How the Holy Spirit Teaches

The Importance of this Book!

Because of the volume of different things the Lord has taught us here at Take His Heart, I asked the Lord to reveal where I should start if I were to go to a church down the street and present to them what we have learned. He took me to:

Romans 8

1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

It is because of the lack of understanding of how the Holy Spirit teaches and leads that we as Christians have been missing the corrections, teachings, and leadings of the Holy Spirit. It is fairly safe to say that because of this spot the others exist. How is it that the Church could follow the Lord in these Last Days if she doesn’t know how He teaches and leads? No wonder the Lord would want me to start with this subject!

 The Mechanics of How the Holy Spirit Teaches

I Corinthians 2:12,13 

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual .

God sent his word:

John 15:20 

"Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also."

John 1:1,2 

In the beginning was the Word , and the Word was with God, and the Word (Jesus) was God. The same was in the beginning with God 

John 1:14 

And the Word (Jesus) was made flesh, and dwelt among us,....

    Knowing that while "The Word" is referring to God and His Son, the word "Word," not only in the above scriptures, but in others, like John 15:20, means something said, including the thought. 

(Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Of The Bible, Abingdon Press, Nashville, New York, 1974.)

There is only one truth.

    When I was taken to heaven, like Paul the apostle was, I faced what God meant when He said what He said in scripture. My thoughts, my understanding (what I had been taught), or my interpretation of His Word didn't 'hold water' there. "What God meant" is what you will face when you go to heaven. You will face God's thought behind His word and He, being absolute truth, won't be able to change or vary from what He meant on any subject just because you misunderstood, or were taught wrong by well-meaning men who love the Lord. The Holy Spirit is the only teacher who knows God's thought behind His word. Therefore, we need to understand everything we can about how the Holy Spirit teaches and be open to his teachings. 

    There are over 600 different protestant denominations in the USA. They represent almost 600 different ideas of what the Bible says, in one way or another. The Bible warns many times about the wisdom of men and the fact that we don't think, or reason like God wants us to. We are not to lean to our own understanding.

Proverbs 3:5 

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

    Paul refers to the wisdom of men right before he talks about how the Holy Spirit teaches, in I Corinthians 2. He specifically refers to the wisdom of this world coming to naught in verse six.

1 Corinthians 2:6 

Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

    When I was in heaven, looking into hell, I saw a believer who was there because of teachings and traditions performed in the wisdom of men who have leaned to their own understanding of what the Bible says. Those teachings and traditions had come to naught for this person and there was no changing the results. It was too late for this person. 

The very sad thing about this situation was that it was not her fault that she was in hell. It was the result of the leaders of the church leaning to their own understanding of what the Bible says about salvation unto eternal life, a very critical area. This is why I feel that this is one of the two most important writings I have ever done. I hope to be straight forward, pulling no punches. I will give various examples, sometimes bringing something up more than once in the hope that you will understand the seriousness of leaders not understanding how the Holy Spirit teaches. The scripture does give demonstration of the Holy Spirit teaching a person, which I will explain later. 

    To know God's thought behind the scriptures, or what He means, requires revelation from the Holy Spirit. There is no other way. It cannot be gained through man's wisdom and insight. Let us reason here. If all the leaders in the church world were taught by the same teacher and all knew how He teaches, there would only be one idea, one knowledge, of what the Bible says, not two ideas or any number upwards towards 600. There is only one truth of the purpose of water baptism. There is only one truth of how a person becomes saved. There is only one truth of the purpose of taking communion, and so on. There is only one truth. That is what God meant/means and that is what stands.

One "thing of the Spirit" concerning this writing:

    God has painted a picture with His Word. This picture is like an oil painting. It has depth. It has substance. One time I did a magazine article centered around this topic. The Lord gave me this vision, depicting where/what the true water of the word is. It is, "God's thought, what He meant when He said it!"