THE SEAL OF AUTHORITY ON THE SCRIPTURES

    Many preachers today claim they know and understand the scriptures.  Hardly, however, do they humble themselves and accept that they really are fools for not knowing the scriptures nor the power of God, well, denying the power having a form of godliness, so to speak.  These are the wolves in sheepskin. They love to post their pride at the facebook to impress upon people that they are the archetype of what is called the man of God.  Shame on them.

     Quickly, I feel the urge to admonish these people, at least, in this book.  These people say they are teaching a full gospel but I am sure they can never even interpret the whole of the scriptures soundly in the spirit of sound mind.  

    Yea, they are the ones who wrongly divide the scriptures and, worse, not in the spirit of truth.  All these,  for not knowing the spirit but in letters through the doctrine of exegesis and not by the interpretation in the spirit of prophecy and interpretation on the word of God.

    The Word of God is to be interpreted in the spirit and not in letters for the letter kills but the spirit gives life.  It means that if a man will not have the spirit of God in him, while he reads the scriptures, it is that his strength is small.  He will surely fall in the day of adversity.  

    The teachings they preach and teach using the word of God never pack the power of the spirit(s) of God.  Thus, many of their hearers are not fully healed being filled with the proud spirit more than having the humble spirit. 

    Often, scholars are being taught with the doctrines and commandments of men but never of God.   The principles they receive are never of God but of men.  They interpret the scripture in a singular perspective abundant in exegetical commentaries and not in the spirit.  Well, no one can blame them for they do not have the law,  and the true God, and a teaching "priest".

2 Chronicles 15:3 Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. 

    Imagine how frail and weak the human mind is.  One would come to think and wonder how in the hell did the Israelites come to a point of having no true God and without a law when the scriptures written in scrolls are just within their grasps.  Think of it!  Clearly, something happened to the church in those times.  This I will explain in the other chapter of this book.

   Now, to prove that, today, many are not having the spirit of God for them to have the seal of authority over the scriptures to interpret it; herewith are some challenging lines left out for you to understand.  I am sure there is no way any man or scholar or pastor can interpret this without the spirit in him, to wit:

Case Number 1:

Job 8:14 Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web.

Isaiah 59:5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

Interpretation: ?

Case Number 2:

Amos 3:15 And I will smite the winter house with the summer house; and the houses of ivory shall perish, and the great houses shall have an end, saith the LORD.

Interpretation: ?

Case Number 3: (an easier verse to interpret)

Psalms 119:85  The proud have digged pits for me which are not after thy law.

Interpretation: ?

Case Number 4:

Ezekiel 22:18 Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver.

Interpretation: ?

    There are practically numerous passages in the scriptures that will help you discern whether the teacher is a man of God.  Ask anyone of them who are now ministering the words and some of them who minister questions to people and they will welter at the word of God.

    I warn you beware of people who claim they are the very mouthpiece of God some even claim to be the Son of God, or else, a Man of God.  

    Testing their knowledge on the scriptures, even in the simple manner, for example, is to ask them what was the reason why the Queen of Sheba came to king Solomon?

All these I will answer in another book.  

    The point of writing this chapter is to give a man the basic tool to discern the Man of God from him who claims only that he is the One that is to come in the flesh.  

    Undoubtedly, there are a number of spiritual ways to know the Christ who  is come in the flesh and the one who just pretend or presume to be the Christ himself.  

    Of truth, it is not that a man is adept on using the word of God that it will make him a servant of God at all but it is the Spirit that dwells in him that matters.  This is the reason why the scriptures warn every one not to believe every spirit but to try every spirit whether they are of God.

    Imagine a man teaching the  word of God when he cannot even interpret a word such as written above? 

    In conclusion, the seal of authority of the man of God is his knowledge on the scriptures according to the spirit of knowledge  on the scriptures and by the spirit of power of God.  It means he is able to bring holiness and perfection unto his constituents or believers.

    Know that there are ministers of the word and there are those who minister the spirit.  The minister of the word, having not the spirit of God, is the theft and the robber.  The minister of the spirit is the true One having the spirit of God in him.