The Bible and Life: Beyond the Bible?

Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!

BEYOND THE BIBLE? - Kenneth E Hagin.

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A certain teacher caused a lot of trouble once for a friend of mine, a man who had been a Bible teacher for 35 years. My friend had taken his Bible to this man's meetings, but found his teaching began to be increasingly in error.

Finally he handed the man his Bible, saying, "You're going to have to give me chapter and verse for that. You're going to have to show that to me in the Bible." The traveling teacher handed the Bible back to him, saying, "Oh, you won't find what I'm preaching in that thing." (When you start calling the Bible "that thing," you're in trouble.)

"Oh, no," he said, "I'm way out beyond that thing." If you've gotten out beyond the Bible, you've gotten out beyond the Holy Spirit, because the Bible says that the Spirit and the Word are one [agree], as John states in First John 5:7.

What was amazing to me was that my friend, a man who was saved, baptized in the Holy Spirit, and a Bible teacher in a Full Gospel church, got taken in by this false teacher and lost half his class!

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On the other hand, a young Chinese woman, who had been converted only two weeks earlier in a tent meeting, went to the same teacher's meetings one night but realized he was in error.

She told me, "You know, something on the inside of me told me, 'Don't go back.' So we never went back."

She was just a baby Christian—she didn't even have the baptism in the Holy Spirit yet—but she listened to the Spirit who was in her.

I think what happens to us is we go by our heads instead of our spirits after we have been Christians for many years. Often our heads have been educated at the expense of our spirits.

The Spirit of God will teach us. That's what the Spirit of God was teaching the Chinese woman: "That's not right. Don't go there."

Of course God put teachers in the Church—teaching is one of the fivefold ministries, and that's one way God teaches us. On the other hand, the Teacher is also in us. He'll let us know when it's right and He'll let us know when it's not right. And every believer has that anointing in him or her. We don't need to pray for it. We've got it.

Kenneth E. Hagin- Understanding The Anointing.