BUT If what we think we are supposedly hearing from Christ , God , the SPIRIT
contradicts in any way what JESUS taught while on earth
Ok - but what if we think we are supposedly hearing from Christ, God, the Spirit, and we see a contradiction in what we read in the Bible?
How do you handle that?
First I recommend testing the spirit!
1 John 4:1-3 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God; and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God; this is the spirit of the antichrist, of which you have heard that it is coming, and now it is already in the world.
Some Christians who know and hear the Lord well use 1 Cor 12:3:
1 Cor 12:3 Therefore I make known to you that no one speaking by the Spirit of God says, “Jesus is accursed”; and no one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.
Maybe the best way is to take what you are getting to Jesus Christ, by praying something like "Jesus Christ, did you say....?"
2 Cor 10:5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
Now what you don't do is start leaning on your own understanding!!! , because it is written that His ways not our ways.
Is 55:8, 9 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
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.
And that is the problem we see all too often - that His people just start leaning on their own understanding, even of the Scriptures, instead of actually seeking Him listening to Him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And isn't that what amigo de christo is trying to get us to do? And that is not from God! That is not having faith in the Lord our God Jesus Christ, but is having faith in ourselves. And we see that all the time, because we tend to be men of little faith!!
Look - I have done it. I have heard things that I thought by my understanding, could not have been from the Lord only to find out later they were!!
One time I remember I was driving to a soccer game that even He asked me to go to, and there were people waiting from me to arrive. -- In fact I remember twice when that was the case and I didn't believe what I heard was true, only to find out I was wrong and He was right. The first time it was raining and hard, and as I was driving there He told me it had stopped raining. Well, that was clearly wrong because it was just pouring down. I wanted to turn around so bad, because I didn't want to watch the game in rain like that. So I called the people who had gone before me. They told me that it had just stopped raining there, just like He had said to me.
The other time I was running late to the that game. In fact the traffic was very bad and I would be lucky to even make by half-time, and I might be missing the whole game. So I wanted to turn back, and was telling myself that surely He was wrong. So when I got to the game I noticed both teams were on the side lines. I was thinking, 'Good, I made it by half-time'. But when I got to the field I found out that the refs had just gotten there and the game had not started, just like He had told me.
And this happens with soooooooooo much teaching He tells me verses the teachings other people tell me. It turns out the He is always right. Always right!! People are wrong, but He is right!! And He is faithful and true. If you listen to Him you will find that while you will not usually understand how what He is telling you is right - because His thoughts are not your thoughts and His ways not your ways, He will still wind up being right and they wrong!!
So those quote "Christians" who are leaning on their own understanding and there thoughts about even the Bible will wind up being wrong over and over and over, because they did not seek the Lord Jesus Christ by faith. They don't practice listening to Him to their own disgrace!!!
And for that reason, if you point to our Lord Jesus Christ and our need to listen to Him, they usually come back with something like: "BUT If what we think we are supposedly hearing from Christ , God , the SPIRIT contradicts in any way what JESUS taught while on earth"
They say that because they really don't believe in Him, nor know Him. If they did they would surely know that His thoughts are not our thoughts. Our thoughts tend to line up with what that snake said in the garden:
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, ‘...
"Did God really say" and "BUT If what we think we are supposedly hearing from Christ" are basically the same words are they not?
Look - test the spirits, but don't think that it can not be the Lord speaking to you just because you don't understand!! Indeed, did you not read:
Is 1: 18 “Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD,
He told us to come reason with Him because our thinking need correction, or did you not figure that out by just leaning on your own understanding?
