The Lord talked to me a bit about knowledge and how it puffs up if the end goal is not Love. Knowledge is needed as a defense against deception, ironically being devoted to knowledge without love makes one puffed up to where the knowledge becomes deceptive. Thinking that you know will puff you up to where you'll be self-deceived by your own knowledge - the cure is being humble before the Lord and knowing that you don't actually know anything. If you do know anything it is because God revealed it to you, there's no boasting on your part - otherwise one only thinks they know something when they don't - they are thinking of themselves more highly than they ought to think.
So, based on this there's way too much focus on teaching in the Body of Christ, teaching, correcting, sheparding - it's disgusting really it is so bad. There is always need for good teaching, impartation, rebuke, correction, and instruction - then lay off the scolding stick. The focus is love, correcting someone in love is great, needed, and hard to do correctly. What I'm referring to is correcting people for the sake of the thrill of correcting someone - putting others down to make oneself feel good. I've been the target of it and seen it way too much, even early on been the perpetrator of it because I was taught wrong. People need to be honest about their insecurities, making oneself feel good at other's expense is what someone needs if they haven't worked through their sin nature with Christ. In groups like this, people use knowledge, authority, and correction as a badge to step on others in the Name of Christ - it's disgusting, the Lord hates it. Also, when the focus is so much on teaching and classroom experience - the actual Gospel doesn't get lived and shared. This is the deception of being a dead church, the Gospel is heard and not done, people have a form of godliness without living the power of the Gospel. It is an assembly of Walking Dead, Name Only Christians - the Gospel has been abstracted by so much talk that it isn't real, it is a topic of conversation not the Resurrected Power of Life on display.
The Solution is getting in God's Presence, when you do wrong and get into the Lord's Presence He'll rebuke the wrong off of you. Depending on how attached to the wrong doing you are you'll receive the rebuke along with it. It can be scary but the alternative is living in sin thinking you are godly, not an option in any worthwhile book. Often the puffed up biblical scholars don't often get into the Lord's presence which is how they get that way, being in the Lord's presence is humbling. So the Lord had me put together a playlist on YouTube to get people to tune out the world and get into the Lord's Presence. Turn it on, let it minister to you, let it play and meditate on all the words and music, let the Lord speak to you during this time. Go ahead and get the songs going in some other format so you can listen to them straight through without ads, they are all listed here so you have a good list for reference.
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