How does the Holy Spirit lead?

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What’s Your Question? for April 8, ‘09

The person who says "I don’t need to read the word, I know how I feel," or "I wouldn’t trade my feelings for anything in the Bible," is being led by his own spirit, not by The Spirit. Paul said we can only know the mind of God through words of the Spirit (1 Cor. 2:11-13). He told the Ephesians they could know the mystery of Christ by reading what was written (Eph. 3:3,4). Jesus asked the lawyer who wanted to know how to inherit eternal life, "What is written in the law? What is your reading of it?" (Lk. 10:26). Neither Jesus, nor His apostles, told a person to pray, or wait for a feeling from the Spirit to know the truth. We will be judged by the things written, not by our feelings (Rev. 20:12; Jn. 12:47,48).