I have been on here for a while... long enough to know a lot of you folks need guys like me to help you understand for an example that the entire Bible was not written to the Christian. Men (teachers) taught you that and so you need another like me to teach you otherwise. I'm amazed on how many folks think the data in the Old Testament is addressed to them.
Why do they need you since they can have God - or have you not read:
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.
So, "anyone" can open up to the Lord and talk back and forth with Him - so what do they need you for????
Yet for the person who listens to the Lord they might find that He, the LORD OR LORDS AND KING OF KINGS, has a purpose for them.
For example; I was a retail manager when the Lord came into my life and we started talking back and forth. On one day in the store He was talking to me and pointed out the inflatable summer items that we had hung from the ceiling to promote the summer items like inflatable mats, and such. He told me that He would bring people to Him if they just looked up, but many would not look up. So He said He wanted to use me to get them to look up!
Another time in church the Lord told me that He wanted me to be a pillar at the church, and He explained that pillars don't do much, they just kind of hold the things above up, and point upwards. Some pillars even have a story written on them. Perhaps a victory story. So that is what He wanted me to do: point upwards and hold Him up, and with a story, a victory story.
So I point to Him, and hold Jesus Christ up, but you point to you and write "you folks need guys like me to help you understand".
Did you not even read the understand is from His mouth (so not yours), and even that one of His names is Understanding?
Prov 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Prov 7:4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your intimate friend;
Perhaps you might have come across:
Prov 3: 5,6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.
Indeed, have you not even read:
Jn 5:41,42 “I do not receive glory from men; but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
or 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.
And that is what we testify about, that it is the Spirit who give life, and your flesh profits nothing, so that the words Jesus speaks to you are spirit!! and we testify to that like Jesus said:
Jn 3:11 “Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.
So it is that I testify to Jesus Christ and how anyone can open up to Him and talk with Him via His Holy Spirit talking to our spirit, personally! But you do not accept that, and make yourself out to be our teacher and that we need you who does not know Him as The Teacher!
Therefore you testify about yourself instead of Him. Thus the teachings you have are not from hearing Him but from your thinking.
Still, sadly Jesus pointed out:
Jn 5:43 “I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
and Jn 5:44 “How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?
Therefore humble yourself, and seek the Lord Jesus Christ what He has to say to you, and you will find Him. You will find that He is not a respecter of men, so that He will talk to those who truly want to talk to Him and listen. Did you not read:
Is 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together,”
Says the LORD,
“Though your sins are as scarlet,
They will be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They will be like wool.
It is almost amusing when I read from those like you. Because when a person does go and reason with Him they will find out that His thoughts are not their thoughts, just like it is written. You will indeed be reproved over and over and over and over and over, so that you will figure out that it is not you they need to talk to but rather Him they need to talk to. Therefore you message will change and you will be like a pillar in the church with point upwards and holds up the King and the Kingdom of God and not yourself!!!
The people don't need you, they need Him!!!! But perhaps He needs you to point upward to Him so they might seek Him, because too many people have been saying, "Listen to me!
Which reminds me of that time I was walking and talking with Him, and He told me, "Listen to me, listen to me. Karl, why do they say 'listen to me'. Isn't it because they don't listen to Me?"
So I believe that we find people saying listen ot them because they don't listen to Him - which is what you are saying is it not?