Welcome to the Believers Bible Assembly This is the day that the Lord has made and

we're going to rejoice and be glad in it Today we're going to continue our teaching series

The Spirit-led Life Previously we talked about the importance of following the spirit's lead and we talked about being

transformed by the Spirit What I want to talk to you about is how does the spirit lead

and transform us And the answer is the Spirit will always lead us to the word of God the Bible

That's what we're going to talk about today The Spirit of God whose job it is to

lead guide and direct will always lead us to God's word John 16:13 says this However when the

Spirit of truth comes He will guide you into all truth the full and complete truth for he will not

speak on his own but he will speak whatever he hears and he will declare to you what is to

come The Spirit will always guide you to the truth to the word That is

the Spirit's job The spirit is not going to lead you where he wants you to go for the scripture

says he will not speak on his own but he will speak what he hears And what is he

hearing and who is he hearing it from He's hearing from the Father He's hearing

from Jesus Christ And whatever he hears that he will speak because he's not going to speak on his

own And what he hears he's going to speak and declare it to you what

is to come And how does he do this Through the word The spirit will always

guide you to the truth to the word All truth comes from God and God

communicates His truth through the Spirit Proverbs chapter 30 verse 5 says this Every word of God how

many words Every word of God proves true He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him Every

word of God proves true John 14:6 Jesus answered I am the way and the truth and the

life No one comes to the Father except through me Jesus Christ is the way and he

is The truth John 17:17 Jesus said sanctify them by the truth Your word is truth So I want to

establish upfront that all truth comes from God and God communicates his truth to us through

the Spirit and the Spirit guides us to the Word This is an important aspect

of what we're teaching today because if you disconnect any of these parts of the truth you're not going to

have the truth and it's the spirit's job to lead us and to guide us into all truth

That's why it's It's important that we are led by the Spirit and not by man's thoughts

and man's wisdom All truth comes from God and the Holy Spirit plays a significant role in revealing

the truth to us As we saw in John 16:13 the Holy Spirit's job is to lead and to guide

The Holy Spirit's job is not to force His job is to lead His job is to guide to God's

will and purposes that are found in His word He leads us he guides us he directs us

He doesn't make us he doesn't force his will upon our will He leads us to God's will

and purpose for our life and that's found in the word If it's not in

the word it's not from God and it's not the truth Let me say that again If

what you're hearing if it's not in the word is not from God and if

it's not from God it's not the truth That's why it's important for us to know

the word for ourselves so that when we hear something we line it up with the word to see if

it's truth That's what the Bareans did in Acts chapter 17 verse 11 There's so many false

teachers out here that's misleading us using the word but if you don't know the word you will not

know whether or not what they're saying is so They master the art of manipulation The Holy Spirit

is not a manipulator Go back to John 16:13 Whatever he hears he will speak The

Holy Spirit is not going to distort the word So if it's not found in the word it's not

from God And it's not the truth The Holy Spirit's guidance is not just limited to intelligence We

have a lot of people that can quote scripture but they just know it intellectually The Holy Spirit wants to

go beyond knowledge and he wants to give us spiritual insight and discernment That is the key A

lot of people have a knowledge of the word but they don't have spiritual insight and discernment The Holy Spirit

just does not want to just reveal knowledge to us He wants to give us spiritual insight and discernment

which will give us the wisdom that we need to make decisions in life That's the Holy Spirit's job

His role is to illuminate the teachings of the Bible and to help us apply them in

our lives The word illuminate means to bring light to He wants us to understand what

we are reading He wants to give us wisdom knowledge spiritual insight and discernment when it comes to

the scriptures His job is to help us to apply that which we have understood from the word to our

lives John chapter 14 verse 26 but the advocate the Holy Spirit whom the Father

will send in my name will teach you all things and remind you of everything I've told you That's the

Holy Spirit's job to give us understanding and insights into the truth of God and His word This is essential

for our spiritual growth and maturity You cannot grow spiritually without the word We cannot grow in spiritual maturity

We cannot grow in wisdom understanding spiritual insight and discernment without the Holy Spirit leading us and

guiding us into all truth The Holy Spirit's ministry is to teach us lead us guide us direct

us to the Word which was inspired by God 2 Timothy chapter 3:16 says this All Scripture

is God-breathed given by inspiration of God and is useful profitable for instruction for conviction for correction and for

training in righteousness God has a purpose for revealing His word to us God has a

purpose for the Holy Spirit's teaching guiding and leading us into the truth because all Scripture is breathed out

given by inspiration of God and all Scripture is useful and profitable for us It is useful and

profitable for instruction It is useful and profitable for conviction It is useful and profitable for correction It

is useful and profitable for training in righteousness right living All scripture is breathed out by God

