There have always been churches and prophets throughout time. Most of the time, the churches weren't teaching the true word of God. Jesus was crucified for us, because the priests and such didn't believe he should go around preaching that he was the Son of God, or maybe they were just afraid of him. God always uses his prophets to speak to the churches, or to villages, or towns to tell them of his direct words. I'm currently in the book of Jeremiah, and so there's a lot of this happening, sometimes they believe him, and sometimes they don't, but God always knows what will happen, which is why he gives the people a chance to turn their hearts around. Each and every one of us has the Holy Spirit in us, therefore we all are holy temples. That's why we can all speak to God directly, we can confess our sins to him directly, we can each have communion and speak to each other on a daily basis about the Lord every day of the week, not just one time a week. I never believed that just because a man was considered ordained by a group of men or had a degree to prove it, that he truly was. I don't think one can be taught by man, one can only Learn through the Holy Spirit, and God's teaching. That's a true priest, prophet, etc. to me.
1Cor.6
[1] Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
[2] Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
[3] Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
[4] If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
[5] I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
[6] But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
[7] Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
[8] Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.
[9] Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
[10] Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
[11] And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
[12] All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
[13] Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
[14] And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.
[15] Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
[16] What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
[17] But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
[18] Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that commiteth fornication sinneth against his own body.
[19] What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
[20] For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
I believe that the heart of the church of man, and the human heart are two different things. The heart of the church of man is symbolic; the church of man, are the churches of today, they're called that because they preach the words the way that Man would want them to be taught, not God. Yours in Christ, Stephanie
