The Word is my nourishment, strength, power, anointing authority, and the root of my foundation. Why are people following man's authority instead of God's Word. The pastor is a vessel of God to deposit teachings of Word into the people that pastor does not has final authority. Why such distaste for God's Word when it is used for purpose of teaching, instructions, commandments, statues, laws, prophet writings and living water power. People have taken the Word of God to debate about the Old & New Covenants when there is only one covenant which is obedience of the Word. Where did this confusion come from over the Word of God? What will believers say to God about being disobedient to God's Word because he or she was following man's authority? The Word of God is not just speaking of the those in the past, but also the present believers who says they are the House of Israel by birth or adopted! Lets learn from our fore fathers and mothers mistakes, disobedience and corrections from God. I am speaking to myself also! Since the beginning man has been rejecting the Word of God because God has sent many prophets and even rejected Jesus(WORD)! Who will you follow God or man authority because the choice is yours?
Psalm 81
8 I said, ‘Listen, my people!
I will warn you!
O Israel, if only you would obey me!
9 There must be no other god among you.
You must not worship a foreign god.
10 I am the Lord, your God,
the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!’
11 But my people did not obey me;
Israel did not submit to me.
12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires;
they did what seemed right to them.
13 If only my people would obey me!
Psalm 50
A psalm by Asaph
16 God says this to the evildoer:
“How can you declare my commands,
and talk about my covenant?
17 For you hate instruction
and reject my words.
18 When you see a thief, you join him;
you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives.
19 You do damage with words,
and use your tongue to deceive.
20 You plot against your brother;
you slander your own brother.
21 When you did these things, I was silent,
so you thought I was exactly like you.
But now I will condemn you
and state my case against you!
22 Carefully consider this, you who reject God!
Otherwise I will rip you to shreds
and no one will be able to rescue you.
1 Thessalonians 4
7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.8 Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Acts 7
35 This same Moses they had rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Matthew 16
21 From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
Mark 8
31 Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Psalm 81
8 I said, ‘Listen, my people!
I will warn you!
O Israel, if only you would obey me!
9 There must be no other god among you.
You must not worship a foreign god.
10 I am the Lord, your God,
the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
Open your mouth wide and I will fill it!’
11 But my people did not obey me;
Israel did not submit to me.
12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires;
they did what seemed right to them.
13 If only my people would obey me!
Psalm 50
A psalm by Asaph
16 God says this to the evildoer:
“How can you declare my commands,
and talk about my covenant?
17 For you hate instruction
and reject my words.
18 When you see a thief, you join him;
you associate with men who are unfaithful to their wives.
19 You do damage with words,
and use your tongue to deceive.
20 You plot against your brother;
you slander your own brother.
21 When you did these things, I was silent,
so you thought I was exactly like you.
But now I will condemn you
and state my case against you!
22 Carefully consider this, you who reject God!
Otherwise I will rip you to shreds
and no one will be able to rescue you.
1 Thessalonians 4
7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.8 Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Acts 7
35 This same Moses they had rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Matthew 16
21 From that time on Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.
Mark 8
31 Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
