me use the Scriptures to help explain this:

In Isaiah 28 you find 2 very similar statements but they are made for different reasons!

Is 28:9,“To whom would He teach knowledge,
And to whom would He interpret the message?
Those just weaned from milk?
Those just taken from the breast?
Is 28:10 “For He says,
‘[Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there.’”

There is the new Christian, who needs to read the Bible, those orderly lines of text that we can read a little here and there when we have time to.

The first words He told me were, "Read Your Bible", but I did not hear another word from Him to me personally until I had finished reading the Bible. Now I am not suggesting that He cannot teach a person if there is not a Bible around, but He did have a reason for having the Bible written. And that reason is that of a teacher having a textbook. And do not teaches tend to have a textbook, or some writing they want to have you read before you come to the next class, when they will discuss what you read with you? That is what happened when I was growing up, even while taking college classes. So it make sense and is wise that God would give us a textbook to read and then go over it with us.

Yet we find another part of the same chapter which reads:

Is 28:12,13 He who said to them, “Here is rest, give rest to the weary,”
And, “Here is repose,” but they would not listen.
So the word of the LORD to them will be,
“Order on order, order on order,
Line on line, line on line,
A little here, a little there,”
That they may go and stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive.

So after we read the Bible He is expecting us to listen to Him and find rest in Him. Yet many will not start listening to Him, even after reading the Bible. That is where we get the "Bible Thumpers". Those who reject listening to Him to being 'dug into their Bibles'. They become religious instead of hearing the Lord by faith. So, they don't actually hear from the Lord via His Holy Spirit, no matter what they think of themselves and you who listen.

And note: when that happens the word of the Lord to them become the Bible (the orderly text we read a little here and there), and that winds up causing the person to go and stumble backwards, be broken, snared and taken captive by those dark forces we battle with.

So the new Christians needs to read and learn the Bible, but the Christian who has now read the Bible needs to be taught of God directly and personally. That does not mean the Lord will not discuss the Scriptures, and refer to the Scriptures which that have now read!! But it does mean they hear His voice, get words from Him in their spirit, and so the Word of God we preach is found near us, in our mouths and hearts, so not the ink on pages in your Bible.

I have read what 'One 2 question' has posted and that is what he is saying, even in the last post where he wrote:

I don't want to draw you away from the means through which Jesus feeds you, be it exclusively from the bible.

I ask that you encourage myself and others to accept the means by which Jesus feeds us other sheep.

Be it through pictures, parables, visions, dreams, nature, other humans, books, internet, an audible voice from an animal.....

Please don't hold us back or discourage us from advancing our relationship with Jesus through His Spirit present within us, even if it is by a different way, means, mode, process that He chooses for you, that is, besides, beyond or without the bible.

I will endeavour to respect you and to acknowledge the Spirit's work in you.

But is he writing to a new Christian or someone who has read the Bible and is still unwilling to listen to the voice of the Lord so they call the Bible the Word of God and have been "stumble backward, be broken, snared and taken captive"?

For the new Christian we want to encourage them to Read Their Bibles, because that is what the Lord does. But as for those who choose not to listen by faith but went back to leaning on their own understanding of the Bible, so they are not willing to be taught of God, they need to be encourage to listen to the Lord, and encouragement came be a kind word or a rod . How did Paul put it?

Gal 3:1-3 You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified?
This is the only thing I want to find out from you: did you receive the Spirit by the works of the Law, or by hearing with faith?
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

The Galatians had heard from the Lord, they knew the Scriptures, but they turned hearing by faith back to leaning on their own understanding and so Paul called the "Foolish". Not exactly what we think of encouragement, but it is meant to encourage them to turn back to hearing by faith!
 

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We are supposed to be taught of God.

If you read a textbook, that does not mean you attended a class with a teacher.

Now the church has a responsibility to "Edify", and that means to teach on religious matters.

Yet a preacher has a responsibility to preach, and what you preach is your God/god.

So it is one thing to teach the Bible, and yet what we preach is the Word of God and so the Kingdom of God. The Word of God is Jesus Christ! He is called that because He has the words of God, which were given to Him by His Father, and so the Holy Spirit gets the words of God from Him and brings them to us, so we can hear them. It might be compared to a live stream, where the Holy Spirit is like His computer communicating with our computer/our spirit. Yet He is the One being broadcasts from the throne of God in heaven. He is the King over the Kingdom of God, because His Father made Him King.

