Originally posted by JohnR7
I am taught and lead by the Holy Spirit of God, not "heremeutical principles"
That is why when we teach, we work with the Holy Spirit of God to help people to "discover" truth for themselves. It is the Holy Spirit of Grace & Truth who instructs, comforts, strengthens, teaches, and guides people on their way back to God. Jesus was a great teacher, but the teacher of the Holy Spirit can do a divine work in our lives to transform us. We need the water of the word, but we also need the fire of the Holy Spirit to purify us.
John,
I, too, am focused on the work of the Holy Spirit (rather, He is focused on us).
Let's never forget what Paul wrote to people who claim to be spirit-filled:
1 Corinthians 14:37
If anyone thinks he is a prophet or spiritual, let him recognize that the things which I write to you are the Lord's commandment
Truly spiritual Christians follow the apostles' doctrines as the Lord's own teachings. This next scripture applies to those who do not accept Paul's teaching that the last days were his own times:
1 Corinthians 3:1
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual men, but as to men of flesh, as to infants in Christ.
For we KNOW that Paul taught all his flocks that the last days had come upon his generation:
Hebrews 1:2
in these last days has spoken to us
1 Corinthians 10:11
Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for OUR instruction upon whom the ends of the ages HAVE come.
We can be no more spiritual than when we make sure we fall in line with the apostles' teaching on WHEN the last days were. They taught only what the Holy Spirit revealed.
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