We're talking about the divine origin of scripture You got a lot of people talking

about how man created the Bible No they didn't We don't have the capacity to do it

They say this because they don't want to recognize the divine origin of the scripture because they don't want

to give that acknowledgment to God because they think that their human wisdom is greater than God But as Bible

believers we need to know and understand no wonder all scriptures given by inspiration of God and that the scriptures

have divine origins and that the scriptures did not come from man but they came from God 2

Peter chapter 1 verse 20 and 21 Above all you must understand that no prophecy of scripture comes from one's

own interpretation for prophecy was never brought forth by the will of man but men spoke from

God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit Let's break this scripture down and let's examine it

a little deeper Above all serves as a reminder to prioritize the understanding of the nature

of prophecy the revealed word of God in Scripture So let's look at that word

prophecy This phrase refers specifically to the prophecies both foretelling and foretelling contained within the holy scriptures in both

the Old and the New Testaments When you study the Bible you've got to understand how God operates God selected

men who he would reveal His truth to and they wrote it down or they spoke it So we're

talking about prophecy We're talking about prophecy that came from God through the Spirit to

man And what this scripture is emphasizing is the fact that no prophecy no revealed word of God in

scripture ever came from the will of man There's two types of prophecies in the Bible You have

foretelling is primarily found in the Old Testament foretelling about future events specifically the coming of the Messiah and

in time events So that's one form of prophecy The other form of prophecy is forth

telling F O R T H telling which means speaking forth the word of truth

that has been revealed in the scriptures All prophecy must line up with the word

No prophecy ever came by the will of man We need to understand this If the

spirit's job is to lead us to the word and the word is truth and

all truth comes from God Then what's being spoken what's being written must line up with the word If

not we are to reject it Now the prophecy in this context in this verse

is talking about the proclamation of the word His will His truth These men spoke

forth the truth of God's word to the people and either the prophecy was fulfilled or it wasn't The

prophecy has to line up with the scripture Let's go back to 2 Peter 1:20

No prophecy of scripture comes from one's own interpretation When you're talking about scripture what are you talking about You're

talking about the divine authority and the inspiration that comes from God These writings what was

being said carried the divine authority and inspiration of God And it affirms that all

scripture is God breathed What are we talking about today How the Spirit leads us to the word but

we got to understand the origin of the word We got to understand how we got the word how

do we receive the word And this scripture is saying it does not come from one's own private interpretation That

the origin of prophecy the origin of scripture is not from human insight or personal interpretation No

prophecy of scripture is to be privately or independently interpreted That's why we put so much

emphasis here in this ministry about being able to rightly divide the word because no prophecy of scripture

is to be privately or independently interpreted And that's what you got going on today Somebody reads a verse

of scripture instead of rightly dividing it they just make up what they think the

scripture should say And because it's done in church building spoken from a person with a title people

assume that what the person is saying is truth when in essence all they did was take

the scripture flipped it turn it around and make it say what they wanted it to say The

people that heard the interpretation of the scripture did not do like the Bahrains in

Acts chapter 17 verse 11 They did not go back to the scripture to see if those things

were so And that's why I'm sharing this message with you today because as we live move

and have our being in this world we need to know that we know that we know that

what we're hearing is truth because of the deception that's running rampant in the world today But here's

my point no prophecy of scripture is to be privately or independently interpreted No biblical prophecy

were ever produced merely because someone wanted to prophesy That's not how it came So the question

is how did it come Men chosen by God spoke from God as they were carried along by the

Holy Spirit The prophets those who spoke from God did not make up what they

wanted to say They only spoke what God wanted spoken through the Spirit Amos chapter 3

verse 7 Let's take a look at some scripture here Surely the Lord God does nothing without revealing

his plan to His servants the prophet That's how God set it up That's how he would reveal his real

plans and purposes to man through the prophets And if you go into the Old Testament that's exactly what he

did He gave the word to the prophet The prophet said exactly what God said to speak He didn't

change the words they didn't alter the words the prophet didn't add his 2 cents onto it No

no no no no He said exactly what the spirit led him to say Jeremiah 14:14 says this Then

the Lord said these prophets talking about false prophets are telling lies in my name I did

not send them or tell them to speak I did not give them any messages They prophesy

of visions and revelations they never seen or heard They speak foolishness made up in their own lying hearts The

Lord said Listen I didn't send these prophets They're lying I did not send them or tell them

to speak The prophecies and the visions and the revelations that they're giving you they've never seen they've never heard

They're speaking foolishness made up in their own lying heart and that's what's going on today

