(#709) The Lord Doesn't Want Anyone Giving Instructions To His Woman Other Than Himself

I’ve come to realize that so many people today are caught up in the outward show of religion. Just like Jesus said in Matthew 15:7, people draw close to God with their words, but their hearts are far from Him. They honor Him with their lips, but it’s all in vain. Instead of truly knowing Him, they’re caught up in teaching and following the commandments of men.

But I know now that the Bible promotes spiritual liberty. And it takes boldness—real boldness—to embrace what the Bible is truly teaching. You can’t walk in this boldness unless you’re in Christ Jesus. If you say you’re in Christ and you believe it, then you should be walking according to His Spirit, not according to what’s written in anyone’s book or anyone else’s rules. You follow the Spirit. When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. That’s all you need—His Spirit, nothing else. Without that, you’re just operating under a perverted gospel, going in the wrong direction.

I’ve seen how churches today try to impose their own rules on God’s people. It’s like someone coming into another man’s home and telling his wife what she should or shouldn’t do. How would any man tolerate that? That’s what’s happening in these churches—telling the bride of Christ what she must do. But the Lord isn’t having it. The Spirit of life, which is our true companion, has set me free from the law of sin and death, and I’m only obligated to listen to Him. No one else. I’m not under anyone else’s law or anyone else’s doctrine.

Think about it: Christ loved the church, His bride, and gave Himself for her so that He could present her as holy and blameless. He knows exactly how He wants His bride to be—no one else knows that. So why would I lend my ear to anyone else? It’s an insult to my spiritual husband.

This isn’t about following some preacher telling me I need to pay tithes or submit to their rules or be cursed. That’s like another man telling someone else’s wife what to do—what kind of rage would that stir up in a husband? But people do it so easily to Christ, laying down under the orders of someone else instead of staying close to Him. I’m done with that. The Spirit of my husband, Christ, has made me free from every other law, every other voice. I’m obligated to hear Him and only Him, because I belong to Him.