Mat 4:5 Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,
Mat 4:6 And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Now we have a problem. We have an enemy6 who knows more than us. How He is quoting scripture to Jesus, but Jesus is filled with wisdom, not mans wisdom but Gods so answers Him. Yet we think we are smarter than Him yet here on these forum we see His work. People study the bible for years yet I doubt they would ever win an arguement with the devil, and tehre are many who even with all this "knowledege" will ever find Christ.
And so you become a christian and someone says get a bible, so you do. Which one, they reccomend the NIV, so you start reading it, the pastor teaches from the NSV, and they dont match, than you discover the NKJ and it sounds nice, so your get it, now you have 3 diferent versions and you start getting confused, than you go to a different church, different pastor and he teaches from a different bible and it gets worse, because he has a different slant on things and it just causes more issues, not getting you closer to Jesus just adding to the confusion. So you cry out to God, Help" and He comes to teach you, by the spirit and so shows you something in the bible. Oh you say, the bible doesnt say it that way, and since the bible is the word of God so they keep telling me, so you cant be God because God must agree with the bible, Which one I may ask?? and so because of all the confusion, because of ones knowledge God Himself is rejected and God Jesus and the Holy spirit are all in agreement so you have just rejected them all.
This is why we must empty ourselves of everything. For God to be able to teach man, He must literally do a reformat of our brains. We are foolish ignorant men, but once we gain a bit of knowldege we become proud, arrogant and obstinate. God cant teach any one when they are filled with themselves, and for the brain well it is another problem.
Here in Aus our cars indicators are on the right side of teh steering colum, the wipers on teh left. A couple of times for work I got a european car that had the wipers on the right and the indicators on the left. it is much annoying when you go to indicate and Hit the wipers, but that is what my brain knows and it takes time to unlearn what it knows.
And so it must be "more of Him and less of us". but that is a hard thing when we are filled with us.
God blesss