You've got all kinds of foolishness being spoken out here today But here's the sad part the people

aren't going to the word to confirm what they're hearing So these false prophets today

they're leading people astray They're not leading them to the word they're leading them away

from the word to their foolishness that was made up in their own lying hearts Deuteronomy

him to speak or to speak in the name of other gods that prophet must be put

to death Now this is an Old Testament scripture before the cross before the grace of God and

that was the penalty If a prophet dared open their mouth and spoke in God's name In

Yahweh's name and God didn't command them to speak or if they spoke in the name

of other gods the penalty for that prophet was death because their main intent is to

mislead people Jesus said this in Matthew 24:11 In the last days many false prophets will appear and mislead many

and the proof and the evidence that we're in the last days we've got many false prophets false

teachers false pastors that are misleading many and they're being misled because they don't have knowledge of the

word They don't have knowledge of the scripture Hosea chapter 4 verse 6 rings as true today

as it did when it was first spoken God's people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge

It's because the priests those who had the responsibility of teaching the word were not

teaching the truth of God's word Therefore the people were being destroyed You got to understand that's

how God communicated His word through the priests through the prophets They didn't have a Bible like we have They

didn't have none of the resources that we have today So the way God communicated

His truth His word is through prophets through priests but they failed to do it Therefore the people

of God was being destroyed and the same thing is going on today but today we have no

excuse Those who truly spoke from God were fully aware of the responsibility and the accuracy that accompanied their

prophetic ministries No true prophet of God is going to speak anything other than what the

Spirit of God led them to speak and it can be confirmed and backed up by the word Who were

these men that God chose to speak for The King James says that they were holy men It

did not say they were perfect men but they were holy men chosen by God They never spoke

from their human impulses They always spoke what God wanted them to say They never claimed to speak for themselves

They always acknowledged that what they spoke came from God All through the Old Testament what you hear prophets

like Jeremiah Ezekiel and Daniel what would they say Thus says the Lord They want you to know this

is not me speaking this comes from the Lord The role of the prophet was not to speak

their personal opinions but to only speak God's truth That's why the prophets are old When

they spoke what they spoke it cut to the heart When Peter gave that prophecy in the

book of Acts it cut to the heart and they asked him what shall we do to

be saved What the prophet spoke did two things Number 1 what the prophet spoke either called

people to faith in God salvation or number 2 what the prophet spoke was a

message that brought people back to God because of their faithlessness and disobedience When you search the

Bible from Genesis Revelation that's what you're going to see prophets doing You ain't gonna see no prophets talking about

God told me to tell you you're gonna come into some money God told me to tell you you're

gonna get a husband in this new season this new year You're not gonna hear

none of that foolishness but that's what people want to hear That's why these false

prophets and false teachers are running rampant in the world today The Bible says that in the last days

people are going to be drawn to people who are going to say things that's going

to tickle their ears Nobody wants to hear the truth of God's word how to live right talk right

do right be right Nobody wants to be corrected Nobody wants to be convicted So

when a true prophet comes he's going to speak what God wants them to say and he's

already done it through the scripture But the prophet had two roles either to lead people

to faith in Christ or to bring them back Come on back brother Come on back sister

Come on back to the truth of God's word That was the role of prophet Not to speak

forth lies that they created in their own heart So the role of prophet was

clear They only spoke what God wanted them to speak and they were confident of

what they spoke because they were following the leading of the Spirit as the prophets were carried along by

the Spirit The Spirit guided and directed their speech and their writings Nothing that they did was

of their own doing Because the prophets were moved they were guided by the Spirit's power that ensured

the accuracy and divine authority of their messages That's why the Bible is just as true today

as it was when it was first written The word of God is just as powerful today as

it was when it was first spoken because it came from God God used real people with real

personalities with different vocabularies with different experiences different styles Yet the origin of every one of their prophetic messages

was God Himself God used prophets of different backgrounds different education levels to speak the word of God He used

Amos who was a sheep herder and he used Paul who was an intellectual Pharisee Whoever God chose

their message was always connected to the truth of God's word revealed to them by the Spirit So let me

leave you with this this morning The scripture is not the product of human imagination or private

interpretation Prophecy always originates from God and is given through the Spirit Human authors spoke and they

wrote under the guidance of the Holy Spirit Therefore the words of the Bible carry divine authority

because the writers of those scriptures wrote under the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit rather than their human

thoughts their human philosophies or their opinions The verses that we shared today They speak and affirm

the trustworthiness and the divine origin of the scripture that was given to us by the Spirit Therefore we

can trust and put our faith in the word of God as the Spirit leads guides and teaches

us today The Holy Spirit will always lead us to His word Amen