The book of Acts presents a picture showing us that all the members of Christ are completely one with Him. Many people pay their attention to the deceitful, traditional teachings, but they neglect the most central matters of the revelation of the Scriptures. We certainly believe that there is a heaven and that the Lord Jesus today is in the heavens, but there is no verse telling us that after we die we will go to heaven, as is taught in the traditional way. We do not know how much we have been deceived by such traditional teachings. When that missionary looked into the table of contents, he asked, “Do you have a category for songs about heaven?” This exemplifies how much we have been influenced by the traditional teachings, such as the traditional teaching of going to heaven. Recently, a brother showed our hymnal to a certain missionary.
Rather, you must see something in a deeper way. Do not exercise your mind merely to agree, and do not consider everything according to rules, regulations, organization, and old doctrine and knowledge. I simply say, “If you would humble yourself before the Lord, you will see what we are speaking.” It is not a matter of agreeing or not agreeing it is a matter of seeing. Sometimes people do not agree with our messages, but I do not argue with them arguing never works. Many people are still too much under the influence of the old, traditional teachings of Christianity, and they hold on to their rules, regulations, doctrines, and knowledge. We must have the present, living, fresh, new, up-to-date guidance from the living Lord. Let us forget about what we know and abandon those old things. We cannot have the living guidance of the Holy Spirit merely by learning doctrines. Today, however, we may have regulations, rules, organization, man’s orders, doctrine, knowledge, traditions, and old matters, but we may not have the present, living, and fresh guidance of the Holy Spirit. They even may have not known the term sanctification, although they had the fact of sanctification. The disciples did not have such a thing as Christianity. Every day they lived and moved according to the living guidance of the Holy Spirit that is, they lived by this living One. Rather, they lived, acted, worked, and did things according to the present guidance of the Holy Spirit.
In this book of twenty-eight chapters, there is no record that the believers acted, lived, worked, walked, or did things according to regulations, rules, organization, man’s orders, doctrines, knowledge, tradition, or anything old. Even the more, they did not live according to tradition or anything old. Neither did they live or act according to knowledge or doctrine. They did not live or act by organization or directions from man. The book of Acts shows us that none of the disciples did anything according to rules, regulations, or orders. LIVING AND MOVING BY THE PRESENT GUIDANCE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT