You do no know me, and yet you presume too much. I've been born again and filled with the Spirit of God since 1977 and have been allowed to hear the voice of God. I asked Him to wipe my mind of any doctrines of man and to reteach me His Word and the one and only interpretation of it. And He did. What He has taught me I find in no denomination, but in like minded trailblazers who only teach what God taught them and they and I have the same doctrines. In 2000 while I was driving through the Arizona desert God spoke to me and said, "I am giving you the office of Teacher." I teach what He has taught me and nothing else. I do not teach any doctrines of man like the church's many denominations who have turned grace into a doctrine of demons like Jude 1:4. Grace is the power of God, not a license to sin.
Now I've been given another gift that goes along with 1 Corinthians 2:9,
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,
Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”
Not only do I HEAR God's voice, but my EYES have also been opened by the Spirit of God. When I hear a sermon I see the spirit behind it. If from God it appears like a white halo. Some sermons have nothing at all so I know they are just man's opinions. Once when I visited a friend's church I saw black billowing clouds coming out of the pastor's head during his sermon with a tornado in the foreground. That time my jaw about hit the floor! Especially when it was a denomination I had been fond of. I hated that I had to tell that pastor what I saw afterwards and knew it was not going to be accepted well. The latest church I visited is a mystery. It is Pentecostal and instead of white, the halos are always bright royal blue no matter who is giving the sermon. The youth pastor spoke the first time I attended and his was the largest. During the sermon he fell to the floor and rolled up into a ball and the blue entirely encased him like in a blue glass paperweight. That was the first time the halo went in front of the pastor and I could also see it on the two large TV monitors. That enlightened me to know that I would also be able to see this on Youtube to test the spirt behind other pastor's sermons.
While gifts do manifest and are for the edification of the church
My advice is you gotta test all spirits .
Now i am sure you would agree with what i just wrote .
But here is the key
Does what the pastor or teaching say , teach , agree with or contradict that which is written .
THAT is how you gonna know whether the man speaks of himself or of the SPIRIT .
In other words , lets say i seen a white halo appear when a man was speaking
DONT think for five seconds i would just assume his message was OF GOD . I WOULD TEST what HE said
against what is already written . People today are often led by other spirits and their own emotions .
Now i wasnt accusing you of this , but i was reminding you HOW we also test the spirits .
OH I DO KNOW spiritiual discernment is real . NO doubt about that .
an example was when i was reading the words on a certain site . Now on the first page
what they had written was word for word Correct , AND YET , YET i kept getting this unctioning something
is dead wrong with this site . NOW confirmation was quickly seen
when i then went onto the pages of that other site and seen new age books on it .
Yet the first page had everything right on it . But we must also have confirmation . And that would come .
SO you have to test what is said no matter what sign appears . IF that sign was of GOD
you can bet it will be CONFIRMED .
You see many do not know much scripture . Many do not realize
that even the false ones can have signs and wonders and yet
they come speaking things false to lead people away from the faith .
AS WE READ IN DEUTERONOMY chapter thirteen verses one through seven .
SO no matter what , YOU STILL have to test what anyone speaks . DO so against THE BIBLE doctrine .