Questions To Ponder.❓ ❓ ❓

 Q: What happens when you discover that what you thought the Holy Spirit taught you as you studied the word, is actually not right or in line with scriptures?

It's part of the learning process, that you may learn that even while being taught by the Holy Spirit, your mind & thoughts, if unchecked, can take the lead to make an assumption or conclusion in the word which is not what the Holy Spirit taught you.

It's just like a student in class being ahead of the teacher, in making a contribution/input to what is being taught, which is yet not consistent or in line with what the teacher is teaching or saying.

Q: Is there any example in scripture where something like this happened?

Sure! When we look at the ministry of Jesus & his relationship with his disciples in the days of his flesh, we will see what our relationship with the Holy Spirit, who is another comforter sent in the stead of Jesus, is like.

In Matthew 16, Jesus said something to his disciples and they made a hasty conclusion on what he said, reasoning among themselves, but their conclusion was dead wrong. 👇🏽

And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. And Jesus said to them, See and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, Because we have taken no bread.

And Jesus knowing it, said, Why reason ye among yourselves, O ye of little faith, because ye have taken no bread? Do ye not yet understand nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up ? nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up ? How do ye not understand that it was not concerning bread I said to you, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?Then understood they that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.  Mathew 16:5-12.

Q: Now did Jesus speak to them? Yes! Did they hear well? Yes! But they did not understand what he actually meant by what he said, and they gave it their own interpretation.

This happens so often with us.

The Holy Spirit can teach us and say things to us which we clearly heard, but have a wrong understanding of, and hastily put our own conclusion & interpretation on it, affirming & teaching it to others as what the Holy Spirit taught us.

We must be careful and patient to fully & thoroughly understand & grasp what we are being taught in the Word, and not hastily run with a half baked understanding or even a misinterpretation/misunderstanding of it.

We must not be in a haste to teach or take upon us the teaching ministry, but let/allow patience to have it's way as to do it's work in us, as scripture says..."be not many teachers knowing that teachers will have a stricter or greater judgment" as in another place in the same epistle it says..."but let patience have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." James 3:1 & 1:4.

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