Thus, preaching the Word of God means we are telling people to listen to Him who is the King over the Kingdom of God. The Bible explains this to us. And it explains that we call on One Teacher, because we all have Him, The Lord our God who is One, as our Teacher! And that is what we preach.

Now we have other teachers. You probably had a math teacher at school as some point. And you might have had a Sunday school teacher as some point also. That teacher teaches the Bible stories and other things concerning Christianity and the Bible. Yet we still all have One Teacher, who is our Lord Jesus Christ that we need to listen to for the teachings from God to us personally!!! So to be taught of God you have to listen to Him!!

Being taught of God does not mean you read your Bible or had a Sunday school teacher. Both the Bible and even the Sunday school teacher should have teachings and information that actually got from Him, because His sheep are supposed to be hearing His voice. So if there is a question as to if something is from God you turn to God and test the spirits, and there is a specific instruction in the Bible to test the spirits! (1 Jn 4:1-3). This should have been taught to you at your church, because they were supposed to teach on religious matters! But do they even listen to the Lord and learn from Him like they should?

Therefore, listening to Him is the milk of the Gospel, the most basic instruction that we teach and preach! So we should all be talking about being taught of God, but is that what we do at our congregations? Do we seek Him and what He has to tell us before we teach and preach?

Now another question. Do we reprove others because we hate them or love them?

Well, God reproves people because He loves them! And the main thing He reproves us on is not listening to Him!

Rev 3:19,20 ‘Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.
‘Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.

The above is the "GOOD NEWS", indeed the great and fantastic news for us. It means we can hear from and get advice from God!! And is not God far wiser, smarter, and worth hearing from???

He is, but His thoughts are not my thoughts. Because of that I personally, often don't want to listen to Him. Yet because I also believe in Him and hear from Him, I also do seek Him and hear from Him, even though He does not also tell me what I want to hear. So as for me, I hear that small voice of His speaking to me about a dozen different times a day, and that is a confession and not a boast! Only a dozen different times a day is really poor, considering that He (God Almighty) is always with me. I am ashamed of myself, that I don't hear Him more, but that shame is not from Him, or even the angels in heaven that serve Him. He and His Kingdom of Heaven rejoice whenever we turn back to Him, though He still expects that we do hear Him on that day called TODAY.

And because I know that simple fact, He tells me to preach the Word of God, but that to mean Him and our needing to listen to Him personally Today!!!

He tells me to come on this Christian forum and 'tell em again', just like it is written:

Heb 3:13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called “Today,” so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

If I can encourage someone like "One 2 question" to keep hearing from Him, which is does, it is my pleasure. I even learn from Him, a brother in the Lord by faith in our Everlasting Father (that child born to us Is 9:60) How wonderful it is to actually find someone who hears from Him.

Yet encouragement can come in two ways, It can be sugar or it can be bitter. Far too often (if you ask me) I come to this Christian Forum and find those posting that do not listen to Him Today. So to encourage them I have reproof, not out because I hate them (may that be far from me) but because my Lord loves them and wants them to start listening to Him.

Still, I think I am sometimes too hard on them, and look to the Lord to reprove me. Yesterday was such a time, and He then asked me to sit with Him and gave me a teaching. I got words from the Father, which came down thru the Son, and the Holy Spirit to me. He was not and is not happy with those who do not listen to His Son as commanded.

He said, "The first bit of help I give them is, 'This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well-pleased; listen to Him!'”
He said, "That is what's spoken over Him."
He said, "If they are not listening to Him, I don't like them, for it is written Jacob I loved and Esau I hated".

“Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob; but I have hated Esau" (Mal 1:3,4)

He said more then came to the end by saying, "I will have a place for those who listen to you, so they listen to My Son who listens to Me. And I have a place for those who will not listen to my Son for My words, and it is a place they fully deserve for their desolence."

Now I am not that smart but I do have a college degree in business, but I did remember hearing the word "desolence" before. So I started checking into it after we talked. It turns out there is not an English word "desolence, but knew what He meant by using it. He meant that when we intentionally refuse to listen to Him we are act of not listening to Him has brought the abomination of desolation into the temple of God which we are supposed to be.

Dan 12:11 “From the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished, and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be 1,290 days.

Mal 1:3,4 “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob; but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”

If our not listening to our Lord Jesus Christ so that His Holy Spirit is not coming into us, are we not making our temple of God which is in us, a ruined and desolate place? And is that not an abomination to the Lord? So then, that person deserves hell and the promise of it, don't they?

So He didn't sound like He thought I was too hard on them, when He talked to me.