Daily Bible Teaching

1 Corinthians 6:19 “Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?” And so we come to God’s leading of His children under the new covenant. In the earlier part of this teaching we said that the reason that we wanted to first examine how God led the saints under the old covenant, was so that we could more clearly understand just how the Lord leads His saints in the new covenant. We saw tha

Job 38:1-3 “Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said: (2) "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? (3) Now prepare yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me.” As I mentioned earlier, there were other methods that the Lord used to lead the saints under the old covenant, which we will examine in this section. But it must be emphasized that the following methods were the exception and not the rule. And in each case

Genesis 20:3-8 “But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, "Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man's wife." (4) But Abimelech had not come near her; and he said, "Lord, will You slay a righteous nation also? (5) Did he not say to me, 'She is my sister'? And she, even she herself said, 'He is my brother.' In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands I have done this." (6) And God said to him in

Exodus 25:7 “onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod and in the breastplate.” Exodus 28:30 “And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aaron's heart when he goes in before the Lord. So, Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel over his heart before the Lord continually.” The second of the primary methods that God used to lead the old covenant saints was put in place after the priesthood of Aa

1 Samuel 3:1-11 “Now the boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation. (2) And it came to pass at that time, while Eli was lying down in his place, and when his eyes had begun to grow so dim that he could not see, (3) and before the lamp of God went out in the tabernacle of the Lord where the ark of God was, and while Samuel was lying down, (4) that the Lord called Samuel. And he answered,

1 Samuel 28:6 “And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by the prophets.” We have looked at who had contact with the Holy Spirit under the old covenant, but what about being led by Him? Even the king and the priest who were anointed by the Holy Spirit to stand in their specific offices were only anointed to perform their functions. The Holy Spirit that was upon the king and the priest would not give guidance to those

1 Samuel 16:1-13 “Now the Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king among his sons." … (13) Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward.” In this section we want to examine examples given in scri

Hebrews 8:13 “In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.” In order for us to have a clearer understanding of how God leads His children under the new covenant, we need to examine how God led His servants under the old covenant. By showing the difference between the two covenants (for they are different), we can avoid making the mistake of trying to apply old covenant practices un

2 Corinthians 1:17 “Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?” The second example that we will look at of being led by the Holy Spirit, is the apostle Paul. Paul never did anything unless he was led by the Holy Spirit. When he wrote to the church in Corinth as quoted in the passage above, he told them that his plans were never done in the f

Hebrews 10:5 “Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.” In this section we will look at examples in scripture of those who have chosen to walk in God’s perfect will for their lives. Our first example which we will discuss is the Lord Jesus, for He is the ultimate example of one who sought God’s perfect will for His life and then walked in it. Someone will say that we can’t look at Jesu

Psalms 127:1 “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain who build it.” There is also an eternal price to be paid for walking in God’s permissible will. All believers will stand before the Lord Jesus on their day of judgement to give an account of their lives (Romans 14:12). The Lord can only place His stamp of approval (so to speak) on those works which He has pre-ordained should be done in our lives, for it is only those works in which He is a co-labourer toge

Hebrews 12:9-11 “Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? (10) For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. (11) Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who

Romans 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” As we have already seen, the above quoted passage of scripture reveals to us that there is such a thing as the perfect will of God. God the Father has pre-ordained that each of His children should walk in His perfect will for their lives. However it is up to us as an act of our free will, to seek

Romans 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” In the above quoted passage of scripture, the Holy Spirit speaks of God’s acceptable will and His perfect will. The word translated “acceptable”, also carries the meaning “permissible”. In other words our Lord Jesus has His permissible will for our lives, and He has His perfect will for our lives.

Finally I want to briefly deal with the Lord’s leading of His children today, through signs. You will recall that we saw that under the...

John 10:27 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me.” There is one final way that our Lord Jesus leads us under the...

Luke 9:34-36 “While he was saying this, a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were fearful as they entered the cloud. (35) And a...

Luke 24:36-43 “Now as they said these things, Jesus Himself stood in the midst of them, and said to them, "Peace to you." (37) But they...

1 Corinthians 12:7-10 “But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit of all: (8) for to one is given the word...

Jeremiah 29:8 “For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Do not let your prophets and your diviners who are in your midst...

Acts 18:9-10 “Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, "Do not be afraid, but speak, and do not keep silent; (10) for I am...

Acts 2:17 “'And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your...

Acts 21:10-14 “And as we stayed many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. (11) When he had come to us, he took...

Ephesians 4:11-13 “And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, (12) for the...